AchWorks 1: Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World
The Inaugural Symposium of the Achaemenid Workshops Series, Convened by:
M. Rahim Shayegan, UCLA
About the Event
The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is convening an international workshop on Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World, held on April 12–14, 2023 at UCLA. The symposium will include invited speakers whose research pertain to the history, structures, and impact of the Achaemenid empire. The overarching themes covered by the workshop are: current trends in Achaemenid scholarship; new horizons in art and archaeology; Achaemenid reception, and the notions of identity, alterity, and the imperial impress in Achaemenid Elam and Persis, Anatolia, the Caucasus, and Egypt.
The present workshop introduces a new series of symposia, dubbed Achaemenid Workshops (AchWorks), which, building on the strength of Achaemenid studies in the past decades, seek to revisit and reassess the state of Achaemenid scholarship over the coming years with a dozen workshops hosted at leading institutions of ancient studies around the globe.
Coordinated by the Pourdavoud Center in conjunction with AchWorks’ Organizing Board, the workshops aspire to become an intellectual hub for Achaemenid studies, while also affording an institutional framework to foster future generations of scholars working on the Achaemenid world.
About Achaemenid Workshops
The Achaemenid Workshops (AchWorks) are a series of international conferences that endeavor to revisit, reassess, and reformulate (the state of) Achaemenid scholarship.
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Alexander Schütze, Maximilian University of Munich
Elspeth Dusinberre, University of Colorado
Daniel T. Potts, New York University
Lindsay Allen, King’s College London
Jake Nabel, Pennsylvania State University
Rolf Strootman, Utrecht University
Henry P. Colburn, New York University
Jeffrey Spier, J. Paul Getty Museum
John W.I. Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine
Florian S. Knauß, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek München
John O. Hyland, Christopher Newport University
Elena Mahlich, University of Leipzig
Matthew Waters, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Julian Degen, University of Trier
Ali Mousavi, University of California, Los Angeles
Hong Yu Chen, University of California, Los Angeles
Hilmar Klinkott, University of Kiel
Charlotte Howley, University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan Winnerman, University of California, Los Angeles
Josef Wiesehöfer, University of Kiel
Lâtife Summerer, Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design