How Zoroastrians Argued with Muslims in the Early Islamic Period This lecture will explore the early conflict between Zoroastrians and Muslims by examining the most important polemical treatise in the…
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An Entangled Empire: Dress, Reciprocal Construction, and the Experience of Kingship at Persepolis In reliefs across Persepolis, the Achaemenid administrative center, depictions of mediated bodies offer insight into an imperial…
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Pourdavoud Center Fall 2023 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World…
Read MoreCarving Out Official Identities: Inscribed Seals with Titles from the Persepolis Fortification Archive Christina Chandler Friday, March 3, 2023 at 3:00pm, Kaplan Hall 348 The administrative documents from the Persepolis…
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Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World The Inaugural Symposium of the Achaemenid Workshops Series April 12–14, 2023 | 314 Royce Hall Morning refreshments and check-in begin…
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Telling Tales: Constructing Sasanian History in the Landscape The narrative stories and physical landscapes of the Sasanian Empire run parallel to each other, intersecting in areas where historical source and…
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Symbols of Royal Authority? Early Sasanian Cityscapes in Southwestern Iran The early Sasanian royal city foundations of Gūr and Bīšāpūr and their respective surrounding areas were actively shaped by…
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Dislodging Disciplinary Silos at Dura-Europos Founded by the Seleucids, successively occupied by the Arsacids (Parthians) and Romans, and spectacularly conquered in a Sasanian siege, the borderland town of Dura-Europos (Syria)…
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The Birth of the Abestāg from the Spirit of Philology Scholars have often discussed Zoroastrianism as an ancient Iranian religion that reaches back thousands of years into the middle of…
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Pourdavoud Center Fall 2022 Welcome Reception Friday, October 7, 2022 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World…
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