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Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium

• Parthians, Romans, and Early Sasanians: Reflections on a Change of Power and Its Antique and Modern Evaluation

  Recorded: May 30, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by Josef Wiesehöfer (University of Kiel)

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• Khusro II as War Leader

  Recorded: May 30, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by James Howard-Johnston (University of Oxford)

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• Dura from the East: Iranian Impact on the Formation of Religious Arts across the Trade Routes of the Asian Continent during the 3rd–6th Centuries CE

  Recorded: May 30, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by Zsuzsanna Gulácsi (Northern Arizona University)

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• The Getty Stag Rhyton and Parthian Aristocratic Culture: New Discoveries

  Recorded: May 30, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by Matthew Canepa (University of California, Irvine)

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• Power Play in the Middle East: Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace

  Recorded: May 30, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by Jason Schlude (College of St. Benedict and St. John's University)

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• Did the Parthian Kings Hate Democracy?

  Recorded: May 30, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by Jake Nabel (University of California, Los Angeles)

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• Seleucid Encounters with the Iranian World: Religious and Cultic Elements in the Administration and Ruling of the Seleucid East

  Recorded: May 29, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by Sonja Richter (University of Duisburg-Essen)

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• Towards and Intellectual History of the Seleucid Empire?

  Recorded: May 29, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by David Engels (Free University of Brussels)

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• More than Greeks Bearing Gifts: Athenian Pottery in the Achaemenid Empire

  Recorded: May 29, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by Kathleen Lynch (University of Cincinnati)

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• Persia and the Parthenon

  Recorded: May 29, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by Margaret Cool Root (University of Michigan)

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• The Making of the Chaldeans

  Recorded: May 29, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by Johannes Haubold (Princeton University)

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• The King’s Peoples and Lands: The Apadana Reliefs, Herodotean Ethnography, and the Persian Imperial Lore

  Recorded: May 29, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by Antigoni Zournatzi (National Hellenic Research Foundation)

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• Does the West Matter? The Persian Empire, Borders, and Ideology

  Recorded: May 29, 2019
  Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
  
  by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)

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Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium

• East of the Euphrates: The Contribution of Sasanian History to Theorizing Late Antiquity

  Recorded: April 25, 2018
  Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
  
  by Albert de Jong (Leiden University)

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• Fish out of Water: Greek Deportees, Persian Empires, and the Classical Mediterranean

  Recorded: April 25, 2018
  Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
  
  by Jake Nabel (Getty Villa Scholar)

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• Lost Hellenistic Sculptures ‘Rediscovered’ in Mesopotamia and Iran

  Recorded: April 25, 2018
  Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
  
  by Vito Messina (University of Turin)

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• Ex Oriente Lux? A Eurasian Perspective on the Formation of the Roman Empire

  Recorded: April 25, 2018
  Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
  
  by Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University)

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• The Persianization of Greek Myth

  Recorded: April 25, 2018
  Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
  
  by Margaret C. Miller (University of Sydney)

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• The Eye of the King Comes to Athens: Persia in the Greek Imagination

  Recorded: April 25, 2018
  Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
  
  by Daniel Beckman (Princeton University)

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• Achaemenid Anatolia and the Creation of Empire

  Recorded: April 25, 2018
  Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
  
  by Elspeth Dusinberre (University of Colorado, Boulder)

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• Fearless Ērānšahr: Sasanian Coinage in Context of Roman Relations

  Recorded: April 25, 2018
  Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
  
  by Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine)

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The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series

• Empire and Borderlands at Interplay: A Structural Approach (First Millennium BCE – First Millennium CE)

  Recorded: April 20, 2022
  Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
  
  by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)

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• Space and Universality: The Long Life of the Achaemenid Mental Map in Antiquity and Beyond (Sixth Century BCE – Sixth Century CE)

  Recorded: April 18, 2022
  Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
  
  by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)

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• Whither the Achaemenid Empire? Towards a New Connected History of Afro-Eurasia in Antiquity

  Recorded: April 13, 2022
  Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
  
  by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)

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• An Afro Eurasian “Hyperpower” and Its Ancient Near Eastern Roots

  Recorded: April 11, 2022
  Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
  
  by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)

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• Feudalism and its Characteristics in Ancient Iran

  Recorded: March 11, 2020
  Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
  
  by Daniel Potts (New York University)

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• Descent and Marriage in Achaemenid Iran

  Recorded: March 9, 2020
  Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
  
  by Daniel Potts (New York University)

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• Problems in the Study of Elamite Kinship

  Recorded: March 6, 2020
  Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
  
  by Daniel Potts (New York University)

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• Aspects of Kinship in Iranian Prehistory

  Recorded: March 4, 2020
  Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
  
  by Daniel Potts (New York University)

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• Money is to the West, What Kinship is to the Rest

  Recorded: March 2, 2020
  Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
  
  by Daniel Potts (New York University)

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Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium

• Iranian Religions and the Alexander Romance

  Recorded: February 20, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Breslau)

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• Reevaluating Divine Imagery in Late Antique Iranian Metalwork

  Recorded: February 20, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Matthew Canepa (University of California, Irvine)

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• Religion of Parthian Iran: A Matter of Complexity – New Evidence from Ancient Elymais

  Recorded: February 20, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Vito Messina (University of Torino)

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• Laodike III and Seleucid Royal Cult

  Recorded: February 20, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Deirdre Klokow (University of Southern California)

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• The Marriage of Antiochos and Nanaia: Empire and Religion in Hellenistic Iran

  Recorded: February 20, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Rolf Strootman (Utrecht University)

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• The Politics of Religion under the Ptolemies: Egyptian Statues, Achaemenid Persia, and the Seleucids

  Recorded: February 20, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of Southern California)

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• The Limits of Tolerance: Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and Others in the Sasanian Empire

  Recorded: February 20, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine)

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• The Deportation of Gods – Between Persian Policy and Ptolemaic Ideology

  Recorded: February 19, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Hilmar Klinkott (University of Kiel)

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• The Magus in Hell

  Recorded: February 19, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Johannes Haubold (Princeton University)

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• Into the Ashes: Punishment at the Achaemenid Court

  Recorded: February 19, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Daniel Beckman (Princeton University)

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• Herodotus and the Persian Priests: The Histories as a Source for Iranian Religion

  Recorded: February 19, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Julian Degen (University of Innsbruck)

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• The Persian Great King and the Gods in Herodotus

  Recorded: February 19, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Kai Ruffing (University of Kassel)

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• Achaemenid Religious Monuments: An Archaeological Perspective

  Recorded: February 19, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles)

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• Some Observations on the Representation of the Divine and Numinous in Persepolitan Glyptic

  Recorded: February 19, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Mark Garrison (Trinity University) and Emma Petersen (University of California, Los Angeles)

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• Entangled Worlds: Afro-Eurasian Networks in Achaemenid Times

  Recorded: February 19, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)

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• The Utilization of Collective Memory to Legitimate Persian Kingship in Egypt

  Recorded: February 18, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Marissa Stevens (University of California, Los Angeles)

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• The Cryptographic Titulary of Darius at Hibis

  Recorded: February 18, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Jonathan Winnerman (University of California, Los Angeles)

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• Persian Kings and Egyptian Gods: Religious Innovation in Achaemenid Egypt

  Recorded: February 18, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Henry Colburn (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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• Religious Interactions between Persians and Egyptians in Achaemenid Egypt

  Recorded: February 18, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Damien Agut-Labordère (French National Center for Scientific Research)

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• The Invention of Monotheism in Ancient Egypt

  Recorded: February 18, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Kathlyn Cooney (University of California, Los Angeles)

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• By All Means, Ahuramazda: Help, Support, and Protect the King

  Recorded: February 18, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Matthew Waters (University of Wisconsin, Eau de Claire)

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• Constructing Religious Identities in the Age of the Empires: Remarks on the “Imperial Religion(s)” of the Early Achaemenid Period

  Recorded: February 18, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Salvatore Gaspa (University of Padua)

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• Axial Anxieties: The Politics and Theology of Temple Destruction in the Achaemenid Empire and the Ancient Near East

  Recorded: February 18, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Gonzalo Rubio (Pennsylvania State University)

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• Channels and Methods of Diffusion of Administrative Models and Imperial Ideology in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

  Recorded: February 18, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Simonetta Ponchia (University of Verona)

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• Crafting under Divine Protection During the Middle Elamite Period

  Recorded: February 18, 2020
  Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
  
  by Elizabeth Carter (University of California, Los Angeles)

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Ehsan Yarshater: A Homage

• Ehsan Yarshater: A Homage

  Recorded: November 19, 2018
  Event: Ehsan Yarshater: A Homage
  
  by M. Rahim Shayegan (UCLA), Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware), ProdsOktor Skjærvø (Harvard), Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (UCLA), Elton Daniel (Columbia University), and Ali Gheissari (University of San Diego)

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Fall Welcome

• Pourdavoud Center 2021 Fall Welcome

  Recorded: October 28, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center 2021 Fall Welcome
  
  by Ali Mousavi (UCLA), Marissa Stevens (UCLA), Jonathan Winnerman (UCLA)

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• Fall Welcome 2020: Gateways to Iranian Archaeology

  Recorded: October 23, 2020
  Event: Fall Welcome Event 2020
  
  by Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles)

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Pourdavoud Center/Amuzegar Lecture Series

• The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran

  Recorded: January 13, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center/Amuzegar Lecture Series
  
  by Afshin Marashi (University of Oklahoma)

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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series

• Telling Tales: Constructing Sasanian History in the Landscape

  Recorded: March 3, 2023
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Eve MacDonald (Cardiff University)

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• Symbols of Royal Authority? Early Sasanian Cityscapes in Southwestern Iran

  Recorded: February 22, 2023
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Anahita Mittertrainer (Museum Fünf Kontinente)

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• Dislodging Disciplinary Silos at Dura-Europos

  Recorded: February 15, 2023
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Anne Hunnell Chen (Bard College)

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• How Did the Ancient Iranians Coordinate Space? On the Old Iranian Absolute Frame of Reference

  Recorded: February 23, 2022
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Kianoosh Rezania (Ruhr University Bochum)

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• Current Trends in Avestan Studies

  Recorded: February 16, 2022
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Céline Redard (SOAS University of London)

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• From the Gorgan Wall to the Alan Gates/Dariali: The Northern Defenses of the Sasanian Empire

  Recorded: January 28, 2022
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Eberhard Sauer (University of Edinburgh)

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• Greek ‘Concubines’ and Achaemenid Dynastic Politics

  Recorded: January 19, 2022
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by John W.I. Lee (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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• Official Sources and the Reconstruction of History: The Case of the Last Great War of Antiquity

  Recorded: January 7, 2022
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by James Howard-Johnston (University of Oxford)

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• The Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Two Volume Companion

  Recorded: November 5, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck); Bruno Jacobs (University of Basel)

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• The Yasna Ritual in Performance

  Recorded: May 13, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Almut Hintze (SOAS University of London)

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• Narseh’s Diadem: Religion, Royalty, and Power under the Early Sasanians

  Recorded: February 19, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Carlo G. Cereti (University of Rome)

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• Reconsidering the Emergence of the Parthian State: The Crisis of the 240s-230s BCE in the Hellenistic Middle East

  Recorded: February 3, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Nikolaus Overtoom (Washington State University)

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• Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East

  Recorded: January 22, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Jason Schlude (College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University)

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• Sasanian Iran: A Personal View

  Recorded: December 2, 2020
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Michael Jackson Bonner

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• Achaemenid Egypt: The Archaeology of a Colonial Encounter

  Recorded: November 4, 2020
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Henry P. Colburn (University of Michigan)

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• Achaemenids or Persians?  Burials, Material Culture, and Imperial Identities in the Euphrates Valley (5th-4th centuries BCE)

  Recorded: February 12, 2020
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Gil Stein (University of Chicago)

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• Parthians in the Roman Army

  Recorded: January 15, 2020
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Everett L. Wheeler (Duke University)

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• Motivations in the Ancient Middle East: Rome, Parthia, and Realpolitik

  Recorded: May 9, 2019
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Jason Schlude (College of St. Benedict and St. John's University)

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• The Lords of Canals: Re-Examining the Sasanian Hydraulic Landscapes and Their Heritage in the Islamic Period

  Recorded: May 9, 2019
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Mehrnoush Soroush (Harvard University)

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• Word Order Variation and Change in the Languages of Western Asia

  Recorded: April 25, 2019
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Pollet Samvelian

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• Charax Spasinou: Research on the Capitol of Mesene and the Arsacid Center of Trade

  Recorded: April 8, 2019
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Stefan R. Hauser (University of Konstanz/Getty Scholar)

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• Kingship for a New World: Achaemenid Art and its Global Resonances

  Recorded: February 27, 2019
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Margaret Cool Root (University of Michigan / Getty Scholar)

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• Contextualizing the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: What Does Empire Mean in the 1st Millennium BCE?

  Recorded: February 6, 2019
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Robert Rollinger (Universität Innsbruck, Austria)

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• Transmillenial Ecologies of Iranian Religion and Identity

  Recorded: January 9, 2019
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Matthew P. Canepa (University of California, Irvine)

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• Deities and Ritual at Persepolis: The Evidence from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives

  Recorded: November 11, 2018
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Mark Garrison (Trinity College)

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• The Study of Zoroastrianism and the Academic Study of Religion

  Recorded: May 30, 2018
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Albert de Jong (Leiden University)

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• Persianism in Commagene: The Mnemohistory of the Achaemenid Empire in Hellenistic Eurasia

  Recorded: May 30, 2018
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University)

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• Diophante’s Kandys: Faceted Relations between Persia and Classical Athens

  Recorded: May 30, 2018
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
  
  by Margaret C. Miller (University of Sydney)

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Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies

• New Research and Sources for the Life of Mani

  Recorded: March 2, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies
  
  by Iain Gardner (University of Sydney)

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• Manichaean Interpretation of Iranian Religious Traditions

  Recorded: March 2, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies
  
  by Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University)

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• The Footprint of Mani’s Book of Pictures in Late Antique Sources: An Assessment of Social & Geographical Data about Teaching with Images During the 3rd and 4th Centuries

  Recorded: March 1, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies
  
  by Zsuzsanna Gulácsi (Northern Arizona University)

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• Also Schrieb Zarathustra? New Manichaean Sources for the “Law of Zarades” & His Otherworldly Journeys

  Recorded: March 1, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies
  
  by Paul Dilley (University of Iowa)

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Pourdavoud Center Workshop - The Puzzling Papyrus: New Perspectives on Papyrus Amherst 63

• The Internal Organization of Papyrus Amherst 63

  Recorded: November 18, 2020
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - The Puzzling Papyrus: New Perspectives on Papyrus Amherst 63
  
  by Karel van der Toorn (University of Amsterdam)

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• Textualizing Aramean Identities in Egypt: Papyrus Amherst 63

  Recorded: November 18, 2020
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - The Puzzling Papyrus: New Perspectives on Papyrus Amherst 63
  
  by Tawny Holm (Pennsylvania State University)

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Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Udjahorresnet’s Egypt

• Udjahorresnet’s Egypt: The Crossroads of Conquest and Identity under Achaemenid Rule

  Recorded: May 7, 2021
  Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Udjahorresnet’s Egypt
  
  by Annalisa Azzoni (Vanderbilt University); Ladislav Bareš (Charles University); Alexander Schütze (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich); Květa Smoláriková (Charles University); Uzume Z. Wijnsma (Leiden University); Melanie Wasmuth (University of Helsinki)

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