Videos by Time Period - Pourdavoud Institute

An Entangled Empire: Dress, Reciprocal Construction, and the Experience of Kingship at Persepolis

Recorded: January 24, 2024
Event: Pourdavoud Lecture Series

by Neville McFerrin (University of North Texas)

The Hidden and the Revealed: Parallel Conceptions of the Divine at Hibis and in Context

Recorded: April 14, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Jonathan Winnerman (University of California, Los Angeles)

The ba-spirits of Amun-Re: Theology and Egyptian Exegesis in the Persian Period

Recorded: April 14, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Hong Yu Chen (University of California, Los Angeles)

Caro-Memphites and Aramaeo-Syenians: What the Case of the Carians Tells Us about Religious Practices and Burial Customs of Foreign Groups in Persian Egypt

Recorded: April 14, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Alexander Schütze (Maximilian University of Munich)

How (Not) to Find Persians in Egypt

Recorded: April 14, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Henry P. Colburn (New York University)

Royal Ideology and Imperialism in Hieroglyphic and Cuneiform Inscriptions from Achaemenid Egypt

Recorded: April 14, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Elena Mahlich (University of Leipzig)

“The Foreigners Value Eunuchs More Than Perfect Men”: Gender Alterity and Its Political, Social, and Religious Implications in Achaemenid Court Culture

Recorded: April 14, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Charlotte Howley (University of California, Los Angeles)

Intimate Relationships, Family, and Identity in the Achaemenid Empire

Recorded: April 14, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by John W.I. Lee (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Persian Strongholds in the North

Recorded: April 13, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Florian Knauß (Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek München)

Tomb Paintings of Achaemenid Anatolia between East and West

Recorded: April 13, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Lâtife Summerer (Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design)

Identity and Pictorial Representation in Achaemenid Lycia

Recorded: April 13, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum)

The Development of Local Identity as Imperial Integration Process in Achaemenid Asia Minor: The Examples of Caria and Lycia

Recorded: April 13, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Hilmar Klinkott (University of Kiel)

Remembering Croesus, Serving Darius: Local Elites and Imperial Administration in Early Achaemenid Sardis

Recorded: April 13, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by John O. Hyland (Christopher Newport University)

Still Sorting the Mail: The Assyrian Imperial Impress in Elam and Parsumaš

Recorded: April 13, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Matthew Waters (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)

Elam and Persis

Recorded: April 13, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Daniel Potts (New York University)

The Archaeology of Achaemenid Iran: A Glance at Recent Developments and Studies

Recorded: April 12, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles)

Embedded Alterity: Material Hybridity As an Achaemenid Strategy

Recorded: April 12, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Lindsay Allen (King's College London)

Persepolis: The Persistence of Achaemenid Memory?

Recorded: April 12, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine)

Fake Bowing, From the Achaemenids to the Sasanians

Recorded: April 12, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Jake Nabel (Pennsylvania State University)

Globalization and the Iranian Longue Durée: Empire and Warfare under the Achaemenids, Argeads, and Seleukids, c. 550–150 BCE

Recorded: April 12, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Rolf Strootman (University of Utrecht)

The Achaemenids and the Desert

Recorded: April 12, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Julian Degen (University of Trier)

The State of Achaemenid Studies

Recorded: April 12, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Josef Wiesehöfer (University of Kiel)

Current Trends in Scholarship Regarding Achaemenid Material and Visual Culture

Recorded: April 12, 2023
Event: Achaemenid Workshop 1

by Elspeth Dusinberre (University of Colorado - Boulder)

Telling Tales: Constructing Sasanian History in the Landscape

Recorded: March 3, 2023
Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series

by Eve MacDonald (Cardiff University)

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)

Dislodging Disciplinary Silos at Dura-Europos

Recorded: February 15, 2023
Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series

by Anne Hunnell Chen (Bard College)

Takht-e Sōleymān, Sasanians, Romans, and Mongols: Reflections on the Life and Afterlife of a Sacred Place

Recorded: May 20, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles)

How the Persian Book of Kings by Ferdowsi about the Ancient Royal Dynasties of Iran Could Ever Become a World Epic for the So-Called West

Recorded: May 20, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by Olga M. Davidson (Boston University)

Western Sources for the Sasanians

Recorded: May 20, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by David Potter (University of Michigan)

Ardashir I, the Early Sasanians, and Reorienting the Near East and the Caucasus

Recorded: May 20, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine)

Parthia, Rome, and the Horizons of Ancient Diplomacy

Recorded: May 20, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by Jake Nabel (Pennsylvania State University)

Parthian Silver and the Creation and Contestation of Aristocracies in Post-Hellenistic Iran

Recorded: May 20, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by Matthew Canepa (University of California, Irvine)

Universality and Alterity in the Achaemenid World

Recorded: May 19, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by M. Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles)

The Achaemenid Persian Empire and the West: A Structural Approach

Recorded: May 19, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck / University of Wrocław)

How to Govern an Empire? The Inscriptions of Darius I As a Constitutional Program

Recorded: May 19, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by Hilmar Klinkott (University of Kiel)

Celebrating Achaemenid Victories: A Glyptic Triumphal Motif and its Greek and Egyptian Victims

Recorded: May 19, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by John O. Hyland (Christopher Newport University)

Achaemenid Seals: East and West

Recorded: May 19, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum)

Achaemenid Cultural History and the Hellenistic World

Recorded: May 19, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by John Ma (Columbia University)

The Boundaries of Kingship: Objects and Relationships at the Margins

Recorded: May 19, 2022
Event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West

by Lindsay Allen (King’s College, London)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Current Trends in Avestan Studies

Recorded: February 16, 2022
Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series

by Céline Redard (SOAS University of London)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

The Yasna Ritual in Performance

Recorded: May 13, 2021
Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series

by Almut Hintze (SOAS University of London)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Sasanian Iran: A Personal View

Recorded: December 2, 2020
Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series

by Michael Jackson Bonner

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)

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)

Achaemenid Egypt: The Archaeology of a Colonial Encounter

Recorded: November 4, 2020
Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series

by Henry P. Colburn (University of Michigan)

Fall Welcome 2020: Gateways to Iranian Archaeology

Recorded: October 23, 2020
Event: Fall Welcome Event 2020

by Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles)

Feudalism and its Characteristics in Ancient Iran

Recorded: March 11, 2020
Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series

by Daniel Potts (New York University)

Descent and Marriage in Achaemenid Iran

Recorded: March 9, 2020
Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series

by Daniel Potts (New York University)

Problems in the Study of Elamite Kinship

Recorded: March 6, 2020
Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series

by Daniel Potts (New York University)

Aspects of Kinship in Iranian Prehistory

Recorded: March 4, 2020
Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series

by Daniel Potts (New York University)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

The Magus in Hell

Recorded: February 19, 2020
Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium

by Johannes Haubold (Princeton University)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Parthians in the Roman Army

Recorded: January 15, 2020
Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series

by Everett L. Wheeler (Duke University)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

The Making of the Chaldeans

Recorded: May 29, 2019
Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium

by Johannes Haubold (Princeton University)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Word Order Variation and Change in the Languages of Western Asia

Recorded: April 25, 2019
Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series

by Pollet Samvelian

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)

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)

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)

Transmillenial Ecologies of Iranian Religion and Identity

Recorded: January 9, 2019
Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series

by Matthew P. Canepa (University of California, Irvine)

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)