Arash Zeini

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  • Workshop: Iran and Islam

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    Iran and Islam: Early Encounters. Formation of Islam 
and Transformation of Iranian Religious Traditions 12 March 2015 09:00–13 March 2015 18:00, Workshop Room: FNO 02/ 40-46 Contact: Kianoosh Rezania For more information, see the workshop schedule

  • Sasanian royalist ideology

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    Sasanian royalist ideology and Zoroastrian millennialism Lecture by François de Blois, University College London, at the Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge, Friday 06March, 5.30pm.

  • MScT Scholarship in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh

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    Scholarships seem to be available to those who wish to study for an MSc in Persian Civilization at Edinburgh. For more information, see this link.

  • Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference

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    University of Vienna Tuesday-Friday, 2–5 August 2016 Conference Information The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) is pleased to announce that the Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference will be held in Vienna, Austria from August 2-5, 2016 at the University of Vienna. Onsite registration begins on the 2nd and the program extends until the evening…

  • Afghanistan Digital Library

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    The immediate objective of the Afghanistan Digital Library is to retrieve and restore the first sixty years of Afghanistan’s published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing, and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871–1930 as it is possible to identify and locate.

  • open.marginalis

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    open.marginalis, a curated aggregation of medieval marginalia, explores tumblr as a platform for digital scholarship.

  • Yarshater Lectures at SOAS

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    ‘In the rays of light of imperial favour’: The visual arts of early fifteenth-century Timurid Herat. Four lectures by Professor David J. Roxburgh of the Department of History of Art and Architecture and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University: 15 January Timurid Herat: The City as a Setting for Art and Literature 16 January The Timurid-Ming…

  • Early Islamic Balkh

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    Early Islamic Balkh: History, landscape and material culture 16th–17th January 2015, Wolfson College, Oxford The Balkh Art and Cultural Heritage Project (2011-2015) has been investigating the early Islamic history and archaeology of the city of Balkh, in Northern Afghanistan. Synonymous with ancient Bactra, the “Mother of Cities” continued to flourish after the coming of Islam,…

  • Iran and the West

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    Call for Papers for a conference at the University of Warwick: Iran and the West: Converging Perspectives 1-3 July 2015

  • Symposia Iranica’s second graduate conference on Iranian Studies

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    Symposia Iranica provides ‘postgraduates and early career scholars with the opportunity to present their research without the limitations of an overarching theme – as such, submissions related to any aspect of Iranian studies in the ancient through to contemporary periods within the humanities and social sciences are all welcome’. Call for Papers | Symposia Iranica…

  • Infrastructure and distribution in ancient economies

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    International Congress Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies The Flow of Money, Goods and Services Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 28–31 October 2014 Section 3 is dedicate to ‘Ancient Iranian Economies’. For the list of participants, programme and abstracts, see the conference website.

  • Symposium: British Library Persian manuscripts

    Symposium: British Library Persian manuscripts

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    The British Library is holding a one-day symposium on the theme of digitisation and new research on its collection of Persian manuscripts, one of the most significant in the world in both size and importance. British Library Persian Manuscripts: Collections and Research British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Friday, 31 October…

  • The visual world of Persianate culture

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    A promising and interesting conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh coinciding with the launch of their Masters in Persian Civilization. Congratulations to the University and all who made the conference and the Masters possible. This international conference also coincides with ‘the anniversary exhibition of Rashid al-Din’s World History in Edinburgh (1 August – 31…

  • Eighth European Conference of Iranian Studies

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    The first call for the eighth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS8), St. Petersburg, 15–19.09.2015: The President and the Board of the Societas Iranologica Europaea have the pleasure to invite you to the 8th Conference of Iranian Studies to be held in Saint Petersburg, at the State Hermitage Museum and Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, from…

  • Sixth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics

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    Abstracts are invited for the Sixth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL6), to be held in Tbilisi / Georgia in June 2015. We expressly solicit contributions from the full range of Iranian linguistics, including formal theoretical perspectives, computational linguistics, neurolinguistics, typological and functional perspectives, as well as diachronic and areal perspectives.