Conferences
Academic conferences, lectures and symposia exploring Persian and Iranian studies.
The World of Achaemenid Persia
This conference coincided with the exhibition Forgotten Empire: the World of Ancient Persia, which was on display at the British Museum (9 September 2005 – 8 January 2006). Prior to Alexander’s conquest, the Persian Empire was the mightiest the Middle East had yet seen. Ranging from Egypt in the west to Pakistan in the east, the […]
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Iranian Memories: Colloquium on Discourses of Memory in Iranian Languages
This international conference, the first to focus on this field, brings together specialists working on aspects of memory, oral history and oral tradition in Iranian languages, whose disciplines include anthropology, history, literature, psychology, and religious studies. The conference will consider wider theoretical approaches within the context of Iranian cultures. The world-wide phenomenon which Pierre Nora […]
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