“Iran in the Third Century: the Creation of a Global Late Antiquity.”

Palmyra, the Roman Empire and the Third Century Crisis.

The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 8-9, 2024.

“Festive Discipline and Punishment in a Global Late Antiquity: The Iranian Political Sensorium as an Afro-Eurasian Technology of Power.”

University of Oxford Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (LABS) Seminar. Feb. 7, 2024.

“Cosmological and Material Entanglements: The Perso-Iranian
World Eastwards.”

China Westward: Reimagining the Interwoven Material and Cultural Histories of China, Central Asia, and the Himalayas

Harvard University, Fairbank Center.

October 14 @ 8:45 am – October 15 @ 12:20 pm

“Seleucid Art as Iranian Art.”

Art Under the Seleucid Empire,

Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford, 28-29, 2023

Keynote Address:

“Achaemenid Luxury Material and Commensal Politics and their Legacyand Reinvention after Alexander.”

The Achaemenid Persian Empire and Imperial Transformations in the Ancient Near East (7th c. BC – 2nd c. BC). University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences. Held at the University Center, Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria. July 3-7, 2023.

Payravi Conference on Ancient Iranian History V: Contextualizing Iranian History: The Sasanians (ca. 224 – 642 AD).

Organized by Touraj Daryaee, Matthew Canepa, and Robert Rollinger.

Held in-person, March 27-29, 2023,

University of California Irvine,

Humanities Gateway Room HG 1030

“Perso-Iranian Visual and Material Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World”

Matthew Canepa

Professor and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair

in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran

Bettman Lecture Series

Monday March 20th, 2023 6:15 PM ET

807 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, New York

Payravi Conference on Ancient Iranian History IV: Contextualizing Iranian History: The Arsacids (ca. 250 BC – 224 AD).

Organized by Touraj Daryaee, Matthew Canepa, and Robert Rollinger.

Held in-person, Feb. 28-March 2, 2022, University of California Irvine, Humanities Gateway Room HG 1030

To participate virtually: https://bit.ly/UCIPayravi2022

PROGRAM

(all times PST)

Day 1 February 28th

9:35 Convening and Welcome from the Organizers

9:40 Introduction: Touraj Daryaee and Robert Rollinger

Section I: The Rise and Transformation of the Arsacid Empire (Chair: Robert Rollinger)

10:00-10:45 Rolf Strootman: The Arsacids – The Beginnings
10:45-11:30 Krzysztof Nawotka: The Arsacid Empire and Hellenism
11:30 -12:15 Leonardo Gregoratti: How to Fix an Empire: Artabanus and Vologases

Lunch: 12:15-14:00

Section II: Archaeological Perspectives on the Arsacid Empire (Chair: Matthew P. Canepa)

14:00-14:45 Barbara Kaim: The Archaeological Sources – Iranian Highlands and The East
14:45-15:30 Carlo Lippolis: The Archaeological Sources – Mesopotamia and the West

Coffee Break – 15:00-15:30

15:30 -16:15 Vito Messina: Residences – Royal and Regional
16:15-17:00 Lucinda Dirven: The Arsacid Empire and Religious Lives

Day 2 (March 1st)

Section III: Restoring the Parthians to their Central Place in Iranian History – the Role of Coinage. [hybrid format]

10:00-11:30 A conversation with Vesta Curtis, Fabrizio Sinisi and Michael Alram (moderated by Matthew P. Canepa)

Coffee break – 11:30-11:45

IV: Historiographical Reflections

11:45– 12:30 Stefan Hauser: Arsacid Histories – Modern Scholarship

Lunch – 12:30-14:30

V: The Arsacids and their Neighbors: Conflict and Coexistence (Chair: Robert Rollinger)

14:30-15:15 Nikolaus Leo Overtoom: The Parthian Military in the Formation and Expansion of the Arsacid Empire.
15:15-16:00 Charlotte Cohen-Lerouge: Arsacid History – the Western Sources: Problems and Challenges
16:00-16:45 Jake Nabel: The Arsacid Empire and its Western Neighbors

Day 3 (March 2nd)

Section VI: Kings, Courts, and Elites [hybrid format]

10:00-11:10 Round Table Discussion (Moderated by Touraj Daryaee) Edward Dąbrowa: The Arsacid Empire – King and Elites?
Giusto Traina: Armenian kings, the Armenian nakharar and the Parthians
Irene Madreiter: Arsacids Court Life: between fact and fiction

Coffee Break 11:10-11:30

Section VII: Sources and Economies [hybrid format]

11:30-12:40 Round Table Discussion (Moderated by Rahim Shayegan)
Hamidreza Pashazanous: The Chinese Sources
Philip Huyse: Arsacid History – The archival and epigraphic sources (Nisa, Avroman, Seleukeia, Assur)
Kai Ruffing: “Economies” of the Arsacid Empire

Lunch 12:40-14:30

Section VIII: The Arsacid Empire in an Interconnected Ancient World (Chair: Layah Bigdeli)

14:30-15:15 Sören Stark: Kurgans in Western Sogdiana and the Arsacids
15:15-16:00 Christoph Schäfer: The Arsacid Empire and the Maritime Silk Roads
16:00-16:45 Khodadad Rezakhani: The Arsacids and their trans-Eurasian contexts

Concluding Remarks 16:45-17:00 Matthew P. Canepa: The Arsacid Empire and the Transformation of the Iranian World

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Armeno-Iranica: a Shared History.

A Conference in Honor of Nina Garsoïan,

Jan. 26, 2019 at the Jordan Center for Persian Studies, UC Irvine.

Rewriting ancient Iran

(Interview on The Iranian Expanse from the School of the Humanities, UCI)

“Before Antiochus: Commagene and the Royal and Religious Legacies of the Achaemenids and

Perso-Macedonian Dynasties of Anatolia and the Caucasus, “

Beyond East and West: Hellenistic Commagene in its Local and Global Eurasian Context.

Nov. 29 – Dec. 1, 2018. Organized by the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics,” University of Münster.

Keynote Lecture: “Creating and Contesting the Imperial Infrastructures of Authority in Late Antiquity.” Keynote Lecture for the International Conference, “Establishing, Defending and Representing Authority in Late Antiquity,” University of Vienna. Nov. 7-9, 2018