The chair Biography and publications Public lectures Guest lecturers Annual summaries Team and contact Audios and videos News Upcoming Previous Lecture 16 Apr 2026 15:30 to 16:30 Frantz Grenet The origins of medieval Khurâsân: interactions between Sassanid Iran and Central Asia (3rd-7th… Seminar 5 May 2026 10:00 to 11:30 Frantz Grenet & Samra Azarnouche The Lord of the Covenant: Mihr the Judge and the Celebration of Mihragān… Guest lecturer 7 May 2026 17:00 to 18:30 Touraj Daryaee Touraj Daryaee (1) Seminar 12 May 2026 10:00 to 11:30 Frantz Grenet & Touraj Daryaee Mithra and Mithraism in the Gaze of Modern Iranians Guest lecturer 12 May 2026 17:00 to 18:30 Touraj Daryaee History and Memory: In Search of Lost Time Seminar 19 May 2026 10:00 to 11:30 Frantz Grenet & Nina Mazhjoo Orienting the Occident: Mithra and the quest for origin Guest lecturer 21 May 2026 17:00 to 18:30 Touraj Daryaee Mapping Men and Empire: The Sacred Topography of Erānšahr Seminar 26 May 2026 10:00 to 11:30 Frantz Grenet David Bivar and the Foundations of the Historiographic Myth of Iranan Mith… Guest lecturer 28 May 2026 17:00 to 18:30 Touraj Daryaee The Vision of the World in Late Antique Erānšahr Seminar 2 Jun 2026 10:00 to 11:30 Frantz Grenet, Touraj Daryaee, Nina Mazhjoo 1) Documents relating to the Sassanid presence in Central Asia; 2) The historiographical myth of und… Not recorded Seminar 9 Jun 2026 10:00 to 11:30 Frantz Grenet, Touraj Daryaee, Nina Mazhjoo 1) Documents relating to the Sassanid presence in Central Asia; 2) The historiographical myth of und… Not recorded Seminar 16 Jun 2026 10:00 to 11:30 Frantz Grenet, Touraj Daryaee, Nina Mazhjoo 1) Documents relating to the Sassanid presence in Central Asia; 2) The historiographical myth of und… Not recorded Seminar 23 Jun 2026 10:00 to 11:30 Frantz Grenet, Touraj Daryaee, Nina Mazhjoo 1) Documents relating to the Sassanid presence in Central Asia; 2) The historiographical myth of und… Not recorded Next 4 series Filters Event type Event type Lecture (2) Seminar (2) Academic year Academic year 2025 - 2026 (2) 2024 - 2025 (2) 2023 - 2024 (2) 2022 - 2023 (2) 2021 - 2022 (2) (-) 2020 - 2021 (2) 2019 - 2020 (1) 2018 - 2019 (2) 2017 - 2018 (3) (-) 2016 - 2017 (2) 2015 - 2016 (2) 2014 - 2015 (2) 2013 - 2014 (3) Active filters 2020 - 2021 2016 - 2017 2020 - 2021 Lecture Prestigious silver in Sassanid Iran and Central Asia : a mode of political and ideological expression Frantz Grenet 14 Jan 2021 → 20 May 2021 14 Jan 2021 → 20 May 2021 Seminar New approach to Chinese sources (mainly Tongdian) in Central Asia west of the Pamirs Frantz Grenet 22 Jan 2021 → 28 May 2021 22 Jan 2021 → 28 May 2021 2016 - 2017 Lecture The urban fact in pre-Islamic Central Asia : diachronic approach, synchronic approach, III : the urban crisis and reurbanization (IIIe-VIe s.), a general process ? (continued) Frantz Grenet 12 Jan 2017 → 30 Mar 2017 12 Jan 2017 → 30 Mar 2017 Seminar Ferdowsi's Book of Kings and the Sistani epics : textual strata, iconographic strata Frantz Grenet 24 Feb 2017 → 02 Jun 2017 24 Feb 2017 → 02 Jun 2017
