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) Symposium (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 2019 - 2020 2017 - 2018 2019 - 2020 Lecture No lectures this year Frantz Grenet 01 Sep 2019 01 Sep 2019 2017 - 2018 Lecture Central Asian communities in China, 3rd-8th century : social role, religions, art Frantz Grenet 11 Jan 2018 → 05 Apr 2018 11 Jan 2018 → 05 Apr 2018 Symposium Ustrushana in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages : from the margins of Oekumene to the heart of Abbasid power Frantz Grenet 18 May 2018 18 May 2018 Symposium Hieroglossia III : Persian and Syro-Aramaic and their relationship with Arabic Jean-Noël Robert, Frantz Grenet 25 Jun 2018 25 Jun 2018
