The chair Biography and publications Public lectures Guest lecturers Annual summaries Team and contact Audios and videos News 24 series Filters Event type Event type Lecture (14) Seminar (6) Symposium (2) Opening lecture (1) Closing lecture (1) Academic year Academic year 2013 - 2014 (3) 2012 - 2013 (2) 2011 - 2012 (2) 2010 - 2011 (3) 2009 - 2010 (2) 2008 - 2009 (2) 2007 - 2008 (2) 2006 - 2007 (1) 2005 - 2006 (1) 2004 - 2005 (1) 2003 - 2004 (1) 2002 - 2003 (1) 2001 - 2002 (1) 2000 - 2001 (1) 1993 - 1994 (1) 2013 - 2014 Symposium The religion of the Achaemenids : comparing sources Jean Kellens 07 Nov 2013 → 08 Nov 2013 07 Nov 2013 → 08 Nov 2013 Lecture Twenty years of Avestic and Mazdean studies Jean Kellens 15 Nov 2013 → 14 Feb 2014 15 Nov 2013 → 14 Feb 2014 Closing lecture 10:00 - 11:00 Exegesis of sacrifice as a unitary principle of the Avesta Jean Kellens 14 Feb 2014 Amphithéâtre Guillaume Budé, Site Marcelin Berthelot 14 Feb 2014 10:00 - 11:00 2012 - 2013 Lecture The Zarathushtra Gâthâs and the origins of Mazdaism (continued) Jean Kellens 16 Nov 2012 → 01 Feb 2013 16 Nov 2012 → 01 Feb 2013 Seminar Reading passages from the Gâthâs Jean Kellens 16 Nov 2012 → 01 Feb 2013 16 Nov 2012 → 01 Feb 2013 2011 - 2012 Lecture The Zarathushtra Gâthâs and the origins of Mazdaism Jean Kellens 18 Nov 2011 → 03 Feb 2012 18 Nov 2011 → 03 Feb 2012 Seminar Reading passages from the Gâthâs Jean Kellens 18 Nov 2011 → 03 Feb 2012 18 Nov 2011 → 03 Feb 2012 2010 - 2011 Lecture The Mazdean pantheon : gods that survive and gods that are born Jean Kellens 19 Nov 2010 → 04 Feb 2011 19 Nov 2010 → 04 Feb 2011 Seminar Reading texts related to the course topic Jean Kellens 19 Nov 2010 → 04 Feb 2011 19 Nov 2010 → 04 Feb 2011 Symposium Yama/Yima : Indo-Iranian variations on the mythical gesture Jean Kellens 09 Jun 2011 → 10 Jun 2011 09 Jun 2011 → 10 Jun 2011 2009 - 2010 Lecture Out of sacrifice Jean Kellens 30 Oct 2009 → 05 Feb 2010 30 Oct 2009 → 05 Feb 2010 Seminar Reading texts related to the course topic Jean Kellens 30 Oct 2009 → 05 Feb 2010 30 Oct 2009 → 05 Feb 2010 2008 - 2009 Lecture The notion of a pre-existing soul Jean Kellens 21 Nov 2008 → 30 Jan 2009 21 Nov 2008 → 30 Jan 2009 Seminar Reading texts related to the course topic Jean Kellens 21 Nov 2008 → 30 Jan 2009 21 Nov 2008 → 30 Jan 2009 2007 - 2008 Lecture 1. Metamorphosis of the Avestic pantheon ; 2. Recent controversies on Old Avestic texts Jean Kellens 23 Nov 2007 → 08 Feb 2008 23 Nov 2007 → 08 Feb 2008 Seminar Reading texts related to the course topic Jean Kellens 23 Nov 2007 → 08 Feb 2008 23 Nov 2007 → 08 Feb 2008 2006 - 2007 Lecture Liturgy, pantheon and dialectics of souls Jean Kellens 01 Sep 2006 01 Sep 2006 2005 - 2006 Lecture Current issues in Zoroastrian philology and religion Jean Kellens 01 Sep 2005 01 Sep 2005 2004 - 2005 Lecture Details of certain aspects of the history of Zoroastrian studies Jean Kellens 01 Sep 2004 01 Sep 2004 2003 - 2004 Lecture No lectures this year Jean Kellens 01 Sep 2003 01 Sep 2003 2002 - 2003 Lecture The Mazdean eulogy of intoxication Jean Kellens 01 Sep 2002 01 Sep 2002 2001 - 2002 Lecture The religious ideology of the Darius and Xerxes inscriptions Jean Kellens 01 Sep 2001 01 Sep 2001 2000 - 2001 Lecture Why has Avestic philology endorsed the pre-scientific myth of Zoroaster ? Jean Kellens 01 Sep 2000 01 Sep 2000 1993 - 1994 Opening lecture 18:00 - 19:00 Not recorded Indo-Iranian languages and religions Jean Kellens 06 Apr 1994 06 Apr 1994 18:00 - 19:00