Frantz Grenet - External lectures

United States

University of Los Angeles, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

On March 4, 6, 11 and 13, 2026, four lectures (4h) on: Ancient Iran and Central Asia: interactions and shifting identities.

Japan

Kyoto Ryukoku University

On June 12, 2025, a lecture (2h) on : Sacred geography in Bactria and Sogdiana: some cases from the Greek period (? - c. 145 BCE) to the 8th century.

Kyoto University, Jinbunken

On June 14, 2025, a lecture (2h) on : The Yuezhi and early Kushans: new documents and discussions.

Austria

Institute of Iranology of the Vienna Academy of Sciences

In April or May 2024, two lectures (2h) on:

• The Political History of Bactria, Sogdiana and Gandhara in the ^4th-7th Centuries CE: a New Appraisal of Numismatic and Epigraphic Documents
• Tracking the "Book of Kings" in Pre-Islamic Mural Paintings

United States

University of California, Berkeley

In the first semester of 2023 (dates to be specified), two lectures on: New Insights on the Cultural Life of Bactria and Sogdiana under the Huns and Turks Dynasties, ^5th-8th Centuries CE.

United States

University of California, Berkeley

On December 6 and 8 (dates to be confirmed) two lectures on:

1. Early Zoroastrianism in Central Asia According to New Discoveries in Khorezm;
2. The Image of Alexander the Great in Central Asia.

United States

Indiana University, Bloomington

• March 2, 2021: Zoroastrianism in Central Asia: new approaches from new documents ;
• March 3 and 5, 2021: Religious coexistence in Central Asia circa year 1000.

China

Fudan University (Shanghai)

On May 6 and 8, 2019, four lectures on: The Sogdian Presence in China: new discoveries, new considerations.

Iran

Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran

October 7, 2017, two lectures on: The Sogdian Funerary Reliefs in China: a new Source on the Zoroastrian Eschatological Conceptions in the^6th c. CE.

Shiraz Art University

October 13, 2017, two lectures on: The Rediscovery of the Court Culture of the Qarakhanids (Samarkand,^12th c.).

Austria

Academy of Sciences, Vienna

In January-February 2016, four lectures on:

1. New perspectives on the origins of the Fire Temples: recent archaeological discoveries in pre-Achaemenid and Achaemenid Central Asia ;
2. The Turkish kingdom of Kabul-Zabul (^{7th-8th centuries} ): a claim to "translatio imperii" ?

China

Renmin University (Beijing)

The third and fourth weeks of May 2017, four lectures on: The wall paintings of Samarkand: scientific and heritage issues.