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 courses (4 hours each) on: Ancient Iran and Central Asia: Interactions and Shifting Identities.

Japan

Ryukoku University, Kyoto

On June 12, 2025, a 2-hour lecture on: Sacred Geography in Bactria and Sogdiana: Some Cases from the Greek Period (?–c. 145 BCE) to the 8th Century.

Kyoto University, Jinbunken

June 14, 2025: A 2-hour lecture on “ The Yuezhi and Early Kushans: New Documents and Discussions.”

Austria

Institute of Iranian Studies at the Vienna Academy of Sciences

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

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

United States

University of Berkeley, California

On April 19, 2023, two lectures on: Unscrambling the Political Situation in Central Asia between the Hunnish Invasions and the Muslim Conquest.

United States

University of California, Berkeley

On December 6 and 8 (dates to be confirmed), two courses 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 around the 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

On October 7, 2017, two lectures on: “The Sogdian Funerary Reliefs in China: A New Source on Zoroastrian Eschatological Conceptions in the 6^th Century CE.”

Shiraz Art University

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

Austria

Academy of Sciences, Vienna

In January–February 2016, four courses on:

1. New Perspectives on the Origins of the Fire Temples: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Pre-Achaemenid and Achaemenid Central Asia;
2. The Turkic Kingdom of Kabul-Zabul (7^th–8^th centuries): a claim to “translatio imperii” ?

China

Renmin University (Beijing)

During the third and fourth weeks of May 2017, four courses on: The Murals of Samarkand: Scientific and Heritage Issues.