United States
University of Los Angeles, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
In June or July 2026, four lectures (4h) on: Questions of identity: pre-Islamic central Asia versus Sasanian Iran.
In June or July 2026, four lectures (4h) on: Questions of identity: pre-Islamic central Asia versus Sasanian Iran.
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.
On June 14, 2025, a lecture (2h) on: The Yuezhi and early Kushans: new documents and discussions.
In April or May 2024, two lectures (2h) on:
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.
On December 6 and 8 (dates to be confirmed) two lectures on:
On May 6 and 8, 2019, four lectures on: The Sogdian Presence in China: new discoveries, new considerations.
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.
October 13, 2017, two lectures on: The Rediscovery of the Court Culture of the Qarakhanids (Samarkand, 12th c.).
In January-February 2016, four lectures on:
The third and fourth weeks of May 2017, four lectures on: Samarkand wall paintings: scientific and heritage issues.