Mi, 29.11.2023 – 02.12.2023

THE ACHAEMENID-PERSIAN EMPIRE AT ITS HEYDAY? THE ERA BETWEEN DARIUS II AND DARIUS III

Farhad Ebrahimi Workshop

Mo, 27.11.2023 14:00

SOVEREIGNTY IN THE HISTORY OF ASIA

A JESHO International Workshop

Di, 21.11.2023 18:15

Visualising Persian History: the illustration of Persian manuscript histories

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Di, 14.11.2023 17:00

The dominance of the 'Silk Road' and searching for a non-elite narrative: challenges in writing the economic history of Kushan Central Asia

Webinar series: Trans-local perspectives in Iranian worlds

Di, 17.10.2023 17:00

Collation Culture in Pre-Modern Islam: The Manuscript Tradition of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa’s ʿUyūn al-Anbāʾ fī Ṭabaqāt al-Aṭibbāʾ

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Mo, 03.07.2023 – 07.07.2023

Thinking with Islamicate Manuscripts

Summer school in cooperation with Central European University (CEU)

Mi, 17.05.2023 – 18.05.2023

Mongoles en el Oeste

International conference Madrid

Mi, 03.05.2023 17:00

Persianate Poetics and “Poetic Cinema”: The Soviet Literary Biopic Before and After Parajanov

Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 7

Mo, 24.04.2023 17:00

International Actors and the Question of Iranian Child Carpet Weavers in the Early 20th Century

IFI Guest lecture

Statuen Humayuns, gekleidet in den Farben der Planeten, von Jill Watson, 2021 (Bronze, Ölfarben, Höhe 47cm), Foto: Keith Hunter. © Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Di, 18.04.2023 – 18.04.2023

The Planetary King. Humayun Padshah: Inventor and Visionary on the Mughal Throne

Buchpräsentation des neuen Buches von Ebba Koch

Di, 11.04.2023 17:00

Strange Times in the City of Herat: Peculiarity as Historiographical Methodology in a Medieval Islamic Manuscript

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Di, 14.03.2023 17:00

Astronomy in the Ilkhanate: The Early Manuscript Tradition of al-Ṭūsī's Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Fr, 10.03.2023 – 11.03.2023

Deadjectival verb formation in Indo-European: Historical and theoretical perspectives

International workshop

Mi, 08.03.2023 17:00

Embattled Dreamlands. The Politics of Contesting Memory between Asia Minor and Karabakh

Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 6

Di, 28.02.2023 17:00

Wrestling with History: An Analysis of the Karabakh Conflict in Armenian and Azerbaijani State Discourses

Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 5

Mo, 13.02.2023 15:00

Free Trade Agreements and Level Playing Fields. Britain and the Indian Ocean 1600-1757

Guest lecture

Di, 07.02.2023 17:00

Preaching Christianity in the Muslim Ilkhanate: On the manuscripts of Persian Bibles from Fourteenth Century Tabriz

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Mi, 25.01.2023 18:30

The Press in the 19th and 20th centuries: From Central Asia to Anatolia via Crimea and the Caucasus

Ringvorlesung Wintersemester 2022/23

Mi, 11.01.2023 17:00

Greek script in the northern Caucasus

Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 4

Mi, 14.12.2022 17:00

Georgian hagiography and its development through the centuries

Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 3

Di, 06.12.2022 18:30

Elisabetta Ragagnin: Minority Turkic languages in language contact situations in Iran: case studies

Guest Lecture

Di, 06.12.2022 17:00

The Second Formation of Islamic Law in Premodern Transoxiana:Evidence from Manuscripts

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Do, 01.12.2022 19:00

Between greater Khorasan and the Khorasan province - The continuity of Greater Khorasan in the social identity of Iranian Sunnis in Khorasan province

Bert Fragner Memorial Lecture 2022

Do, 01.12.2022 17:00

The Mongols' Baghdad: Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures Before and After the Conquest

International Workshop

Do, 01.12.2022 17:00

Managing Iraq’s Cultural Heritage in the 20th Century: Foreign Occupations, Wars and Dictatorships

Keynote lecture

Mi, 16.11.2022 17:00

What was the secret of the success of the early modern New Julfa Armenian trade diaspora?

Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 2

Julius Goltzius, Allegory of Asia, from The Four Continents, ca. 1560–1590, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, © The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949.
Mi, 16.11.2022 9:30

What is Asia to Us?

International Workshop: 65 years of JESHO – Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

Di, 15.11.2022 17:00

Improvised Forms: Body, Text, and Diagram in Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūya's (d. 1252) Sajanjal al-arwāḥ

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Di, 25.10.2022 17:00

The Silk Road and the Political Economy of the Mongol Empire

Lecture by Prajakti Kalra

Mo, 24.10.2022 18:00

New: Journal of Central Asian History

Launch event

Mi, 12.10.2022 17:00

The Russo-Persian and Russo-Ottoman Wars and Their Impact on the Caucasus Region in the 19th Century

Webinar Series "Caucasus Studies" - Lecture 1

Di, 11.10.2022 17:00

Oriental Manuscripts in the Saadian Collection

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Di, 27.09.2022 17:00

Astrology in Mongol Iran: foreign fascination or popular pastime?

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Mi, 14.09.2022 15:00

The Byzantine Ideas of Persia

Lecture by Professor Rustam Shukurov

Mi, 29.06.2022 9:00

Iran Through the Ages, Persian Across Borders

Internationales Symposium zum Gedenken an Bert G. Fragner

Mi, 22.06.2022 18:30

Nature, Environment and Society in Eurasia

Ringvorlesung Sommersemester 2022

Mi, 15.06.2022 15:00

Qajar Persia and Persians in the work of the Armenian writer Raffi (Hakob Melik Hakobian): The Five Melikdoms of Karabagh

Gastvortrag von Professor Aldo Ferrari

© Wikimedia/Public Domain. Grynaeus, Novus Orbis Regionum (1532 Basel)
Do, 02.06.2022 10:00

FROM THE COLUMNS OF HERCULES UP TO THE ARGONAUTS’ VOYAGES

International Symposium

Mi, 11.05.2022 17:00

Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts 2021-22

New webinar series

Mi, 11.05.2022 17:00

Wandering artists, manuscripts and paintings: the circulation of pictorial models in Iran: state of the question and new perspectives

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Do, 05.05.2022 18:00

Rian Thum: Sacred sites in Eastern Turkistan: Destruction, Transformation, and Persistence

The 5th JESHO Lecture on Asian History

Di, 03.05.2022 – 04.05.2022

Local Modern: Exploring Vernacular Cultures Across Central Eurasia

International conference

Mi, 13.04.2022 17:00

Muḥammad Pārsā’s (d. 1420) library: History and overview of the collection

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Mi, 16.03.2022 17:00

Tracing a forgotten tradition: Commentaries written on al-Baghawī’s post-canonical hadith collection Maṣābīḥ al-sunna

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Mi, 23.02.2022 17:00

Islamic Intellectual History during the Mamluk-Ilkhan War: The Case of Marāgha and Its Manuscript Culture

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Mi, 15.12.2021 17:00

Jalayirid Book Patronage and the Dissemination of Occultist Knowledge: The Case of Abū Maʻshar’s Kitāb al-mawālīd

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Di, 07.12.2021 – 07.12.2021

Mirko Sardelić: The Concepts of Envy and Jealousy in Eurasia: Examples of Cross-Cultural and Cross-Temporal Variations

Guest Lecture

Mi, 17.11.2021 17:00

On the value of written evidence: the preamble of Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī’s (672/1274) Awṣāf al-ashrāf

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Di, 16.11.2021 – 19.11.2021

Central Asian Islamic Manuscripts: Cultural Heritage and Historical Source

International conference (Tashkent/online)

Mi, 13.10.2021 17:00

The significance of unpublished parts of pre-modern Histories of Iran: the case of the Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh Ḥasanī

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Mo, 27.09.2021 – 30.09.2021

Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th - 20th Centuries)

Online Workshop

Mi, 22.09.2021 17:00

Apocalyptic Hermeneutics in a Manuscript of Ḥurūfī Literature

Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"

Mi, 18.08.2021 – 20.08.2021

Ninth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL 9)

Online conference

Di, 25.05.2021 17:00

WHAT DO WE LOOK FOR AND WHAT ARE WE ENGAGED IN? SELF-CONFIRMATION, CULTURE WARS, RESPECTFUL TREATMENT OF OUR SUBJECTS – OR “ALL OF THE ABOVE"?

Online lecture by Sonja Brentjes

Mi, 07.04.2021 – 10.04.2021

The 17th Century in India: Events, Society, Thought and Art

International online workshop

Fr, 22.01.2021 – 22.01.2021

Stuccoes attributed to the early Abbasid and Samanid periods from the archaeological site of Afrasiyab/Samarkand

Online conference

Fr, 15.01.2021 – 15.01.2021

A Carved History: New Researches on Medieval Iranian Stucco (8th – 14th c.)

Online round table

Di, 23.06.2020 – 23.06.2020

Asghar Montazerolghaem: The Historical Idea of Imamzadehs in the Development of Shi’ism in pre-Safavid Iran

Guest Lecture (Persian)

Do, 26.03.2020 – 27.03.2020

Narratives of Being Jewish in the Middle East

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© Berlin–Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin State Library
Fr, 29.11.2019 9:00

Medieval Turfan – An oasis for Christianity?

International Symposium

Mi, 27.11.2019 18:00

Michael Laffan: A Jihad under Japan

The 4th JESHO Lecture on Asian History

Do, 13.06.2019 18:30

Iran vor einem halben Jahrhundert

Florian Schwarz im Gespräch mit Professor Bert G. Fragner Vortragsreihe Kulturwissenschaftliche Iranforschung

Do, 06.06.2019 17:00

Urban Agencies: Personal and collective agency in Anatolian and Caucasian Cities (13th-14th centuries)

International Workshop

So, 02.06.2019 – 07.06.2019

Cultures of Documentation in Persianate Eurasia (15th-19th Centuries)

Summer School

Mi, 22.05.2019 11:30

The Shaybānids and the Shāh-nāma

Guest lecture by Jaimee K. Comstock-Skipp, Leiden University

Mi, 15.05.2019 – 17.05.2019

The Mongols and Religions

International Conference

Mi, 01.05.2019 8:00

Intellectual & Cultural Relations Between Iran and Central Asia and the Caucasus

International Conference

So, 28.04.2019 8:00

Cultural Relations between Iran and Europe in the Safavid Period

International Conference

Mi, 20.03.2019 14:00

Akihiko Yamaguchi: Evolution of Centre-Periphery Relations in Early Modern Iran. An Analysis of Appointment Letters of Local Ulama in Ardalan Kurdistan

Lecture

Do, 07.03.2019 11:00

Younos Yousofvand: Communication routes trough Lorestan in the Sasanian and early Islamic period

Lecture

Mi, 16.01.2019 11:00

Chiara Barbati: Scribal Habits. A case study from Christian Medieval Central Asia

IFI Kolloquium

Di, 15.01.2019 18:30

Neue kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungen im zentralen Zagros. Teil 2: Moderne Transformationen

Vortrag von Florian Schwarz in der Reihe Kulturwissenschaftliche Iranforschung

Do, 10.01.2019 18:30

Neue kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungen im zentralen Zagros. Teil 1: Unterwegs in Irans Wildem Westen

Vortrag von Florian Schwarz in der Reihe Kulturwissenschaftliche Iranforschung

Di, 11.12.2018 14:00

Roman Siebertz: Road to Perdition. Iran and the Great Powers in World War Two

IFI Kolloquium

Mo, 03.12.2018 15:00

Julia Rubanovich: In Search of Cultural Interface: Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā in Classical Persian and Judeo-Persian Literature

IFI International Guest Lecture

Mi, 07.11.2018 10:00

Rashīd al-Dīn and Islamic Historiography

A Conversation with Judith Pfeiffer

Di, 06.11.2018 18:00

Judith Pfeiffer: The Mongol Moment in the Middle East

3rd JESHO lecture

Di, 23.10.2018 17:00

Ulfatbek Abdurasulov: Advice from a Holy Man: Ishans in 19th-Century Central Asia

IFI Kolloquium

Mi, 03.10.2018 – 05.10.2018

Beyond the Islamicate Chancery: Archives, Paperwork, and Textual Encounters across Eurasia

International Conference

Di, 25.09.2018 10:00

Soziolinguistisches Forum - Impulse 2018

Impulsreferate aus der Wiener Forschung zur Historischen Soziolinguistik

Sa, 22.09.2018 – 24.09.2018

Central and Western Iran from the Constitutional Revolution to the End of the Qajar Period

International Workshop in Hamadan, Iran

Di, 11.09.2018 13:00

Farewell to Persographia: Historicizing the Rise of a Written Vernacular in Khorezm (18th – Early 20th Centuries)

IFI Kolloquium, Paolo Sartori

Di, 10.07.2018 – 11.07.2018

Beyond Printed Sources: Medieval Manuscripts as Evidence for the History of the Persianate World

Internationaler Workshop

Do, 05.07.2018 9:30

Austria and Iran: Aspects of the history of diplomatic, scientific and cultural relations

International Symposium

Di, 26.06.2018

Der Besuch des Schah, Weltereignis auf der Weltausstellung 1873

Vortrag von Sibylle Wentker in der Reihe Kulturwissenschaftliche Iranforschung

Di, 19.06.2018 18:30

Auf den Spuren Irans in Wien

Vortrag von Florian Schwarz in der Reihe Kulturwissenschaftliche Iranforschung

Sa, 09.06.2018

Dall´Iran allo Xinjiang: le comunità siro-orientali tra VI-XI sec.

International Workshop

Di, 22.05.2018

Grammatica Iranica, Indo-Iranica necnon Indo-Europaea: An Austro-Italian symposium on historical and comparative morphology, word-formation and syntax

Symposium, organized by the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Vienna Linguistic Society,…

Di, 30.01.2018

Der vergessliche Schreiber und andere Nachlässigkeit. Mittelalterliche Urkunden aus Ardabil

Vortrag von Frau Prof. Dr. Monika Gronke, Universität Köln

Mo, 29.01.2018

Der Reisende und die Altertümer - Sir William Ouseleys "Travels in Various Countries of the East, more Particulary Persia"

Vortrag von Marion-Isabell Hoffmann/Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

Mo, 22.01.2018

Was eine Scherbe alles kann: Über die Bedeutung der Keramikforschung in der Archäologie des Iran

Vortrag von Gabriele Puschnigg/Institut für Iranistik

Mo, 15.01.2018

Die Stadt und der König ‒ Frühsasanidische Städte im Südwesten des Iran

Vortrag von Anahita Mittertrainer/Universität München

Mi, 29.11.2017

New trends and perspectives in Safavid studies

Workshop, veranstaltet vom Institut für Iranistik

Fr, 24.11.2017

A 14th century Persian manuscript treatise on secret vocabularies

Internationaler Gastvortrag

Di, 21.11.2017

Indo-Iranische Textlinguistik, Syntax und Dichtersprache

Vortragsabend veranstaltet vom Institut für Iranistik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Wiener…

Di, 04.07.2017

Inclusion and Exclusion: Authoring Sovereignty in Tārīkh-i Ahmad Shāhī

Seminar with Neelam Khoja

Di, 27.06.2017

Manichäismus – von Iran in die Welt

Vortrag von Dr. Iris Colditz, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Di, 20.06.2017

Iranisches Judentum im Spiegel der judäo-persischen Literatur

Vortrag von Dr. Shervin Farridnejad

Fr, 24.03.2017

Shima Jaafari-Dehaghi: Zoroastrian Early New Persian: Manuscripts and copyists

Shima Jaafari-Dehaghi, University of Tehran/Iran

Mo, 13.03.2017

Martin Schwartz: Zarathushtra's Yima (and Ferdowsi's Jamshid) - Poetics, Linguistics, Mythology, and Memory / Chiara Barbati: The Christian Sogdian Gospel Lectionary E5 in Context

Vortragsabend mit Buchpräsentation, veranstaltet vom Institut für Iranistik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften…

Di, 31.01.2017

Mitteliranisch zwischen historischer Linguistik und Kulturgeschichte: Etymologie und Sprachrekonstruktion

Vortragsabend mit Buchpräsentation veranstaltet vom Institut für Iranistik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,…

Mo, 23.01.2017

Homo Ritualis ‒ Rituale und rituelle Traditionen im zoroastrischen Leben

Vortrag von Dr. Shervin Farridnejad

Mo, 16.01.2017

Der Zoroastrismus und das Avesta: Weltanschauung und Wertvorstellungen

Vortrag von Univ.-Doz. Dr. Velizar Sadovski

Mo, 09.01.2017

Die Himmelsrichtungen der Altiraner. Zur Orientierung der achämenidischen Palastbauten und der zoroastrischen Ritualflächen

Vortrag von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kianoosh Rezania, Universität Bochum

Di, 13.12.2016

Multilingualism, Communication and Social Reality in Pre-Modern Eurasia: Linguistic, Ritual, and Socio-Economic Aspects

International Workshop, organized by the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Vienna…

Mo, 05.12.2016

Nader Shah Revisited

International Symposium, Convened by: Giorgio Rota

Do, 01.12.2016

Rustam Shukurov: The Persians in Thirteenth-Century Anatolia: Prosopographical Evidence

Rustam Shukurov, Moscow State University

Mo, 28.11.2016

Festakademie anlässlich des 75. Geburtstages von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Bert G. Fragner

Symposion und anschließender Festakt, Organisation: Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall in Zusammenarbeit…

Fr, 04.11.2016

Seminar with Prof. Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Ilker Evrim Binbaş (Bonn University): a Response to the JESHO Lecture

Do, 03.11.2016

Sanjay Subrahmanyam: The Hidden Face of Surat: Exploring the History of a Cosmopolitan Centre, 1540-1750

Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Distinguished Professor and Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences, UCLA The Second JESHO Lecture…

Mo, 08.08.2016

16th IQSA Conference 2016

 

 

International Conference organised by International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA) and the Institute of Iranian Studies

 

Di, 02.08.2016

Eleventh Biennial Iranian Studies Conference 2016

 

 

International Conference organised by International Society for Iranian Studies and the Institute of Iranian Studies

 

Do, 23.06.2016

Persianate Cultures of Documentation (15th – 20th Centuries)

An International Conference, Conveners: Paolo Sartori and James Pickett

Mi, 22.06.2016

Nozhat Ahmadi

وقف و نقش زنان در موقوفات عصر صفوي (Waqf and the Role of women in pious foundations during the Safavid Era)

Mo, 13.06.2016

Friedrich Rückert und die persische Literatur

Vortrag von Hartmut Bobzin, Universität Erlangen

Mo, 06.06.2016

Der West-östliche Divan, eine persische Sehnsuchtsreise.

Vortrag von Sibylle Wentker

Do, 21.04.2016

Das glückliche Ende – Zur Handschrift MS Kayseri Ras. Ef. 614 und ihrer Bedeutung für die Überlieferung von Tausendundeine Nacht.

Vortrag mit Lesung von Frau Dr. Claudia Ott

Do, 28.01.2016

Southern Azerbaijan – the Construction of National Identity beyond the Soviet Borders

Vortrag von Rail Safiyev, MA derzeit Gastforscher am Institut für Iranistik

Mo, 25.01.2016

Peoples and Places in the Bactrian Archives

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Nicholas Sims-Williams, Emeritus Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies SOAS, University of…

Fr, 11.12.2015

Problems of Iranian Onomastics

International Workshop

Mo, 30.11.2015

1001 Nacht - Das Ewige Spiel

Ein künstlerischer Abend mit Mitra Shahmoradi

Mi, 04.11.2015

Tilmann Trausch: Formen höfischer Historiographie im 16. Jahrhundert. Geschichtsschreibung unter den frühen Safaviden: 1501–1578.

Buchpräsentation

Mo, 02.11.2015

Sharia in the Russian Empire: An International Symposium (II)

International Conference, Convener: Paolo Sartori

Di, 13.10.2015

Mark Elliott: Was China an Empire?

Mark Elliott, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (Director), Harvard University

Mi, 01.07.2015

Multilingualism in Pre-Modern Societies of Ancient Eurasia: Linguistic, Religious, and Socio-Economic Aspects

International Conference in honour of Prof. Dr. Gebhard J. Selz organized by the University of Vienna, the Institute of…

Di, 16.06.2015

Politics, History and Folklore and the Making of Hazrat-i Dehli, ca 1200-1300 CE

Vortrag von Sunil Kumar, Delhi University

Mo, 15.06.2015

Persepolis: Geschichte, Erinnerung, Imagination

Vortrag von Florian Schwarz

Mo, 08.06.2015

Irans Hauptstadt Teheran und ihre Vorgängerinnen in der Geschichte

Vortrag von Bert Fragner

Mo, 01.06.2015

Pilger, Säuglinge, Kronleuchter – Die Verwaltung des Schreins von Imam Reza in Mashhad

Vortrag von Christoph Werner, Universität Marburg

Fr, 24.04.2015

Strategies of Language Variatio n: Transcultural Perspectives

Within the Cooperation Network Sociolinguistic Forum

Mi, 25.02.2015

What we talk about when we talk about "provinces in rebellion": Shahrisabz and premodern sovereignty, 1694-1870

Vortrag von James Pickett

Do, 22.01.2015

Sprachen und Schriftdenkmäler innerhalb und in der Umgebung des alten Iran

Vortrag von Univ.-Doz. Dr. Velizar Sadovski

Mo, 19.01.2015

Griechen im Achaimenidenreich. Vom Hindukusch bis in die Levante. Griechen im Alten Orient und deren Wahrnehmung durch die altorientalischen Großreiche

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Robert Rollinger

Mo, 12.01.2015

Von Ahura Mazda zu Allah. Münzgeschichte von Iran in der Spätantike

Vortrag von Dr. Nikolaus Schindel