We are very happy to welcome Matthew P. Canepa, Professor and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran at the University of California, Irvine, for a Study Foundation Talk just before his Keynote on the Conference Bridging EurAsia, November 16-19, 2026, at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Registration  until November 8, 2026

Date: November 16, 2026

Time: 2.30 to 4.00 pm

Venue: OeAW, Anton Zeilinger Salon, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

Matthew P. Canepa is Professor and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran at the University of California, Irvine. An elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and former Guggenheim fellow, Canepa is the author of numerous publications including the award-winning books The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE, winner of the James R. Wiseman Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in 2020, and The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran, recipient of the American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Award. His most recent volume is entitled Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World (2024). He is currently finishing a book on luxury material and the transformation of Iranian political identities in the post-Achaemenid Mediterranean and Iranian World, to be published by Princeton University Press.

http://sites.uci.edu/canepa/   Conference Bridging Eurasia