On behalf of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture and our generous co-sponsors, please join us this Saturday, May 30, in HG 1030 for our second New Horizons in Premodern Iranian Studies conference! This conference series serves as a forum to showcase the unique research on ancient Iran and the premodern Persianate world conducted by graduate students and early career scholars in the University of California system. This year's gathering features graduate scholars from across the UC system exploring topics ranging from historical linguistics and art history to archaeology and performance studies. We hope that you will consider joining us!
Program
8:30-9:00 am | Registration
9:00-9:15 am | Opening Remarks
9:15-9:30 am | Coffee Break
9:30-11:30 am | Panel I: Achaemenid Studies
Chair: Prof. Matthew Canepa (Professor and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran, UCI)
Marco Ferrario (Northeast Normal University) (Zoom)
Might Makes Right? Darius and A´soka: Transcending Immanence
Ethan Friedland (UCLA)
An Orthographic Reexamination of the Arebsun “Daenamazdayasniš” Inscription
Charlotte Howley (UCLA)
‘Social Space’ at Persepolis: the “Harem” building recontextualized
James Scherrer (UCLA)
Paid in Full: Achaemenid Accounting and The Lion Weight of Abydos
12:00- 1:00 pm | Lunch
1:00-3:00 pm | Panel II: Late Antiquity and the Medieval Iranian World
Chair: Prof. Carlo Cereti (Ferdowsi Presidential Chair in Zoroastrian Studies and Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, UCI)
Melissa DePierro (UCI)
Miniaturizing the Monumental: Examining Miniaturized Representations of Elephants in Seleucid Art
Mark K. Gradoni (UCI)
Finding the Farmers: Searching for Peasant Settlements in the Late Antique Shahrazur Plain (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Mahsa Pashaei (UCLA)
The Hidden Dimension of the Myth of Si¯murg¯ in Ferdowsi¯’s Sha¯hna¯meh
Julie Ershadi (UCLA)
Gender and Islam in Seljuqid Iran: The Poetics of Praise for Elite Women in the 12th Century C.E.
3:00-3:15 pm | Coffee Break
3:15-4:15 pm | Panel III: Endurance and Reception
Chair: Dr. Layah Ziaii-Bigdeli (Associate Editor, Encyclopaedia Iranica)
Fatemeh Kameli (UCSB)
The Unforgotten Empire: The Perception of Achaemenid Kings in Islamic-Era Sources (7th-15th Centuries)
Amirali Ardekanian (UCI)
Visual Diplomacy and Sovereign Oversight: Heydar Mirza’s 1899 Photographic Report of the Susa Excavations
Elmira Mohebalil (UCD)
Radical Joy in the Context of Resistance
4:15-4:30 pm | Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 pm | Keynote
Prof. Lara Fabian (Assistant Professor of Iranian Archaeology, UCLA)
Studying the Iranian Past in our Postglobalization Present