The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Symposium on Ancient Iranian History and Civilization: Food and Drink in Ancient Iran - An All Day Conference
Department: Center for Persian Studies and Culture
Date and Time: May 15, 2018 | 9:30 AM-5:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway (HG) 1030
Event Details
Please join us on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 in UC Irvine's Humanities Gateway (HG) 1030 for an all day conference, titled "The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Symposium on Ancient Iranian History and Civilization: Food and Drink in Ancient Iran".
Schedule:
Welcoming Remarks (9:30-9:45)
Yong Chen (UC Irvine & Associate Dean of Humanities)
Introduction (9:30-9:45)
Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine)
Keynote Lecture I (9:45-10:15)
Darioush Khaledi (Darioush Winery)
Highlights of Ancient Persian Winemaking – Hajji Firuz Tepe
Panel I: To Feast and Drink Like a Persian (10:15-12:00)
Joel T. Walker (University of Washington)
Beef, Bulls, and Court Culture in Ancient Iran
Henry Colburn (University of Southern California)
Drinking Like a Persian: Dining and Identity in Achaemenid Persia and Egypt
Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine)
Dough: The Longue Duree History of a Persian Drink
Lunch Break: (12:00 – 1:30)
Keynote Lecture II (1:30-1:50)
Charles Perry (Culinary Historians of Southern California)
What We Know About Medieval Persian Cuisine
Panel II (1:50-3:00) Power, Prestige and the Economy of Iranian Food
Khodadad Rezakhani (Princeton University)
Putting Garum on the Table: Sources of Food in the Arsacid Empire
Dan Sheffield (Princeton University)
Food in Zoroastrian Middle Persian Literature
Concluding Remarks
Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine)
Khodadad Rezakhani (Princeton University)
The Study of Persian and Iranian Food: Past, Present and the Future
BREAK (3:00-3:30)
Reception: By Invitation Only
Ancient Persian Food in the Modern Context (3:30-5:30)
Sara Mashayekh (UC Irvine)
Reading from Middle Persian Sur Saxwan (Sasanian Dinner Speech)
Khodadad Rezakhani (Princeton University)
Food at the Royal Court: Explanation of Food in Ancient Iran
Chef Bibi Kasrai (Harvard Cooking Girl)
A Selection of food and desert from the Achaemenid to the Sasanian Period will be served.
Contemporary Persian Wine with Ancient Persian Foods will be served as well.
Azari Vineyards by Kamal Azari
Dariōush Winery by Darioush Khaledi
Fazeli Cellars Winery by Bijan Fazeli
Parow Estate by Gilda and Mohsen Tavoussi
This symposium has been made possible by the generous donation of Dr. Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute.
This event is organized by Dr. Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine) and Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani (Princeton University).
This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required. The reception is by invitation only.
