Payravi Conference on Ancient Iranian History III "Iran and The Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History: The Seleucids"
Department: Art History
Date and Time: February 24, 2020 - February 25, 2020 | 9:30 AM-4:30 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway (HG) 1030
Event Details
This conference is organized by Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine), Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck) and Matthew Canepa (UC Irvine).
Department: Center for Persian Studies and Culture
Date and Time: February 24, 2020 - February 25, 2020 | 9:30 AM-4:30 PM
Event Details
Please join us for the 3rd annual two-day international Payravi Conference on Ancient Iranian History titled "Iran and The Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History: The Seleucids" on February 24-25, 2020, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm in UC Irvine, Humanities Gateway (HG) 1030.
This event is presented by UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
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Schedule of the Conference:
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, 2020
Welcoming Remarks: (10:00-10:30)
Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine), Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck), and Matthew Canepa (UC Irvine)
Panel I: Empire and Concepts (10:30-12:30)
Chair: Andromache Karanika (UC Irvine)
Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wroclav) Seleukos I and the Seleukid Dynastic Ideology
Julian Degen (University of Innsbruck) Seleucus I between East and West: Appian on the Foundation of Seleukia-on-Tigris
Rolf Strootman (University of Utrecht) How Iranian was the Seleucid Empire?
Kai Ruffing (University of Kassel) The Economies of the Seleucid Empire
LUNCH (12:30 – 2:00)
Panel II: Iran, Mesopotamia and Syria (2:00-4:30)
Chair: Ali Mousavi (UCLA)
Johannes Haubold (Princeton) Babylon and Iran: The End of Seleucid Rule in Mesopotamia
Rocco Palermo (University of Groningen) Imperial Structures and Settlements in Seleucid Mesopotamia: A Landscape Archaeology Approach
COFFEE BREAK (3:00-3:30)
Anca Dan (French National Centre for Scientific Research) How the Seleucids Saw their World: Greek, Iranian and Babylonian Perceptions
Sara E. Cole (J. Paul Getty Museum) Seleucid and Ptolemaic Imperial Iconography in the Syrian Wars (274-168 BC)
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 2020
PANEL III: Urbanism and Empire (10:00-12:00)
Chair: Antonietta Catanzariti (Smithsonian Institute)
Ileana de Giuseppe (University of Bologna) The Burning of Persepolis: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
Omar Coloru (University of Genoa) Seen from Ecbatana: Aspects of Seleucid Policy in Media
Vito Messina, (University of Torino) Pivot of Imperial Systems: The role of Seleucia-on-the-Tigris in Seleucid and Parthian Mesopotamia
LUNCH (12:00 – 1:30)
Panel IV: Center and Borderlands (1:30-3:00)
Chair: Alka Patel (UC Irvine)
Laurianne Seve (University of Lille) Seleukid Religious Architecture in Ai Khanoum: A Case Study
Christoph Schäfer (University of Trier) Seleucids and the Sea: An Ambivalent Relationship
Stanley Burstein (CSU Los Angeles) The Seleucid Conquest of Koile Syria and the Incense Trade
COFFEE BREAK (3:00-3:30)
Concluding Remarks (3:30-4:00)
Matthew P. Canepa (UC Irvine) The Seleucid Empire and the Transformation of the Iranian World
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