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Daryoosh Akbarzadeh, Director, National Museum of Iran (Tehran) [Abstract] In addition to his service to the National Museum of Iran since 1996 as both Head of the Department of Inscriptions and now Director, Dr. Akbarzadeh has taught undergraduate and graduate courses and advised MA theses on Ancient and Middle Iranian languages (Avestan, Old Persian, Pahlavi), Sanskrit texts and inscriptions, the history of Persian language and linguistics, and Indo-Iranian mythology. He has also been Visiting Researcher at University of Osaka (2006-2007), Deccan College (Pune, India, 2007), Beijing University (2011), and has been selected by the India International Centre (New Delhi, 2012). His books include The Shahnameh and Comparison with Pahlavi Texts (Tehran 2000); Parthian Inscriptions (Tehran 2003, 2nd ed. 2011); and The Inscribed Sasanian Bullae at the National Museum of Iran (in press). He has also published some 20 articles on Iranian languages and culture, ancient Iranian contacts with India, Korea and Japan, and Sasanian coins and bullae. See also http://www.sgt.gr/uploads/Akbarzadeh.pdf |
Ali Anooshahr, Associate Professor, Department of History & Program on Middle East/South Asia Studies, UC-Davis [Abstract] Ali Anooshahr teaches comparative pre-modern Islamic history at UC Davis, with a heavy emphasis on the Mughals and the Safavids. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Humanities from the University of Texas at Austin (1994), and received his Masters of Arts and PhD in Islamic History from the University of California, Los Angeles (2005). He has written on Persian, Arabic, and Turkic textual production. His publications include The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam (Routledge 2009); "Writing, Speech, and History for an Ottoman Biographer" (Journal of Near Eastern Studies 2010); "The King Who Would Be Man: the Gender Roles of the Warrior King in Early Mughal History" (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2008); "Mughal Historians and the Memory of the Islamic Conquest of India" (Indian Economic and Social History Review 2006); and "Utbi and the Ghaznavids at the Foot of the Mountain" (Iranian Studies 2005). |
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Osmund Bopearachchi, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and University of California, Berkeley (2010-2012) [Abstract] Osmund Bopearachchi is Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (C.N.R.S.-E.N.S. Paris) and member of the Doctoral School VI of the Paris IV-Sorbonne University. Dr. Bopearachchi’s work – encompassing numerous books, edited volumes and articles – has focused on Alexandrian, Scythian, Parthian, Kushan-Greater Gandhāran coins in French, German, American, Canadian, Pakistani, and Japanese collections; sculptural and pictorial iconography; and diverse art forms including Central and South Asian architecture. Currently, Dr. Bopearachchi is Trung Lam Visiting Scholar in Central Asian Art and Archaeology (2010-2012) at the University of California, Berkeley, heading a joint project with the Department of Near Eastern Studies focusing on Sri Lanka’s role in ancient maritime trade in the Indian Ocean. He is also Director of the Sri Lanka-French Archaeological Mission, excavating the most ancient shipwreck in the Indian Ocean (2nd century BCE) in collaboration with INA’s Department of Archaeology (Sri Lanka), Texas A & M University, UC-Berkeley and CNRS. |
Carol Bromberg, Editor, Bulletin of the Asia Institute [Abstract] Since 1985, Carol Bromberg has been the editor of the annual scholarly journal Bulletin of the Asia Institute. The publication focuses on Iran and Central Asia and influences along the Silk Routes into China. Bromberg's research interests parallel those of the Bulletin. |
Touraj Daryaee, Professor, Department of History, UC-Irvine [Abstract] Touraj Daryaee is the Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World and the Associate Director of the Dr. Saumel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at UC Irvine. His main interests are the history and culture of late ancient and Medieval Iran. His books include Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of An Empire (IB Tauris, 2009); On the Explanation of Chess & Backgammon: a Middle Persian Text (Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studiess, 2011); and The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History (Oxford, 2012). |
Nile Green, Professor, Department of History, UCLA [Abstract] Nile Green's publications include Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century: Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan (Routledge, 2006), Religion, Language and Power (edited with Mary Searle-Chatterjee; Routledge, 2008), Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire (Cambridge, 2009), Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean (Cambridge, 2011, winner of the Albert Hourani Book Award), Sufism: A Global History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) and Afghanistan in Ink: Literature between Diaspora and Nation (edited with Nushin Arbabzadah, Columbia University Press, 2012). |
Frantz Grenet, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris) [Abstract] Frantz Grenet worked with Paul Bernard on the excavations at the Hellenistic city of Ai Khanum in Afghanistan, and from 1977 to 1981 served as deputy-director of the Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan. In 1981 he presented his thesis, "Les pratiques funéraires dans l'Asie centrale sédentaire de la conquête grecque à l'islamisation" (published Paris 1984). From 1989 onwards he has been co-director of the French-Uzbek Archaeological Mission in Sogdiana, excavating mainly at the site of ancient Samarkand. He also collaborated with Mary Boyce on the last volumes of A History of Zoroastrianism (vol. 3 published 1991, vol. 4 forthcoming under the editorship of Albert de Jong). He teaches ancient Iranian religions at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris). |
Afshin Marashi, Associate Professor, Department of International and Area Studies & Farzaneh Family Chair of Iranian Studies, University of Oklahoma [Abstract] Afshin Marashi specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of nationalism in nineteenth- and twentieth--century Iran. His publications include Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940 (Washington, 2008), "The Nation's Poet: Ferdowsi and the Iranian National Imagination" in Iran in the 20th Century: Historiography and Political Culture, ed. Touraj Atabaki (I.B. Tauris, 2009), and "Imagining Hafez: Rabindranath Tagore in Iran, 1932," Journal of Persianate Studies, 3, no. 1 (2010). He completed his PhD in History at UCLA in 2003. |
Ali Mousavi, Assistant Curator of Ancient Iranian & Near Eastern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [Abstract] Ali Mousavi was born in Tehran and completed his elementary and secondary education there. Mousavi's further education was in France and the United States: he received his BA in Art History and MA in Ancient History and Archaeology from the University of Lyon, and his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (2005). Mousavi's research interests range from the archaeology of the second millennium BCE in Iran to Achaemenid architecture and archaeology, as well as late medieval art and archaeology in Iran and Europe. |
Grant Parker, Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Stanford University [Abstract] Grant Parker hails from South Africa. His PhD appeared as The Making of Roman India (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Among his other studies is Ancient India in its Wider World, co-edited with Carla Sinopoli (University of Michigan Center for South and South East Asian Studies 2008). His main research has been on the ancient history of orientalism, but he is currently pursuing a project on the South African reception of ancient Greece and Rome. At present he is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Classics, Stanford University. |
Alka Patel, Associate Professor, Department of Art History & Visual Studies, UC-Irvine [Abstract] Alka Patel's research has focused on South Asia and its connections with Iran and Central Asia including overland and Indian Ocean maritime networks. Her works include Building Communities in Gujarat: Architecture and Society during the Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries (Brill 2004), Communities and Commodities: Western India and the Indian Ocean (guest editor, special issue of Ars Orientalis [2004/2007]), and her current book project on the Ghurids of Afghanistan and northern India (ca. 1150-1215). Her interests have expanded to include mercantile mobility, networks and architectural patronage in 18th-19th-century South Asia, as evidenced in Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition (co-ed. K. Leonard, Brill 2012) and her collaborative project with Karen Leonard on the merchant communities of Hyderabad, India. |
Khodadad Rezakhani, Research Officer & Lecturer, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics (London) [Abstract] Khodadad Rezakhani was born in Tehran, Iran and has been educated in Iran, UK, USA, and Germany. He earned his MSc in Global History/Economic History from the LSE (2002) and his PhD in Late Antique History from UCLA (2010). Apart from late antique economic and social history of Central and Western Eurasia, he is most interested in philology and historical linguistics. |
Martin Schwartz, Professor Emeritus, UC-Berkeley [Abstract] |
Sudipta Sen, Professor, Department of History & Director, Program on Middle East/South Asia Studies, UC-Davis [Abstract] Sudipta Sen is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. A historian of late medieval and early modern India and the British Empire, his work has focused on the early colonial history of British India. He is the author of two books, Empire of Free Trade: The English East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998), and Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialism and the Origins of British India (Routledge, 2002). He is currently working on two book length manuscripts. The first, Ganga: Many Pasts of an Indian River (Yale, forthcoming) is an exploration of the idea of a cosmic, universal river at the interstices of myth, historical geography and ecology, and the other is a longer term project entitled Imperial Justice: British Rule and Criminal Law in Early Colonial India, 1770-1830. |
Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina, Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University [Abstract] |
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