India-Iran Conference



THURSDAY, 19 APRIL 2012
Arrival of Conference Participants

FRIDAY, 20 APRIL 2012

9:30 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:45 am	India & Iran: 18th-20th Centuries (Alka Patel, Chair)

	9:45-10:15	Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina, Were We Not Once Great? Ancient Iran in the Modern Parsi Imaginary [Abstract]
	10:15-10:45	Afshin Marashi, Patron and Patriot: Dinshah Irani (1881-1938) and the Revival of Indo-Iranian Culture [Abstract]

10:45 am	Refreshments

	11:00-11:30	Nile Green, Mutual Fascinations: Indians and Iranians in Japan, c. 1890-1930 [Abstract]
	11:30-12:00	Sudipta Sen, The Coming of British Rule in India: Morality, Conscience and History in 18th-Century North Indian Indo-Persian Chronicles [Abstract]
	12:00-12:30	Discussion

12:30-2:30 pm	Luncheon for Participants

2:30 pm	India & Iran: Medieval through Early Modern (Karen Leonard, Chair)


	2:30-3:00	Daryoosh Akbarzadeh, Persian Tales of Adam and India [Abstract]
	3:00-3:30	Ali Anooshahr, What's God to a Mughal? Religion in Early Mughal India [Abstract]
	3:30-4:00	Alka Patel, Reading the Medieval through the Modern: 20th-Century Persian Historiography on the Ghurids [Abstract]
	4:00-4:30	Discussion

6:30 pm	Dinner for Participants

SATURDAY, 21 APRIL 2012


10:30 am	India & Iran: The First Millennium I (Talinn Grigor, Chair)


	10:30-11:00	Frantz Grenet, In Search of Missing Links: Aspects of Iranian Royal Protocol from the Achaemenids to the Mughals [Abstract]
	11:00-11:30	Touraj Daryaee, The White Elephant: Notions of Kingship and Zoroastrian Demonology [Abstract]
	11:30-12:00	Discussion

12:00-2:00 pm	Luncheon for Participants

2:00 pm	India & Iran: The First Millennium II (Touraj Daryaee, Chair)

	2:00-2:30	Khodadad Rezakhani, Central Asia and the Making of the Indo-Iranian World, 300-800 CE [Abstract]
	2:30-3:00	Carol Bromberg, Mirān: The Meeting of Iran and Gandhāra in Ancient Serindia [Abstract]
	3:00-3:30	Discussion

6:30 pm	Dinner for Participants

SUNDAY, 22 APRIL 2012


9:30 am	India & Iran: Before the Common Era (Jenny Rose, Chair)

	9:30-10:00	Grant Parker, Alexander: a Map of Misreading in Southwest Asia [Abstract]
	10:00-10:30	Osmund Bopearachchi, Mauryans and Achaemenids: Numismatics and Plastic Arts [Abstract]

10:30 am	Refreshments

	10:45-11:15	Martin Schwartz, Sanskrit sārtha- : a Word-Caravan from Arabia to China [Abstract]
	11:15-11:45	Ali Mousavi, The Proto-Iranians: Archaeological Discoveries and Paradigms [Abstract]
	11:45-12:15	Discussion

12:15 pm	Concluding Remarks

12:30-2:00 pm	Luncheon for Participants & Farewell