Established in 2017 as the premier research center for the study of ancient Iran, the mission of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is to engage in transformative research on all aspects of Iranian antiquity, including its reception in the medieval and modern periods, by expanding on the traditional domains of Old Iranian studies and promoting cross-cultural and interdisciplinary scholarship.
The Pourdavoud Center intends to be a disciplinary home to stimulating intellectual encounters and exchanges for scholars working on ancient Iran and the ancient world, and will contribute to the development of collaborative research projects in such diverse areas as Assyriology, Biblical Studies, Central Asian studies, Classics, Egyptology, ancient History, Indology, Sinology, and the Study of Religion.
Empire and Borderlands at Interplay: A Structural Approach (First Millennium BCE – First Millennium CE)
Recorded: April 20, 2022
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Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)
Space and Universality: The Long Life of the Achaemenid Mental Map in Antiquity and Beyond (Sixth Century BCE – Sixth Century CE)
Recorded: April 18, 2022
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Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)
Whither the Achaemenid Empire? Towards a New Connected History of Afro-Eurasia in Antiquity
Recorded: April 13, 2022
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Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)
An Afro Eurasian “Hyperpower” and Its Ancient Near Eastern Roots
Recorded: April 11, 2022
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Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)
How Did the Ancient Iranians Coordinate Space? On the Old Iranian Absolute Frame of Reference
Recorded: February 23, 2022
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Kianoosh Rezania (Ruhr University Bochum)
Current Trends in Avestan Studies
Recorded: February 16, 2022
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Céline Redard (SOAS University of London)
From the Gorgan Wall to the Alan Gates/Dariali: The Northern Defenses of the Sasanian Empire
Recorded: January 28, 2022
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Eberhard Sauer (University of Edinburgh)
Greek ‘Concubines’ and Achaemenid Dynastic Politics
Recorded: January 19, 2022
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by John W.I. Lee (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Official Sources and the Reconstruction of History: The Case of the Last Great War of Antiquity
Recorded: January 7, 2022
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by James Howard-Johnston (University of Oxford)
The Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Two Volume Companion
Recorded: November 5, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck); Bruno Jacobs (University of Basel)
Pourdavoud Center 2021 Fall Welcome
Recorded: October 28, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center 2021 Fall Welcome
by Ali Mousavi (UCLA), Marissa Stevens (UCLA), Jonathan Winnerman (UCLA)
The Yasna Ritual in Performance
Recorded: May 13, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Almut Hintze (SOAS University of London)
Udjahorresnet’s Egypt: The Crossroads of Conquest and Identity under Achaemenid Rule
Recorded: May 7, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Udjahorresnet’s Egypt
by Annalisa Azzoni (Vanderbilt University); Ladislav Bareš (Charles University); Alexander Schütze (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich); Květa Smoláriková (Charles University); Uzume Z. Wijnsma (Leiden University); Melanie Wasmuth (University of Helsinki)
New Research and Sources for the Life of Mani
Recorded: March 2, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies
by Iain Gardner (University of Sydney)
Manichaean Interpretation of Iranian Religious Traditions
Recorded: March 2, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies
by Jason BeDuhn (Northern Arizona University)
The Footprint of Mani’s Book of Pictures in Late Antique Sources: An Assessment of Social & Geographical Data about Teaching with Images During the 3rd and 4th Centuries
Recorded: March 1, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies
by Zsuzsanna Gulácsi (Northern Arizona University)
Also Schrieb Zarathustra? New Manichaean Sources for the “Law of Zarades” & His Otherworldly Journeys
Recorded: March 1, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies
by Paul Dilley (University of Iowa)
Narseh’s Diadem: Religion, Royalty, and Power under the Early Sasanians
Recorded: February 19, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Carlo G. Cereti (University of Rome)
Reconsidering the Emergence of the Parthian State: The Crisis of the 240s-230s BCE in the Hellenistic Middle East
Recorded: February 3, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Nikolaus Overtoom (Washington State University)
Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East
Recorded: January 22, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Jason Schlude (College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University)
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
Recorded: January 13, 2021
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Event: Pourdavoud Center/Amuzegar Lecture Series
by Afshin Marashi (University of Oklahoma)
Sasanian Iran: A Personal View
Recorded: December 2, 2020
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Michael Jackson Bonner
The Internal Organization of Papyrus Amherst 63
Recorded: November 18, 2020
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - The Puzzling Papyrus: New Perspectives on Papyrus Amherst 63
by Karel van der Toorn (University of Amsterdam)
Textualizing Aramean Identities in Egypt: Papyrus Amherst 63
Recorded: November 18, 2020
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Workshop - The Puzzling Papyrus: New Perspectives on Papyrus Amherst 63
by Tawny Holm (Pennsylvania State University)
Achaemenid Egypt: The Archaeology of a Colonial Encounter
Recorded: November 4, 2020
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Henry P. Colburn (University of Michigan)
Fall Welcome 2020: Gateways to Iranian Archaeology
Recorded: October 23, 2020
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Event: Fall Welcome Event 2020
by Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles)
Feudalism and its Characteristics in Ancient Iran
Recorded: March 11, 2020
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Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
by Daniel Potts (New York University)
Descent and Marriage in Achaemenid Iran
Recorded: March 9, 2020
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Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
by Daniel Potts (New York University)
Problems in the Study of Elamite Kinship
Recorded: March 6, 2020
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Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
by Daniel Potts (New York University)
Aspects of Kinship in Iranian Prehistory
Recorded: March 4, 2020
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Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
by Daniel Potts (New York University)
Money is to the West, What Kinship is to the Rest
Recorded: March 2, 2020
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Event: The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
by Daniel Potts (New York University)
Iranian Religions and the Alexander Romance
Recorded: February 20, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Breslau)
Reevaluating Divine Imagery in Late Antique Iranian Metalwork
Recorded: February 20, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Matthew Canepa (University of California, Irvine)
Religion of Parthian Iran: A Matter of Complexity – New Evidence from Ancient Elymais
Recorded: February 20, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Vito Messina (University of Torino)
Laodike III and Seleucid Royal Cult
Recorded: February 20, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Deirdre Klokow (University of Southern California)
The Marriage of Antiochos and Nanaia: Empire and Religion in Hellenistic Iran
Recorded: February 20, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Rolf Strootman (Utrecht University)
The Politics of Religion under the Ptolemies: Egyptian Statues, Achaemenid Persia, and the Seleucids
Recorded: February 20, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of Southern California)
The Limits of Tolerance: Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and Others in the Sasanian Empire
Recorded: February 20, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine)
The Deportation of Gods – Between Persian Policy and Ptolemaic Ideology
Recorded: February 19, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Hilmar Klinkott (University of Kiel)
The Magus in Hell
Recorded: February 19, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Johannes Haubold (Princeton University)
Into the Ashes: Punishment at the Achaemenid Court
Recorded: February 19, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Daniel Beckman (Princeton University)
Herodotus and the Persian Priests: The Histories as a Source for Iranian Religion
Recorded: February 19, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Julian Degen (University of Innsbruck)
The Persian Great King and the Gods in Herodotus
Recorded: February 19, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Kai Ruffing (University of Kassel)
Achaemenid Religious Monuments: An Archaeological Perspective
Recorded: February 19, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles)
Some Observations on the Representation of the Divine and Numinous in Persepolitan Glyptic
Recorded: February 19, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Mark Garrison (Trinity University) and Emma Petersen (University of California, Los Angeles)
Entangled Worlds: Afro-Eurasian Networks in Achaemenid Times
Recorded: February 19, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)
The Utilization of Collective Memory to Legitimate Persian Kingship in Egypt
Recorded: February 18, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Marissa Stevens (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Cryptographic Titulary of Darius at Hibis
Recorded: February 18, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Jonathan Winnerman (University of California, Los Angeles)
Persian Kings and Egyptian Gods: Religious Innovation in Achaemenid Egypt
Recorded: February 18, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Henry Colburn (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Religious Interactions between Persians and Egyptians in Achaemenid Egypt
Recorded: February 18, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Damien Agut-Labordère (French National Center for Scientific Research)
The Invention of Monotheism in Ancient Egypt
Recorded: February 18, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Kathlyn Cooney (University of California, Los Angeles)
By All Means, Ahuramazda: Help, Support, and Protect the King
Recorded: February 18, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Matthew Waters (University of Wisconsin, Eau de Claire)
Constructing Religious Identities in the Age of the Empires: Remarks on the “Imperial Religion(s)” of the Early Achaemenid Period
Recorded: February 18, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Salvatore Gaspa (University of Padua)
Axial Anxieties: The Politics and Theology of Temple Destruction in the Achaemenid Empire and the Ancient Near East
Recorded: February 18, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Gonzalo Rubio (Pennsylvania State University)
Channels and Methods of Diffusion of Administrative Models and Imperial Ideology in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Recorded: February 18, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Simonetta Ponchia (University of Verona)
Crafting under Divine Protection During the Middle Elamite Period
Recorded: February 18, 2020
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Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
by Elizabeth Carter (University of California, Los Angeles)
Achaemenids or Persians? Burials, Material Culture, and Imperial Identities in the Euphrates Valley (5th-4th centuries BCE)
Recorded: February 12, 2020
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Gil Stein (University of Chicago)
Parthians in the Roman Army
Recorded: January 15, 2020
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Everett L. Wheeler (Duke University)
Parthians, Romans, and Early Sasanians: Reflections on a Change of Power and Its Antique and Modern Evaluation
Recorded: May 30, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by Josef Wiesehöfer (University of Kiel)
Khusro II as War Leader
Recorded: May 30, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by James Howard-Johnston (University of Oxford)
Dura from the East: Iranian Impact on the Formation of Religious Arts across the Trade Routes of the Asian Continent during the 3rd–6th Centuries CE
Recorded: May 30, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by Zsuzsanna Gulácsi (Northern Arizona University)
The Getty Stag Rhyton and Parthian Aristocratic Culture: New Discoveries
Recorded: May 30, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by Matthew Canepa (University of California, Irvine)
Power Play in the Middle East: Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace
Recorded: May 30, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by Jason Schlude (College of St. Benedict and St. John's University)
Did the Parthian Kings Hate Democracy?
Recorded: May 30, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by Jake Nabel (University of California, Los Angeles)
Seleucid Encounters with the Iranian World: Religious and Cultic Elements in the Administration and Ruling of the Seleucid East
Recorded: May 29, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by Sonja Richter (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Towards and Intellectual History of the Seleucid Empire?
Recorded: May 29, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by David Engels (Free University of Brussels)
More than Greeks Bearing Gifts: Athenian Pottery in the Achaemenid Empire
Recorded: May 29, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by Kathleen Lynch (University of Cincinnati)
Persia and the Parthenon
Recorded: May 29, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by Margaret Cool Root (University of Michigan)
The Making of the Chaldeans
Recorded: May 29, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by Johannes Haubold (Princeton University)
The King’s Peoples and Lands: The Apadana Reliefs, Herodotean Ethnography, and the Persian Imperial Lore
Recorded: May 29, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by Antigoni Zournatzi (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
Does the West Matter? The Persian Empire, Borders, and Ideology
Recorded: May 29, 2019
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Event: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, An International Symposium
by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)
Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC – ca. AD 650
Recorded: May 13, 2019
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Antigoni Zournatzi (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
Motivations in the Ancient Middle East: Rome, Parthia, and Realpolitik
Recorded: May 9, 2019
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Jason Schlude (College of St. Benedict and St. John's University)
The Lords of Canals: Re-Examining the Sasanian Hydraulic Landscapes and Their Heritage in the Islamic Period
Recorded: May 9, 2019
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Mehrnoush Soroush (Harvard University)
Word Order Variation and Change in the Languages of Western Asia
Recorded: April 25, 2019
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Pollet Samvelian
Charax Spasinou: Research on the Capitol of Mesene and the Arsacid Center of Trade
Recorded: April 8, 2019
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Stefan R. Hauser (University of Konstanz/Getty Scholar)
Kingship for a New World: Achaemenid Art and its Global Resonances
Recorded: February 27, 2019
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Margaret Cool Root (University of Michigan / Getty Scholar)
Contextualizing the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: What Does Empire Mean in the 1st Millennium BCE?
Recorded: February 6, 2019
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Robert Rollinger (Universität Innsbruck, Austria)
Transmillenial Ecologies of Iranian Religion and Identity
Recorded: January 9, 2019
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Matthew P. Canepa (University of California, Irvine)
Ehsan Yarshater: A Homage
Recorded: November 19, 2018
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Event: Ehsan Yarshater: A Homage
by M. Rahim Shayegan (UCLA), Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware), ProdsOktor Skjærvø (Harvard), Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (UCLA), Elton Daniel (Columbia University), and Ali Gheissari (University of San Diego)
Deities and Ritual at Persepolis: The Evidence from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives
Recorded: November 11, 2018
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Mark Garrison (Trinity College)
The Study of Zoroastrianism and the Academic Study of Religion
Recorded: May 30, 2018
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Albert de Jong (Leiden University)
Persianism in Commagene: The Mnemohistory of the Achaemenid Empire in Hellenistic Eurasia
Recorded: May 30, 2018
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University)
Diophante’s Kandys: Faceted Relations between Persia and Classical Athens
Recorded: May 30, 2018
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Event: Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series
by Margaret C. Miller (University of Sydney)
East of the Euphrates: The Contribution of Sasanian History to Theorizing Late Antiquity
Recorded: April 25, 2018
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Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
by Albert de Jong (Leiden University)
Fish out of Water: Greek Deportees, Persian Empires, and the Classical Mediterranean
Recorded: April 25, 2018
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Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
by Jake Nabel (Getty Villa Scholar)
Lost Hellenistic Sculptures ‘Rediscovered’ in Mesopotamia and Iran
Recorded: April 25, 2018
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Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
by Vito Messina (University of Turin)
Ex Oriente Lux? A Eurasian Perspective on the Formation of the Roman Empire
Recorded: April 25, 2018
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Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
by Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University)
The Persianization of Greek Myth
Recorded: April 25, 2018
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Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
by Margaret C. Miller (University of Sydney)
The Eye of the King Comes to Athens: Persia in the Greek Imagination
Recorded: April 25, 2018
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Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
by Daniel Beckman (Princeton University)
Achaemenid Anatolia and the Creation of Empire
Recorded: April 25, 2018
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Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
by Elspeth Dusinberre (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Fearless Ērānšahr: Sasanian Coinage in Context of Roman Relations
Recorded: April 25, 2018
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Event: Ancient Persia and the West, An International Symposium
by Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine)
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