Berkeley Workshop on Middle Persian Documents and Sealings

Friday 3 March, 8:00AM Pacific Time - Saturday 4 March, 12PM Pacific Time
On Zoom

 

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The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley is pleased to host the first Berkeley Workshop on Middle Persian Documents & Sealings.

This virtual workshop brings together scholars from around the world to discuss, analyze, and advance the study of the valuable, yet still under-appreciated, collections of Middle Persian texts and sealings stemming from late Sasanian and early Islamic Iran, the Levant, Central Asia, and Egypt.

The presentations will showcase some of the most recent work on these textual and material corpora, raise new questions, revisit older studies, and offer summaries of the state of the art. We hope you will join us for this workshop and contribute to the discussion.

 

The workshop will take place entirely on Zoom. Registration is necessary. You will find the workshop program, including registration link, at this link.

 

Invisible East will be present with two presentations by:

Arash Zeini: The Pahlavi Documents and Zoroastrianism in the early Islamic era, Saturday 4 March 2023, 8AM Pacific Time 

Thomas Benfey: Berk. 34, Berk. 67, and the Origins of the Jizya, Saturday 4 March 2023, 11AM Pacific Time.