SIE Midterm Conferences


Term: 2023-2027

First European Round Table of Modern Persian Literature

4-7 July | Bamberg, University of Bamberg

Co-sponsored by the University of Bamberg and INALCO

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Term: 2015-2019

Achaemenid Studies Today

11-13 December 2017 | Naples, University of Naples L’Orientale

Co-sponsored by ISMEO and the University of Naples L’Orientale

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The Idea of Iran

23 February 2017 | Tehran, Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia (CGIE)

Co-sponsored by ISMEO, the Italian Embassy in Tehran, and CGIE

The conference was dedicated to the memory of Gherardo Gnoli (1937-2012).


Term: 2011-2015

Pre-Islamic Past of Middle Asia and Eastern Iran

23-25 October 2013 | St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum

The conference was dedicated to the memory of Boris Il’ich Marshak (1933-2006) and Valentin Germanovich Shkoda (1951-2012)

La religion des Achéménides: Confrontation des sources

7-8 November 2013 | Paris, Collège de France, Amphithéatre Guillaume Budé

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Term: 2007-2011

How to Write the History of Modern Persian Literature: State-of-the-art Approaches and Perspectives

10-12 July 2009 | Bamberg, University of Bamberg


Term: 2003-2007

Iranian Identity in the Course of History

21-24 September 2005 | Rome