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- 04/17/08 - On the occasion of the Annual Meeting of the Council
of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, there will be an informal seminar
on Thursday April 17, from 10 AM to 3 PM in William James Hall,
room 1550. For a tentative schedule, click here.
- 04/17/08 - Michael Alram (Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna) will deliver a presentation entitled "The Coinage of
the Persians" as the Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture.
Thursday, April 17, 6:00 PM, Harvard University Art Museums,
Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lecture Hall, 485 Broadway,
Cambridge, MA.
- 04/15/08 - Almut Hintze (School for Oriental and African
Studies) will deliver a presentation entitled "Zarathushtrotema -
Prophetic and Priestly Authority in Zoroastrianism." Tuesday, April 15,
6:30-7:30 PM, Philip Brooks House, Parlor Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge,
MA.
- 04/15/08 - Pierre Briant (Collège de France) will
deliver a presentation entitled "The Virtual Achaemenid Museum (MAVI): The
Internet and the Preservation and Exhibition of Achaemenid Persian
Cultural Heritage." Tuesday, April 15, 5:00 PM, Semitic Museum, Room 201,
6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
- 02/06/08 - A new edition of
An Introduction to Manichaean Sogdian has been uploaded to the site. This edition features images of manuscripts from the Digitales Turfan
Archiv.
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