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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Forthcoming book! By Naïra Sahakyan and the IFI's Shamil Shikhaliev, this book shows the turbulence of 1917 Dagestan via the work of Muslim intellectual ʿAlī al-Ghumuqī, containing both scholarship on and translations of his works: www.lockwoodpress.com/product-page... #Dagestan #History #Caucasus
Book cover of "Witness to Upheaval", by Shikhaliev and Sahakyan, a book on the 1917 Dagestan revolution as witnessed by a Muslim Dagestani intellectual. The book cover is red with patterning, and contains a black-and-white photograph of a man with a dark beard with two prominent white patches, and a large fur hat.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Talk next Wednesday! Yoichi Isahaya will talk about how in early 14th century Ilkhanate Anatolia, famine and climate crisis were drawn into discourses of legitimacy and political stability. Details & online registration here: www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta... #Mongols #History #Medieval #Anatolia
Poster for "Divine Wrath? Irinjin (d. 1319), a Pro-Christian Mongol, amid Climate Instability in Anatolia", talk by Yoichi Isahaya, Mittwoch 09.09.26, 16:30pm.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We have a new blogpost on our Tigris to Talas blog! Lola Dodkhudoeva writes about the Manāqib al-Khulafāʾ, a Tajik-Persian manuscript arguing about politics, faith, and religious order through celebrating the Rashidun caliphs: www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/blog/det... #Tajikistan #History #Manuscripts
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When Manuscripts Begin to Speak: Discovering Political and Religious Ideas in Sixteenth-Century Central Asia
by Lola Dodkhudoeva
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Our own Sara Mihramadi recently talked to BBC Persian about the effects of the Mongol invasions - what was the level of Mongol destruction, and how reliably do written texts at the time reflect the realities of the situation? You can watch it here (in Persian) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2A8...
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پرگار: حمله مغول به ایران
YouTube video by BBC Persian
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Our new Material Histories@IFI group connects scholars of material culture and textual history. We aim to bring archaeology, materiality, and rural and urban landscapes into conversation with epigraphy, numismatics and texts for new longue durée perspectives, focused on the long first millennium.
Material Histories @IFI Logo. It has the text on the left and half a ceramic-looking plate or similar with intertwined blue, gold, white and green flower patterning on the right.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Last week we had a whole range of contributions at the Fifteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference in Utrecht! Thanks to everyone who came along to our sessions and talks. #IranianStudies #Iranology #Iran #History #Anthropology
Roundtable discussion in honour of Houchang Chehabi, including the IFI's Robert Steele (right)
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Our Caucasus research group are organising a picnic for interested researchers and research-adjacent colleagues! Do join us if you're in Vienna on 8th August: we'll meet at Donaustadtbrucke at 15:30. Enquiries welcome, do forward to anyone you know who might be interested! #Caucasus #Wien
Poster for the Vienna Caucasiology Picnic 2026. It invites anyone interested in the study of the Caucasus region to come to a picnic on August 8th, 15:30-19:00, initially meeting at Donaustadbrucke U6 station. Contact to james.baillie@oeaw.ac.at with any enquiries.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just over a week ago we were at the International Armenological Congress in Yerevan! Dr. James Baillie and Dr. Polina Ivanova presented on the ways that our work includes Armenology and Caucasus Studies, showcasing a range of forthcoming projects. #IranianStudies #Armenia #Armenology #Yerevan
Dr. James Baillie standing on stage at a lectern, in front of a banner for the International Armenological Congress. The words "Armenology at the IFI - Projects in the frame of Caucasus and Iranian Studies" can be seen on an Austrian Academy of Sciences branded slide on his right.The door to the International Armenological Congress, a modern round pillared building with a glass-fronted central area behind pillars, with IAC banners visible at the front.Seven people seated on stage with a standing moderator at the International Armenological Congress, which has its logos and screen behind them. Dr. Polina Ivanova, third from the left, is speaking into a microphone.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Our Caucasus research group are organising a picnic for interested researchers and research-adjacent colleagues! Do join us if you're in Vienna on 8th August: we'll meet at Donaustadtbrucke at 15:30. Enquiries welcome, do forward to anyone you know who might be interested! #Caucasus #Wien
Poster for the Vienna Caucasiology Picnic 2026. It invites anyone interested in the study of the Caucasus region to come to a picnic on August 8th, 15:30-19:00, initially meeting at Donaustadbrucke U6 station. Contact to james.baillie@oeaw.ac.at with any enquiries.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Last week many of us had a great time sharing research at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social - including Bruno de Nicola of @nomaland.bsky.social on a Medieval Persian Mineralology treatise, Stefan Kamola on Mongol Astrology and Divination... #medieval #academia #IranianStudies #Persian
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Talk this Monday at 5 for those in Vienna: Carol Fan will be talking about perceptions of China in Khata’i’s 'Account of China' and discussing what this means for understanding Ottoman use and idealisations of China in political life. See you there! #Ottoman #China #History #IranianStudies
Poster for a talk on Ali Akbar Khata'i's Book of China and the use of Chinese Qanun as a model for Ottoman political reform, by Carol Fan. 22 June, 5pm, Austrian Academy of Sciences Room 6, 4th Floor, Georg Coch Platz 2.

This talk takes as its point of departure a new English translation of Khata’i’s Account of China (trans., ed. Kaveh Hemmat et al., forthcoming), a text that has long attracted scholarly attention but remains insufficiently understood in terms of its textual history and intellectual context. After briefly introducing the work, its author, and the trajectory of previous research, I interpret the text based on the new translation project, which allows for a more nuanced reading of its content and structure. It covers the following interpretive issues: 1) the text’s tendency to portray China in highly idealized terms with a striking emphasis on law, order, and governance. These features invite reconsideration of the purposes such a portrayal may have served. 2) evidence to support the author’s intentional idealization of “China’s way” upon establishing that an Ottoman Turkish translation of the text was Khatay’s own and analyzing its content that does not exist in other versions 3) By bringing together textual analysis, translation studies, and institutional and intellectual history, this paper argues for a more integrated approach to the study of Sino-Islamic connections.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Event next Monday - join us for this talk by Jakub Havlik! You can join us in person at the PSK Wien or online, register here: oeaw-ac-at.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CentralAsia #LateAntiquity #Farming #Archaeology #Uzbekistan
Poster for the talk "Kulal Tepa Archaeological Survey: A Story of One Valley in the Kugitang Foothills, Uzbekistan", but Jakub Havlik, Charles University Prague/Termez State University Uzbekistan. The poster includes a blurb, a picture of a desert with a single person standing on the left, the registration link, logos of sponsorting organisations, and the green-and-yellow colour band of the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Iranistik.
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NoMansLand @nomaland.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Podcast sobre el libro "Mongoles en el Oeste" El imperio mongol desde la península ibérica. Con la presencia de los editores Antonio García Espada y Bruno De Nicola @ivoox.bsky.social @uneduniv.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @iranianstudies.bsky.social go.ivoox.com/rf/173128931
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Mongoles en el Oeste - Historias de Bolsillo - Podcast en iVoox
Escucha este episodio de Historias de Bolsillo gratis en iVoox. En el programa de hoy viajamos a la Edad Media para analizar el peso del imperio mongol en la península ibérica de los siglos XIII en ad...
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Call for Participants for our Summer Academy, 17-30 August 2026, to be held in Khorog, Tajikistan! This year's focus will be cultural heritage in Central Asia. Please do share widely! Plaintext version at: oeawiranistik.at/plaintexts/S... #IranianStudies #CentralAsia #Tajikistan #CulturalHeritage
Page 1 of the CfP, including picture of Khorog and description and dates of the workshop (please see linked plaintext in main post for screen reader version).Page 2 of the CfP, giving details of the programme, participant numbers (up to 15, of whom 7 must be from Central Asian institutions), and requirements (English language, travel organising to Dushanbe). Please see link in post for plaintext version.Page 3 of the CfP, giving details that applications should give a CV and letter of motivation to iran.office@oeaw.ac.at by May 15 2026. It also gives a timeline of organisation, and contact emails for the organisers: jeanine.dagyeli@univie.ac.at, ariane.sadjed@oeaw.ac.at, and Florian.Schwarz@oeaw.ac.at. For full details see linked plaintext in main post.
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NoMansLand @nomaland.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Call for Papers: International conference: “Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Transformation of Eurasia” 14–17 July 2027, Vienna (Austria) @iranianstudies.bsky.social @nomaland.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @coe-eurasia.bsky.social
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
In our 14-16 April workshop on Reza Shah's Iran, we have a program update: the keynote slot will now take the form of a roundtable, entitled "The Pahlavi Dynasty: A conversation on the history and legacy of a contested period in modern Iranian history"! Details at: www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta...
Reza Shah addresses the Iranian majlis (parliament) in 1925. Black and white photo.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We were happy to co-sponsor this event back in February, run by our medieval Caucasus specialist @jubalbarca.bsky.social: you can now watch various talks and panels on the ways that games and game development represent premodern/medieval worlds via the quoted thread:
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Upcoming event! On April 16th at 5pm, we will have a talk by Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian about her book Scent, Colour and Glitter in the Ancient World. www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/veran... #History #AncientHistory #IranianStudies #AncientWorld
Scent, Colour and Glitter in the Ancient World book cover by Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian. It is subtitled "A Comparative History of Aromatics, Cosmetics and Adornment, from the Mediterranean to the China Seas", and the background is purple, red, and gold pebbles or rock shards on a black background.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Next forthcoming event! We will be hosting the conference "Iran under Reza Shah: Politics, Culture and State Building in the Early Pahlavi Period (1925-1941)": www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta... #Iran #IranianStudies #History
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Iran under Reza Shah: Politics, Culture and State Building in the Early Pahlavi Period (1925-1941)
International Workshop
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Congratulations to our director Prof. Florian Schwarz, who has been elected as a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences! Full ÖAW membership is one of Austria's highest academic distinctions: we are excited by this recognition of Florian's own work and his wider role in shaping our field
Prof. Florian Schwarz. He is looking sideways with his back half turned tot he camera, standing in a paved park with trees behind him and the sunlight bursting through the clouds. There is a ferris wheel visible behind his head. He is a medium height beardless white man with mid length grey-brown hair, wearing glasses and a blue shirt.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This Nowruz comes when many of us and our colleagues are living with great fear, uncertainty, and grief. We send best wishes at this time to friends in our shared endeavour of understanding the Iranian world, and all across the wider region, who are in danger, or afraid for friends and loved ones.
A Haft-sin table to mark the new year, full of things, especially seven central ones, that begin with the letter sin in Arabic.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Mongols from the West, co-edited by our Dr. Bruno de Nicola, has now been published in Spanish as Mongoles en el Oeste! Mongoles en el Oeste explora el papel de los reinos ibéricos en la integración euroasiática impulsada por el Imperio mongol en los siglos XIII y XIV: brill.com/display/titl...
Book cover 'Mongoles en el Oeste' Editado por Antonio García Espada
y Bruno De Nicola.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Upcoming book talk! Dr. Nilab Saeedi will present her work on Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Lārī, especially his universal chronicle, Mirʾātu’l-Advār wa Mirḳātu’l-Aḫbār (The Mirror of Epochs and the Staircase of Historical Reports). Find out more: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/veran... #Persian #Ottoman #Iran #History
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Nilab Saeedi - Three Empires and Persian Historiography: The Thought of Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Lārī
Book talk
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How did the Sasanian Empire really fall? Last month, the Sképsislamica podcast sat down with the IFI's @sasanianshah.bsky.social to find out, looking at the period's framing, Sasanian sources, religion, and how modern discourses shape scholarship on the Empire: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTuk...
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How the Sasanian Empire REALLY Fell | A Conversation with Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani
YouTube video by Sképsislamica
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Upcoming conference! European imperial expansion has long been a focal point for historians, but only more recently that have scholars begun to systematically question colonial knowledge production and rethink bureaucracy as an instrument of governance: #History #Archives #Knowledge #Imperialism
Programme cover for "The Archival Impulse: Knowledge Production, Record Keeping, and Imperial Governance (15th-19th Centuries)", an event running from 18th-20th March 2026.Program for the "Archival Impulse" conference, 18-20 March. Keynote on day 1 on concepts of archival completeness by Randolph C. Head: day 2 includes panels on appropriation & mobility, archives and fictions of governance, nad a second keynote on interdisciplinary perspectives. Day 3 has panels on documentation and archival legacies, and on documentary regimes and diplomatic impulses. Each panel has an associated open discussion. Case studies include re-circulation of Ottoman documents in Europe, the archives of Ivan the Terrible, Archival knowledge in 19th century Nepal, Mughal chancery records, and archival reconstructions of the 1718 Congress of Passarowitz.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Coming up this evening!
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Lecture coming up TODAY in just under three hours! This is organised by the Persian Manuscripts Association, who from March will be joining with our NoMansLand Webinar Series to co-organise a series of online lectures for the rest of 2026. Register to join at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Lecture poster for the PMA talk series lecture "Encircling Inscriptions in Early Persian Architecture: Thoughts on Moving, Reading, and Looking" by Prof. Marcus Milwright (University of York). 26 February 2026, 6 – 7.30 pm (CET). Zoom registration is available. The lecture poster shows a large round tower or dome with intricate detailing on the yellowish outer stonework.
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Exilian @exilianofficial.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Starting very soon with our Friday evening workshop session! Looking forward to an exciting weekend with everyone :)
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A recent interview with the IFI's Dr. Robert Steele regarding the protests in #Iran - do have a read (in German): www.oeaw.ac.at/news/protest... #IranProtests #IranianStudies
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Proteste im Iran: Experte erwartet Fall des Regimes
Nach landesweiten Protesten steht der Iran im Fokus internationaler Aufmerksamkeit. ÖAW-Iranist Robert Steele erklärt, warum die Proteste diesmal besonders brisant sind und weshalb er das Regime langf...
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
On February 19, at CEU, our Dr. Polina Ivanova will be giving a talk on how we write the histories of the absences of destroyed heritage, looking at the Ottoman history of Amasya. It will be in hybrid format - do join us for it! events.ceu.edu/2026-02-19/w... #Armenia #Turkey #History #Ottoman
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Writing the Void: On the Methods and Ethics of Constructing the Memory of Absent Armenian Heritage within Ottoman Architectural and Social Histories: The Case of Early Ottoman Amasya
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The IFI's @sasanianshah.bsky.social contributed to this segment on the recent Iran protests - have a listen and stay informed on the situation: oe1.orf.at/player/20260... (In German) #Iran #IranianStudies
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Our Caucasus research group is having another meetup - Caucasus and Caucasus-adjacent scholars across all Vienna institutions are very welcome! Details below:
Vienna Winter Caucasiology Meetup

We’re having another meetup! This is the third meetup of Caucasiologists across Viennese academic and knowledge-sector institutions that we’ve run. It being winter, we’re once again going to have a cosy indoor meetup to discuss work and meet friends and colleagues over a coffee or drink. If you’re someone working on or from the Caucasus and you’re in Vienna on February 27th, we’d love to see you there!

When: Friday, February 27th, 2026: 17:30-20:30pm

Where: Café Merkur, in the 8th district.

Open to: All academics at any level, working on or from the broadly defined Caucasus region (including the North Caucasus, South Caucasus, and Subcaucasus).

Interested friends in adjacent non-academic work and academic fields who’d like to come along are also all very welcome!

Contact: james.baillie@oeaw.ac.at – there is no obligation to ‘register’ or similar but it’d be good to have an advance idea of numbers, and we’re happy to answer any queries.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Event tomorrow on Prepositional Compounds in Avestan and Old Persian - this is an in-person guest lecture, if you're in Vienna tomorrow morning then please do come and join us! www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta...
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Prepositional Compounds in Avestan and Old Persian
IFI Guest lecture
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New post on our blog! The term ságaris (σάγαρις) is used in classical sources for a specific weapon type attributed to the Scythians. But what was this weapon, and why this word? In the latest Tigris to Talas blogpost Hanna Vertiienko goes in search of answers: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ifi/blog/...
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The Scythian ságaris: single- or double-bladed axe?
by Hanna Vertiienko
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Forthcoming: a Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course! Jeanine Dagyeli is leading this effort along with Philip Bockholt from the University of Munster. It is aimed at building scholars up to an advanced level for reading Chagatai manuscripts. Details below: #CentralAsia #Chagatai #Manuscripts
Poster for the Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course, organised by Philip Bockholt and Jeanine Dagyeli. It is aimed at building up to an advanced level for reading Chagatai manuscripts.

The reading course will be at the University of Munster from 29 June to 3 July 2026. It is on-site only.

The lecturers will be Jeanine Dağyeli (Vienna), László Károly
(Uppsala), Benedek Péri (Budapest), Eric Schluessel (Oxford) and
Marc Toutant (Paris). Being renowned specialists in their respective fields, they will introduce participants to a variety of literary genres and texts, including poetry, historiography, craft treatises, and medicine.Page two of the poster for the Chagatai Manuscript Reading Course, organised by Philip Bockholt and Jeanine Dagyeli.

Eligibility for the course will be to participants of any relevant discipline and career level with a focus on Central Asia, Afghanistan and Northwestern China. Participants are required to have intermediate level Chagatai and the ability to read Arabo-Persian script without relying on latinisation. The programme will be conducted in English with 20 places available.

To apply, send your application to translapt@uni-muenster.de in a single PDF file before 13.02.2026. The PDF file, titled with the applicant‘s surname, should consist of a letter of interest (max. one page) and a CV, including a statement on the applicant’s proficiency in Chagatai and on how the Summer Academy would support their academic development. Applicants will be informed by 02.03.2026. Pending funding decisions, a limited number of full or partial travel grants will be available upon justified request.

For further questions, please contact us at the email address translapt@uni-muenster.de.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Our next hybrid lecture is "Sufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th C. Badakhshan" by Bruno de Nicola! The lecture is tomorrow, 17:00-18:30 Central European Time: more details at www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta...
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Sufi Teaching in the Margins: Ritual, Pedagogy, and Intertextuality in a Kubrawi Manuscript from 15th C. Badakhshan
Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Forthcoming event! We're soon hosting the Second European Round Table on Modern Persian Literature, co-organised by the University of New South Wales and with generous support from the Soudavar Memorial Foundation, Geneva. #Iran #Literature #Persian #PersianLiterature #IranianStudies
Poster for the Second European Round Table on Modern Persian Literature, 15-17 January 2026, SR1, Postsparkasse, 1010 Wien. The poster has a statue in the middle, the logo of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the top and those of the Soudavar Memorial Foundation and UNSW Sydney at the bottom. The colour strip of the Academy (dark blue) is on the top left, and those of the Institute for Iranian Studies (Green and Yellow) are on the bottom right of the poster.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Tomorrow (Dec 17) at 5pm Central European Time, please join us for a talk on Armenian manuscript-making in the Ottoman Empire, another of our webinars on premodern manuscripts from the Islamic world!
Poster for Polina Ivanova's talk "Scribes without Scriptoria - Towards A Social History of Armenian Manuscript-Making in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire."
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This Friday we will be having a talk by Fabian Sarga of the Fre University of Berlin, who will be talking about how qanat irrigation systems shaped the landscape - and how the landscape shaped them - in Iran!
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Our @sasanianshah.bsky.social will be doing some invited lectures at the University of Lille in the coming weeks! The topic is "The Orient’s East: Iran and Eurasia in the First Millennium CE" and three of the lectures will be available online with registration here: framaforms.org/the-orients-...
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Our next @nomaland.bsky.social lecture will be tomorrow on the topic of Preaching, Books, and Community in Ottoman Hungary, by Prof. Tijana Krstić! Details available here: www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta...
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Preaching, Books, and Community in Ottoman Hungary: Browsing Through the Library Collection of Süleyman Efendi, the Vaiz of the Grand Mosque of Buda (c. 1643-1655)
Webinar series "Pre-modern Islamic manuscripts"
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Our Caucasus research group is organising an October meetup! If you're based around Vienna and working on Caucasus studies of some kind, we'd love to see you there :)
Vienna Autumn Caucasiology Meetup

We’re having another meetup! After our successful picnic event in summer, we’re going to have a late October gathering in the 8th district, and we look forward to seeing you there.  The meetup is again organised by the Caucasus research group at the Institute for Iranian Studies of the Academy of Sciences: with these meetings we aim to improve networking and communication among researchers in Vienna who are approaching the Caucasus region from a wide range of different fields and angles. This is a casual meetup, do turn up at any point during the times below and we’ll be very happy to see you.

When: Saturday, October 25, 2025: 17:30-20:30pm

Where: Café Merkur, in the 8th district.

Open to: All academics at any level working on or from the broadly defined Caucasus region (including the North Caucasus, South Caucasus, and Subcaucasus). Interested friends in adjacent non-academic work and academic fields who’d like to come along are also all very welcome!

Contact: james.baillie@oeaw.ac.at – there is no obligation to ‘register’ or similar but it’d be good to have an advance idea of numbers, and we’re happy to answer any queries.
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NoMansLand @nomaland.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Lecture by Dr. Sacha Alsancakli on "The Ottoman reception of the Nuzhat al-Qulūb (c.1340)" at the @nomaland.bsky.social Webinar. Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=MOqk... @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @iranianstudies.bsky.social @translapt.bsky.social @sachaalsancakli.bsky.social
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New faces at the IFI for the new academic year! Ilona Chmilevskia joins us as a pre-doctoral researcher working with Shamil Shikhaliev to study the transformation of Islamic juridical systems in the eastern Caucasus under the Russian Empire. Welcome to Ilona!
A young woman looking at the camera. She is white, with mouse-blonde hair, and her head is tilted towards the viewer with her right hand touching her chin: there is a bright window behind her.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
We have an open position for a pre-doctoral researcher in Dr. Ariane Sadjed's "Persian Jews – History, Community, Memory" team, looking at the Jewish communities of central Asia. See here for job profile and other details: applications must be in by October 1st. www.oeaw.ac.at/jobs?jh=pp87...
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Offene Stellen an der ÖAW
Aktuelle Stellenausschreibungen aus den Instituten und der zentralen Verwaltung der ÖAW
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Event coming up in October! Our next JESHO workshop, convened by Dr. Paolo Sartori and with a keynote by Prof. Cemal Kafadar, is "Was There an Ottoman Decline?" Details here: www.oeaw.ac.at/ifi/veransta... #Turkey #Ottoman #History #Asia #Economics
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Was There an Ottoman Decline?
A JESHO International Workshop
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
In August we were at the biannual Conference of the Association of Persianate Studies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan! Thanks to the hosts and organisers: these vital spaces show the importance of having many and diverse disciplines and scholars building better research on the Persianate world together!
Members of the IFI at the Biannual Conference of the Association of Persianate Studies ASPS, Tashkent Uzbekistan. A group of five men and three women stand in a line, with a hotel wall and foliage behind them.
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NoMansLand @nomaland.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Nuevas investigaciones sobre #Mongoles en el #Oeste enteramente en #espanol editado por Antonio García Espada (@uneduniv.bsky.social) y Bruno De Nicola (@oeaw.bsky.social‬). Disponible en noviembre 2025! Más información: brill.com/display/titl... @iranianstudies.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social
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Mongoles en el Oeste
"Mongoles en el Oeste" published on 27 Nov 2025 by Brill.
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Institute for Iranian Studies @iranianstudies.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Iran is facing severe drought. With high temperatures due to climate change, and tensions around water use and river flow, there are a range of potential risks ahead. An OEAW interview on the subject with our director, Prof. Florian Schwarz (in German): www.oeaw.ac.at/news/hitzewe...
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Hitzewelle und Wassermangel: Wie ist die aktuelle Lage in Iran?
Temperaturen über 50 Grad und ein akuter Wassermangel stellen die Einwohner:innen Irans vor große Herausforderungen. ÖAW-Iranist Florian Schwarz erklärt, was es bräuchte, um die Dürre langfristig in d...
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