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ALMUT HINTZE
President
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Almut Hintze is Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism. Holding degrees from the universities of Heidelberg, Oxford, Erlangen and Berlin, her field is Indo-Iranian Studies with special emphasis on Zoroastrian Literature. Her main publications include an edition of the Avestan Zamyād Yašt (1994), a semantic study of words for ‘reward’ in Vedic and Avestan (2000), and an edition of the Avestan Yasna Haptanghaiti (2007).
Webpage: http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31114.php
Email: ah69@soas.ac.uk
Tel. + 44 (0)20 7898 4598
Fax +44 (0)20 7898 4699
Address:
Department for the Study of Religions
SOAS
Thornhaugh St.
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
England
MARIA SZUPPE
Vice-President
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) – Mondes iranien et indien, Paris
Maria Szuppe obtained her doctoral degree in Iranian studies-History from the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Paris) in 1991, with a Ph.D. dissertation on political and social history of Herat during the end of the Timurid and the beginning of the Safavid period (see list of publications, below). In 1992-1993, she was Visiting Scholar at the Oriental Faculty, University of Cambridge (UK) with a “Lavoisier” post-doctoral research grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1997-1998, she was Researcher (pensionnaire scientifique) and scientific secretary at the Institut Français d’Études sur l’Asie Centrale, Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Since 1993, she has been working as Research Fellow (chargée de recherche) at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), first with the “Mondes turc et iranien à l’époque moderne et contemporaine” research group at Strasbourg, and then – from 1999 onwards –, with the “Mondes iranien et indien” at Paris – Ivry s/Seine. Her main fields of research are late mediaeval and early modern history and culture of Iranian societies, especially during the Timurid, Safavid, and Uzbek periods, as well as the research and publication of written sources such as manuscripts, documents, inscriptions, etc. She is a co-founder, in 2004, of the Series Catalogorum devoted to the publication of catalogues of primary sources, and published by “Mondes iranien et indien” (CNRS, Paris) and Istituto per l’Oriente (Roma). She is also the editorial secretary of Studia Iranica (bi-annual academic periodical of Iranian studies published by the Association pour l’Avancement des Études Iraniennes and distributed by Peeters Press). [For a detailed CV, see http://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article189
Selected publications: a) Books: -Maria Szuppe, Entre Timourides, Uzbeks et Safavides: questions de l’histoire politique et sociale de Hérat dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle, Cahiers de Studia Iranica, 12, Paris: Peeters Press, 1992. -Bakhtyar Babajanov, Maria Szuppe, Les inscriptions persanes de Châr Bakr, nécropole familiale des khwâja Jûybârî près de Boukhara, Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum (Part IV, vol. XXXI) & Institut Français d’Études sur l’Asie Centrale, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 2002. -Maria Szuppe, Ashirbek Muminov, Catalogue des manuscrits orientaux du Musée régional de Qarshi (Ouzbékistan), Series Catalogorum, I, Istituto per l’Oriente « C. A. Nallino » & « Monde iranien » (CNRS), Roma: Istituto per l’Oriente, 2004. b) Edited volumes: -Maria Szuppe (ed.), L’héritage timouride: Iran – Asie centrale – Inde, XVe - XVIIIe siècles, Cahiers d’Asie Centrale, n° 3-4, IFÉAC – Édisud: Aix-en-Provence – Tachkent, 1997. -Ashirbek Muminov, Francis Richard, Maria Szuppe (eds.), Patrimoine manuscrit et vie intellectuelle de l’Asie centrale islamique, Cahiers d’Asie Centrale, n° 7, IFÉAC – Édisud: Aix-en-Provence – Tachkent, 1999. -Michele Bernardini, Masashi Haneda, Maria Szuppe (eds.), Études sur l’Iran médiéval et moderne offertes à Jean Calmard, special issue, Eurasian Studies, V/1-2 (June-December 2006). c) Articles: -Maria Szuppe, “La participation des femmes de la famille royale à l’exercice du pouvoir en Iran safavide au XVIe siècle”, Part I: Studia Iranica 23/2 (1994), pp. 211-258 ; Part II: Studia Iranica 24/1 (1995), pp. 61-122. -Maria Szuppe, “Palais et jardins – le complexe royal des premiers Safavides à Qazvin, milieu XVIe- début XVIIe siècle”, Res Orientales, VIII (1996), pp. 145-179. -Maria Szuppe, “The Female intellectual milieu in Timurid and post-Timurid Herât : Faxri Heravi’s biography of poetesses, Javâher al-‘ajâyeb”, in M. Bernardini (éd.), La civiltà timuride come phenomeno internationale, special issue Oriente Moderno, n.s. XV/2 (LXXVI), 1996, pp. 119-137. -Maria Szuppe, “The Jewels of Wonder – Learned Ladies and Princess Politicians in the Provinces of Early Safavid Iran”, in G.R.G. Hambly (ed.), Women in the Medieval Isla-mic World: Power, Patronage and Piety, The New Middle Ages, 6, St. Martin’s Press: New York 1998, pp. 325-347. -Maria Szuppe, “Lettrés, patrons, libraires. L’apport des recueils biographiques sur le rôle du livre en Asie centrale aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles”, in A. Muminov, F. Richard & M. Szuppe (eds.), Patrimoine manuscrit et vie intellectuelle de l’Asie centrale islami¬que, Cahiers d’Asie Centrale, n° 7, IFÉAC - Édisud: Tachkent - Aix-en-Provence, 1999, pp. 99-115. -Maria Szuppe, “Status, Knowledge and Politics: Women in Sixteenth Century Safavid Iran”, in L. Beck and G. Nashat (eds.), Women in Iran, vol. I: From the Rise of Islam to 1800, University of Illinois Press, 2003, pp. 140-169. -Maria Szuppe, “Circulation des lettrés et cercles littéraires: entre Asie centrale, Iran et Inde du nord (XVe-XVIIIe siècle)”, Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales, 59/5-6 (2004), pp. 997-1018.
Webpage: http://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article189
Address:
CNRS - Mondes iranien et indien
27 rue Paul Bert,
F-94204 Ivry-sur-Seine, France
tel. +33 (0)1 49 60 40 19 (direct) - 40 05 (secrétariat)
fax : + 33 (0)1 45 21 94 19
FLORIAN SCHWARZ
Secretary
Institut für Iranistik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna
Dr Schwarz studied Islamic and Iranian Studies at the University of Tübingen and took his PhD in 1998. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Washington at Seattle (USA) and subsequently succeeded Professor Bert Fragner at the Institut für Iranistik in Vienna. His research interests are the cultural history of the Iranian region, including Central Asia, from the early Islamic period to the present, with a special emphasis on contact and exchange between the Turkish and Arabic cultures of Western and Central Asia.
Address:
Institute of Iranian Studies
Apostelgasse 23
1030 Wien
tel.: 0043 1 51581 6510 and 6520
Webpage: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/iran/german/schwarz_florian.html
PAVEL BORISOVICH LURJE
Sector of Middle Asia, Caucasus and Crimea, Oriental Department, State
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dr. Lurje focuses his research on several aspects of studies of Middle Asia in pre-Islamic and early Islamic time. His PhD (St-Petersburg 2004) was devoted to toponymy of Sogdiana, and 5 years post-doc fellowship in the Institute of Iranian Studies of Austrian Academy of Sciences was finalized with the publication of a monograph “Personal Names in Sogdian texts” (in the series Iranisches Personennamenbuch, Bd. II/Fz. 8, Wien 2010). Since 2009 he works in the Hermitage museum and since 2010 he is nominated chief of the Panjakent archaeological expedition and conducts excavations in Panjakent as well as in upper Zarafshan valley.
Address:
Russia, 190000, St-Petersburg,
Dvortsovaja naberezhnaja 32,
Gosudarstvennyj Ermitazh, Otdel Vostoka
Tel +7-812-710-9896
Email: pavlvslvria@gmail.com
DESMOND DURKIN-MEISTERERNST
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Professor Durkin-Meisterernst is Director of the Turfanforschung section in the Academy of Sciences at Berlin. His research focuses on the documents in various Iranian languages discovered along the Silk Road.
Address:
Turfanforschung
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Jägerstraße 22/23
10117 Berlin
Webpage: http://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/mitarbeiter/durkin-meisterernst
Tel.: +49 (0)30 20370 472
E-Mail: durkin-meisterernst@bbaw.de
GABRIELLE VAN DEN BERG
Lecturer in Persian language and literature
Leiden University
Dr Gabrielle van den Berg’s research focuses on the Persian epic tradition and the Shahnama of Ferdowsi.
Webpage: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lias/staff/berggrvanden.html
Address:
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SMES APT
Office Address: Witte Singel-complex
Witte Singel 25/M. de Vrieshof 4
2311 BZ Leiden
Email: g.r.van.den.berg@hum.leidenuniv.nl,
Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2023
PIERFRANCESCO CALLIERI
Professor of Archaeology of Ancient Iran at the University of Bologna.
Professor Callieri’s main interests regard the archaeology of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia, from the Achaemenian to the Sasanian period, with a special emphasis on the encounter between Hellenism and the cultures of the Iranian and Indian worlds. The geographical areas on which he has concentrated his researches are on one side the North-West of the Indian subcontinent, on the other Fars (S Iran).
Since 2005 he is the Italian director of the Joint Irano-Italian Archaeological Mission working in Fars at the sites of Tang-e Bolaghi, Tolle-e Takht of Pasargad and Persepolis West.
Webpage:
http://www.unibo.it/SitoWebDocente/default.htm?UPN=pierfrancesco.callieri@unibo.it
Email: pierfrancesco.callieri@unibo.it
Address:
Dipartimento di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni Culturali
Via Ariani, 1
Ravenna
Italy
MARIA CARMELA BENVENUTO
Treasurer
Lecturer in Linguistics
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Dr. Maria Carmela Benvenuto received her doctoral degree in Historical Linguistics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2004, with a Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Etimologie mediopersiane. Orientamenti metodologici e prassi degli ultimi decenni”. From 2006 until 2008 she had a post-doc fellowship at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”and since 2008 she is Lecturer at the DOLIFIGE Department.
Her research interests range from Iranian linguistics, in particular topics regarding problems of language change and linguistic reconstruction; through morphosyntax, in particular the issues of valency and transitivity, case system and grammatical relations, argument coding; to cognitive and functional linguistics, with special focus on the expression of possession.
Webpage:
http://filesuso.let.uniroma1.it/?q=user/69
Address:
Dipartimento delle Scienze documentarie, linguistico-filologiche e geografiche
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5
00185 - Roma
Email: mariacarmela.benvenuto@uniroma1.it
Tel. +39. 3470927277/ +39. 06 49913798
Fax. +39. 06 49913499