Conferences and Proceedings

2023 S.I.E. Conference

The Tenth EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF IRANIAN STUDIES took place at Leiden University, from August 21 to August 25, 2023.


2019 S.I.E. Conference

The NINTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF IRANIAN STUDIES took place at the Freie Universität Berlin, from September 09 to September 13, 2019.


S.I.E. Midterm Conferences 2016-2019

Achaemenid Studies Today
11-13 December 2017, Naples, University of Naples L’Orientale.
Co-sponsored by ISMEO and University of Naples L’Orientale.

The Idea of Iran
23 February 2017, Tehran, Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia.
Conference dedicated to the memory of Gherardo Gnoli (1937 – 2012).
Co-sponsored by ISMEO, the Italian Embassy in Tehran, and the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia.
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Past S.I.E. Conferences

20158th European Conference of Iranian Studies
The 8th Conference of Iranian Studies of the Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE) took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia, at the State Hermitage Museum and at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts from Tuesday September 15th to Saturday September 19th, 2015

Conference website


20117th European Conference of Iranian Studies
The 7th European Conference of Iranian Studies took place in Cracow, September 7-10, 2011. The Conference Proceedings have been published by Anna Krasnowolska and Renata Rusek-Kowalska and can be ordered from Jagiellonian University Press (see below).


Past S.I.E. Midterm Conferences

2013: Pre-Islamic past of Middle Asia and Eastern Iran
23-25 October 2013, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
Conference dedicated to the memory of Boris Il’ich Marshak (1933 – 2006) and Valentin Germanovich Shkoda (1951 – 2012).
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2013: La religion des Achéménides: Confrontation des sources
7-8 November 2013, Paris, Collège de France, Amphithéatre Guillaume Budé.
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2009: How to Write the History of Modern Persian Literature. State-of-the-art Approaches and Perspectives

10–12 July 2009, Bamberg, Germany

2005: Iranian Identity in the Course of History
21-24 September 2005, Rome, Italy


SIE Conference Proceedings

ECIS8 (2015): Proceedings of the 8th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in St. Petersburg 14-19 September 2015

Volume 1: Studies on Pre-Islamic Iran and on Historical Linguistics, ed. Pavel B. Lurje, Saint Petersburg: The State Hermitage Publishers, 2019.

ECIS8 (2015): Publication of the Special Session on Medieval Iranian Manuscript Traditions Other Than Islamic: Barbati, Chiara & Olga Chunakova (eds.). 2018. Studies in early medieval Iranian religious manuscript traditions other than Islamic. Written Monuments of the Orient 2(8). Institute of Oriental Manuscripts: Russian Academy of Sciences

ECIS7 (2011): Studies on the Iranian World. Proceedings of the 7th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in Cracow, 7–10 September 2011, Anna Krasnowolska/Renata Rusek-Kowalska, eds., Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press 2015. Vol. 1: Before Islam (ISBN 978-83-233-3924-3; Vol. 2: Medieval and Modern (ISBN 978-83-233-3955-7)

ECIS6 (2007): Ancient and Middle Iranian Studies. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in Vienna, 18–22 September 2007, Maria Macuch/Dieter Weber/Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, eds., Wisebaden: Harrassowitz

ECIS6 (2007): Mediaeval and Modern Iranian Studies. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held on 18-22 September 2007 in Vienna, Maria Szuppe, Anna Krasnowolska and Claus V. Pedersen, eds., Paris: Association pour l’Avancement des Etudes Iraniennes, 2011 [Studia Iranica. Cahier 45]. ISSN: 0993-8699 / ISBN: 978-2-910640-31-6 (distributed by Peeters Press)

ECIS5 (2003): Proceedings of the 5th COnference of the Societas Iranologica Europaea. Held in Ravenna, 6-11 October 2003. Vol. I: Ancient & Middle Iranian Studies, A. Panaino & A. Piras (eds.), Milano: Mimesis, 2006

ECIS4 (1999): Iran. Questions et connaissances. Actes du IVe Congrès Européen des Études Iraniennes organisé par la Societas Iranologica Europaea. Paris, 6-10 Septembre 1999. Vol. 1, La Période ancienne. Textes réunis par P. Huyse. Paris.2002

ECIS4 (1999): Iran: Questions et connaissances. Actes du IVe Congrès Européen des études iraniennes organisé par la Societas Iranologica Europaea, Paris, 6-10 septembre 1999, volume 2: Périodes médiévale et moderne, Maria Szuppe (ed.), Cahiers de Studia Iranica, 26, Association pour l’Avancement des Etudes Iraniennes – Editions Peeters, Paris-Louvain, 2002, 524pp. (ISBN: 90-429-1277-4)

ECIS3 (1995): Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies . Part 1, Old and Middle Iranian Studies . Wiesbaden.1998

ECIS3 (1995): Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies . Part 2, Medieval and Modern Persian Studies . Wiesbaden.1998

ECIS2 (1991): Proceedings of the Second European Conference of Iranian Studies . Held in Bamberg, 30th September – 4th October, 1991. B.G. Fragner – C. Fragner – G. Gnoli – R. Haag-Higuchi – M. Maggi and P. Orsatti (eds.). Roma.1995

ECIS1 (1987): Proceedings of the First European Conference of Iranian Studies . Held in Turin, September 7th-11th, 1987. Part 1, Old and Middle Iranian Studies . G. Gnoli and P. Panaino (eds.). Rome.1990