Zoroastrian Studies: A Symposium Dedicated to Ehsan Yarshater

Zoroastrian Studies: A Symposium
Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Ehsan Yarshater
1:00-7:00 p.m., 6 April 2019
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5S 1J5

Registration:
https://uoft.me/zoroastrianstudiessymposium

1:00-1:30 p.m.
Registration

1:30-1:50 p.m.
Dr. Jehan Bagli, Timothy Harrison & Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Introduction

1:50-2:25 p.m.
Maria Brosius
Zoroastrianism in the Achaemenid Period?

2:25-3:00 p.m.
Miguel Angel Andrés Toledo
Pure Body: The Baršnūm Ceremony Throughout History

3:00-3:35 p.m.
Parvaneh Pourshariati
The Epic of Samak-e `Ayyar: A Literary Companion to Mithraic Mythology, Ethics, and Social Praxis?

3:30-4:10 p.m.
Break

4:10-4:45 p.m.
Enrico Raffaelli
Dante and Wiraz: Two Otherworldly Travellers

4:45-5:20 p.m.
Jesse Palsetia
Parsi Traders and Travellers: Global Zoroastrians in the Age of Empire

5:20-6:00 p.m.
Dan Sheffield
Zoroastrianism and the Problem of Universal Religion in the Early Modern Islamic World

6:00 p.m.
Reception

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