Dear ASPS Members, please join us for the second biannual ASPS Virtual Graduate Student Conference, to be held on Friday Sept. 25.
Please find the schedule below. All times EDT (UTC -4:00)
The conference is being hosted by the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.
You may join the conference at anytime during the day with the following Zoom link.
Topic: ASPS Virtual Graduate Student Conference
Time: Sep 25, 2026 08:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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https://princeton.zoom.us/j/98099437039
Meeting ID: 980 9943 7039
2nd Biannual ASPS Virtual Graduate Student Conference
Friday 25 September, 2026
Session 1: Historical Linguistics – 8:00am-9:15am
Discussant: Dan Shapira (Bar-Ilan University)
Sirojiddin Ibrokhimov (Abu Rayhon Beruniy Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan), “Tavārīkh-i guzīda-yi nuṣratnāma: An Important Source in the Turkic Language”
Alen Hayrapetyants (Russian-Armenian University, Armenia), “Ossetica-Judaeo-Khazarica: On Ancient Hebrew Elements in Ossetian”
Session 2: Professional Development Session: How to Submit an Article to a Journal and announcement of ASPS/JPS Graduate Student Prize – 9:30am-10:30am
Zayde Antrim (Editor, al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā)
Gershon Lewental (Associate Editor, Journal of Persianate Studies)
Abdurraouf Oueslati (De Gruyter Brill)
Session 3: The Cultural Production of Early Islamic Khurasan – 10:45am-noon
Chair: Mateusz Kłagisz (Jagiellonian University in Kraków)
Discussant: Mahdieh Tavakol (Universität Hamburg)
Farzad Zerehdaran (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran), “Continuity or Discontinuity: The Mentalities of Khorasanians about Gardens in the Early Islamic Centuries”
Mojtaba Shahsavari (University of Toronto), “Persian Sufism and the Rise of Mystical Humanism in the Samanid Era: Bridging Juridical Hegemony and Sasanian Cultural Renaissance”
Session 4: Modern Literature – 12:15pm-1:30pm
Discussant: Renata Rusek-Kowalska (Jagiellonian University)
Sara Molaie (University of Toronto), “Dream, Translation and Afterlife: Freud and the Circulation of Meaning in Savushun”
Alice Lyzcia (SOAS), “The alterity of Shagufta’s garden”
Session 5: Qajar Histories – 1:45pm-2:30pm
Discussant: Mirjam Künkler (Institut d’Études Avancées de Nantes)
Ryan Nazari (Columbia University), “Micro-Histories of Late 18th-Century Persia: How the Diaries Dr. Joseph David Joseph (1868-1922) Document and Respond to National Violence against the Assyrian Community”
