The department of Archaeology at the Institute of Art and Architecture of Pars and the University Lyon 2, Archéorient in collaboration with the Society for Iranian Archaeology are pleased to announce the Fifth Series of Online Research Seminar on “Early Urbanization in Iran; Iranian Plateau and Its Western Neighbors”.
Mondays from 9th may to 20th june 2022, via Zoom
>>> Programme (.pdf)
Contact : Zahra Kouzehgari

◊ 9th may 2022
- Sprinttime int the Zagros: Mesopotamia and Beyond in the 3rd to early 2nd Millenium BCE
Dr. Joann Scurlock, Professor, History Faculty, Elmhurst University, Emerita, Illinois, USA

◊ 16th may 2022
- Tracking the formation of the Kura-Araxesphenomenon in the Caucasus
Dr. Bertille Lyonnet, Director of research Emeritus. CNRS, UMR 7192, Paris, France

◊ 23rd may 2022
- Being entangled between vulnerability and resiliency: Revisiting the Kura-Araxes phenomenon with the focus on the diaspora.
Dr. Sepideh Maziar, Associate researcher, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany

◊ 6th june 2022
- The View of Kura-Arax Culture from Erzurum-Kars Plateau: A Regional Evaluation in the Light of Available Data.
Prof. Mehmet Isikli, Professor of Protohistory and Archaeology Central Asia, Archaeology Department, Faculty of Letters, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey.

◊ 13th june 2022
- Lake Van Basin and Mt. Ağrı during the Early Bronze Age (Kura-Araxes)
Prof. Aynur Ozfirzt, Professor, Faculty of Literature, Department of archaeology, Mardin Artuklu
University (MAU), Mardin, Turkey

◊ 20th june 2022
- The Kura-Araxes culture in a wider context: a view from Eastern Georgia.
Dr. Elena Rova, Associate Professor of “Near Eastern Archaeology” at Ca 'Foscari University of Venice, Italy.