Prof. Almut Hintze with Prof. Yuhan Vevaina: Zoroastrian Conversations
We begin Season 2 of the Zoroastrian Conversations where Prof. Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina welcomes Professor Almut Hintze, Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS, University of London, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute, and Fellow of the British Academy.
Date:
Saturday April 26, 2025
Time:
9 AM Pacific | 12 Noon Eastern | 5 PM London | 9:30 PM Mumbai
Professor Almut Hintze is Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS, University of London, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute, and Fellow of the British Academy.She specialises in Zoroastrianism and the tradition of its rituals and texts, of which she has published several editions. In 2016–2023, she directed a collaborative project on the Multimedia Yasna, funded by European Research Council with an Advanced Investigator Grant, to produce an interactive film of a complete performance of the Yasna ritual, electronic tools for editing Avestan texts, and a text-critical edition, translation, commentary and dictionary of the Avestan Yasna.She is currently directing a second ERC project (2024–2028) to investigate the ritual tradition of the Avesta in India. The project team films the performance of a full Visperad ceremony, provides a critical edition of the Sanskrit translation of the Yasna, and studies the interpretation of Avestan rituals in Gujarati language sources.
Recordings of past Conversations are available here:
https://fezana.org/
“Zoroastrian Conversations” is envisioned to be a Charlie Rose-style interview show that would feature Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina (Bahari Associate Professor of Sasanian Studies and Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford) interviewing academics from around the world working on Zoroastrian and Parsi Studies, the history, languages, and cultures of early Iran and cognate disciplines.The interviews would be conducted on Zoom and moderated by FEZANA and would serve the function of introducing the global Zoroastrian communities to the most respected and up-and-coming scholars working in these fields.These ‘Zoroastrian Conversations’ would also serve as a forum for community members to learn about the research and teaching being undertaken by professional academics and would serve the purpose of both public engagement and education.The central premise would be an informal chat, perhaps every two months, where the scholar chatting with Prof. Vevaina could tell us a bit about their background, entrance into the field, their research interests, things they find fascinating about Zoroastrianism and Zoroastrian communities and their wish lists for what projects they would like to undertake in the future.The two new hires in North America at the University of Toronto and UC Irvine have agreed to participate and such a forum would allow Zoroastrians the world over to listen to and learn from our newest professors and many other speakers from all over the world in the months to come.
FEZANA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Zoroastrian Conversations: Prof Almut Hintze & Prof. Yuhan Vevaina
Time: Apr 26, 2025 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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