Yarshater Lecture Series: Florian Schwarz
Myth, Literature, and Geography in Transoxiana from Late Antiquity to the Early Islamic Period: Siyavash at Bukhara Florian Schwarz (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Wednesday January 13, 2027 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom Registration Link: https://forms.gle/VgZ8xmueie9azyLE7 Join Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95409975203 The conquest of Transoxiana, the region beyond the river Oxus (Amu Darya), in the 7th to 8th centuries is generally regarded as a major historical watershed in the history of Central Asia. This view obscures deeper processes of transformation that affected the entire eastern Iranian world since long before the end of the Sasanian empire....