XXVII Iranian World Day

Open to the general public as well as academics and students, Iranian World Day is organized every year on the occasion of the Iranian New Year, Nowruz, by CeRMI - Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien, UMR 8041 (CNRS, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Inalco, EPHE).

Vue du mausolée avec jardin — Mausolée Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, Tadjikistan © Davide Scarfagna‎

On friday 27 March 2026
9:30 a.m. to 5:40 p.m.
Inalco, PLC (65, rue des Grands Moulins, Paris 13e) - Auditorium
Free entry
On premise

Program and abstracts

Journée Monde iranien 2026.pdf (824.72 KB, .pdf)

contact

Matteo De Chiara: View e-mail

Davide Scarfagna: View e-mail

Organizer(s)

CERMI

Type

Study day

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This event is intended to bring together both specialists and students in our disciplines and the wider public interested in areal research issues. The day is devoted to the presentation by CeRMI members and their guests of current research on the Iranian world.

This XXVIIth edition will welcome speakers - CeRMI members and their guests - representing different disciplinary fields, who will present their new research in social and political sciences, history and art history of the Iranian area.

Program

9:30: Coffee reception

9:45: Opening of the day by Denis Hermann, Director of CeRMI

Session 1

Moderation: Justine Landau (USN-Paris 3/CeRMI)

10:00 am: Florence Jullien (CNRS/CeRMI) - Between mistrust and fascination: female figures in Syriac monastic circles

10:40 am: Eva Zahiri (CNRS/CeRMI) - The role of female religious scholars in the renewal of legal thought in Iran, in the light of the work of Sedigheh Vasmaghi

11:20am Coffee break

Session 2

Moderation: Sandra Aube-Lorrain (CNRS/CeRMI)

11:50am: Sepideh Parsapajouh (CNRS/CéSor) - Believing in absence and making the world: an anthropology of messianic expectation

12:30: Simon Berger (Inalco/CeRMI) - Nouveau retour sur le titre ilkhan, sa signification et son origine: Persian sources, official historiography and the early Mongol Empire

1:10 :Lunch break

Session 3

Moderation: Davide Scarfagna (Inalco/CeRMI)

2:30 : Maryam Nurzaee (CNRS/CeRMI) - Afro-Baloch Lullabies: Songs That Resist Modernity

3:10: Laurent Alibert (Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier 3/Inalco) - The Ossetian language beyond oral tradition: an overview of 19th- and 20th-century Ossetian poetry and prose

3:50 Coffee break

Session 4

Moderation: Maria Szuppe (CNRS/CeRMI) 16h20 : Murad Suleymanov (Inalco/CeRMI) - Le terme tat entre histoire, linguistique et identités

5:00: Camille Rhoné-Quer (Université d'Aix-Marseille/IREMAM) - Kashan au 10e siècle : quelle histoire environnementale ?

5:40 pm:Closing cocktail