The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Chicago Initiative for Global Late Antiquity present
Eastern Iran and Western Central Asia during Late Antiquity (3rd-5th cent. CE)
Numismatics, Archaeology, and Art History in Dialogue
Conference organized by Sören Stark (ISAW)
Friday, September 29, 2017
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
15 East 84th Street, Second Floor Lecture Hall
212.992.7800
9:00am - Introductory Remarks
Sören Stark (ISAW)
Session I: Frameworks
9:15am - Kushanshahs Outside the Imperial Paradigm: the History of the Kushano-Sasanians as an Independent Dynasty
Khodadad Rezakhani (Princeton University)
10:00am - Again and Again: Remarks on Kushano-Sasanian Chronology
Nikolaus Schindel (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
10:45am - Coffee Break
Session II: Late Antique Bactria/Tokharistan
11:00am - Bactria in Late Antiquity: An Art Historical Inquiry into an Imperfectly Named Period
Judith Lerner (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World)
11:45am - From the Kidarites to the Alkhan: the Numismatic Evidence
Michael Alram (Austrian Academy of Sciences/Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna)
12:30pm - Bactria/Tokharistan in the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. Selected Problems of Settlement Patterns and Material Culture
Ladislav Stančo (Charles University Prague)
1:15pm - Lunch Break
Session III: Late Antique Western Sogdiana
2:15pm - Sasanians and Huns in Sogdiana
Aleksandr Naymark (Hofstra University)
3:00pm - The Bukhara Oasis during the 3rd-5th Centuries A.D.
Sören Stark (ISAW)
3:45pm - Paikand in Late Antiquity
Andrey Omel’chenko (State Hermitage, St. Petersburg)
4:30pm - Coffee Break
5:00pm - Final Discussion
Moderator: Richard Payne (University of Chicago)
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Registration is required at isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp