Enduring Zoroastrian Symbols and Iconic Forms in Art and Architecture
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2013-11-28

Session 3 -- Enduring Zoroastrian Symbols and Iconic Forms in Art and Architecture

This was part of the conference "Looking Back: Zoroastrian Identity Formation through Recourse to the Past" (http://goo.gl/rB6usu) which was held at SOAS, University of London on 11-12 October 2013 to coincide with the exhibition "The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination" which was held at the Brunei Gallery SOAS (http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/everlastingflame/).

If you are interested in studying Zoroastrianism or other world religions at SOAS you can find out more at http://www.soas.ac.uk/religions/

Details of the session:
Frantz Grenet (Collège de France, Paris): Extracts from a Calendar of Zoroastrian Feasts: a new interpretation of a Bactrian silver plate at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Vesta Sarkhosh-Curtis (British Museum): Zoroastrian Symbols in Parthian and Sasanian Culture

James Russell (Harvard University): Imagery of Zarathushtra: continuity and change in tradition