The Deadline is now extended to 26 May 2024
For the Junior participants who need financial support, we offer free accommodation
Please see the Programme and check out the Updates for information.
Introduction
We invite early career scholars interested in researching global Late Antiquity to take part in our initial Research Forum titled Ērān: Central and West Asia in the First Millennium CE’ which will take place at the University of Lille (France), 15 – 19 July 2024.
The first Research Forum is envisaged as a place for established scholars and junior researchers involved in the study of the Iranian, Sasanian, and Eastern Mediterranean world in the first millennium CE (mainly 200-800 CE, but broadly defined) to come together for a dialogue of ideas, research agendas, and methods. We aim to create a forum to connect senior scholars as both leaders of the field and as mentors with the junior scholars working on their PhD research or embarking on their post-doctoral and early career projects, both as part of a research institute or independently.
The Forum will last for 5 days and is set around the following themes:
- Historiography
- Languages
- Religions and Cultures
- Material and Visual Culture
- Economy and Administration
Early career scholars are encouraged to propose papers on their desired themes, although these might be organised across the week depending on the number of papers in each theme.
Eligibility and Attendance
- Advanced PhD students (writing stage)
- Postdoctoral researchers (both affiliated and independent)
There is no registration fee for the Forum.
Morning sessions (consisting of keynote lectures and seminars led by senior scholars) will be open to the general public free of charge, subject to availability of space.
Organisation
Each day will start with a keynote lecture by an expert in the field and will be followed by a seminar led by two senior scholars around the theme of the day. The Seminar can take either a teaching format or a discussion session around a topic, as decided by the senior scholars who lead it.
Among the confirmed speakers are: Touraj Daryaee, Simcha Gross, Charles Häberl, Albert de Jong, Judith Lerner, Eve McDonald, Stephen Rapp, Eberhard Sauer, Nikolaus Schindel. More senior scholars will be confirmed later.
The afternoon workshop sessions are organised around pre-circulated research papers, in any stage of development, from junior scholars, according to the theme of the day. In these workshops, which are limited only to the participants, junior scholars will have an opportunity to present their research and discuss it with their peers and with senior scholars in a safe environment. Papers will need to be circulated in advance as a condition of participation.
In each session a junior scholar will make a brief 10-15-minutes presentation emphasing the points which they particularly want to discuss and on which to receive feedback. A 45-minutes workshop style discussion involving all of the participants will follow each paper. The purpose is not to present completed, conference-style research papers, but to introduce the audience to your research questions and methods.
Application Process
The applications are now closed
Please attach:
- A Current CV
- Motivation letter, mentioning your research interests and background, and the reason for attending the Research Forum
- A proposal for a research paper, not longer than 700 words
In your motivation letter, please mention availability of any research and travel funds to cover the costs of attendance. Subject to availability of funds, the convenors strive to assist junior scholars with their travel expenses on a need-based consideration. Should funding options become available, applicants for assistance will be contacted. Please note that we cannot presently guarantee assistance.
Application deadline: May 15, 2024
DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO MAY 26th!
Places are limited.
Candidates will be notified of the selection committee’s decision by May 31, 2024 or earlier.
Please note that as a condition of attendance, the selected candidates will be required to submit a rough draft of their presentation (of any length and stage of development, but preferably no longer than 5000 words) for pre-circulation among the participants by June 28, 2024.
Call as PDF
This call can also be downloaded in PDF format.
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