Monday 8 October 2018

• 17:00 - A Babylonian Babel: The Sasanians and the Crystallization of Judaism
  Shai Secunda (Bard College)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Monday 15 October 2018

• 17:00 - Resisting the Empire: Armenian Historiography of the Fifth Century
  Dr David Zakarian (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 17:00 - Serial Orthodoxy: State, Faith and Power in the Sasanian Empire
  Albert de Jong (Universiteit Leiden)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 17:00 - Babylonian Jews as Sasanian Jews: The Politics of Accommodation
  Simcha Gross (University of California at Irvine)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Monday 5 November 2018

• 17:00 - Sometimes the Empire Strikes Back: The Sasanian Empire and its Religious Communities
  Touraj Daryaee (University of California at Irvine)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Monday 12 November 2018

• 17:00 - The Sasanian Role in the Mandaean World
  Charles Häberl (Rutgers University)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Monday 19 November 2018

• 17:00 - Chalcedonians and Severans in the Empire of Khusrau II
  Phil Booth (University of Oxford)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Monday 26 November 2018

• 17:00 - Strategies for Success: Manichaeism under the Early Sasanians
  Iris Colditz (Freie Universität Berlin)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities