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The Yarshater Center is pleased to co-host an Iranian Studies Seminar featuring Austin O’Malley (Assistant Professor of Persian Literature, University of Chicago). The event is part of the University Seminars at Columbia University and will be held in-person in New York.
Beate Pongratz-Leisten’s book Myth, Text, and Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Narrative Reading of the World makes a case for establishing human thinking-in-images as an essential part of ancient Mesopotamian reasoning based in the fact that in the human mind, imagistic thinking exists alongside rational logical thought.
Drawing on the speaker’s recent book, Persia’s Greek Campaigns (Oxford, 2025), this talk will review disciplinary progress and emerging evidence which now permits critical historical approaches to Achaemenid contexts and perspectives on Persian-Greek conflicts.
