Lecture Series on the History and Culture of the Zerafshan RegionBukhara from Chingiz Khan to Buyan Quli KhanA lecture by Florian Schwarz, Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
19 July 2022
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We kindly announce the last lecture of the series on "The History and Culture of the Zerafshan Region" , which takes place during the summer semester 2022. It will be a lecture by Prof. Dr. Florian Schwarz, Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and professor of the Department of Iranian Studies of the University of Vienna.
The lecture will take place online via Zoom on July 19th, 2022 at 1:00 pm CET, under the topic of: "Bukhara from Chingiz Khan to Buyan Quli Khan".
Short bio:
Florian Schwarz studied Iranian and Islamic Studies at the Universities of Tübingen and Cologne.
1999 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the University of Tübingen.
1996-1998 Research assistant at the Research Center for Islamic Numismatics at the University of Tübingen.
1999-2005 Research assistant at the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies at the University of Bochum.
2005-2009 Assistant Professor at the Department of History at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Since January 2010 he is Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In 2011 he was ppointed Honorary Professor at the University of Vienna. In 2015 he was elected Corresponding Member in Austria of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
He is Co-editor of the monograph series Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik and Iranische Onomastic (Verlag der ÖAW) and the Handbuch der Orientalistik / Naher und Mittlerer Osten (Brill). Member of the scientific advisory board of the journals Der Islam (de Gruyter) and Rivista degli Studi Orientali (Sapienza University of Rome).