Conférence - Touraj Daryaee : History and Memory: In Search of Lost Time

Collège de France - Sélection · May 12, 2026 · 58m

Frantz Grenet

Histoire et cultures de l'Asie centrale préislamique

Collège de France

Année 2025-2026

Conférence - Touraj Daryaee : History and Memory: In Search of Lost Time

Touraj Daryaee

Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies & Culture, University of California - Irvine

Résumé

Memory of past does not reveal itself to all people in the same manner. For the Sasanians in Late Antiquity (200-651 CE), what they came to profess was their ancient past and for the people they were ruling over, was drastically different from what the Romans understood as history of the Bygones. For Iranians a historical…