SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies

10/09/2026

❄️ Applications closing soon!
Interested in exploring Zoroastrianism through an interdisciplinary academic lens? Applications for our Winter School are still open — but time is running out.

📍 UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture
📅 Application deadline: 15 September

This is an opportunity to engage with the study of Zoroastrianism, connect with scholars and fellow students, and deepen your understanding of one of the world’s oldest living religious traditions.

🔗Apply: https://www.humanities.uci.edu/events/zoroastrianism-winter-school-applications-open

University of California Sapienza Università di Roma

Development (2nd), Politics (16th), Anthropology (19th), History of Art (24th), History (36th) – QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026

08/09/2026

📚 Meet the Editors

We are just one month away from the next SSPIZS event, so we are introducing the editors of The Zoroastrian World: Jenny Rose, Sarah Stewart and Albert de Jong.

Join us at SOAS for the launch and hear from the editors and contributors about the book and the scholarship it brings together on the Zoroastrian world.

📅 8 October
📍 SOAS, University of London
🔗 https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/zoroastrian-world-book-launch

SOAS alumni network Routledge Books

07/09/2026

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27/08/2026

🎬Watch Our New Play: Home, Elsewhere: Objects That Carry Us!

*International speed dating for the world's "smallest" religion.
*Migration journeys spanning 1000+ years.
*Stories of unpermitted love, expulsion, joy, ancestors, & legacy.

Inspired by Karl Singporewala Cosmos, Memory, Scale Artist in Residence exhibition (2024/25), this theatre piece, written by Sharmila Chauhan, was commissioned by the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies.

How do objects, memories, & domestic spaces carry stories of home, belonging and identity across geographies & generations?

Watch the play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FS6JLB5djg
Learn more about the project: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/home-elsewhere-objects-carry-us

FEZANA Zoroastrian Trust Funds of India

15/08/2026

✍ One month to apply: Zoroastrianism Winter School

There is just one month left to apply for the Zoroastrianism Winter School at the University of California, Irvine, taking place 14–18 December 2026.

Co-organised by UCI, SOAS’s Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies, Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Toronto Mississauga, the Winter School brings together students interested in Zoroastrianism across history, religion, anthropology, archaeology, languages, cultures and related fields.

The programme combines lectures with practical workshops in ethnographic interviewing, qualitative research and public-facing storytelling, as well as community interviews and fieldwork with the Zoroastrian community in Southern California. No prior research-methods experience is required.

📅 Application deadline: 15 September 2026

📍 UCI, California

🎓 Free and open to all

🔗 https://www.humanities.uci.edu/events/zoroastrianism-winter-school-applications-open

SOAS alumni network SOAS Centres & Institutes University of London

06/08/2026

📚 Buy the Book!

We are getting ready for the launch of The Zoroastrian World on the 8th of October. In the meantime, we're pleased to share this flyer, which includes a 20% discount code (26AFLY3) for those wishing to purchase a print copy directly from Routledge Booksge Books
The entire volume will also be available through Open Access!

Join us for the launch either in person at SOAS University of London or online: https://lnkd.in/egixiE5z

World Zoroastrian Organisation FEZANA World Zoroastrian Organisation Trust & WZO Trust Funds

ZTFE - The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe - London

27/07/2026

Bayani, Mohamad. 2025. Creating is cutting: A conceptual metaphor in Avestan and Pahlavi texts. Bulletin of SOAS 88(2). 243–265. This paper investigates the development of the creation theme in Zor…

22/07/2026

July Newsletter is here!

Future Zoroastrians, a new leadership programme generously sponsored by Zar Amrolia and hosted by the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies, brought together 12 emerging Zoroastrian priests from India, Pakistan, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States in London from 29 June...

21/07/2026

Our leadership programme featured in Parsi Times!

SOAS University of London

Community News: ‘Future Zoroastrians’ Empowers Emerging Priestly Leaders