Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies University of Oxford

Delivered by Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin) 101 years after the inaugurating of the Ratanbai Katrak Lecturership at the University of Oxford

Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin) will deliver the 9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures on Zoroastrianism in Spring (Trinity Term) and Autumn (Michaelmas Term) of 2023. These six lectures will represent the 101^st anniversary of their establishment at the University of Oxford in 1922 by Dr. Nanabhai Navroji Katrak in memory of his deceased wife, Ratanbai Katrak. Provision was made for the University of Oxford to invite a distinguished scholar to deliver a series of six public lectures in the English language on some subject connected with the study of the religion of Zoroaster. The purpose of the Lecturership is to promote the study of the religion of Zoroaster and of its later developments from a theological, philological, and historical point of view. Illustrious scholars of the study of Zoroastrianism in the 20th century such as Louis H. Gray (Columbia University), Sir Harold W. Bailey (Cambridge University), Walter B. Henning (SOAS, UC Berkeley), Ilya Gershevitch (Cambridge University), Mary Boyce (SOAS), John Hinnells (University of Manchester), and Philippe Gignoux (EPHE, Paris) have been the Ratanbai Katrak Lecturer. 2

Lecture 4. "The Satisfaction of the yazata’ and ‘The Blessing of the ratus": On the Zoroastrian Long Liturgies – Thurs 19 Oct 2023 at 5:30 pm

Lecture 5. Ritual and Revelation: The Complex Liturgies Based on the Visperad Time – Thurs 26 Oct 2023 at 5:30 pm

Lecture 6. Turning the Tables: From the daēnā to the Dēnkard – Thurs 2 Nov 2023 at 5:30 pm 

These lectures will also stream on Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81728008051

Contact: yuhan.vevaina@ames.ox.ac.uk

You can find more information in the link below:

https://www.ames.ox.ac.uk/article/9th-ratanbai-katrak-lectures