Antonio Clemente Domenico Panaino

Antonio Clemente Domenico PANAINO

Personal Data born in Busto Arsizio (VA),

July 24, 1961

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Specialist in the field of Ancient Iranian Linguistics, Philology, and Religions

• Full Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Bologna
• Teaching experience in the field since 1992 (Avestan, Old Persian, Pahlavi, Sogdian, etc.)

  in Italy and abroad

• Active in research in the field since 1985 with more than 300 publications, of which around 150 in peer-review journals or publishing houses
• Supervision of more than 50 Master theses and 15 PhD theses
• Member of national and international committees in the field
• Secretary and subsequently President of the Societas Iranologica Europaea
• Founder of the Melammu Project, Vice-Chairman and Chairman
• President of the ASIAC (Italian Association for the Study of Caucasus and Central Asia)
• Director of the Emilia-Romagna Branch of the Is.M.E.O. and Is.I.A.O. for 10 years
• 6 years of service as Dean of the Faculty of Preservation of Cultural Heritage
• Director of the Italian Archaeological and Ethno-Linguistic Mission in Tajikistan for 7 years
• Full member of the Doctoral School of the University of Bologna
• External Examiner for the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien
• Organizer and director of many international and national conferences and seminars in Iranian studies
• Director of national and European research projects
• Administrative Experience in the governing boards of museums and foundations
• Experience in the organization of teaching programs and faculty management
• Coordination of large group research projects
• Cooperation with public institution and state bodies (Town, Army, Police, etc.) in adult education programs about Western and Central Asia
• Fluent in Italian (native), English and French; competent in German and Spanish; basic knowledge of Modern Persian and Tajik; expert reading knowledge of these langauges and of ancient Iranian and Indic languages

EDUCATION

• Classical Lyceum in Milan (5 years)
• Laurea in Classical Studies (with a dissertation on Avestan) at the State University of Milan 110/110 cum laude in 1984 (4 years)
• PhD program in Iranian studies (3 years) at “l’Orientale”, the University of Naples (1985-89)
• In the framework of the PhD programs period of studies in Liège, Cambridge (UK) and London (SOAS)
• Diploma Is.M.E.O. of Persian Studies (1989)
• Post-doctoral Scholarship (1991)

CURRENT POSITION

• Full Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage (since 2000)
• External Affiliate to the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World, the University of California, Los Angeles
• Member of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum
• Member of the Advisor Commettee of the Encyclopædia Iranica
• Consulting Editor of the Encyclopædia Iranica
• Fellow of the excellence Center Einstein, Project Chronoi, Freie Universität zu Berlino and of the Max Planck Institute für Wissenschaftsgeschicte di Berlino (2018 e 2019;
• Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris (2020).
• Directeur d’études invité en Histoire et philologie de l'Iran pré-islamiquechez l'EPHE Paris.
• – Consulting editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica.
  

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor at the University of Bologna since 1992
• Dean of the Faculty of Preservation of Cultural Heritage (6 years)
• Member (and director) of the International Commission of the University of Bologna
• Member of the Commission for the Relation with the External Institutions at the University of Bologna
• Professeur invité à l’Ecole pratique des hautes études, Paris (1998)
• Invited to deliver the Quatre leçons au Collège de France, Paris (2001)
• Director of Master classes (Yaghnobi Language; Ancient Economy; Cultural Heritage I Crisis Areas)
  
• He has been Director of the Is.I.A.O. Classes of Oriental Languages in the Ravenna branch of the University of Bologna
• Director of the Avesta Project for the Is.M.E.O.;
• Director of the Project for the History of Sciences and Pseudo-Sciences in the Ancient and Eastern world

OTHER POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENT

• Lecturer at the Military School of Turin in at the Post Conflict Operation Centre
• The Founding Member of the Medical Research at the Fondazione del Monte of Bologna and Ravenna (a bank)
• Member of the Administrative Board of the Ravenna Festival
• Scientific Director of the official periodical of the Grand Orient (Italy) for ten years (25,000 copies each three months)

ACADEMICAL MEMBERSHIP AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

• Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna (corresponding member)
• Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti (Messina)
• Associazione per lo Studio in Italia dell’Asia Centrale e del Caucaso (ASIAC, ex Chairman)
• Associazione Biblica Italiana (Rome)
• Association pour l’Avancement des études iraniennes, Paris
• International Association of Manichaean Studies
• International Association for Intercultural Studies of the Melammu Project (former Chairman)
• Istituto Gramsci, Bologna
• Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Roma (ordinary member, director of the Divi­sion Emilia-Romagna. Member of the Board, Lombard Division)
• Philological Society (London)
• Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (London)
• Societas Iranologica Europaea (former Chairman)
• Società Italiana degli Orientalisti
• Società Italiana di Storia delle Religioni (ex member of the board)
• Société Asiatique (Paris)
• Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese (Milan)

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Prize R. et T. Ghirshman for the Iranian Stu­dies by the French Academy (1998)
• Laurea ad honorem by the New Bul­ga­rian University of So­phia (2011)
• Publication of Kleine Schriften, 3 volumes, edited by pupils and colleague
• Sackler Lecturer (2021/22) at the Faculty of Arts of the Tel Aviv University
• Ida Bean Visiting Professor at the Iowa University, 2022
  

EDITORIAL BOARD APPOINTMENTS

• Member of the Advisor Commette of the Encyclopædia Iranica
• Consulting Editor of the Encyclopædia Iranica
• Sīmorγ, Milano, Mimesis (since 1999)
• Si vis pacem, Milano, Mimesis (since 2005)
• Indo-Iranica et Orientalia. Series Purpurea (with Velizar Sadovski), Milano – Udine, Mimesis (since 2009)
• Indo-Iranica et Orientalia. Series Lazur (with Velizar Sadovski), Milano – Udine, Mimesis (since 2011)
• Iranica et Mediterranea (with Paolo Ognibene)
• Diadema, Milan (with Fr. Muccioli)
• Member of the Scientific Committee of Iran and the Caucasus, Bizantinistica, Acta Iranica
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Series Ancient Cultures of Knowledge", Mohr Siebeck (Tübingen)