Conference participants include specialists on a wide range of topics from Iranian studies, spanning different periods and drawing from interdisciplinary approaches. Other keynote presentations will address the Anvār-e Sohayli, a Persian adaptation of the Kalila wa-Dimna fable composed in Timurid Herat, as well as presentations on the impact of Iranian artists, cultural developments in the Iranian-speaking world, and the origins of Oriental studies.

Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE) was founded in Rome in 1983 and is an international academic association for Iranian studies. The association supports researchers working on old, middle, and modern Iranian languages, in addition to scholars studying Iranian-speaking people, their history, social structures, cultures, religions, and literary works, stretching back almost 3000 years. The scope of the research covers a geographic area that extends well beyond the current borders of modern Iran. The SIE hopes to facilitate international exchanges between researchers and to raise public awareness of the topics they discuss and their findings.