• 04 December 2023: The book contract for the Sino-Iran project was signed in October. The title is Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity: China and the Parthians, Sasanians, and Arabs in the First Millennium. Forthcoming as an open access title in 2024.

• 18 September 2023: Recent publications:

Kotyk, Jeffrey. 2023. “The Birth of Christ and the Persian Gift Bearers in Medieval Chinese Sources.” Studi Iranici Ravennati IV: 129–139. [Link]

———. 2022. “Information on the Persian Calendar in the Wei shu 魏書 of 554.” In ABĒBĪM “Fearless”: Who Was Afraid of the End of the Millennium? New Approaches to the Interpretation of the Traditional Date of Zoroaster; with Contributions by Domenico Agostini, Jeffrey Kotyk, Paolo Ognibene, and Alessia Zubani, edited by Alessia Zubani, 209–222. Milano: Mimemsis Edizioni. [Link]

• 12 June 2023: Presentation by Jeffrey Kotyk at Tel Aviv University. “An Apocalypse in China? Iranian Religions in Tang China (618-907): Continuity and Adaptation.” Conference: "What Happened in the Seventh Century? Socio-Religious Transformations and Apocalyptic Discourses.”

• 05 October 2022: Jeffrey Kotyk presented at University of Bologna an outline of Sino-Iranian relations in antiquity.

• 30 September 2022: Our new book has been published:

Zubani, Alessia, ed. 2022. ABĒBĪM “Fearless”: Who Was Afraid of the End of the Millennium? New Approaches to the Interpretation of the Traditional Date of Zoroaster; with Contributions by Domenico Agostini, Jeffrey Kotyk, Paolo Ognibene, and Alessia Zubani. Milano: Mimemsis Edizioni.

• 07 September 2022: The website of SINOIRAN is launched.

• 01 July 2022: The SINOIRAN project commences in Ravenna, Italy.