The Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE) held its tenth quadrennial conference, the European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS), between 21-25 August at Leiden University. András Barati, research fellow at the Avicenna Institute represented our institute at one of the major international academic events in the field. The paper presented by our colleague has received overwhelmingly positive feedback. The keynote lectures were given by renowned researchers in the field such as Rudi Matthee, Julia Rubanovich, Touraj Atabaki and Saloumeh Gholami.