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Professor Carina Jahani (photo to the left) defended her doctoral dissertation in 1989 on ”Standardization and Orthography in the Balochi Language” and has since been very active in research on the language. She is one of the World’s leading experts in the field. She became Professor at the department in 2004, after the retirement of Bo Utas.

Two International Symposia focused on Balochistan have been held at the department, in 1997 and 2000, resulting in two books – ”Language in Society – Eight Sociolinguistic Essays on Balochi”, edited by Carina Jahani (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Iranica Upsaliensia, 3, Uppsala 2000); and ”The Baloch and Their Neighbours: Ethnic and Linguistic Contact in Balochistan in Historical and Modern Times”, edited by Carina Jahani and Agnes Korn (published by Reichert, Wiesbaden 2003).

A third International Conference on Balochistan was arranged by the Iranian Languages division 18–21 August 2005. The theme for the 2005 conference was ”Pluralism in Balochistan”, and it wanted to highlight various aspects of plurality in presentday Balochistan (nowadays divided between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan). Researchers presented papers on the conference with a focus on socioeconomic, religious, linguistic, literary and cultural plurality in Balochistan. The conference was jointly organised by Prof. Carina Jahani at the Iranian Studies Division; and Dr. Agnes Korn from Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Frankfurt, Germany. The conference was held in Ihresalen, Humanistiskt centrum, Uppsala. More information