TEHRAN -- International experts on Iran will gather at Dagestan State University in Makhachkala from November 23 to 24 for a conference entitled Contemporary Iranology.

New research on Iranian history, anthropology, and archaeology as well as new studies on the Persian language and Persian literature, Iranian culture, and Iranian languages will be discussed in the conference.

The experts will also survey the status of the Persian language and Persian literature in Russia and the panorama of Iranology in the northern Caucasus.

The Iranian Cultural Office of Makhachkala and the university are cosponsoring the conference.

Dagestan State University opened an Iranology center last year.