Antonio Panaino, Andrea Piras, Preface; Antonio Panaino, Opening >Speech of the Fifth Conference of Iranian Studies; Gherardo Gnoli, Twenty Years on; Romano Prodi, Message to the Organizers and Participants at the 5th European Conference of Iranian Studies; Bahram Qassemi, Address to the Organizers and Participants; Ancient Iranian Studies: Hassan Akbari, Morteza Hessari; Kersey H. Antia; Gian Pietro Basello; François De Blois; Alberto Cantera; Serena Demaria; Bruno Genito; Gherardo Gnoli; Mohammad T. Imanpour; Vladimir Ivanov; Marco Loreti; Enrico Morano; Kamal Aldin Niknami; Mahnaz Sharifi; Keigo Noda; Antonio Panaino; Chiara Riminucci; Rüdiger Schmitt; Martin Schwartz; Philippe Swennen; Xavier Tremblay; Michiel De Vaan; Massimo Vidale; Middle Iranian Studies: Irina A. Arzhantseva, Ol’ga N. Inevatkina; Guitty Azarpay; Marco Bais; David Buyaner; Pierfrancesco Callieri; Martha L. Carter; Iris Colditz; Matteo Compareti; Salvatore Cosentino; Touraj Daryaee; Massimiliano David; Abolqasem Esmailpour; Andrea Gariboldi; Badri Gharib; Philippe Gignoux, Rika Gyselen; Thamar E. Gindin; Tommaso Gnoli; Seiro Haruta; Bodil Hjerrild; Irene Huber, Udo Hartmann; Pallan Ichaporia; Christelle Jullien; Florence Jullien; Claudia Leurini; Kinga Maciuszak; Maria Macuch; Milena Manini; Jafar Mehr Kian; Federicomaria Muccioli; Paolo Ognibene; Laura Pasquini; Andrea Piras; Enrico G. Raffaelli; Nikolaus Schindel; Dan D.Y. Shapira; Nicholas Sims-Williams; Werner Sundermann; Mihaela Timuş; Gabriella Uluhogian; Zohre Zarshenas.