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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Panel on Afghan Refugees in Iran
DESCRIPTION:Panel on Afghan Refugees in Iran\nJanuary 12\, 2026\n11:00am Pacific Time\nOnline via Zoom\nIn Persian and English\nRegistration Required\nRegistration Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hcYEa8i_QB6EIvQRBb9YEw \nMunazza Ebtikar\nPANEL MODERATOR \nDr. Munazza Ebtikar recently completed her PhD (2025) in Politics\, History\, and Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She was a 2024-2025 Peace Fellow at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs and currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator of Stanford’s Sonic Resistance Archive\, documenting Afghan cultural production. She holds an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford and completed her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley with degrees in Peace and Conflict\, Middle Eastern Politics\, and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. Dr. Ebtikar is co-editing “Civil Resistance in Afghanistan” and brings multilingual research capabilities in Persian\, Arabic\, and Pashto to her work on Afghanistan’s contemporary political and cultural transformations. \n  \n  \nAshraf Haidari\nAfghan Refugees in Iran: Precarious Protection\, Forced Returns\, and Pathways Forward \nAmbassador Ashraf Haidari is a distinguished diplomat and humanitarian leader\, serving as the Founder and President of Displaced International (DI). From 2018 to 2022\, he was Afghanistan’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Director-General of the South Asia Cooperative Environment Program (SACEP)\, leading initiatives on regional security\, economic cooperation\, climate resilience\, and sustainable development. At Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, he held key roles\, including Director-General of Policy and Strategy and Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires at the Afghan Embassies in Delhi and Washington\, D.C. His leadership is deeply shaped by his personal journey as a former refugee. He earned a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Wabash College\, followed by a Master’s in Security Studies at Georgetown University and a graduate certificate in Refugees\, Migration\, and Humanitarian Emergencies. \n  \n  \nMejgan Massoumi\nLives in Transit: Afghan Cultural Producers Navigating Precarity and Policing in Iran \nMejgan Massoumi is an Assistant Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University. Her current book project examines the history of radio in Afghanistan\, revealing how music and sound shaped politics\, culture\, and everyday life at the crossroads of Asia and the Middle East. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)\, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)\, and the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS)\, and her dissertation received the World History Association’s 2023–24 Best Dissertation Prize. Dr. Massoumi earned her PhD in History from Stanford University in 2021. She also holds degrees in Architecture (B.A.) and City Planning (M.C.P.) from the University of California\, Berkeley\, grounding her scholarship in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. \n  \n  \nMitra Naseh\nIncreasingly Restrictive Migration Policies for Afghans in Iran \nMitra Naseh is a forced migration scholar\, currently serving as an Assistant Professor and the Founding Director of the Forced Migration Initiative (FMI) at the Brown School\, Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on the multidimensional social and economic integration of forcibly displaced populations\, shaped by her interdisciplinary academic training\, lived experience as an immigrant\, and extensive fieldwork with non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies\, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia. She is the co-author of the widely recognized book Best Practices in Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants\, published by Columbia University Press in 2019. \n  \n  \nZuzanna Olszewska\nBeyond Dorr-e Dari: The Global Literary Ripples of a Pioneering Refugee Cultural Institution in Iran \nZuzanna Olszewska is Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St. John’s College\, Oxford. She is an anthropologist with a particular interest in the literary and cultural production among the Afghan diaspora. She is author of award-winning monograph The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood among Young Afghans in Iran (Indiana University Press\, 2015) and numerous articles. She is also a translator of Persian-language poetry from Afghanistan.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-panel-on-afghan-refugees-in-iran/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Antigoni Zournatzi: Greek-Persian Encounters c. 550–c. 330 BCE
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, December 3\, 2025 \nRoyce Hall 306\, 4:00pm \nDownload Event Flyer Here \nZoom link for online attendance: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91230760258 \nRSVP link \nGreek-Persian Encounters c. 550 – c. 330 BCE: Looking Beyond Stereotypes\nAncient Greek—and particularly Athenian—bias against the Achaemenid empire has contributed significantly to the modern perception of historical relations between the Greeks and the Persians as a quintessential example of the clash of civilizations and East-West political\, cultural\, and ideological distinctness and conflict. This presentation considers the historical circumstances which gave rise to the negative stereotypes about the Persians reflected in ancient Greek sources. Departing from the emphasis on rivalry\, it equally seeks to draw attention to written\, archaeological\, and iconographic testimonies that speak to a more nuanced picture of Greek responses to Persia and to intercultural phenomena that were promoted by the multifaceted interactions between the Greek and Persian worlds during the Late Archaic and Classical periods. \n\n\n\nAntigoni Zournatzi\nNational Hellenic Research Foundation \n\n\n\nAntigoni Zournatzi-Tsami is Director of Research at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation. Her main areas of research are the interconnections between the ancient Greek world and the ancient Near East\, cross-cultural phenomena in archaic and classical Cyprus\, and the Achaemenid Empire. She is currently a Guest Researcher at the Getty Villa\, engaging in research that relates to the formative input\, of which the encounters with the Achaemenid Persian empire played a crucial part\, on the Greeks’ evolving definitions of identity and ethnicity. The ongoing project\, Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC – ca. AD 650\, which she coordinates\, seeks to promote a holistic view of ancient Iranian and Greek interactions in Iran proper on the strength of an integrative inventory of different source materials and sites across historical periods.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-antigoni-zournatzi-greek-persian-encounters-c-550-c-330-bce/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Pourdavoud Institute,Yarshater Center
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Panel Discussion on Iran’s Current Economic\, Political\, and Environmental Situation
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion on Iran’s Current Economic\, Political\, and Environmental Situation\nSUNDAY\, NOVEMBER 16\, 2025\n4:00 PM PST \nNOW ONLINE ONLY\nTo watch on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97789716771 \nPanelists Include: \nIran’s Water Crisis: Current Realities and Preconditions for Solutions\nAmir AghaKouchak is a Chancellor’s Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science at the University of California\, Irvine. He also serves as Director of UC Irvine’s Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS)\, where his team develops innovative tools for monitoring and modeling hydrologic extremes. In addition\, he is the Lead for Water\, Climate\, and Infrastructure Risk at the United Nations University Institute for Water\, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)\, contributing to global efforts on sustainable water management and climate resilience. His research focuses on natural hazards and climate extremes\, bridging the disciplines of hydrology\, climatology\, and remote sensing. A central theme of his work is the study of interactions among climatic and non-climatic hazards\, particularly compound and cascading events. Dr. AghaKouchak has published over 270 peer-reviewed journal articles and has received numerous honors\, including the AGU James B. Macelwane Medal\, AGU Fellow\, ASCE EWRI Fellow\, ASCE Norman Medal and ASCE Huber Research Prize. \nIran’s Perilous Political Landscape: Domestic and International Challenges\nMehrzad Boroujerdi is Vice Provost and Dean of College of Arts\, Sciences\, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Previously he was a Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech\, Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University\, and President of the Association for Iranian Studies.  Dr. Boroujerdi earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston University\, his master’s degree in political science from Northeastern University\, and his Ph.D. in international relations from The American University (Washington\, D.C.). He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University\, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin\, a visiting scholar at UCLA\, and a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute (Washington\, D.C.). \nFrom Critical to Hypercritical: Economy of Iran after the Iran-Israel War\nNader Habibi is the Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in the Economics of the Middle East at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Before joining Brandeis University in June 2007\, he served as managing director of economic forecasting and risk analysis for Middle East and North Africa in Global Insight Ltd. Mr. Habibi has worked in academic and research institutions in Iran\, Turkey and the United States since 1987. He earned a master’s degree in systems engineering\, and a PhD in Economics from Michigan State University. His most recent research projects are a) Economic relations of Middle Eastern countries with China\, b) Economic and social conditions of Kurdish regions in Iran\, Iraq\, Syria and Turkey\, and c) Economic relations of Turkey with Iran and Arab countries. Habibi served as director of Islamic and Middle East Studies at Brandeis University (August 2014-August 2019). Links to his publications are available at https://naderhabibi.blogspot.com/. \n  \nEvent in Persian\, moderated by Nayereh Tohidi (California State University\, Northridge)\n  \nThis event is made possible with the co-sponsorship of the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, as well as with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/panel-discussion-on-irans-current-economic-political-and-environmental-situation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Lucinda Dirven: Zoroastrianism in the Religious Context of the Arsacid Empire
DESCRIPTION:November 5\, 2025 \nRoyce Hall 306\, 4:00pm \nDownload Event Flyer Here \nZoom link for online attendance: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94920554065 \nRSVP link: https://forms.gle/2BmZz73crt582bJJ8 \nZoroastrianism in the Religious Context of the Arsacid Empire\nUnlike the tendency to emphasize the multifaceted and diverse aspects of religious life in the Parthian Empire\, this talk aims to identify shared characteristics by focusing on the religious preferences of the Arsacid rulers. Although Zoroastrianism was not yet clearly defined at this time\, evidence suggests that Zoroastrian ideas influenced the ideology of Arsacid kingship. Conversely\, the ideology of the King of Kings influenced the practices of families and rulers who reigned under their suzerainty\, including those who were otherwise unaffected by Zoroastrianism. Although such practices were rare\, they still had repercussions for the religious lives of the populace in the Arsacid Empire. \n\n\n\nLucinda Dirven\nUniversity of Nijmegen \n\n\n\nLucinda Dirven is a professor of ancient religions at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She studied art history and theology (history of religions and comparative religion) at Leiden University\, where she obtained her PhD\, which was published in 1999. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in the archaeology department at the University of Amsterdam\, she taught in the history departments at the universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. Since completing her PhD\, her research has focused on the Roman and Parthian Near East\, particularly Dura\, Hatra and Palmyra\, and the influence of these regions on the Roman West. Her research combines material culture and written sources\, primarily focusing on religion. One recent topic has been religious continuity and change in Syria and Mesopotamia\, particularly during the Roman and Parthian periods. She is currently a Getty Scholar working on a project focusing on the cult of Mithras in Dura-Europos.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-lucinda-dirven-zoroastrianism-in-the-religious-context-of-the-arsacid-empire/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Humanities,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: The Left\, Democracy\, and Authoritarianism in Iran: An Internationally Comparative Perspective
DESCRIPTION:چپ ، دموکراسی، و اقتدارگرایی در ایران: در مقایسه ای بین المللی \nThe Left\, Democracy\, and Authoritarianism in Iran: An Internationally Comparative Perspective \nSunday\, December 8\, 4:00-6:00 PM Pacific\, Royce Hall\, Room 314 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/92237337565 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on December 8 to join.) \n \nIn this talk\, I will focus on the relationship between the Left and democracy in Iran. To understand the development of the Iranian Left over the past century\, we should first briefly outline how leftist movements after Marx evolved along three main trajectories\, how these paths ended\, and what renewal trends emerged thereafter. A relevant comparison to Iran is the experience of Latin American countries and the routes taken by the Left there. Following this introduction\, I will provide a historical overview of the different strands of the Left in Iran\, from the Constitutional Revolution (1906) to the present. Next\, I will address the successes\, setbacks\, and failures the Left has encountered along this journey. Finally\, I will discuss the problems\, challenges\, and opportunities facing the Left in Iran today. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. Alireza Behtoui is a professor of sociology at the School of Social Sciences at Södertörn University in Stockholm\, Sweden. His research expertise includes Sociology of education\, political sociology and social movements\, sociology of elites\, race\, and ethnicity. He has published numerous scientific articles in English-language journals\, books in Swedish and popular scientific articles in Persian on these topics. He is currently on sabbatical at the University of California\, Berkeley. His latest writings have addressed the challenges against democracy building in Iran from a comparative perspective.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-the-left-democracy-and-authoritarianism-in-iran-an-internationally-comparative-perspective/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Yarshater Center & Iranian Studies Symposium and Workshop: Nezāmi and the Iranian World
DESCRIPTION:Nezāmi and the Iranian World\nNovember 21–22\, 2024 | UCLA Royce Hall 306 \nA symposium and workshop convened by \nDomenico Ingenito (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nMorning Refreshments at 8:30am \nConference beings at 9:00am \n“Nezāmi and the Iranian World” is a two-day conference (November 21–22\, 2024) that brings together specialists of Persian literature\, junior faculty\, and graduate students to facilitate in-depth conversations on Nezāmi in a stimulating intellectual environment at UCLA. \nNezāmi Ganjavi’s five romances in verse\, collectively known as the Quintet (Khamsa)\, are regarded as the most precious examples of medieval Iran’s literary refinement. Drawing upon a vast repertoire of didactic\, romantic\, epic\, folkloric\, philosophical\, and scientific materials that circulated in ancient and medieval Iran\, and Central and West Asia\, Nezāmi’s stylistically impeccable narrative poems constitute a masterpiece of world literature. Like all classics\, Nezāmi’s Khamsa challenges every generation of scholars to re-read its fictional worlds through new critical lenses and in connection with emerging theoretical paradigms. \nIn the interest of promoting cross-generational and interdisciplinary conversations\, “Nezāmi and the Iranian World” approaches the study of Nezāmi’s poetry through close readings and critical analyses that\, while building on previous scholarship\, shall also highlight aspects of the Khamsa little explored heretofore. By studying Nezāmi “against the grain” of previous interpretations\, invited speakers shall explore the complex thematic\, aesthetic\, and ethical ambivalence of Nezāmi’s poetry as a powerful source of literary creativity that defies generic conventions\, as well as fixed hermeneutical categories. \nOn the first day of the conference\, “Rediscovering a Persian Treasury of Global Literature\,” invited speakers will deliver lectures that offer insights on the most recent developments in current approaches to the study of Nezāmi’s poetry. On the second day\, a workshop\, entitled “Recrafting Nezāmi Studies between the Real and the Imaginary\,” will offer UCLA graduate students the opportunity to discuss new trajectories in the field of Persian literary studies in unison with Nezāmi specialists. \nThe two-day conference “Nezāmi and the Iranian World” is organized under the auspices of the Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions and the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies\, in partnership with the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World\, and convened by Domenico Ingenito. We also would like to acknowledge the co-sponsorship of the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nSchedule of Speakers \nDay 1 \nSymposium: Rediscovering a Persian Treasury of Global Literature \nLeili Anvar (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales\, Paris) \nLayli and Majnun and the Divan \nPaul Losensky (Indiana University) \nTents\, Fortresses\, and Caves: Literary Architectures in Nezami’s Eskandarnama \nAlexandra Hoffmann (University of British Columbia) \nMasculinities in Layli and Majnun \nJane Mikkelson (Yale University) \nThe Reality Shimmer: Hearing Voices in Nezami’s Layli and Majnun \nReading of Nezāmi’s Selected Works \n  \nDay 2 \n Workshop: Recrafting Nezāmi Studies between the Real and the Imaginary  \nSahba Shayani (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nShirin: From Ferdowsi to Nezami \nDomenico Ingenito (University of California\, Los Angeles) \n“As Fast as the Intellect”: Nezami’s Meräj Narratives\, Architectural Wonders\, and Poetic Inspiration \nAshkaan Kashani (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nEmergence of the New: Negation and Transformation in the Haft Paykar \nAllison Kanner-Botan (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nFiction and Ethics: Nezami’s Responses to Ferdowsi \nCharlotte Howley (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nSacred Geometry and Celestial Domes: The Architectural Dimension of Nezami’s Haft Paykar in Its Historical Context \nAzeem Malik (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nYusof and Zoleykhä between the White Dome and the Seventh Heaven: Reading Jämi alongside Nezami’s Seven Figures \nClick here to register for this event. \nClick here to download the PDF of the program.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-yarshater-symposium-and-workshop-nezami-and-the-iranian-world/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Co-Sponsorship: Global Antiquity (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds
DESCRIPTION:A Forum for Exchanges on Ancient Studies at UCLA\n\nDecember 5–6\, 2023 | Royce Hall 306\nGlobal Antiquity is convening a workshop titled (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds. This event\, held at UCLA over two days\, December 5–6\, 2023\, will include invited speakers from the University of California and the greater Los Angeles area whose research focuses on the ancient worlds. Global Antiquity\, while supportive of more traditional approaches to ancient studies\, aims to encourage a broadminded and cross-disciplinary discourse on ancient worlds\, foregrounding the equivalency of past human experiences. The present workshop seeks to promote reflection on a more equitable treatment of antiquity by emphasizing the diversity of the ancient worlds\, the entanglement of past cultural achievements\, and the relevance of these perspectives for the present. It is our hope that this may stimulate new models and methods to engage all actors of the ancient worlds across disciplinary boundaries\, and inspire conversations on how the wholistic awareness of the past may engender a more empathic and accepting view of cultures in the present. \nThe event will feature speakers and topics covering a diverse array of ancient worlds\, from West Asia\, North Africa\, and the Mediterranean to East Asia and the Americas. Themes explored over these two days include: the interconnectivity of ancient states and communities; diversity within established areas of inquiry; reception; pedagogy; and working across disciplines. \nRe)envisioning Ancient Worlds is graciously co-sponsored by the following departments\, institutes\, centers\, and programs at UCLA: Asian Languages and Cultures\, Art History\, Classics\, the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage\, the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, the Program in Indo-European Studies\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World\, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture. \nClick here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/co-sponsorship-global-antiquity-reenvisioning-ancient-worlds/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Humanities,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Gil Stein
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World for a lecture by Professor Gil Stein. \nAchaemenids or Persians?  Burials\, Material Culture\, and Imperial Identities in the Euphrates Valley (5th-4th centuries BCE)\nThe Achaemenid empire was the largest empire in the world in the 5th-4th centuries BCE\, encompassing numerous polities and cultural groups within its 20 satrapies. To rule this enormous empire\, the Persian elites had to gain the active support of the people they governed to get them to participate in the administrative and military apparatus of the Achaemenid state. How did this actually work in practice? This lecture examines two enigmatic Persian-period burials at the site of Hacınebi\, on the Euphrates River crossing at Zeugma/Apamea\, to investigate the relationship between material culture and social identity in the multi-ethnic empire. Achaemenid material culture was an imperial synthesis that combined stylistic elements from Scythia\, Mesopotamia\, Egypt\, and other regions; as a result\, it is very difficult to identify the ethnicity of any person in a burial based only on the style of specific objects. Taken together\, textual\, artistic\, and archaeological data on burial practices\, military organization\, and material culture styles at Hacınebi highlight and help us to understand the complex hybrid identities and shared cultural koine that linked Persian and non-Persian elites across the cosmopolitan Achaemenid empire. \nAbout the Speaker\nGil Stein is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and Director of the Chicago Center for Cultural Heritage Preservation. From 2002 to 2017 he served as Director of the Oriental Institute. He received his BA in Archaeology from Yale University and his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. His research investigates ancient economies\, the archaeology of colonialism\, inter-regional interaction\, the development of the earliest cities and states in the Near East\, zooarchaeology\, and the preservation of cultural heritage. He has directed excavations at the Uruk period Mesopotamian trading colony of Hacınebi in Turkey\, at Halaf and Ubaid period site of Tell Zeidan in Syria\, and is currently excavating at the 7000 year old town of Surezha in the Kurdistan region of Northeast Iraq.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-gil-stein/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T180000
DTSTAMP:20191119T002218Z
CREATED:20191119T002218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191119T002218Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Ahmad Kiarostami
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Iranian Studies Program at UCLA for a Bilingual Lecture Series film screening of Case No. I\, Case No. 2. The film and following Q&A with Ahmad Kiarostami will be in Persian.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-ahmad-kiarostami/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T160000
DTSTAMP:20191007T190232Z
CREATED:20191007T182607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T190232Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Dr. Kaveh Madani
DESCRIPTION:Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for the first Bilingual Lecture Series talks of the year.  Dr. Kaveh Madani will present his research on Monday\, October 28 at 2:00pm in Bunch Hall 10383. This lecture will be in English.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-dr-kaveh-madani-2/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T180000
DTSTAMP:20191010T181646Z
CREATED:20191007T182351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T181646Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Dr. Kaveh Madani
DESCRIPTION:Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for the first Bilingual Lecture Series talk of the year.  Dr. Kaveh Madani will present his research on Sunday\, October 27\, 2019 in Dodd Hall 78 at 4:00pm. This lecture will be in Persian.  His English lecture will follow on Monday\, October 28 at 2:00pm in Bunch Hall 10383.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-dr-kaveh-madani/
LOCATION:78 Dodd Hall\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T180000
DTSTAMP:20190918T153701Z
CREATED:20190918T153701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190918T153701Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Pourdavoud Center Fall Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a fall reception at Royce Hall to celebrate the continued success of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World\, the latest addition to the research centers in the Humanities Division. In the company of faculty\, our staff\, academic affiliates\, colleagues\, students\, and esteemed guests\, we shall explore the growth of the Center’s philosophy\, programs\, fellowships\, and grants.  Light refreshments will be served. \nThe event will be held on the terrace of Royce 306.  Self-pay parking is available in UCLA lots 2\, 3\, 4\, and 5.  Please view the UCLA Interactive Map for location details. \nPlease click here to view the invitation flyer. \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/2019-pourdavoud-center-fall-welcome-reception/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T160000
DTSTAMP:20190326T221434Z
CREATED:20190326T221434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190326T221434Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Ida Meftahi
DESCRIPTION:Performing a Nation’s Angels and Princesses:\nThe Female Dancing Subjects of a Century-Old Iranian Nationalist Stage\nIn early twentieth-century Iran\, a nationalist-modernist theatrical milieu emerged that meant to educate society through performing arts. While touring companies from neighboring regions showcased new genres of arts on the Iranian stage\, the dispersion of ethno-religious minorities in regions added to the Iranian scene new artistic skills in ballet\, theatre\, and music\, as well as female performers who were previously absent in Iranian preforming arts.  The cohabitation of new genres with their indigenous counterparts led to new conventions in Iranian performing arts including operettas\, which combined music\, poetry\, singing\, acting and dancing. Deploying romantic themes from the depository of Persian literature – the greatest of Iranian arts – the operettas became events for enthusiast audiences to view the ideal bodies of their national heroes and heroines as they danced and sang to Persian music. In the decades to follow\, operettas lost momentium while other disciplines – including “national dance” – became professionalized. After a century\, Persian classical music featuring literary motifs preformed with both ballet and indigenous movements have remained a scapegoat for Iranian dance to claim national legitimacy. This presentation traces female dancing subject of the nationalist stage – from the early operettas to the national dances presented prior to the Revolution of 1979 and the recently-emerged operettas of current Iran – and explores the ways women embody the ideas\, aesthetics\, and ethics of Iranian nationalism and modernity in ecurrent characterizations as Persian princesses and angels. \nAbout the Speaker\nIda Meftahi is a historian specializing in modern Iran with a focus on the intersections of politics\, gender\, and performance.  She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University as well as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Maryland.  Meftahi’s scholarship has been published in numerous scholarly journals and volumes including Islam and Popular Arts (2016)\, Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016)\, IranNameh (2016)\, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2016)\, and the bilingual Clio. Femmes\, Genre\, Histoire (2018). She is currently working on her second manuscript\, a geo-political reading of Tehran’s historic Lalehzar district and its vicinity\, while simultaneously directing the Lalehzar Digital Project.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-ida-meftahi-2/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190414T180000
DTSTAMP:20190326T221351Z
CREATED:20190326T221205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190326T221351Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Ida Meftahi
DESCRIPTION:Film and Discussion on Lalehzar Street\nA Socio-Historical View\nOften compared to New York’s Broadway and Paris’s Champs-Élysées\, Lalehzar District and its vicinity was a hub for experimentations in music and performing arts as well as new modes of business practices\, socialization\, and political expression partly due to its proximity to multitude of foreign embassies\, diplomatic ventures\, and missionary schools. The World War II occupation of Iran by the Allies in 1941 turned this district to a cultural war zone where the Allies followed their own agenda of public diplomacy. These activities ranged from screenings of American films and Soviet-sponsored theatrical performances to British Shakespearean soirées and English language classes in hope of substituting French with English in post war Iran. At the same time\, Allied soldiers became a visible community in this area and resided in Lalehzar’s hotels\, walked its streets\, mingled in its bars\, restaurants\, and cinemas\, danced in its cafés along with the “modernized” (mutajaddid) Tehran residents\, and sometimes got into clashes with Iranian civilians. Probing periodicals of various ideological persuasions\, diplomatic sources\,  archival documents\, and interviews\, this lecture tries to capture the history of this important cultural landscape during the war by means of its soundscape. While seeking to reimagine this microcosm of modern Iran by listening to the sonic experience of its Earwitnesses\, this presentation also sheds light on the multiplicity of musical\, sonic\, and performative trends which hit this critical zone of cultural production with an impact lasting for many decades. \nAbout the Speaker\nIda Meftahi is a historian specializing in modern Iran with a focus on the intersections of politics\, gender\, and performance.  She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University as well as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Maryland.  Meftahi’s scholarship has been published in numerous scholarly journals and volumes including Islam and Popular Arts (2016)\, Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016)\, IranNameh (2016)\, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2016)\, and the bilingual Clio. Femmes\, Genre\, Histoire (2018). She is currently working on her second manuscript\, a geo-political reading of Tehran’s historic Lalehzar district and its vicinity\, while simultaneously directing the Lalehzar Digital Project.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-ida-meftahi/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T160000
DTSTAMP:20181015T181604Z
CREATED:20180816T170440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181015T181604Z
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SUMMARY:The Relationship of Egyptian and Semitic
DESCRIPTION:  \nIt has long been known that the ancient Egyptian language is related to the Semitic language family\, but the details of this relationship are still not fully understood. In this lecture\, we will look at the major similarities (and differences) of the two language groups\, including topics in phonology\, morphology\, and the lexicon\, with an eye towards identifying inherited Afroasiatic features. We will also look at how Egyptian and some dialects of Northwest Semitic influenced one another as a consequence of sustained linguistic and cultural contact. \n\n\n\n\nAaron Rubin is Malvin and Lea Bank Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies\, Jewish Studies\, and Linguistics at Penn State University\, where he has taught since 2004. His main field of research is the Semitic family of languages\, in particular Hebrew\, Mehri\, and Jibbali. Recently\, he has also been exploring manuscripts in lesser known Jewish languages\, such as Judeo-Italian and Judeo-Urdu. He has authored seven monographs\, and co-edited four volumes. His most recent works are Omani Mehri: A New Grammar with Texts (2018) and Handbook of Jewish Languages (2016). \n\nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP\n[gravityform id=”88″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-relationship-of-egyptian-and-semitic/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 348
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Humanities,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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