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Bilingual Lecture Series: Panel Discussion on Current Situation in Iran
ZoomPanel Discussion on Current Situation in Iran MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2026 11:00 AM PST In Persian ONLINE ONLY To watch on Zoom: https://ucla.in/4yjoB6Q Panelists and Discussions Include: Iran and the War: Domestic and International Repercussions This presentation examines the cumulative impact of recent developments on Iran’s domestic politics and foreign policy. It argues that, taken...
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Co-Sponsored Conference: Sufis in Premodern Persianate Societies and Politics
314 Royce HallThe 2026 Giorgio Levi Della Vida conference and award ceremony honoring Professor Richard Eaton (University of Arizona). View conference information and register The 2026 Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award presentation and conference will take place on Thursday, November 5, 2026, at UCLA. The award will be presented to Professor Richard Eaton of the University of...
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Pourdavoud Lecture Series and Cunard Lecture Series: Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Royce 306Ancient Near Eastern Narratives: Making a Case for the Epistemic Function of Myth in Text and Image Beate Pongratz-Leisten (New York University) Wednesday December 2, 2026 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom Registration Link: https://forms.gle/aNCt12TXFDrfwULP7 Join Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96272801601 Throughout its history, Assyriological scholarship has turned to exploring many facets...
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Yarshater Lecture Series: Florian Schwarz
Royce 306Myth, Literature, and Geography in Transoxiana from Late Antiquity to the Early Islamic Period: Siyavash at Bukhara Florian Schwarz (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Wednesday January 13, 2027 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom Registration Link: https://forms.gle/VgZ8xmueie9azyLE7 Join Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95409975203 The conquest of Transoxiana, the region beyond the river Oxus...
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Pourdavoud Lecture Series: John Hyland
Royce 306Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Approaches to Historical Reconstruction and Political Myth John Hyland (Christopher Newport University) Wednesday January 27, 2027 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom Registration Link: https://forms.gle/PEZw9xf3oFGjXzZk8 Join Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95846831926 Achaemenid Persia’s expeditions against the Greek city-states in the early 5th century BCE are the most (in)famous events...
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Yarshater Lecture Series: Rudi Matthee
Royce 306Civil Society and the Public Sphere in Early Modern Iran Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware) Wednesday February 17, 2027 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom Registration Link: https://forms.gle/NNDEfuGBqMDGzP9E6 Join Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91096921973 An old Orientalist trope going back to early modern Western observers holds that a despotic state assisted by...