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  • Ancient Near Eastern Narratives: Making a Case for the Epistemic Function of Myth and Text in Image with Beate Pongratz-Leisten

    Pourdavoud Lecture Series and Cunard Lecture Series: Beate Pongratz-Leisten

    Royce 306

    Ancient 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...

  • An Update on the US-Israeli War on Iran

    Bilingual Lecture Series: Afshin Matin-Asgari

    Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    An Update on the US-Israeli War on Iran Afshin Matin-Asgar California State University, Los Angeles Sunday, December 13, 2026 Lecture in Persian Royce Hall 314, 4:00pm Zoom link for hybrid online viewing: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97189398973 Registration requested: https://forms.gle/NvbydTUWyWui9x9z7 Based on the research published in, Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations, this book talk will briefly review...

  • Myth, Literature, and Geography in Transoxiana from Late Antiquity to the Early Islamic Period: Siyavash at Bukhara.

    Yarshater Lecture Series: Florian Schwarz

    Royce 306

    Myth, 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...

  • Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Approaches to Historical Reconstruction and Political Myth

    Pourdavoud Lecture Series: John Hyland

    Royce 306

    Persia’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...

  • Civil Society and the Public Sphere in Early Modern Iran

    Yarshater Lecture Series: Rudi Matthee

    Royce 306

    Civil 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...

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