Iranian
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Panel on Afghan Refugees in Iran
Online Via ZoomPanel on Afghan Refugees in Iran January 12, 2026 11:00am Pacific Time Online via Zoom In Persian and English Registration Required Registration Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hcYEa8i_QB6EIvQRBb9YEw Munazza Ebtikar PANEL MODERATOR Dr. 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...
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Ali Gheissari
314 Royce HallHasan Pirnia and Constitutional Experience: Articulation of Public Law and the Prospects of Modern State in Iran, 1905-1925 Ali Gheissari University of San Diego Sunday, January 25, 2026 Lecture in Persian Royce Hall 314, 4:00pm Zoom link for hybrid online viewing both days: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92182697630 The topic of this presentation will be an assessment of the...
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Ali Gheissari
10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United StatesHasan Pirnia and Constitutional Experience: Articulation of Public Law and the Prospects of Modern State in Iran, 1905-1925 Ali Gheissari University of San Diego Monday, January 26, 2026 Lecture in English Bunche Hall 10383, 11:00am Zoom link for hybrid online viewing both days: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92182697630 The topic of this presentation will be an assessment of the...
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Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Verena Lepper
Royce 306Elephantine Goes Global: Island of the Millennia Wednesday, February 25, 2026 4:00pm Royce Hall 306 Alternate Live Stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94774888079 RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/uhWcmWsk8DDH1Rdv9 Over a period of ten years a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) was conducted at the National Museums in Berlin entitled “Localizing 4000 years of...
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Biennial Yarshater Lecture Series: Frantz Grenet
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAncient Iran and Central Asia: Interactions and Shifting Identities March 4–11, 2026 A Series of Four Lectures at 4:00 pm Royce Hall 314 RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/fiCSCpULf7H3nJ6H8 The Pourdavoud Institute and Yarshater Center welcome Frantz Grenet (Collège de France) in March to deliver the four-part Biennial Yarshater Lecture Series on the theme, “Ancient Iran and Central...
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Pamela Karimi
Online Via ZoomWomen, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran Pamela Karimi (Cornell University) Monday March 16, 2026, at 2:00pm Online via Zoom Registration Required https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mvqHL0u4QFGuYqFdFbiikg Download the event flyer here This talk, based on Pamela Karimi’s 2024 book Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran, traces the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising...
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Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Jake Nabel
Royce 306Misunderstanding in Ancient Interstate Relations The Arsacid Princes of the Roman Empire Jake Nabel (Pennsylvania State University) Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom Registration Link: https://forms.gle/ZFb7yBFBeEs2VfMt6 Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92060104969 In the first century CE, several Arsacid princes from the Iranian empire of Parthia were sent to...
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Sunil Sharma
One Divan and Multiple Poets: The Strange Case of Makhfi Sunil Sharma Boston University English Lecture Monday, May 4, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time Online via Zoom Registration Required: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6QTp311ZThKErILePfrBEQ The poet behind the Divan-e Makhfi is thought to have been the Mughal Princess Zebunnisa (d. 1702). However, there are historical and philological problems with this...
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Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Sören Stark
Royce 306Next to Turquoise Domes: Excavating the City of Bukhara Friday, May 8, 2026 4:00pm Royce Hall 306 and via Zoom RSVP Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeae-G4tZTbwP58Uoqkg0uMyf4O7j_k9CihsdQn4Wj5AnL86Q/viewform The city of Bukhara was once a key node along the fabled “Silk Roads.” Yet compared to other Central Asian cities of comparable importance, the systematic archaeological investigation of Bukhara lacks...
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Pooyan Tamimi Arab
Woman Life Freedom in the Mirror of Scholarship: Responses from the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Pooyan Tamimi Arab Utrecht University English Lecture Monday, June 8, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time Online via Zoom Registration Required: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y6a-WJxYTX-wwqBuhAYndg This presentation will survey scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences responding to the Woman, Life,...