Bilingual Lecture Series: Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran

Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran: An Intersectional Approach to National Identity by Azadeh Kian examines the crucial shifts that affected Sunnite and subaltern women once Shi’ism became the state religion after the Iranian Revolution. Focusing on women in the Baluchistan and Golestan provinces of Iran, Kian...

Iranian Studies: Alborz: We Climb Mountains Film Screening

314 Royce Hall

Alborz High school was initially an American Presbyterian missionary institution in Tehran that began as a grade school in 1873, in 1924 it became a junior college and in 1928 an accredited liberal arts college. After many upheavals and the forced departure of its founder, Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan in 1940, it was transformed into...

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Neville McFerrin

Royce 306

An Entangled Empire:  Dress, Reciprocal Construction, and the Experience of Kingship at Persepolis In reliefs across Persepolis, the Achaemenid administrative center, depictions of mediated bodies offer insight into an imperial ideology that generates inclusion through categorical and material slippages.  The crown of the king parallels the crenellations of the architecture that surround him even as...

Bilingual Lecture Series: Women’s Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan

314 Royce Hall

ادبیات داستانی معاصر زنان افغانستان در بستر تحولات اجتماعی- سیاسی  Women's Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan   Sunday, January 28, 2024 I 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99816401692 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on...

Bilingual Lecture Series: Towfigh Magazine

314 Royce Hall

A Celebration of 100 Years of the Towfigh Satirical Magazine Sunday, February 4, 2024 I 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 Alternate live stream on Zoom: Registration Required This year marks the 100th Anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Towfigh satirical magazine in Iran, which addressed the bitter issues...

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Elspeth Dusinberre

Royce 306

The Collapse of Empire: Gordion’s Transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic World This talk will highlight the huge changes that characterized Gordion’s transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic periods. Gordion, ancient capital of Phrygia, was a large and thriving city of secondary importance during the period of the Achaemenid Persian empire (ca 550–333...

Bilingual Lecture Series: Reza Shah’s Exile in Mauritius

314 Royce Hall

تبعید رضا شاه بھ موریس Reza Shah’s Exile in Mauritius Sunday, February 25, 2024 I 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92711078735 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on February 25 to join.) بعد از کناره گیری رضا شاه در سال...

Bilingual Lecture Series: Reflections on Various Aspects and Impacts of Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran and Internationally Panel

"نگاھی سنجش گرانھ بھ اثرات داخلی و بین المللی جنبش "زن، زندگی، آزادی Reflections on Various Aspects and Impacts of Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran and Internationally Sunday, March 10, 2024 I 11:30 AM | Zoom Registration Required Farzaneh Bazrpour (Journalist, Iran International) “Iranian Newspapers’ Diversion from the Official State Clichés because of Mahsa’s...

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Christian Sahner

314 Royce Hall

How Zoroastrians Argued with Muslims in the Early Islamic Period This lecture will explore the early conflict between Zoroastrians and Muslims by examining the most important polemical treatise in the Zoroastrian tradition, the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār (“The Doubt-Dispelling Disquisition”), written by the ninth/tenth century theologian and philosopher Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād. A sophisticated work of rationalist theology,...