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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: John W.I. Lee
DESCRIPTION:Greek ‘Concubines’ and Achaemenid Dynastic Politics\nThe civil war of 401 BC between Cyrus the Younger and his older brother King Artaxerxes II (r. 405/4-359/8 BC) is well known to Achaemenid historians\, thanks especially to the famous account of Xenophon’s Anabasis.  While the military aspects of this conflict have been much studied\, this lecture focuses on the two Ionian Greek women who accompanied Cyrus on his campaign.   Xenophon describes them as “concubines\,” but setting these two women into the broader contexts of Achaemenid court culture and of intermarriage between Persians and local people in Achaemenid Anatolia reveals a more complex story. \nAbout the Speaker\n\n\nJohn W.I. Lee is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara.  He studies ancient Greece and West Asia\, especially the Archaic-Classical Greek world and its relations with the Achaemenid Persian Empire. He is interested in the social and cultural aspects of ancient warfare as well as in the equipment\, tactics\, and logistics of ancient armies.  His publications include A Greek Army on the March: Soldiers and Survival in Xenophon’s Anabasis (Cambridge 2007)\, The Persian Empire (The Great Courses 2012)\, and The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert (Oxford 2022).  At UCSB\, he teaches classes on Achaemenid and Greek history\, and on the history of ancient warfare. \n\n\n  \n\nPlease click here to register for the event and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-john-w-i-lee/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220112T090000
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SUMMARY:From Medieval Afghanistan\, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā\, a Persian reading group and workshop series
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the UCLA Program in Iranian Studies\, in collaboration with the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Central Asia\, invite scholars and graduate students from across the world to participate in the following research program: From Medieval Afghanistan\, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā\, a Persian reading group and workshop series\, which will take place via Zoom on a weekly basis between January and June 2022. \nThe reading group and workshop series are convened by Domenico Ingenito (Associate Professor of Persian Literature\, NELC) and organized in the context of the UCLA Afghan Scholars at Risk Program\, coordinated by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Humanities Division. The series takes place in conjunction with the cycle of workshops Afghanistan through Afghan Voices\, organized by the UCLA Program on Central Asia\, in collaboration with the University of Washington\, Stanford\, and UC Berkeley. \nDescription \nWhile today thousands of Afghan scholars and students are forced out of Afghanistan by the totalitarian bigotry imposed by the Taliban regime\, during the 15th century poets and artists migrated to this Central Asian region from all the corners of the Persian-speaking world to contribute to the cultural efflorescence of the city of Herat. \nIn 1483\, one of those medieval migrants\, the celebrated Persian poet and polymath ‘Abd al-Rahman Jami\, composed Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā\, a literary masterpiece that revisited the erotic and mystical dimensions of the tale of Joseph—extolled by the Quran as the “most beautiful of stories.” \nThe aim of this reading group and workshop series is to explore the story of Yusuf and his lover\, Zulaykha\, through the lens of Jami’s book\, which we may regard as an enchanting meditation in verse on the act of contemplating beauty for aesthetic and spiritual ends. Jami’s version of the narration is an originally Jewish and Islamic tale filtered through the lens of Persian mysticism and literature\, a story that addresses and stages the multiple meanings of exile and displacement\, unrequited desire and possibility of rebirth through love. It is a story that transcends ethnic\, religious\, and national boundaries. Although Jami’s text predates by centuries the formation of modern Afghanistan as a political entity\, it is a story that resonates with the cultural an aesthetic ideals and practices of the land and its people. It further shows how medieval Herat can still inspire the peaceful and bright future that Afghanistan and Afghan scholars deserve today\, beyond the political boundaries that separate them from Persian-speaking neighboring countries\, including Iran. \nVirtual Reading Group\nEvery Wednesday\, starting January 12\, 2022\, at 9-10am via Zoom (Los Angeles time)\nScholars and graduate students (from all institutions) with an intermediate or advanced level of proficiency in classical Persian are welcome to join the reading group. Participants with rudimentary knowledge of Persian may audit the sessions. \nThe sessions will follow the format of a virtual literary majlis\, where creative and intellectually stimulating conversations follow a collective form of shared concentration and active meditation on the lines and their meanings. Every week\, four or five voluntary readers will prepare a series of lines beforehand. The lines will be read\, tentatively translated\, and discussed during the reading session. \nNo prior knowledge of the story is required\, and participants are free to join the reading group anytime they wish. UCLA and UC graduate students may apply for credit. A PDF file with a critical edition of the text\, along with optional introductory readings in English and Persian and images from Timurid and Safavid manuscripts\, will be shared through a Dropbox folder. \nReading Group Registration Details: Prospective participants may join the reading group by submitting a short description of their background in Persian language and literature to the following email address: dingenito@ucla.edu \nWorkshop Series \nStarting in Spring 2022\, and parallel to the reading group\, the program will host a workshop series on the artistic\, literary\, and historical dimensions surrounding the genesis\, circulation\, and reception of Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā. \nPreliminary program (abstracts and registration links will be circulated in February 2022) and confirmed speakers: Khalilullah Afzali\, Leili Anvar\, Lamia Balafrej\, Dominic Brookshaw\, Shiva Mihan\, Julia Rubanovich\, Claudia Yaghoobi. \nThe reading group and workshop series are generously sponsored by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, the UCLA Program in Iranian Studies\, the Center for Near Eastern Studies\, and the Program on Central Asia\, and hosted by the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \n  \nImage: detail from Jami’s Yusuf u Zulaykha\, 1595 CE\, Bodleian Library\, University of Oxford\, MS. Elliott 418\, f. 56r.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/from-medieval-afghanistan-the-most-beautiful-of-stories-jamis-yusuf-u-zulaykha-a-persian-reading-group-and-workshop-series/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220109T113000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Ahmad Ashraf
DESCRIPTION:چگونگی آگاهی ایرانیان از سلسله های ماد و هخامنشی\nHow Has Iranians’ Awareness of the Medes\, Achaemenids\, and Parthians Been Shaped?\nUntil the threshold of the Constitutional Revolution\, Iranian historians were unaware of the Medes\, Achaemenids\, and even Parthian dynasties. There is\, for example\, no mention of the Medes\, Achaemenids\, and Seleucid kings in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh\, a book that is often regarded to be the first written traditional history of pre-Islamic Iran. Even the Parthian dynasty\, who ruled in Iran for nearly half a millennium\, was mentioned in passing in Shahnameh. Mohammad Ali Foroughi was the first Iranian scholar who\, after studying the works of Western scholars in French and English\, introduced the existence of these dynasties to the Persian speaking world. He translated and compiled a book on the History of Iran from pre-Islamic times to the 1900 AD. Excavations by German archaeologist\, Ernest Herzfeld\, in Persepolis and Pasargadae\, began at approximately the same time and continued to the Reza Shah period. Herzfeld was one of the main promoters of the Achaemenid nationalism in this period. Hassan Pirnia (Mushir al-Dowleh)\, author of the History of Ancient Iran in three volumes\, was the third scholar to raise Iranians’ awareness about the Medes\, Achaemenids\, and Parthians. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Ahmad Ashraf served as a member of the Board of Editors and Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia Iranica at the Center for Iranian Studies of Columbia University. Professor Ashraf has taught sociology and social history of Iran in the universities of Tehran\, Princeton\, Columbia\, and Pennsylvania. He has published a number of books and numerous articles in various areas of Iranian Studies in scholarly journals. His lifetime contribution to Iranian Studies have been celebrated by Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University on 15 September 2021\, by Iranian Sociological Association on March 9\, 2021\, and by bilingual academic Journal IranNamag published by Institute for Iranian Studies of University of Toronto in its special issue in Winter 2021. Also\, the 13th Biennial Conference of the Association for Iranian Studies to be held in early September 2022 at the University of Salamanca\, Spain\, has included a panel in Dr. Ashraf’s honor. \nPlease click here to register and receive the Zoom webinar information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-ahmad-ashraf/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220107T113000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: James Howard-Johnston
DESCRIPTION:Official Sources and the Reconstruction of History: The Case of the Last Great War of Antiquity\nThe last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early 7th century\, opening in 603 when Persian armies launched coordinated attacks across the Roman frontier. For twenty-five years\, the conflict raged on an unprecedented scale\, and its end brought the classical phase of history to a close. Despite all this\, it has left a conspicuous gap in the history of warfare. James Howard-Johnston’s The Last Great War of Antiquity aims to finally fill that gap by piecing together the scattered and fragmentary evidence of this period to form a coherent story of the dramatic events\, as well as an introduction to key players – Turks\, Arabs\, and Avars\, Persians\, and Romans – and a tour of the vast lands over which the fighting took place. The result is a solidly founded\, critical history of a conflict of immense significance in the final episode of classical history. \nAbout the Speaker\nJames Howard-Johnston was University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College from 1971 to 2009. He complemented academic activity with involvement in local politics between 1972 and 1987. His historical interests range from the later Roman empire in the fourth century up to Byzantium on the eve of the Fourth Crusade. He is primarily concerned with the institutional\, social and economic structures of Byzantium\, and with international relations in the Middle East in late antiquity and the early middle ages. His principal publications are The Armenian history attributed to Sebeos (Liverpool\, 1999 – co-authored with Robert Thomson)\, Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century (Oxford\, 2010)\, and Historical Writing in Byzantium (Heidelberg\, 2014). \nPlease click here to register and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-james-howard-johnston/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211212T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211212T133000
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SUMMARY:Latest Developments in Afghanistan and Implications for Iran A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Ahmad Nader Nadery \nFormer Chair of Independent Civil Service Commission in Kabul\, and Member of the Peace Negotiation Team for Afghanistan  \nThe Taliban’s Return to Power and Its Implications for Afghanistan and Iran \n  \nHomeira Qaderi \nAfghan Writer and Women’s Rights Activist\, and Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University \nHow Women in Afghanistan have Strived for Their Rights\nFarah Karimi  \nHead of the Dutch Parliamentary Delegation to the OSCE PA and Former UN Consultant for Capacity Building of the Afghan Parliament  \nAn Expert Reflection on International Responses to the Crisis in Afghanistan \n  \nThis panel will be in Persian.  To register for the event\, please click here.\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/latest-developments-in-afghanistan-and-implications-for-iran-a-panel-discussion/
CATEGORIES: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:20211107T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211107T130000
DTSTAMP:20211018T223745Z
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SUMMARY:Women\, Public Spaces\, and Social Participation in Iran
DESCRIPTION:زنان و مشارکت اجتماعی در فضاهای عمومی\n  \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HiJGAxyRQsSb-YhjTbofvg \nSince the beginning of the Islamic revolution\, Iranian women have been the focus of the Islamization of public spaces. However\, this form of Islamization did not occur as expected by clerics who used many methods to frame and limit women in private and public spaces. Iranian women who experienced some social and individual freedoms during the Shah’s time\, after the revolution\, used different social and individual strategies to maintain their presence in public spaces and public spheres. Over time and over generations\, they have invented new strategies and thus have become important social actors. In this lecture\, some of these strategies that women have used over the past 4 decades to maintain their active presence in public space and public spheres will be discussed. \nAbout the Speaker\nMasserat Amir-Ebrahimi is an Urban Sociologist (MA) and Human Geographer (PhD) from the University of Paris X – Nanterre. She has worked on several urban and socio-cultural projects in Iran and has taught in the Department of Environment at the University of Tehran. In 2002\, she was awarded an International Collaborative Research Grant by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Program on MENA for her project “Authority and Public Space in Iran.” In 2006-2007 and in 2011 she held the Nikki Keddie Balzan Fellowship at UCLA where she taught at Sociology and Geography Departments. Her research focuses are on Women\, youth\, Tehran\, public spaces\, public spheres\, and cyberspace. Her articles have been published in Persian\, French\, English\, Italian\, and German. \nClick here to register and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/women-public-spaces-and-social-participation-in-iran/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211105T123000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Bruno Jacobs and Robert Rollinger
DESCRIPTION:The Achaemenid Persian Empire: A Two-Volume Companion\nOften called the first world empire\, the Achaemenid Empire is rooted in older Near Eastern traditions. A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire offers a perspective in which the history of the empire is embedded in the preceding and subsequent epochs. In this way\, the traditions that shaped the Achaemenid Empire become as visible as the powerful impact it had on further historical development. But the work does not only break new ground in this respect\, but also in the fact that\, in addition to written testimonies of all kinds\, it also considers material tradition as an equal factor in historical reconstruction. This comprehensive two-volume set features contributions by internationally-recognized experts that offer balanced coverage of the whole of the empire from Anatolia and Egypt across western Asia to northern India and Central Asia. \nComprehensive in scope\, the Companion provides readers with a panoramic view of the diversity\, richness\, and complexity of the Achaemenid Empire\, dealing with all the many aspects of history\, event history\, administration\, economy\, society\, communication\, art\, science and religion\, illustrating the multifaceted nature of the first true empire. \nPart of the acclaimed Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World series\, A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire is an indispensable work for students\, instructors\, and scholars of Persian and ancient world history\, particularly the First Persian Empire. \n  \nPlease click here to register and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-bruno-jacobs-and-robert-rollinger/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211031T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211031T133000
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SUMMARY:Panel 2: Economic Challenges – The Politics of Water and Gender
DESCRIPTION:Recent Developments and Changes in Iran Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, October 31\, 2021 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom\nPanel in Persian\n\nRegistration Required \n\nReza Ghorashi (Stockton University)\nEconomic Challenges of Ebrahim Raisi Era\n\n\nAmir AghaKouchak (University of California\, Irvine)\n Status and Prospects of Water and Environmental Management in Iran\n\n\nRoja Fazaeli (Trinity College Dublin)\nThe Gender Dimensions of the Latest Changes in the Government\n\n\n\nPlease click here to register and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/panel-2-economic-challenges-the-politics-of-water-and-gender/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211024T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211024T133000
DTSTAMP:20211005T172128Z
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SUMMARY:Panel 1: Health & Public Health Policy Political & Social Changes
DESCRIPTION:Recent Developments and Changes in Iran Series\n  \nRegistration Required \n\nSahar Motallebi (Lund University)\nThe Public Health Structure and the Management of the Corona Crisis in Iran\n\nMehrzad Boroujerdi (Virginia Tech)\nAssessing Iran’s New President\, Cabinet\, and Parliament\n\nMohammad Ali Kadivar (Boston College)\nContentious Politics in Iran: Recent Developments and Patterns\n\nPlease click here to register and receive the Zoom link.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/panel-1-health-public-health-policy-political-social-changes/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211022T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211022T130000
DTSTAMP:20211005T171409Z
CREATED:20211005T171409Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Fall Welcome Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a digital fall reception to celebrate the continued success of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World. In the company of Dr. Anahita Naficy Lovelace and Mr. Jim Lovelace\, the Center’s benefactors\, David Schaberg\, Dean of Humanities\, M. Rahim Shayegan\, the Center’s director\, our staff\, academic affiliates\, colleagues\, students\, and esteemed guests\, we shall be introducing the Center’s stimulating programming and research agenda for the academic year 2021–22. \nZoom registration is required.  Please click here to register.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-fall-welcome-event/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T130000
DTSTAMP:20210419T162637Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Almut Hintze
DESCRIPTION:The Yasna Ritual in Performance\nUp to the present day Zoroastrian priests perform a millennia old ritual\, the Yasna\, in which the recitation of ancient Avestan texts accompanies the performance of ritual actions. Using new visual source material of images and film clips\, this lecture discusses the performance of the Yasna and its significance for the Zoroastrian tradition. \nAbout the Speaker\nAlmut Hintze studied Indo-European philology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Oxford and earned her PhD in Indo-Iranian Studies at the University of Erlangen. After her habilitation in Berlin with a study of the semantics of “reward” in Ancient Iranian (Avestan) and Vedic Sanskrit texts\, she spent a term at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Subsequently she became Research Fellow at Clare Hall\, Cambridge and was appointed to the Zartoshty Brothers post at SOAS in 2001. She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2015. \n  \nTo RSVP and receive the Zoom information\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-almut-hintze/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T130000
DTSTAMP:20210413T174810Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Workshop: Udjahorresnet’s Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Udjahorresnet’s Egypt: The Crossroads of Conquest and Identity under Achaemenid Rule\nThe concept for this workshop was inspired by the open access volume\, Udjahorresnet and His World (JAEI 26\, 2020)\, which contextualizes the life of Udjahorresnet\, an elite politician and chief physician of Egypt’s 26th and 27th Dynasties in the 6th century BCE.  His career spanned the end of the Egyptian Saite period and the beginning of Achaemenid Persian dominion in Egypt\, and his (auto)biographical inscriptions suggest he played a key role in establishing the authority of the Persian kings on the Egyptian throne.  His social background\, professional functions\, and political agency within the Saite and the Achaemenid courts in Egypt and abroad are the topics of intense scholarly discussion and debate.  By looking through Udjahorresnet’s eyes to study the world he witnessed\, this workshop aims to address the current research on the culturally diverse Achaemenid world\, the associated intricate cross-regional diplomacy\, and the social and political techniques for empire consolidation used by the Persians. \nPlease click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom link.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-workshop-udjahorresnets-egypt/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210319T123000
DTSTAMP:20210222T172034Z
CREATED:20210125T220841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210222T172034Z
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SUMMARY:Pahlavi Workshop: Pahlavi Iran and Global History
DESCRIPTION:Pahlavi Iran and Global History\n  \nTo download the full program of events\, click here.\n  \nThis final panel of the Iranian Studies workshop\, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop” will feature the research of: \nRoham Alvandi\nAssociate Professor of International History\, London School of Economics and Political Science \nPaper: Bringing Down the Shah: Human Rights Activism and Late Pahlavi Iran \n  \nRasmus Elling\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies\, University of Copenhagen \nPaper: City\, Periphery\, Beyond: Iranian Third-Worldism on Different Scales \n  \nFiroozeh Kashani-Sabet\nProfessor of History\, University of Pennsylvania \nPaper: America’s Vietnam in Iran \n  \nCyrus Schayegh\nProfessor of International History\, The Graduate Institute\, Geneva \nPaper: 1940s-70s: Global Historical Reflections \n  \nTo register for this event and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please click here.\n  \nHistory and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop\nIt has been nearly one hundred years since the coup of 21 February 1921 that ultimately brought Reza Khan to the throne\, and more than forty years since the 1979 revolution that overthrew his son and brought an end to the Pahlavi dynasty. Because the revolution looms so large in the 20th century history of Iran\, much of the scholarship has examined the Pahlavi period\, and the late Pahlavi period in particular\, primarily in the context of the events of 1978-79. In recent years\, however\, the Pahlavi period has experienced a surge in scholarly interest\, as a new generation of historians has emerged with access to newly released documents and a fresh view on the era unimpeded by experiences of the ancien régime. These scholars\, pioneers in the emerging field of ‘Pahlavi Studies’\, look beyond the extensively covered debates concerning the revolution\, to study the Pahlavi era as a period worthy of attention in its own right\, contextualizing it within modern Iranian and global history. \nThis online workshop will bring together scholars who study Pahlavi Iran through the lens of a wide variety of specializations including politics\, foreign policy\, sociology\, cultural studies and intellectual history\, to share innovative approaches to the history and historiography of the period. There have been several important studies of either early or late Pahlavi Iran\, but this workshop will look at the whole period from 1921 to 1979. The purpose of this approach is to better understand the significance of this nearly 60-year period in modern Iranian and global history. The workshop will identify themes and questions that emerge from current research on the Pahlavi period\, and discuss ways in which the discovery of new sources has helped to shape\, and continues to shape\, the debates in our various fields.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pahlavi-workshop-panel-4/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T123000
DTSTAMP:20210222T172004Z
CREATED:20210125T220115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210222T172004Z
UID:15641-1615284000-1615293000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pahlavi Workshop: Pahlavi Foreign Relations
DESCRIPTION:Pahlavi Foreign Relations\n  \nTo download the full program of events\, click here.\n  \nThis third panel of the Iranian Studies workshop\, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop” will feature the research of: \nGregory Brew\nFellow\, Center for Presidential History\, Southern Methodist University \nPaper: The Birth of the Pahlavi Petro-State: Oil Companies\, American NGOs\, and Dual Integration of Iranian Oil\, 1941-1965 \n  \nWilliam Figueroa\nUniversity of Pennsylvania \nPaper: China and the Pahlavis\, 1921-1979 \n  \nChelsi Mueller \nResearch Fellow\, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies\, Tel Aviv University \nPaper: Reza Shah’s Policy in the Persian Gulf \n  \nMaaike Warnaar\nAssistant Professor of International Studies and Middle East Studies\, Leiden University \nPaper: Representation and Netherlands-Iran Relations in the 1960s and 1970s \n  \nTo register for this event and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please click here.\n  \nHistory and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop\nIt has been nearly one hundred years since the coup of 21 February 1921 that ultimately brought Reza Khan to the throne\, and more than forty years since the 1979 revolution that overthrew his son and brought an end to the Pahlavi dynasty. Because the revolution looms so large in the 20th century history of Iran\, much of the scholarship has examined the Pahlavi period\, and the late Pahlavi period in particular\, primarily in the context of the events of 1978-79. In recent years\, however\, the Pahlavi period has experienced a surge in scholarly interest\, as a new generation of historians has emerged with access to newly released documents and a fresh view on the era unimpeded by experiences of the ancien régime. These scholars\, pioneers in the emerging field of ‘Pahlavi Studies’\, look beyond the extensively covered debates concerning the revolution\, to study the Pahlavi era as a period worthy of attention in its own right\, contextualizing it within modern Iranian and global history. \nThis online workshop will bring together scholars who study Pahlavi Iran through the lens of a wide variety of specializations including politics\, foreign policy\, sociology\, cultural studies and intellectual history\, to share innovative approaches to the history and historiography of the period. There have been several important studies of either early or late Pahlavi Iran\, but this workshop will look at the whole period from 1921 to 1979. The purpose of this approach is to better understand the significance of this nearly 60-year period in modern Iranian and global history. The workshop will identify themes and questions that emerge from current research on the Pahlavi period\, and discuss ways in which the discovery of new sources has helped to shape\, and continues to shape\, the debates in our various fields.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pahlavi-workshop-panel-3/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210308T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210308T153000
DTSTAMP:20210128T163233Z
CREATED:20210128T163233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210128T163233Z
UID:15655-1615212000-1615217400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Nazanin Shahrokni
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk – Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran (University of California Press\, 2020)\nby Nazanin Shahrokni\nTo register and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please click here.\nThis lecture will be in English.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-nazanin-shahrokni-2/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210307T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210307T130000
DTSTAMP:20210128T162712Z
CREATED:20210128T162712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210128T162712Z
UID:15652-1615116600-1615122000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Nazanin Shahrokni
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk – Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran (University of California Press\, 2020)\nby Nazanin Shahrokni\nTo register and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please click here.\nThis lecture will be in Persian.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-nazanin-shahrokni/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T123000
DTSTAMP:20210222T171914Z
CREATED:20210125T214955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210222T171914Z
UID:15638-1614852000-1614861000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pahlavi Workshop: Pahlavi State and Society
DESCRIPTION:Pahlavi State and Society\n  \nTo download the full program of events\, click here.\n  \nThis second panel of the Iranian Studies workshop\, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop” will feature the research of: \nHouchang Chehabi \nProfessor of International Relations and History\, Boston University \nPaper: Dual Society in Pahlavi Iran \nBianca Devos\nAssistant Professor\, Centre of Near and Middle East Studies\, Philipps-University Marburg \nPaper: Islam and Censorship in Pahlavi Iran: a Case Study from the 1970s \nKevan Harris\nAssistant Professor of Sociology\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nPaper: Variations in Land Reform during the Late Pahlavi Period: Nine Provinces Compared \nLiora Hendelman-Baavur\nDirector\, The Alliance Center for Iranian Studies\, Tel Aviv University \nPaper: Royal Hype: The court’s Efforts to Popularize the Pahlavis in the Media \n  \nTo register for this event and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please click here.\n  \nHistory and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop\nIt has been nearly one hundred years since the coup of 21 February 1921 that ultimately brought Reza Khan to the throne\, and more than forty years since the 1979 revolution that overthrew his son and brought an end to the Pahlavi dynasty. Because the revolution looms so large in the 20th century history of Iran\, much of the scholarship has examined the Pahlavi period\, and the late Pahlavi period in particular\, primarily in the context of the events of 1978-79. In recent years\, however\, the Pahlavi period has experienced a surge in scholarly interest\, as a new generation of historians has emerged with access to newly released documents and a fresh view on the era unimpeded by experiences of the ancien régime. These scholars\, pioneers in the emerging field of ‘Pahlavi Studies’\, look beyond the extensively covered debates concerning the revolution\, to study the Pahlavi era as a period worthy of attention in its own right\, contextualizing it within modern Iranian and global history. \nThis online workshop will bring together scholars who study Pahlavi Iran through the lens of a wide variety of specializations including politics\, foreign policy\, sociology\, cultural studies and intellectual history\, to share innovative approaches to the history and historiography of the period. There have been several important studies of either early or late Pahlavi Iran\, but this workshop will look at the whole period from 1921 to 1979. The purpose of this approach is to better understand the significance of this nearly 60-year period in modern Iranian and global history. The workshop will identify themes and questions that emerge from current research on the Pahlavi period\, and discuss ways in which the discovery of new sources has helped to shape\, and continues to shape\, the debates in our various fields.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pahlavi-workshop-panel-2/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210302T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210302T170000
DTSTAMP:20210227T003102Z
CREATED:20210205T232147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T003102Z
UID:15700-1614693600-1614704400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Workshop: Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies Day 2
DESCRIPTION:The origin of the Manichaean religion stands at the intersection of multiple cultural worlds: Iranian\, Semitic\, & Greco-Roman. Its literary and artistic remains enrich our understanding of those cultures and the exchange that went on among them in late antiquity. The scholars assembled for this workshop offer the latest insights obtained from the painstaking work of extracting information from the fragmentary and effaced relics of this religion with the aid of new research technologies and approaches. They report on work in progress related specifically to conditions and developments in 3rd century CE Iran in which Mani and Manichaeism served as a cultural catalyst\, explaining how these new insights are reshaping our understanding of both the religion and the world in which it emerged. \nIain Gardner\, Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Sydney\n\n\nNew Research and Sources for the Life of Mani \n  \n\nThis presentation will outline recent trajectories in research on the Life of Mani. Evidence from in-process work on new sources will be presented\, with particular reference to the editing of surviving remnants from Mani’s letters. Copies of these compositions were revered\, collected\, translated into many languages and circulated throughout the Manichaean communities\, and they provide a remarkable insight into the life of the apostle and his immediate circle.\n\n\n\nJason BeDuhn\, Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions and Asian Studies at Northern Arizona University\n\n\nManichaean Interpretation of Iranian Religious Traditions \n  \n\nNew sources such as the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex allow us to begin to break down the long-standing division between “Western” and “Eastern” Manichaeism in modern scholarship\, and discover connections especially between Coptic and Middle Iranian Manichaean texts that shed light on the earliest centuries of the Manichaean religion. We are now in a better position to see how Mani and his early followers set out to acculturate their Christian movement to an Iranian context by identifying their teachings as the true interpretations of old Iranian religious traditions\, contesting the authority of an emerging Zoroastrian leadership.\n\n\n\n\nPlease click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-workshop-current-trends-in-manichaeism-studies-day-2/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210301T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210301T170000
DTSTAMP:20210227T003036Z
CREATED:20210205T232008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210227T003036Z
UID:15697-1614607200-1614618000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Workshop: Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies Day 1
DESCRIPTION:The origin of the Manichaean religion stands at the intersection of multiple cultural worlds: Iranian\, Semitic\, & Greco-Roman. Its literary and artistic remains enrich our understanding of those cultures and the exchange that went on among them in late antiquity. The scholars assembled for this workshop offer the latest insights obtained from the painstaking work of extracting information from the fragmentary and effaced relics of this religion with the aid of new research technologies and approaches. They report on work in progress related specifically to conditions and developments in 3rd century CE Iran in which Mani and Manichaeism served as a cultural catalyst\, explaining how these new insights are reshaping our understanding of both the religion and the world in which it emerged.\n\n\nPaul Dilley\, Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions at the University of Iowa\n\nAlso Schrieb Zarathustra? New Manichaean Sources for the “Law of Zarades” & His Otherworldly Journeys \n  \n\nThe second volume of the Kephalaia\, a Coptic papyrus manuscript held at the Chester Beatty library\, is a major source for the history of early Manichaeism in its Iranian context.  In this talk\, I will give an overview of the multispectral imaging of the codex\, reporting on the latest results which have significantly improved its legibility. I will then discuss the various references to and quotations of the so-called “Law of Zarades\,” comparing them to both Iranian and Greco-Roman sources\, and assess their rhetorical significance in the Kephalaia as well as their importance for understanding the Sasanian background of third-century Manichaeism. Finally\, I will contextualize the Kephalaia passage on the journey to heaven and hell by Zarades and other apostles of light\, connecting it to rival claims of inspired vision by Mani and Kartir.\n\n\n\n\nZsuzsanna Gulácsi\, Professor of Art History at Northern Arizona University\n\n\nThe Footprint of Mani’s Book of Pictures in Late Antique Sources: An Assessment of Social & Geographical Data about Teaching with Images During the 3rd and 4th Centuries \n  \n\nUnlike other religions\, Manichaeism had canonical images\, not just canonical texts. Primary and secondary textual sources document that the Manichaean canon included a solely pictorial volume—a picture book—that was authored by Mani\, circulated in multiple copies already during Mani’s life\, and issued in many later editions. From late antiquity\, 13 passages mention the Book of Pictures (Copt. Hikōn\, Syr. Yuqnā\, Parth. Ārdhang\, MPers. Nigār). They convey that Mani commissioned its images to be painted as visual aids for teaching. The goal of this study is to assess who had access to this pictorial volume of the canon and where it was used during the first 120 years of Manichaean history. Mapping this data reveals the geographic footprint of teaching with images among the followers of Mani.\n\n\n\nPlease click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-workshop-current-trends-in-manichaeism-studies-day-1/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T123000
DTSTAMP:20210222T171826Z
CREATED:20210125T214030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210222T171826Z
UID:15629-1613988000-1613997000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pahlavi Workshop: Roundtable on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Coup and Reflections on the Reza Pahlavi Period
DESCRIPTION:Roundtable on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Coup and Reflections on the Reza Pahlavi Period\nThe first panel of the Iranian Studies workshop\, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop” will feature a round table discussion centered on the 100th anniversary of the coup that initiated the Reza Pahlavi Period in Iran. \nThis panel will be chaired by workshop organizer Dr. Robert Steele\, the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellow in Iranian Studies at UCLA. \n  \nTo download the full program of events\, click here.\n  \nFeatured panelists of the round table discussion include: \nCamron Michael Amin\nProfessor of History\, University of Michigan-Dearborn \nAli Ansari\nProfessor of Iranian History\, University of St Andrews and Senior Associate Fellow\, Royal United Services Institute \nStephanie Cronin\nElahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Research Fellow\, St Antony’s College\, University of Oxford \nAfshin Marashi\nProfessor of Middle Eastern History\, University of Oklahoma \n  \nTo register for this event and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please click here.\n  \nHistory and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop\nIt has been nearly one hundred years since the coup of 21 February 1921 that ultimately brought Reza Khan to the throne\, and more than forty years since the 1979 revolution that overthrew his son and brought an end to the Pahlavi dynasty. Because the revolution looms so large in the 20th century history of Iran\, much of the scholarship has examined the Pahlavi period\, and the late Pahlavi period in particular\, primarily in the context of the events of 1978-79. In recent years\, however\, the Pahlavi period has experienced a surge in scholarly interest\, as a new generation of historians has emerged with access to newly released documents and a fresh view on the era unimpeded by experiences of the ancien régime. These scholars\, pioneers in the emerging field of ‘Pahlavi Studies’\, look beyond the extensively covered debates concerning the revolution\, to study the Pahlavi era as a period worthy of attention in its own right\, contextualizing it within modern Iranian and global history. \nThis online workshop will bring together scholars who study Pahlavi Iran through the lens of a wide variety of specializations including politics\, foreign policy\, sociology\, cultural studies and intellectual history\, to share innovative approaches to the history and historiography of the period. There have been several important studies of either early or late Pahlavi Iran\, but this workshop will look at the whole period from 1921 to 1979. The purpose of this approach is to better understand the significance of this nearly 60-year period in modern Iranian and global history. The workshop will identify themes and questions that emerge from current research on the Pahlavi period\, and discuss ways in which the discovery of new sources has helped to shape\, and continues to shape\, the debates in our various fields.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pahlavi-workshop-panel-1/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T123000
DTSTAMP:20210128T164821Z
CREATED:20210128T164705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210128T164821Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Carlo G. Cereti
DESCRIPTION:Narseh’s Diadem: Religion\, Royalty\, and Power under the Early Sasanians\nThis talk focuses on the Sasanian king Narseh (293-302 CE)\, who celebrated his accession to the throne through the bilingual inscription (Middle Persian and Parthian) and commemorative monument built in Paikuli\, the site currently studied by the archaeological mission of Sapienza-University of Rome: The Italian Archaeological Mission to Iraqi Kurdistan (MAIKI – Missione Archeologica Italiana nel Kurdistan Iracheno). The mission’s work in Paikuli focuses on the reconstruction and preservation of the monument and its unique inscription. Choosing a holistic scholarly approach and joining methodologies of historical linguistics and philology with those of archaeology\, field campaigns were organised in 2007\, 2008\, 2018\, and 2019\, revealing a number of previously unknown inscribed blocks; a first volume of these new inscriptions was published in 2014\, and the remaining inscriptions will be published in the final report. This lecture will present the multiple scientific methodologies and research approaches applied over the years and will also illustrate strategies to promote the monument in the framework of Kurdistan’s cultural heritage\, including the Paikuli Gallery built by MAIKI in the Slemani Museum and the recent realization of an exhibition at Sapienza\, which features a tactile 3D printing of one of the\nNarseh’s sculptures (once decorating the Paikuli monument and now preserved at the Slemani Museum). These strategies offer clear examples of the potential of interaction between field documentation and the application of innovative technologies aimed at promoting full accessibility of Cultural Heritage. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nCarlo G. Cereti is a Professor at Sapienza – University of Rome in Iranian Philology\, Religions and History.  He also serves as the Coordinator of the Class in Humanities at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati – Sapienza\, the Director of the Winter School in Cultural Heritage of the Near and Middle East\, a Rector’s delegate for International cooperation\, and a Senior Fellow at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati – Sapienza. He studied at the Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples where in 1985\, he obtained his Master’s (Laurea) degree in Oriental languages and civilizations focusing on Iranian and Indian Studies. In 1992\, he obtained his Ph.D. in the same field.  From 1997 to 1999\, Professor Cereti was engaged in research at the Kommission für Iranistik of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, while at the same time teaching Iranian Languages at the Seminar für  Sprachwissenschaft of the Vienna University. In 1999\, he served as a visiting professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Parism and in 2002 acted as Directeur de Recherche at the UMRS “Monde Iranien” of the French CNRS. He has published extensively in Iranian Studies\, mainly on Middle Persian and Zoroastrianism. His publications include: An 18th  century Account of Parsi History\, The Qesse-ye Zartoštiān-e Hendustān\, The Zand ī Wahman Yasn: A Zoroastrian Apocalypse\, and La Letteratura Pahlavi. Introduzione ai testi con riferimenti alla storia degli studi ed alla tradizione manoscritta.  Professor Cereti is also a Consulting editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica\, a Member of the Editorial Board of Iran and the Caucasus and The Journal of Persianate Studies\, and a Member of the Advisory Board of Vicino Oriente and Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni. \nPlease click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/15658/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T160000
DTSTAMP:20210120T234535Z
CREATED:20210120T234511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210120T234535Z
UID:15624-1612368000-1612368000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Nikolaus Overtoom
DESCRIPTION:Reconsidering the Emergence of the Parthian State: The Crisis of the 240s-230s BCE in the Hellenistic Middle East\nNikolaus Overtoom’s study of the rise of the Parthian Empire\, Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East\, brings a new perspective to this important development in the history of the Hellenistic Middle East. By emphasizing the changing international-systems elements that led to the expansion of the Arsacid kings\, Overtoom allows scholars to develop a more sophisticated view of how this expansion occurred\, with less causal emphasis merely on the warlike nature of Parthian society or the personalities of individual rulers — important though these were. This monograph draws on a wide variety of sources to explain the political and military encounters that shaped the international environment of the Hellenistic Middle East from the middle third to the early first centuries BCE. This study combines traditional historical approaches\, such as source criticism and the integration of material evidence\, with the incorporation of modern international relations theory to better reconstruct the rise of the Parthians (or Arsacids) to dominance over their Greek\, Persian\, and nomadic neighbors in the ancient Middle East. \nAbout the Speaker\nNikolaus Overtoom is an Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Washington State University.  He is the author of Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East (Oxford Studies in Early Empires Series\, 2020). He earned his Ph.D. in Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern History from Louisiana State University in 2016. His reserach interests include geopolitics in the ancient world\, ancient international relations\, ancient propaganda\, and imperial rivalries. \n  \nPlease click here to register for this event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-nikolaus-overtoom/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T143000
DTSTAMP:20210107T200318Z
CREATED:20210107T200318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210107T200318Z
UID:15546-1612357200-1612362600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:From Lor Girl to May Lady: Music\, Sound\, and Constructions of Womanhood in Iranian Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Laudan Nooshin\, Professor of Music at City\, University of London\nWednesday\, February 3\, 2021\n1:00 PM (Pacific Time) \nPart of the Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series\, this event is sponsored by The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Department of Ethnomusicology\, the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies\, and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, with support from the Dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. \nSponsor(s):  Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Herb Alpert School of Music\, Iranian Studies \nClick here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/from-lor-girl-to-may-lady-music-sound-and-constructions-of-womanhood-in-iranian-cinema/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T163000
DTSTAMP:20210112T221044Z
CREATED:20210112T180828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T221044Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Panel on Development
DESCRIPTION:“Socio-Economic Development Strategies and Challenges in Iran\,” a panel discussion featuring Azam Khatam (York University)\, Kaveh Ehsani (DePaul University)\, and Kevan Harris (UCLA) will take place via Zoom on Monday\, February 1 at 3:00pm Pacific.  Please click on the link below to register for this Bilingual Lecture Series event. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lB7hy0biSWSx61ssFf5jVg
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-environmental-panel/
CATEGORIES: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:20210127T100000
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Domenico Ingenito's Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry (Brill\, 2020)
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Paul Losensky (Indiana University) and Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia) \nWednesday\, January 27\, 2021\n10:00 AM (Pacific Time) \nTo RSVP\, please click here.\n  \nBeholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry explores the relationship between sexuality\, politics\, and spirituality in the lyrics of Saʿdi Shirazi (d. 1292 CE)\, one of the most revered masters of classical Persian literature. Relying on a variety of sources\, including unstudied manuscripts\, Domenico Ingenito presents the so-called “inimitable smoothness” of Saʿdi’s lyric style as a serene yet multifaceted window into the uncanny beauty of the world\, the human body\, and the realm of the unseen. \nThe book constitutes the first attempt to study Saʿdi’s lyric meditations on beauty in the context of the major artistic\, scientific and intellectual trends of his time. By charting unexplored connections between Islamic philosophy and mysticism\, obscene verses and courtly ideals of love\, Ingenito approaches Saʿdi’s literary genius from the perspective of sacred homoeroticism and the psychology of performative lyricism in their historical context. \n  \nSponsor(s):  Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Iranian Studies\, Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/book-launch-domenico-ingenitos-beholding-beauty-sa%ca%bfdi-of-shiraz-and-the-aesthetics-of-desire-in-medieval-persian-poetry-brill-2020/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T173000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Jason Schlude
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: Rome\, Parthia\, and the Politics of Peace\n\nThis volume offers an informed survey of the problematic relationship between the ancient empires of Rome and Parthia from c. 96/95 BCE to 224 CE. Schlude explores the rhythms of this relationship and invites its readers to reconsider the past and our relationship with it. \nSome have looked to this confrontation to help explain the roots of the long-lived conflict between the West and the Middle East. It is a reading symptomatic of most scholarship on the subject\, which emphasizes fundamental incompatibility and bellicosity in Roman–Parthian relations. Rather than focusing on the relationship as a series of conflicts\, Rome\, Parthia\, and the Politics of Peace responds to this common misconception by highlighting instead the more cooperative elements in the relationship and shows how a reconciliation of these two perspectives is possible. There was\, in fact\, a cyclical pattern in the Roman–Parthian interaction\, where a reality of peace and collaboration became overshadowed by images of aggressive posturing projected by powerful Roman statesmen and emperors for a domestic population conditioned to expect conflict. The result was the eventual realization of these images by later Roman opportunists who\, unsatisfied with imagined war\, sought active conflict with Parthia. \nRome\, Parthia\, and the Politics of Peace is a fascinating new study of these two superpowers that will be of interest not only to students of Rome and the Near East but also to anyone with an interest in diplomatic relations and conflict in the ancient world and today. \nAbout the Speaker\n\n\nJason Schlude is an Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Languages and Cultures at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Minnesota and Co-Director of the Omrit Settlement Excavation Project in Israel. A former Getty scholar\, he is an ancient historian and archaeologist who specializes in the Roman Near East and the relationship between the Roman and Parthian Empires. He published Rome\, Parthia\, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East in 2020 (Routledge Press) and co-edited Arsacids\, Romans\, and Local Elites: Cross-Cultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire in 2017 (Oxbow Books)\, with related articles appearing in journals including Latomus\, Athenaeum\, and Anabasis. A member of the Avon Hills Salon (https://avonhillssalon.com)\, he also engages in public scholarship exploring the significance of the liberal arts and Classics in the modern world.​ His essays have appeared in Foreign Policy Journal (“Rome\, Iran\, and the Specters of Antiquity”)\, Minneapolis Star Tribune (e.g.\, “A Minnesota scholar shows how we could find common ground with\, and through\, Shia Islam”; “Ted Cruz\, Cicero\, and the classics”)\, The Activist History Review (e.g.\, “The Problem of White People\, with Insight from St. Paul”; “The Politics of Consumption: From Trimalchio and Gatsby to Trump and Beyond”)\, Bible History Daily (“Herod the Great: Friend of the Romans and Parthians?”)\, and Avon Hills Salon (e.g.\, “The Art of Liberation: Life in the Liberal Arts”; “Infectious Nationalism: Pericles and Public Health Crises”). His poetry has appeared in Pericles at Play (“We Lived among the Bones”)\, with more forthcoming in Jesuits Magazine (“The Teacher”). \nClick here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-jason-schlude-2/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T173000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center/Amuzegar Lecture Series: Afshin Marashi
DESCRIPTION:The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran\nThis book talk will provide an overview of Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran (University of Texas Press\, 2020). In the aftermath of the 7th century Islamic conquest of Iran\, large numbers of Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis\, they slowly lost contact with their ancestral homeland until the 19th century\, when stream-powered sea travel and the philanthropic efforts of wealthy Parsi benefactors sparked a new era of interaction between Parsis and Iranians. Tracing the late 19th and early 20th century cultural and intellectual exchange between Iranian nationalists and India’s Parsi community\, Exile and the Nation shows how this interchange led to a collective re-imagining of Parsi and Iranian national identity and to the revival of antiquity in 20th century Iran thought. \nAbout the Speaker\nAfshin Marashi is Professor and Farzaneh Family Chair in Modern Iranian History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author most recently of Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran (University of Texas Press\, 2020). His previous books include Nationalizing Iran: Culture\, Power\, and the State\, 1870-1940 (University of Washington Press\, 2008)\, and the volume (co-edited with Kamran Aghaie) Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity (University of Texas Press\, 2014). He has also served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies and on the council of the Association for Iranian Studies. \nPlease click here to register for this event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-amuzegar-lecture-series-afshin-marashi/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T140000
DTSTAMP:20201019T164259Z
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SUMMARY:Steadfast Imagining Session 5: Bidel in Modern Central Asia\, South Asia\, Afghanistan\, Iran: The Geopolitics of Literary Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Session 5 of the multidisciplinary workshop series on Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d. 1720) \nFriday\, December 18\, 2020\n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Pacific Time) \n  \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nThis is Session 5 of the multidisciplinary workshop\, Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d.1720) organized and led by Prof. Domenico Ingenito (UCLA\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Dr. Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia) in cooperation with scholars working in Persian Studies\, Islamic Studies\, South Asian\, Near Eastern\, and Central Asian Studies\, English\, Anthropology\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and all reading materials (both primary and secondary sources) will be circulated and presented in English translation. \nBidel’s reception history in modern Afghanistan\, Iran\, Central Asia\, and South Asia is a fascinating and complex case study in the geopolitics of literary legacy. In Iran\, Bidel has been dismissed as an obscure poet whose difficult style relegates him to a peripheral corner of the Persian canon. Bidel’s legacy in South Asia is complicated by the emergence of vernacular traditions in northern India and the gradual disappearance of Persian from the Subcontinent shortly after Bidel’s death. In modern Central Asia\, Bidel plays an important role in the rise of national literatures during the Soviet period\, and he currently enjoys a flourishing afterlife in Afghanistan. Kevin Schwartz\, Zuzanna Olszewska\, Sam Hodgkin\, and Ahmad Rashid Salim join us to talk about Bidel’s legacy and the place of Bidel’s reception history in modern reevaluations of Persian literary history. \nIn conversation with Kevin Schwartz (Czech Academy of Sciences)\, Zuzanna Olszewska (Oxford)\, Sam Hodgkin (Yale)\, and Ahmad Rashid Salim (UC Berkeley) \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nFor more information about the workshop as a whole\, including the complete schedule of meetings\, please see the announcement here. \nThe workshop is sponsored and organized by UCLA Program on Central Asia (in collaboration with Iranian Studies)\, and co-sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia\, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, and the Center for Near Eastern Studies. \n  \nFor questions about the event\, please contact  caw@international.ucla.edu  \nSponsor(s):  Program on Central Asia\, Center for India and South Asia\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/steadfast-imagining-session-5-bidel-in-modern-central-asia-south-asia-afghanistan-iran-the-geopolitics-of-literary-legacy/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201211T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201211T140000
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SUMMARY:Steadfast Imagining Session 4: Worlds Together Shined: Bidel\, Traherne\, and Experiments in Comparison
DESCRIPTION:Session 4 of the multidisciplinary workshop series on Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d. 1720) \nFriday\, December 11\, 2020\n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Pacific Time) \n  \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nThis is Session 4 of the multidisciplinary workshop\, Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d.1720) organized and led by Prof. Domenico Ingenito (UCLA\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Dr. Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia) in cooperation with scholars working in Persian Studies\, Islamic Studies\, South Asian\, Near Eastern\, and Central Asian Studies\, English\, Anthropology\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and all reading materials (both primary and secondary sources) will be circulated and presented in English translation. \nThere are tantalizing similarities between the poetry of Bidel and his contemporaries and early modern English meditative poetry. These literary traditions are not in direct contact with each other\, yet they operate in strikingly similar ways (for instance\, in their assimilation of scientific ideas and engagement with philosophy and theology). Moreover\, these poets are co-inheritors\, through very different vectors\, of Aristotealian rationalism\, Neoplatonism\, and Avicennan ideas. How should we think about traditions that are not in direct contact with each other\, but have partially shared lineages? Timothy Harrison joins us to talk about our collaboration-in-progress. We are co-authoring an essay in which we investigate how Thomas Traherne and Bidel—living worlds apart\, not at all in contact—come to compose strikingly similar accounts of infant experience (being in the womb\, birth\, first sensations\, breastfeeding) at the same moment in the seventeenth century. In this session\, we make a pitch for the importance of collaboration and discuss possible methods for comparing premodern European and Islamic literary traditions. \nIn conversation with Timothy Harrison (English\, University of Chicago) \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nFor more information about the workshop as a whole\, including the complete schedule of meetings\, please see the announcement here. \nThe workshop is sponsored and organized by UCLA Program on Central Asia (in collaboration with Iranian Studies)\, and co-sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia\, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, and the Center for Near Eastern Studies. \n  \n  \nFor questions about the event\, please contact  caw@international.ucla.edu  \nSponsor(s):  Program on Central Asia\, Center for India and South Asia\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/steadfast-imagining-session-4-worlds-together-shined-bidel-traherne-and-experiments-in-comparison/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T173000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Michael Jackson Bonner
DESCRIPTION:Sasanian Iran: A Personal View\nThis talk will focus on topics included in Dr. Bonner’s new book\, The Last Empire of Iran\, a narrative history of Sasanian Persia. Throughout this lecture\, Dr. Bonner will share with the audience the impetus for writing this book. The principle motivation was to portray the Sasanian state as the great world power that it was and to situate it properly between Rome and the nomad powers of Inner Asia. It addresses the classicising and Perso-Arabic historiographical traditions\, but special emphasis has also been given to Armenian and Syriac sources. Discussion will cover some of the key themes of the book\, including: the origins of the Sasanian state; the wider context of Eurasian history; interactions between Iran and the world of the steppe; and\, finally\, historiographical problems and the use of sources. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Michael Jackson Bonner is a Canadian political adviser and historian of Iran. A former classicist and student of James Howard-Johnston and Robert Hoyland\, he read for a master’s degree and doctorate in late-antique Iranian history at the University of Oxford. Dr. Bonner has advised members of Cabinet in both federal and provincial Canadian governments\, and is now a Director of Policy within the Government of Ontario. \n  \n  \nPlease click here to register for this event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-michael-jackson-bonner/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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