Iranian
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The Seventeenth Century Judeo-Persian Adaptation of the Buddha Biographies
Royce 306Elisha ben Shemuel’s Shahzadeh va-Sufi or The Prince and The Sufi is a seventeenth century Judeo-Persian adaptation of the life of Buddha, known in the west as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat. The plot, that of the prince who abandons a life of privilege and opulence for spiritual enlightenment, has traveled through centuries in...
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UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Ida Meftahi
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesFilm and Discussion on Lalehzar Street A Socio-Historical View Often compared to New York’s Broadway and Paris’s Champs-Élysées, Lalehzar District and its vicinity was a hub for experimentations in music and performing arts as well as new modes of business practices, socialization, and political expression partly due to its proximity to multitude of foreign embassies,...
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UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Ida Meftahi
Kaplan 365Performing a Nation’s Angels and Princesses: The Female Dancing Subjects of a Century-Old Iranian Nationalist Stage In early twentieth-century Iran, a nationalist-modernist theatrical milieu emerged that meant to educate society through performing arts. While touring companies from neighboring regions showcased new genres of arts on the Iranian stage, the dispersion of ethno-religious minorities in regions...
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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Jason Schlude
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)Motivations in the Ancient Middle East: Rome, Parthia, and Realpolitik The Roman and Parthian Empires enjoyed no shortage of wars. From the 50s BCE through the 200s CE, they frequently clashed. Why? The dominant explanation is realpolitik. In the zero-sum game of international relations, each state, out for its own interests, sought the aggressive expansion...
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A Tribute to Morteza Neydavoud
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTo view the full program, please click here.
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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Pollet Samvelian
Royce 306Word Order Variation and Change in the Languages of Western Asia Western Asia is an area of linguistic diversity and longstanding contact between languages of different families (Indo-European, Semitic, Turkic, Caucasian). Research on language contact globally has revealed that shared structural features can emerge among unrelated languages in geographically delimited areas via contact between speakers....
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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Dr. Antigoni Zournatzi
Royce 306Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC – ca. AD 650: Aims, Prospects, and Case Studies Greco-Iranian cultural interactions within the territory of the modern state of Iran are attested since the Achaemenid period, although they considerably intensify during the Alexandrine and Seleucid eras. A thorough investigation of these cultural exchanges necessitates...
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Poets of Life with Rakhshan Banietemad
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Book Talk by Nile Green: The Persianate World
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCopies of the book will be available for sale from the ASUCLA Bookstore at this event. To RSVP, please click here.
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Ancient Iran and the Classical World
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)You are invited to attend: Ancient Iran and the Classical World A two-day international symposium jointly hosted by the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA and the Getty Research Institute Wednesday, May 29th – 306 Royce Hall, UCLA Thursday, May 30, 2019 – Getty Villa, VN 113-114 Click...