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SUMMARY:Ancient Iran and the Classical World
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend: \nAncient Iran and the Classical World\nA two-day international symposium \njointly hosted by the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA and the Getty Research Institute \n  \nWednesday\, May 29th – 306 Royce Hall\, UCLA \nThursday\, May 30\, 2019 – Getty Villa\, VN 113-114 \n  \nClick here to download the full symposium program. \nPlease RSVP to Marissa Stevens at stevensma@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ancient-iran-and-the-classical-world/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T183000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk by Nile Green: The Persianate World
DESCRIPTION:Copies of the book will be available for sale from the ASUCLA Bookstore at this event. \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-by-nile-green-the-persianate-world/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T180000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Poets of Life with Rakhshan Banietemad
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-poets-of-life-with-rakhshan-banietemad/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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:20190513T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T180000
DTSTAMP:20190503T155705Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Dr. Antigoni Zournatzi
DESCRIPTION:Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC – ca. AD 650: Aims\, Prospects\, and Case Studies\nGreco-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 our reliance on extant archaeological data – a corpus that is highly fragmentary and uneven\, and which has yet to be systematically assembled and assessed. This lecture introduces a collaborative research initiative\, hosted by the National Hellenic Research Foundation\, which is still in an early stage of development. The project seeks to capture in a comprehensive manner relevant archaeological\, epigraphic\, and numismatic evidence from Iran\, from the Achaemenids to the Sasanian Empire. On the strength of selected Seleucid and Arsacid period artifacts\, which portray themes of religious significance\, the lecture shall highlight different facets of the dialogue between Greek and Iranian artistic traditions and worldviews\, as well as showcase the interpretative difficulties and ambiguities encountered in this process. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nAntigoni Zournatzi is Director of Research at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation. Her main areas of research are the interconnections between the ancient Greek world and the Ancient Near East\, cross-cultural phenomena in archaic and classical Cyprus\, and the Achaemenid Empire. She is currently a Getty Scholar\, engaging in research on ethnographical knowledge as part of the interconnections between ancient Greek and Persian traditions. The ongoing project\, Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC – ca. AD 650\, which she coordinates\, seeks to promote a holistic view of ancient Iranian and Greek interactions in Iran proper on the strength of an integrative inventory of different source materials and sites across historical periods. Research on this project is presently also conducted within the framework of the program Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond\, funded as part of the Connecting Art Histories initiative of the Getty Foundation. \n  \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-dr-antigoni-zournatzi/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T180000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Pollet Samvelian
DESCRIPTION:Word Order Variation and Change in the Languages of Western Asia\nWestern 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. This inescapably leads to growing differences between languages initially considered typologically similar. Yet\, not all linguistic changes are induced by contact; instead\, some are internally motivated. Distinguishing between internally motivated and contact-induced changes is a challenging task. This talk presents initial results of a newly launched research project on word order variation in the languages of Western Asia (Labex EFL\, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité). It focuses on three languages\, Persian\, Kurdish\, and Eastern Armenian\, which are characterised by the Subject-Object-Verb canonical order. Based on corpus investigation and preliminary experiments\, this presentation will discuss the varied degrees to which each of these languages drifts away from canonical order\, and explore possible ways to account for these differences. \nAbout the Speaker\nPollet Samvelian is Professor of Linguistics at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and director of the multi-institutional research unit Mondes iranien et indien at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She also chairs the research unit Empirical Foundations of Linguistics\, a multi-institutional research excellence cluster under the auspices of the Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC). Her research focuses on the description\, typology\, and formal modelling of western Iranian languages\, in particular Persian and Kurdish. She has authored and edited several books and written numerous articles on such topics as complex predicates\, pronominal clitics\, the ezafe construction\, differential object marking\, verbal periphrases\, and word order variation. \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-pollet-samvelian/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190423T203000
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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Morteza Neydavoud
DESCRIPTION:  \nTo view the full program\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/a-tribute-to-morteza-neydavoud/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Jewish Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T160000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Jason Schlude
DESCRIPTION:Motivations in the Ancient Middle East: Rome\, Parthia\, and Realpolitik\nThe 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 of its empire and the external security that would bring. Insofar as this is true\, we need only one theory to explain the whole Roman-Parthian dynamic. Yet it is worth considering whether such a picture is oversimplified. First\, individual decision-makers frequently acted based on their internal security. Second\, two principles guided this action: the image of external security was as important as its realities\, and the fear of major military defeat sometimes outweighed the hope of military victory\, with the result that self-interest could permit\, even promote\, the interests of peace. Consequently\, our general understanding of Roman-Parthian realpolitik needs adjustment. The picture of Roman-Parthian history thus becomes more complex\, needing an additional model of explanation. \nAbout the Speaker\nJason Schlude is Associate Professor of Classics at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University\, Co-Director of the Omrit Settlement Excavation Project in northern Israel\, and a Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in 2019. He is an ancient historian\, archaeologist\, and essayist with particular interest in the Roman Near East and the relationship between the Roman and Parthian empires. His current book project\, Rome\, Parthia\, and the Politics of the Ancient Middle East\, reconsiders our understanding of this important\, early phase in the relationship between the ancient West and Middle East. \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-jason-schlude/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T160000
DTSTAMP:20190326T221434Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Ida Meftahi
DESCRIPTION:Performing a Nation’s Angels and Princesses:\nThe Female Dancing Subjects of a Century-Old Iranian Nationalist Stage\nIn 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 added to the Iranian scene new artistic skills in ballet\, theatre\, and music\, as well as female performers who were previously absent in Iranian preforming arts.  The cohabitation of new genres with their indigenous counterparts led to new conventions in Iranian performing arts including operettas\, which combined music\, poetry\, singing\, acting and dancing. Deploying romantic themes from the depository of Persian literature – the greatest of Iranian arts – the operettas became events for enthusiast audiences to view the ideal bodies of their national heroes and heroines as they danced and sang to Persian music. In the decades to follow\, operettas lost momentium while other disciplines – including “national dance” – became professionalized. After a century\, Persian classical music featuring literary motifs preformed with both ballet and indigenous movements have remained a scapegoat for Iranian dance to claim national legitimacy. This presentation traces female dancing subject of the nationalist stage – from the early operettas to the national dances presented prior to the Revolution of 1979 and the recently-emerged operettas of current Iran – and explores the ways women embody the ideas\, aesthetics\, and ethics of Iranian nationalism and modernity in ecurrent characterizations as Persian princesses and angels. \nAbout the Speaker\nIda Meftahi is a historian specializing in modern Iran with a focus on the intersections of politics\, gender\, and performance.  She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University as well as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Maryland.  Meftahi’s scholarship has been published in numerous scholarly journals and volumes including Islam and Popular Arts (2016)\, Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016)\, IranNameh (2016)\, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2016)\, and the bilingual Clio. Femmes\, Genre\, Histoire (2018). She is currently working on her second manuscript\, a geo-political reading of Tehran’s historic Lalehzar district and its vicinity\, while simultaneously directing the Lalehzar Digital Project.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-ida-meftahi-2/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190414T180000
DTSTAMP:20190326T221351Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Ida Meftahi
DESCRIPTION:Film and Discussion on Lalehzar Street\nA Socio-Historical View\nOften 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\, diplomatic ventures\, and missionary schools. The World War II occupation of Iran by the Allies in 1941 turned this district to a cultural war zone where the Allies followed their own agenda of public diplomacy. These activities ranged from screenings of American films and Soviet-sponsored theatrical performances to British Shakespearean soirées and English language classes in hope of substituting French with English in post war Iran. At the same time\, Allied soldiers became a visible community in this area and resided in Lalehzar’s hotels\, walked its streets\, mingled in its bars\, restaurants\, and cinemas\, danced in its cafés along with the “modernized” (mutajaddid) Tehran residents\, and sometimes got into clashes with Iranian civilians. Probing periodicals of various ideological persuasions\, diplomatic sources\,  archival documents\, and interviews\, this lecture tries to capture the history of this important cultural landscape during the war by means of its soundscape. While seeking to reimagine this microcosm of modern Iran by listening to the sonic experience of its Earwitnesses\, this presentation also sheds light on the multiplicity of musical\, sonic\, and performative trends which hit this critical zone of cultural production with an impact lasting for many decades. \nAbout the Speaker\nIda Meftahi is a historian specializing in modern Iran with a focus on the intersections of politics\, gender\, and performance.  She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University as well as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Maryland.  Meftahi’s scholarship has been published in numerous scholarly journals and volumes including Islam and Popular Arts (2016)\, Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016)\, IranNameh (2016)\, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2016)\, and the bilingual Clio. Femmes\, Genre\, Histoire (2018). She is currently working on her second manuscript\, a geo-political reading of Tehran’s historic Lalehzar district and its vicinity\, while simultaneously directing the Lalehzar Digital Project.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-ida-meftahi/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T173000
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SUMMARY:The Seventeenth Century Judeo-Persian Adaptation of the Buddha Biographies
DESCRIPTION:Elisha 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 various languages including Sanskrit\, Middle Persian\, multiple Arabic versions\, Georgian\, Greek\, Latin\, several European languages and Hebrew. As with previous adaptations\, the author of The Prince and The Sufi uses the language\, literary style and conventions suited to the tastes of his readership. Dr. Yasharpour is preparing to publish the edited Judeo-Persian text of The Prince and the Sufi together with an English annotated translation. In her talk\, she will discuss how Ben Shemuel appealed to his acculturated Persian Jewish audience by modeling his Judeo-Persian adaptation after popular classical Persian advice literature and conveying practical wisdom by way of a Sufi master. \n  \nDr. Dalia Yasharpour (Ph.D. Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\, UCLA\, 2005) is a scholar of Judeo-Persian language and literature. A lecturer and researcher\, Dalia most recently headed the Iranian Studies program at Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. In addition to authoring academic articles and editing Persian language textbooks\, she is the co-author of The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China (Brill\, 2011). A Los Angeles native\, she lives in West Los Angeles with her family. \n  \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nPlease RSVP at https://religion.ucla.edu/event/https-religion-ucla-edu-event-the-seventeenth-century-judeo-persian-adaptation-of-the-buddha-biographies/
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-seventeenth-century-judeo-persian-adaptation-of-the-buddha-biographies/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T160000
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Afshin Matin-Asgari
DESCRIPTION:Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for Dr. Afshin Matin-Asgari’s second lecture of the 2018-2019 academic year. He will present research from his latest book on April 9\, 2019 in Kaplan Hall 365 (former Humanities Building) at 2:00pm. \nBoth East and West: \nA Commentary on the History of Modernity in Iran\nSince the Iranian Revolution of 1979\, many observers of Iran have viewed a country torn between Eastern history and ‘Western’ modernity.  This divide between religion and secularity has couched the analysis of political philosophy preceding the Revolution in this later dichotomy.  Afshin Matin-Asgari instead proposes a revisionist work of intellectual history\, challenging many of the dominant paradigms in Iranian and Middle Eastern historiography.  In charting the intellectual construction of Iranian modernity\, he focuses on broad patterns of influential ideas\, which reveal an Iranian modernity that has been sustained by intense intellectual interaction with global ideologies.  Turning many prevailing narratives on their heads\, the Matin-Asgari concludes that modern Iran can be seen as\, culturally and intellectually\, both Eastern and Western. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Afshin Matin-Asgari holds the title of Outstanding Professor of Middle East history at California State University\, LA.  He was born in Iran and completed his Ph.D. in Middle East history at UCLA. He was active in the international movement of Iranian students during the 1970s and took part in the 1978–1979 Iranian Revolution. He is the author of Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah (2002)\, which has been translated into Persian. Matin-Asgari has authored more than twenty articles and book chapters on twentieth-century Iranian political and intellectual history.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/12614/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T180000
DTSTAMP:20190225T172544Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Mehrnoush Soroush
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World for a lecture by Dr. Mehrnoush Soroush of Harvard University as part of the 2018-2019 Lecture Series. \nThe Lords of Canals and Bridges: Re-Examining the Sasanian Hydraulic Landscapes and Their Heritage in the Islamic Period\nSasanian kings are known as builders of impressive hydraulic projects such as the monumental canal of Nahrawan (in southern Iraq)\, and the Shadorwan bridge of Shushtar (in southwestern Iran). Sasanian hydraulic landscapes have had a profound impact on anthropological discourse of empires and water management\, as they linked large and complex water infrastructures to a highly centralized state system. The evidence for court engineering is found in the linearity of Sasanian canals and the monumentality of their bridges and weirs. It is commonly believed that the monumental Sasanian waterworks fell into decline in the sixth and sevenths centuries because of the decline of the state power and its eventual demise in the wake of the Islamic conquest. This recent multidisciplinary study of the hydraulic infrastructures of Sasanian cities highlights the longue durée of Sasanian water management in southwestern Iran and stresses both the connection of Sasanian waterworks to prior investments and the evidence for continuous investment in Sasanian hydraulic landscapes in the Islamic period. \nAbout the Speaker\nMehrnoush Soroush is an archaeologist and historian of ancient water infrastructures. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University\, and is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. Her research integrates digital technologies\, fieldwork\, and textual sources in order to investigate the history and intersection of water management and urbanism in the Iranian World. She is primarily interested in examining how water technologies enabled the formation and maintenance of a burgeoning network of Iranian cities in arid and semi-arid regions that relied on market-oriented irrigation agriculture and water intensive industries. \nSelf-pay parking in Lots 5\, 4\, or 2 recommended. To RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-mehrnoush-soroush/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T180000
DTSTAMP:20190205T221307Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Stefan Hauser
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Stefan Hauser will present his research as part of the Pourdavoud Center 2018-2019 Lecture Series. Dr. Hauser is Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Mediterranean Culture at the Universität Konstanz\, Germany. He is also a Getty Scholar for the 2018-2019 academic year. To RSVP\, please click here. \n  \nCharax Spasinou\nResearch on the Capital of Mesene and the Arsacid Center of Trade\nThe city of Charax Spasinou was a major trading center of the Arsacid Empire. Located near the head of the Persian Gulf\, it was the primary port of entry for sea-borne goods from India destined for the imperial court at Ctesiphon\, the Elamais\, and for places further afield such as Palmyra and the Mediterranean. Originally founded by Alexander the Great\, the time of its greatest prosperity was from the late 2nd century BC through to the 3rd century AD. The city was first identified in 1965 as modern Jebel Khayaber\, near Basra\, but until 2016 it had never been subjected to archaeological exploration. This lecture summarizes the work carried out by the current Charax Spasinou Project\, set up to survey and document the site and its vicinity. It will show that much of the ancient city is in fact still extant\, with considerable potential for future investigation of long-distance trade in antiquity and of the political history of the wider region. \nAbout the Speaker\nStefan R. Hauser is professor of Archaeology of Ancient Mediterranean Cultures and their Relations to the Ancient Near East and Egypt at Universität Konstanz. His work is characterized by very wide interests\, illustrated by more than 100 articles and books on topics as diverse as production and trade\, death and funerary ritual\, and the visibility of nomadic groups in the archaeological record. More recently\, the 2017 exhibition “Rebuild Palmyra?”\, which he conceived and designed with students and colleagues from design\, architecture\, information sciences\, and history\, confronted a wider public with the important topic of the precarious situation of cultural heritage under threat. He is also the co-director of a British-German archaeological research project at Charax Spasinou and its hinterland in modern southern Iraq.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-stefan-hauser/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T180000
DTSTAMP:20190205T222103Z
CREATED:20190129T173832Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Margaret Root
DESCRIPTION:The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World announces the lecture of Dr. Margaret Root as part of the 2018-2019 Lecture Series.  Dr. Root is Professor and Curator Emerita of Near Eastern and Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor and a 2018-2019 Getty Scholar. \nKingship for a New World: Achaemenid Art and its Global Resonances\nThe official court art of the Achaemenid Persian empire\, as realized canonically in the reign of Darius I (r. 522-486 BCE)\, had a profound impact on the initiatives of ideological display devised in other political/cultural environments with aspirational agendas of imperial hegemony. This lecture explores select aspects of two instructive case studies in this dynamic creative emulation: The late fifth-century BCE Parthenon of Periklean Athens to the west and the Pillar Monuments of the Mauryan King Ashoka in India (r. c. 268-232 BCE). The pairing demonstrates key historiographic burdens that block productive discourse on the global resonances of Persian programmatic visions beyond the boundaries of space and time. \nAbout the Speaker\nMargaret Cool Root is Professor and Curator Emerita (Department of the History of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology) at the University of Michigan. She is currently a Getty Scholar\, writing a book entitled Persia and the Parthenon. Beginning with her first book\, The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art: Essays in the Creation of an Iconography of Empire (1979)\, she has published widely on Achaemenid Persian architecture\, sculpture\, seals\, imperial ideology\, interconnections with Greece\, and historiography. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1985-86)\, Professor Root has also been awarded fellowships and multi-year project grants from the NEA\, the NEH\, the Iran Heritage Foundation\, and the Kress Foundation to support ongoing efforts on the Persepolis Seal Project. \nSelf-pay parking in Lots 5\, 4\, or 2 recommended. Please click here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-margaret-root/
LOCATION:CA (CALIFORNIA)
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T160000
DTSTAMP:20190129T173227Z
CREATED:20190129T173036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T173227Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Mary Hegland
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series. Dr. Mary Helgand will present her research in Bunche Hall 10383 on February 11\, 2019 at 2:00pm. This lecture will be in English. Please see the attached flyer for details. \n  \nEconomic and Social Transformation in Aliabad: New Trends in Work\, Life Styles\, Marriage\, and Sexuality\n  \nRapid change was already reaching Aliabad in 1978-1979. Land reform and the shift from agriculture\, low-level shop-keeping\, and itinerant trading to factory work\, construction\, services\, and government employment were affecting kinship and extended family dynamics\, cutting back on the authority of the older generation and bringing new opportunities to the younger generation. Today\, extended family and community ties have declined as people develop more individualized lives. Many men work outside of Aliabad. Many people\, especially the young\, consider themselves to be Shirazis. Aliabad has been formally incorporated into Shiraz. In spite of Islamic Republic teachings\, changes in gender\, marriage\, and sexuality have been dramatic. Today\, young people take a much more active role in choosing a spouse. Like elsewhere in Iran\, girls marry and bear children later\, raise smaller families\, live separately from in-laws\, sometimes divorce husbands\, and sometimes work outside of the home. Contact between males and females takes place before marriage; some engage in extra-marital affairs\, and a few individuals have expressed their wish to have a “white marriage” before a long-term commitment. The cultural and sexual revolutions have entered even the former village of Aliabad. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nMary Elaine Hegland’s interest in Iranian society and anthropology began with her time serving in the Peace Corps in Mahabad\, Iran from 1966-1968.  Her anthropological research in the community of “Aliabad\,” near Shiraz\, lasted from 1978 through 2018 and has resulted in a monograph\, Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village\, as well as many articles about women\, gender\, local politics\, religion\, ritual\, revolution\, and social change in Iran.  She currently teaches anthropology at Santa Clara University. Currently\, Dr. Hegland is conducting research about aging and the elderly in Iran and among Iranian Americans in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. She also plans to study women and gender and family hierarchy and dynamics as related to aging and the elderly in Tajikistan.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-mary-hegland-2/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190210T180000
DTSTAMP:20190129T172748Z
CREATED:20190129T172748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T172748Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Mary Hegland
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series. Dr. Mary Helgand will present her research in Dodd Hall 121 on February 10\, 2019 at 4:00pm. This lecture will be in Persian. Please see the attached flyer for details. \n  \nروزهای انقلاب:  «علی آباد» شیراز در ایران و جهان در قرن بیستم و بیست و یکم\nDays of Revolution: “Aliabad” of Shiraz in Iran and in the World in the 20th and 21st Centuries\n  \nResearch in Aliabad between 1978 and 2018 allows examination of how national and international politics can affect people on the ground and how local politics and “ordinary” people can affect national and international politics. Even the village of Aliabad was part of the world scene from an early stage. In areas around Shiraz\, the Qavam family gained power through international trade through the Gulf\, helping provide England with the opium they wanted to exchange with China in return for tea\, porcelain\, and silk. Because of this\, the Qavams were able to take ownership and control of Aliabad and many other villages. US political pressures – specifically Kennedy’s push for land reform and the English and American-engineered coup against Minister Mossadeq – brought political conflict to Aliabad. During the 1979 Iranian Revolution\, villagers who participated with millions of other Iranians brought about drastic national and international change. Now laptops\, travel\, and communication bring them into closer contact with the outside world\, but the economic sanctions cause economic difficulties and dissatisfaction. \nAbout the Speaker\nMary Elaine Hegland’s interest in Iranian society and anthropology began with her time serving in the Peace Corps in Mahabad\, Iran from 1966-1968.  Her anthropological research in the community of “Aliabad\,” near Shiraz\, lasted from 1978 through 2018 and has resulted in a monograph\, Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village\, as well as many articles about women\, gender\, local politics\, religion\, ritual\, revolution\, and social change in Iran.  She currently teaches anthropology at Santa Clara University. Currently\, Dr. Hegland is conducting research about aging and the elderly in Iran and among Iranian Americans in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. She also plans to study women and gender and family hierarchy and dynamics as related to aging and the elderly in Tajikistan.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-mary-hegland/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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:20190206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T180000
DTSTAMP:20190205T222050Z
CREATED:20190129T173636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190205T222050Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Robert Rollinger
DESCRIPTION:Contextualizing the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: What Does Empire Mean in the 1st Millennium BCE?\nLooking at historical handbooks of the Ancient Near East\, there appears to be a general agreement on structuring the outline of political history of the first millennium BCE. The epoch is conceptualized as a succession of three clearly defined empires. The first\, the Neo-Assyrian empire\, is regarded to represent a turning point in history by establishing imperial structures connected with a claim to rule the world. It is succeeded by the Neo-Babylonian empire and the Persian empire which\, on the one hand\, follow the previously introduced imperial trajectory but\, on the other hand\, shape their individual and distinctive conceptions of empire and state. With the conquests of Alexander the Great a major break is generally considered to have taken place. Ancient Near Eastern empires end and a fresh\, western empire emerges intrducing a new era. Rollinger challenges this narrative by contemplating the meaning of empire in the first millennium BCE and the role the fringes of empire play in the dynamic relationship of interconnected regions and zones to which both the east and the west belonged. \nAbout the Speaker\nRobert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Universität Innsbruck\, Austria. He is a scholar of history and culture between the Aegean world and the ancient Near East. He has been a visiting professor at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations (AKU-ISMC) and the Institute for History (Jean Monnet Chair for European History) at Universität Hildesheim. In 2008\, Rollinger became the first Austrian historian to be a member of the European Network for the History of Ancient Greece\, which is dedicated to changes in ancient historical research. \nSelf-pay parking in Lots 5\, 4\, or 2 recommended. Please click here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-robert-rollinger/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T180000
DTSTAMP:20190109T165829Z
CREATED:20190109T165829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T165829Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Hashem Pesaran
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series.  Dr. Hashem Pesaran will present his research in Kaplan Hall (former Humanities Building) on January 28\, 2019 at 4:00pm.  This lecture will be in English.  Please see the attached flyer for details. \n  \nUS Sanctions: Unfulfilled Expectations and Challenges Facing the Iranian Economy\n  \nThe nuclear agreement (JCPOA) created hopes and expectations for improved economic conditions and better relationships with the West. The decision by the US to withdraw from the agreement and reintroduce economic and financial sanctions has fundamentally altered the policy choices and challenges facing the Iranian economy.  This talk provides an overview of the Iranian economy and discusses existing empirical evidence on the effects of past sanctions\, in particular the 2012-2015 UN sanctions that led to the JCPOA. It compares and contrasts the new round of US sanctions with the earlier ones and considers their implications for the Islamic Republic’s economic strategies and their likely short-term and long-term consequences for output growth\, inflation\, unemployment\, and currency stability. \nIn the past when faced with sanctions\, the Iranian government has generally opted for short-term populist policies\, increased government interventions\, and the expansion of rent seeking activities at the expense of badly needed reforms for longer term enhanced efficiencies and sustained economic and environmental development. Should we expect more of the same\, or are there other possibilities? \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nHashem Pesaran is the John Elliot Distinguished Chair in Economics at USC\, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University\, and a Fellow of Trinity College\, Cambridge. Previously\, he was the head of the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank of Iran\, the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education\, Iran\, and Professor of Economics at UCLA. He is a fellow of the British Academy\, Econometric Society\, Journal of Econometrics\, and the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He has Honorary Doctorates from Universities of Salford\, Goethe\, Maastricht and Prague. He has over 200 publications in the areas of econometrics\, empirical finance\, macroeconomics\, and the Iranian economy. His most recent book\, Time Series and Panel Data Econometrics was published in 2015.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-hashem-pesaran/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190127T180000
DTSTAMP:20190109T170239Z
CREATED:20190109T170239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T170239Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Hashem Pesaran
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series.  Dr. Hashem Pesaran will present his research in Kaplan Hall (former Humanities Building) on January 27\, 2019 at 4:00pm.  This lecture will be in Persian.  Please see the attached flyer for details. \n  \nتحریم های آمریکا، انتظارات برآورده نشده و چالش های اقتصادی ایران\nUS Sanctions: Unfulfilled Expectations and Challenges Facing the Iranian Economy\n  \nThe nuclear agreement (JCPOA) created hopes and expectations for improved economic conditions and better relationships with the West. The decision by the US to withdraw from the agreement and reintroduce economic and financial sanctions has fundamentally altered the policy choices and challenges facing the Iranian economy.  This talk provides an overview of the Iranian economy and discusses existing empirical evidence on the effects of past sanctions\, in particular the 2012-2015 UN sanctions that led to the JCPOA. It compares and contrasts the new round of US sanctions with the earlier ones and considers their implications for the Islamic Republic’s economic strategies and their likely short-term and long-term consequences for output growth\, inflation\, unemployment\, and currency stability. \nIn the past when faced with sanctions\, the Iranian government has generally opted for short-term populist policies\, increased government interventions\, and the expansion of rent seeking activities at the expense of badly needed reforms for longer term enhanced efficiencies and sustained economic and environmental development. Should we expect more of the same\, or are there other possibilities? \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nHashem Pesaran is the John Elliot Distinguished Chair in Economics at USC\, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University\, and a Fellow of Trinity College\, Cambridge. Previously\, he was the head of the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank of Iran\, the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education\, Iran\, and Professor of Economics at UCLA. He is a fellow of the British Academy\, Econometric Society\, Journal of Econometrics\, and the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He has Honorary Doctorates from Universities of Salford\, Goethe\, Maastricht and Prague. He has over 200 publications in the areas of econometrics\, empirical finance\, macroeconomics\, and the Iranian economy. His most recent book\, Time Series and Panel Data Econometrics was published in 2015.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-hashem-pesaran-2/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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:20190114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T180000
DTSTAMP:20190111T184107Z
CREATED:20190111T180452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T184107Z
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SUMMARY:Prestige among the Baloch: "Monopolization" of Historical Events in Inter-Tribal Relations in Sarhadd (Iranian Balochistan)
DESCRIPTION:The Sarhadd region is unique in Iranian Balochistan because of the “tribal” Baloches’ still functioning but gradually fading traditional social structures and relations. Prestige\, authority\, and honor have always been essential to Balochi “tribal” identity\, particularly in Sarhadd where the “tribes” position themselves as the “true” heirs and guarantors of Balochi culture and traditions. Alongside the mayar – the behavioral code of honor\, certain “implements” exist for constructing and maintaining inter-tribal relations. This presentation examines one such “implement\,” monopolization of historical events\, which\, though firmly rooted in the past\, provides unlimited food for historical imagination. The presentation is based on data and observations obtained during ethnographic fieldwork over the last few years in Balochistan\, most recently in March-May\, 2018. \n  \nDr. Vahe S. Boyajian received his doctorate from the Department of Iranian Studies\, Yerevan State University\, Armenia\, in 2001 in the field of Iranian Comparative Linguistics and spent the next academic year on a post-doc at the Department of Anthropology\, Boston University. Since 2010 he has embarked on a second Ph.D. in the Department of Social Anthropology\, University of Saint Andrews\, Scotland\, Contemporaneously\, he is a Research Fellow in the Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies\, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan\, where he is working on a monograph entitled “Everyday Muslim life in Sarhadd” for publication in 2020. His research interests include Balochi language\, history and culture and the anthropology of Iran and Afghanistan. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”105″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/prestige-among-the-baloch-monopolization-of-historical-events-in-inter-tribal-relations-in-sarhadd-iranian-balochistan/
LOCATION:Kaplan 348
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T160000
DTSTAMP:20190104T164555Z
CREATED:20181201T002859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T164555Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Reza Bavafa
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series.  Dr. Reza Bavafa will present his research in Bunche Hall 10383 on January 14\, 2019 at 2:00pm.  This lecture will be in English.  Please see the attached flyer for details. \n  \n\nBack to the Future\nThe Return of U.S. Economic Sanctions and Iran’s Response\n  \nPresident Trump’s unilateral scrapping of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal\, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)\, opens a new chapter in the adversarial relationship between Iran and the United States. The reinstatement of economic sanctions is a major setback to President Rouhani’s reformist policies\, which aimed at taming high inflation and reducing unemployment while opening up the economy to muchneeded foreign investment. It also emboldens the hardliners who use the sanctions as both a reaffirmation of their mistrust in the U.S. and a justification for reclaiming some of their lost political and economic influence. The economic hardship that accompanies such sanctions\, meanwhile\, is borne by ordinary Iranians who have suffered repeatedly from such crises. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nReza Bavafa is an adjunct professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California\, where he teaches courses in Economics and Business Strategy. He has twenty-five years of executive management experience with AT&T and IBM\, where he led strategic outsourcing accounts that spanned multiple industries\, including telecommunications\, health\, aerospace and entertainment; and Fortune 500 clients\, including Boeing\, Nissan and The Walt Disney Company. Dr. Bavafa has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California\, Riverside.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-reza-bavafa-2/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
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:20190113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190113T180000
DTSTAMP:20190104T163402Z
CREATED:20181201T001937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T163402Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Reza Bavafa
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series.  Dr. Reza Bavafa will present his research in Dodd Hall 121 on January 13\, 2019 at 4:00pm.  This lecture will be in Persian.  Please see the attached flyer for details.  Self-pay parking Lot 2 is recommended. \n  \nبرگشت به آینده: بازگشت تحریم های اقتصادی آمریکا علیه ایران و عکس العمل ایران\n  \nBack to the Future\nThe Return of U.S. Economic Sanctions and Iran’s Response\n  \nPresident Trump’s unilateral scrapping of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal\, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)\, opens a new chapter in the adversarial relationship between Iran and the United States. The reinstatement of economic sanctions is a major setback to President Rouhani’s reformist policies\, which aimed at taming high inflation and reducing unemployment while opening up the economy to muchneeded foreign investment. It also emboldens the hardliners who use the sanctions as both a reaffirmation of their mistrust in the U.S. and a justification for reclaiming some of their lost political and economic influence. The economic hardship that accompanies such sanctions\, meanwhile\, is borne by ordinary Iranians who have suffered repeatedly from such crises. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nReza Bavafa is an adjunct professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California\, where he teaches courses in Economics and Business Strategy. He has twenty-five years of executive management experience with AT&T and IBM\, where he led strategic outsourcing accounts that spanned multiple industries\, including telecommunications\, health\, aerospace and entertainment; and Fortune 500 clients\, including Boeing\, Nissan and The Walt Disney Company. Dr. Bavafa has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California\, Riverside.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-reza-bavafa/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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:20181209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181209T180000
DTSTAMP:20181128T233835Z
CREATED:20181121T161433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T233835Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Ali Kiafar
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series.  Dr. Ali Kiafar will present his research in Dodd Hall 121 on December 9\, 2018 at 4:00pm.  This lecture will be in Persian.  Please see the attached flyer for details.  Self-pay parking for $12 in Lot 2 is recommended. \n  \nمدرنیت ایرانی  و تحول در شهرها و معماری طی یک قرن تجربه\n\nIranian Modernity and  the Transformation of Cities\, City Planning\, and Architecture\nA Century of Experience\n  \nBeginning with the constitutional movement and subsequent social changes that marked Iranian society in the 20th century\, numerous aspects of intellectual life (including literature and the arts) were transformed.  Among elements most pertinent to this transformation are discourses on urbanity and identity.  Urban concepts\, and the identity they forged\, impacted the formation\, development\, and expansion of cities\, neighborhoods\, and buildings.  Focusing as a case study on Tehran and its status as Iran’s main urban center\, this lecture will explore the complex entanglement of urbanity and identity in modern Iran. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\n  \nAli A. Kiafar holds a Master’s degree in architecture and city planning from the National University of Iran and has earned his Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from the University of Southern California.  He has worked in private practice\, has taught in academia (including at the University of Southern California and the University of California\, Riverside)\, and has held top executive positions within the California public education system.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-ali-kiafar/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181125T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181125T180000
DTSTAMP:20181102T222752Z
CREATED:20181102T222752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181102T222752Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Afshin Matin-Asgari
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for the first talk of the Bilingual Lecture Series of the 2018-2019 academic year.  Dr. Afshin Matin-Asgari will present his research in Dodd Hall 121 on November 25\, 2018 at 4:00pm.  This lecture will be in Persian.  Please see the attached flyer for details.  Self-pay parking for $12 in Lot 2 is recommended. \n  \nهم شرقی و هم غربی: نظری به تاریخ مدرنیته در ایران\nBoth East and West: A Commentary on the History of Modernity in Iran\nSince the Iranian Revolution of 1979\, many observers of Iran have viewed a country torn between Eastern history and ‘Western’ modernity.  This divide between religion and secularity has couched the analysis of political philosophy preceding the Revolution in this later dichotomy.  Afshin Matin-Asgari instead proposes a revisionist work of intellectual history\, challenging many of the dominant paradigms in Iranian and Middle Eastern historiography.  In charting the intellectual construction of Iranian modernity\, he focuses on broad patterns of influential ideas\, which reveal an Iranian modernity that has been sustained by intense intellectual interaction with global ideologies.  Turning many prevailing narratives on their heads\, the Matin-Asgari concludes that modern Iran can be seen as\, culturally and intellectually\, both Eastern and Western. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Afshin Matin-Asgari holds the title of Outstanding Professor of Middle East history at California State University\, LA. He was born in Iran and completed his Ph.D. in Middle East history at UCLA. He was active in the international movement of Iranian students during the 1970s and took part in the 1978–1979 Iranian Revolution. He is the author of Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah (2002)\, which has been translated into Persian. Matin-Asgari has authored more than twenty articles and book chapters on twentieth-century Iranian political and intellectual history. \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-afshin-matin-asgari/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181119T203000
DTSTAMP:20181107T164547Z
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SUMMARY:Ehsan Yarshater: A Homage
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Pourdavoud Center in celebrating the life and scholarly contributions of Professor Eshan Yarshater (1920-2018)\, the Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. Professor Yarshater’s prolific career has had a global impact. At UCLA\, he is remembered with the endowed Yarshater Biennial Lecture Series\, and at Columbia University\, his memory is celebrated with the recently established Eshan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies. \nThe commemoration will commence with introductions by M. Rahim Shayegan (University of California\, Los Angeles) and continue with lectures by Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware)\, Prods Oktor Skjærvø (Harvard University)\, Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (University of California\, Los Angeles)\, Elton Daniel (Columbia University)\, and Ali Gheissari (University of San Diego). A reception will follow. \nYarshater Brochure PDF Download \n \nTo RSVP\, please visit https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/events/ehsan-yarshater/
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ehsan-yarshater-a-homage/
LOCATION:Faculty Center
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T180000
DTSTAMP:20181029T223045Z
CREATED:20181029T222807Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Mark Garrison
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Pourdavoud Center for the first talk of our 2018-2019 Lecture Series\, featuring the research of Dr. Mark Garrison of Trinity University. \nDeities and Ritual at Persepolis: The Evidence from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives\nThe texts and seals preserved as impressions from two large archives of administrative tablets at Persepolis reveal remarkable rich and varied evidence for religion and religious ritual at and near Persepolis in the reign of Darius I (522-486 BC). The archives are known today as the Persepolis Fortification archive (509–493 BC) and the Persepolis Treasury archive (492–457 BC). \nThis lecture will focus principally on the glyptic imagery preserved from the two archives. The visual record is striking\, original\, and complex. These images raise multiple questions concerning how we approach the traditionally contentious topics of religion\, religious iconography\, and the depiction of ritual in the early Achaemenid period. Of particular interest is the manner in which this evidence compels us to re-visit the famous relief on Darius’ tomb façade at Naqš-e Rostam\, a monument generally considered one of the premier visual expressions of Achaemenid imperial ideology. \nAbout the Speaker\nMark B. Garrison holds the Alice Pratt Brown Distinguished Professorship in Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas\, USA. His primary research interests are the glyptic arts of ancient Iran and Iraq in the first half of the first millennium BC. He specializes in the glyptic preserved on two large archives from Persepolis\, the Persepolis Fortification archive and the Persepolis Treasury archive. With Margaret Cool Root\, he is author of Seals on the Persepolis Fortification Tablets\, Volume I: Images of Heroic Encounter\, Oriental Institute Publications 117 (The Oriental Institute: Chicago\, 2001). In addition to the documentary work represented in that publication\, his research has focused upon social aspects of glyptic production in workshops in Persepolis\, especially the issues surrounding the impact of individuals of high status and/or administrative rank on the development of glyptic style and iconography in the early Achaemenid period. His publications have also addressed the emergence and development of royal ideology in glyptic at Persepolis\, religious imagery in Achaemenid art\, and the relationship of glyptic of the Achaemenid period with earlier glyptic traditions in Assyria\, Babylonia\, and Elam. His most recent books are: The Ritual Landscape at Persepolis: Glyptic Imagery from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 72\, Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago\, 2017)\, which won the 2018 Ehsan Yarshater Book Award; Communication\, Language and Power in the Achaemenid Empire: Volume 2: The Seals and Bullae of the Satrap Aršāma (Oxford: Oxford University Press\, in press\, co-author with W.F.M. Henkelman); The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia: Festschrift in Honor of Margaret Cool Root (Achaemenid History. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten\, in press\, co-editor with E.R.M. Dusinberre and W.F.M. Henkelman). \nTo RSVP\, please visit: https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/events/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-mark-garrison/
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-mark-garrison/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T180000
DTSTAMP:20180925T235008Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Fall Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a fall reception at Royce Hall to celebrate the continued success of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World\, the latest addition to the research centers in the Humanities Division. In the company of faculty\, our staff\, academic affiliates\, colleagues\, students\, and esteemed guests\, we shall explore the growth of the Center’s philosophy\, programs\, fellowships\, and grants. Light refreshments will be served. \nThe event will be held on the terrace of Royce 306. Self-pay parking is available in UCLA lots 2\, 3\, 4\, and 5.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-fall-welcome-reception/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180610T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180610T183000
DTSTAMP:20180524T190840Z
CREATED:20180522T004642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T190840Z
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SUMMARY:"Untaken Paths"- Film Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening of Untaken Paths (2017\, 106 min\, English subtitles) from director Tahmieh Milani will be followed by a panel discussion. \nAbout the Film: Legendary feminist filmmaker Tahmineh Milani is no stranger to stories of women’s marital struggles. Untaken Paths\, her fourteenth feature\, tells the story of a young woman in love who marries against the wishes of her family. She is challenged when her nascent marriage is thrown into trouble because of the couple’s roots in different social strata. The film explores issues including domestic violence and women’s resistance. \nPanel discussion by: Poet\, writer\, literary\, and film critic\, Partow Nooriala\, Clinical Psychologist\, Dr. Nelly Fardnoody-Zahiri\, and Family Law Specialist\, Abbas Hadjian. See flyer for more information. \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/untaken-paths-film-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,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:20180520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180520T180000
DTSTAMP:20180509T172003Z
CREATED:20180509T171850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180509T172003Z
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SUMMARY:Is There a Persian Literary History? Twentieth-century Journals and the Formation of Literary Criticism
DESCRIPTION:Aria Fani (UC Berkeley) \nThis talk will consider the role of early twentieth-century Persian-language journals in institutionalizing what we know as Persian literary history today in Iran and Afghanistan. The focus of the talk will be Mohammad Taqi Bahar’s journal Daneshkadeh\, and in particular ‘Abbas Eqbal-Ashtiyani’s series titled “Tarikh-e adabi” (Literary history\, 1918-1919). Once we investigate the ways in which literary journals have helped to forge and institutionalize Persian literary history\, they will emerge not just as a byproduct of literary modernization\, but as one of its main sites of power and literary production. \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/is-there-a-persian-literary-history-twentieth-century-journals-and-the-formation-of-literary-criticism/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180507T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180507T180000
DTSTAMP:20180427T213935Z
CREATED:20180425T185004Z
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SUMMARY:Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran
DESCRIPTION:Nahid Siamdoust (Yale University) \nSoundtrack of the Revolution offers a striking account of Iranian culture\, politics\, and social change. Drawing on over five years of research in Iran\, including during the 2009 protests\, Nahid Siamdoust introduces a full cast of characters\, from musicians and audience members to state officials\, and takes readers into concert halls and underground performances\, as well as the state licensing and censorship offices. \nEvent Flyer \n  \nRegistration\nPlease complete this form to register for the event. Seating is limited.  \n[gravityform id=”79″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/soundtrack-of-the-revolution-the-politics-of-music-in-iran/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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