Iranian Studies Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi Lecture 4

314 Royce Hall

Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran Between Religion, State, and the Lure of the West A series of four lectures by Houchang Chehabi Professor Emeritus of International Relations Boston University Lecture 4: Dress March 10, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm Registration Requested for In-Person Attendance A hybrid Zoom live stream option is...

Bilingual Lecture Series: Nonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran

121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

خشونت پرھیزی و انقلاب ارزش ھا در ایران Nonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran Ramin Jahanbegloo Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 4:00pm, Dodd Hall 121 Discussion in Persian Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99540545809 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on April 2 to join.) In 2009,...

Bilingual Lecture Series: Foreign Policy Panel

چرخش بھ شرق: تغییرو تداوم در سیاست خارجی جمھوری اسلامی Turning to the East: Changes and Continuities in the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Policy Sunday, April 9, 2023 I 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM via Zoom Registration Required Looking to the East and the New World Order Kazem Alamdari Main Tenants of Postrevolutionary Iran’s Foreign Policy...

AchWorks 1 – Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World

314 Royce Hall

Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World The Inaugural Symposium of the Achaemenid Workshops Series April 12–14, 2023 | 314 Royce Hall Watch Livestream Morning refreshments and check-in begin at 8:00 am.  Panels begin at 9:00 am.   The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is convening an international...

Bilingual Lecture Series: A Historical Perspective on Violence and Urban Unrest in Modern Iran

121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

خشونت و آشوبهای شهری در ایران معاصر از دید تاریخی A Historical Perspective on Violence and Urban Unrest in Modern Iran Mehrdad Amanat Sunday, May 7, 2023, 4:00 PM, Dodd Hall 121 Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99522637738 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on May 7 to join.)...

Bilingual Lecture Series – Being Woman: Diverse Voices of Women from Afghanistan and Iran

زن بودن : صداهای گوناگون زنان از افغانستان و ایران Being Woman: Diverse Voices of Women from Afghanistan and Iran Roundtable discussion in Persian Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 11:30am Pacific via Zoom Zoom Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZDUx9ZPvSvO_zhNLIzFkKg About the Panelists Haifa Asadi (Youth Generation of Arab Iranian Women) Haifa Asadi is an advocate for gender, racial,...

Pourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2023

Royce 306

Pourdavoud Center Fall 2023 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required   The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception. In the company of our supporters, colleagues, academic affiliates, students, and esteemed guests, we shall be...

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

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

Iranian Studies: Alborz: We Climb Mountains Film Screening

314 Royce Hall

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

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Neville McFerrin

Royce 306

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