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The Anatomy of Loyalty and Patterns of Patronage in the Religio-political Culture of Sixteenth Century Iran
11348 Charles E. Young Research LibraryDr. Khafipour discusses the spiritual dimensions of political loyalty that was instrumental in the formation of strong ties between the Safavid rulers and their chiefs at the epicenter of the order, where power was continually contested. Drawing on a wide variety of historical and literary sources, Islamic theology, and theories of power, he discusses the...
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Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East
Fowler Museum (Lenart Auditorium) 308 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA book celebration for Ali Behdad In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light—making the region one of...
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Literature: Its Existence and Its Appearance
161 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA lecture in Persian by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak Bud o Nemud-e Sokhan (Literature: Its Existence and Its Appearance) brings together twenty select articles which Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak has written and published in the Persian language over three decades of academic service in the United States, and which have a bearing on a novel understanding of the history...
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Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) and the Creation of the “Sacred Defense Art”
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States© Revayat-e Farth Institute, Tehran, Iran. Caption: Morteza Avini. A lecture in Persian by Pedram Khosronejad Pedram Khosronejad is Farzaneh Family Chair and Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program (IPGS) at the Oklahoma State University and also associate member of Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laicités, CNRS-Paris, France. He obtained his PhD at the...
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Lost Souls: Photography of African Eunuchs & Female Servants in Qajar Iran
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States©The Farhad Diba Collection of Qajar Photographs. Caption: Malek Jahan Khanom/ Mahd-e Olia, the mother of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar A lecture in English by Pedram Khosronejad The focus of scholars of photography of Qajar Iran, remains fixed solely on photographic content, without any consideration of the materiality of photographic form. Recognizing photographs as material...
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My Story: From Iran to NASA and Beyond
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDr. Azadeh Tabazadeh is an author, environmental consultant, and has worked as a senior research scientist at NASA. She has taught geophysics at Stanford University and received her doctoral degree in physical chemistry from UCLA. Named as a top "Brilliant 10" young scientist in the U.S. by Popular Science , Tabazadeh has published more than 60 articles and was given a Presidential White House Award....
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** CANCELLED ** How much of a physician was Rashīd al-Dīn?
Royce Hall Room 306 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPhoto: Humboldt Foundation/Wolfgang Hemmann THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A lecture by Judith Pfeiffer (University of Bonn) Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍl Allāh Hamadānī (d. 718/1318) is often introduced as “ṭabīb,” or ‘physician,’ mostly to distinguish him from authors with similar names, notably the epistolographer Rashīd al-Dīn Waṭwāṭ (d. 578/1182). This paper discusses Rashīd al-Dīn’s scholarly persona as a...
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Abbas Kiarostami: The Man and His Arts
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesOn Kiarostami's Poetic Landscapes Shiva Balaghi Abbas Kiarostami: The Belated Poet Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak The Artful Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami Hamid Naficy Take Me Home (2016) Film screening and remarks by Ahmad Kiarostami Roundtable discussion Moderated by Nayereh Tohidi *Presentations in English followed by a Roundtable Discussion in Persian Shiva Balaghi is a cultural historian, focusing...
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Greater Glory: Darius I and Divinity in Achaemenid Royal Ideology
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)Matthew Waters (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) The close link between the king and the divine has deep roots in Near Eastern royal ideologies, and the Persian kings during the Achaemenid period (c. 550-330 BCE) followed this tradition. Exactly how close was the link? Recent studies suggest a blurred line between the two especially during at...
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Sexuality and Cultural Change in Iranian Cinema
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA lecture in Persian by Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona). October 8, 2017. The history of Iranian cinema adequately reflects the construction of gender in Iran. But the expression of sexuality is a problematic notion on a number of levels. In western societies, the preoccupation with human sexuality prompted reflection about human physiology, gender identity,...