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SUMMARY:Abbas Kiarostami: The Man and His Arts
DESCRIPTION:On Kiarostami’s Poetic Landscapes\nShiva Balaghi \nAbbas Kiarostami: The Belated Poet\nAhmad Karimi-Hakkak \nThe Artful Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami\nHamid Naficy\n \nTake Me Home (2016)\nFilm screening and remarks by Ahmad Kiarostami\n \nRoundtable discussion\nModerated by Nayereh Tohidi\n \n*Presentations in English followed by a Roundtable Discussion in Persian \nShiva Balaghi is a cultural historian\, focusing on the visual arts of the contemporary Middle East. For nearly two decades\, she taught history and art history at NYU and Brown University. Her recent curatorial projects include curating an exhibition of Marcos Grigorian’s art at Frieze London\, co-curating a retrospective of leading Iranian sculptor Parviz Tanavoli at Wellesley’s Davis Museum\, and curating feminist Egyptian artist Ghada Amer’s first exhibit in the Arab world in two decades. Balaghi is a Trustee of the American Institute for Iranian Studies and an Editorial Correspondent for Ibraaz. She has written widely on visual culture for museum catalogues and publications like Artforum\, Hyperallergic\, and Canvas. Her books include Picturing Iran: Art\, Society and Revolution. She is an independent scholar based in Los Angeles. \nAhmad Karimi-Hakkak is a professor of Persian Language\, Literature and Culture at the University of Maryland and now a visiting professor at the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages. He is the author\, translator and editor of twenty-three books and over one-hundred academic articles\, and has contributed to various leading encyclopedias such as Britannica and Iranica. His works have been translated into many languages and the Persian translation of one of his most important books\, titled Recasting Persian Poetry (Persian title: Tali`eh-ye Tajaddod dar She`r-e Farsi) is the standard textbook for Ph.D. programs in Persian literature in Iranian and Indian universities. \nHamid Naficy is a professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Professor in Communication Northwestern University. Naficy is a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora\, exile\, and postcolonial cinemas and media and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas.  He has published and lectured extensively\, nationally and internationally\, on these and allied topics. His latest work is the award-winning four-volume book A Social History of Iranian Cinema\, published in 2011-12.  Naficy has also published extensively in Persian\, including a two-volume book on the documentary cinema theory and history\, Film-e Mostanad.  He has also produced and directed many educational and documentary films. \nAhmad Kiarostami is the co-founder and CEO of Koantum\, a new startup to teach science to elementary school students in the United States. Ahmad serves as a board member at National Iranian American Council (NIAC)\, and The Roxie\, the oldest operational movie theatre in North America. Before moving to the United States in 2001\, he founded three companies in Iran\, including Negah\, the first multimedia and online production venue in Iran\, where he published award-winning multimedia products in cinema and visual arts. Ahmad has also worked with several Iranian directors\, and has served on the board of San Francisco Cinematheque\, the oldest organization in North America promoting experimental cinema and video. He makes music videos\, which are among the most viewed Iranian music videos on YouTube.  In 2014\, he started Docunight\, an initiative to show Iranian documentaries\, with monthly screenings in major cities in North America. In 2016\, Ahmad became a fellow at the Aspen Institute. \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/abbas-kiarostami-man-arts/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T180000
DTSTAMP:20170522T225845Z
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SUMMARY:** CANCELLED ** How much of a physician was Rashīd al-Dīn?
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Humboldt Foundation/Wolfgang Hemmann \nTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. \nA lecture by Judith Pfeiffer (University of Bonn) \nRashīd 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 physician. Starting from his epithet\, ṭabīb\, the paper explores his role as a medical practitioner\, patron\, and author of scholarly medical treatises\, arguing that Rashīd al-Dīn’s name is henceforth to be included in earnest in the history of Islamic medicine. \nJudith Pfeiffer’s research focuses on the social\, political\, and intellectual history of the Nile to Oxus region with a particular emphasis on Iran\, Central Asia\, and Anatolia during the Later Middle and Early Modern Periods of Islamic history. She has a special interest in the ways in which political and confessional boundaries were re-negotiated and re-defined during the post-Mongol period\, and has worked on Islamization processes\, historiography\, and political thought during the 13th to 17th centuries. \nHer publications include History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East (2006\, co-edited with Sholeh Quinn); Theoretical Approaches to the Transmission and Edition of Oriental Manuscripts (co-edited with Manfred Kropp\, 2007); and Politics\, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th-15th Century Tabriz (2013). \nJudith received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies/History from the University of Chicago in 2003. In the same year she joined the Faculty of Oriental Studies in Oxford as a University Lecturer and then Associate Professor\, where she taught courses on Islamic History and Culture; Arabic\, Persian\, and Ottoman Turkish historical texts and palaeography; and special options on Seljuq\, Mongol\, Mamluk\, Timurid\, Ottoman\, and Safavid history and historiography. In 2016 she was appointed Alexander von Humboldt Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Bonn\, where she currently directs the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg on 13th to 16th century Islamicate intellectual history. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia \n\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/much-physician-rashid-al-din/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T140000
DTSTAMP:20170516T003212Z
CREATED:20170510T185449Z
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SUMMARY:My Story: From Iran to NASA and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Dr. 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. Come see Tabazadeh speak on her experiences\, including her TIME-featured memoir ​The Sky Detective​  that details her life growing up in Iran. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/story-iran-nasa-beyond/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170501T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170501T180000
DTSTAMP:20170405T223312Z
CREATED:20170216T203246Z
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SUMMARY:Lost Souls:  Photography of African Eunuchs & Female Servants in Qajar Iran
DESCRIPTION:©The Farhad Diba Collection of Qajar Photographs.\nCaption: Malek Jahan Khanom/ Mahd-e Olia\, the mother of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar \nA lecture in English by Pedram Khosronejad \nThe 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 culture is a way to address such a blind spot\, and suggests that any methodological use of them requires a more complex and subtle approach. Photographs of enslaved children\, women and men in Iran during the Qajar period provide compelling and haunting documentation of individuals (African slaves) otherwise lost to the written historical record. Yet the history of such photographs is firmly embedded in the dynamic of exploitation and dehumanization that lay at the core of African slavery in Qajar Iran. \nPedram 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 École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His research interests include cultural and social anthropology\, the anthropology of death and dying\, visual anthropology\, visual piety\, devotional artefacts\, and religious material culture\, with a particular interest in Iran\, Persianate societies and the Islamic world. He is author of Les Lions en Pierre Sculptée chez les Bakhtiari: Description et significations de sculptures zoomorphes dans une société tribale du sud-ouest de l’Iran\, The Anthropology of Persianate Societies\, Volume 2 (Sean Kingston Publishing\, U.K.). He is also the editor of several publications: The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi’ism: Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi’i Islam (I.B. Tauris); Saints and their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighboring Countries (Sean Kingston); Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema: Religion\, Martyrdom and National Identity (Sean Kingston); Unburied Memories: The Politics of Bodies\, and the Material Culture of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran (Routledge). He is also chief editor of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME). \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/lost-souls-photography-african-eunuchs-female-servants-qajar-iran/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170430T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170430T180000
DTSTAMP:20170405T223510Z
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SUMMARY:Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) and the Creation of the “Sacred Defense Art”
DESCRIPTION:© Revayat-e Farth Institute\, Tehran\, Iran. Caption: Morteza Avini. \nA lecture in Persian by Pedram Khosronejad \nPedram 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 École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His research interests include cultural and social anthropology\, the anthropology of death and dying\, visual anthropology\, visual piety\, devotional artefacts\, and religious material culture\, with a particular interest in Iran\, Persianate societies and the Islamic world. He is author of Les Lions en Pierre Sculptée chez les Bakhtiari:  Description et significations de sculptures zoomorphes dans une société tribale du sud-ouest de l’Iran\, The Anthropology of Persianate Societies\, Volume 2 (Sean Kingston Publishing\, U.K.). He is also the editor of several publications: The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi’ism: Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi’i Islam (I.B. Tauris); Saints and their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighboring Countries (Sean Kingston); Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema: Religion\, Martyrdom and National Identity (Sean Kingston); Unburied Memories: The Politics of Bodies\, and the Material Culture of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran (Routledge). He is also chief editor of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME). \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iran-iraq-war-1980-88-creation-sacred-defense-art/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170409T180000
DTSTAMP:20170216T201919Z
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SUMMARY:Literature: Its Existence and Its Appearance
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in Persian by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak \nBud 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 of Persian Literature. In an extensive Introductory essay\, the author relates each of the works he analyzes and interprets to its specific social context and to the ways these essays\, taken collectively\, contribute to the formation and evolution of this world renowned literary belletristic tradition over eleven centuries of continued writing. In his talk the author will also chart the course for a new project\, that is a History of Persian Poetry conceptualized as a multinational cosmopolitan aesthetic tradition of universal relevance. \nAhmad Karimi-Hakkak is a professor of Persian Language\, Literature and Culture at the University of Maryland and now a visiting professor at the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages. He is the author\, translator and editor of twenty-three books and over one-hundred academic articles\, and has contributed to various leading encyclopedias such as Britannica and Iranica. His works have been translated into many languages and the Persian translation of one of his most important books\, titled Recasting Persian Poetry (Persian title: Tali`eh-ye Tajaddod dar She`r-e Farsi) is the standard textbook for Ph.D. programs in Persian literature in Iranian and Indian universities. \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/literature-existence-appearance/
LOCATION:161 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T210000
DTSTAMP:20170317T172918Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170317T172918Z
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SUMMARY:Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:A book celebration for Ali Behdad \nIn 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 the original sites for the practice of photography. A pioneering study of this intertwined history\, Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East (University of Chicago Press\, forthcoming 2016) traces the Middle East’s influences on photography’s evolution\, as well as photography’s effect on Europe’s view of “the Orient.” \nConsidering a range of Western and Middle Eastern archival material from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, Ali Behdad offers a rich account of how photography transformed Europe’s distinctly Orientalist vision into what seemed objective fact\, a transformation that proved central to the project of European colonialism. At the same time\, Orientalism was useful for photographers from both regions\, as it gave them a set of conventions by which to frame exotic Middle Eastern cultures for Western audiences. Behdad also shows how Middle Eastern audiences embraced photography as a way to foreground status and patriarchal values while also exoticizing other social classes. \nHosted reception at 6:00pm in the indoor atrium on the main level. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Department of English\, UCLA Department of Comparative Literature and UCLA Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/camera-orientalis-reflections-photography-middle-east/
LOCATION:Fowler Museum (Lenart Auditorium)\, 308 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T180000
DTSTAMP:20170120T003035Z
CREATED:20170120T003035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T003035Z
UID:6500-1488988800-1488996000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Anatomy of Loyalty and Patterns of Patronage in the Religio-political Culture of Sixteenth Century Iran
DESCRIPTION:Dr. 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 anatomy of political loyalty among the early Safavids within the context of early modern state formation and posits that hierarchies of spiritual power inherent in Sufi orders and sacrosanct mutual obligations that informs pir-murid interactions helped to create a strong patronage system that offered the early Safavids the ideological sources for long term success as a political order. \nHani Khafipour received his doctorate from the University of Chicago. He is a specialist in the history of medieval and early-modern Iran. His research encompasses study of the structures of political orders\, theories of power and state formation\, sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis. He has held research fellowships from the Iran Heritage Foundation (UK)\, and the American Institute of Iranian Studies.  He was an Andrew W. Mellon fellow\, and a fellow of the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute. Khafipour teaches courses on Islamic political thought and theory\, and medieval and modern history of Iran at the University of Southern California. His recent research and teaching interests has culminated in an edited volume\, Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid\, Ottoman\, and Mughal Literate Communities (Columbia University Press\, 2017)\, and a book manuscript\, The Mantle of Authority in an Early Modern Society (under preparation). He is the current History of Iran Section Editor for the Encyclopedia of Islam 3\, Brill.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/anatomy-loyalty-patterns-patronage-religio-political-culture-sixteenth-century-iran/
LOCATION:11348 Charles E. Young Research Library
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170305T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170305T180000
DTSTAMP:20170216T202034Z
CREATED:20170104T234759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T202034Z
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SUMMARY:Iran-China Relations in a Changing World
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in Persian \nAs two great civilizations with an illustrious imperial past\, Iran and China have a long history of trade\, political and cultural ties that go back to the ancient Silk Road more than 2100 years ago.  Islam was introduced to China by Persian speaking Muslims.  Currently\, China has more than 30 million Muslims living primarily in the Western part of the country. Against this historical backdrop\, Iran and China have witnessed an impressive expansion of their bilateral relations since the 1979 Iranian revolution. While we would briefly discuss the historical ties\, the major focus of this lecture would be on the multifaceted dimensions of Iran- China relations in the last 36 years\, including trade\, energy\, security\, and political relations. I would also discuss the possible future directions of Iran–China relations in the aftermath of the nuclear agreement\, thus shedding light on the larger implications of this relationship for the region and beyond. \nManochehr Dorraj received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas Austin and is currently professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University. He is the author\, coauthor\, editor or coeditor of 6 books and numerous articles and book chapters. He has been invited to present his scholarship in national and international symposiums\, including those in John Hopkins\, Yale\, Harvard\, Queens University (Canada)\, and Nottingham University (Great Britain). Manochehr Dorraj is a frequent commentator on global affairs in general and Middle East politics in particular. He has granted numerous interviews to international\, national and local media. He is also active in lecture circuits and has delivered many speeches to universities\, think tanks and community groups in Dallas-Fort Worth area and throughout the United States\, Canada\, Europe\, China and the Middle East. \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iran-china-relations-changing-world/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T180000
DTSTAMP:20170202T225909Z
CREATED:20170202T225909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170202T225909Z
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SUMMARY:Excavations at Pasargadae: The First Imperial City of the Achaemenids
DESCRIPTION:The World Heritage site of Pasargadae was the first dynastic site of the Achaemenid Empire\, founded by Cyrus the Great\, in Fars\, in the sixth century BCE. Its palaces\, gardens\, and the mausoleum of Cyrus are outstanding examples of the first phase of royal Achaemenid art and architecture and testament to the grandeur of the Achaemenid civilization. In 2016\, a new comprehensive excavation project was launched at the site. The first season of work concentrated on the ruined\, solitary tower known as Zendān–e Soleymān (“Prison of Solomon”)\, with the aim of shedding more light on this enigmatic edifice that has been regarded as a tomb\, a fire temple\, or a depository. \nAli Mousavi was born and raised in Iran. He studied in Lyon\, France\, and took his B.A. in Art History\, and his M.A. in Archaeology\, from the University of Lyon\, France. He obtained his Ph.D. in archaeology of the ancient Near East from the University of California\, Berkeley. He excavated in France\, Turkey\, and Iran\, and contributed to the nomination of a number of archaeological sites and monuments for inscription on the World Heritage List of UNESCO. He is the author of a book on the site of Persepolis (Persepolis: Discovery and Afterlife of a World Wonder)\, co-editor of the book Ancient Iran from the Air\, and a number of scholarly articles. He worked as an Assistant Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 2006 to 2013. He teaches art and archaeology of ancient Iran at UCLA. He is the director of the Pasargadae Archaeological Excavations. \n*Light refreshments will be served*
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/excavations-pasargadae-first-imperial-city-achaemenids/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170214T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170214T170000
DTSTAMP:20170202T230026Z
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SUMMARY:Metaphysical Subversions in Contemporary Iranian Art
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in English \nThe directional force of contemporary Iranian art\, especially photography\, the genius of its expression\, is principally the subversion of metaphysical concepts\, be they theological\, philosophical and/or ontological. Contemporary Iranian art makes transparent the arbitrariness of Truth centers\, thus resulting in the erasure of such cherished absolutes as the concept of author as God (artist as the creator of original concepts and forms)\, Art (as a privileged expression) and the a priori of an essence from which emanates all values. \nAbbas Daneshvari is the former chair of the Department of Art and presently the FERP Professor of Art History at California State University\, Los Angeles. He received his PhD from UCLA in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies and has taught at the University of California\, Berkeley and California State University\, Los Angeles. He was also a Fulbright scholar in Cairo\, Egypt where he lectured at the American University of Cairo and Cairo University. Dr. Daneshvari’s publications cover various aspects of Islamic and contemporary iconography as attested by his books Animal Symbolism in Warqa a Gulshah (Oxford University Press)\, Of Serpents and Dragons in Islamic Art (Mazda and the Persian Heritage Foundation) and most recently Amazingly Original\, Contemporary Iranian Art at Crossroads and Contemporary Iranian Photography\, Five Essays. Dr. Daneshvari is the author and editor of ten books and numerous monographs and articles on the arts of the Middle East and Contemporary European and American postmodernism. \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center on Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/metaphysical-subversions-contemporary-iranian-art/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T170000
DTSTAMP:20170104T234315Z
CREATED:20170104T234315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170104T234315Z
UID:6381-1486652400-1486659600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Contested Terrains of Iranian Culture
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in English \nThroughout modern Iranian history\, culture has served as a means of imposing unity and cohesion onto society. The Pahlavi monarchs used it to project an image of Iran as an ancient civilization\, re-emerging as an equal to Western nations\, while the revolutionaries deployed it to remake the country into an Islamic nation. Just as Iranian culture has been continually re-interpreted\, the representations and avocations of Iranian identity vary amongst Iranians across the world. This presentation will explore how the contested and contradictory claims to culture can inform and reshape the conceptualization of culture. \nNasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities and Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Irvine. Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature\, the literature of Iranian exile and diaspora\, contemporary Iranian women’s writing.  Among her publications are Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History\, Forugh Farrokhzad\, Poet of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry co-edited with Dominic Parviz Brookshaw. Her most recent book entitled Iranian Culture was published by Routledge in September 2015 \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center on Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/contested-terrains-iranian-culture/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T180000
DTSTAMP:20170123T234752Z
CREATED:20170123T234752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170123T234752Z
UID:6514-1485360000-1485367200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Western Iran in the Third Millennium BCE: The Early Trans-Caucasian Phenomenon Seen from Yanik Tepe
DESCRIPTION:The Early Trans-Caucasian (ETC)\, otherwise known as Kura–Araxes\, Karaz\, and Khirbet Kerak\, spanned the later part of the fourth and the entire third millennia BCE. Defined by distinctive pottery assemblages\, and also by building styles and portable hearths\, the ETC stretched over a vast expanse from the upper Euphrates Valley to the Caspian hills and from the Southern Caucasus to the Levant. While there has been much recent discussion of the ETC Phenomenon in the Southern Caucasus\, Turkey and the Levant\, little attempt has been made to integrate highly significant evidence from Iran. Ongoing publication of Charles Burney’s extensive excavations at Yanik Tepe\, conducted in the 1960s\, seeks to address many current concerns. This talk will summarize the extensive village plans and deep stratification in relation to chronology\, socio-economy\, cult\, origins and migration\, and regionalization. The intention is to provoke lively discussion. \nGeoffrey Summers obtained his PhD from The University of Manchester (UK 1982) which focused on the ETC levels at Yanik Tepe. Since then he has worked extensively in the Near East. From 1993 to 2012 he was Director of surveys and excavations at Iron Age capital Kerkenes in central Turkey. Dr. Summers is currently undertaking research in Mauritius\, focusing on Île de la Passe.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/western-iran-third-millennium-bce-early-trans-caucasian-phenomenon-seen-yanik-tepe/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T200000
DTSTAMP:20170111T010131Z
CREATED:20170111T010131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170111T010131Z
UID:6424-1484848800-1484856000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:The Iranian Student Group at UCLA will be hosting a screening and Q&A with lm director  Jahangir Golestan for two back-to-back\, English-language documentaries: Homeless to Homeowner\, telling the story of Mohammad Mohanna\, who establishes a facility to serve  the homeless of Sacramento\, and Bam 6.6\, detailing the story of the Iranians that saved the  lives of a Jewish-American couple in the aftermath of Iran’s 2003 earthquake in Bam. This  free event is open to the public and made possible by the UCLA Iranian Studies Program. \nLight refreshments will be served | parking available at lots 2\, 3\, & 4
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/film-screening/
LOCATION:Haines 220\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1551 \, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170115T180000
DTSTAMP:20170104T233535Z
CREATED:20170104T233535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170104T233535Z
UID:6370-1484496000-1484503200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Persepolis After Alexander
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in Persian \nAli Mousavi was born and raised in Iran. He studied in Lyon\, France\, and took his B.A. in Art History\, and his M.A. in Archaeology from the University of Lyon\, France. He obtained his Ph.D. in archaeology of the ancient Near East from the University of California\, Berkeley. He excavated in France\, Turkey\, and Iran\, and contributed to the nomination of a number of archaeological sites and monuments for inscription on the World Heritage List of UNESCO. He is the author of a book on the site of Persepolis (Persepolis: Discovery and Afterlife of a World Wonder)\, co-editor of the book Ancient Iran from the Air\, and a number of scholarly articles. He worked as an Assistant Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 2006 to 2013. He teaches art and archaeology of ancient Iran at UCLA. He is the director of the Pasargadae Archaeological Excavations. \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center on Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/persepolis-after-alexander/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161204T180000
DTSTAMP:20161102T174506Z
CREATED:20160924T234726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161102T174506Z
UID:5172-1480867200-1480874400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Two Book Talks by Ghobad Fakhimi and Fredun Hojabri
DESCRIPTION:Two Book Talks in Persian \nGhobad Fakhimi received his BS as a petroleum engineer in 1956. He later attended the Abadan Institute of Technology and Columbia University\, where he studied advanced chemical engineering. He then worked for NIOC\, first as a plant operator\, retiring as a member of the Board of Directors. Upon retirement\, Fakhimi founded Independent International Consultants (IIC) through which he provided counsel and analysis for different international oil and engineering companies. His book Thirty Years Iran Oil not only chronicles the life of Ghobad Fakhimi but sheds light on one of the most important periods of both Middle Eastern and world history (1969-1979). \nHis talk today is titled: “Iran’s Thirty Years of Oil History: Personal Memoirs Intersecting Declassified Documents” \nFredun Hojabri received his Ph.D. in Synthetic Fuels from Karlsruhe University in Germany in 1964. He then joined the newly established Aryamehr University of Technology as a professor of chemistry\, where he also served as academic vice-president from 1974 to 1976. Following the Cultural Revolution in Iran\, Hojabri moved to San Diego where he lectured at UCSD then worked as chief scientist at the Enpex Corporation. He was the founder of Sharif University of Technology Association (SUTA)\, and helped organize Shiraz University and FANNI (Tehran University) associates. \nHis talk today is titled: “Personal Memoirs Intersecting Nationalization of the Iranian Oil Industry\, Student Movements\, and the Formations of Aryamehr (Sharif) University of Technology” \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center on Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/two-book-talks-ghobad-fakhimi-fredun-hojabri/
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:20161128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161128T133000
DTSTAMP:20161110T005005Z
CREATED:20161110T005005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161110T005005Z
UID:6029-1480334400-1480339800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:New Methods in the Study of the Qur'an
DESCRIPTION:The date and provenance of the Qur’an\, as with all the literary sources for early Islamic history\, have been the subject of scholarly disagreement for decades. So have the questions of whether the Qur’an had one author or multiple authors\, and whether the suras are random mishmashes of verses from different periods or somewhat coherent textual units. The field has been ripe for the application of new methods as a way out of the various deadlocks. This presentation gives an overview of some of the methods recently applied to the study of the Qur’an\, including stylometry (quantitative analysis of style)\, radiocarbon dating\, X-Ray Fluorescence imaging\, and a new take on traditional textual criticism. \nBehnam Sadeghi specializes in the early centuries of Islamic religion and teaches courses on pre-modern intellectual history. He has done research on the early history of the Qur’an\, the hadith literature\, and the early legal debates about women in the public space. His doctoral dissertation examined methods of textual interpretation applied in the Hanafi school of law in the pre-modern period. He has taught Approaching Religion (covering early Islam)\, and courses on pre-modern theology\, pre-modern law\, and the early history of the Qur’an. \nEvent sponsored by UCLA Center for the Study of Religion and co-sponsored by UCLA Iranian Studies\, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/new-methods-study-quran/
LOCATION:11348 Charles E. Young Research Library
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:20161106T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161106T180000
DTSTAMP:20161103T184829Z
CREATED:20160913T224754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T184829Z
UID:4986-1478448000-1478455200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:[POSTPONED] Ups and Downs of Women's Quest for Equal Rights under the Islamic Republic of Iran
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Mehrangiz Kar \nMehrangiz Kar is a writer\, attorney\, and activist specializing in women’s rights and family law. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Gender and Women’s Studies Department of California State University\, Northridge (CSUN). Prior to this fellowship\, she worked as a senior expert at Family Health International (FHI)\, a Washington DC-based international development organization\, focusing on Islamic law and gender in the Middle East. Having practiced law in the Islamic Republic of Iran for 22 years\, she has published numerous books and articles on issues related to law\, gender equality and democracy in Iran and abroad. She was formerly a visiting scholar at Harvard University\, Brown University\, University of Cape Town\, Wellesley College\, and Brookings Institution. Kar has received several international awards for her human rights endeavors including the Democracy Award by the National Endowment for Democracy; Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize; and the Human Rights First Award. \n*Lecture in Persian \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies \n***PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED***
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ups-downs-womens-quest-equal-rights-islamic-republic-iran/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161031T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161031T173000
DTSTAMP:20160915T203616Z
CREATED:20160915T203529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160915T203616Z
UID:5011-1477929600-1477935000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Performing Pamiri Identity in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:The Pamir mountain range straddling the border between China\, Tajikistan and Afghanistan lent its name to a specific group of Eastern Iranian languages\, the Pamir languages. Speakers of these languages belong in majority to the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam. They are known as Pamiris. As speakers of unwritten\, minority languages and as members of a religious minority in Central Asia\, the Pamiris have long been marginalized and at times even persecuted by those who were in power – most recently during the civil war that raged in Tajikistan almost immediately after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The civil war and the ensuing developments in Tajikistan and Central Asia at large have led the Pamiri community to rethink its identity. In this lecture\, I propose to explore the role of cultural production\, in particular performance practices\, in (re)shaping Pamiri identity\, in the more recent past\, against the background of Soviet and post-Soviet language and culture policy. \nGabrielle van den Berg is associate professor at the University of Leiden. She studied Persian language and culture at the University of Leiden and at the University of Dushanbe\, Tajikistan. She has held positions in Leiden\, Cambridge and Brussels. Her research interests include Persian literature and the history of Iran and Central Asia; she has published in particular on the oral traditions of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan and the Shahnama manuscript. tradition. \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/performing-pamiri-identity-central-asia/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T160000
DTSTAMP:20161014T190652Z
CREATED:20161014T190652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161014T190652Z
UID:5742-1477749600-1477756800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dust-Flower-Flame
DESCRIPTION:Dust-Flower-Flame is a documentary film about the Iranian poet and theologian Tahirih Qurratul Ayn\, considered one of the most important figures of the feminist movements in 19th century in Iran \nShabnam Tolouei is an Iranian actress\, director and playwright. She studied filmmaking in Iran at Bagh-Ferdos Film School and has a B.A. in Theatre Studies from Université Paris X\, Nanterre\, France. She has been writing short stories for cultural magazines since 1990\, acting on stage since 1993\, and writing plays since 1994. She currently resides in Paris\, where she continues her work as an actress and director. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/dust-flower-flame/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T180000
DTSTAMP:20160913T225218Z
CREATED:20160909T014232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T225218Z
UID:4940-1477497600-1477504800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Celebrating the Ghaznavids:  Representations of Court Culture in Medieval Persian Poetry
DESCRIPTION:The first substantial amount of classical Persian poetry dates from the 11th century. A large part of this poetry has been composed for the Ghaznavid dynasty (11th-12th century)\, who ruled semi-independently over large territories of the eastern caliphate. The poetry produced for this dynasty has been of vital importance for the development of a flourishing poetical tradition in the centuries to follow. In this talk\, I will discuss one of the major genres of court poetry\, the qasida\, using some examples from the Ghaznavid court poets ʽOnsori\, Farrokhi and Manuchehri\, to show what aspects of court life appear in a panegyrical qasida and how these can inform us on life at the Ghaznavid court. This lecture will focus on poetical representations of a variety of celebrations at the Ghaznavid court\, with reference to the court poets and in connection to the work of the court historian Beyhaqi. \nGabrielle van den Berg is associate professor at the University of Leiden. She studied Persian language and culture at the University of Leiden and at the University of Dushanbe\, Tajikistan. She has held positions in Leiden\, Cambridge and Brussels. Her research interests include Persian literature and the history of Iran and Central Asia; she has published in particular on the oral traditions of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan and the Shahnama manuscript. tradition. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/celebrating-ghaznavids-representations-court-culture-medieval-persian-poetry/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161010T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161010T200000
DTSTAMP:20161010T222111Z
CREATED:20160924T232013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161010T222111Z
UID:5134-1476111600-1476129600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Ancient China in Comparative Perspective: An Afternoon of Papers in Honor of Professor Li Ling
DESCRIPTION:3:00-3:10: David Schaberg – Introduction \n3:10-3:40: Anthony Barbieri-Low (UCSB) – The Tombs of Scribes in Early Imperial China and Ancient Egypt in a Comparative Perspective \n3:40-4:20: Rahim Shayegan (UCLA) – Nugae sino-persicae: On Early Chinese-Persian Encounters \n4:20-4:50: Guolong Lai (University of Florida) – Methods of Decipherment in Chinese Paleography in Comparative Perspective \n4:50-5:20: Li Min (UCLA) – Sources of Geographic Knowledge in the Legendary Landscape of the “Yugong” \n5:20-5:50: Lothar von Falkenhausen (UCLA) – Bronze Age China and West Asia: Reviewing Some Possible Instances of Cultural Borrowings \n***Reception*** \n6:30-8:00: Keynote Address: Li Ling (Peking University) – Neighbors of the Western Zhou: The Inner Asian Backyard of Early Chinese Civilization \nProfessor Li Ling is a towering figure in the study of classical Chinese civilization today. Born in Xingtai (Hebei province) in 1948\, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Chinese Literature at Peking University since 1985. He has published prolifically in the areas of Chinese paleography (guwenzixue)\, classical philology\, intellectual history\, historical geography\, the history of science and technology\, as well as material culture and art history (with special emphasis on Chinese bronzes). He is especially interested in the connections between China and other parts of Eurasia in antiquity. \nRSVP ONLINE \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Iranian Studies\, the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library\, and the Humanities Division
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ancient-china-comparative-perspective-afternoon-papers-honor-professor-li-ling/
LOCATION:11360 Charles E. Young Research Library\,  280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161009T180000
DTSTAMP:20160914T043535Z
CREATED:20160909T212403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160914T043535Z
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SUMMARY:Ehsan Yarshater in Conversation with Mandana Zandian
DESCRIPTION:A book talk by Mandana Zandian and Houra Yavari \nMandana Zandian is a graduate of Shahid Beheshti Medical School (1997) and presently works at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles\, where she is currently engaged in research on aggressive types of advanced cancers. Dr. Zandian is also a published poet\, author and journalist and serves on the editorial board of Rahavard quarterly journal and collaborates with Homa Sarshar in her weekly radio broadcasting programs. Some of her recent publications include: Omid o Azadi (Hope and Freedom)\, on the life and works of Iraj Gorgin (2012) and Baz-khani-e Dah-Shab (The Ten-Nights Revisited\, 2014). \nHoura Yavari is Assistant Editor at the Center for Iranian Studies\, and the Consulting Editor on Modern Persian Fiction for the Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia University). She received a BA in English Language and Literature and an MA in Psychology from the University of Tehran. Pursuing her studies in France and the US\, she received an M.ED.\, from the Bank Street College of Education\, while studying literature and literary criticism\, particularly as applied to modern Persian fiction. She has published extensively on topics in psychoanalysis and Persian literature\, including numerous articles and six books such as Modernity & Persian Fiction: A Literary Perspective (Tehran\, 2009)\, Living in the Mirror: A Literary Perspective (Tehran\, 2005)\, and Psychoanalysis and Literature in Iran: Two Texts\, Two Selves\, Two Worlds (Tehran\, 1995\, repr.\, 2007). \n*Lectures in Persian \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ehsan-yarshater-conversation-mandana-zandian/
LOCATION:147 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160511T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160511T180000
DTSTAMP:20160708T182133Z
CREATED:20160706T195745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T182133Z
UID:1795-1462982400-1462989600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dynamics of Continuity and Creativity: Models of Change in Persian Poetry\, Classical and Modern
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/dynamics-continuity-creativity-models-change-persian-poetry-classical-modern/
LOCATION:11348 Charles E. Young Research Library
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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