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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T170000
DTSTAMP:20170104T234315Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T180000
DTSTAMP:20170123T234752Z
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170115T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161204T180000
DTSTAMP:20161102T174506Z
CREATED:20160924T234726Z
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161106T160000
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DTSTAMP:20161103T184829Z
CREATED:20160913T224754Z
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Dynamics of Continuity and Creativity: Models of Change in Persian Poetry\, Classical and Modern
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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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