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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Calendar and Identity: Why did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity?
DESCRIPTION::گاهشماری و هویت\nچگونه تقویم خورشیدی ایران ۱۴۰۰ سال پایدار ماند و نماد بارزی از هویت ملی شد؟\n\nCalendar and Identity:\nWhy did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity?\nSunday\, April 6\, 2025 at 4:00pm\, Royce Hall 314 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/97895439218 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on April 6 to join) \n  \n\nSince the end of the Sasanian era the Persian solar calendar\, and the associated rite of Nowruz\, endured as became a significant features of Iranian\, and to some extent the Persianate\, cultural identity. With Hijra as its starting point but based on vernal equinox\, it is a unique solar time reckoning throughout the Muslim world and beyond. This talk explores the circumstances that allowed the survival and its adoption as a national calendar of Iran at the turn of the 20th century. A book of the same title is in the press.  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nAbbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Since 1983\, he has taught history of early modern and modern Iran\, Shi’ism\, modern Middle East\, and the Persianate world at Yale. He has authored eight books\, most recently Iran: A Mod-ern History (Yale University Press\, 2017) and Ahd-e Qajar va Sowda-ye Farang in Persian (London\, 2021). He has edited and coedited thirteen volumes and published numerous articles\, encyclopedia entries\, and op eds. His forthcoming books include A Study of the Solar Calendar and Iranian Identity (2024 in Persian); A Study of Historiography and Reconstruction of National Identity in Iran (2024 in Persian and 2025 in English); A New Biography of Fatemah Zarin-Taj Baraghani Qorrat al-Ayn Tahereh (OneWorld\, 2025 in English); Companion of Qajar Studies (Cambridge University Press\, 2025); and Circle of Justice: Persian Art of Governance (Yale University Press\, 2026). Amanat served as the Chair of the Yale Council on Middle East Studies and as the Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal of Iranian Studies and he is the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming series Sources for the Study of the Persianate World.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-calendar-and-identity-why-did-the-persian-solar-calendar-survive-for-1400-years-and-become-an-important-feature-of-iranian-identity/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Women’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran
DESCRIPTION:Women’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran\nMonday\, March 10\, 2025 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JkEcn_S1Rvqmdvgfwe68Fw \n\n\n\n \nThe Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran\, ratified after the 1979 Islamic Revolution\, stands as the country’s foundational legal framework\, requiring all subsequent laws to align with its principles. The revolution itself was propelled by widespread calls for social and political reform\, with significant factions advocating for democracy\, human rights\, and gender equality. Iranian women played a prominent role in this movement\, underscoring the aspirations for a more inclusive and equitable society. While the constitution reflects these revolutionary demands by enumerating freedoms and rights modeled after Western constitutions\, it also incorporates elements of Islamic jurisprudence. This duality emerged from the influence of conservative religious factions\, who\, after helping to overthrow the monarchy\, swiftly consolidated power post-revolution. In this talk\, I will examine the provisions within Iran’s constitution that pertain to women’s rights\, focusing on how these provisions intersect with religious and secular legal systems. I will also explore the real-world impact on women’s personal and professional lives\, highlighting the challenges of extreme gender-based oppression under the current system. Finally\, I will discuss pathways for reform and envision how future constitutional efforts can avoid the missteps that have perpetuated inequality for over forty years. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nPegah Banihashemi is currently a JSD candidate at the University of Chicago Law School\, where she also completed an LL.M. in 2022. Pegah is currently working on the history of the formation of the Iranian Constitution both before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. In this project\, she will explore the problems of implementing the constitution in Iran. Part of Pegah’s project is dedicated to the issue of comparing constitutions among different countries. Pegah began her undergraduate studies focusing on French literature in Iran where reading the works of French philosophers and thinkers piqued her interest in the field of law. She completed a second Bachelor’s of Law\, after which\, she earned a Master’s and LL.M. in International Commercial Law and Private Law at Shahid Beheshti University\, achieving a first rank and defending her thesis in international arbitration. In Britain\, she worked on human rights research\, commentary\, and advocacy\, focusing on death sentences\, immigration law\, and women’s and children’s rights in Middle Eastern and Sharia Law. She has worked extensively in the analysis of international law and international human rights and is a regular expert legal analyst with many global media outlets and non-profits. She has also taught several legal courses on topics including women\, economics\, and the law\, human rights advocacy\, and students’ and teachers’ rights.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-womens-rights-and-the-constitution-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran-2/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Women’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran
DESCRIPTION:زن در قانون اساسی ایران  \nWomen’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran\nSunday\, March 9\, 2025 | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pM3LdrXXSriCfDMGfzVg8w \n\n\n\n \nThe Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran\, ratified after the 1979 Islamic Revolution\, stands as the country’s foundational legal framework\, requiring all subsequent laws to align with its principles. The revolution itself was propelled by widespread calls for social and political reform\, with significant factions advocating for democracy\, human rights\, and gender equality. Iranian women played a prominent role in this movement\, underscoring the aspirations for a more inclusive and equitable society. While the constitution reflects these revolutionary demands by enumerating freedoms and rights modeled after Western constitutions\, it also incorporates elements of Islamic jurisprudence. This duality emerged from the influence of conservative religious factions\, who\, after helping to overthrow the monarchy\, swiftly consolidated power post-revolution. In this talk\, I will examine the provisions within Iran’s constitution that pertain to women’s rights\, focusing on how these provisions intersect with religious and secular legal systems. I will also explore the real-world impact on women’s personal and professional lives\, highlighting the challenges of extreme gender-based oppression under the current system. Finally\, I will discuss pathways for reform and envision how future constitutional efforts can avoid the missteps that have perpetuated inequality for over forty years. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nPegah Banihashemi is currently a JSD candidate at the University of Chicago Law School\, where she also completed an LL.M. in 2022. Pegah is currently working on the history of the formation of the Iranian Constitution both before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. In this project\, she will explore the problems of implementing the constitution in Iran. Part of Pegah’s project is dedicated to the issue of comparing constitutions among different countries. Pegah began her undergraduate studies focusing on French literature in Iran where reading the works of French philosophers and thinkers piqued her interest in the field of law. She completed a second Bachelor’s of Law\, after which\, she earned a Master’s and LL.M. in International Commercial Law and Private Law at Shahid Beheshti University\, achieving a first rank and defending her thesis in international arbitration. In Britain\, she worked on human rights research\, commentary\, and advocacy\, focusing on death sentences\, immigration law\, and women’s and children’s rights in Middle Eastern and Sharia Law. She has worked extensively in the analysis of international law and international human rights and is a regular expert legal analyst with many global media outlets and non-profits. She has also taught several legal courses on topics including women\, economics\, and the law\, human rights advocacy\, and students’ and teachers’ rights.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-womens-rights-and-the-constitution-of-the-islamic-republic-of-iran/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250305T160000
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SUMMARY:Yarshater Lecture Series: Cameron Cross
DESCRIPTION:Spiderweb Stories: Translations\, Adaptations\, and Connections in Persian Romance\nIn this talk\, I will explore some avenues for comparative literary study through the framework of early Persian romances. The earliest extant representatives of this genre in Persian show that it is deeply imbricated with prior and adjacent narrative traditions\, making it part of an intertextual and transregional literary network. Through these texts\, we can find evidence of direct translation and adaptation\, as well as broader signs of a shared vocabulary of narrative expectations\, typical characters and topoi\, and thematic concerns. Approaching them as “connected” texts within this broader network — with the understanding of “network” as a series of linkages with no necessary center or periphery — affords us one way of tracing the lattices of movement and exchange that inform the disciplinary premise of the (or a) “global” Middle Ages. At the same time\, this approach also allows us to better see how individual texts utilize the generic repertory of love narrative to speak to purposes and audiences highly specific to their contexts. To illustrate this\, I will offer quick sketches of three versified love stories in Persian and show how they speak to a wide range of historical events and intellectual discussions. \nAbout the Speaker \nCameron Cross is an associate professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, whose research interests center in the literary traditions of the “Nile to Oxus” region from about 800–1200 CE. Cross is the author of Love at a Crux: The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages (University of Toronto Press\, 2023)\, which explores the emergence of ‘romance’ as a literary genre in New Persian and the idea of ‘romantic love’ as an ethical praxis within this generic tradition. \nClick here to register for this event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/yarshater-lecture-series-cameron-cross/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Yarshater Center
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Film Screening and Director Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Bilingual Lecture Series: Film Screening and Director Q&A with Mohammad Ehsani\nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/95549537236 \nThe Water Will Take Us (2022)\n(Persian with English subtitles) \n \nIn the spring of 2019 Iran experienced a near apocalypse event that went by almost unnoticed by the world. Widespread flash flooding affected large parts of the country over the course of one month\, leading to major damages countrywide and leaving the already impoverished population in utter disarray.  The film is a  look at how years of mismanagement\, poor spatial planning and climate change are impacting civil society in Iran. \nLady Urmia (2013)\n(Persian with English subtitles) \n \nThe film is a poetic documentary about Lake Urmia\, in the northwest of Iran\, which is drying up completely. The environmental catastrophe will affect also neighboring countries such as Iraq and Turkey. The film is narrated in the voice of the lake itself\, crying for help and trying to gain international attention to its suffering. \nAbout the Director \nMohammad Ehsani\, an Iranian independent filmmaker and a member of the Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association and IDA. He has made several award-winning documentary and fiction films\, such as The Lovers: The Victims\, Tabriz: Images from the Forgotten World\, Enamel Dome\, Lady Urmia\, Once Hamoun\, Karun\, When the Woodpeckers Leave\, and The Water Will Take Us. Ehsani’s films deal with historical drama and social environmental issues in Iran.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-film-screening-and-director-qa-with-mohammad-ehsani/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T180000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Carlo Cereti
DESCRIPTION:The Rise of Persian: Understanding the Evolution of Writing in the Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods\nThis talk explores the evolution of writing during the Sasanian and early Islamic periods\, shedding light on the long-term process that led to Persian becoming the lingua franca in Western and Central Asia from Iran to the borders of China. With the groundwork laid by pioneering scholars\, we now have a stronger foundation for reading and understanding Middle Persian documents in their many forms. As Bernhard of Chartres observed\, “we are but dwarves on the shoulders of giants\,” benefiting from the invaluable contributions of previous generations. \nOur understanding of Middle Persian script has progressed in many key areas ranging from 3rd century royal inscriptions to the legends found on coins and gems\, and the wider array of secular texts written in ink on various materials. These include legal and commercial texts\, letters\, ostraca\, and dipinti found on walls and stuccos. Notable examples include the dipinti from Dura Europos (3rd century CE)\, Pahlavi papyri from the Sasanian occupation of Egypt (7th century)\, and parchments from the Iranian highlands (7th century). Additional comparable texts were found in the Indian subcontintent and range from the Quilon Copper Plates (9th century)\, to Parsi inscriptions in the Kanheri caves close to Mumbai (11thcentury) and to Nestorian crosses in Chennai and Kerala. \nWhile substantial evidence exists from the early and late Sasanian periods\, a gap persists in our record from the central Sasanian centuries. This may be due to limited archaeological investigation in major Sasanian cities\, though sociolinguistic shifts—perhaps after the Mazdakite movement disrupted the social order—may also have influenced the spread of writing. This analysis aligns with the scholarly interests of Ehsan Yarshater\, who offered profound insights into Iranian National History\, and invites further interdisciplinary inquiry to fully understand Persia’s enduring impact on the Islamic world. \nAbout the Speaker \nCarlo G. Cereti joined the University of California in 2024\,  serving as Endowed Ferdowsi Chair in Zoroastrian Studies and Prof. of Classics and Religions at UCI. He has served since 2000 as Full Professor of Iranian Studies at Sapienza University of Rome\, Dept. of Ancient World Studies\, from 2009 to 2017 he acted as Cultural Counsellor at the Embassy of Italy in Tehran.. His earliest research work focused on the history of the Zoroastrian Parsi community in India\, an intellectual interest that continued throughout his academic career\, though in time his main research field shifted to Middle Iranian Languages and Literatures and more specifically to the study of Zoroastrian literature in Middle Persian. His interest in the medieval and modern history of the Zoroastrian community\, combined with an intimate knowledge of Zoroastrian Middle Persian literature and more of Sasanian and post-Sasanian written culture led him to prepare critical editions of Middle Persian texts such as the Zand ī Wahman Yasn and many chapters of the Bundahišn\, as well as a work of synthesis on the Pahlavi tradition (La Letteratura Pahlavi) From 2006 onwards he has intensively worked on epigraphic Middle Persian\, with a focus on Narseh’s Paikuli inscription and on other epigraphic texts\, including seals and sealings as well as ostraca and documents mainly dating to the late Sasanian and early Islamic periods. This line of research has led him in recent years to dedicate an increasing amount of time to analyzing the written tradition of Sasanian and early Islamic Iran\, studying all different classes of written materials to analyze the phenomenon of literacy in its entirety and complexity. \nClick here to register for the event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-carlo-cereti/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: A Comparative Analysis of and Proposition on the Process of Transition to Democracy in Iran
DESCRIPTION:تحلیلی مقایسھ ای و راھبردی در باره فرایند گذار به  دموکراسی در ایران\n\n\n\n\nA Comparative Analysis of and Proposition on the Process of Transition to Democracy in Iran\nSunday\, January 12\, 2025 | 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Pacific \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NsgynB3eTcC5gMAFoEixAQ \n \n\n\n\n\nOver the past few decades\, democratic movements in many countries have successfully overthrown autocratic regimes and established democratic governments. In some cases\, these transformations occurred suddenly\, driven by dramatic mass uprisings and nonviolent civil resistance\, as seen in the Philippines in 1986\, Czechoslovakia in 1989\, Serbia in 2000\, and Tunisia in 2011. In other instances\, such as Portugal and Romania\, the initial change was marked by sudden and violent revolutions\, followed by a more gradual and peaceful transition to stable democracy. However\, in most cases\, democratic change has been achieved through a more gradual and incremental process\, as exemplified by Argentina\, Brazil\, South Korea\, Taiwan\, Hungary\, Chile\, Croatia\, Uruguay\, Ghana\, Guyana\, Kenya\, and others. While it is impossible to predict with certainty when and how democracy will emerge in Iran\, the experiences of other nations offer valuable lessons. Additionally\, Iran’s unique structural and historical characteristics play a crucial role in understanding its potential pathways. This talk will explore these issues\, providing a comparative analysis of the possible trajectories for Iran\, their defining characteristics\, and the challenges they may present. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\n\nHadi Zamani is an economics PhD graduate from the University of London and has worked for more than thirty years in private and public sector institutions in the United Kingdom. He has participated in numerous international projects in Western and Eastern Europe\, Asia\, and Latin America for private companies\, governments of the concerned countries\, The European Union\, the development banks of Europe\, Asia and Latin America\, and the World Bank. In addition to teaching at the universities of London and Glasgow\, his work experience includes the positions of economic advisor at “Marsh McLennan” and “Halcrow”\, management of two investment funds in the UK\, and economic advisor at the British Ministry of Transport (DfT). In the case of Iran\, Hadi’s interest lies in the areas of political economy and economic development. He has published several books and articles in this field in Persian\, including Democracy and Sustainable Economic Development; The Effectiveness of Economic Sanctions; Economic Development and National Security; Opportunities and Challenges of Globalization; Obstacles to the Formation of Modern State and Economic Development in Iran; and The Curse of Oil. Hadi’s books\, articles\, and interviews in Persian are available on his website “www.hadizamani.com” and his social media pages.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-a-comparative-analysis-and-proposition-on-the-process-of-transition-to-democracy-in-iran/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T180000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: The Left\, Democracy\, and Authoritarianism in Iran: An Internationally Comparative Perspective
DESCRIPTION:چپ ، دموکراسی، و اقتدارگرایی در ایران: در مقایسه ای بین المللی \nThe Left\, Democracy\, and Authoritarianism in Iran: An Internationally Comparative Perspective \nSunday\, December 8\, 4:00-6:00 PM Pacific\, Royce Hall\, Room 314 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/92237337565 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on December 8 to join.) \n \nIn this talk\, I will focus on the relationship between the Left and democracy in Iran. To understand the development of the Iranian Left over the past century\, we should first briefly outline how leftist movements after Marx evolved along three main trajectories\, how these paths ended\, and what renewal trends emerged thereafter. A relevant comparison to Iran is the experience of Latin American countries and the routes taken by the Left there. Following this introduction\, I will provide a historical overview of the different strands of the Left in Iran\, from the Constitutional Revolution (1906) to the present. Next\, I will address the successes\, setbacks\, and failures the Left has encountered along this journey. Finally\, I will discuss the problems\, challenges\, and opportunities facing the Left in Iran today. \nAbout the Speaker \nDr. Alireza Behtoui is a professor of sociology at the School of Social Sciences at Södertörn University in Stockholm\, Sweden. His research expertise includes Sociology of education\, political sociology and social movements\, sociology of elites\, race\, and ethnicity. He has published numerous scientific articles in English-language journals\, books in Swedish and popular scientific articles in Persian on these topics. He is currently on sabbatical at the University of California\, Berkeley. His latest writings have addressed the challenges against democracy building in Iran from a comparative perspective.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-the-left-democracy-and-authoritarianism-in-iran-an-internationally-comparative-perspective/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Yarshater Center & Iranian Studies Symposium and Workshop: Nezāmi and the Iranian World
DESCRIPTION:Nezāmi and the Iranian World\nNovember 21–22\, 2024 | UCLA Royce Hall 306 \nA symposium and workshop convened by \nDomenico Ingenito (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nMorning Refreshments at 8:30am \nConference beings at 9:00am \n“Nezāmi and the Iranian World” is a two-day conference (November 21–22\, 2024) that brings together specialists of Persian literature\, junior faculty\, and graduate students to facilitate in-depth conversations on Nezāmi in a stimulating intellectual environment at UCLA. \nNezāmi Ganjavi’s five romances in verse\, collectively known as the Quintet (Khamsa)\, are regarded as the most precious examples of medieval Iran’s literary refinement. Drawing upon a vast repertoire of didactic\, romantic\, epic\, folkloric\, philosophical\, and scientific materials that circulated in ancient and medieval Iran\, and Central and West Asia\, Nezāmi’s stylistically impeccable narrative poems constitute a masterpiece of world literature. Like all classics\, Nezāmi’s Khamsa challenges every generation of scholars to re-read its fictional worlds through new critical lenses and in connection with emerging theoretical paradigms. \nIn the interest of promoting cross-generational and interdisciplinary conversations\, “Nezāmi and the Iranian World” approaches the study of Nezāmi’s poetry through close readings and critical analyses that\, while building on previous scholarship\, shall also highlight aspects of the Khamsa little explored heretofore. By studying Nezāmi “against the grain” of previous interpretations\, invited speakers shall explore the complex thematic\, aesthetic\, and ethical ambivalence of Nezāmi’s poetry as a powerful source of literary creativity that defies generic conventions\, as well as fixed hermeneutical categories. \nOn the first day of the conference\, “Rediscovering a Persian Treasury of Global Literature\,” invited speakers will deliver lectures that offer insights on the most recent developments in current approaches to the study of Nezāmi’s poetry. On the second day\, a workshop\, entitled “Recrafting Nezāmi Studies between the Real and the Imaginary\,” will offer UCLA graduate students the opportunity to discuss new trajectories in the field of Persian literary studies in unison with Nezāmi specialists. \nThe two-day conference “Nezāmi and the Iranian World” is organized under the auspices of the Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions and the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies\, in partnership with the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World\, and convened by Domenico Ingenito. We also would like to acknowledge the co-sponsorship of the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies. \nSchedule of Speakers \nDay 1 \nSymposium: Rediscovering a Persian Treasury of Global Literature \nLeili Anvar (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales\, Paris) \nLayli and Majnun and the Divan \nPaul Losensky (Indiana University) \nTents\, Fortresses\, and Caves: Literary Architectures in Nezami’s Eskandarnama \nAlexandra Hoffmann (University of British Columbia) \nMasculinities in Layli and Majnun \nJane Mikkelson (Yale University) \nThe Reality Shimmer: Hearing Voices in Nezami’s Layli and Majnun \nReading of Nezāmi’s Selected Works \n  \nDay 2 \n Workshop: Recrafting Nezāmi Studies between the Real and the Imaginary  \nSahba Shayani (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nShirin: From Ferdowsi to Nezami \nDomenico Ingenito (University of California\, Los Angeles) \n“As Fast as the Intellect”: Nezami’s Meräj Narratives\, Architectural Wonders\, and Poetic Inspiration \nAshkaan Kashani (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nEmergence of the New: Negation and Transformation in the Haft Paykar \nAllison Kanner-Botan (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nFiction and Ethics: Nezami’s Responses to Ferdowsi \nCharlotte Howley (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nSacred Geometry and Celestial Domes: The Architectural Dimension of Nezami’s Haft Paykar in Its Historical Context \nAzeem Malik (University of California\, Los Angeles) \nYusof and Zoleykhä between the White Dome and the Seventh Heaven: Reading Jämi alongside Nezami’s Seven Figures \nClick here to register for this event. \nClick here to download the PDF of the program.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-yarshater-symposium-and-workshop-nezami-and-the-iranian-world/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud & Iranian Studies Co-Sponsored Lecture: Panagiotis Agapitos
DESCRIPTION:Byzantium Within a Medieval Eurafricasian Literary Polysystem: Historiography\, Fictional Tales\, and the Practices of Narrative Representation\n  \nByzantium and its literature has been excluded from the national canons of European literatures. While there are some obvious reasons for this exclusion in the 18th–19th century\, it is woth noting that also Byzantinists supported this exclusion by promoting the alterity of Byzantine culture in relation to “Medieval Europe.” The talk will examine two types of entangled premodern narratives as examples which show the application of new criteria that would allow us to think inclusively in terms of broader “medieval” literary polysystems and the various regional/transregional systems that operated within them. Two such “story spaces” will be used: the Eurafricasian and the Hindosinonipponese polysystems. The first example will look at the various forms of historiography during the periods AD 700–900 and 1000–1200\, while the second example will focus on erotic tales between 1000–1300. The texts cover a broad spectrum of languages (Byzantine Greek\, Medieval Latin\, Middle High German\, Old French\, Arabic\, New Persian and Early Japanese). The comparison\, part of a narrative history of Byzantine literature – will use structural\, thematic\, stylistic and socio-cultural criteria with the aim of highlighting and explaining similarities and differences between the practices of narrative within the two medieval literary polysystems. \nAbout the Speaker \nPanagiotis Agapitos is since 2021 Fellow of Byzantine Studies at the Gutenberg Research College of the University of Mainz\, having worked before that for 25 years at the University of Cyprus as Professor of Byzantine Literature and Culture in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He studied at the University of Munich and received his PhD from Harvard University in 1990. He has taught as visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin\, the High School of Social Sciences in Paris\, Stanford University and the Sapienza University of Rome. His research interests focus on Byzantine literature\, the history of manuscripts and education in Byzantium\, the critical edition of Medieval Greek texts\, narratology\, theory and practice of rhetoric\, genre studies and cultural history. He has published over 90 papers on these topics\, while his most recent book is a translation into English of the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne\, a Byzantine love romance of the 13th century (Liverpool University Press\, 2021). He is currently writing a narrative history of Byzantine literature (AD 300–1500) under contract with Cambridge University Press. In his free time he writes “mystery stories” set in ninth-century Byzantium.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-iranian-studies-co-sponsored-lecture-panagiotis-agapitos/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Institute Fall Reception 2024
DESCRIPTION:Pourdavoud Institute Fall 2024 Welcome Reception\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2024\n4:00 – 6:00 pm\nRoyce Hall 306\nRegistration Required\nThe Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception. \nIn the company of our supporters\, colleagues\, academic affiliates\, students\, and esteemed guests\, we shall be introducing the Institute’s stimulating programming and research agenda for the academic year 2024–25. \nLight refreshments will be served. Parking in Lot 2 or Lot 5 is recommended. \nPlease click here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-institute-fall-reception-2024/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240602T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240602T133000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Socio-Economic Stratification\, Labor Issues\, and the Labor Movement in Iran
DESCRIPTION:قشر بندی اجتماعی-اقتصادی، مسائل کارگری و جنبش کارگران در ایران\n\n\n\n\nSocio-Economic Stratification\, Labor Issues\, and the Labor Movement in Iran\nSunday\, June 2\, 2024 I 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CpBto5YGT-WkGYFOwtwB5Q \n \n\n\n\n\nKazem Alamdari \nDiscussant \nTouraj Atabaki \nنقش کارگران بیکار و ناپایدارکار در جنبش‌های اعتراضی ایران ۱۴۰۲-۱۳۹۶ ( ۲۰۱۷-۲۰۲۳) \nThe Agency of Unemployed and Precarious Workers in the Protest Movements of Iran 2017-2023 \nAzam Khatam \nبحران اقتصادی وعدم استقلال معیشتی و زیست ِی زنان جوان ایران: از انطباق تا اعتراض \nEconomic Downturns and the Failure to Launch among Young Women in Iran: Adaptation\, Protest and in-between \nMohammad Safavi \nتاثیر سیاست ھای اقتصادی-اجتماعی حکومتی بر کارگران و ھمگرایی جنبش کارگری با دیگر جنبش ھا \nThe Impact of the socio-economic policies of the state on workers and convergence of the labor movement with other movements \nAbout the Speakers \n\n\n\nKazem Alamdari is a retired faculty of sociology at California State University\, Northridge. He has published ten books and numerous articles. His first book\, Why Iran Lagged Behind and the West Moved Forward\, has been published 19 times in Iran. His article “Religion and Development Revisited: Comparing Islam and Christianity with Reference to the Case of Iran” in the Journal of Developing Societies has been named one of “The 50 Most-Frequently-Read Articles.” As a public intellectual\, he is frequently featured in the media and presents lectures at national and international conferences. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTouraj Atabaki is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University. Atabaki studied theoretical physics and later history at the University of London and Utrecht University. Following positions at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam\, he joined Leiden University where he held the Chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia. Atabaki’s research encompasses historiography\, social history of labor and subaltern studies in 20th century Iran\, the Ottoman empire\, and Turkey\, as well as the Caucasus and Central Asia. His forthcoming publications with Cambridge University Press are: Social History of the Iranian Oil Industry and Fallen in the Whirlwind: Life and Time of Iranian Migrant Labour and Political Activists during the Soviet Great Purge. Atabaki’s major publications and research projects can be found on: https://socialhistory.org/en/staff/touraj-atabaki. \n  \n  \n  \nAzam Khatam is a Research Affiliate at The City Institute\, York University. She completed her PhD in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in 2015. Dr. Khatam has previously worked as a urban planner and sociologist in Tehran in the 1990s and 2000s. Her publications include “Struggles over defining the moral city: Islam and urban public life in Iran\,” in Herrera and Bayat (eds.) The Making of Muslim Youths: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North; “The Space Reloaded: Publics and Politics on Enqelab Street in Tehran\,” in Sharp and Panetta (eds.) Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings\, Beyond the Square. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMohammad Safavi was born in Abadan\, Iran. In 1975\, he was hired as a project-based worker in the construction sector of the “Iran-Japan Petrochemical Company” in the town of Jarrahi (Besat) in the province of Khuzestan. That is where he became a Labor activist; an active member (1978-1980) of the “Independent Syndicate of the Seasonal Workers of Abadan Region.” During the Iran-Iraq war\, he was working as a project-based worker in the construction section of the Power Field of Esfahan. He left Iran in 1980s\, and after his emigration to Canada\, he started working as a baker in 1988 in a large industrial baking company (Canada Bread). For 15 years he served as a workers’ representative in the Committees for Safety\, Security\, and Hygiene. He had also become a member of the Union of the Automobile Workers (CAW)\, and the Union of Food Workers (UFCW1518)‌.  Safavi has published several articles in Persian and English on labor issues in journals such as Women’s View\,  Feminist School\, and Kar-Mozd. His article on “The formation of the seasonal and project-based workers in Abadan” was published in the book Iran’s Struggles for Social Justice\, edited by Peyman Vahabzadeh\, 2016.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-socio-economic-stratification-labor-issues-and-the-labor-movement-in-iran/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Heroes to Hostages: US—Iran Diplomacy through Race Relations and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Heroes to Hostages: US—Iran Diplomacy through Race Relations and Human Rights\n\nMonday\, May 20\, 2024 I 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QUtvGrfQTl2ZcaQhcdlJ1Q \n \n\n\n\n\nThis presentation appraises US-Iranian diplomacy through race relations and human rights. Intellectuals of the post-Mosaddeq era gave voice to an anti-colonial rhetoric that burst wide open during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Many writers\, some with socialist leanings\, watched with interest political happenings in formerly colonized states. These conflicts were often rooted in experiences of racial discrimination and social inequality. At the same time\, the Iranian state also engaged with some of these themes and expanded its diplomatic relations with a range of countries in the Global South. Although state-to-state ties between Iran and America were strengthened during the two decades preceding the 1979 revolution\, social dissent also grew strident. The debate on human rights gave voice to these concerns as Iran’s politicians and writers reflected on the legacy of human rights and reassessed the country’s ties to the United States and the West. Race relations provided an unanticipated and often missed opportunity for collaboration. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\n\nFiroozeh Kashani-Sabet received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, where she was a Morehead Scholar. She completed her Ph.D. in history at Yale University. Dr. Kashani-Sabet’s first book\, Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation\, 1804-1946\, analyzes the significance of land and border disputes to the process of identity and nation formation\, as well as to cultural production\, in Iran and its borderlands. She has worked extensively on the histories of disease\, science\, and reproductive politics. She has also published articles on disability\, hygiene\, humanism\, and quarantines in the context of the Persianate world. Her new book\, Heroes to Hostages: America and Iran\, 1800-1988 (Cambridge University Press) analyzes the ties between America and Iran not only through international diplomacy\, but also through cultural and social history\, with a focus on race\, gender\, and ethnic relations. It draws on a wide array of sources in Persian and English.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-heroes-to-hostages-us-iran-diplomacy-through-race-relations-and-human-rights-2/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Heroes to Hostages: US—Iran Diplomacy through Race Relations and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:قھرمان یا گروگان : تاریخ روابط آمریکا و ایران از دیدگاه مسائل نژادی و اجتماعی\nHeroes to Hostages: US—Iran Diplomacy through Race Relations and Human Rights\n\nSunday\, May 19\, 2024 I 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM \nZoom Registration: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aieHlTjSSJa2-tL__Bf22g \n \n\n\n\n\nThis presentation appraises US-Iranian diplomacy through race relations and human rights. Intellectuals of the post-Mosaddeq era gave voice to an anti-colonial rhetoric that burst wide open during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Many writers\, some with socialist leanings\, watched with interest political happenings in formerly colonized states. These conflicts were often rooted in experiences of racial discrimination and social inequality. At the same time\, the Iranian state also engaged with some of these themes and expanded its diplomatic relations with a range of countries in the Global South. Although state-to-state ties between Iran and America were strengthened during the two decades preceding the 1979 revolution\, social dissent also grew strident. The debate on human rights gave voice to these concerns as Iran’s politicians and writers reflected on the legacy of human rights and reassessed the country’s ties to the United States and the West. Race relations provided an unanticipated and often missed opportunity for collaboration. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\n\nFiroozeh Kashani-Sabet received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, where she was a Morehead Scholar. She completed her M.A.\, M.Phil.\, and Ph.D. in history at Yale University. Dr. Kashani-Sabet has worked extensively on the histories of disease\, science\, and reproductive politics. She has also published articles on disability\, hygiene\, humanism\, and quarantines in the context of the Persianate world. Her new book\, Heroes to Hostages: America and Iran\, 1800-1988 (Cambridge University Press) analyzes the ties between America and Iran not only through international diplomacy\, but also through cultural and social history\, with a focus on race\, gender\, and ethnic relations. It draws on a wide array of sources in Persian and English.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-heroes-to-hostages-us-iran-diplomacy-through-race-relations-and-human-rights/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Wu Xin
DESCRIPTION:It is with sincere regret that we have decided to cancel the upcoming lecture by Professor Wu Xin. Our campus\, like many others across the country\, is experiencing turbulent times with ongoing protests. We will reschedule this event at a later date when we will be able to welcome safely to campus our friends and colleagues.\n  \n\nRegal Metamorphosis: A Transcultural Journey of the Achaemenid Royal Women to the East\nXiwangmu\, also known as the Queen of the West\, is a significant deity in ancient Chinese mythology\, revered initially as the protector of departed souls. Her representation emerged during the late Western Han period around the 1st century BCE. Scholars have drawn parallels with Western deities such as Astarte\, Kybele\, and Athena\, yet little attention has been given to the origins of her function in Chinese funerary art. Analysis suggests that her origin lies in the queenly figures of the Achaemenid royal court. Through trade and intermarriage\, Persian noblewomen engaged with the Eurasian steppe nomads\, especially the Sakas\, who acted as cultural intermediaries between the Achaemenid court\, the steppe\, and China. This cultural exchange across Eurasia facilitated the transformation of Persian royal women into Chinese divine protectors. \nAbout the Speaker \nWu Xin received her undergraduate and master’s training at Beijing University\, focusing on Chinese archaeology and Central Asian Buddhist Art. She earned her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania\, specializing in the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. Her dissertation\, titled “Central Asia in the Context of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (6th to 4th Centuries B.C.)\,” reflects her interest in the interactions between Central Asia and the Achaemenid imperial power. With extensive experience in archaeological projects\, Wu Xin directed the Kyzyltepa Project in Uzbekistan and is finalizing a monograph titled Persia and the East\, which presents her renewed scholarship on the relationships between Central Asia\, the Eurasian steppe\, and the Achaemenid Empire. Previously a professor in the Department of History at Fudan University in Shanghai\, Wu Xin currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. \n  \nClick here to register for the event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-wu-xin/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Robert Rollinger
DESCRIPTION:Due to recent events on campus resulting in the cancellations of classes at UCLA today\, Professor Robert Rollinger’s lecture has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvienence and thank you for your understanding. We look forward to hosting you at one of our upcoming events soon.\n\nThe “Persian Wars”: An Alternative Perspective?\nThe “Persian Wars” are still regarded by many scholars and the interested general public as one of the major events in western history. The instructive and captivating narrative of Herodotus’ Histories became a pillar of Greek historical consciousness which\, after some breaks\, was transformed into a western European culture of remembrance since the 19thcentury. Scholarly literature on this event is abundant and flourishing. The underlying subtext of a permanent confrontation between allegedly well-defined blocks of cultural identities\, East and West\, Europe and Asia\, Orient and Occident\, and their charged markers of liberty vs. tyranny\, democracy vs. despotism\, truthfulness vs. shrewdness\, luxury vs. simplicity\, bravery vs. cowardness\, and individualism vs. collectivism\, have entered popular culture as well. If we look at the never-ending stream of contributions to the topic by modern scholarship one cannot avoid the conclusion that all “histories” of the “Persian Wars” are still more or less witty and erudite reproductions of Herodotus’ Histories. The basis of this approach is the adamant conviction that Herodotus was able (and willing) to separate fact from fiction and that his Histories by and large report what essentially had happened. The lecture tries to demonstrate the serious problems related to such an approach and to propose an alternative way to explore the topic. \nAbout the Speaker \nRobert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck\, Austria\, where he has been holding\, since 2005\, the Chair for “Cultural Interactions between the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean” in the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Dr. Rollinger’s scholarly interests are wide-ranging and encompass the cultural expanse between the Aegean world and the ancient Near East\, with a special focus on ancient historiography\, the comparative history of empires\, and the Achaemenid Empire in particular. Dr. Rollinger is also known for his numerous publications and important editorial work: he has been (co-) editing among others the prestigious series: Oriens et Occidens (Franz Steiner Verlag); Classica et Orientalia (Harrassowitz); Studies in Universal and Cultural History (Springer); Philippika(Harrassowitz); (The Proceedings of the) Melammu Symposia(Austrian Academy of Science); and Empires Through the Ages in Global Perspective (de Gruyter). More recently\, he published together with Bruno Jacobs the Blackwell Companion to the Achaemenid Empire (Blackwell 2021)\, which shall serve as the new work of reference in the field. He is a member of numerous academic organizations and research groups\, among them: the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW); the German Archaeological Institute (DAI); and the Academia Europaea. \nClick here to register for the event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-robert-rollinger/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Hilmar Klinkott
DESCRIPTION:Consolidation of Law\, Legal Order\, and the Question of Constitutionalizing Processes in the Achaemenid Empire\nThe Old Persian inscriptions of Darius I deal with a range of legal\, particularly constitutional questions. The famous grave inscription from Naqsh-i Rustam (DNb) constitutes the conceptional center of a thematical text corpus\, exemplified in specific details and different legal aspects in other inscriptions of Darius I. However\, it is a core question if these royal inscriptions had only a function of royal representation (and for the presentation of royal ideology) or if they also claimed to consolidate (royal or imperial) law. If so\, the royal epigraphic corpus of this particular Great King seems to illustrate an overarching legal concept shaped by its textual and thematic interrelations. Consequently\, the Achaemenid royal inscriptions\, and in particular the Darius Naqsh-i Rustam b text\, thus provide a draft for an imperial legal order that fundamentally defines the Great Kingship\, both in relation to the subjects and for the position of the Great King himself. The DNb inscription can thus be understood as a manifesto which enshrines in a general and fundamental way the conditions of royal rule in the Achaemenid Empire. With this in mind\, this lecture will present the argument for constitutionalizing processes in this multiethnic and multicultural polity. \nAbout the Speaker \nHilmar Klinkott is Professor of Ancient History and History of the Near East at the Institute for Classical Studies/Department of Ancient History at the University of Kiel. He studied Ancient History\, Classical Archaeology\, and Latin at the Ruprecht Carls University Heidelberg\, earning his MA in 1997. He continued his studies at the University of Tübingen\, earning his PhD in 2002. His thesis\, Der Satrap: Ein achaimenidischer Amtsträger und seine Handlungsspielräume (Verlag Antike)\, was published in 2005. After his habilitation in Ancient History at the University of Tübingen\, he became Akademischer Rat in the Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik at the Ruprecht Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 2012 and a member of the Heidelberg excellence cluster “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” in 2013. In the same year\, he changed his habilitation to the University of Heidelberg (“Umhabilitierung”). After Deputy Professorships in Hamburg (for Professor Christoph Schäfer\, 2009–2010)\, Mannheim (for Professor Christian Mann\, 2014/15) and Mainz (Professor Marietta Horster\, 2016)\, he was appointed Full Professor at the Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde of the Christian Albrechts University. Now at the University of Kiel\, Professor Klinkott continues to focus on the history of the ancient Near East and the Achaemenid empire. \nClick here to register for the event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-hilmar-klinkott/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240405T110000
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SUMMARY:Philip Grant - Iranian Studies Translation Workshop 1
DESCRIPTION:This event is being hosted by Iranian Studies for all interested UCLA students and faculty.\n\nThe Siar al-Molūk or Siyāsatnāme of Neẓām-al-Molk\n\n\n\n\nThis late eleventh century CE text\, the “Rules for Kings” or “Book of Government” by the vizier to the Saljūq sultan Malekšāh\, is probably the most influential of all the Iranian “advice books\,” “books of government\,” or (to use the medieval European term) “mirrors for princes.” The text is an often engaging\, sometimes austere and even cruel\, treatise on good rulership whose recommendations are frequently illustrated through historical anecdotes. We will look at some of the more charming of these stories\, translate them together\, and then compare our work with the translation of Hubert Darke\, a scholar who was also the first to provide a complete critical edition of the Persian text. We will look at the different ways of striking a balance between two often conflicting injunctions: to translate fluidly\, so that the text is a pleasure to read; and to translate with precision when it comes to the vocabulary of a world whose political and social arrangements are frequently radically different from those that underpin the conceptual universe of the English language. \n\n\n\n\nTranslating Medieval Persian\nIn these two workshops we will use openness of translation as a pedagogical method. We will translate texts by two celebrated medieval authors together from Persian to English. The two workshops are suitable for anyone with a relatively advanced knowledge of Persian (whether medieval or modern) and an interest in translation\, whether for its own sake or for use in research in other fields. \nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\n\nPhilip Grant is a Persian-English translator\, anthropologist\, and historian. His translation of Iranian philosopher Seyyed Javad Tabatabai’s Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences is forthcoming with Polity Press. Aside from translation work\, Grant teaches linguistic and biological anthropology at the University of La Verne\, and is an Associate Scholar of the Center for Persian Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. He is working on a history of the Zanj Rebellion (869-83CE\, southern Iraq and south-western Iran)\, on which he has published in al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭāʾ and in a forthcoming volume with Edinburgh University Press. He received his PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from UC Irvine in 2012; his dissertation was based on collaborative fieldwork with Iranian diaspora women’s activists. From 2012-16 he was Research Fellow in the Social Studies of Finance at the University of Edinburgh\, and co- author of Chains of Finance (OUP\, 2017).
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/philip-grant-iranian-studies-translation-workshop-1/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240403T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240403T180000
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies: And\, Towards Happy Alleys Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Fascinated by Iran’s film culture and the poetic works of the feminist poet Forough Farrokhzad\, Indian filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh sets out in search of the protagonists of Iranian cinema. The numerous interviews she conducts over a period of six years with filmmakers Jafar Panahi\, Mohammad Shirvani and human rights activist Nasrin Sotudeh\, among others\, show the precarious situation in which critics of the regime find themselves\, including the constant threat of imprisonment and being banned from practicing their profession. With a keen eye for unusual situations\, she documents the effect of the Islamic Republic’s strict and omnipresent censorship on the daily lives of Iranian women whose uncompromising struggle has put them at the forefront of the protests that are currently rocking the country. And\, Towards Happy Alleys is a passionate declaration of love for the cinema and poetry of Iran which also provides a frank view of daily life\, and bears witness to a fearless generation raising its voice and implacably demanding its civil liberties. \nA moderated Q&A with the director will follow the film screening. \nAbout the Director \n\n\n\n\nSreemoyee is a filmmaker and producer from Kolkata\, India. She has a PhD degree on “The Exiled Filmmaker in Post-Revolution Iran” from the department of Film Studies at Jadavpur University. She learned Persian and traveled to Iran to film her debut documentary And\, Towards Happy Alleys which launched at the Berlinale International Film Festival (Panorama section) in February 2023 and has screened at prestigious film festivals such CPH:DOX (Denmark) Thessaloniki (Greece) Sheffield (UK) DMZ Docs (South Korea) Antenna Film Festival (Australia) Jio MAMI (India) Docpoint Helsinki (Finland) winning the ‘best film’ in the International Competition at BAFICI\, Argentina. Sreemoyee has also worked as Assistant Professor of Film Studies at St. Joseph’s University\, Bangalore and a Guest Lecturer at New York University\, Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). She is the recipient of the Golden Globe Foundation Residency for International Filmmakers in Los Angeles in February- March 2024.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-and-towards-happy-alleys-film-screening/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T180000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Christian Sahner
DESCRIPTION:How Zoroastrians Argued with Muslims in the Early Islamic Period\nThis lecture will explore the early conflict between Zoroastrians and Muslims by examining the most important polemical treatise in the Zoroastrian tradition\, the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār (“The Doubt-Dispelling Disquisition”)\, written by the ninth/tenth century theologian and philosopher Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād. A sophisticated work of rationalist theology\, the treatise systematically critiques several rival religions of the late antique and medieval Middle East\, including Islam. The critique of Islam in chapters 11 and 12 is the only sustained\, systematic polemic against Islam in premodern Zoroastrian literature\, one that attacks monotheism by focusing on the problem of evil. This lecture will consider Zoroastrians’ relationship with Muslims\, the influence of Islamic theology on Zoroastrian thought\, and the place of the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār in Middle Persian literature. \nAbout the Speaker\nChristian C. Sahner (Ph.D.\, Princeton\, 2015) is an associate professor of Islamic history and a fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. His work explores the history of North Africa\, the Middle East\, and Central Asia during the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. He is especially interested in relations between Muslims and non-Muslims (principally Christians and Zoroastrians)\, religious conversion\, Islamic sectarianism\, and the intertwined histories of the Umayyad\, ʿAbbasid\, and Byzantine empires. His most recent book is The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam (Liverpool University Press\, 2023; Translated Texts for Historians). \n  \nClick here to register for the event. 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-christian-sahner/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240310T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240310T133000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Reflections on Various Aspects and Impacts of Woman\, Life\, Freedom Movement in Iran and Internationally Panel
DESCRIPTION:“نگاھی سنجش گرانھ بھ اثرات داخلی و بین المللی جنبش “زن، زندگی، آزادی\n\n\n\n\nReflections on Various Aspects and Impacts of Woman\, Life\, Freedom Movement in Iran and Internationally \nSunday\, March 10\, 2024 I 11:30 AM | Zoom \nRegistration Required \n\n\n\n\n \nFarzaneh Bazrpour \n(Journalist\, Iran International) \n“Iranian Newspapers’ Diversion from the Official State Clichés because of Mahsa’s Movement” \nAzadeh Momeni \n(Post-Doctoral Fellow at Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies\, Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations\, University of Toronto) \n“Intersection of Art and Politics: From The American Women’s Suffrage Movement to Arab Spring to Iranian “Woman\, Life\, Freedom” Movement” \nHoma Hoodfar \n(Concordia University\, Canada ) \n“Woman\, Life\, Freedom: A Political Watershed in the Iranian Protest Culture” \nSaeed Paivandi \n(University of Lorraine\, France) \n“A Critical Analysis of the Woman\, Life\, Liberty Movement” \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers \nFarzaneh Bazrpour has worked as a journalist for 13 years\, after being forced to flee Iran in 2009 due to her political beliefs. She served as an editorial member of JARAS website and was an activist in the Green Movement. In Malaysia in 2010\, she launched RASA TV channel\, featuring a one-hour news program on satellite TV.  RASA TV was a grassroots effort\, funded by contributions from many individuals from inside and outside of Iran. Unfortunately\, it was shut down in 2012\, prompting her move to Norway. Ms. Bazrpour holds a BA in Political Sciences from Beheshti University and studied for an MA in International Relations at Allameh Tabatabaee University\, both in Tehran. While in Norway\, she pursued an MPhil in Sustainable Development\, focusing on natural resource management at the Norwegian university of science and technology (NTNU). She has also worked as a freelance journalist.   In October 2022\, she relocated to the United States as press analyzer and now collaborates with Iran International TV channel at their Washington studio. \n  \n  \nAzadeh Momeni holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Carleton University\, Ottawa\, Canada. She has studied International Relations\, Foreign Policy Analysis\, Middle East Politics\, Women’s Studies\, Quantitative Methods\, and Electoral Politics. She has about 15 years of combined experience in both academia and non-academic environments as a researcher\, policy analyst\, and policy advisor. Her collaborations extend to UNODC\, UNICEF\, and Amnesty International with contribution to global policy initiatives. Azadeh is also a painter. She has contributed artistically to the community\, messaging socially and politically relevant themes through her works. Some of her paintings were displayed at different exhibitions and galleries including Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa\, Public Service Alliance of Canada in Ottawa\, Gallery 1313 in Toronto\, and Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. Her recent project examines the intersection of Art and Politics with a focus on the “Woman\, Life\, Freedom” movement in Iran. \n  \n  \n  \nHoma Hoodfar is a Professor of Anthropology\, Emerita\, at Concordia University\, Montreal. Her field-based research and expertise are in political economy and legal anthropology; focusing on reproductive rights; Afghan women and youth refugees in Iran and Pakistan; women in formal and informal politics; hijab and dress codes as political institutions; gender and citizenship; Muslim women’s sports as politics; and gender and the public sphere in Muslim contexts. Describing herself as an academic in the service of civil society\, Professor Hoodfar has also been actively involved in the Research for Advocacy and Publication Division of Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) Network’s whose mission is to promote gender equality and plural democracy\, since the 1980s.  Her books include Women’s Sport as Politics in Muslim Contexts WLUML (2015); Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance (edited with Anissa Hellie) London: Zed Books (2012); Electoral Politics: Making Quotas work for women (co-authored with Mona Tajali) London: WLUML (2011); The Muslim Veil in North America: issues and debates (edited with Sajida Alvi\, and Sheila McDonough) Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press (2003); Between Marriage and the Market\, Berkeley: University of California Press (1997); Development\, Change\, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household (edited with Diane Singerman) Indiana University Press (1996\,);and numerous articles based on her different research projects. \n  \nSaeed Paivandi has been working as a full Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lorraine\, Nancy\, France since 2011. Prior to this\, he was associated as a senior faculty with the University of Paris 8 (1996-2011). Paivandi holds Habilitation (HDR)\, Ph.D. and MA degrees in Sociology of Education from University of Paris and MA in Sociology from University of Tehran. His areas of research and specialization include Sociology of Education. Part of his research focuses on the Iranian education system in a comparative perspective and the experience of the Islamization of schools and universities in Iran since 1979. At the same time\, he worked on social movements in Iran and studied the role of intellectuals. His latest article\, “Unaccomplished Protest Movements in Iran and the Challenge of Building a Collective Imaginary of Political Change””(Freedom of Thought Journal\, n° 13\, 2023) is a critical review of the social movements of the last 15 years in Iran.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-reflections-on-various-aspects-and-impacts-of-woman-life-freedom-movement-in-iran-and-internationally-panel/
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Forugh Farrokhzad: A Journey Along the Line of Time Film Screening and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, March 3\, 2024 I 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM | ONLINE ONLY \nLive stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94371748384 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 3:30pm on March 3 to join.) \nForugh Farrokhzad: A Journey Along the Line of Time is a lyrical portrayal of the tumultuous life and works of a renowned poet\, filmmaker\, actor\, and painter\, Forugh Farrokhzad\, through dramatic readings\, archival footage\, photos\, paintings\, manuscripts\, interviews with scholars\, critics\, and poets. In addition\, Farrokhzad’s poems are visually explored and interpreted through images that\, in comparable ways\, depict the emotional anguish of Farrokhzad’s poetic universe and artistic life. Her life was her poetry\, and her poetry was her life. \nForugh Farrokhzad is considered one of the greatest Iranian women-modernist poets and filmmakers. Half a century ago\, Farrokhzad made a landmark\, award-winning documentary film\, symbolically called it The House Is Black. Decades later\, it is still relevant\, beautiful\, and intensely moving. Her stunning poetry stretches the boundaries of hope\, love\, freedom\, and humanity. \nShe made the experience of being a woman in a patriarchal society a central issue of her poetry and fighting for women’s rights at a time when all odds were against her and long before the feminist movement came along. This project is dedicated to her memory\, as she lives in our hearts and remains with us through the brilliance of her work and her voice: “It is only the voice that lives on.” \nAbout the Director and Panelists \nHassan Fayyad is an alumnus of UCLA’s film school and a former Member of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (Iranian Ministry of Culture and Arts)\, the Faculty of Fine Arts (University of Tehran)\, and the College of Cinema and Television (National Iranian Radio and Television). Mr. Fayyad has also taught Cinema and Theatre Arts at UCLA\, Oxnard College\, and Pacific Art Center. He is the first Iranian Lecturer who designed and taught a course about Iranian Cinema at UCLA called “The Poetics and Politics of Iranian Cinema: Pre- and Post-Islamic Revolution.” In addition to teaching Cinema and Theatre Arts in Iran and America\, he has written and translated several books and numerous articles on arts and literature.  He is currently working on his documentary trilogy: Simin Behbahani: Love at Eighty\, Forugh Farrokhzad: A Journey Along the Line of Time\, Ebrahim Golestan: Of Time Bygone. \n\n\n\nNahid Kabiri is a contemporary poet and writer born in Iran. She graduated in Social Sciences from the University of Tehran. Her poetic passion and love for story-telling began to show and dominate her life at a young age. Like others grounded in the quilt of her native land\, she was charmed by the rich poetry of Hafez and Khayam. Later\, she became captivated by the poetry of contemporaries\, such as Nima\, Shamloo\, and Farokhzad – aspiring to compose her own poetry. Her poetry crackles with a kaleidoscope of life\, love\, and human tragedy tinged with an exquisite sense of her native culture. Her poetry is impatient of limits and travels into the unknown. Through her intensity of vision\, imaginative feat\, and generous sampling\, she never fails to construct vivid\, dramatic scenes\, singling out the facets most influential in creating the portrait of her native land. She has published twelve poetry collections\, four novels\, and six short stories. Two of her novels\, ‘Shooting in Buckhead’ and ‘Persian Bride and the Honeymoon cruise\,’ have been translated into English and are available on Amazon. Kabiri has been active in the world poetry movement since 2011. She has been invited to the World Poetry Festivals convened in Barcelona\, Medellin\, Zurich\, Dubai\, Istanbul\, Mallorca\, and Atlanta over the last ten years. Her poetry has since been translated into English\, Spanish\, German\, Italian\, Arabic and Kurdish. \n\n\n\nSoheila Saremi is a scholar\, teacher\, poet\, author\, editor\, and translator. She earned her Ph.D. in Persian Language and Literature from Tehran University\, Iran. She has taught Persian literature\, language and culture at different universities for years. She has published various articles and books on the field. As a teenager and in her early youth her poems were published in Javanan Magazine (mostly in the 70s)\, and later in different anthologies. Her poetry collections include Taghvim (The Calendar\, spring 2003); In Gorbe-ye Tārik (This Dark Cat: containing two books\, fall 2013); Mālikhuliā-ye Gol (Flower Melancholy\, fall 2014); and Az Abr-Pāre-hāye Zagros (From the Zagros Clouds\, spring 2022). Her last collection\, The Tired Geography\, is under publication. Some of her poems have been translated into Bosnian and English. \nSahba Shayani is Lecturer in Persian Language at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to teaching at UCLA\, he was Senior Lecturer in Persian Language at the University of Oxford from 2015-2022. Shayani received his PhD from UCLA’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. His dissertation focused on the role of women in classical Persian Epic Romances\, particularly in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh\, Gorgani’s Vis o Ramin\, and Nezami’s Khosrow o Shirin. \nMandana Zandian graduated from Shahid Beheshti Medical School in 1997. She worked as a researcher at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for 20 years\, specializing in research on aggressive forms of advanced cancers. Dr. Zandian is also a published poet and author actively collaborating with “Rahavard” quarterly journal. Her books include Omid o Azadi (Hope and Liberty) on the life and works of Iraj Gorgin (Los Angeles\, 2012)\, Baz-khani-e Dah Shab (The Ten-Nights Revisited) (Los Angeles\, 2014)\, and Ehsan Yarshater in Conversation with Mandana Zandian (Los Angeles\, 2016.) She also edited Yaddashtha (Diaries)\, a collection of notes written between 1986-2012 by Dr. Ehsan Yarshater for the journals Irannameh and Iranshenasi (Washington DC\, 2021). Zandian’s most recent collection of poems is titled Seda-ye Saye-haye Ham Boodim (Our Voice Echoed the Shadows of all) (Los Angeles\, 2019). Zandian is also the host and producer of a podcast on Persian Literature titled “A Window of Freedom.” Her latest book is titled Persian Cypress and the Booms of Modernity\, in Conversation with Abbas Milani (Los Angeles\, 2023).
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-forugh-farrokhzad-a-journey-along-the-line-of-time-film-screening-and-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240225T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240225T180000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Reza Shah's Exile in Mauritius
DESCRIPTION:تبعید رضا شاه بھ موریس\n\n\n\n\nReza Shah’s Exile in Mauritius\nSunday\, February 25\, 2024 I 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/92711078735 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on February 25 to join.) \n \nبعد از کناره گیری رضا شاه در سال ۱۹۴۱ انگلیسیها او و اکثر خانواده سلطنتی را به جزیره موریس در اقیانوس هند تبعید کردند. مقامات جزیره، که یک مستعمره بریتانیا بود، کوشش کردند در حد امکاناتشان از خانواده سلطنتی به خوبی پذیرایی‌ کنند. ولی‌ رضا شاه خود را یک زندانی میدانست و دچار افسردگی و بیماری جسمی‌ شدید بود. بعد از هفت ماه به اتفاق همسر و فرزندانش به افریقای جنوبی رفت و همانجا جان سپرد. در این سخنرانی جزئیات مسافرت و زندگی‌ خانواده و تعاملشان با اهالی جزیره مورد بحث قرار میگیرد. \nAbout the Speaker \nHouchang Chehabi is a professor of international relations and history emeritus at Boston University. He is the author of four books\, most recently Onomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran. He has also edited or co-edited a dozen books and written numerous articles and book chapters.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-reza-shahs-exile-in-mauritius/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T180000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Elspeth Dusinberre
DESCRIPTION:The Collapse of Empire: Gordion’s Transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic World\nThis talk will highlight the huge changes that characterized Gordion’s transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic periods. Gordion\, ancient capital of Phrygia\, was a large and thriving city of secondary importance during the period of the Achaemenid Persian empire (ca 550–333 BCE)\, a period when it participated in the network of interactions and practices that bound the empire together. When Alexander’s conquest led to the collapse of Achaemenid administrative infrastructure\, the impact on Gordion’s economy and cultural circumstance was profound. Its population plummeted\, the architectural and spatial organization of the site changed dramatically\, and new directions and means of trade and cultural interaction developed. Gordion’s archaeological remains reflect and emphasize the tremendous historical and political changes attending the end of the Achaemenid empire and the beginning of the Hellenistic period. \nAbout the Speaker \nElspeth Dusinberre (AB Harvard 1991\, PhD Michigan 1997) is Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado and a current Getty Villa Research Scholar. She is interested in cultural interactions in Anatolia. Her work has investigated the ways in which the Achaemenid Persian empire (ca. 550-330 BCE) affected local social structures in the give-and-take between Achaemenid and other cultures and has delved into pre-Achaemenid matters at the sites of Gordion and Sardis. Her first book\, Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis (Cambridge 2003)\, examines the impact of Achaemenid hegemony from the vantage of the Lydian capital. Her second and fourth books focus on the Phrygian capital: Gordion Seals and Sealings: Individuals and Society (Philadelphia 2005) and (with Ellen Kohler) The Lesser Phrygian Tumuli: The Cremations (Philadelphia 2023). Dusinberre’s third book\, Empire\, Authority\, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia (Cambridge 2013)\, considers all of Anatolia under Persian rule and proposes a new model for understanding imperialism. She has co-edited a Festschrift for Margaret Cool Root\, The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia (Leiden 2020)\, and at the moment is co-editing a volume on Middle and Late Phrygian Gordion. \nClick here to register for the event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-elspeth-dusinberre/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240204T180000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Towfigh Magazine
DESCRIPTION:A Celebration of 100 Years of the Towfigh Satirical Magazine\nSunday\, February 4\, 2024 I 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nRegistration Required \n \n\n\n\n\nThis year marks the 100th Anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Towfigh satirical magazine in Iran\, which addressed the bitter issues of the community with sweet and satirical stories. The popular Towfigh satirical magazine served Iranian people for approximately half a century. It was first published on May 20th 1923\, and continued its publication until June 28th 1971. \nAbout the Speakers \n\n\n\n\nJanet Afary is a professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her books include: Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press\, 2009); The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy\, Social Democracy\, and the Origins of Feminism (Columbia University Press\, 1996; and (with Kamran Afary) Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (Edinburgh UP\, 2022\, winner of the 2023 British Society for Middle East Studies Annual Book Prize and the 2023 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history of journalism from the American Historical Association. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKazem Alamdari is a retired faculty of sociology at California State University\, Northridge. He has published ten books and numerous articles. His first book\, Why Iran Lagged Behind and the West Moved Forward\, has been published 19 times in Iran. His article “Religion and Development Revisited: Comparing Islam and Christianity with Reference to the Case of Iran” in the Journal of Developing Societies has been named one of “The 50 Most-Frequently-Read Articles.” Alamdari was the recipient of a fellowship from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) in Japan\, Kyushu University. \n\n\n\n\n  \n  \nHouchang Chehabi is a professor of international relations and history emeritus at Boston University. He is the author of four books\, most recently Onomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran. He has also edited or co-edited a dozen books and written numerous articles and book chapters. \n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \nNajmedin Meshkati is a Professor of Civil/Environmental Engineering\, Industrial and Systems Engineering\, and International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC). His interdisciplinary research is concerned with risk reduction and reliability enhancement of complex\, safety-critical technological systems\, e.g.\, aviation and nuclear power\, and engineering diplomacy. \n\n\n\n\n  \n  \nAbbas Towfigh earned his Ph.D. from Sorbonne University\, Paris. He began his career as a satirist and editorial cartoonist for Towfigh magazine\, of which he was an editor and served as Editor-in-Chief from 1957 to 1972. He has also served as a Professor of Sociology\, Social Psychology and Press Sociology at several universities in Iran. He has also published in\, and served as the president of\, Humor in Los Angeles.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-towfigh-magazine/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240128T160000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Women's Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:ادبیات داستانی معاصر زنان افغانستان در بستر تحولات اجتماعی- سیاسی \n\nWomen’s Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan\n  \nSunday\, January 28\, 2024 I 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99816401692 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on January 28 to join.) \n \nThis presentation will provide a historical overview of women’s fiction from its inception in the twentieth century to the present. Analysis of this literature will delve into the socio-cultural and political conditions that have influenced the development of women’s writing and how female fiction writers have left their mark on the history of Afghan prose writing. Because many political disruptions have affected Afghanistan’s social and cultural life\, and by extension women’s writing\, the presentation will follow an historical trajectory punctuated by meaningful examples to illustrate the distinct characteristic of the different periods. \nAbout the Speakers \nSarwerasa Rafizada\, Ph D.\, Scholar at Risk\, is a Visiting Researcher and adjunct Professor at UCLA\, the Center of Near Eastern Studies. Her research agenda is focused on contemporary Persian literature\, particularly Afghan women’s works\, gender studies\, and feminism. Some of her publications are Critical Discourse Analysis of the Image of Women in Afghan Fiction\, Representations of Women in Contemporary Literary Fiction of Afghanistan\, The Impact of Media on Gender Violence in Afghanistan\, The Role of Women Writers in Diaspora Literature or Afghan Immigration Literature\, Halliday’s Functional Grammar\, and A Model for Text Analysis and Interpretation. Her current project focuses on women’s diaspora literature. \n  \n  \n  \nNasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature and Associate Dean for Personnel at UC Irvine. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal\, Iranian Studies. Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature\, the literature of Iranian exile and diaspora\, contemporary Iranian women’s writing\, and post-revolution Iranian cinema. Among her publications are Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity (2015)\, Forugh Farrokhzad\, Poet of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry (2010 and 2023) co-edited with Dominic Parviz Brookshaw\, Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History (2001)\, the English translation of the late Taghi Modarressi’s last novel\, The Virgin of Solitude (2008)\, and Oriental Responses to the West (1990). Her current project is on contemporary Iranian women’s literature.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-womens-fiction-literature-in-the-context-of-socio-political-developments-in-afghanistan/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T180000
DTSTAMP:20231114T201441Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Neville McFerrin
DESCRIPTION:An Entangled Empire:  Dress\, Reciprocal Construction\, and the Experience of Kingship at Persepolis\nIn 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 such forms double the mountainous vista beyond the site.  Rows of delegates carry dress related items to constitute their king even as their iterative forms recall both embroidered fabric borders and the unfurling impression of a cylinder seal.  This talk focuses upon such entanglements to argue that dress\, with its focus on body modification\, supplementation\, and communicative potentials\, serves as a productive lens through which to re-consider the visual program of Persepolis.  Rather than focusing upon associations between dress and regional identities\, or upon questions of garment type and construction\, it argues that the visual program of the site leverages the constitutive capacity of dress to present iterative\, entangled relationships between king and subject\, human and animal\, animate and inanimate\, presenting and complicating boundaries between these categories.  It suggests that it is through such complications that the paradox of the Achaemenid endeavor\, celebrating both the whole and its constituent parts\, is negotiated. \nAbout the Speaker  \nNeville McFerrin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of North Texas.  Her work centers upon intersections between dress\, perception\, materiality\, and embodiment on the sites of Pompeii and Persepolis.  Her published and forthcoming work explores a range of topics from reconsiderations of gender on the reliefs of the Apadana to spatial negotiations and embodied perceptions of court protocol and etiquette at Persepolis\, to the fashionability of pearls in late first century BCE Pompeii.  It has appeared in multiple journals and edited volumes\, most recently The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East\, Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks\, Romans\, Jews\, Christians\, and Fashion Studies. She is currently working on a monograph focused upon dress as a lens for reinterpreting visual and material entanglements at Persepolis. \nClick here to register for the event. 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-neville-mcferrin/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240107T183000
DTSTAMP:20231115T172046Z
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies: Alborz: We Climb Mountains Film Screening
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAfter many upheavals and the forced departure of its founder\, Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan in 1940\, it was transformed into the Alborz High School for boys\, under the watchful eyes of Dr. Mohammad-Ali Mojtahedi\, the famed Iranian educator. The school sent its bright graduates to top universities in Iran and around the world; some institutions even waived the entrance exams to admit them. Alborz graduates are now important businessmen\, distinguished physicians\, scientists and academics in the best academic centers in Iran and abroad\, among them the acclaimed architect Hossein Amanat\, the famous physicist Firouz Partovi\, and eminent mathematicians Cumrun Vafa and Mehdi Zarghamee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Mojtahedi was not only a successful leader of this school from 1942 to the 1979 Revolution\, but a significant initiator of modern education in Iran. He turned Alborz into the highest-ranking school for boys and later helped founding the renowned Technical University of Aryamehr (later Sharif) University of Technology\, which took in Alborz graduates and top students from other schools. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlborz: We Climb Mountains (2023\, 86 mins.)\, tells the story of the school during many tumultuous years in Iran’s modern history\, from the perspectives of its graduates\, teachers\, and even Dr. Mojtahedi’s own voice from archival recordings; it tells it with humor\, fondness\, and nostalgia for a bygone era. It exemplifies what has been lost in the years since the 1979 Revolution and why today so many among the bright and promising young Iranians sound critical of current policies and administrative mishandling of one of their country’s once top educational institutions. \nAbout the Director: \n\n\n\n\nMaryam Sepehri is an award-winning\, Iranian-American documentary filmmaker. Initially earning a medical degree\, she went on to work in a lab where she quickly realized her heart was in filmmaking and so educated herself in her true vocation. After achieving a B.A. in filmmaking and an M.A. in photography she pursued documentary filmmaking\, focusing on human expression and learning. She has made several well-received documentaries\, winning a number of prestigious awards as well as having a number of short stories published. \n\n\n\n\nOther Documentaries by Maryam Sepehri: \nRain Once Again (2012) \n\nAwarded the Best Documentary Film\, Sooreh International Short Film Festival\n\nThicker than Paint (2013) \n\nAwarded the Special Cream City Cinema Jury Prize\, The 5th Milwaukee\, Film Festival WI\, USA 2013\nAwarded Achievement in Filmmaking\, Stony Brooke Film Festival NY\, USA 2015\nNominated for Best Direction (semi-feature length)\, 8th Cinéma Vérité\, the Iran International Documentary Film Festival.\n\nMouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy on/in Exile (2017) \n\nAwarded for the Best Film and Best Original Music Score\, 10th Iran Documentary Film Festival 2018\nNominated for the Best Feature Documentary and Best Editing\, Fusion Film Festivals\, London UK 2019\nNominated for The Best Film\, FIDBA Film Festival\, Buenos Aires\, Argentina 2018\n\nHer latest documentary “Alborz\, we climb mountains” is about an American Presbyterian missionary institution in Tehran.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-alborz-we-climb-mountains-film-screening/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231204T160000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Rethinking Gender\, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran
DESCRIPTION:Rethinking Gender\, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran\nRethinking 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 analyses and explores issues of cultural racialization\, ethno-centrism\, Shi’a centrism\, and patriarchal and chauvinistic ideologies in Iranian society propagated by the state and sustained by its policies. Based on quantitative and qualitative surveys taken throughout Iran\, comprised of over 7\,000 married women and 100 interviews with a sample of Sunnite and subaltern Persian women\, Kian reveals how social hierarchy and power relations based on gender\, class\, ethnicity and religion operate. She argues that women have been at the heart of the process of national and ethnic re-construction as women\, as potential mothers\, are expected to reproduce national and ethnic boundaries. Kian also examines the family institution as a site of power\, and argues that by analyzing family dynamics as well as women’s everyday lives\, the politics of ordinary Iranians and the relationship between state and society can be better understood. \nAbout the Speaker \nAzadeh Kian is an Iranian-French academic\, Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, Director of the Center for Gender and Feminist Studies and former Director of the Social Science department at the University Paris Cité. She obtained her Master and PhD in Sociology from UCLA. Notable works include Rethinking Gender\, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran: An Intersectional Approach to National Identity\, (2023)\, Femmes et pouvoir en islam (2019)\, L’Iran: un mouvement sans révolution? La vague verte face au pouvoir mercanto-militariste (2011)\, La République islamique d’Iran: de la maison du Guide à la raison d’Etat (2005\, translated into Greek 2006)\, Les femmes iraniennes entre islam\, Etat et famille (2002)\, Avoir vingt ans en Iran Editions Alternatives (1999)\, and Secularization of Iran\, a Doomed Failure? The New Middle Class and the Making of Modern Iran (1998). \nClick here to register and receive the Zoom information. 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-rethinking-gender-ethnicity-and-religion-in-iran/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231004T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231004T180000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2023
DESCRIPTION:Pourdavoud Center Fall 2023 Welcome Reception\nWednesday\, October 4\, 2023\n4:00 – 6:00 pm\nRoyce Hall 306\nRegistration Required\n  \nThe Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception. \nIn the company of our supporters\, colleagues\, academic affiliates\, students\, and esteemed guests\, we shall be introducing the Center’s stimulating programming and research agenda for the academic year 2023–24. \nLight refreshments will be served. Parking in Lot 2 or Lot 5 is recommended. \nPlease click here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-fall-reception-2023/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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