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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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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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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
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230521T113000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series - Being Woman: Diverse Voices of Women from Afghanistan and Iran
DESCRIPTION:زن بودن : صداهای گوناگون زنان از افغانستان و ایران\nBeing Woman: Diverse Voices of Women from Afghanistan and Iran\nRoundtable discussion in Persian \nSunday\, May 21\, 2023 at 11:30am Pacific via Zoom \nZoom Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZDUx9ZPvSvO_zhNLIzFkKg\n \nAbout the Panelists\nHaifa Asadi (Youth Generation of Arab Iranian Women) \nHaifa Asadi is an advocate for gender\, racial\, and ethnic justice. She grew up in Ahwaz\, where she witnessed the struggles of her young Arab classmates academically and emotionally dealing with systemic racism and discrimination. This was the trigger for her to start a life-long fight against injustice practiced against Arab people in Iran\, actively advocating for Arab rights and against racism. As a feminist\, she has used every opportunity to advocate for women’s rights\, especially those of the marginalized ethnicities of Iran. She has written articles\, made speeches\, and held meetings with like-minded individuals on how to tackle ethnic groups’ marginalized status and how to advocate for the more oppressed groups among these ethnicities. She has two bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and English language and literature\, as well as a master’s degree in energy systems engineering. She has worked as an engineer for many years and currently functions as a technical project manager for an international tech company. \n  \nAvatef Asadian (Arab Iranian Women) \nAvatef Asadian is an expert on civil rights in the central municipality and in the dispute resolution council court and relief court\, serving as a family counselor.  She is a passionate artist and poet\, writing in both Arabic and Persian.  Due to her political activities\, she was banned from publishing her poetry\, getting some government jobs\, and participating in cultural activities.  In 2006\, she was granted political asylum and moved to Sweden.  In December 2022\, she founded the Elami Ahvazi Women’s Voice Association with a group of Arab women. She appears in many radio and TV broadcasts and is interviewed about the human rights of ethnic and Arab women in Iran. \n  \nFariba Borhanzehi (Balouch Iranian Women) \nFariba Borhanzehi is a literature graduate from Iran and is a pharmacy graduate from Uppsala University in Sweden. She is a defender of human rights and a fighter for the equality of women. She participated in many conferences\, roundtables\, and television and radio interviews to speak about the current revolution in Iran. She believes as a Balouch woman\, she is treated like a third-class citizen in Iran. After the murder of Zhina Amini\, the massacre of the bloody Fridays of Zahedan and Khash\, the killing of Nikahas and Khodanurhas\, and the execution of Alireza Rahnavard\, she could not remain silent and decided to become a voice for change. \n  \nSoraya Fallah (Kurdish Iranian Women) \nSoraya Fallah is a lifelong women and human rights researcher\, activist\, and community mobilizer for collaborative action. She holds a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from California State University Northridge (CSUN). She is a published author of books\, peer-reviewed articles in professional journals. Her latest publication is a research-based reference book\, Learning Challenges for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Students with Disabilities\, recognized as groundbreaking research on students with disabilities that should benefit students across the world. She worked with CSUN’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) as a researcher and an educational consultant in 2Teach\, an Educational Consulting company focusing on the Middle East\, North Africa\, and Southwest Asia (MENASWA) populations. She works extensively with local and international NGOs to promote human rights throughout the world\, focusing on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) populations from the Middle East. She is one of the founding members and first ambassador of UNWomen- L.A.\, and currently is the co-president and Advocacy Chair of the United Nations Association in SFV. Soraya is recipient of the U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein Award for promoting Women’s Rights; the Women in Diplomacy Award; USA’s Global Citizen Award\, and the Iranian Women Study Foundation (IWSF) Critical Feminist Award. \n  \nElham Gheytanchi (Women’s Social Movements) \nElham Gheytanchi studied Sociology at UCLA. She has been teaching at Santa Monica College for the past 22 years. Her area of research is women’s movements in Middle East and North Africa. Her articles have been published in scholarly as well as mainstream journals. Her recent interview with PBS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/watch-women-and-girls-are-still-protesting-in-iran-heres-why \n  \nAva Homa (Kurdish Iranian Women) \nAva Homa is the award-winning author of Daughters of Smoke and Fire.  She is also a journalist and an activist. Her writings have appeared in the Globe\, Mail\, Guardian\, BBC\, New Statesman\, LiteraryHub\, Literary Review of Canada\, and many more outlets. She holds a master’s in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor in Canada\, and another in English Language and Literature from Tehran\, Iran. She was born and raised in the Kurdistan province and now divides her time between Toronto and San Francisco. \n  \nHomeira Qaderi (Afghanistani Women) \nHomeira Qaderi is an Afghan writer\, activist\, advocate of women’s rights\, and educator. Qaderi was awarded the Malalai Medal\, Afghanistan’s highest civilian honor\, for exceptional bravery by the President of Afghanistan. She received her Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and was in residence at the University of Iowa in 2015. Her first book in English translation\, Dancing in the Mosque\, was excerpted by the New York Times and chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best non-fiction books of 2020. She is also the author of six books\, short stories\, and a novel\, Noqra: The Daughter of Kabul River. Homeira Qaderi is currently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. \n  \nFarzaneh Sabetan (Bahai Iranian Women) \nFarzaneh Sabetan holds a master’s in organizational\, educational\, and clinical psychology. She is the founder of the psychology department at the scientific institute BIHE and has been teaching various courses for many years\, including systematology\, philosophy from letter to practice\, social psychology\, group dynamism\, and healthy personality. In addition to teaching\, she has also been engaged in counseling; her primary focus for the past several years has been family discussion. She has also spoken at conferences and seminars and participated in radio and television shows. She writes\, translates\, and produces program content for media. She translated three books and is currently a consultant and analyst of psychological issues. \n  \nSimin Sabri (Azeri-Turk Iranian Women) \nSimin Sabri is an intersectionalist feminist and a human rights activist fighting for gender equality. She is also the spokesperson of “Azerbaijan Democratic Party\,” which has a history of holding accountable the Islamic regime of Iran to human rights issues of Turks and other ethnicities in Iran. She is also an active member of The Socialist Left Party in Norway. Since being deprived of higher education in the field of medicine at Tehran University (Beheshti)\, for the past 35 years Simin lived and worked as a specialist in psychiatry in Bergen\, Norway. In 2009\, she was invited by the government of Norway to cooperate with a committee of subject matter experts with the focus of reviewing the refugee acceptance policy and its organizational work at the Department of Justice and Police. One of the highlights of her activities is in the field of children’s rights and psychology. She has led the activities of ADP team members who are working together with the goal of meeting the needs of a multi-ethnic population within Iran. She believes that the demands of women in Iran goes beyond just gender equality\, but for freedom and liberty for ethnic groups in Iran. \n  \nMarmar Stewart (Lur Iranian Women) \nBorn to a well-established and politically active family in Lorestan\, Iran\, and raised in Hamburg\, Germany\, Marmar Stewart now lives in Atlanta\, Georgia. From a young age\, she has been dedicated to human rights and social issues\, and she worked extensively with Afghan women refugees seeking political asylum in Hamburg. Her professional background is in journalism (Public Relations). She came to Atlanta\, Georgia to work for CNN\, where she served as a coordinator with Bobbie Battista on CNN’s Talk-Back Live Show. She has undertaken a variety of independent projects\, including successful charity and fundraising work for the local Kurdish\, Afghan\, and Syrian community as well as refugees. In addition\, she is determined to help improve the diagnosis and treatment of autism. Her children’s book We Are Special—three publication runs of which have sold out—addresses the issues of siblings of children coping with autism and with speech therapy for autistic children. In her current position as Entrepreneurship Coordinator with The Refugee Women’s Network in Decatur\, she works to promote the economic empowerment of refugee and recent immigrant women throughout the state of Georgia. \n  \nMelika Zarr (Iranian Queer Women) \nMalika Zarr has a bachelor’s in Applied chemistry from Iran. After immigration to Germany\, she changed her field to fight for queer community rights as a Lesbian. Melika is an Iranian LGBTQ Activist and Public Figure who is active in the Iranian political scene. She writes about her experiences as a queer person on many social media platforms\, attends online television programs for social and political analysis\, and tries to raise awareness about the LGBTQ community. Since 2019\, she has worked with the LGBTQ organization @6rangiran as their Media and Communications Manager. There she tries to demonstrate the problems of the community in Iran and to address and fight against the human rights violations of the LGBTQ community by Iranian authorities.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-being-woman-diverse-voices-of-women-from-afghanistan-and-iran/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: A Historical Perspective on Violence and Urban Unrest in Modern Iran
DESCRIPTION:خشونت و آشوبهای شهری در ایران معاصر از دید تاریخی\n\n\n\n\nA Historical Perspective on Violence and Urban Unrest in Modern Iran\n\n\n\n\nMehrdad Amanat\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, May 7\, 2023\, 4:00 PM\, Dodd Hall 121 \n\n\n\n\nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99522637738 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on May 7 to join.) \n\n\n\n\nDuring the Qajar era\, urban riots were often popular uprisings rooted in social grievances such as famines and grain hoardings. Women responsible for feeding the family were often at the forefront of bread riots. In many other cases\, riots were instigated by the powerful who used their mercenaries for dominance of the urban scene. Chivalry has a long history in Iran\, and in the pre-modern era\, lutis (ruffians) played a role in defending cities against foreign invaders. However\, during the Qajar period\, this social group underwent a decline and often became an instrument for oppression and tyranny. Provincial governors\, who mostly bought their positions from the central government for economic gain\, appointed lutis as their agents and often for extortion. As private militias at the service of rival Shi’i clerics\, the lutis fought for control of neighborhoods and mosques or harassed and looted dissidents. Landowners often settled disputes over water and property in the urban scene with the help of lutis. The main victims were the urban poor\, women and children\, non-Muslims\, and nonconformists. This presentation tries to draw the boundaries between popular riots and those manipulated by the powerful to protect their interest. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMehrdad Amanat holds a BS in Engineering (1976)\, MA in Islamic Studies (1979)\, and a PhD in History (2006) from UCLA. He is the author of Jewish Identities in Iran\, Resistance and conversion to Islam and the Baha’i Faith (I.B. Tauris 2011). He is a regular contributor to EncyclopædiaIranica\, with his latest entry being “Kashan\, History to the Pahlavi Period.” Among his articles is “Set in Stone\, Homeless Corpses and Desecrated Graves in Modern Iran\,” published in the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies\, 2012. He co-authored with Nikki Keddie “Iran under the Later Qajars\, 1848-1922” in Cambridge History of Iran\, Vol VII\, 1991; and with Roy Mottahedh\, “Medieval Kashan: Crossroad of Commerce and Culture” in Euroasian Studies\, 2018\, Reprinted in Cities of Medieval Iranian\, 2020. His forthcoming article with Anthony Lee is titled “Race and Social Mobility in Turn of the Twentieth Century Yazd: The Rise and Fall of an Afro-Iranian Landowner.” \n\n\n[gravityform id=”192″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-a-historical-perspective-on-violence-and-urban-unrest-in-modern-iran/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:AchWorks 1 - Identity\, Alterity\, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World
DESCRIPTION:Identity\, Alterity\, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World\nThe Inaugural Symposium of the Achaemenid Workshops Series\nApril 12–14\, 2023 | 314 Royce Hall\nWatch Livestream\nMorning refreshments and check-in begin at 8:00 am.  Panels begin at 9:00 am.\n  \nThe Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is convening an international workshop on Identity\, Alterity\, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World\, held on April 12–14\, 2023 at UCLA. The symposium will include invited speakers whose research pertain to the history\, structures\, and reception of the Achaemenid empire. The overarching themes covered by the workshop are: current trends in Achaemenid scholarship; new horizons in art and archaeology; and the notions of identity\, alterity\, and the imperial impress in Achaemenid Elam and Persis\, Anatolia\, the Caucasus\, and Egypt. \nThe present workshop introduces a new series of symposia\, dubbed Achaemenid Workshops (AchWorks)\, which\, building on the achievements of Achaemenid studies in the past decades\, strive to revisit and reassess the state of Achaemenid scholarship over the coming years. with a dozen workshops hosted at leading institutions of ancient studies around the globe. \nCoordinated by the Pourdavoud Center in conjunction with our partner institutions and AchWorks’ Organizing Board\, these workshops aspire to become an intellectual hub for Achaemenid studies\, while affording an institutional framework to foster the next generation of scholars working on the Achaemenid world. \nClick here to register.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/achworks-1-identity-alterity-and-the-imperial-impress-in-the-achaemenid-world/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230409T113000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Foreign Policy Panel
DESCRIPTION:چرخش بھ شرق: تغییرو تداوم در سیاست خارجی جمھوری اسلامی\n\n\n\n\nTurning to the East: Changes and Continuities in the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Policy\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, April 9\, 2023 I 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM via Zoom \nRegistration Required \n\n\n\n\nLooking to the East and the New World Order\n\n\n\n\nKazem Alamdari\n\n\n\n\nMain Tenants of Postrevolutionary Iran’s Foreign Policy\n\n\n\n\nMehrzad Boroujerdi\n\n\n\n\nTurning to the East in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Both a Strategy and a Tactic\n\n\n\n\nTouraj Atabaki\nAbout the Speakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKazem Alamdari received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois\, Champaign-Urbana\, his MA in Educational Administration from Illinois State University\, and his BS from the University of Tehran in Psychology. He has taught at various universities\, including UCLA\, CSULA\, and CSUN. Alamdari has published ten books and numerous articles in English and Persian\, with the most recent being Civil Society: Theories\, Contexts\, and Experiences\, 2015. Alamdari was the recipient of a fellowship from the Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) in Japan\, Kyushu University in 1997. As a public intellectual\, he is frequently featured in the media and presents lectures at national and international conferences in different parts of the world. \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n  \nMehrzad Boroujerdi is Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Arts\, Sciences\, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Previously he was Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech\, and before that Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. His most recent book is Post-revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook (2018). He has been President of the Association for Iranian Studies\, a fellow of the American Council on Education\, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin\, a visiting scholar at UCLA\, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute\, and a co-PI of Iran Data Portal. He is frequently consulted by both government entities and media outlets as Al Jazeera\, Associated Press\, Economist\, Guardian\, LA Times\, NPR\, New York Times\, Reuters\, Spiegel\, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations from The American University. \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. \n\n\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-foreign-policy-panel/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Nonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran
DESCRIPTION:خشونت پرھیزی و انقلاب ارزش ھا در ایران\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran\nRamin Jahanbegloo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, April 2\, 2023 at 4:00pm\, Dodd Hall 121 \nDiscussion in Persian \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99540545809 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on April 2 to join.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2009\, the world watched in admiration the peaceful protests of young Iranians in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent presidential elections that re- elected Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Today\, a new generation is challenging the ideological structures of the Irnian theocratic regime. We have witnessed the courage and the resolution of young Iranians who have transformed their fear of the Iranian dictatorship into a social anger. This anger has revitalised Iranian civil society and motivated politically Iranians around the world. However\, the difference between today’s struggle of young Iranians and the previous civic movements is that it has neither an apparent leadership\, nor a well-defined ideology. Therefore\, we are not witnessing a revolution in the classic sense of the term\, but rather general rebellion. This is a turning point in Iran’s recent political history that the world cannot ignore: It looks as if the genie of change in Iran is trying once again to get out of the bottle. For Iranian youth seeking an end to authoritarianism and the advent of democracy\, the lessons gleaned from non-violence have been mixed. On the one hand\, the brutality and cruelty of the Iranian regime\, killing even school children\, has caused among the citizens of Iran a sense of pessimism toward the non-violence practised by moral heroes like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King\, Jr. But\, on the other hand\, recent images of the protests around Iran show young people fighting Iran’s security forces with bare hands. Trying not to be victims of their past\, they look instead to the future. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nRamin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian political philosopher. He is presently the Executive Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and the Vice-Dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University- Delhi-India. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy\, History and Political Science and later his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University. He has taught and held research positions at the Academy of Philosophy in Tehran\, the French Institute for Iranian Studies\, Harvard University\, the University of Toronto\, the Department of Contemporary Studies of the Cultural Research Centre in Tehran\, the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi\, India\, and York University in Toronto. He is the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain (2009) for his extensive academic works in promoting dialogue between cultures and his advocacy for non-violence and more recently the winner of the Josep Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize. He is also the founder of a nonviolent movement called Nonviolence Without Borders. The most recent of his thirty-two books written in English\, French\, Spanish\, Italian and Persian is Nonviolence: An Idea Whose Time has Come (Haus Curiosities 2023). \n[gravityform id=”191″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-nonviolence-and-the-revolution-of-values-in-iran/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T160000
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi Lecture 4
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran\nBetween Religion\, State\, and the Lure of the West\nA series of four lectures by \nHouchang Chehabi\nProfessor Emeritus of International Relations \nBoston University \nLecture 4: Dress\nMarch 10\, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm \nRegistration Requested for In-Person Attendance \nA hybrid Zoom live stream option is available for guests unable to attend in person. To view the lectures via the live stream\, please use the provided Zoom link. All four lectures will use the same Zoom link\, and no pre-registration is required. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99122797636 \nSeries Synopsis\nIran is one of very few non-Western countries that was never formally colonized. Th e presence of foreigners was limited in the Imperial Age\, and as a result it was largely local elites that\, motivated by a patriotic desire to “catch up” with the West\, introduced aspects of European culture into Iranian society in order to meet what has come to be known as the standard of “civilization.” Under Reza Shah\, Europeanization became state policy\, while during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah the state was less intrusive and opposition to Westernization increased. The Islamic Republic has tried to counter Western “cultural invasion” with at best mixed results. These policies have in turn been celebrated\, tolerated\, ignored\, or opposed by different sectors of Iranian society\, generating constant culture wars. This lecture series illustrates how religious strictures\, state policies\, and exposure to the wider world have affected everyday practices in three fundamental domains of human existence: names\, food\, and dress. \nFourth Lecture: Dress\nMen’s and especially women’s attire\, and its regulation by the state\, has arguably been the most contentious issue in Iran’s culture wars. This lecture examines state policies and societal reaction to them. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nHouchang Chehabi\nBorn to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi studied geography at the University of Caen and international relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris before going to Yale University\, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1986. He then taught at Harvard University and UCLA\, and in 1998 was appointed a professor of international relations and history at Boston University\, retiring in 2022. Since 2021 he has been an honorary professor in the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of three monographs\, has (co-)edited ten books\, and published over fifty articles and translations. \nSelected Works:\n\nOnomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (Boston: Ilex Foundation\, 2020)\nCulture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History\, 2018)\nIran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics\, Cultural Transformations\, and Transnational Connections (I.B. Tauris\, distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing\, 2010) (co-edited with Vanessa Martin)\nDistant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (Centre for Lebanese Studies\, in association with I.B. Tauris\, distributed by St. Martin’s Press\, 2006)\nPolitics\, Society\, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (Westview Press\, 1995) (co-edited with Alfred Stepan\, Gregory Kasza\, Arend Lijphart\, and Mattei Dogan)\nSultanistic Regimes ( Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) (coedited with Juan J. Linz)\nIranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\n\n  \n[gravityform id=”185″ title=”true” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi-lecture-4/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T110000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Eve MacDonald
DESCRIPTION:Telling Tales: Constructing Sasanian History in the Landscape\nThe narrative stories and physical landscapes of the Sasanian Empire run parallel to each other\, intersecting in areas where historical source and physical remnant of the material culture collide.  This is specifically relevant in the borderlands of the Sasanian’s vast realm\, between the lands of Eran and An-Eran\, where monumental structures survived for centuries after the fall of the empire and the memory of epic and traumatic events of a powerful dynasty lived on in the landscape.  This paper seeks to explore the interface between history and the landscape to try to glimpse the ways in which a population living in the lands of the Sasanian Empire remembered the history of the dynasty through the stories told. \nAbout the Speaker\nEve MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University. Broadly interested in the social history and archaeology of many places in the ancient Mediterranean and near east\, she has worked previously on the history and archaeology of Carthage and continues to research on the archaeological legacy of 19th and 20th century colonial occupation in North Africa. She is currently writing a history of the Sasanian Empire for Yale University Press and has worked on excavations in Iran and the Caucasus\, as well as more widely across the Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East.  She is currently working in the field on the Sasanian period fort at Fulayj\, Oman.  Her research aims to highlight different periods and cultures that make up our global ancient worlds – especially those outside the traditional Greco-Roman narrative. \nClick here to register for this event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-eve-macdonald/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T160000
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi Lecture 3
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran\nBetween Religion\, State\, and the Lure of the West\nA series of four lectures by \nHouchang Chehabi\nProfessor Emeritus of International Relations \nBoston University \nLecture 3: Food and Drink\nMarch 1\, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm \nRegistration Requested for In-Person Attendance \nA hybrid Zoom live stream option is available for guests unable to attend in person. To view the lectures via the live stream\, please use the provided Zoom link. All four lectures will use the same Zoom link\, and no pre-registration is required. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99122797636 \nSeries Synopsis\nIran is one of very few non-Western countries that was never formally colonized. Th e presence of foreigners was limited in the Imperial Age\, and as a result it was largely local elites that\, motivated by a patriotic desire to “catch up” with the West\, introduced aspects of European culture into Iranian society in order to meet what has come to be known as the standard of “civilization.” Under Reza Shah\, Europeanization became state policy\, while during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah the state was less intrusive and opposition to Westernization increased. The Islamic Republic has tried to counter Western “cultural invasion” with at best mixed results. These policies have in turn been celebrated\, tolerated\, ignored\, or opposed by different sectors of Iranian society\, generating constant culture wars. This lecture series illustrates how religious strictures\, state policies\, and exposure to the wider world have affected everyday practices in three fundamental domains of human existence: names\, food\, and dress. \nThird Lecture: Food and Drink\nThis lecture traces the evolution of Iranian culinary practices\, including cuisine (both native and foreign)\, drinking culture\, and table etiquette. \nAbout the Speaker\nHouchang Chehabi\nBorn to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi studied geography at the University of Caen and international relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris before going to Yale University\, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1986. He then taught at Harvard University and UCLA\, and in 1998 was appointed a professor of international relations and history at Boston University\, retiring in 2022. Since 2021 he has been an honorary professor in the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of three monographs\, has (co-)edited ten books\, and published over fifty articles and translations. \nSelected Works:\n\nOnomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (Boston: Ilex Foundation\, 2020)\nCulture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History\, 2018)\nIran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics\, Cultural Transformations\, and Transnational Connections (I.B. Tauris\, distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing\, 2010) (co-edited with Vanessa Martin)\nDistant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (Centre for Lebanese Studies\, in association with I.B. Tauris\, distributed by St. Martin’s Press\, 2006)\nPolitics\, Society\, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (Westview Press\, 1995) (co-edited with Alfred Stepan\, Gregory Kasza\, Arend Lijphart\, and Mattei Dogan)\nSultanistic Regimes ( Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) (coedited with Juan J. Linz)\nIranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\n\n  \n[gravityform id=”185″ title=”true” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi-lecture-3/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T180000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi
DESCRIPTION:Mohammad Mossadegh\, the Capitulations\, and the “Standard of Civilization”\nHouchang Chehabi\nSunday\, February 26\, 2023 at 4:00pm\, Dodd Hall 121 \nDiscussion in Persian \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94870537712 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on February 26 to join.) \nIn the Age of Empire\, Iran was one of the few non-European states to retain its sovereignty. The price it had to pay was the signing of unequal treaties that guaranteed the citizens of European countries extraterritorial rights\, usually called “capitulations.” Only by reforming themselves and meeting the European “standard of civilization” could countries like Iran hope to be accepted as equals and persuade the Europeans to renounce their capitulations. In this paper\, I chronicle the young Mohammad Mossadegh’s efforts to bring about the end of the capitulations and establish Iran’s full sovereignty\, both as a thinker and as a state official\, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. \nAbout the Speaker \nHouchang Esfandiar Chehabi is a scholar of Iranian studies. He is a professor emeritus of international relations and history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University\, and an honorary professor at the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. Chehabi was born to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Iran\, and grew up in Iran and Germany. He received his undergraduate education in France and his MA and PhD from Yale University. His publications include three monographs and ten (co)edited volumes\, as well as numerous articles\, book chapters\, and encyclopedia entries. \n[gravityform id=”186″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T110000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Anahita Mittertrainer
DESCRIPTION:Symbols of Royal Authority?  Early Sasanian Cityscapes in Southwestern Iran\n  \nThe early Sasanian royal city foundations of Gūr and Bīšāpūr and their respective surrounding areas were actively shaped by the new ruling dynasty with the goal of making an imprint of identity on the landscape and – especially in the initial phase – decisively influenced the development of the spatial\, structural\, and pictorial formal language of the new empire to be created. This lecture argues that the cities and their irrigated hinterlands were the first instances of early Sasanian territorialisation and possibly intended to convey an initial vision of the new empire – not only to the inhabitants of the cities\, but also to the long-established noble families in the surrounding areas. Thus\, these imperial power structures served as symbols of political identity and played an essential role in the formation of the early Sasanian state. \nAbout the Speaker\n Anahita Nasrin Mittertrainer is curator for the department of South West Asia and North Africa at Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich\, Germany. In 2019\, she received her Ph.D. at Ludwig-Maximilians- University (Munich\, Germany) for her doctoral thesis on Sasanian cities in Southwest Iran\, which was published in 2020 as Sinnbilder politischer Autorität? Frühsasanidische Städtebilder im Südwesten Irans. She has worked on excavations in Iran\, the Caucasus\, and Central Asia\, among other places. \n  \nMain image © Dr. Farzin Rezaeian; Speaker image © Nicolai Kaestner \nClick here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-anahita-mittertrainer/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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