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Pourdavoud Institute Fall Reception 2024
Royce 306Pourdavoud Institute Fall 2024 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 9, 2024 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception. In the company of our supporters, colleagues, academic affiliates, students, and esteemed guests, we shall be introducing...
Pourdavoud & Iranian Studies Co-Sponsored Lecture: Panagiotis Agapitos
Royce 306Byzantium Within a Medieval Eurafricasian Literary Polysystem: Historiography, Fictional Tales, and the Practices of Narrative Representation Byzantium and its literature has been excluded from the national canons of European literatures. While there are some obvious reasons for this exclusion in the 18th–19th century, it is woth noting that also Byzantinists supported this exclusion by...
Yarshater Center & Iranian Studies Symposium and Workshop: Nezāmi and the Iranian World
Royce 306Nezāmi and the Iranian World November 21–22, 2024 | UCLA Royce Hall 306 A symposium and workshop convened by Domenico Ingenito (University of California, Los Angeles) Morning Refreshments at 8:30am Conference beings at 9:00am “Nezāmi and the Iranian World” is a two-day conference (November 21–22, 2024) that brings together specialists of Persian literature, junior faculty,...
Bilingual Lecture Series: The Left, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in Iran: An Internationally Comparative Perspective
314 Royce Hallچپ ، دموکراسی، و اقتدارگرایی در ایران: در مقایسه ای بین المللی The Left, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in Iran: An Internationally Comparative Perspective Sunday, December 8, 4:00-6:00 PM Pacific, Royce Hall, Room 314 Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92237337565 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on December 8 to...
Bilingual Lecture Series: A Comparative Analysis of and Proposition on the Process of Transition to Democracy in Iran
تحلیلی مقایسھ ای و راھبردی در باره فرایند گذار به دموکراسی در ایران A Comparative Analysis of and Proposition on the Process of Transition to Democracy in Iran Sunday, January 12, 2025 | 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Pacific Zoom Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NsgynB3eTcC5gMAFoEixAQ Over the past few decades, democratic movements in many countries have successfully overthrown...
Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Carlo Cereti
Royce 306The Rise of Persian: Understanding the Evolution of Writing in the Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods This talk explores the evolution of writing during the Sasanian and early Islamic periods, shedding light on the long-term process that led to Persian becoming the lingua franca in Western and Central Asia from Iran to the borders of...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Film Screening and Director Q&A
314 Royce HallBilingual Lecture Series: Film Screening and Director Q&A with Mohammad Ehsani Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95549537236 The Water Will Take Us (2022) (Persian with English subtitles) In the spring of 2019 Iran experienced a near apocalypse event that went by almost unnoticed by the world. Widespread flash flooding affected large parts of the country...
Yarshater Lecture Series: Cameron Cross
Royce 306Spiderweb Stories: Translations, Adaptations, and Connections in Persian Romance In this talk, I will explore some avenues for comparative literary study through the framework of early Persian romances. The earliest extant representatives of this genre in Persian show that it is deeply imbricated with prior and adjacent narrative traditions, making it part of an intertextual...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Women’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran
زن در قانون اساسی ایران Women’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran Sunday, March 9, 2025 | 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Zoom Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pM3LdrXXSriCfDMGfzVg8w The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, ratified after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, stands as the country’s foundational legal framework, requiring all subsequent laws to...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Women’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Women’s Rights and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran Monday, March 10, 2025 | 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Zoom Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JkEcn_S1Rvqmdvgfwe68Fw The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, ratified after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, stands as the country’s foundational legal framework, requiring all subsequent laws to align with its principles. The...