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  • Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Verena Lepper

    Royce 306

    Elephantine Goes Global: Island of the Millennia Wednesday, February 25, 2026 4:00pm Royce Hall 306   Alternate Live Stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94774888079 RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/uhWcmWsk8DDH1Rdv9   Over a period of ten years a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) was conducted at the National Museums in Berlin entitled “Localizing 4000 years of...

  • HERitage emBODYment

    314 Royce Hall

    The Dean of Humanities and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures cordially invite you to a two-day event featuring HERitage emBODYment, a culturally informed, community-engaged performance and workshop exploring expressions of Egyptian and Nubian identities through cultural heritage. On Friday, February 27, co-founders Dr. Sarah Fahmy and Nabra Nelson will present excerpts from...

  • Ancient Iran and Central Asia: Interactions and Shifting Identities.

    Biennial Yarshater Lecture Series: Frantz Grenet

    Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Ancient Iran and Central Asia: Interactions and Shifting Identities March 4–11, 2026 A Series of Four Lectures at 4:00 pm Royce Hall 314 RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/fiCSCpULf7H3nJ6H8 The Pourdavoud Institute and Yarshater Center welcome Frantz Grenet (Collège de France) in March to deliver the four-part Biennial Yarshater Lecture Series on the theme, “Ancient Iran and Central...

  • Bilingual Lecture Series: Pamela Karimi

    Online Via Zoom

    Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran Pamela Karimi (Cornell University) Monday March 16, 2026, at 2:00pm Online via Zoom Registration Required https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mvqHL0u4QFGuYqFdFbiikg Download the event flyer here   This talk, based on Pamela Karimi’s 2024 book Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran, traces the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising...

  • Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Jake Nabel

    Royce 306

    Misunderstanding in Ancient Interstate Relations The Arsacid Princes of the Roman Empire Jake Nabel (Pennsylvania State University) Wednesday, April 22, 2026 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom   Registration Link: https://forms.gle/ZFb7yBFBeEs2VfMt6 Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92060104969 In the first century CE, several Arsacid princes from the Iranian empire of Parthia were sent to...

  • Bilingual Lecture Series: Sunil Sharma

    One Divan and Multiple Poets: The Strange Case of Makhfi Sunil Sharma Boston University English Lecture Monday, May 4, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time Online via Zoom Registration Required: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6QTp311ZThKErILePfrBEQ The poet behind the Divan-e Makhfi is thought to have been the Mughal Princess Zebunnisa (d. 1702). However, there are historical and philological problems with this...

  • Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Sören Stark

    Royce 306

    Next to Turquoise Domes: Excavating the City of Bukhara   Friday, May 8, 2026 4:00pm Royce Hall 306 and via Zoom RSVP Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeae-G4tZTbwP58Uoqkg0uMyf4O7j_k9CihsdQn4Wj5AnL86Q/viewform The city of Bukhara was once a key node along the fabled “Silk Roads.” Yet compared to other Central Asian cities of comparable importance, the systematic archaeological investigation of Bukhara lacks...

  • Ancient Nubia: Kingdoms along the Nile

    Haines Hall 153 375 Portola Pl, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Nubian Studies is increasingly drawing doctoral students to UCLA, the only such program in the United States, and one of a handful in the world. Four scholars will present their work during this symposium, each touching on one chronological phase of the history of Nubia. Elizabeth Minor (California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo) will...

  • Bilingual Lecture Series: Pooyan Tamimi Arab

    Woman Life Freedom in the Mirror of Scholarship: Responses from the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Pooyan Tamimi Arab Utrecht University English Lecture Monday, June 8, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time Online via Zoom Registration Required: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y6a-WJxYTX-wwqBuhAYndg This presentation will survey scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences responding to the Woman, Life,...

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