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SUMMARY:The Goddess Isis and the Kingdom of Meroe
DESCRIPTION:Discussions of the widespread appeal of the cult of Isis in antiquity often omit any mention of the Nubian priests who served the rulers of the Kingdom of Meroe (located south of Egypt in the Sudan) and the royal donations of gold that they delivered to the temple of Isis at Philae\, located at Egypt’s border with Nubia. Those funds were essential to the survival of the temple of Philae\, allowing it to remain in active use for centuries after other temples had been abandoned in Egypt. I will describe the rites performed by the Nubian priests and their participation in a tradition of Nubian pilgrimage to this site that spanned one thousand years.\nAs a Black Egyptologist it is important to me to investigate the southern connections that are evident in the ancient religious practices of Egypt. Much work remains to be done to highlight these connections. \nSolange Ashby received her Ph.D. in Egyptology with a specialization in ancient Egyptian language and Nubian religion from the University of Chicago. She has researched in Egypt at the temple of Philae and participated in an archaeological excavation in El-Kurru\, Sudan (royal Kushite cemetery). Her first book\, Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae\, is published by Gorgias Press. Her current research explores the roles of women in traditional Nubian religious practices. Dr. Ashby is working on the first monograph dedicated to the history\, religious symbolism\, and political power of the queens of Kush. \n  \n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”169″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-goddess-isis-and-the-kingdom-of-meroe/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Egyptology,NELC
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SUMMARY:Pahlavi Workshop: Pahlavi State and Society
DESCRIPTION:Pahlavi State and Society\n  \nTo download the full program of events\, click here.\n  \nThis second panel of the Iranian Studies workshop\, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop” will feature the research of: \nHouchang Chehabi \nProfessor of International Relations and History\, Boston University \nPaper: Dual Society in Pahlavi Iran \nBianca Devos\nAssistant Professor\, Centre of Near and Middle East Studies\, Philipps-University Marburg \nPaper: Islam and Censorship in Pahlavi Iran: a Case Study from the 1970s \nKevan Harris\nAssistant Professor of Sociology\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nPaper: Variations in Land Reform during the Late Pahlavi Period: Nine Provinces Compared \nLiora Hendelman-Baavur\nDirector\, The Alliance Center for Iranian Studies\, Tel Aviv University \nPaper: Royal Hype: The court’s Efforts to Popularize the Pahlavis in the Media \n  \nTo register for this event and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please click here.\n  \nHistory and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop\nIt has been nearly one hundred years since the coup of 21 February 1921 that ultimately brought Reza Khan to the throne\, and more than forty years since the 1979 revolution that overthrew his son and brought an end to the Pahlavi dynasty. Because the revolution looms so large in the 20th century history of Iran\, much of the scholarship has examined the Pahlavi period\, and the late Pahlavi period in particular\, primarily in the context of the events of 1978-79. In recent years\, however\, the Pahlavi period has experienced a surge in scholarly interest\, as a new generation of historians has emerged with access to newly released documents and a fresh view on the era unimpeded by experiences of the ancien régime. These scholars\, pioneers in the emerging field of ‘Pahlavi Studies’\, look beyond the extensively covered debates concerning the revolution\, to study the Pahlavi era as a period worthy of attention in its own right\, contextualizing it within modern Iranian and global history. \nThis online workshop will bring together scholars who study Pahlavi Iran through the lens of a wide variety of specializations including politics\, foreign policy\, sociology\, cultural studies and intellectual history\, to share innovative approaches to the history and historiography of the period. There have been several important studies of either early or late Pahlavi Iran\, but this workshop will look at the whole period from 1921 to 1979. The purpose of this approach is to better understand the significance of this nearly 60-year period in modern Iranian and global history. The workshop will identify themes and questions that emerge from current research on the Pahlavi period\, and discuss ways in which the discovery of new sources has helped to shape\, and continues to shape\, the debates in our various fields.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pahlavi-workshop-panel-2/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210302T140000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Workshop: Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies Day 2
DESCRIPTION:The origin of the Manichaean religion stands at the intersection of multiple cultural worlds: Iranian\, Semitic\, & Greco-Roman. Its literary and artistic remains enrich our understanding of those cultures and the exchange that went on among them in late antiquity. The scholars assembled for this workshop offer the latest insights obtained from the painstaking work of extracting information from the fragmentary and effaced relics of this religion with the aid of new research technologies and approaches. They report on work in progress related specifically to conditions and developments in 3rd century CE Iran in which Mani and Manichaeism served as a cultural catalyst\, explaining how these new insights are reshaping our understanding of both the religion and the world in which it emerged. \nIain Gardner\, Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Sydney\n\n\nNew Research and Sources for the Life of Mani \n  \n\nThis presentation will outline recent trajectories in research on the Life of Mani. Evidence from in-process work on new sources will be presented\, with particular reference to the editing of surviving remnants from Mani’s letters. Copies of these compositions were revered\, collected\, translated into many languages and circulated throughout the Manichaean communities\, and they provide a remarkable insight into the life of the apostle and his immediate circle.\n\n\n\nJason BeDuhn\, Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions and Asian Studies at Northern Arizona University\n\n\nManichaean Interpretation of Iranian Religious Traditions \n  \n\nNew sources such as the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex allow us to begin to break down the long-standing division between “Western” and “Eastern” Manichaeism in modern scholarship\, and discover connections especially between Coptic and Middle Iranian Manichaean texts that shed light on the earliest centuries of the Manichaean religion. We are now in a better position to see how Mani and his early followers set out to acculturate their Christian movement to an Iranian context by identifying their teachings as the true interpretations of old Iranian religious traditions\, contesting the authority of an emerging Zoroastrian leadership.\n\n\n\n\nPlease click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-workshop-current-trends-in-manichaeism-studies-day-2/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210301T140000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Workshop: Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies Day 1
DESCRIPTION:The origin of the Manichaean religion stands at the intersection of multiple cultural worlds: Iranian\, Semitic\, & Greco-Roman. Its literary and artistic remains enrich our understanding of those cultures and the exchange that went on among them in late antiquity. The scholars assembled for this workshop offer the latest insights obtained from the painstaking work of extracting information from the fragmentary and effaced relics of this religion with the aid of new research technologies and approaches. They report on work in progress related specifically to conditions and developments in 3rd century CE Iran in which Mani and Manichaeism served as a cultural catalyst\, explaining how these new insights are reshaping our understanding of both the religion and the world in which it emerged.\n\n\nPaul Dilley\, Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions at the University of Iowa\n\nAlso Schrieb Zarathustra? New Manichaean Sources for the “Law of Zarades” & His Otherworldly Journeys \n  \n\nThe second volume of the Kephalaia\, a Coptic papyrus manuscript held at the Chester Beatty library\, is a major source for the history of early Manichaeism in its Iranian context.  In this talk\, I will give an overview of the multispectral imaging of the codex\, reporting on the latest results which have significantly improved its legibility. I will then discuss the various references to and quotations of the so-called “Law of Zarades\,” comparing them to both Iranian and Greco-Roman sources\, and assess their rhetorical significance in the Kephalaia as well as their importance for understanding the Sasanian background of third-century Manichaeism. Finally\, I will contextualize the Kephalaia passage on the journey to heaven and hell by Zarades and other apostles of light\, connecting it to rival claims of inspired vision by Mani and Kartir.\n\n\n\n\nZsuzsanna Gulácsi\, Professor of Art History at Northern Arizona University\n\n\nThe Footprint of Mani’s Book of Pictures in Late Antique Sources: An Assessment of Social & Geographical Data about Teaching with Images During the 3rd and 4th Centuries \n  \n\nUnlike other religions\, Manichaeism had canonical images\, not just canonical texts. Primary and secondary textual sources document that the Manichaean canon included a solely pictorial volume—a picture book—that was authored by Mani\, circulated in multiple copies already during Mani’s life\, and issued in many later editions. From late antiquity\, 13 passages mention the Book of Pictures (Copt. Hikōn\, Syr. Yuqnā\, Parth. Ārdhang\, MPers. Nigār). They convey that Mani commissioned its images to be painted as visual aids for teaching. The goal of this study is to assess who had access to this pictorial volume of the canon and where it was used during the first 120 years of Manichaean history. Mapping this data reveals the geographic footprint of teaching with images among the followers of Mani.\n\n\n\nPlease click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-workshop-current-trends-in-manichaeism-studies-day-1/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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SUMMARY:Pahlavi Workshop: Roundtable on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Coup and Reflections on the Reza Pahlavi Period
DESCRIPTION:Roundtable on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Coup and Reflections on the Reza Pahlavi Period\nThe first panel of the Iranian Studies workshop\, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop” will feature a round table discussion centered on the 100th anniversary of the coup that initiated the Reza Pahlavi Period in Iran. \nThis panel will be chaired by workshop organizer Dr. Robert Steele\, the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellow in Iranian Studies at UCLA. \n  \nTo download the full program of events\, click here.\n  \nFeatured panelists of the round table discussion include: \nCamron Michael Amin\nProfessor of History\, University of Michigan-Dearborn \nAli Ansari\nProfessor of Iranian History\, University of St Andrews and Senior Associate Fellow\, Royal United Services Institute \nStephanie Cronin\nElahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Research Fellow\, St Antony’s College\, University of Oxford \nAfshin Marashi\nProfessor of Middle Eastern History\, University of Oklahoma \n  \nTo register for this event and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please click here.\n  \nHistory and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran\, 1921-1979: A Workshop\nIt has been nearly one hundred years since the coup of 21 February 1921 that ultimately brought Reza Khan to the throne\, and more than forty years since the 1979 revolution that overthrew his son and brought an end to the Pahlavi dynasty. Because the revolution looms so large in the 20th century history of Iran\, much of the scholarship has examined the Pahlavi period\, and the late Pahlavi period in particular\, primarily in the context of the events of 1978-79. In recent years\, however\, the Pahlavi period has experienced a surge in scholarly interest\, as a new generation of historians has emerged with access to newly released documents and a fresh view on the era unimpeded by experiences of the ancien régime. These scholars\, pioneers in the emerging field of ‘Pahlavi Studies’\, look beyond the extensively covered debates concerning the revolution\, to study the Pahlavi era as a period worthy of attention in its own right\, contextualizing it within modern Iranian and global history. \nThis online workshop will bring together scholars who study Pahlavi Iran through the lens of a wide variety of specializations including politics\, foreign policy\, sociology\, cultural studies and intellectual history\, to share innovative approaches to the history and historiography of the period. There have been several important studies of either early or late Pahlavi Iran\, but this workshop will look at the whole period from 1921 to 1979. The purpose of this approach is to better understand the significance of this nearly 60-year period in modern Iranian and global history. The workshop will identify themes and questions that emerge from current research on the Pahlavi period\, and discuss ways in which the discovery of new sources has helped to shape\, and continues to shape\, the debates in our various fields.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pahlavi-workshop-panel-1/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T110000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Carlo G. Cereti
DESCRIPTION:Narseh’s Diadem: Religion\, Royalty\, and Power under the Early Sasanians\nThis talk focuses on the Sasanian king Narseh (293-302 CE)\, who celebrated his accession to the throne through the bilingual inscription (Middle Persian and Parthian) and commemorative monument built in Paikuli\, the site currently studied by the archaeological mission of Sapienza-University of Rome: The Italian Archaeological Mission to Iraqi Kurdistan (MAIKI – Missione Archeologica Italiana nel Kurdistan Iracheno). The mission’s work in Paikuli focuses on the reconstruction and preservation of the monument and its unique inscription. Choosing a holistic scholarly approach and joining methodologies of historical linguistics and philology with those of archaeology\, field campaigns were organised in 2007\, 2008\, 2018\, and 2019\, revealing a number of previously unknown inscribed blocks; a first volume of these new inscriptions was published in 2014\, and the remaining inscriptions will be published in the final report. This lecture will present the multiple scientific methodologies and research approaches applied over the years and will also illustrate strategies to promote the monument in the framework of Kurdistan’s cultural heritage\, including the Paikuli Gallery built by MAIKI in the Slemani Museum and the recent realization of an exhibition at Sapienza\, which features a tactile 3D printing of one of the\nNarseh’s sculptures (once decorating the Paikuli monument and now preserved at the Slemani Museum). These strategies offer clear examples of the potential of interaction between field documentation and the application of innovative technologies aimed at promoting full accessibility of Cultural Heritage. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nCarlo G. Cereti is a Professor at Sapienza – University of Rome in Iranian Philology\, Religions and History.  He also serves as the Coordinator of the Class in Humanities at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati – Sapienza\, the Director of the Winter School in Cultural Heritage of the Near and Middle East\, a Rector’s delegate for International cooperation\, and a Senior Fellow at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati – Sapienza. He studied at the Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples where in 1985\, he obtained his Master’s (Laurea) degree in Oriental languages and civilizations focusing on Iranian and Indian Studies. In 1992\, he obtained his Ph.D. in the same field.  From 1997 to 1999\, Professor Cereti was engaged in research at the Kommission für Iranistik of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, while at the same time teaching Iranian Languages at the Seminar für  Sprachwissenschaft of the Vienna University. In 1999\, he served as a visiting professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Parism and in 2002 acted as Directeur de Recherche at the UMRS “Monde Iranien” of the French CNRS. He has published extensively in Iranian Studies\, mainly on Middle Persian and Zoroastrianism. His publications include: An 18th  century Account of Parsi History\, The Qesse-ye Zartoštiān-e Hendustān\, The Zand ī Wahman Yasn: A Zoroastrian Apocalypse\, and La Letteratura Pahlavi. Introduzione ai testi con riferimenti alla storia degli studi ed alla tradizione manoscritta.  Professor Cereti is also a Consulting editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica\, a Member of the Editorial Board of Iran and the Caucasus and The Journal of Persianate Studies\, and a Member of the Advisory Board of Vicino Oriente and Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni. \nPlease click here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/15658/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T160000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Nikolaus Overtoom
DESCRIPTION:Reconsidering the Emergence of the Parthian State: The Crisis of the 240s-230s BCE in the Hellenistic Middle East\nNikolaus Overtoom’s study of the rise of the Parthian Empire\, Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East\, brings a new perspective to this important development in the history of the Hellenistic Middle East. By emphasizing the changing international-systems elements that led to the expansion of the Arsacid kings\, Overtoom allows scholars to develop a more sophisticated view of how this expansion occurred\, with less causal emphasis merely on the warlike nature of Parthian society or the personalities of individual rulers — important though these were. This monograph draws on a wide variety of sources to explain the political and military encounters that shaped the international environment of the Hellenistic Middle East from the middle third to the early first centuries BCE. This study combines traditional historical approaches\, such as source criticism and the integration of material evidence\, with the incorporation of modern international relations theory to better reconstruct the rise of the Parthians (or Arsacids) to dominance over their Greek\, Persian\, and nomadic neighbors in the ancient Middle East. \nAbout the Speaker\nNikolaus Overtoom is an Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Washington State University.  He is the author of Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East (Oxford Studies in Early Empires Series\, 2020). He earned his Ph.D. in Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern History from Louisiana State University in 2016. His reserach interests include geopolitics in the ancient world\, ancient international relations\, ancient propaganda\, and imperial rivalries. \n  \nPlease click here to register for this event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-nikolaus-overtoom/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210203T143000
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SUMMARY:From Lor Girl to May Lady: Music\, Sound\, and Constructions of Womanhood in Iranian Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Laudan Nooshin\, Professor of Music at City\, University of London\nWednesday\, February 3\, 2021\n1:00 PM (Pacific Time) \nPart of the Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series\, this event is sponsored by The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Department of Ethnomusicology\, the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies\, and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, with support from the Dean of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. \nSponsor(s):  Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Herb Alpert School of Music\, Iranian Studies \nClick here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/from-lor-girl-to-may-lady-music-sound-and-constructions-of-womanhood-in-iranian-cinema/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T163000
DTSTAMP:20210112T221044Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Panel on Development
DESCRIPTION:“Socio-Economic Development Strategies and Challenges in Iran\,” a panel discussion featuring Azam Khatam (York University)\, Kaveh Ehsani (DePaul University)\, and Kevan Harris (UCLA) will take place via Zoom on Monday\, February 1 at 3:00pm Pacific.  Please click on the link below to register for this Bilingual Lecture Series event. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lB7hy0biSWSx61ssFf5jVg
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-environmental-panel/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T130000
DTSTAMP:20210115T165822Z
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Domenico Ingenito's Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry (Brill\, 2020)
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Paul Losensky (Indiana University) and Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia) \nWednesday\, January 27\, 2021\n10:00 AM (Pacific Time) \nTo RSVP\, please click here.\n  \nBeholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry explores the relationship between sexuality\, politics\, and spirituality in the lyrics of Saʿdi Shirazi (d. 1292 CE)\, one of the most revered masters of classical Persian literature. Relying on a variety of sources\, including unstudied manuscripts\, Domenico Ingenito presents the so-called “inimitable smoothness” of Saʿdi’s lyric style as a serene yet multifaceted window into the uncanny beauty of the world\, the human body\, and the realm of the unseen. \nThe book constitutes the first attempt to study Saʿdi’s lyric meditations on beauty in the context of the major artistic\, scientific and intellectual trends of his time. By charting unexplored connections between Islamic philosophy and mysticism\, obscene verses and courtly ideals of love\, Ingenito approaches Saʿdi’s literary genius from the perspective of sacred homoeroticism and the psychology of performative lyricism in their historical context. \n  \nSponsor(s):  Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Iranian Studies\, Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/book-launch-domenico-ingenitos-beholding-beauty-sa%ca%bfdi-of-shiraz-and-the-aesthetics-of-desire-in-medieval-persian-poetry-brill-2020/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T173000
DTSTAMP:20210107T200055Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Jason Schlude
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: Rome\, Parthia\, and the Politics of Peace\n\nThis volume offers an informed survey of the problematic relationship between the ancient empires of Rome and Parthia from c. 96/95 BCE to 224 CE. Schlude explores the rhythms of this relationship and invites its readers to reconsider the past and our relationship with it. \nSome have looked to this confrontation to help explain the roots of the long-lived conflict between the West and the Middle East. It is a reading symptomatic of most scholarship on the subject\, which emphasizes fundamental incompatibility and bellicosity in Roman–Parthian relations. Rather than focusing on the relationship as a series of conflicts\, Rome\, Parthia\, and the Politics of Peace responds to this common misconception by highlighting instead the more cooperative elements in the relationship and shows how a reconciliation of these two perspectives is possible. There was\, in fact\, a cyclical pattern in the Roman–Parthian interaction\, where a reality of peace and collaboration became overshadowed by images of aggressive posturing projected by powerful Roman statesmen and emperors for a domestic population conditioned to expect conflict. The result was the eventual realization of these images by later Roman opportunists who\, unsatisfied with imagined war\, sought active conflict with Parthia. \nRome\, Parthia\, and the Politics of Peace is a fascinating new study of these two superpowers that will be of interest not only to students of Rome and the Near East but also to anyone with an interest in diplomatic relations and conflict in the ancient world and today. \nAbout the Speaker\n\n\nJason Schlude is an Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Languages and Cultures at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in Minnesota and Co-Director of the Omrit Settlement Excavation Project in Israel. A former Getty scholar\, he is an ancient historian and archaeologist who specializes in the Roman Near East and the relationship between the Roman and Parthian Empires. He published Rome\, Parthia\, and the Politics of Peace: The Origins of War in the Ancient Middle East in 2020 (Routledge Press) and co-edited Arsacids\, Romans\, and Local Elites: Cross-Cultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire in 2017 (Oxbow Books)\, with related articles appearing in journals including Latomus\, Athenaeum\, and Anabasis. A member of the Avon Hills Salon (https://avonhillssalon.com)\, he also engages in public scholarship exploring the significance of the liberal arts and Classics in the modern world.​ His essays have appeared in Foreign Policy Journal (“Rome\, Iran\, and the Specters of Antiquity”)\, Minneapolis Star Tribune (e.g.\, “A Minnesota scholar shows how we could find common ground with\, and through\, Shia Islam”; “Ted Cruz\, Cicero\, and the classics”)\, The Activist History Review (e.g.\, “The Problem of White People\, with Insight from St. Paul”; “The Politics of Consumption: From Trimalchio and Gatsby to Trump and Beyond”)\, Bible History Daily (“Herod the Great: Friend of the Romans and Parthians?”)\, and Avon Hills Salon (e.g.\, “The Art of Liberation: Life in the Liberal Arts”; “Infectious Nationalism: Pericles and Public Health Crises”). His poetry has appeared in Pericles at Play (“We Lived among the Bones”)\, with more forthcoming in Jesuits Magazine (“The Teacher”). \nClick here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-jason-schlude-2/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T160000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center/Amuzegar Lecture Series: Afshin Marashi
DESCRIPTION:The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran\nThis book talk will provide an overview of Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran (University of Texas Press\, 2020). In the aftermath of the 7th century Islamic conquest of Iran\, large numbers of Zoroastrians departed for India. Known as the Parsis\, they slowly lost contact with their ancestral homeland until the 19th century\, when stream-powered sea travel and the philanthropic efforts of wealthy Parsi benefactors sparked a new era of interaction between Parsis and Iranians. Tracing the late 19th and early 20th century cultural and intellectual exchange between Iranian nationalists and India’s Parsi community\, Exile and the Nation shows how this interchange led to a collective re-imagining of Parsi and Iranian national identity and to the revival of antiquity in 20th century Iran thought. \nAbout the Speaker\nAfshin Marashi is Professor and Farzaneh Family Chair in Modern Iranian History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author most recently of Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran (University of Texas Press\, 2020). His previous books include Nationalizing Iran: Culture\, Power\, and the State\, 1870-1940 (University of Washington Press\, 2008)\, and the volume (co-edited with Kamran Aghaie) Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity (University of Texas Press\, 2014). He has also served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies and on the council of the Association for Iranian Studies. \nPlease click here to register for this event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-amuzegar-lecture-series-afshin-marashi/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T140000
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SUMMARY:Steadfast Imagining Session 5: Bidel in Modern Central Asia\, South Asia\, Afghanistan\, Iran: The Geopolitics of Literary Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Session 5 of the multidisciplinary workshop series on Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d. 1720) \nFriday\, December 18\, 2020\n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Pacific Time) \n  \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nThis is Session 5 of the multidisciplinary workshop\, Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d.1720) organized and led by Prof. Domenico Ingenito (UCLA\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Dr. Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia) in cooperation with scholars working in Persian Studies\, Islamic Studies\, South Asian\, Near Eastern\, and Central Asian Studies\, English\, Anthropology\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and all reading materials (both primary and secondary sources) will be circulated and presented in English translation. \nBidel’s reception history in modern Afghanistan\, Iran\, Central Asia\, and South Asia is a fascinating and complex case study in the geopolitics of literary legacy. In Iran\, Bidel has been dismissed as an obscure poet whose difficult style relegates him to a peripheral corner of the Persian canon. Bidel’s legacy in South Asia is complicated by the emergence of vernacular traditions in northern India and the gradual disappearance of Persian from the Subcontinent shortly after Bidel’s death. In modern Central Asia\, Bidel plays an important role in the rise of national literatures during the Soviet period\, and he currently enjoys a flourishing afterlife in Afghanistan. Kevin Schwartz\, Zuzanna Olszewska\, Sam Hodgkin\, and Ahmad Rashid Salim join us to talk about Bidel’s legacy and the place of Bidel’s reception history in modern reevaluations of Persian literary history. \nIn conversation with Kevin Schwartz (Czech Academy of Sciences)\, Zuzanna Olszewska (Oxford)\, Sam Hodgkin (Yale)\, and Ahmad Rashid Salim (UC Berkeley) \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nFor more information about the workshop as a whole\, including the complete schedule of meetings\, please see the announcement here. \nThe workshop is sponsored and organized by UCLA Program on Central Asia (in collaboration with Iranian Studies)\, and co-sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia\, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, and the Center for Near Eastern Studies. \n  \nFor questions about the event\, please contact  caw@international.ucla.edu  \nSponsor(s):  Program on Central Asia\, Center for India and South Asia\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/steadfast-imagining-session-5-bidel-in-modern-central-asia-south-asia-afghanistan-iran-the-geopolitics-of-literary-legacy/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201211T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201211T140000
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SUMMARY:Steadfast Imagining Session 4: Worlds Together Shined: Bidel\, Traherne\, and Experiments in Comparison
DESCRIPTION:Session 4 of the multidisciplinary workshop series on Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d. 1720) \nFriday\, December 11\, 2020\n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Pacific Time) \n  \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nThis is Session 4 of the multidisciplinary workshop\, Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d.1720) organized and led by Prof. Domenico Ingenito (UCLA\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Dr. Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia) in cooperation with scholars working in Persian Studies\, Islamic Studies\, South Asian\, Near Eastern\, and Central Asian Studies\, English\, Anthropology\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and all reading materials (both primary and secondary sources) will be circulated and presented in English translation. \nThere are tantalizing similarities between the poetry of Bidel and his contemporaries and early modern English meditative poetry. These literary traditions are not in direct contact with each other\, yet they operate in strikingly similar ways (for instance\, in their assimilation of scientific ideas and engagement with philosophy and theology). Moreover\, these poets are co-inheritors\, through very different vectors\, of Aristotealian rationalism\, Neoplatonism\, and Avicennan ideas. How should we think about traditions that are not in direct contact with each other\, but have partially shared lineages? Timothy Harrison joins us to talk about our collaboration-in-progress. We are co-authoring an essay in which we investigate how Thomas Traherne and Bidel—living worlds apart\, not at all in contact—come to compose strikingly similar accounts of infant experience (being in the womb\, birth\, first sensations\, breastfeeding) at the same moment in the seventeenth century. In this session\, we make a pitch for the importance of collaboration and discuss possible methods for comparing premodern European and Islamic literary traditions. \nIn conversation with Timothy Harrison (English\, University of Chicago) \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nFor more information about the workshop as a whole\, including the complete schedule of meetings\, please see the announcement here. \nThe workshop is sponsored and organized by UCLA Program on Central Asia (in collaboration with Iranian Studies)\, and co-sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia\, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, and the Center for Near Eastern Studies. \n  \n  \nFor questions about the event\, please contact  caw@international.ucla.edu  \nSponsor(s):  Program on Central Asia\, Center for India and South Asia\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/steadfast-imagining-session-4-worlds-together-shined-bidel-traherne-and-experiments-in-comparison/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T173000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Michael Jackson Bonner
DESCRIPTION:Sasanian Iran: A Personal View\nThis talk will focus on topics included in Dr. Bonner’s new book\, The Last Empire of Iran\, a narrative history of Sasanian Persia. Throughout this lecture\, Dr. Bonner will share with the audience the impetus for writing this book. The principle motivation was to portray the Sasanian state as the great world power that it was and to situate it properly between Rome and the nomad powers of Inner Asia. It addresses the classicising and Perso-Arabic historiographical traditions\, but special emphasis has also been given to Armenian and Syriac sources. Discussion will cover some of the key themes of the book\, including: the origins of the Sasanian state; the wider context of Eurasian history; interactions between Iran and the world of the steppe; and\, finally\, historiographical problems and the use of sources. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Michael Jackson Bonner is a Canadian political adviser and historian of Iran. A former classicist and student of James Howard-Johnston and Robert Hoyland\, he read for a master’s degree and doctorate in late-antique Iranian history at the University of Oxford. Dr. Bonner has advised members of Cabinet in both federal and provincial Canadian governments\, and is now a Director of Policy within the Government of Ontario. \n  \n  \nPlease click here to register for this event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-michael-jackson-bonner/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T140000
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SUMMARY:Steadfast Imagining Session 3: Crossings: Hinduism\, Islam\, and Bidel's Practical Comparative Religion
DESCRIPTION:Session 3 of the multidisciplinary workshop series on Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d. 1720) \nFriday\, November 20\, 2020\n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Pacific Time) \n  \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nThis is Session 3 of the multidisciplinary workshop\, Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d.1720) organized and led by Prof. Domenico Ingenito (UCLA\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Dr. Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia) in cooperation with scholars working in Persian Studies\, Islamic Studies\, South Asian\, Near Eastern\, and Central Asian Studies\, English\, Anthropology\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and all reading materials (both primary and secondary sources) will be circulated and presented in English translation. \nIn the 1660s\, Bidel engaged in a friendly debate with a Hindu friend about imagination\, time\, and experience in Islam and Hinduism. By transcribing this debate in his autobiography\, Bidel acquaints readers with his critical concept of “crossings”—a method of practical comparative religion that draws on the resources of the imagination and lyric poetry. Prashant Keshavmurthy and Hajnalka Kovacs join us to discuss some of the other ways that Bidel encounters\, absorbs\, appropriates\, and transforms Indic ideas\, and the broader role of comparative religion in Bidel’s system of thought. \nIn conversation with Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill) and Hajnalka Kovacs (Harvard) \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nFor more information about the workshop as a whole\, including the complete schedule of meetings\, please see the announcement here. \nThe workshop is sponsored and organized by UCLA Program on Central Asia (in collaboration with Iranian Studies)\, and co-sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia\, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, and the Center for Near Eastern Studies. \n  \n  \nFor questions about the event\, please contact  caw@international.ucla.edu  \nSponsor(s):  Program on Central Asia\, Center for India and South Asia\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/steadfast-imagining-session-3-crossings-hinduism-islam-and-bidels-practical-comparative-religion/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T130000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Workshop: Papyrus Amherst 63
DESCRIPTION:The Puzzling Papyrus: New Perspectives on Papyrus Amherst 63\nIn this workshop\, two of the world’s leading experts on Papyrus Amherst 63\, Professors Tawny Holm and Karel van der Toorn\, will reflect on recent scholarship on the Aramaic texts of this papyrus written in Demotic Egyptian script during the Persian Period. Since the decipherment of the papyrus\, scholars have turned to investigating the papyrus’ compositional setting\, as well as the hymns\, prayers\, and stories found in the papyrus\, some of which correspond to texts of the Hebrew Bible. Though the language\, script choice\, and other features of the papyrus have puzzled scholars for decades\, it speaks to the rich texts preserved by Aramaic-speaking populations in the region and provides access to Judean\, Aramean\, and other traditions. This workshop will discuss the content and organization of the papyrus and examine how its texts illuminate the diverse landscapes of peoples\, places\, traditions\, and languages in the ancient Near East under the Achaemenid Empire. \nThis workshop will feature the research of Professor Tawny Holm (Pennsylvania State University) and Professor Karel van der Toorn (University of Amsterdam). \nTextualizing Aramean Identities in Egypt: Papyrus Amherst 63\nProfessor Holm’s presentation highlights the new evidence that Papyrus Amherst 63 brings to our understanding of the Aramean and Aramaic-speaking diaspora in Egypt. The papyrus\, written in approximately the fourth century BCE in Aramaic but using Demotic Egyptian script\, is an anthology of Aramaic texts that reflect the traditions and collective cultural memory of a group of Aramean émigrés\, including Judeans and Samarians\, to Egypt in the first millennium BCE. The papyrus marries East and West in its nostalgia for lost landscapes\, cities\, and cult centers from across the Near East\, yet it also joins this nostalgia with themes of renewal and rejuvenation in a new land. It seems likely that the various compositions on the papyrus became anthologized as such in Egypt. \nThe Internal Organization of Papyrus Amherst 63\nBased on the 2018 published edition of Papyrus Amherst 63 Professor van der Toorn’s lecture will allow attendees of the workshop to engage with the most recent scholarship on the subject of the internal organization of the document.  His general subject will focus on how the document is organized\, but will also engage with students and other participants about any issue that arises in connection with the papyrus. \nProfessor Tawyn Holm’s Bio\nTawny Holm earned her Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Northwest Semitic Languages at The Johns Hopkins University\, and is now an Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and the Jewish Studies Program at Pennsylvania State University. Her main research areas are Hebrew Bible and Aramaic studies\, including Aramaic language and Aramean religion and culture. She is the author of Of Courtiers and Kings: The Biblical Daniel Narratives and Ancient Story-Collections (Eisenbrauns\, 2013)\, and Aramaic Literary Texts\, soon to appear in the SBL series “Writings from the Ancient World.” The latter is a bilingual edition of Aramaic literary texts from the Levant to Egypt\, in particular the multi-composition Papyrus Amherst 63\, written in Aramaic language but with Demotic Egyptian script. Other projects include a monograph on ancient Aramaic literature generally (under contract with de Gruyter)\, a critical edition of Papyrus Amherst 63 (also with de Gruyter)\, and a textbook of Imperial Aramaic currently under review. Professor Holm is also editing a collective volume\, Handbook of Religions in the Ancient Near East\, for Oxford University Press\, and co-editing with Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala the Proceedings volume of the 8th Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Comparative Semitics in 2019. Among other professional service\, she is an editorial board member of the Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions\, a member of the Eisenbrauns Editorial Committeee for Penn State University Press\, and Aramaic epigrapher for The University of Vienna Middle Egypt Project at Sheikh Faḍl. \nProfessor Karel van der Toorn’s Bio\nKarel van der Toorn is currently professor of Religion and Society at the University of Amsterdam. He studied Hebrew Bible and Semitic languages in Paris and Amsterdam; did his PhD on Sin and Sanction in Israel and Mesopotamia (1985). He wrote extensively on Israelite religion in the context of ancient Near Eastern civilisation. He published an edition of Papyrus Amherst 63\, along with translation and commentary\, in 2018 (in the series Alter Orient und Altes Testament\, 448; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag). His latest book Becoming Diaspora Jews: Behind the Story of Elephantine (Yale University Press\, 2019) explores the significance of Papyrus Amherst 63 for the history of the Jewish community at fifth century BCE Elephantine\, Egypt. \n  \nPlease click here to register for the Zoom Webinar.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-workshop-papyrus-amherst-63/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T163000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Claudia Yaghoobi
DESCRIPTION:Embodiment\, Power\, and Politics in the context of Sigheh Marriages in Modern Iran\nFarahbakhsh’s Zendegi-ye Khosusi (2011) narrates the life story of a former religious zealot\, Ebrahim Kiani\, who has transformed into a Reformist. Ebrahim has a decent family life\, a wife\, Forugh\, and a son. One night at a party\, he is introduced to Parisa Zandi\, and their relationship culminates in their sigheh marriage. Highlighting the unsettling balance of the political and the personal\, the manipulation of religion\, double standards\, and gendered inequality\, Zendegi-ye Khosusi demonstrates the inimical power of patriarchy to protect and maintain male dominance. Farahbakhsh depicts the politicization of the female body and sexuality in the context of sigheh under the Islamic regime. I argue that Zendegi-ye Khosusi demonstrates the inimical power of patriarchy to willingly eliminate a female body in order to protect and maintain the male prerogative while precariously balancing political ideals\, personal desires\, and religious beliefs in a society dominated by gender disparities. \nPlease note that this lecture will be in English. \nTo register for this event and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please visit: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aDcBSCLCRmSoqffOLBIppg
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-claudia-yaghoobi/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201106T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201106T140000
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SUMMARY:Steadfast Imagining Session 2: Philosophy in the First Person: Bidel's Reception of Avicenna and Ibn ʿArabi
DESCRIPTION:Session 2 of the multidisciplinary workshop series on Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d. 1720) \nFriday\, November 6\, 2020\n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Pacific Time) \n  \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nThis is Session 2 of the multidisciplinary workshop\, Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d.1720) organized and led by Prof. Domenico Ingenito (UCLA\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Dr. Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia) in cooperation with scholars working in Persian Studies\, Islamic Studies\, South Asian\, Near Eastern\, and Central Asian Studies\, English\, Anthropology\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and all reading materials (both primary and secondary sources) will be circulated and presented in English translation. \nThe end goal of philosophy is certain knowledge. What do imagination and lyric poetry have to do with this quest for certainty? Justine Landau and Domenico Ingenito join us to talk about the vital intersections between lyric poetry and philosophy in the premodern Persianate world. Placing Bidel in conversation with Avicenna and Ibn ʿArabī\, we will see how Bidel’s style of steadfast imagining traces a distinctive\, phenomenologically inflected path to certainty that is just as methodical and robust as the logic-driven procedures of systematic thought —and how lyric poetry for Bidel functions like philosophy in the first person. \nIn conversation with Domenico Ingenito (UCLA) and Justine Landau (Harvard) \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nFor more information about the workshop as a whole\, including the complete schedule of meetings\, please see the announcement here. \nThe workshop is sponsored and organized by UCLA Program on Central Asia (in collaboration with Iranian Studies)\, and co-sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia\, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, and the Center for Near Eastern Studies. \n  \n  \nFor questions about the event\, please contact  caw@international.ucla.edu  \nSponsor(s):  Program on Central Asia\, Center for India and South Asia\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/steadfast-imagining-session-2-philosophy-in-the-first-person-bidels-reception-of-avicenna-and-ibn-%ca%bfarabi/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T173000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Henry Colburn
DESCRIPTION:Achaemenid Egypt: The Archaeology of a Colonial Encounter\nTraditionally\, Egyptologists have regarded the period of Achaemenid Persian rule (the 27th Dynasty\, c. 526-404 BCE) as an unmitigated disaster for the Egyptians. This view\, however\, is based primarily on the perception that there is a scarcity of material from this period; in turn this scarcity is read through an orientalist lens as the result of oppression and political and economic turmoil. This is not to say that turmoil and oppression did not take place\, but that our understanding of this period should arise from a critical engagement with the evidence rather than an argument from silence. \nIn this lecture I argue that this scarcity is as much a consequence of modern factors as ancient ones. I provide several examples\, drawn from my recent book\, of material culture\, including statues\, stelae\, coins\, drinking vessels and tomb reliefs\, that can or must date to the 27th Dynasty. Each of these types of objects sheds different light on how the Egyptians – and other people living in Egypt – experienced Persian rule. These experiences could vary considerably\, ranging from exploitation to acculturation\, precisely the diversity of experience that comparative studies of colonialism lead us to expect. Thus Achaemenid Egypt was not an unmitigated disaster per se\, but a colonial encounter like any other. \nAbout the Speaker\nHenry Colburn earned a PhD in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the art and archaeology of ancient Iran\, and on the regions of the Near East\, Eastern Mediterranean\, and Central Asia that interacted with Iran prior to the advent of Islam. His first book on this subject\, Archaeology of Empire in Achaemenid Egypt\, was published earlier this year. He has held fellowships at the Harvard Art Museums\, the Getty Research Institute\, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, and teaching positions at the University of California\, Irvine and the University of Southern California. He is currently a Research Associate of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan by virtue of his ongoing work on the seals of the Persepolis Fortification Archive. \nPlease click here to register for the Zoom link.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-henry-colburn/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T140000
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SUMMARY:Steadfast Imagining Session 1: Introducing Bidel of Delhi (d. 1720)
DESCRIPTION:Session 1 of the multidisciplinary workshop series on Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d. 1720) \nFriday\, October 23\, 2020\n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Pacific Time) \n  \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nThis is Session 1 of the multidisciplinary workshop\, Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation\, Islamic Philosophy\, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d.1720) organized and led by Prof. Domenico Ingenito (UCLA\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Dr. Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia) in cooperation with scholars working in Persian Studies\, Islamic Studies\, South Asian\, Near Eastern\, and Central Asian Studies\, English\, Anthropology\, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English\, and all reading materials (both primary and secondary sources) will be circulated and presented in English translation. \nThis session introduces the remarkable Persian corpus of the Indian poet and philosopher Bidel of Delhi (1644–1720 CE). We will trace a broad overview of Bidel’s life\, thought\, literary style\, and distinctive practices of the self—his system of steadfast imagining. \nIn conversation with Paul Losensky (Indiana University) \nRSVP Here (Zoom registration) \nFor more information about the workshop as a whole\, including the complete schedule of meetings\, please see the announcement here. \nThe workshop is sponsored and organized by UCLA Program on Central Asia (in collaboration with Iranian Studies)\, and co-sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia\, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, and the Center for Near Eastern Studies. \n  \n  \nFor questions about the event\, please contact  caw@international.ucla.edu  \nSponsor(s):  Program on Central Asia\, Center for India and South Asia\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/steadfast-imagining-session-1-introducing-bidel-of-delhi-d-1720/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T120000
DTSTAMP:20201006T211639Z
CREATED:20201006T211624Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Fall 2020 Welcome Event
DESCRIPTION:You Are Invited:\nPourdavoud Center Fall 2020 Welcome Event\nFriday\, October 23\, 2020 at 11:00am PST\nvia Zoom\n\nRegistration Required \n\nPlease join us for a digital fall reception to celebrate the continued success of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World. In the company of Dr. Anahita Naficy Lovelace and Mr. Jim Lovelace\, the Center’s benefactors\, David Schaberg\, Dean of Humanities\, M. Rahim Shayegan\, the Center’s director\, our staff\, academic affiliates\, colleagues\, students\, and esteemed guests\, we shall be introducing the Center’s stimulating programming and research agenda for the Academic year 2020-21.\n\nProgram:\n\nWelcoming Remarks from:\n\nDean David Schaberg\nDr. Anahita Naficy Lovelace\nProfessor M. Rahim Shayegan\n\nFeatured Presentation by:\n\nDr. Ali Mousavi\n\nGateways to Iranian Archaeology\nThe Pourdavoud Gazetteer Project\n\n\n\nPlease click here to register for this event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-fall-2020-welcome-event/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201005T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201005T160000
DTSTAMP:20200918T224641Z
CREATED:20200918T224641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200918T224641Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Kaveh Madani
DESCRIPTION:Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for their first Bilingual Lecture Series events of the academic year.  These two lectures\, featuring the research of Dr. Kaveh Madani\, will be held virtually via Zoom.  He will present “Water Bankruptcy and Environmental Politics in Iran (A Conversation with Kaveh Madani)” on Monday\, October 5\, 2020 at 2:00pm Pacific Time. \nPlease note that this lecture will be in English. \nTo register for this event and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please visit: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ICCWuSlwSOe9d7U2jSNRRw
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-kaveh-madani-2/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201004T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201004T133000
DTSTAMP:20200918T224440Z
CREATED:20200918T224440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200918T224440Z
UID:15255-1601811000-1601818200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Kaveh Madani
DESCRIPTION:Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for their first Bilingual Lecture Series events of the academic year.  These two lectures\, featuring the research of Dr. Kaveh Madani\, will be held virtually via Zoom.  He will present “A Conversation with Kaveh Madani on Environmental Security in Iran and the Middle East” on Sunday\, October 4\, 2020 at 11:30am Pacific Time. \nPlease note that this lecture will be in Persian. \nTo register for this event and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please visit: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xm_MGxf6Q3qxYT0pLHQFCQ
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-kaveh-madani/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T153000
DTSTAMP:20200227T182812Z
CREATED:20200227T170438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200227T182812Z
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SUMMARY:People of Empire: Assyrianness Through the Looking-Glass of the Neo-Assyrian State
DESCRIPTION:In the first half of the first millennium BCE\, the Neo-Assyrian state forged what Mario Liverani has called the world’s “prototype empire”. Empires are often associated with imperial peoples: a core population that maintains its distinctiveness and enjoys a privileged position within the imperial structure. Were the Assyrians such a people? The Neo-Assyrian state apparatus produced a great deal of textual material spanning many genres and purposes and covering much of its existence. A significant part of this material has been recovered and made available for scientific examination over the last two centuries. This rich body of evidence allows us to investigate how the Neo-Assyrian state understood “Assyrianness”. Who was regarded as Assyrian\, who was not\, and on what basis? \nI will argue that Assyrianness was not invested in a fixed differentiation between peoples within the empire. Assyrianness was instead bound up in the universal promise of empire. Assyrian imperialism sought to impose the divine order over the mundane world. Whatever conformed to the divine order was Assyrian by default: good\, proper\, “us.” Whatever did not conform to this order was the other: strange\, improper\, “them.” Refracted as it is through the looking-glass of the Neo-Assyrian state\, the evidence reveals an Assyrian identity located not in ethnonational constructs\, but in political subordination and modes of subsistence. This provides an interesting contrast with our understanding of other imperial peoples\, like those of Achaemenid Persia or of the familiar European colonial empires of the last few centuries. Assyrians were not an imperial people\, but the people of empire. \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”162″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nJonathan Valk \nLeiden University \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/people-of-empire-assyrianness-through-the-looking-glass-of-the-neo-assyrian-state/
CATEGORIES:Assyriology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T151500
DTSTAMP:20200222T003215Z
CREATED:20200221T231102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200222T003215Z
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SUMMARY:Creating the Cult of a Goddess:  Politics and Religion at Mari in the Old Babylonian Period
DESCRIPTION:Traces of ancient Mesopotamian religion have been discovered by archaeologists working across the modern Middle East—temples and other religious structures\, worn by time; small fragments of once-opulent cult statues and temple furnishings; clay tablets inscribed with stories of and hymns to the gods; and mundane records of administrators\, concerned with tracking the many cults that could inhabit a single city. While the Assyriologist A. Leo Oppenheim cautioned that these remains were capable of revealing “only a dim reflection” of Mesopotamian religious practice\, and should therefore not be used to write a history of Mesopotamian religion\, I contend that these mundane remains in fact offer rich insights into the pervasive and dynamic nature of religion in Mesopotamian history. \nOffering a critical re-examination of administrative records from the ancient city of Mari\, the presentation examines a body of texts that refer to a goddess by the name of Ishtar Irradan along with a pair of ritual texts\, all found in the city’s palace archives. While the presentation uses this evidence to construct a lively story of cultic innovation and political ideology during a period of foreign rule in ca. 1800 BCE\, the ideas and methods developed here have important implications for the classification of ritual texts and the study of Mesopotamian literature as well as modern approaches to the study of polytheism and “divine multiplicity.” Finally\, the presentation considers the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Mesopotamian history\, suggesting that the field of Assyriology and the training of Assyriologists can and needs to be driven forward by the engagement with the ancient material world—of which texts remain one crucial component. \n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Elizabeth Knott\nPostdoctoral Associate\, Babylonian Collection\, Yale University Research Affiliate\, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World\, NYU \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”160″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/creating-the-cult-of-a-goddess-politics-and-religion-at-mari-in-the-old-babylonian-period/
LOCATION:Fowler A222\, 308 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Assyriology,NELC
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200221
DTSTAMP:20200131T202950Z
CREATED:20200129T212010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T202950Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center: 14th Melammu Symposium
DESCRIPTION:“Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World”\nPlease click here to view the full symposium schedule.\n \nThe 14th Melammu Symposium: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World \nThe Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is convening the 14th Melammu Symposium at UCLA. The international three-day symposium held at Royce Hall will explore Iranian religions in light of ancient Near Eastern traditions and precedents. It hosts scholars whose work pertain to the interchange of ideas and practices between the ancient Near East\, Egypt\, the Classical and Hellenistic worlds\, and ancient Iran. The overarching themes of the symposium encompass: Elam\, the Ancient Near East\, and Persia; Ancient Egypt and Persia; the Divine in Achaemenid Material Culture; (Post-)Achaemenid Religious Practices in Literary Traditions; Religions and Religious Policy in the Hellenistic and Arsacid Worlds; and the Religious Landscape of the Sasanian World. \nPlease click here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-14th-melammu-symposium/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T180000
DTSTAMP:20191119T232418Z
CREATED:20191119T232418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191119T232418Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Gil Stein
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World for a lecture by Professor Gil Stein. \nAchaemenids or Persians?  Burials\, Material Culture\, and Imperial Identities in the Euphrates Valley (5th-4th centuries BCE)\nThe Achaemenid empire was the largest empire in the world in the 5th-4th centuries BCE\, encompassing numerous polities and cultural groups within its 20 satrapies. To rule this enormous empire\, the Persian elites had to gain the active support of the people they governed to get them to participate in the administrative and military apparatus of the Achaemenid state. How did this actually work in practice? This lecture examines two enigmatic Persian-period burials at the site of Hacınebi\, on the Euphrates River crossing at Zeugma/Apamea\, to investigate the relationship between material culture and social identity in the multi-ethnic empire. Achaemenid material culture was an imperial synthesis that combined stylistic elements from Scythia\, Mesopotamia\, Egypt\, and other regions; as a result\, it is very difficult to identify the ethnicity of any person in a burial based only on the style of specific objects. Taken together\, textual\, artistic\, and archaeological data on burial practices\, military organization\, and material culture styles at Hacınebi highlight and help us to understand the complex hybrid identities and shared cultural koine that linked Persian and non-Persian elites across the cosmopolitan Achaemenid empire. \nAbout the Speaker\nGil Stein is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and Director of the Chicago Center for Cultural Heritage Preservation. From 2002 to 2017 he served as Director of the Oriental Institute. He received his BA in Archaeology from Yale University and his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. His research investigates ancient economies\, the archaeology of colonialism\, inter-regional interaction\, the development of the earliest cities and states in the Near East\, zooarchaeology\, and the preservation of cultural heritage. He has directed excavations at the Uruk period Mesopotamian trading colony of Hacınebi in Turkey\, at Halaf and Ubaid period site of Tell Zeidan in Syria\, and is currently excavating at the 7000 year old town of Surezha in the Kurdistan region of Northeast Iraq.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-gil-stein/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T134500
DTSTAMP:20200210T180748Z
CREATED:20200204T171154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200210T180748Z
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SUMMARY:Episodes from the Early History of Knowledge:  Instruction Manuals in Cuneiform Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the early history of the instruction manual\, focusing on cuneiform texts identified as technical procedures. Addressed to “you” as the grammatical subject\, procedures—in Akkadian\, nēpešum\, from the verb epēšu “to make\, compute”— encompassed topics ranging from mathematics\, glassmaking\, horse-training\, perfumery\, medicine\, and astronomy. Over the course of two millennia\, procedures would develop into one of the most long-standing vehicles for knowledge transmission in cuneiform cultures. However\, the longevity of the textual format\, which on its surface appears to transmit practical know-how\, belies a more dynamic history of linguistic innovation\, scribal hermeneutics\, and lexical ingenuity. From Old Babylonian school houses to Assyrian state archives\, procedures provided a textual space within which scribes could contemplate the material world\, numeracy\, lexicography\, writing\, classification\, and knowledge itself. Using instructions for perfumery\, horse-training\, and glassmaking as the starting point\, this talk presents a history and historiography of procedures in cuneiform scholarship with the aim of defamiliarizing what we know about procedures\, and in turn\, reassessing the broader impact of these early instruction manuals within the emerging field of history of knowledge. \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Eduardo A. Escobar\nStevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge The University of Chicago \n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”158″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/episodes-from-the-early-history-of-knowledge-instruction-manuals-in-cuneiform-scholarship/
LOCATION:Royce 243
CATEGORIES:Assyriology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T150000
DTSTAMP:20200206T160749Z
CREATED:20200130T215333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200206T160749Z
UID:14611-1580996700-1581001200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Resource Mobilization\, Social Engineering\, and Opportunism: The Revival of Larsa in Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian State Project
DESCRIPTION:When a Babylonian and Median coalition put an end to Assyrian domination over the Ancient Near East in the late 7th century BCE\, the Babylonian kings set about to revitalize the heartland of their new state\, the Neo-Babylonian empire. One of the cities that benefited from this imperial program of rebuilding and land reclamation was Larsa\, an ancient cult center of the sun god Shamash in what is now southern Iraq. The main architect of this project was Nebuchadnezzar II. Although he is most (in)famously known through the Bible\, he also left his imprint in numerous Babylonian sources. \nHowever\, because we have no state archives from that period\, temple and private records are the primary source for reconstructing modes of state intervention. Using an unpublished 6th century BCE private archive from Larsa and other textual sources\, I will show that Larsa and its temple were revived for a combination of economic\, political\, and religious reasons\, and that they were kept small and semidependent by design. Finally\, I will argue that Nebuchadnezzar opportunistically exploited this revival to cast himself in the figure of a state builder. In addition to contributing to our understanding of imperial state policies in the first millennium BCE\, this research highlights the use of everyday documents to reconstruct the socio-economic life of urban and non-urban populations in the Ancient Near East. \n\n  \nDr. Odette Boivin\nVisiting Assistant Professor\, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World\, NYU \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”157″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/resource-mobilization-social-engineering-and-opportunism-the-revival-of-larsa-in-nebuchadnezzars-babylonian-state-project/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Assyriology,NELC
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