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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
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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
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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
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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 “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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T180000
DTSTAMP:20200108T231006Z
CREATED:20191204T214842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200108T231006Z
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SUMMARY:Amuzegar Lecture Series: Robert Steele
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Iranian Studies Program for a lecture by Dr. Robert Steele. \nAncient Persia in Pahlavi Politics: The Imperial Celebrations of 1971 and Cultural Policy under the Shah\nIn October 1971\, heads of state\, political and cultural figures\, business leaders\, and journalists from around the world came to Persepolis at the invitation of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. They were there to celebrate the 2500th Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Many historians and commentators consider this event to have been a huge mistake – some even claim it sparked the widespread popular discontent with the Shah’s rule that culminated in the revolution of 1978/9. For decades\, coverage of the Celebrations has been characterized by sensationalism and an obsession with the supposed flamboyance of an oriental despot\, and a 2016 BBC documentary on the event titled Decadence and Downfall: The Shah’s Ultimate Party shows that not much has changed. This paper challenges the prevailing narrative of Celebrations\, looking beyond the extravagant parties to analyze them in the context of cultural policy in the late Pahlavi period. It examines what the regime sought to gain from holding such an event\, economically and politically as well as ideologically\, and the role played by the cultural structures of the Pahlavi state. \nAbout the Speaker\nRobert Steele is the inaugural recipient of the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Iranian Studies at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He earned his PhD from the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies\, specializing in 20th century Iranian history. His first book\, titled The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971: Nationalism\, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi Iran\, will be published in 2020\, and will be the first comprehensive study on the subject. \n \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-robert-steele/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T200000
DTSTAMP:20200125T003525Z
CREATED:20200125T003500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200125T003525Z
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SUMMARY:Armenian Personal Names
DESCRIPTION:1. Native and Iranian Layers\n2. Divine Twins in the Armenian Epic\nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nAll proceedings will be in Armenian \n  \nHrach Martirosyan is currently Lecturer in Eastern Armenian in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. After receiving his MA in Philology from Vanadzor Pedagogical Institute\, he pursued graduate studies under the supervision of Prof. Sargis Harutyunyan at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan. His dissertation\n“Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon” forthcoming from Brill (c. 1000 pp.) forms part of the larger project to compile an Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Thereafter\, he moved to Leiden University as a Guest Lecturer in the field of Classical Armenian from an Indo-European perspective (2011-2015). Subsequently\, he held a postdoc at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna (2015- 2017)\, investigating Armenian personal names of Iranian origin under the supervision of Velizar Sadovski in the framework of an Iranian Prosopographical Dictionary. Most recently\, he returned to his position at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics to continue etymological research on native Armenian vocabulary. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”146″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/armenian-personal-names/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T180000
DTSTAMP:20191119T002218Z
CREATED:20191119T002218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191119T002218Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Ahmad Kiarostami
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Iranian Studies Program at UCLA for a Bilingual Lecture Series film screening of Case No. I\, Case No. 2. The film and following Q&A with Ahmad Kiarostami will be in Persian.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-ahmad-kiarostami/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T133000
DTSTAMP:20200115T182624Z
CREATED:20200115T182512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T182624Z
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SUMMARY:The Arabicization of Christian Egypt: Reframing the Debate
DESCRIPTION:The linguistic evolution of Egypt has been studied at some length\, and with the invaluable evidence offered by the papyrological sources it has been possible to make very fine and detailed observations on the chronology and distribution of linguistic change. The different linguistic balance established by the Egyptian language with the two imperial languages that entered the country by conquest and served for centuries as languages of power is very striking: while Egyptian was used alongside Greek for a millennium after Alexander\, being redefined and reinforced in the process\, within half that time after the Arab conquest it gave way to Arabic\, having shown only a relatively low and specialised degree of linguistic interaction with it. Even though this difference has been in the background of the academic discussion of the topic in recent decades\, it has not been addressed directly\, because the most recent work has largely been of a micro-historical nature\, focusing on administrative linguistic practice. This presentation will first take a step back to look at the Orientalist historiography that still casts a shadow over the subject\, and then suggest some new avenues of analysis drawing on recent work in socio-linguistics. \nCo-Sponsored by: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, Islamic Studies Program\, Department of History\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies \n  \nDr. Arietta Papaconstantinou is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. Her research interests cover the religious\, social and economic history of Egypt and the Near East during the transition from the Roman Empire to the Caliphate. She is particularly interested in the evolution Christian communities during the first two centuries of Islamic rule. She likes to mobilise a wide range of sources and approaches\, from economic to textual and linguistic\, using traditional narrative sources as well as archaeology\, papyrology and epigraphy. Before joining Reading in 2011\, Papaconstantinou was Maitre de Conferences at the Universite Paris 1 – Pantheon Sorbonne\, where she had taught since 1999\, after several years at the Universities of Strasbourg\, Franche-Comte\, and Val de Marne (Paris XII). She was educated at the German School in Athens\, Deree College in Athens\, and the Universite de Strasbourg\, from where she holds an MA in Archaeology and a Ph.D. in Ancient History. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”103″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-arabicization-of-christian-egypt-reframing-the-debate/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Arabic,Egyptology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T180000
DTSTAMP:20191211T224430Z
CREATED:20191211T224400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191211T224430Z
UID:14343-1579104000-1579111200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Everett Wheeler
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Everett Wheeler of Duke University will present his research on “Parthians in the Roman Army” for the Pourdavoud Center on January 15\, 2020. \nParthians in the Roman Army\nThe open frontier along the Euphrates River between the Roman and Parthian empires by no means marked a cultural divide. From the time of Pompey on\, both powers availed themselves of forces from local dynasts and mercenaries. Parthian dynastic strife produced exiles and refugees\, some of which migrated into Roman territory with retinues and war bands. The Roman army’s need for horsearchers rendered Parthian skills most desirable. This lecture will survey Parthians in the Roman army with particular attention to two explicit Parthian units: the ala I Augusta Parthorum\, with service c. 6-401 in Pannonia\, on the Rhine\, in Spain\, North Africa\, and occasionally in the East\, and the ala Parthorum et Araborum\, active c. 38-70 on the Rhine. How ethnically Iranian these units were is unknown\, particularly after the first generation of service. Re-stocking of such ethnic units with new recruits from their homeland is controversial\, but probably occurred to some extent. From a Roman perspective\, however\, anyone from east of the Euphrates could be called a “Parthian\,” especially if their native tongue was “Parthian\,” e.g.\, Armenian\, which makes ascertaining ethnic identity within these units challenging. \nAbout the Speaker\nEverett L. Wheeler (A.B. with honors\, Indiana University; Ph.D.\, Duke University) is currently Scholar in Residence at Duke University. He has held research positions from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation\, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation\, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His hardcover publications include: Stratagem and the Vocabulary of Military Trickery (1988)\, translation (with Peter Krentz) of Polyaenus Strategika and related texts (1994)\, and (ed.) The Armies of Classical Greece (2007). His research focuses on ancient military history (both practice and theory) and the Eastern frontier of the Roman Empire\, especially the Upper Euphrates frontier and Transcaucasia. \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-everett-wheeler/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T194800
DTSTAMP:20200114T194851Z
CREATED:20200114T194814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200114T194851Z
UID:14457-1579024800-1579031280@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Indo-European Origins of the Armenian Language
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will address Indo-European origins of Armenian language\, possible Proto-Indo-European homelands\, the place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family\, and the age of the Armenian language. \nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nAll proceedings will be in Armenian \nCo-Sponsored by the UCLA Center for World Languages \nHrach Martirosyan is currently Lecturer in Eastern Armenian in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. After receiving his MA in Philology from Vanadzor Pedagogical Institute\, he pursued graduate studies under the supervision of Prof. Sargis Harutyunyan at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan. His dissertation “Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon” frthcoming from Brill (c. 1000 pp.) forms part of the larger project to compile an Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Thereafter\, he moved to Leiden University as a Guest Lecturer in the field of Classical Armenian from an Indo-European perspective\n(2011-2015). Subsequently\, he held a postdoc at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna (2015- 2017)\, investigating Armenian personal names of Iranian origin under the supervision of Velizar Sadovski in the framework of an Iranian Prosopographical Dictionary. Most recently\, he returned to his position at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics to continue etymological research on native Armenian vocabulary. \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”143″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-indo-european-origins-of-the-armenian-language-2/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T140000
DTSTAMP:20191014T181514Z
CREATED:20191014T181514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191014T181514Z
UID:13911-1575549000-1575554400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Headless Men and Shattered Bodies: The Destruction of  Prisoner Statues during the Late Old Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Six pharaohs of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties erected nearly life-size statues of kneeling bound foreigners in their pyramid complexes. These unique statues\, which are known as prisoner statues\, have only ever been discovered in fragments. This has led scholars to question whether the statues had been intentionally broken for ritualistic reasons. However\, only the prisoner statues from two pyramid complexes actually show evidence of intentional damage in antiquity; those from the complex of Pepi I were methodically decapitated while those from the complex of Pepi II were violently smashed apart. In this talk I will explore the ritualized context of this destruction and how its significance developed from one complex to the other. \n  \nDr. Tara Prakash is Assistant Professor of Ancient Art at the College of Charleston and currently the W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence in the Department of History at California State University\, San Bernardino. She received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University with a specialty in the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt. Dr. Prakash has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on issues of ethnicity and identity\, foreign interactions\, artistic agency\, and the visualization of pain and emotion in ancient Egypt\, and her current book project is the first comprehensive study on the prisoner statues. \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”140″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/headless-men-and-shattered-bodies-the-destruction-of-prisoner-statues-during-the-late-old-kingdom/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T180000
DTSTAMP:20191017T215217Z
CREATED:20191014T211427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191017T215217Z
UID:13917-1575475200-1575482400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture: Yann Richard
DESCRIPTION:Some major landmarks of modern Iranian history such as the 1921 coup d’Etat or the toppling of Mosaddeq in 1953 are now checked with critical attention by historians. Was the 1953 coup against Mosaddeq an American achievement or did it eventually succeed through a popular uprising? If the Shiite clergy would be responsible for the coming back of the Shah\, how can we understand the ideological mixture of radical Islam and nationalism at the time of the 1979 revolution? Iranian awareness of history is often blurred by myths\, stereotypes and lack of a clear chronological scale. The talk will present some headlines of Persian history as an introduction to my last book Iran: A Social and Political History since the Qajars (Cambridge University Press\, 2019). \n \n[gravityform id=”141″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-yann-richard/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T124500
DTSTAMP:20191108T172545Z
CREATED:20191108T172545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191108T172545Z
UID:14051-1574340300-1574340300@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Creative Coptic Religious Leadership: The Strategies of Mother Irini
DESCRIPTION:While religious leadership differs from other forms of leadership such as in the world of business and not-for-profit organisations (NGO’s)\, there is much overlap. For example\, in religious as well as in non-religious settings\, the most successful leaders are creative innovators who apply new strategies to get their message across\, make it visible\, and energize those working with them. In this presentation\, I analyse some of the methods introduced by Mother Irini\, the famous abbess of the Abu Saifein convent (d. 2006) who inspired the renewal of the monastic life for Coptic women. Nowadays\, the new and innovative models of governance she introduced continue to be applied across the Coptic Church. \nNelly van Doorn-Harder is professor of Religious Studies at Wake Forest University\, NC. She has produced numerous articles and books about the contemporary Coptic Church that focus\, among others\, on issues of gender\, leadership\, spirituality\, and freedom of religion. Her latest book is the edited volume Copts in Context: Negotiating Identity\, Tradition\, and Modernity. (2017) Some of her other publications are: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership from the Ottoman Period to the Present: The Modern Coptic Papacy (1798–2010) (2011\, with Magdi Guirguis)\, Between Desert and City. The Coptic Orthodox Church Today (1997 & 2004)\, and Contemporary Coptic Nuns (1995). Apart from studying the Copts of Egypt\, she has studied and published widely about Islam in Southeast Asia. One of her books in that area is Women Shaping Islam. Indonesian Muslim Women Reading the Qur’an (2006). \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”144″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n  \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/creative-coptic-religious-leadership-the-strategies-of-mother-irini/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Egyptology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T130000
DTSTAMP:20191002T214158Z
CREATED:20190829T161705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T214158Z
UID:13760-1574161200-1574168400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Archaeology and the Kingdom of David and Solomon
DESCRIPTION:Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture Series\nThe United Monarchy –  the famed kingdom of David and Solomon – is at the center of a heated debate. While until 25 years ago there was a consensus that David and Solomon were historical figures who ruled over fairly large territories\, it is now questioned by many who believe either that these kings were either petty chiefs controlling a limited territory around Jerusalem or that they did not even exist. Given these doubts\, the archaeological evidence has come to the center of discussion stage. A broad examination of the nature of the Iron I-II transition\, however\, reveals major changes in practically every aspect of life\, from settlement patterns to various aspects of material culture\, including pottery form and decoration\, and architectural developments. While each change could\, in theory\, be a result of a number of causes\, a broad analysis of all the processes and transformations\, and especially their sequencing in time and space\, greatly narrows down the possible options. It is therefore the aim of the present lecture to briefly present the sweeping changes that accompanied the Iron I-II transition\, to reconstruct (temporally and spatially) the processes of growing social complexity that they reflect\, and subsequently to examine the implications of this analysis on the debate over the historicity of the so-called United Monarchy. \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nAvraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University) \nModerated by:\nDr. Aaron Burke (NELC) \nSponsored by:\nKershaw Chair for Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies \nCo-Sponsored by:\nDepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Cotson Institute of Archaeology\nAlan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”138″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/archaeology-and-the-kingdom-of-david-and-solomon/
LOCATION:Mathematical Sciences 4000A
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew & Jewish,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191116T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191116T153000
DTSTAMP:20191101T233909Z
CREATED:20191101T233516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191101T233909Z
UID:13996-1573911000-1573918200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Uyghur Crisis in China: Adversity\, Advocacy\, Activism
DESCRIPTION:Event Flyer\nA public event sponsored by the UCLA Islamic Studies Program\, the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES)\, and the UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights \nSaturday\, November 16\, 2019\n1:30 – 3:30 p.m.\nUCLA Campus\, Royce Hall\, Room 314 \nRSVP to CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu or 310-825-0913\nRSVP is necessary\n\nParking instructions provided upon reservation \n  \nA panel of experts will discuss the ongoing human rights crisis in northwestern China\n(Xinjiang/East Turkestan). Panelists will focus on the history of the Uyghur community\, ethnicity and religion in China\, international relations\, and human rights advocacy. \n  \nPanelists:\nJessica Batke is a Senior Editor for ChinaFile. An expert on China’s domestic political and social affairs\, she served as the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research Analyst for nearly eight years prior to joining ChinaFile. \nDarren Byler received his Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington in 2018. His research focuses on Uyghur dispossession\, culture work\, and securitization in the city of Urumchi\, the capital of Xinjiang. He has published on the ethnography of Islam in China\, transnational Chinese cinema\, and travel and representation. \nNury A. Turkel is an attorney in Washington\, D.C. specializing in regulatory compliance. Mr. Turkel also is founder and Chair of the Board for the Uyghur Human Rights Project\, a documentation-based advocacy organization. He formerly served as president of the Uyghur American Association. \nThis event is made possible with the support of the Muslim Reform Institute of LA (MRI). Through such programs for the broader public\, MRI and the UCLA Islamic Studies program aim to promote a more nuanced understanding of issues in Islamic history and civilization rooted in academic research and analysis.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-uyghur-crisis-in-china-adversity-advocacy-activism/
LOCATION:Royce 314
CATEGORIES:Arabic & Islamic Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191105T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191106T190000
DTSTAMP:20191105T170750Z
CREATED:20191104T221715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191105T170750Z
UID:14010-1572976800-1573066800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Indo-European Origins of the Armenian Language
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will address Indo-European origins of Armenian language\, possible Proto-Indo-European homelands\, the place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family\, and the age of the Armenian language. All are welcome! Pizza and refreshments will be served. All proceedings will be in Armenian. \n  \n Hrach Martirosyan is currently Lecturer in Eastern Armenian in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. After receiving his MA in Philology from Vanadzor Pedagogical Institute\, he pursued graduate studies under the supervision of Prof. Sargis Harutyunyan at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan. His dissertation “Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon” forthcoming from Brill (c. 1000 pp.) forms part of the larger project to compile an Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Thereafter\, he moved to Leiden University as a Guest Lecturer in the field of Classical Armenian from an Indo-European perspective  (2011-2015). Subsequently\, he held a postdoc at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna (2015- 2017)\, investigating Armenian personal names of Iranian origin under the supervision of Velizar Sadovski in the framework of an Iranian Prosopographical Dictionary. Most recently\, he returned to his position at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics to continue etymological research on native Armenian vocabulary. \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”142″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-indo-european-origins-of-the-armenian-language/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191028T160000
DTSTAMP:20191007T190232Z
CREATED:20191007T182607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T190232Z
UID:13880-1572271200-1572278400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Dr. Kaveh Madani
DESCRIPTION:Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for the first Bilingual Lecture Series talks of the year.  Dr. Kaveh Madani will present his research on Monday\, October 28 at 2:00pm in Bunch Hall 10383. This lecture will be in English.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-dr-kaveh-madani-2/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,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:20191027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T180000
DTSTAMP:20191010T181646Z
CREATED:20191007T182351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T181646Z
UID:13875-1572192000-1572199200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Dr. Kaveh Madani
DESCRIPTION:Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for the first Bilingual Lecture Series talk of the year.  Dr. Kaveh Madani will present his research on Sunday\, October 27\, 2019 in Dodd Hall 78 at 4:00pm. This lecture will be in Persian.  His English lecture will follow on Monday\, October 28 at 2:00pm in Bunch Hall 10383.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-dr-kaveh-madani/
LOCATION:78 Dodd Hall\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,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:20191009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T180000
DTSTAMP:20190918T153701Z
CREATED:20190918T153701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190918T153701Z
UID:13808-1570636800-1570644000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:2019 Pourdavoud Center Fall Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a fall reception at Royce Hall to celebrate the continued success of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World\, the latest addition to the research centers in the Humanities Division. In the company of faculty\, our staff\, academic affiliates\, colleagues\, students\, and esteemed guests\, we shall explore the growth of the Center’s philosophy\, programs\, fellowships\, and grants.  Light refreshments will be served. \nThe event will be held on the terrace of Royce 306.  Self-pay parking is available in UCLA lots 2\, 3\, 4\, and 5.  Please view the UCLA Interactive Map for location details. \nPlease click here to view the invitation flyer. \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/2019-pourdavoud-center-fall-welcome-reception/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190926T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190926T133000
DTSTAMP:20190823T222126Z
CREATED:20190823T155911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190823T222126Z
UID:13744-1569499200-1569504600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Applying for Jobs and Life After the Dissertation
DESCRIPTION:Join NELC faculty Dr. Cate Bonesho\, Dr. Kara Cooney\, and Dr. Bill Schniedewind for a workshop and discussion of applying for jobs and life after the dissertation. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”137″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/life-after-the-dissertation/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,Armenian,Assyriology,Bilingual Lecture Series,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Iranian,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC,Pourdavoud Center,Semitics,Turkic,Turkic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190605T180000
DTSTAMP:20190603T231712Z
CREATED:20190603T164518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190603T231712Z
UID:13626-1559757600-1559757600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Reforms\, policies and ideologies as propaganda during the decline of despotic power and the wake of nation-building
DESCRIPTION:Arpi Melikyan is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of French and Francophone Studies. In 2015\,she received her B.A. in French with a Spanish minor from University of California\, Los Angeles. As an undergraduate\, she was awarded the Martin-Turrill Memorial Best Essay Award in the French and Francophone Studies department of UCLA. \nThe presentation on propaganda before and during the Armenian and Rwandan genocides aims to bridge together two distinct histories by analyzing two genocides which have been orchestrated under different ideological frameworks\, in different continents and time periods. Finding commonalities between two distinct genocides allow us to detect\, understand\, denounce and condemn the root of genocidal acts to essentially aid in the prevention of genocides. The study problematizes the issue of propaganda and the ways in which governmental reforms\, policies and ideologies contributed to and served as propaganda in the years preceding the genocides. In addition\, it examines the role of religion and the consequences of European intervention and non-intervention before and during the massacres. The main question to address is\, how did reforms\, policies and ideologies within the Ottoman Empire and Rwanda create misinterpretations and cleavages which led to the instillation and infiltration of anti-Armenian and anti-Tutsi sentiment among not only its governmental bodies but also its citizens? \nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nAll proceedings will be in Armenian \nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”135″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/reforms-policies-and-ideologies-as-propaganda-during-the-decline-of-despotic-power-and-the-wake-of-nation-building/
LOCATION:Kaplan 348
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190604T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190604T180000
DTSTAMP:20190530T213254Z
CREATED:20190530T203445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190530T213254Z
UID:13615-1559671200-1559671200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Friendship\, Love\, and the Urge to Write in Christian  Batikian's novel Metal Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Metal Dreams (Erevan\, 2018) is the second book and first novel of the Western Armenian writer Christian Batikian. It is significant on a number of levels\, not least of which pertains to its contribution to the vitality of Western Armenian\, an endangered language. This presentation however\, will not focus on the often-discussed topic of the vitality of Western Armenian\, the status of diasporan languages\, etc. but rather will be a literary reading of the novel. Metal Dreams revolves around the lives\, friendship\, and love interests of its three main characters: the first-person narrator himself and his two close friends\, all of whom are university students in contemporary Paris. My reading will show how the millenial generation’s experience of love and friendship — relationships marked by high intensity (emotional\, time spent together)\, low committment\, and thus often short duration — lends itself to a more urgent need to write\, to inscribe the ethereal into a form of permanency and immortalize that which has already passed. \n Jesse Siragan Arlen’s research pertains to medieval literature and intellectual history\, with a particular focus on asceticism\, mysticism\, literature\, and education in Eastern Christianity and Sufism. He is also a published writer of prose and poetry in Western Armenian \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nAll proceedings will be in Armenian\n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”134″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/friendship-love-and-the-urge-to-write-in-christian-batikians-novel-metal-dreams/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T180000
DTSTAMP:20190516T193042Z
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Language in the Making of Diaspora's  Grand Narrative
DESCRIPTION:In the years immediately following World War II\, what was once referred to during the years of post-genocide dispersion as թրքահայութիւն [Turkish Armenians]\, ցրուածութիւն [the dispersed]\, գաղութահայութիւն [communityArmenians]\, գաղթահայութիւն [migrant Armenians]\, and արտասահմանի հայութիւն [Armenians abroad] became solidified as սփիւռք [diaspora]\, and came to imagine itself as a transnationally organized homogenous entity. This presentation focuses on this period of transition and examines the making of diaspora’s\ngrand narrative\, founded on the notion of national cultural production in exile. I discuss how the articulation of diaspora’s narrative was occasioned by two rival conferences: the Second Congress of the Soviet Armenian Writers’ Union\, held in Yerevan in 1946 for a select group of diaspora writers\, and a reactionary conference organized by the Writers’ Association of Syria and Lebanon\, held in Shtora\, Lebanon in 1948. These rival conferences caused diaspora intellectuals to realize the threat facing Western Armenian language in exile\, and incidentally\, position Beirut\, and more broadly the Middle East\, as the hub for the centralization and standardization efforts of Western Armenian language and literature in the decades to come. \nTalar Chahinian holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and lectures in the Program for Armenian Studies at UC Irvine\, where she is also a Research Associate in the Department of Comparative Literature. Her research interests include Western Armenian language and literature\, transnational studies\, politics and aesthetics\, and translation. She served as assistant editor of Armenian Review (2012-2017). Currently\, she is the co-editor of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. She contributes regularly to the online journal\, Critics’ Forum\, and the literary magazine Pakine. \nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served\nAll proceedings will be in Armenian \nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”130″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-politics-of-language-in-the-making-of-diasporas-grand-narrative/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T190000
DTSTAMP:20190501T201025Z
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SUMMARY:Ancient Iran and the Classical World
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend: \nAncient Iran and the Classical World\nA two-day international symposium \njointly hosted by the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA and the Getty Research Institute \n  \nWednesday\, May 29th – 306 Royce Hall\, UCLA \nThursday\, May 30\, 2019 – Getty Villa\, VN 113-114 \n  \nClick here to download the full symposium program. \nPlease RSVP to Marissa Stevens at stevensma@humnet.ucla.edu
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ancient-iran-and-the-classical-world/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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