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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191027T180000
DTSTAMP:20191010T181646Z
CREATED:20191007T182351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T181646Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
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
CREATED:20190516T193042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190516T193042Z
UID:13567-1559239200-1559239200@nelc.ucla.edu
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
CREATED:20190315T181913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190501T201025Z
UID:12952-1559120400-1559156400@nelc.ucla.edu
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190528T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190528T123000
DTSTAMP:20190515T232018Z
CREATED:20190515T231808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T232018Z
UID:13540-1559046600-1559046600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Elites and Gods of the City: Analysis of a Mesopotamian local social network in the 3rd millennium BC
DESCRIPTION:The site of Adab\, situated in Southern Mesopotamia between Nippur and Umma\, was mostly active in the Old Akkadian period. Its mounds revealed palaces\, temples and workshop installations. Around 3000 cuneiform sources were excavated either as part of the original or later illegal digs; their distribution in various archives dated to different sub-periods make this corpus particularly interesting for diachronic investigation. This talk exposes the social network of the elites of Adab and its correlation with the pantheon over time. Who were the elites of the city and how did their multiple roles change over time\, especially in light of political changes? What was their connections with the palace\, the Akkadian leadership but more importantly\, to the temples? And finally\, how do these connections give us clues about changes in the pantheon of the city over time? Using both official and administrative sources\, the reach of elites in the social fabric of the city and their relationship with god cults and theirs institutions is examined over time\, revealing both changes in city’s economic infrastructure and in the pantheon’s composition. \n\n\n\n\nÉmilie Pagé-Perron is PhD Candidate in the field of Assyriology at the University of Toronto. Her research balances traditional social history investigation of the Mesopotamian south in the 3rd millennium BC\, with computational linguistics for the Sumerian language. She is co-Principal investigator at the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI https://cdli.ucla.edu; UCLA-Oxford-Berlin)\, manages the NEH funded project “CDLI Framework Update” and coordinates the international research project Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages (https://cdli- gh.github.io/mtaac/ MTAAC; UCLA-Toronto-Frankfurt). This summer she is joining the Ancient Near Eastern Empires center of Excellence at the University of Helsinki as a post-doctoral researcher where she will pursue the development of automated methods for the semantic analysis of texts\, and the perfection of social network analysis methods for cuneiform sources\, with the express goal of gaining better understanding of 1st millennium social identity dynamics. \nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”128″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/elites-and-gods-of-the-city-analysis-of-a-mesopotamian-local-social-network-in-the-3rd-millennium-bc/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T180000
DTSTAMP:20190517T170850Z
CREATED:20190517T170850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190517T170850Z
UID:13577-1558634400-1558634400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Tale of Two Grigors: Aghet and Impossibility of Language in Narekatsi and Beledian
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Hagop Gulludjian is in charge of Western Armenian at UCLA within the Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies. He holds a doctorate of Letters and an MBA. He has researched and published on medieval Armenian poetry; heritage language and language vitality; interactions between virtuality\, culture and diasporas; and modern to postmodern Diaspora Armenian literature. Currently\, he is doing research and writing on the mystical poetry of Grigor Narekatsi and on contemporary Diaspora literature by Nigoghos Sarafian and Krikor Beledian. He has also an extensive consulting background\, having assisted both private and government entities on technology policy issues. \nGrigor Narekatsi is rightfully considered to be the uppermost expression of classical and medieval Armenian literature. Some would consider Krikor Beledian among those who occupy an analogous position concerning contemporary Armenian. Beyond occasional and purposeful intertextuality and the fact that he is the author of three volumes on Narekatsi\, Beledian shares with his millennium-old namesake a fundamental attribute that is perhaps the core drive behind the voluminous literary production of both: Catastrophic rupture and the struggle to articulate in human language that which evades language\, either because it belongs to the domain of the divine\, to absence\, or to the inhuman. In other words\, either because the experience is ineffable\, or it is literally about the absence of language. In both cases\, however\, the goal for the writer is to lend a performative role to the text with the purpose of making the very act of writing produce an intended experience instead of representing it. \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”131″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/a-tale-of-two-grigors-aghet-and-impossibility-of-language-in-narekatsi-and-beledian/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T180000
DTSTAMP:20190520T204815Z
CREATED:20190520T204815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190520T204815Z
UID:13581-1558548000-1558548000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Challenges Facing the Armenian Diaspora  in the United States
DESCRIPTION:Mr. Chenian is a financial advisor with a long history of public service. \nIn his presentation the speaker will focus on the role of strategic\nindividuals in advancing community objectives in contrast to many of the\ndiasporic institutions currently embedded within it that were founded in\nanother place and time and are therefore perceived as increasingly\nirrelevant in meeting 21st century challenges. Chenian then identifies the\npotential afforded by a “Think Tank Culture” and explores how such a\nstructure might be created and what function it might play in contributing\nto Homeland-Diaspora relations. \nPizza and refreshments will be served\nAll proceedings will be in Armenian \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”132″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/challenges-facing-the-armenian-diaspora-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:NELC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T183000
DTSTAMP:20190418T155423Z
CREATED:20190418T155423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T155423Z
UID:13311-1558540800-1558549800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Book Talk by Nile Green: The Persianate World
DESCRIPTION:Copies of the book will be available for sale from the ASUCLA Bookstore at this event. \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-by-nile-green-the-persianate-world/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190520T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T170000
DTSTAMP:20190418T203634Z
CREATED:20190415T172753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T203634Z
UID:13274-1558350000-1558544400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:An Introduction to Islamic Manuscript Culture
DESCRIPTION:This free workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to Islamic manuscripts and manuscript culture\, using the extensive holdings of the Special Collections at UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library. It is intended for advanced students and scholars with backgrounds in Islamic studies and/or manuscript studies. Sessions will be devoted to such topics as parchment and paper\, bindings and structures\, quires and codices\, scripts and hands (paleography)\, and historical and paratextual elements. Participants will learn to produce accurate basic descriptions of Islamic manuscripts. Limited funding may be available to offer some participants coming from outside the Los Angeles metropolitan area $150–200 travel grants. Applicants will be notified if they have been selected for a travel grant approximately one month in advance of the workshop. \nEvyn Kropf is Librarian for Middle East Studies and Religious Studies and Curator of the Islamic Manuscripts Collection at the University of Michigan. She obtained her\nbachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville (2003) and her master’s degree in Information Science with a\nspecialization in Library and Information Services from Michigan (2009). She has studied Arabic language\, historiography\, and topics further related to Islamic manuscript culture. As cataloguer for the "Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan’s project (2009-2012)\, she led the descriptive effort which realized the detailed cataloguing of 904 codex manuscripts from the Library’s Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Her research interests include Islamic codicology and manuscript culture\, reading and collecting practices\, and the use of pictograms and other visual content in Sufistic cultures of knowledge transmission\, as well as manuscript cataloguing and digital mediation of cultural heritage. \nEvent Flyer\nPlease apply using the following link: https://ucla.in/2UMJTXw \nNote that space is limited and that completing the form does not guarantee acceptance to the workshop. \nFor more information contact: cnes@international.ucla.edu
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/an-introduction-to-islamic-manuscript-culture/
LOCATION:Main Conference Room Charles E. Young Research Library  UCLA
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190519T180000
DTSTAMP:20190423T161727Z
CREATED:20190423T161727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190423T161727Z
UID:13331-1558279800-1558288800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Poets of Life with Rakhshan Banietemad
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-poets-of-life-with-rakhshan-banietemad/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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:20190517T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190517T140000
DTSTAMP:20190510T170649Z
CREATED:20190510T170649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190510T170649Z
UID:13504-1558101600-1558101600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Revolution\, Democracy\, Security
DESCRIPTION:Armen Grigoryan\, Secretary of the Security Council in the Republic of Armenia\, gained his BA in International Relations from Yerevan State University and MA in the same field from the American University of Armenia. Since then he has participated in various international educational projects inter aliain the USA\, Finland\, and Italy. Recently\, he served concurrently as Visiting Lecturer in World Politics and International Relations at the Armenian-Russian (Slavonic) University and as Project Coordinator of Electoral Programs at the Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center (2015-2018). On May of last year he was appointed to his current post by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. \nDiscussion will focus on the interrelationship between democratization\, civil society\, economic and political developments\, and national security in Armenia. Considering the geopolitical dynamics of the region and recent internal political developments after the Velvet Revolution \, the Secretary will explain the very specific nature of his office and its responsibilities\, even as the country moves toward democratic\, responsible\, responsive\, and inclusive governance for the first time since gaining independence in 1991. \n  \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/revolution-democracy-security/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T133000
DTSTAMP:20190515T212727Z
CREATED:20190306T195002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T212727Z
UID:12894-1558008000-1558013400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Multilingualism in Early Islamic Egypt: The View from Papyri
DESCRIPTION:After Arab armies conquered Egypt in the mid-seventh century\, the country’s linguistic landscape changed only gradually. Greek\, preeminent for centuries as a language of high culture and governance\, faded as Arabic advanced to fill these niches. Coptic\, which until then had functioned largely as a vernacular\, became in its turn a language of culture and administration. This talk traces the three languages’ variable coexistence in a time of political and social change through the papyri and literary sources. \nSponsored By: \nDean’s Discretionary Fund \nCenter for Near Eastern Studies \nDr. Naïm Vanthieghem is a Research Scholar at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT)\, a division of the Centre National de la Recherche\nScientifique in Paris. A papyrologist and historian of Egypt who works with Arabic\,\nCoptic\, and Greek documents\, he earned a PhD from the Free University of Brussels in 2015. He held post-doctoral fellowships from the European Research Council and Princeton University before joining the IRHT in 2017. He is the author of numerous articles in his areas of interest\, which include multilingualism\, law\, scribal practice\, early Islam\, and governmental administration. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”115″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/multilingualism-in-early-islamic-the-view-from-papyri/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,NELC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T133000
DTSTAMP:20190429T163911Z
CREATED:20190424T212016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T163911Z
UID:13341-1557835200-1557840600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Using Documents in the Study of Early Islam: A Brief Introduction
DESCRIPTION:Come hear papyrologist Dr. Naïm Vanthieghem discuss the use of documents\, particularly papyri\, in the field of Islamic Studies. This informal talk is designed with graduate students in mind and will include ample time for discussion\, Q & A\, and even trying your hand at deciphering documentary sources. Dr Vantheighem brings experience working directly on papyrus fragments of the Quran\, the earliest calendars used by Muslims\, and notebooks compiled by students of the early hadith transmitters. \nDr. Naïm Vanthieghem is a Research Scholar at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT)\, a division of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. A papyrologist and historian of Egypt who works with Arabic\, Coptic\, and Greek documents\, he earned a PhD from the Free University of Brussels in 2015. He held post-doctoral fellowships from the European Research Council and Princeton University before joining the IRHT in 2017. He is the author of numerous articles in his areas of interest\, which include multilingualism\, law\, scribal practice\, early Islam\, and governmental administration. \n  \nAll welcome  \nPizza and refreshments will be served to those who RSVP \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”123″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/using-documents-in-the-study-of-early-islam-a-brief-introduction/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Arabic,NELC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T180000
DTSTAMP:20190503T155705Z
CREATED:20190503T155705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190503T155705Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Dr. Antigoni Zournatzi
DESCRIPTION:Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC – ca. AD 650: Aims\, Prospects\, and Case Studies\nGreco-Iranian cultural interactions within the territory of the modern state of Iran are attested since the Achaemenid period\, although they considerably intensify during the Alexandrine and Seleucid eras. A thorough investigation of these cultural exchanges necessitates our reliance on extant archaeological data – a corpus that is highly fragmentary and uneven\, and which has yet to be systematically assembled and assessed. This lecture introduces a collaborative research initiative\, hosted by the National Hellenic Research Foundation\, which is still in an early stage of development. The project seeks to capture in a comprehensive manner relevant archaeological\, epigraphic\, and numismatic evidence from Iran\, from the Achaemenids to the Sasanian Empire. On the strength of selected Seleucid and Arsacid period artifacts\, which portray themes of religious significance\, the lecture shall highlight different facets of the dialogue between Greek and Iranian artistic traditions and worldviews\, as well as showcase the interpretative difficulties and ambiguities encountered in this process. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nAntigoni Zournatzi is Director of Research at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation. Her main areas of research are the interconnections between the ancient Greek world and the Ancient Near East\, cross-cultural phenomena in archaic and classical Cyprus\, and the Achaemenid Empire. She is currently a Getty Scholar\, engaging in research on ethnographical knowledge as part of the interconnections between ancient Greek and Persian traditions. The ongoing project\, Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC – ca. AD 650\, which she coordinates\, seeks to promote a holistic view of ancient Iranian and Greek interactions in Iran proper on the strength of an integrative inventory of different source materials and sites across historical periods. Research on this project is presently also conducted within the framework of the program Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond\, funded as part of the Connecting Art Histories initiative of the Getty Foundation. \n  \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-dr-antigoni-zournatzi/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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