NELC
Events
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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Dr. Antigoni Zournatzi
Royce 306Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC – ca. AD 650: Aims, Prospects, and Case Studies Greco-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...
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Using Documents in the Study of Early Islam: A Brief Introduction
Kaplan 365Come 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...
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Multilingualism in Early Islamic Egypt: The View from Papyri
Kaplan 365After 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...
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Revolution, Democracy, Security
Bunche 6275Armen 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...
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Poets of Life with Rakhshan Banietemad
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An Introduction to Islamic Manuscript Culture
Main Conference Room Charles E. Young Research Library UCLAThis 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...
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Book Talk by Nile Green: The Persianate World
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCopies of the book will be available for sale from the ASUCLA Bookstore at this event. To RSVP, please click here.
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Challenges Facing the Armenian Diaspora in the United States
Kaplan 365Mr. Chenian is a financial advisor with a long history of public service. In his presentation the speaker will focus on the role of strategic individuals in advancing community objectives in contrast to many of the diasporic institutions currently embedded within it that were founded in another place and time and are therefore perceived as...
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A Tale of Two Grigors: Aghet and Impossibility of Language in Narekatsi and Beledian
Kaplan 365Dr. 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,...
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Elites and Gods of the City: Analysis of a Mesopotamian local social network in the 3rd millennium BC
Kaplan 365The 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...