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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190528T123000
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T183000
DTSTAMP:20190418T155423Z
CREATED:20190418T155423Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190520T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T170000
DTSTAMP:20190418T203634Z
CREATED:20190415T172753Z
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190514T133000
DTSTAMP:20190429T163911Z
CREATED:20190424T212016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T163911Z
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190513T133000
DTSTAMP:20190506T180457Z
CREATED:20190402T203042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190506T180457Z
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SUMMARY:ON THE FRINGES OF SCIENTIFIC RESPECTABILITY: Archaeoastronomy from Pyramids and Petroglyphs to  Henges and Horsa
DESCRIPTION:All cultures seem to have creation myths (ours is called the Big Bang or Inflation) and to have looked to the stars for their own purposes. Modern astronomers strive to understand objects and processes that frequently have time scales much longer than individual lives. The train of thought that archaeologiss/anthropologists and astronomers might help each other out is called archaeoastronomy. The catch is that is is fairly easy to talk utter nonsense about both the long ago and the far away. Indeed I have very recently been accused of writing utter nonsense about Cheops’s pyramid — fifty five years ago! On the respectable side live (1) Babylonian eclipse records from which slowing of the Earth’s rotation can be calculated\, (2) Chinese and other reports of “guest stars” identifiable with existing\, ex- panding clouds of magnetic field and relativistic particles\, called super-nova remnants\, whose ages we therefore know\, (3) some alignments of some structures with cardinal directions and sun rises and sets on important days\, and (4) calculations of changes in the Earth’s orbit that allow us to say just when and where eclipses would have been visible in the past (not on Good Friday\, 33 CE in Jerusalem)\, and what time of year Sirius would have risen just before the sun. On the Other Side live other alignments\, other changes in orbits (does anyone still remember Velikowsky?)\, and various lores (as well as real achievements) in Polynesian navigation and Mayan calendars. \nVirginia Trimble is a graduate of Hollywood High School\, UCLA (BA 1964\, astronomy-physics)\, and the California Institute of Technology (MS 1965\, PhD 1968\, astronomy)\, with honorary degrees from the University of Cambridge (UK\, MA 1969) and the University of Valencia (Spain\, dott h.c. 2010). For 28 years\, she shared appointments at the University of Maryland and UC Irvine with her late husband\, Joseph Weber\, but is once again a full time Californian. Her research has included traditional astrophysical topics\, like white dwarfs\, supernovae and their remnants\, and binary stars\, but over the years\, she has gradually transitioned to working mostly on history of astronomy and physics and on scientometrics. Trimble currently holds minor governance positions in the American Astronomical Society\, the American Physical Society\, and the International Astronomical Union. Her publication list has recently reached 890\, but the first was on “Astronomical Significance of the so-called Air Shafts in Cheops’ Pyramid\,” and others have addressed Chinese and other records of historical supernovae\, the Star of Bethlehem\, and other overlaps between modern astronomy and its history. If she is remembered by the time of her 100th birthday\, it will be for the 1962 Life Magazine article\, her year as Miss Twilight Zone\, and because she posed for Richard Feynman when he was learning to draw. There are also multiple portraits of her drawn by UCLA Egyptologist Alexandre Mikhail Badawy\, and photos of her with UCLA Egyptian literature scholar Miriam Lichtheim. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”118″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/on-the-fringes-of-scientific-respectability-archaeoastronomy-from-pyramids-and-petroglyphs-to-henges-and-horsa/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T190000
DTSTAMP:20190506T213638Z
CREATED:20190506T213459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190506T213638Z
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SUMMARY:Overview of 21st Century Armenian Prose
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Anahid Aramouni Keshishian is Lecturer in Eastern Armenian in the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. She received her BA from both Yerevan State University and the University of Laverne\, while gaining her Ph.D from the Institute of Literature in Yerevan. Her dissertation on American-Armenian author Hagop Karapents was published by the Academy of Sciences in Armenia in 1999. Dr. Keshishian is also founder and artistic director of the Los Angeles-based art organization Arena Productions through the medium of which she translates\, directs\, and produces Armenian plays. Keshishian is also the recipient of the UCLA Academic Senate Committee’s prestigious Distinguished Teacher award in 2005. \n  \nAttention will focus on novels\, novellas\, short stories\, and publications in other prose genres that have appeared since the year 2000. Analysis will foreground the main directions\, literary tendencies\, subjects\, and stylistic characteristics those works manifest. Particular emphasis will be given to lesser-known works and those by emerging authors. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”126″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/overview-of-21st-century-armenian-prose/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190501T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190501T180000
DTSTAMP:20190429T163719Z
CREATED:20190429T163719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190429T163719Z
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SUMMARY:Learning Armenian in a Diasporic Context: Reflections on Second Dialect Acquisition
DESCRIPTION:As the emergent epicenter of the Armenian diaspora\, Los Angeles nourishes a dynamic source of heritage speakers and learners\, exhibiting robust enrollment in Armenian day schools and language classes at the college level. This uniquely\nheterogeneous community features great diversity in terms of country of origin\, wave of immigration\, socioeconomic status\, and linguistic standard or dialect. One of the most significant demographic shifts involves the increasing number\nof speakers of Eastern Armenian\, which has translated into higher numbers of Eastern Armenian students in Armenian day schools\, where for the most part Western Armenian functions as the language of instruction for the Armenian\ncurriculum.This presentation examines the situation of a growing number of heritage language speakers\, for whom the home variant of the heritage language differs from the standard taught at school\, highlighting the dynamic situation of a\npluricentric language in a diasporic context. For the heritage speaker who has partially or fully acquired one variant of a language (Eastern Armenian) and is in a classroom where another standard is taught (Western Armenian)\, the instructional problem to be solved is quite different. What needs to be understood is the process of second dialect acquisition (SDA)\, which involves the acquisition of an additional variety of the same language. After surveying the growing body of work on SDA\, this paper will apply the findings to the situation of Armenian in the Los Angeles community and make concrete recommendations\, arguing that the natural sociolinguistic variation in the pluricentric existence of Armenian should not be seen as a problem but as a resource. \nDr. Shushan Karapetian is the Deputy Director of the Institute of Armenian Studies at USC. She received a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from UCLA in 2014\, where she has taught Armenian Studies courses over the past nine years. Her dissertation\, “‘How Do I Teach My Kids My Broken Armenian?’: A Study of Eastern Armenian Heritage Language Speakers in Los Angeles\,” received the Society for Armenian Studies Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2015. Her research interests focus on heritage languages and speakers\, particularly on the case of Armenian heritage speakers in the Los Angeles community\, on which she has presented and lectured widely. In 2018\, she was the recipient of the Russ Campbell Young Scholar Award at the Third International Conference on Heritage/Community Languages in recognition for outstanding scholarship in heritage language research. \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”125″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/learning-armenian-in-a-diasporic-context-reflections-on-second-dialect-acquisition/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190430T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190430T190000
DTSTAMP:20190415T172320Z
CREATED:20190415T172320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190415T172320Z
UID:13270-1556650800-1556650800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:“The Dig”
DESCRIPTION:A Solo Play written & performed by Stacie Chaiken with live music by Yuval Ron\nThe Dig seamlessly and beautifully weaves together the worlds of archaeology; science and biochemistry; Biblical text; Jewish history and identity; the history/story of the land of Israel Palestine; and more. In The Dig\, playwright and actor Stacie Chaiken plays Sally Jenkins\, an American archaeologist renowned worldwide for her ability to extract genetic information from ancient bones. She is summoned to a dig in Jaffa where the Israelis have discovered something they fear might topple the precarious political\, historical and religious balance in the region. Sally is the only person in the world who can tell them what it is… \nIt premiered in 2016 at the LA Theater Center\, and she received the 2017 Los Angeles Stage Raw Theatre Award for Solo Performance. The production at UCLA will include new music written and performed by world musician and composer Yuval Ron. \nSponsored by the Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Dortort Center for the Arts at Hillel at UCLA. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Theater and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. \nRSVP: https://www.international.ucla.edu/israel/event/13721
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-dig/
LOCATION:UCLA Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190430T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190430T130000
DTSTAMP:20190416T155624Z
CREATED:20190409T203920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190416T155624Z
UID:13251-1556625600-1556629200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:THE LAST WATCHMAN OF CAIRO
DESCRIPTION:Author Michael David Lukas will be reading from his second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. A multigenerational novel centered around Cairo’s Ibn Ezra Synagogue\, the book knits together the disparate experiences of three different narrators—an eleventh century Muslim watchman\, a pair of Victorian-era linguists\, and a contemporary Comparative Literature graduate student—as each “discovers” a trove of discarded documents hidden in the attic of the synagogue. After reading a selection from the novel\, Michael will be in conversation with Professor Aomar Boum. \nMichael David Lukas has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv\, and a waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont. Translated into more than a dozen languages\, his first novel The Oracle of Stamboul was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize. His second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo\, was published recently by Spiegel & Grau. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Maryland\, he is a recipient of scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Montalvo Arts Center\, New York State Summer Writers’ Institute\, Squaw Valley Community of Writers\, and Elizabeth George Foundation. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Slate\, National Geographic Traveler\, and Georgia Review. He has taught at University of San Francisco\, University of the Pacific\, 826 Valencia\, and San Francisco State University. \nEvent Flyer\nPlease RSVP at: E-mail cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or call (310) 267-5327 to register.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-last-watchman-of-cairo/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190429T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190429T180000
DTSTAMP:20190424T212754Z
CREATED:20190424T212754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190424T212754Z
UID:13346-1556560800-1556560800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jehovah’s Witnesses and Armenian State During the  Post-Soviet Period
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on the analysis of various newspaper articles\, this presentation focuses on the evolution of the relationship between the Jehovah’ Witnesses and Armenian state during the post-Soviet period. Scholars have argued that Jehovah’s Witnesses’ rejection of blood transfusion\, conspicuous intolerance to other churches and/or national symbols\, and\nconscientious objection are the main source of tension between the Jehovah’s Witnesses\, on one hand\, and the society and the state\, on the other. However\, the trajectory of the relationship between the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the post-Armenian state shows that the main point of contention is the struggle over the absolute hegemony/taken-for-granted-ness of the ethnocentric ideology of independent Armenia. \nAnatolii Tokmantcev received his B.A. in History from the Siberian Federal University in Russia and his M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the European University at Saint Petersburg. Currently\, Anatolii is a PhD Candidate in Armenian Studies at UCLA. In his dissertation\, he seeks to account for the remarkable growth of the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ community in Armenia in the post-Soviet period despite the high animosity on behalf of the state and general population. \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”124″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/jehovahs-witnesses-and-armenian-state-during-the-post-soviet-period/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T180000
DTSTAMP:20190402T164339Z
CREATED:20190402T164339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T164339Z
UID:13173-1556208000-1556215200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Pollet Samvelian
DESCRIPTION:Word Order Variation and Change in the Languages of Western Asia\nWestern Asia is an area of linguistic diversity and longstanding contact between languages of different families (Indo-European\, Semitic\, Turkic\, Caucasian). Research on language contact globally has revealed that shared structural features can emerge among unrelated languages in geographically delimited areas via contact between speakers. This inescapably leads to growing differences between languages initially considered typologically similar. Yet\, not all linguistic changes are induced by contact; instead\, some are internally motivated. Distinguishing between internally motivated and contact-induced changes is a challenging task. This talk presents initial results of a newly launched research project on word order variation in the languages of Western Asia (Labex EFL\, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité). It focuses on three languages\, Persian\, Kurdish\, and Eastern Armenian\, which are characterised by the Subject-Object-Verb canonical order. Based on corpus investigation and preliminary experiments\, this presentation will discuss the varied degrees to which each of these languages drifts away from canonical order\, and explore possible ways to account for these differences. \nAbout the Speaker\nPollet Samvelian is Professor of Linguistics at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and director of the multi-institutional research unit Mondes iranien et indien at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She also chairs the research unit Empirical Foundations of Linguistics\, a multi-institutional research excellence cluster under the auspices of the Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC). Her research focuses on the description\, typology\, and formal modelling of western Iranian languages\, in particular Persian and Kurdish. She has authored and edited several books and written numerous articles on such topics as complex predicates\, pronominal clitics\, the ezafe construction\, differential object marking\, verbal periphrases\, and word order variation. \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-pollet-samvelian/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190423T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190423T203000
DTSTAMP:20190419T183517Z
CREATED:20190416T002111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190419T183517Z
UID:13279-1556035200-1556051400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Tribute to Morteza Neydavoud
DESCRIPTION:  \nTo view the full program\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/a-tribute-to-morteza-neydavoud/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Jewish Studies,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190419T130000
DTSTAMP:20190412T180837Z
CREATED:20190412T180634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190412T180837Z
UID:13257-1555675200-1555678800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Nabta Playa: An Abandoned Site Dating Back to the Earliest Days of Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Nabta Playa is an abandoned place located in the southwestern desert of Egypt. Although it may not appear to be a promising area for the study of the prehistoric archaeology as it is considered among the driest areas in the world\, there is evidence that there were several humid periods in the past that resulted in a parallel civilization to that one in Delta. \n\nDr. Abeer Amin is a professor of ancient Egyptian archaeology and Heritage studies\, Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management at Helwan University\, and visiting Faculty of Sciences professor at Arizona University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”121″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/nabta-playa-an-abandoned-site-dating-back-to-the-earliest-days-of-ancient-egypt/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T200000
DTSTAMP:20190412T235030Z
CREATED:20190412T234956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190412T235030Z
UID:13263-1555524000-1555531200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Writing The Past From Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:Karen Jallatyan received a B.A. in Comparative Literature with a minor in Philosophy from UCLA. A Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature in the University of California\, Irvine\, he is completing a dissertation on contemporary global Armenian filmmakers and writers who contribute to the emergence of a diaspora culture by transforming inherited national artistic traditions. \n  \n  \nHow does the fictionalization of the national past by diaspora authors diasporize literature? To answer this question\, this talk will explore the ways in which Vahé Oshagan in “The Broken Elevator” («Խանգարուած վերելակը»\, 1962) and “Avarayr 80: Historical Fantasy” («Աւարայր 80. Պատմական ֆանտէզի»\, 1988) and Krikor Beledian in The Palimpsest Man (Կրկնագիր Մարդը\, 2015) deploy hermeneutic tools afforded by modern fiction to meditate on the impact of the creation of the alphabet on Armenian collective life. \nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nAll proceedings will be in Armenian \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”122″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/writing-the-past-from-diaspora/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T180000
DTSTAMP:20190315T181634Z
CREATED:20190315T181634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190315T181634Z
UID:12949-1555516800-1555524000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Jason Schlude
DESCRIPTION:Motivations in the Ancient Middle East: Rome\, Parthia\, and Realpolitik\nThe Roman and Parthian Empires enjoyed no shortage of wars. From the 50s BCE through the 200s CE\, they frequently clashed. Why? The dominant explanation is realpolitik. In the zero-sum game of international relations\, each state\, out for its own interests\, sought the aggressive expansion of its empire and the external security that would bring. Insofar as this is true\, we need only one theory to explain the whole Roman-Parthian dynamic. Yet it is worth considering whether such a picture is oversimplified. First\, individual decision-makers frequently acted based on their internal security. Second\, two principles guided this action: the image of external security was as important as its realities\, and the fear of major military defeat sometimes outweighed the hope of military victory\, with the result that self-interest could permit\, even promote\, the interests of peace. Consequently\, our general understanding of Roman-Parthian realpolitik needs adjustment. The picture of Roman-Parthian history thus becomes more complex\, needing an additional model of explanation. \nAbout the Speaker\nJason Schlude is Associate Professor of Classics at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University\, Co-Director of the Omrit Settlement Excavation Project in northern Israel\, and a Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute in 2019. He is an ancient historian\, archaeologist\, and essayist with particular interest in the Roman Near East and the relationship between the Roman and Parthian empires. His current book project\, Rome\, Parthia\, and the Politics of the Ancient Middle East\, reconsiders our understanding of this important\, early phase in the relationship between the ancient West and Middle East. \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-jason-schlude/
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:20190415T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T160000
DTSTAMP:20190326T221434Z
CREATED:20190326T221434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190326T221434Z
UID:13132-1555336800-1555344000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Ida Meftahi
DESCRIPTION:Performing a Nation’s Angels and Princesses:\nThe Female Dancing Subjects of a Century-Old Iranian Nationalist Stage\nIn early twentieth-century Iran\, a nationalist-modernist theatrical milieu emerged that meant to educate society through performing arts. While touring companies from neighboring regions showcased new genres of arts on the Iranian stage\, the dispersion of ethno-religious minorities in regions added to the Iranian scene new artistic skills in ballet\, theatre\, and music\, as well as female performers who were previously absent in Iranian preforming arts.  The cohabitation of new genres with their indigenous counterparts led to new conventions in Iranian performing arts including operettas\, which combined music\, poetry\, singing\, acting and dancing. Deploying romantic themes from the depository of Persian literature – the greatest of Iranian arts – the operettas became events for enthusiast audiences to view the ideal bodies of their national heroes and heroines as they danced and sang to Persian music. In the decades to follow\, operettas lost momentium while other disciplines – including “national dance” – became professionalized. After a century\, Persian classical music featuring literary motifs preformed with both ballet and indigenous movements have remained a scapegoat for Iranian dance to claim national legitimacy. This presentation traces female dancing subject of the nationalist stage – from the early operettas to the national dances presented prior to the Revolution of 1979 and the recently-emerged operettas of current Iran – and explores the ways women embody the ideas\, aesthetics\, and ethics of Iranian nationalism and modernity in ecurrent characterizations as Persian princesses and angels. \nAbout the Speaker\nIda Meftahi is a historian specializing in modern Iran with a focus on the intersections of politics\, gender\, and performance.  She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University as well as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Maryland.  Meftahi’s scholarship has been published in numerous scholarly journals and volumes including Islam and Popular Arts (2016)\, Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016)\, IranNameh (2016)\, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2016)\, and the bilingual Clio. Femmes\, Genre\, Histoire (2018). She is currently working on her second manuscript\, a geo-political reading of Tehran’s historic Lalehzar district and its vicinity\, while simultaneously directing the Lalehzar Digital Project.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-ida-meftahi-2/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190414T180000
DTSTAMP:20190326T221351Z
CREATED:20190326T221205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190326T221351Z
UID:13127-1555257600-1555264800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Ida Meftahi
DESCRIPTION:Film and Discussion on Lalehzar Street\nA Socio-Historical View\nOften compared to New York’s Broadway and Paris’s Champs-Élysées\, Lalehzar District and its vicinity was a hub for experimentations in music and performing arts as well as new modes of business practices\, socialization\, and political expression partly due to its proximity to multitude of foreign embassies\, diplomatic ventures\, and missionary schools. The World War II occupation of Iran by the Allies in 1941 turned this district to a cultural war zone where the Allies followed their own agenda of public diplomacy. These activities ranged from screenings of American films and Soviet-sponsored theatrical performances to British Shakespearean soirées and English language classes in hope of substituting French with English in post war Iran. At the same time\, Allied soldiers became a visible community in this area and resided in Lalehzar’s hotels\, walked its streets\, mingled in its bars\, restaurants\, and cinemas\, danced in its cafés along with the “modernized” (mutajaddid) Tehran residents\, and sometimes got into clashes with Iranian civilians. Probing periodicals of various ideological persuasions\, diplomatic sources\,  archival documents\, and interviews\, this lecture tries to capture the history of this important cultural landscape during the war by means of its soundscape. While seeking to reimagine this microcosm of modern Iran by listening to the sonic experience of its Earwitnesses\, this presentation also sheds light on the multiplicity of musical\, sonic\, and performative trends which hit this critical zone of cultural production with an impact lasting for many decades. \nAbout the Speaker\nIda Meftahi is a historian specializing in modern Iran with a focus on the intersections of politics\, gender\, and performance.  She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University as well as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Maryland.  Meftahi’s scholarship has been published in numerous scholarly journals and volumes including Islam and Popular Arts (2016)\, Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016)\, IranNameh (2016)\, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2016)\, and the bilingual Clio. Femmes\, Genre\, Histoire (2018). She is currently working on her second manuscript\, a geo-political reading of Tehran’s historic Lalehzar district and its vicinity\, while simultaneously directing the Lalehzar Digital Project.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-ida-meftahi/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T160000
DTSTAMP:20190325T170058Z
CREATED:20190325T165932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T170058Z
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SUMMARY:Feeding the Gods in Ancient Israel
DESCRIPTION:Bread and other grain-based foods were not only staples in the ancient Israelite diet; they were also staples in the ritual acts that accompanied the worship of several deities in ancient Israel. In addition to the state god YHWH\, who required regular offerings of lechem hapanim (“bread of the presence”) in the Tabernacle and the Jerusalem Temple (Exodus 25:30\, 39:36\, 40:23; Leviticus 24: 5-9; Numbers 4:7; 1 Kings 7:48)\, the Queen of Heaven (Jeremiah 7:18\, 44:17-25) was worshipped by families in Jerusalem and throughout Judah with cakes that were marked with her image. Although the biblical writers did not record the details of these practices\, the remains of ritual activity in a variety of Iron Age (ca. 1200-586 BCE) archaeological contexts are strongly associated with areas where bread and other foods were prepared and consumed. In this presentation\, I will discuss the evidence for feeding the gods in Israelite houses\, the house of YHWH\, and other contexts\, and suggest that the ritual importance of bread in ancient Israel began with women’s food offerings to household deities. \n  \nJennie Ebeling is associate professor of archaeology at the University of Evansville in Indiana and co-director of the Jezreel Expedition. A former Fulbright fellow\, she has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Lady Davis Trust to support research in Israel and Jordan. Her research interests include ancient food and drink technology\, women in Canaan and ancient Israel\, and religion and cult in the Bronze and Iron Age Levant\, and her publications include Women’s Lives in Biblical Times (2010) and the edited volumes The Old Testament in Archaeology and History(2017) with J.E. Wright\, M. Elliott\, and P.V.M. Flesher\, Household Archaeology in Ancient Israel and Beyond (2011) with A. Yasur-Landau and L. Mazow\, and New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts (2008) with Y. Rowan. She produced several films based on her ethnographic research of traditional bread ovens in Jordan; one is on permanent exhibit in the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv. Ebeling served as Vice President (Membership) of ASOR and was an ASOR Trustee for ten years; in 2013 she was awarded the Charles U. Harris Service Award in recognition of her long term service to ASOR. She teaches a variety of courses in Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Evansville and her excellence in undergraduate teaching was recognized with the Dean’s Teaching Award (2011) and Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (2014). \n  \n  \nPlease RSVP at https://www.cjs.ucla.edu/event/feeding-the-gods-in-ancient-israel/.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/feeding-the-gods-in-ancient-israel/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T173000
DTSTAMP:20190325T214835Z
CREATED:20190325T214813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T214835Z
UID:13108-1554825600-1554831000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Seventeenth Century Judeo-Persian Adaptation of the Buddha Biographies
DESCRIPTION:Elisha ben Shemuel’s Shahzadeh va-Sufi or The Prince and The Sufi is a seventeenth century Judeo-Persian adaptation of the life of Buddha\, known in the west as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat. The plot\, that of the prince who abandons a life of privilege and opulence for spiritual enlightenment\, has traveled through centuries in various languages including Sanskrit\, Middle Persian\, multiple Arabic versions\, Georgian\, Greek\, Latin\, several European languages and Hebrew. As with previous adaptations\, the author of The Prince and The Sufi uses the language\, literary style and conventions suited to the tastes of his readership. Dr. Yasharpour is preparing to publish the edited Judeo-Persian text of The Prince and the Sufi together with an English annotated translation. In her talk\, she will discuss how Ben Shemuel appealed to his acculturated Persian Jewish audience by modeling his Judeo-Persian adaptation after popular classical Persian advice literature and conveying practical wisdom by way of a Sufi master. \n  \nDr. Dalia Yasharpour (Ph.D. Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\, UCLA\, 2005) is a scholar of Judeo-Persian language and literature. A lecturer and researcher\, Dalia most recently headed the Iranian Studies program at Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. In addition to authoring academic articles and editing Persian language textbooks\, she is the co-author of The Haggadah of the Kaifeng Jews of China (Brill\, 2011). A Los Angeles native\, she lives in West Los Angeles with her family. \n  \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nPlease RSVP at https://religion.ucla.edu/event/https-religion-ucla-edu-event-the-seventeenth-century-judeo-persian-adaptation-of-the-buddha-biographies/
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-seventeenth-century-judeo-persian-adaptation-of-the-buddha-biographies/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T160000
DTSTAMP:20190221T173915Z
CREATED:20190205T224007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190221T173915Z
UID:12614-1554818400-1554825600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Afshin Matin-Asgari
DESCRIPTION:Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for Dr. Afshin Matin-Asgari’s second lecture of the 2018-2019 academic year. He will present research from his latest book on April 9\, 2019 in Kaplan Hall 365 (former Humanities Building) at 2:00pm. \nBoth East and West: \nA Commentary on the History of Modernity in Iran\nSince the Iranian Revolution of 1979\, many observers of Iran have viewed a country torn between Eastern history and ‘Western’ modernity.  This divide between religion and secularity has couched the analysis of political philosophy preceding the Revolution in this later dichotomy.  Afshin Matin-Asgari instead proposes a revisionist work of intellectual history\, challenging many of the dominant paradigms in Iranian and Middle Eastern historiography.  In charting the intellectual construction of Iranian modernity\, he focuses on broad patterns of influential ideas\, which reveal an Iranian modernity that has been sustained by intense intellectual interaction with global ideologies.  Turning many prevailing narratives on their heads\, the Matin-Asgari concludes that modern Iran can be seen as\, culturally and intellectually\, both Eastern and Western. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Afshin Matin-Asgari holds the title of Outstanding Professor of Middle East history at California State University\, LA.  He was born in Iran and completed his Ph.D. in Middle East history at UCLA. He was active in the international movement of Iranian students during the 1970s and took part in the 1978–1979 Iranian Revolution. He is the author of Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah (2002)\, which has been translated into Persian. Matin-Asgari has authored more than twenty articles and book chapters on twentieth-century Iranian political and intellectual history.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/12614/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
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:20190409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190409T133000
DTSTAMP:20190408T160914Z
CREATED:20190402T195814Z
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SUMMARY:EVENT CANCELED: The Cenotaph of Harwa: Mystery Religions\, Resurrection and Renaissance in an Amazing Monument in the Egypt of the Late 8th Century BC
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.\n  \nThe Italian Archaeological Mission to Luxor works in the Funerary Complex of Harwa (TT 37) and Akhamunru (TT 404) since 1996. With its 4000 square meters of extension the Cenotaph of the Great Majordomo of the God-Wife Harwa (7th Century BC) is one of the largest monuments ever built by an official in ancient Egypt. Its amazing and fine decoration is inspired to an archaizing style with innovative tendencies that make the cenotaph a masterpiece of the cultural movement known as “25th Dynasty Renaissance”. Furthermore texts and images are disposed to trace a virtual journey through the monument that describes the human existence from life through death until the ultimate experience of Resurrection. Some of the ideas expressed by the “Journey of Harwa” remind and anticipate peculiar features of Greek Mystery religions. \nFrancesco Tiradritti is an Egyptologist\, journalist and screenwriter. He taught Egyptology in the University of Enna\, Naples\, Foggia and TUrin\, and has served as the Dorothy K. Hohenberg Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis and Scholar at the Getty Research Institute of Los Angeles. He is director of the Italian Archaeological Mission to Luxor since 1995\, and worked as consultant Egyptologist at the Archaeological Collections of Milano\, organizing twenty-one exhibitions. He is now working for the exhibition “Tutankhamon: The Real Experience” (Prague\, Milano 2019-2020). He is author of Egyptian Wall Painting” (2008) and “Ancient Egypt: Art\, Architecture\, and History” (2002) and editor of “Egyptian Treasures of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo” (1999). \n  \n  \n Event Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/mystery-religions-resurrection-and-renaissance/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:NELC
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
DESCRIPTION:6:30 p.m.-7:00 Refreshments \n  \n7:00-7:10 Opening Remarks \nAra Mandjikian – Director of the 2019 Undergraduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies                  Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, UCLA \nDr. S. Peter Cowe – Narekatsi Professor of Armenian Studies Near Eastern Languages and                Cultures\, UCLA \n  \nPanel 1: Contemporary Issues of Armenian Language Acquisition \nChair: Ani Setian (Anthropology\, UCLA) \n  \n7:10-7:30 \nGevick Safarians\, “An Assessment of Armenian-American Language Anxiety” (Neuroscience\,         UCLA) \n  \n7:30-7:50 \nIrene Baghdasaryan\, “The Taguhi Summeer Day Camp and Armenian Language Pedagogy”                             (English\, UCLA) \n  \n7:50-8:05 Discussion \n  \n8:05-8:20 Coffee Break \n  \nPanel 2: Medieval History and Architecture \nChair: Arti Kassarjian (Mechanical Engineering\, UCLA) \n  \n8:20-8:40 \nAtineh Movsesian\, “The Medieval City of Ani: Above and Underground” (B.A. in Art History and   Minors in English and French\, California State Pomona) \n  \n8:40-8:50 Discussion \n  \n9:00 Reception \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”119″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-student-colloquium-in-armenian-studies/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Mehrnoush Soroush
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World for a lecture by Dr. Mehrnoush Soroush of Harvard University as part of the 2018-2019 Lecture Series. \nThe Lords of Canals and Bridges: Re-Examining the Sasanian Hydraulic Landscapes and Their Heritage in the Islamic Period\nSasanian kings are known as builders of impressive hydraulic projects such as the monumental canal of Nahrawan (in southern Iraq)\, and the Shadorwan bridge of Shushtar (in southwestern Iran). Sasanian hydraulic landscapes have had a profound impact on anthropological discourse of empires and water management\, as they linked large and complex water infrastructures to a highly centralized state system. The evidence for court engineering is found in the linearity of Sasanian canals and the monumentality of their bridges and weirs. It is commonly believed that the monumental Sasanian waterworks fell into decline in the sixth and sevenths centuries because of the decline of the state power and its eventual demise in the wake of the Islamic conquest. This recent multidisciplinary study of the hydraulic infrastructures of Sasanian cities highlights the longue durée of Sasanian water management in southwestern Iran and stresses both the connection of Sasanian waterworks to prior investments and the evidence for continuous investment in Sasanian hydraulic landscapes in the Islamic period. \nAbout the Speaker\nMehrnoush Soroush is an archaeologist and historian of ancient water infrastructures. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University\, and is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. Her research integrates digital technologies\, fieldwork\, and textual sources in order to investigate the history and intersection of water management and urbanism in the Iranian World. She is primarily interested in examining how water technologies enabled the formation and maintenance of a burgeoning network of Iranian cities in arid and semi-arid regions that relied on market-oriented irrigation agriculture and water intensive industries. \nSelf-pay parking in Lots 5\, 4\, or 2 recommended. To RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-mehrnoush-soroush/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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SUMMARY:Ottoman Armenian Theater and the Role of Actresses in Forging New Cultural Norms
DESCRIPTION:The presentation discusses the emergence of theater among Ottoman Armenians in the 19th century in the context of modernization and national awakening and the role Armenian actresses had in the development and popularization of the art. Theater played the dual role of reflecting and serving as an agent of sociocultural and political shifts. Largely concentrating on Azniv Hrachia’s memoirs\, Dr. Khalapyan illustrates how the stage allowed women to participate in forming public opinion on a new national identity\, in the process breaking the gender and “cultural” norms of womanhood established in Armenian society. \nDr. Hasmik Khalapyan is a lecturer at the American University of Armenia. She is Academic Director of the AGBU Armenian Virtual College and Editorial Director of the Virtual College’s Multimedia E-Book Series. She has an MA from Miami University\, and a PhD in History from Central European University\, Budapest\, Hungary. She has carried out research in Ottoman history in archives and libraries in Armenia\, Austria\, France and Turkey. Her research interests include: concepts and histories of social change in a local/global perspective; Ottoman history; women’s movements worldwide in a comparative perspective; theories and histories of empire and colonialism; gender and international law. She has been published in international journals and edited volumes in English\, and has been translated into Turkish. \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”116″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ottoman-armenian-theater-and-the-role-of-actresses-in-forging-new-cultural-norms/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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