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Writing The Past From Diaspora
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. ...
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Nabta Playa: An Abandoned Site Dating Back to the Earliest Days of Ancient Egypt
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...
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A Tribute to Morteza Neydavoud
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTo view the full program, please click here.
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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Pollet Samvelian
Royce 306Word Order Variation and Change in the Languages of Western Asia Western 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....
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Jehovah’s Witnesses and Armenian State During the Post-Soviet Period
Kaplan 365Drawing 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 conscientious objection are the main source of tension...
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THE LAST WATCHMAN OF CAIRO
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAuthor 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”...
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“The Dig”
UCLA Glorya Kaufman Dance TheaterA Solo Play written & performed by Stacie Chaiken with live music by Yuval Ron The 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,...
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Learning Armenian in a Diasporic Context: Reflections on Second Dialect Acquisition
Kaplan 365As 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 heterogeneous community features great diversity in terms of country of origin, wave of immigration, socioeconomic status, and linguistic standard or...
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Overview of 21st Century Armenian Prose
Kaplan 365Dr. 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...
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ON THE FRINGES OF SCIENTIFIC RESPECTABILITY: Archaeoastronomy from Pyramids and Petroglyphs to Henges and Horsa
Kaplan 365All 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...