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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190419T130000
DTSTAMP:20190412T180837Z
CREATED:20190412T180634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190412T180837Z
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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/
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
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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/
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
LAST-MODIFIED:20190408T160914Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190408T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190408T210000
DTSTAMP:20190405T190147Z
CREATED:20190405T190147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190405T190147Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190403T180000
DTSTAMP:20190225T172544Z
CREATED:20190225T172544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T172544Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190402T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190402T200000
DTSTAMP:20190401T191945Z
CREATED:20190326T205410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190401T191945Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190402T140000
DTSTAMP:20190304T180935Z
CREATED:20190304T180935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190304T180935Z
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SUMMARY:The faces of the Priests of Amun Exploring Egyptian ‘yellow coffins’ with 3D-modelling
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Vatican Coffin Project a project was started based on a new methodological approach for studying ‘yellow coffins’. The project is mainly based on the analysis of ‘facial features’ carved on the lid. These are important elements regarding the typology and the classification of the statues\, but they have never been considered in the analysis of coffins\, also because it is difficult to discern them clearly under the superimposed pictorial decoration. Today\, new technology can help us to reveal fine surface details\, which are not always discernible in visible light. In any case the face on a coffin is always made from\na single piece of wood\, carved and fixed to the coffin by dowels\, and so also easy to remove and re-attach on another coffin. In this presentation the results of the first analysis of Lot 17 (Vatican) and Lot 11 (The Netherlands) from Bab el-Gasus\, the starting point for this project\, where comparison with statuary will offer unequivocally interesting suggestions. \nStefania Mainieri is a teaching assistant in Egyptology at the Department of Asia\, Africa and the Mediterranean -DAAM- University of Naples ’L'Orientale’ (Unior)\, where she also completed her PhD research on the Egyptian Collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN). Stefania also worked as curator of temporary and permanent exhibitions\, expertise and cataloguer of Egyptian finds and she is now an external collaborator of the MANN. Specialized in museography and Egyptian funerary archaeology. She is now collaborating with the Vatican Coffin Project (VCP) in the carrying forward of a research project on the study and analysis of the ‘faces’ on the lids and mummy-boards of ‘yellow coffins’ through photogrammetry and 3D models. \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”114″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-faces-of-the-priests-of-amun-exploring-egyptian-yellow-coffins-with-3d-modelling/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T180000
DTSTAMP:20190205T221307Z
CREATED:20190205T221307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190205T221307Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Stefan Hauser
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Stefan Hauser will present his research as part of the Pourdavoud Center 2018-2019 Lecture Series. Dr. Hauser is Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Mediterranean Culture at the Universität Konstanz\, Germany. He is also a Getty Scholar for the 2018-2019 academic year. To RSVP\, please click here. \n  \nCharax Spasinou\nResearch on the Capital of Mesene and the Arsacid Center of Trade\nThe city of Charax Spasinou was a major trading center of the Arsacid Empire. Located near the head of the Persian Gulf\, it was the primary port of entry for sea-borne goods from India destined for the imperial court at Ctesiphon\, the Elamais\, and for places further afield such as Palmyra and the Mediterranean. Originally founded by Alexander the Great\, the time of its greatest prosperity was from the late 2nd century BC through to the 3rd century AD. The city was first identified in 1965 as modern Jebel Khayaber\, near Basra\, but until 2016 it had never been subjected to archaeological exploration. This lecture summarizes the work carried out by the current Charax Spasinou Project\, set up to survey and document the site and its vicinity. It will show that much of the ancient city is in fact still extant\, with considerable potential for future investigation of long-distance trade in antiquity and of the political history of the wider region. \nAbout the Speaker\nStefan R. Hauser is professor of Archaeology of Ancient Mediterranean Cultures and their Relations to the Ancient Near East and Egypt at Universität Konstanz. His work is characterized by very wide interests\, illustrated by more than 100 articles and books on topics as diverse as production and trade\, death and funerary ritual\, and the visibility of nomadic groups in the archaeological record. More recently\, the 2017 exhibition “Rebuild Palmyra?”\, which he conceived and designed with students and colleagues from design\, architecture\, information sciences\, and history\, confronted a wider public with the important topic of the precarious situation of cultural heritage under threat. He is also the co-director of a British-German archaeological research project at Charax Spasinou and its hinterland in modern southern Iraq.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-stefan-hauser/
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:20190307T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190307T180000
DTSTAMP:20190225T182036Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T182036Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar in Armenian Studies: Komitas and the Paradigm of Armenian Musical Identity
DESCRIPTION:Lilit Yernjakyan is a musicologist\, Doctor of Arts\, professor\, Honored Worker of Art of the Republic of Armenia\, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and a professor at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan. She is also a member of the Composers’ Union of Armenia. Yernjakyan is the author of 5 monographs and c.70 articles in Armenian\, Russian\, and English. Her research interests include various genres of traditional Eastern art music\, Armenian sacred and ashugh music\, Armeno-Iranian and Armeno-Turkish musical interaction\, as well as modern art music. \nIn Komitas studies the basic concepts formulated in his articles and essays have been interpreted to apply to the two main branches of Armenian monodic music\, religious and folk\, as paramount representations of Armenian musical identity. Armenian urban and ashugh (bardic) music lay beyond Komitas Vardapet’s scholarly investigations as they were regarded as embodying a different aesthetic system more typical of the broader Near Eastern musical tradition This presentation will explore the artistic aspects and ethnic background of bardic music\, elucidating them through Komitas’ perspectives on an Armenian/Near Eastern dichotomy. \nLecture will be delivered in Armenian \nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”113″ title=”false” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/graduate-seminar-in-armenian-studies-komitas-and-the-paradigm-of-armenian-musical-identity/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T200000
DTSTAMP:20190213T220016Z
CREATED:20190213T220016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T220016Z
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SUMMARY:Tigran Mansurian 80th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Herb Alpert School of Music  \nCo-sponsored by Near Eastern Languages and Cultures \nSymposium: “East and West: Search for Meeting Point” \n2:00pm – 5:30pm March 6th\, Jan Popper Theater \nFREE ADMISSION \nArmenia’s foremost living composer’s 80th anniversary is celebrated during a day-long symposium. Featured symposium speakers include composer/pianist Artur Avanesov (Armenia); Artistic Administrator of Seattle Symphony\, Elena Dubinets; Director of Lark Musical Society\, Vatsche Barsoumian\, and Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies at UCLA\, Peter Cowe. \nGala Concert \n8:00pm March 6th\, Schoenberg Hall \nTigran Mansurian’s 80th anniversary is celebrated during a Gala Concert featuring several of his masterworks\, including a US Premiere of a major chamber work\, along with music of his close friends Arvo Pärt\, Alfred Schnittke\, and Valentin Silvestrov. Featured guest artists include Principal Clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and UCLA faculty Boris Allakhverdyan\, Artur Avanesov (piano)\, VEM String Quartet\, Danielle Segen (mezzo-soprano)\, Antonio Lysy (cello)\, Varty Manouelian (violin)\, Movses Pogossian (violin)\, Miroslava Khomik (violin)\, James Lent (piano)\, Michael Kaufman (cello)\, James Bass\, and the Seraphic Fire/UCLA Ensemble Artists. \n\nEvent Flyer\n\nRSVP at:\nUCLA Herb Alpert School of Music \n \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/tigran-mansurian-80th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Jan Popper Theater
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T180000
DTSTAMP:20190205T222103Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Margaret Root
DESCRIPTION:The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World announces the lecture of Dr. Margaret Root as part of the 2018-2019 Lecture Series.  Dr. Root is Professor and Curator Emerita of Near Eastern and Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor and a 2018-2019 Getty Scholar. \nKingship for a New World: Achaemenid Art and its Global Resonances\nThe official court art of the Achaemenid Persian empire\, as realized canonically in the reign of Darius I (r. 522-486 BCE)\, had a profound impact on the initiatives of ideological display devised in other political/cultural environments with aspirational agendas of imperial hegemony. This lecture explores select aspects of two instructive case studies in this dynamic creative emulation: The late fifth-century BCE Parthenon of Periklean Athens to the west and the Pillar Monuments of the Mauryan King Ashoka in India (r. c. 268-232 BCE). The pairing demonstrates key historiographic burdens that block productive discourse on the global resonances of Persian programmatic visions beyond the boundaries of space and time. \nAbout the Speaker\nMargaret Cool Root is Professor and Curator Emerita (Department of the History of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology) at the University of Michigan. She is currently a Getty Scholar\, writing a book entitled Persia and the Parthenon. Beginning with her first book\, The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art: Essays in the Creation of an Iconography of Empire (1979)\, she has published widely on Achaemenid Persian architecture\, sculpture\, seals\, imperial ideology\, interconnections with Greece\, and historiography. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1985-86)\, Professor Root has also been awarded fellowships and multi-year project grants from the NEA\, the NEH\, the Iran Heritage Foundation\, and the Kress Foundation to support ongoing efforts on the Persepolis Seal Project. \nSelf-pay parking in Lots 5\, 4\, or 2 recommended. Please click here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-margaret-root/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190225T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190225T180000
DTSTAMP:20190213T215329Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar in Armenian Studies: Women During and After the Velvet Revolution in Armenia
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gohar Shahnazaryan is Director of the Yerevan State University Center for Gender and Leadership Studies (www.ysu.am/gender) and Co-Director of the Women’s Resource Center NGO (www.womenofarmenia.org) in Armenia. She holds a PhD in Sociology. Currently Dr. Shahnazaryan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sociology at YSU. She was a visiting scholar at the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University and at the Institute of Slavic\, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies at UC Berkeley on an Open Society Institute Fellowship. For the past ten years Shahnazaryan has coordinated a number of large-scale projects on women and gender issues (women’s leadership\, development of referral mechanisms for survivors of gender based violence\, educational projects on women’s rights\, women and peace building\, the feminist movement in Armenia\, etc)\, and participated in various international\, regional\, and local conferences\, trainings\, and workshops on women’s rights and gender equality. She is an author of more than twenty publications on gender issues in Armenia. \nLecture will be delivered in Armenian \nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”112″ title=”false” description=”true”]\n  \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/graduate-seminar-in-armenian-studies-women-during-and-after-the-velvet-revolution-in-armenia/
LOCATION:Kaplan 311
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T140000
DTSTAMP:20190208T215935Z
CREATED:20190208T215820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190208T215935Z
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SUMMARY:Wadi al-Jarf\, the King Khufu’s Harbor on the Red Sea  Coast: Overview of the Recent Discoveries
DESCRIPTION:Since 2011\, a joint team of the Paris-Sorbonne University and the French Institute in Cairo (IFAO) has been excavating an exceptional harbor complex at Wadi al-Jarf along the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea. Considered now as the oldest harbor in the world\, this massive installation dates back to the very beginning of the Fourth Dynasty. In 2013 the site has received a special reputation after the discovery of several hundreds of fragments of narrative and administrative papyri\, the oldest inscribed papyri ever discovered in Egypt so far. Some clearly name King Khufu and give important details and describe activities in close relation to the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. This lecture will first focus on the latest archaeological discoveries at the Wadi al-Jarf and then provide a quick overview on some of the papyri\, which uncover the complex organization and well structured logistics of royal projects and expeditions 4600 years ago. \n  \nDr. Gregory Marouard is a specialist for urban\, domestic and harbor archaeology. Since 2010\, he has been a Research Associate in Egyptian Archaeology at the Oriental Institute. He received his PhD in Art History and Archaeology in 2010 from the University of Poitiers\, France. Since 2011\, he has been the senior archaeologist in charge of the excavations of the harbor of Khufu\, a French Institute (IFAO)\, CNRS and Paris Sorbonne project directed by Professor Pierre Tallet. In June 2016\, this project was awarded the prestigious Cino Del Ducca prize for Archaeology by the French Academy. He is the co-director of the Tell Edfu Project (The Oriental Institute\, University of Chicago) with Nadine Moeller (Associate Professor at the Oriental Institute)\, and has also directed several other projects in Egypt\, including both the Oriental Institute Mission at Dendara and the Kom ed-Dahab Survey (The Oriental Institute\, University of Chicago – Egypt Exploration Society Delta Survey). \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”111″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/wadi-al-jarf-the-king-khufus-harbor-on-the-red-sea-coast-overview-of-the-recent-discoveries/
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Egyptology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190211T160000
DTSTAMP:20190129T173227Z
CREATED:20190129T173036Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Mary Hegland
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series. Dr. Mary Helgand will present her research in Bunche Hall 10383 on February 11\, 2019 at 2:00pm. This lecture will be in English. Please see the attached flyer for details. \n  \nEconomic and Social Transformation in Aliabad: New Trends in Work\, Life Styles\, Marriage\, and Sexuality\n  \nRapid change was already reaching Aliabad in 1978-1979. Land reform and the shift from agriculture\, low-level shop-keeping\, and itinerant trading to factory work\, construction\, services\, and government employment were affecting kinship and extended family dynamics\, cutting back on the authority of the older generation and bringing new opportunities to the younger generation. Today\, extended family and community ties have declined as people develop more individualized lives. Many men work outside of Aliabad. Many people\, especially the young\, consider themselves to be Shirazis. Aliabad has been formally incorporated into Shiraz. In spite of Islamic Republic teachings\, changes in gender\, marriage\, and sexuality have been dramatic. Today\, young people take a much more active role in choosing a spouse. Like elsewhere in Iran\, girls marry and bear children later\, raise smaller families\, live separately from in-laws\, sometimes divorce husbands\, and sometimes work outside of the home. Contact between males and females takes place before marriage; some engage in extra-marital affairs\, and a few individuals have expressed their wish to have a “white marriage” before a long-term commitment. The cultural and sexual revolutions have entered even the former village of Aliabad. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nMary Elaine Hegland’s interest in Iranian society and anthropology began with her time serving in the Peace Corps in Mahabad\, Iran from 1966-1968.  Her anthropological research in the community of “Aliabad\,” near Shiraz\, lasted from 1978 through 2018 and has resulted in a monograph\, Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village\, as well as many articles about women\, gender\, local politics\, religion\, ritual\, revolution\, and social change in Iran.  She currently teaches anthropology at Santa Clara University. Currently\, Dr. Hegland is conducting research about aging and the elderly in Iran and among Iranian Americans in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. She also plans to study women and gender and family hierarchy and dynamics as related to aging and the elderly in Tajikistan.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-mary-hegland-2/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 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:20190210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190210T180000
DTSTAMP:20190129T172748Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Mary Hegland
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series. Dr. Mary Helgand will present her research in Dodd Hall 121 on February 10\, 2019 at 4:00pm. This lecture will be in Persian. Please see the attached flyer for details. \n  \nروزهای انقلاب:  «علی آباد» شیراز در ایران و جهان در قرن بیستم و بیست و یکم\nDays of Revolution: “Aliabad” of Shiraz in Iran and in the World in the 20th and 21st Centuries\n  \nResearch in Aliabad between 1978 and 2018 allows examination of how national and international politics can affect people on the ground and how local politics and “ordinary” people can affect national and international politics. Even the village of Aliabad was part of the world scene from an early stage. In areas around Shiraz\, the Qavam family gained power through international trade through the Gulf\, helping provide England with the opium they wanted to exchange with China in return for tea\, porcelain\, and silk. Because of this\, the Qavams were able to take ownership and control of Aliabad and many other villages. US political pressures – specifically Kennedy’s push for land reform and the English and American-engineered coup against Minister Mossadeq – brought political conflict to Aliabad. During the 1979 Iranian Revolution\, villagers who participated with millions of other Iranians brought about drastic national and international change. Now laptops\, travel\, and communication bring them into closer contact with the outside world\, but the economic sanctions cause economic difficulties and dissatisfaction. \nAbout the Speaker\nMary Elaine Hegland’s interest in Iranian society and anthropology began with her time serving in the Peace Corps in Mahabad\, Iran from 1966-1968.  Her anthropological research in the community of “Aliabad\,” near Shiraz\, lasted from 1978 through 2018 and has resulted in a monograph\, Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village\, as well as many articles about women\, gender\, local politics\, religion\, ritual\, revolution\, and social change in Iran.  She currently teaches anthropology at Santa Clara University. Currently\, Dr. Hegland is conducting research about aging and the elderly in Iran and among Iranian Americans in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. She also plans to study women and gender and family hierarchy and dynamics as related to aging and the elderly in Tajikistan.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-mary-hegland/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T180000
DTSTAMP:20190205T222050Z
CREATED:20190129T173636Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Robert Rollinger
DESCRIPTION:Contextualizing the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: What Does Empire Mean in the 1st Millennium BCE?\nLooking at historical handbooks of the Ancient Near East\, there appears to be a general agreement on structuring the outline of political history of the first millennium BCE. The epoch is conceptualized as a succession of three clearly defined empires. The first\, the Neo-Assyrian empire\, is regarded to represent a turning point in history by establishing imperial structures connected with a claim to rule the world. It is succeeded by the Neo-Babylonian empire and the Persian empire which\, on the one hand\, follow the previously introduced imperial trajectory but\, on the other hand\, shape their individual and distinctive conceptions of empire and state. With the conquests of Alexander the Great a major break is generally considered to have taken place. Ancient Near Eastern empires end and a fresh\, western empire emerges intrducing a new era. Rollinger challenges this narrative by contemplating the meaning of empire in the first millennium BCE and the role the fringes of empire play in the dynamic relationship of interconnected regions and zones to which both the east and the west belonged. \nAbout the Speaker\nRobert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at Universität Innsbruck\, Austria. He is a scholar of history and culture between the Aegean world and the ancient Near East. He has been a visiting professor at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations (AKU-ISMC) and the Institute for History (Jean Monnet Chair for European History) at Universität Hildesheim. In 2008\, Rollinger became the first Austrian historian to be a member of the European Network for the History of Ancient Greece\, which is dedicated to changes in ancient historical research. \nSelf-pay parking in Lots 5\, 4\, or 2 recommended. Please click here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-robert-rollinger/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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