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AchWorks 1 – Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World
314 Royce HallIdentity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World The Inaugural Symposium of the Achaemenid Workshops Series April 12–14, 2023 | 314 Royce Hall Watch Livestream Morning refreshments and check-in begin at 8:00 am. Panels begin at 9:00 am. The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is convening an international...
George Kiraz – The Syriac American Diaspora
365 Kaplan HallThe Syriac American Diaspora George Anton Kiraz Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 3:30pm, Kaplan 365 The Syriacs began to arrive on the Eastern shores of the United States during the mid-late 1800s and began to form a "society" of some sort by the turn of the century. By the first decade of the twentieth century,...
Bilingual Lecture Series: A Historical Perspective on Violence and Urban Unrest in Modern Iran
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United Statesخشونت و آشوبهای شهری در ایران معاصر از دید تاریخی A Historical Perspective on Violence and Urban Unrest in Modern Iran Mehrdad Amanat Sunday, May 7, 2023, 4:00 PM, Dodd Hall 121 Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99522637738 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on May 7 to join.)...
Bilingual Lecture Series – Being Woman: Diverse Voices of Women from Afghanistan and Iran
زن بودن : صداهای گوناگون زنان از افغانستان و ایران Being Woman: Diverse Voices of Women from Afghanistan and Iran Roundtable discussion in Persian Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 11:30am Pacific via Zoom Zoom Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZDUx9ZPvSvO_zhNLIzFkKg About the Panelists Haifa Asadi (Youth Generation of Arab Iranian Women) Haifa Asadi is an advocate for gender, racial,...
Pourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2023
Royce 306Pourdavoud Center Fall 2023 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception. In the company of our supporters, colleagues, academic affiliates, students, and esteemed guests, we shall be...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran
Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran: An Intersectional Approach to National Identity by Azadeh Kian examines the crucial shifts that affected Sunnite and subaltern women once Shi’ism became the state religion after the Iranian Revolution. Focusing on women in the Baluchistan and Golestan provinces of Iran, Kian...
Co-Sponsorship: Global Antiquity (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds
Royce 306A Forum for Exchanges on Ancient Studies at UCLA December 5–6, 2023 | Royce Hall 306 Global Antiquity is convening a workshop titled (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds. This event, held at UCLA over two days, December 5–6, 2023, will include invited speakers from the University of California and the greater Los Angeles area whose research focuses on...
Iranian Studies: Alborz: We Climb Mountains Film Screening
314 Royce HallAlborz High school was initially an American Presbyterian missionary institution in Tehran that began as a grade school in 1873, in 1924 it became a junior college and in 1928 an accredited liberal arts college. After many upheavals and the forced departure of its founder, Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan in 1940, it was transformed into...
Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Neville McFerrin
Royce 306An Entangled Empire: Dress, Reciprocal Construction, and the Experience of Kingship at Persepolis In reliefs across Persepolis, the Achaemenid administrative center, depictions of mediated bodies offer insight into an imperial ideology that generates inclusion through categorical and material slippages. The crown of the king parallels the crenellations of the architecture that surround him even as...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Women’s Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan
314 Royce Hallادبیات داستانی معاصر زنان افغانستان در بستر تحولات اجتماعی- سیاسی Women's Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan Sunday, January 28, 2024 I 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99816401692 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on...