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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
CREATED:20190129T173832Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
CREATED:20190213T215329Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T173227Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190210T180000
DTSTAMP:20190129T172748Z
CREATED:20190129T172748Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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
LAST-MODIFIED:20190205T222050Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T180000
DTSTAMP:20190109T165829Z
CREATED:20190109T165829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T165829Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Hashem Pesaran
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series.  Dr. Hashem Pesaran will present his research in Kaplan Hall (former Humanities Building) on January 28\, 2019 at 4:00pm.  This lecture will be in English.  Please see the attached flyer for details. \n  \nUS Sanctions: Unfulfilled Expectations and Challenges Facing the Iranian Economy\n  \nThe nuclear agreement (JCPOA) created hopes and expectations for improved economic conditions and better relationships with the West. The decision by the US to withdraw from the agreement and reintroduce economic and financial sanctions has fundamentally altered the policy choices and challenges facing the Iranian economy.  This talk provides an overview of the Iranian economy and discusses existing empirical evidence on the effects of past sanctions\, in particular the 2012-2015 UN sanctions that led to the JCPOA. It compares and contrasts the new round of US sanctions with the earlier ones and considers their implications for the Islamic Republic’s economic strategies and their likely short-term and long-term consequences for output growth\, inflation\, unemployment\, and currency stability. \nIn the past when faced with sanctions\, the Iranian government has generally opted for short-term populist policies\, increased government interventions\, and the expansion of rent seeking activities at the expense of badly needed reforms for longer term enhanced efficiencies and sustained economic and environmental development. Should we expect more of the same\, or are there other possibilities? \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nHashem Pesaran is the John Elliot Distinguished Chair in Economics at USC\, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University\, and a Fellow of Trinity College\, Cambridge. Previously\, he was the head of the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank of Iran\, the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education\, Iran\, and Professor of Economics at UCLA. He is a fellow of the British Academy\, Econometric Society\, Journal of Econometrics\, and the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He has Honorary Doctorates from Universities of Salford\, Goethe\, Maastricht and Prague. He has over 200 publications in the areas of econometrics\, empirical finance\, macroeconomics\, and the Iranian economy. His most recent book\, Time Series and Panel Data Econometrics was published in 2015.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-hashem-pesaran/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190128T133000
DTSTAMP:20190115T193926Z
CREATED:20181221T170043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190115T193926Z
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SUMMARY:John of Litharb (d. 738 CE)\, On the Soul:  A Previously Unknown Syriac Treatise and the New Light it sheds on  Islamic Kalām\, on Byzantine Theology\, and on Syriac Psychology
DESCRIPTION:John of Litharb is a fairly well-known Syriac author from the turn of the seventh-and-eighth centuries\, who participated in a robust circle of intellectual Christian theologians\, historians and philosophers. Although he is known to have authored several important works\, due to the accidents of manuscript transmission\, only one very short letter of his was thought to have survived to this day. I have recently discovered a significant work of his On the Soul\, completely overlooked in previous scholarship. I seek to understand this work and contextualize it in terms of the information it provides pertaining to three areas of research: 1) the emergence of the Islamic rational-theological school of Kalām\, long claimed by some scholars to have had Christian roots; 2) current Byzantine debates about the soul\, with special attention to the question of its ability to intercede for the living in its post-mortem state; 3) subsequent Syriac works on the soul\, and their relations to this source. \n  \nDr. Yonatan Moss is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a BA in Classics and Linguistics from the Hebrew University and a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. In 2016 Moss published Incorruptible Bodies: Christology\, Society and Authority in Late Antiquity (University of California Press)\, which analyzes the sixth-century Julianist controversy about the body of Christ in its late ancient social and cultural contexts. Moss’ interests lie in the intersections between theology\, politics\, technology and language in the late ancient and early medieval domains of the Abrahamic religions. His two current large-scale projects concern 1) Christian Greek literary production in Byzantine Palestine; and 2) West Syriac theological and exegetical culture in early Islamic Mesopotamia. \n  \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”103″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/john-of-litharb-d-738-ce-on-the-soul-a-previously-unknown-syriac-treatise-and-the-new-light-it-sheds-on-islamic-kalam-on-byzantine-theology-and-on-syriac-psychology/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Assyriology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190127T180000
DTSTAMP:20190109T170239Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Hashem Pesaran
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series.  Dr. Hashem Pesaran will present his research in Kaplan Hall (former Humanities Building) on January 27\, 2019 at 4:00pm.  This lecture will be in Persian.  Please see the attached flyer for details. \n  \nتحریم های آمریکا، انتظارات برآورده نشده و چالش های اقتصادی ایران\nUS Sanctions: Unfulfilled Expectations and Challenges Facing the Iranian Economy\n  \nThe nuclear agreement (JCPOA) created hopes and expectations for improved economic conditions and better relationships with the West. The decision by the US to withdraw from the agreement and reintroduce economic and financial sanctions has fundamentally altered the policy choices and challenges facing the Iranian economy.  This talk provides an overview of the Iranian economy and discusses existing empirical evidence on the effects of past sanctions\, in particular the 2012-2015 UN sanctions that led to the JCPOA. It compares and contrasts the new round of US sanctions with the earlier ones and considers their implications for the Islamic Republic’s economic strategies and their likely short-term and long-term consequences for output growth\, inflation\, unemployment\, and currency stability. \nIn the past when faced with sanctions\, the Iranian government has generally opted for short-term populist policies\, increased government interventions\, and the expansion of rent seeking activities at the expense of badly needed reforms for longer term enhanced efficiencies and sustained economic and environmental development. Should we expect more of the same\, or are there other possibilities? \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nHashem Pesaran is the John Elliot Distinguished Chair in Economics at USC\, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University\, and a Fellow of Trinity College\, Cambridge. Previously\, he was the head of the Economic Research Department of the Central Bank of Iran\, the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Education\, Iran\, and Professor of Economics at UCLA. He is a fellow of the British Academy\, Econometric Society\, Journal of Econometrics\, and the International Association for Applied Econometrics. He has Honorary Doctorates from Universities of Salford\, Goethe\, Maastricht and Prague. He has over 200 publications in the areas of econometrics\, empirical finance\, macroeconomics\, and the Iranian economy. His most recent book\, Time Series and Panel Data Econometrics was published in 2015.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-hashem-pesaran-2/
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:20190119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190119T210000
DTSTAMP:20181206T190455Z
CREATED:20181206T190455Z
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SUMMARY:Living Diaspora Concert
DESCRIPTION:Event Flyer\n\nLiving Diaspora Concert\n\nArtistic Director Greg Hosharian. \nFeaturing: Tinie T\, Mihran Kirakosian\, Jacob Armen\, R-Mean\, Ayline Amirayan\, Alene Aroustamian\, Jon Vato\, and Hovig  Demirjian. \nRoyce Hall | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Ticketed Event \n  \n\n\nTo reserve your tickets please visit:\n\nTicketmaster\nRoyce Hall
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/living-diaspora-concert/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190119T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190119T210000
DTSTAMP:20181206T183016Z
CREATED:20181206T182815Z
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SUMMARY:Living Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:Event Flyer\nIt is our esteemed pleasure to invite you in joining Melkonian Global Overture\, to celebrate 50 Years of Narekatsi Armenian Studies Chair at UCLA. \nOn January 19\, 2019\,  MGO will host Living Diaspora\, a day of events at UCLA to support the Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies and other important language studies programs around the globe. UCLA has an important educational place in our community and the Narekatsi Chair has been contributing to the scholarly exchange in Armenian studies and to the Armenian community for the past half century. UCLA is the only university on the continent conducting research\, experimentation\, and applied programs aimed at the continued vitality of Western Armenian\, which was pronounced an endangered language by UNESCO based precisely on a report prepared by UCLA’s Western Armenian faculty. Today\, the program is threatened by class closures of Eastern Armenian due to the lack of public funding\, while Western Armenian offers only partial coverage.. \nOur event looks to ensure that both branches of modern Armenian are taught in a full three-year program\, so that we may guarantee the continuity of Armenian language usage in the everyday life of Armenians. It is our hope that we develop a new generation of local-born readers and creators in the language in order to prevent its stagnation. In that spirit\, we are also supporting Armenian language studies at other institutions such Padus Araxes Cultural Association which offers Summer Intensive Courses of Armenian language and culture in Venice Italy\, and Zarmanazan by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation\, an innovative Summer Camp offering a Armenian Language immersion experience in a creative and playful world in the Alps of France. \n\n  \nEvent details:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShort Documentary Film Contest\n\nPanel of judges: Vahe Berberian\, Albert Kodagolian\, Sev Ohanian\, Natalie Qasabian\, Peter Cowe\, & Nazeli Kodjoian. \nMelintz Hall | 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Free Admission \n\n\nDiscussion Panel\n\nFeaturing UCLA Faculty\, Students\, & Dr. Razmik Panossian\, Director at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. \nMelintz Hall | 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | Free Admission \n\n\nLiving Diaspora Concert\n\nArtistic Director Greg Hosharian. \nFeaturing: Tinie T\, Mihran Kirakosian\, Jacob Armen\, R-Mean\, Ayline Amirayan\, Alene Aroustamian\, Jon Vato\, and Hovig  Demirjian. \nRoyce Hall | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Ticketed Event \n  \n\n\nTo reserve your tickets please visit:\n\nTicketmaster\nRoyce Hall\n\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/living-diaspora/
LOCATION:Melintz Hall\, Royce Hall 314
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T133000
DTSTAMP:20190104T193547Z
CREATED:20190104T192646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T193547Z
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SUMMARY:DemonBase: The Imaginal Realm of Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Beings
DESCRIPTION:This presentation provides an overview of the Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: Second Millennium BCE\, centered at Swansea University\, Wales. In both the modern and ancient world\, intangible entities embody and are blamed for a host of physical and psychological afflictions\, as well as being called upon to aid the sufferer. These mythical beings are known in many cultures by many names such as: gremlins\, imps\, faeries\, ghosts\, daemons\, genies\, Mischwesen\, monsters\, small gods\, angels\, superheroes and invisibilia. Although the Ancient Egyptians themselves had no specific all‐encompassing generic label for this category of beings\, as individuals and groups they were described in texts and imagery. For the ordinary person\, these beings played vital roles as mechanisms for coping with and manifesting abstract stress\, afflictions\, and fears. They come in an incredible range of imaginative forms\, made up of bits and pieces of humans\, animals and even objects. This presentation introduces the DemonBase\, a relational database of liminal entities represented on a range of artifacts. The initial dataset was limited to coffins\, wands\, headrests\, and a selection of complete manuscripts (usually papyrus). The approach combines archaeological\, iconographic\, and philological analysis. To date\, the analysis includes 200 objects which resulted in the discovery of over 4500 distinct imaginal beings. The database treats them in the same detail as the artifact on which they appear\, with full context included for the scholar. In this presentation we will also explore these beings in the broader context of cognition: the embodiment and expression of inexpressible concepts through these icons\, memes and archetypes. The aim is to work out the motivation underlying the choice of particular attributes over others and seeing which emotive characteristics still resonate today. \n  \nKasia Szpakowska is Associate Professor of Egyptology at Swansea University\, Wales. Her research focuses on Ancient Egyptian private religious practices\, dreams\, gender and the archaeology of magic. She is an avid proponent of interdisciplinary research and digital humanities\, and collaborates with engineers\, artists\, glaciologists and computer scientists. Kasia is currently focusing on images of ancient Egyptian supernatural beings as mechanisms for coping with stresses\, anxieties\, trauma and health afflictions. Of particular interest is the motivation underlying the choice of attributes (animal\, facial\, gesture) and of archetypes. Discovering which emotive characteristics still resonate today furthers our understanding of our own modern responses\, as well as those of the past. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa (1987)\, is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London)\, Patron of the Friends of the Egypt Centre\, and Vice President of the Friends of the Petrie Museum of Archaeology. Her publications include Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: Reconstructing Lahun and Behind Closed Eyes: Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt. TV work includes National Geographic’s The Egyptian Job and Discovery Kids’ Tutenstein.gy \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”103″ title=”false” description=”true”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/demonbase-the-imaginal-realm-of-ancient-egyptian-supernatural-beings/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Egyptology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T180000
DTSTAMP:20190111T184107Z
CREATED:20190111T180452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T184107Z
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SUMMARY:Prestige among the Baloch: "Monopolization" of Historical Events in Inter-Tribal Relations in Sarhadd (Iranian Balochistan)
DESCRIPTION:The Sarhadd region is unique in Iranian Balochistan because of the “tribal” Baloches’ still functioning but gradually fading traditional social structures and relations. Prestige\, authority\, and honor have always been essential to Balochi “tribal” identity\, particularly in Sarhadd where the “tribes” position themselves as the “true” heirs and guarantors of Balochi culture and traditions. Alongside the mayar – the behavioral code of honor\, certain “implements” exist for constructing and maintaining inter-tribal relations. This presentation examines one such “implement\,” monopolization of historical events\, which\, though firmly rooted in the past\, provides unlimited food for historical imagination. The presentation is based on data and observations obtained during ethnographic fieldwork over the last few years in Balochistan\, most recently in March-May\, 2018. \n  \nDr. Vahe S. Boyajian received his doctorate from the Department of Iranian Studies\, Yerevan State University\, Armenia\, in 2001 in the field of Iranian Comparative Linguistics and spent the next academic year on a post-doc at the Department of Anthropology\, Boston University. Since 2010 he has embarked on a second Ph.D. in the Department of Social Anthropology\, University of Saint Andrews\, Scotland\, Contemporaneously\, he is a Research Fellow in the Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies\, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Yerevan\, where he is working on a monograph entitled “Everyday Muslim life in Sarhadd” for publication in 2020. His research interests include Balochi language\, history and culture and the anthropology of Iran and Afghanistan. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”105″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/prestige-among-the-baloch-monopolization-of-historical-events-in-inter-tribal-relations-in-sarhadd-iranian-balochistan/
LOCATION:Kaplan 348
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T160000
DTSTAMP:20190104T164555Z
CREATED:20181201T002859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T164555Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Reza Bavafa
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series.  Dr. Reza Bavafa will present his research in Bunche Hall 10383 on January 14\, 2019 at 2:00pm.  This lecture will be in English.  Please see the attached flyer for details. \n  \n\nBack to the Future\nThe Return of U.S. Economic Sanctions and Iran’s Response\n  \nPresident Trump’s unilateral scrapping of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal\, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)\, opens a new chapter in the adversarial relationship between Iran and the United States. The reinstatement of economic sanctions is a major setback to President Rouhani’s reformist policies\, which aimed at taming high inflation and reducing unemployment while opening up the economy to muchneeded foreign investment. It also emboldens the hardliners who use the sanctions as both a reaffirmation of their mistrust in the U.S. and a justification for reclaiming some of their lost political and economic influence. The economic hardship that accompanies such sanctions\, meanwhile\, is borne by ordinary Iranians who have suffered repeatedly from such crises. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nReza Bavafa is an adjunct professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California\, where he teaches courses in Economics and Business Strategy. He has twenty-five years of executive management experience with AT&T and IBM\, where he led strategic outsourcing accounts that spanned multiple industries\, including telecommunications\, health\, aerospace and entertainment; and Fortune 500 clients\, including Boeing\, Nissan and The Walt Disney Company. Dr. Bavafa has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California\, Riverside.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-reza-bavafa-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:20190113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190113T180000
DTSTAMP:20190104T163402Z
CREATED:20181201T001937Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Reza Bavafa
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series.  Dr. Reza Bavafa will present his research in Dodd Hall 121 on January 13\, 2019 at 4:00pm.  This lecture will be in Persian.  Please see the attached flyer for details.  Self-pay parking Lot 2 is recommended. \n  \nبرگشت به آینده: بازگشت تحریم های اقتصادی آمریکا علیه ایران و عکس العمل ایران\n  \nBack to the Future\nThe Return of U.S. Economic Sanctions and Iran’s Response\n  \nPresident Trump’s unilateral scrapping of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal\, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)\, opens a new chapter in the adversarial relationship between Iran and the United States. The reinstatement of economic sanctions is a major setback to President Rouhani’s reformist policies\, which aimed at taming high inflation and reducing unemployment while opening up the economy to muchneeded foreign investment. It also emboldens the hardliners who use the sanctions as both a reaffirmation of their mistrust in the U.S. and a justification for reclaiming some of their lost political and economic influence. The economic hardship that accompanies such sanctions\, meanwhile\, is borne by ordinary Iranians who have suffered repeatedly from such crises. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nReza Bavafa is an adjunct professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California\, where he teaches courses in Economics and Business Strategy. He has twenty-five years of executive management experience with AT&T and IBM\, where he led strategic outsourcing accounts that spanned multiple industries\, including telecommunications\, health\, aerospace and entertainment; and Fortune 500 clients\, including Boeing\, Nissan and The Walt Disney Company. Dr. Bavafa has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California\, Riverside.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bilingual-lecture-series-with-dr-reza-bavafa/
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:20190109T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190109T190000
DTSTAMP:20181220T185430Z
CREATED:20181220T162754Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Matthew Canepa
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World for the continuation of the 2018-2019 Lecture Series.  This first talk of Winter Quarter 2019 will feature the research of Dr. Matthew Canepa\, Professor of Art History and Archaeology at the University of California\, Irvine.  Dr. Canepa is also a 2018-2019 Getty Scholar. \nTransmillenial Ecologies of Iranian Religion and Identity\nThis lecture explores continuities and changes in the formation of religious sites\, structures\, and practices in Persia and the wider ancient Iranian world. By ‘ecology’ this lecture focuses both on religion in the natural environment and\, in a more metaphorical sense\, the relationship of religious activities and sites to their physical surroundings across millennia. It considers the lingering impact and transformation of Persian heritage as well as Pārsa’s deeper Elamite history by briefly surveying problems in defining Iranian sacred architecture\, and then focusing on the introduction of new types of religious architecture and simultaneous persistence of open-air sanctuaries and ritual activities at natural phenomena. This lecture\, and the book from which it draws\, investigates how traditions of Iranian identity and kingship developed. It emphasizes that\, instead of naturally replicating traditions\, most continuities in Persian kingship resulted from the active efforts and choices of sovereigns to curate or even fabricate them in response to contemporary struggles to gain legitimacy and dominance. \nAbout the Speaker\nMatthew P. Canepa (PhD\, University of Chicago) is Professor of Art History and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran at University of California\, Irvine. His research focuses on the intersection of art\, ritual\, and power in the eastern Mediterranean\, Persia\, and the wider Iranian world. Professor Canepa’s most recent book is entitled The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Landscape\, Architecture\, and the Built Environment (550 BCE – 642 CE) (University of California Press\, 2018). It is a large-scale study of the transformation of Iranian cosmologies\, landscapes\, and architecture from the height of the Achaemenids to the coming of Islam. \n \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-matthew-canepa/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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