• Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Robert Rollinger

    Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)

    Contextualizing the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: What Does Empire Mean in the 1st Millennium BCE? Looking 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,...

  • UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Mary Hegland

    121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    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.   روزهای انقلاب:  «علی آباد» شیراز در ایران و جهان در قرن...

  • UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Mary Hegland

    10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United States

    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.   Economic and Social Transformation in Aliabad: New Trends in Work, Life...

  • Graduate Seminar in Armenian Studies: Women During and After the Velvet Revolution in Armenia

    Kaplan 311

    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...

  • Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Margaret Root

    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. Kingship for a New...

  • Tigran Mansurian 80th Anniversary Celebration

    Jan Popper Theater

    Sponsored by the Herb Alpert School of Music Co-sponsored by Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Symposium: "East and West: Search for Meeting Point" 2:00pm - 5:30pm March 6th, Jan Popper Theater FREE ADMISSION Armenia’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...

  • Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Stefan Hauser

    Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)

    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.   Charax Spasinou Research on the Capital of...

  • The faces of the Priests of Amun Exploring Egyptian ‘yellow coffins’ with 3D-modelling

    Kaplan 365

    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...