• Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Matthew Canepa

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

    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. Mark Canepa, Professor of Art History and Archaeology at the University of California, Irvine.

  • UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Reza Bavafa

    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. 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.   برگشت به آینده: بازگشت تحریم...

  • UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Reza Bavafa

    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. 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.   Back to the Future The Return of U.S. Economic Sanctions and...

  • Prestige among the Baloch: “Monopolization” of Historical Events in Inter-Tribal Relations in Sarhadd (Iranian Balochistan)

    Kaplan 348

    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...

  • DemonBase: The Imaginal Realm of Ancient Egyptian Supernatural Beings

    Kaplan Hall 365

    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...

  • Living Diaspora

    Melintz Hall, Royce Hall 314

    Event Flyer It is our esteemed pleasure to invite you in joining Melkonian Global Overture, to celebrate 50 Years of Narekatsi Armenian Studies Chair at UCLA. On 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...

  • Living Diaspora Concert

    Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Event Flyer Living Diaspora Concert Artistic Director Greg Hosharian. Featuring: Tinie T, Mihran Kirakosian, Jacob Armen, R-Mean, Ayline Amirayan, Alene Aroustamian, Jon Vato, and Hovig  Demirjian. Royce Hall | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Ticketed Event   To reserve your tickets please visit: Ticketmaster Royce Hall

  • UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Hashem Pesaran

    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. 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.   تحریم های آمریکا، انتظارات برآورده نشده و چالش های...

  • 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

    Kaplan Hall 365

    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...

  • UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Hashem Pesaran

    Kaplan Hall 365

    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.   US Sanctions: Unfulfilled Expectations and Challenges Facing the Iranian...