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SUMMARY:Egyptology in Nazi Germany: Ideology\, Scholarship\, Careers
DESCRIPTION:The history of Egyptology in the Third Reich has long been tabooed and never been the subject of academic analysis. Based on extensive archival research in Germany\, this lecture will provide an overview of the discipline under National Socialism. It will look at the careers of individual scholars\, from the emigrants and those persecuted to scholars who served in the SA\, SS and Waffen-SS\, and who themselves as “political leaders” for the new regime. Attempts to align Egyptology\, a discipline studying a “non-Aryan” civilization\, with Nazi ideas occurred early on; in addition\, the German Archaeological Institute in Egypt played an important role in Nazi propaganda in the Middle East. The discipline’s history in Nazi Germany was also of decisive significance for the post-war development of Egyptology in the United States. More fundamentally\, the history of academe since the Weimar Republic is an example of the diverse dispositions of scholarship to political pressure and the fragility of tenets of academic integrity. \nThomas Schneider is Professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver. He studied at Zurich\, Basel\, and Paris\, earning a Master’s degree (Lizentiat)\, a doctorate\, and a habilitation in Egyptology at the University of Basel. He has published widely in his main areas of research: Egyptian interconnections with the Levant and the Near East (including Egypt and the Bible)\, Egyptian history and chronology\, Egyptian historical phonology\, and the history of Egyptology in Nazi Germany. He is founding editor of the Journal of Egyptian History\, as well as editor of Near Eastern Archaeology for the American Schools of Oriental Research. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”72″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/egyptology-nazi-germany-ideology-scholarship-careers/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T180000
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CREATED:20171120T225330Z
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SUMMARY:Between Graven Images and Zoroastrian Texts: How to Study Ancient Iranian Religious Iconography?
DESCRIPTION:Michael Shenkar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) \nThe study of the Iranian religious iconography has been traditionally bound to the Zoroastrian texts. Deities\, animals and symbols have all been usually interpreted based on the descriptions found in the Avesta and in the Middle Persian literature. \nHowever\, to treat these problematic texts as a source of Iranian imagery comparable with the Bible for the Byzantine art or with the Buddhist sacred texts for the Buddhist art\, is certainly misleading. The potential and the relevance of the Zoroastrian texts even for the interpretation of the Sasanian religious iconography is quite limited\, and we should be careful applying their contents to the artistic traditions of other Iranians in different historical periods. Instead\, priority should be given to the iconographic analysis in context of Mesopotamian\, Hellenistic and Indian religious imagery. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The UCLA Asia Pacific Center. \nTo register for this event\, please click here. Seating is limited. \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/graven-images-zoroastrian-texts-study-ancient-iranian-religious-iconography/
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:20180211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180211T180000
DTSTAMP:20180205T201443Z
CREATED:20171211T210938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180205T201443Z
UID:9056-1518364800-1518372000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Why and How Iranian Identity has become so Politicized? (Lecture in Persian)
DESCRIPTION:Mehrzad Boroujerdi (Syracuse) \nIn this presentation\, Mehrzad Boroujerdi\, Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University and Visiting Scholar at UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies\, will address such issues as the central tenants of Iranian identity\, attempts to refine it\, and the current challenges and controversies regarding this contested notion. \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-identity-become-politicized-lecture-persian/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180207T160000
DTSTAMP:20180103T214228Z
CREATED:20180103T214228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180103T214228Z
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SUMMARY:Freed from Hostageship: Iranian Perspectives on the Arsacids of Rome
DESCRIPTION:Jake Nabel (Getty Research Institute) \nOver the course of the Julio-Claudian period in Rome (c.30 BCE-68 CE)\, several Arsacid princes from the ruling family of the Parthian empire were sent to live in the court of the Roman emperor. Ancient Greco-Roman sources describe these figures as “hostages\,” and modern scholars have largely followed suit. While contemporary Parthian evidence is scarce\, this talk will draw on later Iranian sources and broader histories of the ancient Near East to consider the Arsacids of Rome from a new perspectives – namely\, as foster-children rather than hostages. This reinterpretation supports a different view of Roman-Parthian relations in the first century CE\, one that departs from the scholarly literature’s usual focus on war and diplomacy between unitary empires and emphasizes instead the interconnection of two royal families through the bonds of fictive kinship. \nEvent Flyer\nTo register for this event\, please click here. Seating is limited.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/freed-hostageship-iranian-perspectives-arsacids-rome/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T180000
DTSTAMP:20180131T003207Z
CREATED:20180131T003207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T003207Z
UID:9270-1517848200-1517853600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Rare Manuscripts of the Moroccan Royal Library: An Introduction and Overview
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will describe some of the rare holdings of al-Khizāna al-Ḥassania\, discuss issues related to Maghribi paleography\, codicology\, and art\, imagery\, and the symbolism and significance of color used in selected manuscripts. The lecture will also offer advice for potential researchers and suggest fruitful avenues for research in manuscripts at the Ḥassania Library. \n  \nDr. Khalid Zahri is Assistant Director\, Curator\, and researcher for the manuscript collection of the Hassania Royal Library in Morocco. He travels widely to share his expertise in manuscript preservation and publication of glosses and commentaries. He has presented lectures and facilitated workshops across the Arab world\, Southeast Asia\, and Western Europe. He is an established expert in Muslim theology (kalām)\, Sufism\, and the methodology of Islamic law (uṣūl al-fiqh). \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”70″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/rare-manuscripts-moroccan-royal-library-introduction-overview/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180203T180000
DTSTAMP:20180130T164301Z
CREATED:20171129T221943Z
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UID:9020-1517673600-1517680800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:In Search of Modern Iran (Lecture in Persian)
DESCRIPTION:Abbas Amanat (Yale) \nIn this book talk given in Persian\, Abbas Amanat discusses the challenges and rewards of writing about a half millennium of history in his recently published book: Iran: A Modern History  (Yale University Press\, 2017). \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/in-search-of-modern-iran-lecture-in-persian/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T180000
DTSTAMP:20180130T163938Z
CREATED:20171129T221038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180130T163938Z
UID:9014-1517414400-1517421600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:In Search of Modern Iran
DESCRIPTION:Abbas Amanat (Yale) \nIn this book talk\, Abbas Amanat discusses the challenges and rewards of writing about a half millennium of history in his recently published book: Iran: A Modern History  (Yale University Press\, 2017). \nEvent Flyer\nRegistration\nPlease complete this form to register for the event. Seating is limited.  \n[gravityform id=”66″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/search-modern-iran/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180110T180000
DTSTAMP:20180111T213814Z
CREATED:20171121T234112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180111T213814Z
UID:8984-1515600000-1515607200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Great King / King of Kings. Survival and Transformation of a Persian Title in the Hellenistic Period\, c. 330–30 BCE: From the Achaemenids to the Parthians
DESCRIPTION:Rolf Strootman (Utrecht University) \nThe Old Persian imperial titles Great King and King of Kings (xšāyaθiya vazạrka and xšāyaθiya xšāyaθiyānām) disappeared after the Macedonian conquest of the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BCE. But already before the Parthians reestablished Iranian kingship in Iran\, the title Great King had returned in a Greek version: basileus megas. That title was adopted around 205 BCE by the Seleukid emperor Antiochos III (‘the Great’) and by several of his successors. When later the Parthian rulers Mithradates I and Mithradates II assumed pretensions to the titles of Great King and King of Kings respectively\, they too used Greek renderings of these titles\, until finally the Sasanians introduced the Middle Persian title of šāhān šāh (King of Kings). \nWhat did these tiles signify? Did their meaning change in the course of time? And how were they transmitted across their c. 125-year period of absence? \nEvent Flyer\n  \nTo register for this event\, please click here. Seating is limited.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/great-king-king-kings-survival-transformation-persian-title-hellenistic-period-c-330-30-bce-achaemenids-parthians/
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:20171208T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171208T170000
DTSTAMP:20171102T164453Z
CREATED:20171026T175222Z
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UID:8827-1512745200-1512752400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for our First Annual Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Holiday Party! Come meet faculty\, graduate\, and undergraduate students within the program. Refreshments will be provided. \nEvent Flyer\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”61″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/2017-holiday-party/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171205T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171205T130000
DTSTAMP:20171121T190102Z
CREATED:20171026T190250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171121T190102Z
UID:8824-1512478800-1512478800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:From Pastoral Nomads to Policemen: Ethnicity and Identity of the Medjay in Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kate Liszka will provide a lecture on the introduction of the diverse textual\, artistic\, and archaeological sources that help us identify how Medjay evolved from an ethnic group to Egypt’s most important police force. Come learn more about the Medjay people. Lunch will be provided. \n  \nKate Liszka completed her degree in Egyptology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. In her dissertation\, she studied the evolution of the Medjay from the Old Kingdom—when they were a Nubian ethnic group of itinerant laborers—to the beginning of the New Kingdom—when they became an elite military group who protected places of pharaonic interest\, like the borders of Egypt against the Nubians. Kate Liszka went on to become a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. Currently\, she is proud to be the Benson and Pamela Harer Chair and Assistant Professor of History at California State University\, San Bernardino. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”60″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pastoral-nomads-policemen-ethnicity-identity-medjay-ancient-egypt/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Egyptology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T180000
DTSTAMP:20171117T180755Z
CREATED:20171012T165527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171117T180755Z
UID:8693-1511971200-1511978400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Achaemenid King and his Governors: Identity - Imitation - Identification
DESCRIPTION:Maria Brosius (University of Toronto) \nWhile we may have a rather clear idea about the relationship between the Achaemenid king and his satraps\, the relationship between the king and local governors and city-rulers has received less scholarly attention. An exception to this omission is Mausolus of Caria who seems to stand out because Greek sources refer to him both as a king and a satrap. Is his position within the Persian governmental structure indeed exceptional\, and perhaps a sign of the increasing autonomy of local rulers of the fourth century BCE\, as has been suggested\, or is he a typical representative for the local dynasts of the Persian empire? This lecture aims to investigate the relationship between the Achaemenid king and local rulers\, and considers images of royalty and imperial power\, as well as recent archaeological finds to inquire to what extent these rulers identified themselves with the Persian court or saw themselves as (semi-) independent political leaders. \nEvent Flyer\n  \nPlease note that this event will now be held in 306 Royce Hall. To register for this event\, please click here. Seating is limited.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/achaemenid-king-governors-identity-imitation-identification/
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:20171120T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171120T173000
DTSTAMP:20171120T192315Z
CREATED:20171120T191614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171120T192315Z
UID:8957-1511193600-1511199000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Many Roads to Oxiana: Safavid and Mughal Poetry on Central Asian Campaigns
DESCRIPTION:Sunil Sharma (Boston University) \n\nCentral Asia under the Uzbeks was viewed with ambivalence by their Persianate neighbors\, the Safavids and Mughals. On the one hand\, it was cherished as the cradle of Persian literature and the Timurid homeland\, but at the same time its rulers were also frequently at war with them. Literary representations of military conflicts between the three polities were often characterized by the deployment of the mythical Turan-Iran binary and recast in the manner of later epics modeled on Firdawsi’s Shahnama. But there was also a newness to this poetry in keeping with the popular ‘fresh style’ of the period. This paper will study the tension between traditional modes of representation and the poetics of the early modern period in the context of a close reading of some poems\, such as on the Battle of Marv (1510) by the Safavid poet Qasimi and on the Balkh campaigns of the seventeenth century by the Mughal poets Kalim and Alavi. \nNOTE: This lecture was rescheduled from spring 2017. \n \nThis event is cosponsored by the Program of Iranian Studies and presented in collaboration with the Center for Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/many-roads-oxiana-safavid-mughal-poetry-central-asian-campaigns/
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:20171120T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171120T160000
DTSTAMP:20171009T181233Z
CREATED:20170830T184531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T181233Z
UID:8059-1511186400-1511193600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Computers and Challenges of Writing in Persian
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in English by Behrooz Parhami (UCSB). November 20\, 2017.  \nThe Persian script has presented some difficulties\, ever since printing presses were introduced in Iran in the 1600s. The appearance of typewriters created additional problems and the introduction of digital computers added to the design challenges. These difficulties persisted\, until high-resolution dot-matrix printing offered greater flexibility to font designers and the expansion of the computer market in the Middle East attracted investments on improving the Persian script for computers. Nevertheless\, certain peculiarities of the Persian script have led to legibility and aesthetic issues to persist in many cases. In this talk\, I will enumerate some of the features of the modern Persian script that made it a poor match to implementation on modern technologies and review the challenges presented by\, and some of the solutions proposed for\, each new generation of computer printers. Interestingly\, the same features that make legible and pleasant printing and displaying difficult also lead to challenges in automatic text recognition. I will conclude with an overview of current state of the art and areas that still need further work. \nThis event is made possible with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies and the generous support of The Farhang Foundation and in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/fifty-years-poor-penmanship-computers-struggled-learn-persian-script-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,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:20171119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171119T180000
DTSTAMP:20171009T181255Z
CREATED:20170830T183956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T181255Z
UID:8055-1511107200-1511114400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Computers and Challenges of Writing in Persian
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in Persian by Behrooz Parhami (UCSB). November 19\, 2017. \nThe Persian script has presented some difficulties\, ever since printing presses were introduced in Iran in the 1600s. The appearance of typewriters created additional problems and the introduction of digital computers added to the design challenges. These difficulties persisted\, until high-resolution dot-matrix printing offered greater flexibility to font designers and the expansion of the computer market in the Middle East attracted investments on improving the Persian script for computers. Nevertheless\, certain peculiarities of the Persian script have led to legibility and aesthetic issues to persist in many cases. In this talk\, I will enumerate some of the features of the modern Persian script that made it a poor match to implementation on modern technologies and review the challenges presented by\, and some of the solutions proposed for\, each new generation of computer printers. Interestingly\, the same features that make legible and pleasant printing and displaying difficult also lead to challenges in automatic text recognition. I will conclude with an overview of current state of the art and areas that still need further work. \nThis event is made possible with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies and the generous support of The Farhang Foundation and in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/fifty-years-poor-penmanship-computers-struggled-learn-persian-script/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,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:20171108T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T180000
DTSTAMP:20171019T233114Z
CREATED:20171005T211922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171019T233114Z
UID:8508-1510156800-1510164000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The King of Kings’ Empire as a Garden in Ancient Iran
DESCRIPTION:Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine) \nThis lecture explores the idea of the Sasanian Empire (Iranshahr) as a garden. The theme of the Persian Empire as a paradise has been explored by a number of scholars\, but the continuation of this idea in Late Antiquity is neglected. The speaker will discuss how the Sasanian king of kings acted as a gardener who not only protected his subjects from invaders and malicious forces\, but also weeded out those who brought havoc to the internal order of the empire established by Ohrmazd. \nEvent Flyer\n  \nTo register for this event\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/king-kings-empire-garden-ancient-iran/
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:20171106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171106T150000
DTSTAMP:20171102T002815Z
CREATED:20171102T002532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171102T002815Z
UID:8893-1509969600-1509980400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Student Conference Talks and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:Come and hear what the graduate students in NELC are working on! Graduate students presenting their research at academic conferences in the next month will be giving their talks for the NELC community\, and would love feedback and questions! \nSpeakers (in order):\n\nAndrew Danielson \nDanielle Candelora\nJacob Damm\nJeremy Williams\nTimothy Hogue\nMarissa Stevens\n\nEvent Flyer\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”62″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/graduate-student-conference-talks-and-qa/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Egyptology,Hebrew Bible,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171027T133000
DTSTAMP:20171004T215934Z
CREATED:20171004T215515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171004T215934Z
UID:8486-1509105600-1509111000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:ImaginePhD: Exploring Humanist Career Paths
DESCRIPTION:Learn about career paths for humanities PhDs and identify a few starting points and resources related to your individual interests\, skills and values so that you can start consider possibilities and build a plan for your own professional development and career goals with the ImaginePHD career planning and exploration tool. \n\nPlease bring a laptop to this session.\n\nAnnie Maxfield is the Associate Director for Graduate Student Professional Development at UCLA’s Career Center and the Design & Development Lead for ImaginePhD. She has been helping graduate students find and pursue their career of choice for 8+ years. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nPlease RSVP for Event Below:\n[gravityform id=”49″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/imaginephd-exploring-humanist-career-paths/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171020T130000
DTSTAMP:20171026T164823Z
CREATED:20171004T214128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171026T164823Z
UID:8473-1508497200-1508504400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Searching for Scribal Curriculum in Ancient Israel
DESCRIPTION:Professor William Schniedewind will present the outlines of his research in progress—a book on Scribal Education in Ancient Israel. The research proposes that outlines of scribal curriculum in early Israel can now be reconstructed based on his interpretation of the recently fully published inscriptions from Kuntillet Ajrud and using parallels with Mesopotamian scribal curriculum and its adaptations into other Levantine scribal settings. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”48″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]\n  \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/searching-scribal-curriculum-ancient-israel/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T180000
DTSTAMP:20171013T210701Z
CREATED:20170911T223117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171013T210701Z
UID:8172-1508342400-1508349600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:How much of a physician was Rashīd al-Dīn?
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Humboldt Foundation/Wolfgang Hemmann \nA lecture by Judith Pfeiffer (University of Bonn) \nRashīd al-Dīn Faḍl Allāh Hamadānī (d. 718/1318) is often introduced as “ṭabīb\,” or ‘physician\,’ mostly to distinguish him from authors with similar names\, notably the epistolographer Rashīd al-Dīn Waṭwāṭ (d. 578/1182). This paper discusses Rashīd al-Dīn’s scholarly persona as a physician. Starting from his epithet\, ṭabīb\, the paper explores his role as a medical practitioner\, patron\, and author of scholarly medical treatises\, arguing that Rashīd al-Dīn’s name is henceforth to be included in earnest in the history of Islamic medicine. \nJudith Pfeiffer’s research focuses on the social\, political\, and intellectual history of the Nile to Oxus region with a particular emphasis on Iran\, Central Asia\, and Anatolia during the Later Middle and Early Modern Periods of Islamic history. She has a special interest in the ways in which political and confessional boundaries were re-negotiated and re-defined during the post-Mongol period\, and has worked on Islamization processes\, historiography\, and political thought during the 13th to 17th centuries. \nHer publications include History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East (2006\, co-edited with Sholeh Quinn); Theoretical Approaches to the Transmission and Edition of Oriental Manuscripts (co-edited with Manfred Kropp\, 2007); and Politics\, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th-15th Century Tabriz (2013). \nJudith received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies/History from the University of Chicago in 2003. In the same year she joined the Faculty of Oriental Studies in Oxford as a University Lecturer and then Associate Professor\, where she taught courses on Islamic History and Culture; Arabic\, Persian\, and Ottoman Turkish historical texts and palaeography; and special options on Seljuq\, Mongol\, Mamluk\, Timurid\, Ottoman\, and Safavid history and historiography. In 2016 she was appointed Alexander von Humboldt Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Bonn\, where she currently directs the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg on 13th to 16th century Islamicate intellectual history. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia \nNOTE: This lecture was rescheduled from spring 2017.\nEvent Flyer\nRegistration\nPlease complete this form to register for the event.  \n[gravityform id=”46″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/much-physician-rashid-al-din-2/
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:20171011T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T203000
DTSTAMP:20180516T192948Z
CREATED:20171009T235857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180516T192948Z
UID:8591-1507746600-1507753800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:FBI - Information Session: Collegiate Hiring Initiative and Honors Internship Program
DESCRIPTION:  \nInformation Session: Collegiate Hiring Initiative and Honors Internship Program\nInterested in becoming an FBI Intern or looking for a full-time position? Join us to learn more about two of FBI’s collegiate programs. Deadline to apply for both is October 15th. \nWhen: Wednesday\, October 11\, 2017 \nTime: 6:30PM-8:30PM \nWhere: University of California\, Los Angeles; Kaplan Hall\, Room 365 \n  \nEvent Flyer\n\nPlease RSVP for Event\n[gravityform id=”51″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/fbi-information-session-collegiate-hiring-initiative-honors-internship-program/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171009T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171009T160000
DTSTAMP:20171009T181525Z
CREATED:20170830T182825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T181525Z
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SUMMARY:What Kind of Wine did Rudaki Fancy?
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in English by Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona). October 09\, 2017. \nOne of the earliest Persian poets\, Rudaki (859–941)\, employed the word wine within a wide semantic register in his poems. However\, his unicity is most manifest when the process of wine making is depicted within a highly allegorical poem entitled “Mother of Wine.” Through contextual\, historical\, and discursive analyses\, it is argued that this poem—written in the form of a qasideh—was composed for the purpose of being performed for an audial audience\, and thus reflected the conscious cultural discourse of the Samanids (819–999 – the first Iranian dynasty following the Arab conquest of Persia)\, who deemed themselves heirs to past\, pre-Islamic grandeur\, and sought to connect both in content and form (here the performativity of the poem) with the Sasanian empire (ca. 224–651). \nThis event is made possible with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies and the generous support of The Farhang Foundation and in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/kind-wine-rudaki-d-941-like/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg. Rm 348\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,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:20171008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171008T180000
DTSTAMP:20171009T181542Z
CREATED:20170830T181910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T181542Z
UID:8024-1507478400-1507485600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Sexuality and Cultural Change in Iranian Cinema
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in Persian by Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona). October 8\, 2017.\n \nThe history of Iranian cinema adequately reflects the construction of gender in Iran. But the expression of sexuality is a problematic notion on a number of levels. In western societies\, the preoccupation with human sexuality prompted reflection about human physiology\, gender identity\, and ethical considerations\, resulting in the perception of sex as ontologically separate from mere reproduction\, eventually facilitating sexual expression. In traditional segments of Iranian society\, sex outside of marriage for women was deemed synonymous with sin. Analyzing movies from the pre- and post-revolutionary eras\, a case is made that Iranian cinema\, albeit tributary to socio-political tribulations\, has also been a major agent for change\, and partially responsible for the reification of gender and sexuality as central points of contention among different social players in Iran. Whereas in the pre-revolutionary period\, the presentation of the feminine\, the female body\, and sexuality was linked to a greater westernization project\, and resulted in a backlash in more traditional segments of society\, in the revolutionary era\, those representations were confronted with the new Islamic codes of morality\, which all filmmakers were forced to respect. \nThis event is made possible with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies and the generous support of The Farhang Foundation and in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/sexuality-cultural-change-presentation-gender-iranian-cinema/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,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:20171004T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T180000
DTSTAMP:20171013T210702Z
CREATED:20170906T214525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171013T210702Z
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SUMMARY:Greater Glory: Darius I and Divinity in Achaemenid Royal Ideology
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Waters (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) \nThe close link between the king and the divine has deep roots in Near Eastern royal ideologies\, and the Persian kings during the Achaemenid period (c. 550-330 BCE) followed this tradition. Exactly how close was the link? Recent studies suggest a blurred line between the two especially during at least some parts of the Neo-Assyrian period. However one chooses to answer that question for the Achaemenids\, the king is to be considered a fulcrum. The glorification of the King considers his multiple roles within the Achaemenid ideological scheme\, as manifest in both textual and iconographic evidence. The Achaemenids were masters of adoption and adaptation of previous structures in the fashioning a compelling royal ideology\, one that incorporated several Persian and Iranian elements and one that also embedded some ambiguity. This presentation considers some of the ambiguity within Achaemenid royal ideology\, and its reception\, with regard to the glorification of the king and the intersection with the divine. \nEvent Flyer\n\nRegistration\nPlease complete this form to register for the event.  \n[gravityform id=”45″ title=”false” description=”false” ajax=”true”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/greater-glory-darius-divinity-achaemenid-royal-ideology/
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:20170512T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T160000
DTSTAMP:20170428T233653Z
CREATED:20170428T233559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T233653Z
UID:7296-1494590400-1494604800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Afternoon Professionalization Workshop
DESCRIPTION:During the first half of this professionalization seminar on the academic job market\, a panel will share their experiences in the recent job market\, both as applicants and as hiring committee members. A Q&A will follow. In the second half\, we will talk about strategies for writing effective application materials and will workshop some of these common materials\, such as CV’s\, cover letters\, and teaching philosophy statements. Please bring a printed copy of the materials you hope to workshop. \n  \nDr. Julia Troche received her B.A. in History from UCLA in 2008. Her Ph.D. was awarded by Brown University in 2015 with the dissertation “Origins of Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt.” From 2015-2016 she was an Instructor of History at Missouri State University\, where she taught World History to 1600 CE and courses in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern history. Currently\, she is a Lecturer of Egyptology for the Near Eastern Languages and Culture department at UCLA. \n  \nEvent Flyer \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/afternoon-professionalization-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T140000
DTSTAMP:20170222T011009Z
CREATED:20170222T003932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170222T011009Z
UID:6871-1488542400-1488549600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The unusual New Kingdom Tomb-Chapel of Isisnofret on a rocky outcropping at Northwest Saqqara
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n Dr. Nozomu Kawai specializes in history\, art and archaeology of the New Kingdom in Egypt\, with a particular emphasis on the period from the late Eighteenth Dynasty to the Nineteenth Dynasty. She has been directing Japanese archaeological excavation at Northwest Saqqara / South Abusir since 2001. Her Ph.D. thesis was on the reign of Tutankhamun (Studies in the Reign of Tutankhamun\, Department of Near Eastern Studies\, Johns Hopkins University\, 2005). She is currently working for the revision of her original dissertation for publication. \n  \nEvent Flyer: 03317-Talk-Kawai-Nozomu.pdf
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/unusual-new-kingdom-tomb-chapel-isisnofret-rocky-outcropping-northwest-saqqara/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Egyptology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T170000
DTSTAMP:20170127T201732Z
CREATED:20170127T193244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170127T201732Z
UID:6549-1487863800-1487869200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Egyptian Coffins and Sarcophagi in the San Diego Museum of Man: Some Technical Studies
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe San Diego museum of man has a collection of Saite and Ptolemaic coffins and mummies which were the subject of a technical study from 2007-2009.  Pigments\, binding media\, grounds\, wood and degradation products were characterized by x ray diffraction analyses\, x ray fluorescence spectroscopy\, polarized light microscopy\, wood anatomy\, gas chromatography mass spectrometry and Elisa\, a synopsis of the results of the study will be presented with examples of specific coffins illustrated. \nLight lunch provided. \nDavid Scott\nProfessor\nArt History\nUCLA Getty Conservation Program\nEvent Flyer \n  \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/egyptian-coffins-sarcophagi-san-diego-museum-man-technical-studies/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Egyptology,NELC
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170223
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170225
DTSTAMP:20170214T231629Z
CREATED:20161014T173119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170214T231629Z
UID:5625-1487808000-1487980799@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Annual Colloquia in Armenian Studies
DESCRIPTION:Program\nGraduate Presenters\nUndergraduate Presenters\nGraduate Planning Committee\nUndergraduate Planning Committee\nThe Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies is a forum for graduate students from various disciplines whose research bears on Armenian Studies to present scholarly papers in the humanities and social sciences\, within disciplines as wide-ranging as Anthropology\, Archaeology\, Art history\, Comparative Literature\, Gender Studies\, History\, and Political Science.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/agsc/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 314\, 340 Royce Dr b100\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T190000
DTSTAMP:20170216T021501Z
CREATED:20170216T021501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T021501Z
UID:6840-1487700000-1487703600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Opening at the Close: History and Politics in Late-10th- Century Armenia
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the spectrum of Armenian historical writing from the second half of the 10th century\, arguing for a remarkable diversity of approach and experience. \n\n\nDr. Timothy W. Greenwood received his D.Phil from the University of Oxford\, and is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His teaching interests extend across mediaeval Byzantium and the Near East (6th–11th centuries) with particular interest in the Caucasus and Sasanian Persia. His research is centered upon Armenian political\, social and cultural history across the same period\, analyzing and exploiting literary\, epigraphic and architectural sources. A translation and commentary of an eleventh-century Armenian composition\, the Tiezerakan Patmut‘iwn or Universal History by Step’anos Taronec’i\, will be published in early 2017. \n\n\nEvent Flyer: 022117– Lecture — Greenwood\, Tim
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/opening-close-history-politics-late-10th-century-armenia/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg. Rm 348
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T153000
DTSTAMP:20170214T185323Z
CREATED:20170214T185200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170214T185323Z
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SUMMARY:The Archaeological Adventure of Museo Egizio (1903-1920)
DESCRIPTION:Ernesto Schiaparelli\, director of Museo Egizio between 1894 and 1928 responded to the need for an enlarged Egyptian collection at Turin. In 1903 the Missione Archeologica Italiana (M.A.I.) was founded\, promoting 12 archaeological expeditions at 11 sites in Egypt. With the important assistance of collaborators\, Schiaparelli undertook this fieldwork to better document the history of Ancient Egypt. Significantly\, the anthropological interest in human remains of these expeditions was at that time innovative\, and gave the Museo Egizio an original multidisciplinary perspective. The rich photographic\, and documentary archive of the M.A.I.’s allows the reconstruction not only of their organisation and the discoveries they made\, but also the daily life of an expedition. Excavations ended in 1920 with the fourth archaeological campaign of the site in Gebelein\, though the last crates of artefacts arrived in Turin in 1923. The extraordinary corpus of objects found during the excavations required the opening of new rooms to visitors\, and increased and completed the documentation of historical periods already on display. From then until the present day\, Museo Egizio has been excavating at Saqqara in a collaborative project with the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. The excavation in Saqqara allows the archaeological exploration\, and study\, of one of the New Kingdom’s most important necropolis. \nChristian Greco\nCurator\, Dutch National Museum of Antiquities \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/archaeological-adventure-museo-egizio-1903-1920-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T130000
DTSTAMP:20170119T175627Z
CREATED:20170117T015424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T175627Z
UID:6449-1486724400-1486731600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:New Light on Qubbet el-Hawa
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Bommas will be giving two lectures. First lecture will be from 11:00A-11:50A. Second lecture will be from 12:15P-1:00P. \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Martin Bommas\nReader in Egyptology\nGetty Scholar 2016-2017\nCurator of the Eton Myers Collection of Egyptian Arts at the University of Birmingham\nDirector of the Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project\nEditor-in-chief of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology  \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/new-light-qubbet-el-hawa/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,NELC
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