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2015: Discourse on the Armenian Condition
10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United StatesA lecture by Seta B. Dadoyan (Independent scholar) Thursday, November 10, 2016 4:00 PM 10383 Bunche Hall UCLA The talk, based on her recently published bilingual volume The Armenian Condition in Hindsight and Foresight: A Discourse, (Ontario: 2015) will focus on the basic arguments in support of the “peculiarities”, which define the Armenian condition and through...
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The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPresented by Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor of History at UC Davis What might it mean to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together, not as a problem, but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement? Traversing literatures minor and major, Omnia El Shakry shows how postwar thinkers in Egypt translated and blended psychoanalytic theories with...
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New Methods in the Study of the Qur’an
11348 Charles E. Young Research LibraryThe date and provenance of the Qur’an, as with all the literary sources for early Islamic history, have been the subject of scholarly disagreement for decades. So have the questions of whether the Qur’an had one author or multiple authors, and whether the suras are random mishmashes of verses from different periods or somewhat coherent...
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New Light on the Egyptian Origin of the Hebrew Alphabet
Young Research Library (YRL) Room 11360 280 Charles E Young Dr N , Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe publication of a new inscription from Theban Tomb 99 sheds new light on the early history of the Hebrew Alphabet. This ostracon is a bilingual “abecedary” written in Egyptian Hieroglyphic and Semitic. It gives further evidence for an Egyptian connection to the origins of the early Hebrew alphabet. Sponsored by the UCLA Near Eastern...
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Two Book Talks by Ghobad Fakhimi and Fredun Hojabri
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTwo Book Talks in Persian Ghobad Fakhimi received his BS as a petroleum engineer in 1956. He later attended the Abadan Institute of Technology and Columbia University, where he studied advanced chemical engineering. He then worked for NIOC, first as a plant operator, retiring as a member of the Board of Directors. Upon retirement, Fakhimi founded Independent International Consultants (IIC) through...
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Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites in the ‘Land of Palistin’: Recent Discoveries at Tayinat on the Orontes
Faculty CenterRecent archaeological discoveries have begun to challenge the prevailing view of the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200-900 BCE) as an era of cultural devolution and ethnic strife, or a ‘Dark Age’, in the eastern Mediterranean, as depicted in the Homeric epics and the Hebrew Bible. This illustrated talk will highlight the exciting discoveries of the...
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Divine Priestesses: The Ptolemaic Queens in the Egyptian and Hellenistic Cults
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Ptolemaic kings and queens were not only venerated as synnaoi theoi (‘temple-sharing gods’) in the Egyptian temples and received various cults of their own (including the Hellenistic and Egyptian ruler cults), but they also served as priests and priestesses themselves. In the ancient Egyptian understanding, the king was per definitionem the high priest. This...
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Modelling Long-Distance Interaction in the Middle Bronze Age
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Old Assyrian trade network c. 1895-1865 BCE is by far the best documented example of how a long-distance commercial circuit was organized and run in the ancient world. But the Assyrian records show that the circuit to which they relate was not isolated. It formed part of a chain of comparable units and was...
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To Refer or Not to Refer: Tracking Intertextuality in the Hebrew Bible
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesProfessor Machinist will develop aspects of intertextuality through several examples involving well-known biblical texts, including Psalm 29—a famous “Canaanite” hymn in the Psalter. This seminar will be held in conjunction with Professor Schniedewind’s Ugaritic seminar. Graduate students are encouraged to read Psalm 29 and Y. Avishur’s chapter on “Psalm 29” in Studies in Hebrew and...
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The Politics of Inequality in Israel: New Insights from the Social Justice Protest of 2011
6275 Bunche HallABOUT THE TALK In Israel in the summer of 2011 at least one in five adult citizens participated in a wave of street protests, critiquing rising inequality and demanding increased government intervention. This represented an exceptional departure from normal welfare state politics in Israel, which lies outside the left/right division and is dominated by parties...