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Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series – Empire and Borderlands at Interplay: A Structural Approach (First Millennium BCE – First Millennium CE)
314 Royce HallThe 2022 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series Featuring Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck) The Achaemenid Persian World Empire The series of lectures offers a novel and fresh perspective on one of the largest and most successful empires in world history, namely, the Achaemenid Persian World Empire (sixth to fourth century BCE), the central power...
Iran Unglazed: Local, National, and Global Histories of Persian Tilework
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 11:00am Pacific Time via Zoom Registration Required This talk examines the many ways in which Persian tilework has been packaged and interpreted between the field, museum, and photograph. At stake is a balancing act between prevailing narratives of world heritage and local and national histories, as well as the reconciliation...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Fatemeh Shams
تنش شعر و قدرت در ایران ِ پس از انقلاب The Tension Between Poetry and Power in Post-Revolutionary Iran شعر و شاعران چه نقشی در پیروزی انقلاب ۵۷ و به مسند نشاندن حاکمان جمهوری اسلامی داشتند؟ چرا حاکمان جمهوری اسلامی به شعر اهمیت می‌دهند؟ شاعران حکومتی چه کسانی هستند و چگونه به عرصه شعر بعد...
Bilingual Lecture Series: اجراگری مردانگی توسط زنان هنرمند در موسیقی لاله‌زاری
اجراگری مردانگی توسط زنان هنرمند در موسیقی لاله‌زاری The Arabic-infused Iranian popular musical genre, Lalehzari (or Kucheh-Bazari), was well liked amongst Iran’s underclass in the last few decades before the 1979 Revolution. In the sixties and seventies, the taste for Lalehzari music clearly indicated a lower social class and was associated by mainstream culture with...
Bilingual Lecture Series: The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music
The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music The Arabic-infused Iranian popular musical genre, Lalehzari (or Kucheh-Bazari), was well liked amongst Iran’s underclass in the last few decades before the 1979 Revolution. In the sixties and seventies, the taste for Lalehzari music clearly indicated a lower social class and was associated by mainstream culture with...
The World of Ancient Iran and the West
314 Royce HallAn International Symposium Convened by M. Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles) and Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum) May 19–20, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall Morning Refreshments: 8:00 am Symposium Begins: 9:00 am The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the J. Paul Getty Museum are convening for a...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Nahid Pirnazar
Judeo Persian Writings an original comprehensive collection published in 2021 gives parallel examples in Judeo Persian and Perso Arabic script and their translations into English Most Judeo Persian documents not only reflect the twenty seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran, but they are also a testament to their intellectual, cultural, and socioeconomic conditions The...
Bilingual Lecture Series – Panel Discussion on the Roles of Gender & Women in the Current Protests in Iran
Panel Discussion on the Roles of Gender & Women in the Current Protests in Iran Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom Discussion in Persian Registration Required https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mtVBiDvtSyKJZFbDrkslkw
Bilingual Lecture Series: Women in Iran: Past, Present, and Future, A Double Book Talk
Women in Iran: Past, Present, and Future A Double Book Talk with Mahnaz Afkhami and Mona Tajali Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom Discussion in Persian Registration Required https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HETyPvAaTj6fx-3oJw99mQ
Iran: What Next as the Revolution Continues?
The UCLA Center for Middle East Development Presents Iran: What Next as the Revolution Continues? A conversation with expert analysts from Europe, the U.A.E., and the U.S. Monday, November 28 10:00 AM Pacific Time Zoom Webinar Registration is required to obtain access details Iran’s so called fourth revolution, led...