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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Women's Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:ادبیات داستانی معاصر زنان افغانستان در بستر تحولات اجتماعی- سیاسی \n\nWomen’s Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan\n  \nSunday\, January 28\, 2024 I 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99816401692 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on January 28 to join.) \n \nThis presentation will provide a historical overview of women’s fiction from its inception in the twentieth century to the present. Analysis of this literature will delve into the socio-cultural and political conditions that have influenced the development of women’s writing and how female fiction writers have left their mark on the history of Afghan prose writing. Because many political disruptions have affected Afghanistan’s social and cultural life\, and by extension women’s writing\, the presentation will follow an historical trajectory punctuated by meaningful examples to illustrate the distinct characteristic of the different periods. \nAbout the Speakers \nSarwerasa Rafizada\, Ph D.\, Scholar at Risk\, is a Visiting Researcher and adjunct Professor at UCLA\, the Center of Near Eastern Studies. Her research agenda is focused on contemporary Persian literature\, particularly Afghan women’s works\, gender studies\, and feminism. Some of her publications are Critical Discourse Analysis of the Image of Women in Afghan Fiction\, Representations of Women in Contemporary Literary Fiction of Afghanistan\, The Impact of Media on Gender Violence in Afghanistan\, The Role of Women Writers in Diaspora Literature or Afghan Immigration Literature\, Halliday’s Functional Grammar\, and A Model for Text Analysis and Interpretation. Her current project focuses on women’s diaspora literature. \n  \n  \n  \nNasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature and Associate Dean for Personnel at UC Irvine. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal\, Iranian Studies. Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature\, the literature of Iranian exile and diaspora\, contemporary Iranian women’s writing\, and post-revolution Iranian cinema. Among her publications are Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity (2015)\, Forugh Farrokhzad\, Poet of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry (2010 and 2023) co-edited with Dominic Parviz Brookshaw\, Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History (2001)\, the English translation of the late Taghi Modarressi’s last novel\, The Virgin of Solitude (2008)\, and Oriental Responses to the West (1990). Her current project is on contemporary Iranian women’s literature.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-womens-fiction-literature-in-the-context-of-socio-political-developments-in-afghanistan/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T160000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Neville McFerrin
DESCRIPTION:An Entangled Empire:  Dress\, Reciprocal Construction\, and the Experience of Kingship at Persepolis\nIn reliefs across Persepolis\, the Achaemenid administrative center\, depictions of mediated bodies offer insight into an imperial ideology that generates inclusion through categorical and material slippages.  The crown of the king parallels the crenellations of the architecture that surround him even as such forms double the mountainous vista beyond the site.  Rows of delegates carry dress related items to constitute their king even as their iterative forms recall both embroidered fabric borders and the unfurling impression of a cylinder seal.  This talk focuses upon such entanglements to argue that dress\, with its focus on body modification\, supplementation\, and communicative potentials\, serves as a productive lens through which to re-consider the visual program of Persepolis.  Rather than focusing upon associations between dress and regional identities\, or upon questions of garment type and construction\, it argues that the visual program of the site leverages the constitutive capacity of dress to present iterative\, entangled relationships between king and subject\, human and animal\, animate and inanimate\, presenting and complicating boundaries between these categories.  It suggests that it is through such complications that the paradox of the Achaemenid endeavor\, celebrating both the whole and its constituent parts\, is negotiated. \nAbout the Speaker  \nNeville McFerrin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of North Texas.  Her work centers upon intersections between dress\, perception\, materiality\, and embodiment on the sites of Pompeii and Persepolis.  Her published and forthcoming work explores a range of topics from reconsiderations of gender on the reliefs of the Apadana to spatial negotiations and embodied perceptions of court protocol and etiquette at Persepolis\, to the fashionability of pearls in late first century BCE Pompeii.  It has appeared in multiple journals and edited volumes\, most recently The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East\, Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks\, Romans\, Jews\, Christians\, and Fashion Studies. She is currently working on a monograph focused upon dress as a lens for reinterpreting visual and material entanglements at Persepolis. \nClick here to register for the event. 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-neville-mcferrin/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies: Alborz: We Climb Mountains Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Alborz High school was initially an American Presbyterian missionary institution in Tehran that began as a grade school in 1873\, in 1924 it became a junior college and in 1928 an accredited liberal arts college. \nAfter many upheavals and the forced departure of its founder\, Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan in 1940\, it was transformed into the Alborz High School for boys\, under the watchful eyes of Dr. Mohammad-Ali Mojtahedi\, the famed Iranian educator. The school sent its bright graduates to top universities in Iran and around the world; some institutions even waived the entrance exams to admit them. Alborz graduates are now important businessmen\, distinguished physicians\, scientists and academics in the best academic centers in Iran and abroad\, among them the acclaimed architect Hossein Amanat\, the famous physicist Firouz Partovi\, and eminent mathematicians Cumrun Vafa and Mehdi Zarghamee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Mojtahedi was not only a successful leader of this school from 1942 to the 1979 Revolution\, but a significant initiator of modern education in Iran. He turned Alborz into the highest-ranking school for boys and later helped founding the renowned Technical University of Aryamehr (later Sharif) University of Technology\, which took in Alborz graduates and top students from other schools. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlborz: We Climb Mountains (2023\, 86 mins.)\, tells the story of the school during many tumultuous years in Iran’s modern history\, from the perspectives of its graduates\, teachers\, and even Dr. Mojtahedi’s own voice from archival recordings; it tells it with humor\, fondness\, and nostalgia for a bygone era. It exemplifies what has been lost in the years since the 1979 Revolution and why today so many among the bright and promising young Iranians sound critical of current policies and administrative mishandling of one of their country’s once top educational institutions. \nAbout the Director: \n\n\n\n\nMaryam Sepehri is an award-winning\, Iranian-American documentary filmmaker. Initially earning a medical degree\, she went on to work in a lab where she quickly realized her heart was in filmmaking and so educated herself in her true vocation. After achieving a B.A. in filmmaking and an M.A. in photography she pursued documentary filmmaking\, focusing on human expression and learning. She has made several well-received documentaries\, winning a number of prestigious awards as well as having a number of short stories published. \n\n\n\n\nOther Documentaries by Maryam Sepehri: \nRain Once Again (2012) \n\nAwarded the Best Documentary Film\, Sooreh International Short Film Festival\n\nThicker than Paint (2013) \n\nAwarded the Special Cream City Cinema Jury Prize\, The 5th Milwaukee\, Film Festival WI\, USA 2013\nAwarded Achievement in Filmmaking\, Stony Brooke Film Festival NY\, USA 2015\nNominated for Best Direction (semi-feature length)\, 8th Cinéma Vérité\, the Iran International Documentary Film Festival.\n\nMouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy on/in Exile (2017) \n\nAwarded for the Best Film and Best Original Music Score\, 10th Iran Documentary Film Festival 2018\nNominated for the Best Feature Documentary and Best Editing\, Fusion Film Festivals\, London UK 2019\nNominated for The Best Film\, FIDBA Film Festival\, Buenos Aires\, Argentina 2018\n\nHer latest documentary “Alborz\, we climb mountains” is about an American Presbyterian missionary institution in Tehran.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-alborz-we-climb-mountains-film-screening/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Co-Sponsorship: Global Antiquity (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds
DESCRIPTION:A Forum for Exchanges on Ancient Studies at UCLA\n\nDecember 5–6\, 2023 | Royce Hall 306\nGlobal Antiquity is convening a workshop titled (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds. This event\, held at UCLA over two days\, December 5–6\, 2023\, will include invited speakers from the University of California and the greater Los Angeles area whose research focuses on the ancient worlds. Global Antiquity\, while supportive of more traditional approaches to ancient studies\, aims to encourage a broadminded and cross-disciplinary discourse on ancient worlds\, foregrounding the equivalency of past human experiences. The present workshop seeks to promote reflection on a more equitable treatment of antiquity by emphasizing the diversity of the ancient worlds\, the entanglement of past cultural achievements\, and the relevance of these perspectives for the present. It is our hope that this may stimulate new models and methods to engage all actors of the ancient worlds across disciplinary boundaries\, and inspire conversations on how the wholistic awareness of the past may engender a more empathic and accepting view of cultures in the present. \nThe event will feature speakers and topics covering a diverse array of ancient worlds\, from West Asia\, North Africa\, and the Mediterranean to East Asia and the Americas. Themes explored over these two days include: the interconnectivity of ancient states and communities; diversity within established areas of inquiry; reception; pedagogy; and working across disciplines. \nRe)envisioning Ancient Worlds is graciously co-sponsored by the following departments\, institutes\, centers\, and programs at UCLA: Asian Languages and Cultures\, Art History\, Classics\, the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies\, the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage\, the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, the Program in Indo-European Studies\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World\, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture. \nClick here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/co-sponsorship-global-antiquity-reenvisioning-ancient-worlds/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Humanities,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Rethinking Gender\, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran
DESCRIPTION:Rethinking Gender\, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran\nRethinking Gender\, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran: An Intersectional Approach to National Identity by Azadeh Kian examines the crucial shifts that affected Sunnite and subaltern women once Shi’ism became the state religion after the Iranian Revolution. Focusing on women in the Baluchistan and Golestan provinces of Iran\, Kian analyses and explores issues of cultural racialization\, ethno-centrism\, Shi’a centrism\, and patriarchal and chauvinistic ideologies in Iranian society propagated by the state and sustained by its policies. Based on quantitative and qualitative surveys taken throughout Iran\, comprised of over 7\,000 married women and 100 interviews with a sample of Sunnite and subaltern Persian women\, Kian reveals how social hierarchy and power relations based on gender\, class\, ethnicity and religion operate. She argues that women have been at the heart of the process of national and ethnic re-construction as women\, as potential mothers\, are expected to reproduce national and ethnic boundaries. Kian also examines the family institution as a site of power\, and argues that by analyzing family dynamics as well as women’s everyday lives\, the politics of ordinary Iranians and the relationship between state and society can be better understood. \nAbout the Speaker \nAzadeh Kian is an Iranian-French academic\, Distinguished Professor of Sociology\, Director of the Center for Gender and Feminist Studies and former Director of the Social Science department at the University Paris Cité. She obtained her Master and PhD in Sociology from UCLA. Notable works include Rethinking Gender\, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran: An Intersectional Approach to National Identity\, (2023)\, Femmes et pouvoir en islam (2019)\, L’Iran: un mouvement sans révolution? La vague verte face au pouvoir mercanto-militariste (2011)\, La République islamique d’Iran: de la maison du Guide à la raison d’Etat (2005\, translated into Greek 2006)\, Les femmes iraniennes entre islam\, Etat et famille (2002)\, Avoir vingt ans en Iran Editions Alternatives (1999)\, and Secularization of Iran\, a Doomed Failure? The New Middle Class and the Making of Modern Iran (1998). \nClick here to register and receive the Zoom information. 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-rethinking-gender-ethnicity-and-religion-in-iran/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2023
DESCRIPTION:Pourdavoud Center Fall 2023 Welcome Reception\nWednesday\, October 4\, 2023\n4:00 – 6:00 pm\nRoyce Hall 306\nRegistration Required\n  \nThe Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception. \nIn the company of our supporters\, colleagues\, academic affiliates\, students\, and esteemed guests\, we shall be introducing the Center’s stimulating programming and research agenda for the academic year 2023–24. \nLight refreshments will be served. Parking in Lot 2 or Lot 5 is recommended. \nPlease click here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-fall-reception-2023/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230521T113000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series - Being Woman: Diverse Voices of Women from Afghanistan and Iran
DESCRIPTION:زن بودن : صداهای گوناگون زنان از افغانستان و ایران\nBeing Woman: Diverse Voices of Women from Afghanistan and Iran\nRoundtable discussion in Persian \nSunday\, May 21\, 2023 at 11:30am Pacific via Zoom \nZoom Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZDUx9ZPvSvO_zhNLIzFkKg\n \nAbout the Panelists\nHaifa Asadi (Youth Generation of Arab Iranian Women) \nHaifa Asadi is an advocate for gender\, racial\, and ethnic justice. She grew up in Ahwaz\, where she witnessed the struggles of her young Arab classmates academically and emotionally dealing with systemic racism and discrimination. This was the trigger for her to start a life-long fight against injustice practiced against Arab people in Iran\, actively advocating for Arab rights and against racism. As a feminist\, she has used every opportunity to advocate for women’s rights\, especially those of the marginalized ethnicities of Iran. She has written articles\, made speeches\, and held meetings with like-minded individuals on how to tackle ethnic groups’ marginalized status and how to advocate for the more oppressed groups among these ethnicities. She has two bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and English language and literature\, as well as a master’s degree in energy systems engineering. She has worked as an engineer for many years and currently functions as a technical project manager for an international tech company. \n  \nAvatef Asadian (Arab Iranian Women) \nAvatef Asadian is an expert on civil rights in the central municipality and in the dispute resolution council court and relief court\, serving as a family counselor.  She is a passionate artist and poet\, writing in both Arabic and Persian.  Due to her political activities\, she was banned from publishing her poetry\, getting some government jobs\, and participating in cultural activities.  In 2006\, she was granted political asylum and moved to Sweden.  In December 2022\, she founded the Elami Ahvazi Women’s Voice Association with a group of Arab women. She appears in many radio and TV broadcasts and is interviewed about the human rights of ethnic and Arab women in Iran. \n  \nFariba Borhanzehi (Balouch Iranian Women) \nFariba Borhanzehi is a literature graduate from Iran and is a pharmacy graduate from Uppsala University in Sweden. She is a defender of human rights and a fighter for the equality of women. She participated in many conferences\, roundtables\, and television and radio interviews to speak about the current revolution in Iran. She believes as a Balouch woman\, she is treated like a third-class citizen in Iran. After the murder of Zhina Amini\, the massacre of the bloody Fridays of Zahedan and Khash\, the killing of Nikahas and Khodanurhas\, and the execution of Alireza Rahnavard\, she could not remain silent and decided to become a voice for change. \n  \nSoraya Fallah (Kurdish Iranian Women) \nSoraya Fallah is a lifelong women and human rights researcher\, activist\, and community mobilizer for collaborative action. She holds a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from California State University Northridge (CSUN). She is a published author of books\, peer-reviewed articles in professional journals. Her latest publication is a research-based reference book\, Learning Challenges for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Students with Disabilities\, recognized as groundbreaking research on students with disabilities that should benefit students across the world. She worked with CSUN’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) as a researcher and an educational consultant in 2Teach\, an Educational Consulting company focusing on the Middle East\, North Africa\, and Southwest Asia (MENASWA) populations. She works extensively with local and international NGOs to promote human rights throughout the world\, focusing on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) populations from the Middle East. She is one of the founding members and first ambassador of UNWomen- L.A.\, and currently is the co-president and Advocacy Chair of the United Nations Association in SFV. Soraya is recipient of the U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein Award for promoting Women’s Rights; the Women in Diplomacy Award; USA’s Global Citizen Award\, and the Iranian Women Study Foundation (IWSF) Critical Feminist Award. \n  \nElham Gheytanchi (Women’s Social Movements) \nElham Gheytanchi studied Sociology at UCLA. She has been teaching at Santa Monica College for the past 22 years. Her area of research is women’s movements in Middle East and North Africa. Her articles have been published in scholarly as well as mainstream journals. Her recent interview with PBS: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/watch-women-and-girls-are-still-protesting-in-iran-heres-why \n  \nAva Homa (Kurdish Iranian Women) \nAva Homa is the award-winning author of Daughters of Smoke and Fire.  She is also a journalist and an activist. Her writings have appeared in the Globe\, Mail\, Guardian\, BBC\, New Statesman\, LiteraryHub\, Literary Review of Canada\, and many more outlets. She holds a master’s in English and Creative Writing from the University of Windsor in Canada\, and another in English Language and Literature from Tehran\, Iran. She was born and raised in the Kurdistan province and now divides her time between Toronto and San Francisco. \n  \nHomeira Qaderi (Afghanistani Women) \nHomeira Qaderi is an Afghan writer\, activist\, advocate of women’s rights\, and educator. Qaderi was awarded the Malalai Medal\, Afghanistan’s highest civilian honor\, for exceptional bravery by the President of Afghanistan. She received her Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and was in residence at the University of Iowa in 2015. Her first book in English translation\, Dancing in the Mosque\, was excerpted by the New York Times and chosen by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best non-fiction books of 2020. She is also the author of six books\, short stories\, and a novel\, Noqra: The Daughter of Kabul River. Homeira Qaderi is currently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. \n  \nFarzaneh Sabetan (Bahai Iranian Women) \nFarzaneh Sabetan holds a master’s in organizational\, educational\, and clinical psychology. She is the founder of the psychology department at the scientific institute BIHE and has been teaching various courses for many years\, including systematology\, philosophy from letter to practice\, social psychology\, group dynamism\, and healthy personality. In addition to teaching\, she has also been engaged in counseling; her primary focus for the past several years has been family discussion. She has also spoken at conferences and seminars and participated in radio and television shows. She writes\, translates\, and produces program content for media. She translated three books and is currently a consultant and analyst of psychological issues. \n  \nSimin Sabri (Azeri-Turk Iranian Women) \nSimin Sabri is an intersectionalist feminist and a human rights activist fighting for gender equality. She is also the spokesperson of “Azerbaijan Democratic Party\,” which has a history of holding accountable the Islamic regime of Iran to human rights issues of Turks and other ethnicities in Iran. She is also an active member of The Socialist Left Party in Norway. Since being deprived of higher education in the field of medicine at Tehran University (Beheshti)\, for the past 35 years Simin lived and worked as a specialist in psychiatry in Bergen\, Norway. In 2009\, she was invited by the government of Norway to cooperate with a committee of subject matter experts with the focus of reviewing the refugee acceptance policy and its organizational work at the Department of Justice and Police. One of the highlights of her activities is in the field of children’s rights and psychology. She has led the activities of ADP team members who are working together with the goal of meeting the needs of a multi-ethnic population within Iran. She believes that the demands of women in Iran goes beyond just gender equality\, but for freedom and liberty for ethnic groups in Iran. \n  \nMarmar Stewart (Lur Iranian Women) \nBorn to a well-established and politically active family in Lorestan\, Iran\, and raised in Hamburg\, Germany\, Marmar Stewart now lives in Atlanta\, Georgia. From a young age\, she has been dedicated to human rights and social issues\, and she worked extensively with Afghan women refugees seeking political asylum in Hamburg. Her professional background is in journalism (Public Relations). She came to Atlanta\, Georgia to work for CNN\, where she served as a coordinator with Bobbie Battista on CNN’s Talk-Back Live Show. She has undertaken a variety of independent projects\, including successful charity and fundraising work for the local Kurdish\, Afghan\, and Syrian community as well as refugees. In addition\, she is determined to help improve the diagnosis and treatment of autism. Her children’s book We Are Special—three publication runs of which have sold out—addresses the issues of siblings of children coping with autism and with speech therapy for autistic children. In her current position as Entrepreneurship Coordinator with The Refugee Women’s Network in Decatur\, she works to promote the economic empowerment of refugee and recent immigrant women throughout the state of Georgia. \n  \nMelika Zarr (Iranian Queer Women) \nMalika Zarr has a bachelor’s in Applied chemistry from Iran. After immigration to Germany\, she changed her field to fight for queer community rights as a Lesbian. Melika is an Iranian LGBTQ Activist and Public Figure who is active in the Iranian political scene. She writes about her experiences as a queer person on many social media platforms\, attends online television programs for social and political analysis\, and tries to raise awareness about the LGBTQ community. Since 2019\, she has worked with the LGBTQ organization @6rangiran as their Media and Communications Manager. There she tries to demonstrate the problems of the community in Iran and to address and fight against the human rights violations of the LGBTQ community by Iranian authorities.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-being-woman-diverse-voices-of-women-from-afghanistan-and-iran/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: A Historical Perspective on Violence and Urban Unrest in Modern Iran
DESCRIPTION:خشونت و آشوبهای شهری در ایران معاصر از دید تاریخی\n\n\n\n\nA Historical Perspective on Violence and Urban Unrest in Modern Iran\n\n\n\n\nMehrdad Amanat\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, May 7\, 2023\, 4:00 PM\, Dodd Hall 121 \n\n\n\n\nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99522637738 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on May 7 to join.) \n\n\n\n\nDuring the Qajar era\, urban riots were often popular uprisings rooted in social grievances such as famines and grain hoardings. Women responsible for feeding the family were often at the forefront of bread riots. In many other cases\, riots were instigated by the powerful who used their mercenaries for dominance of the urban scene. Chivalry has a long history in Iran\, and in the pre-modern era\, lutis (ruffians) played a role in defending cities against foreign invaders. However\, during the Qajar period\, this social group underwent a decline and often became an instrument for oppression and tyranny. Provincial governors\, who mostly bought their positions from the central government for economic gain\, appointed lutis as their agents and often for extortion. As private militias at the service of rival Shi’i clerics\, the lutis fought for control of neighborhoods and mosques or harassed and looted dissidents. Landowners often settled disputes over water and property in the urban scene with the help of lutis. The main victims were the urban poor\, women and children\, non-Muslims\, and nonconformists. This presentation tries to draw the boundaries between popular riots and those manipulated by the powerful to protect their interest. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMehrdad Amanat holds a BS in Engineering (1976)\, MA in Islamic Studies (1979)\, and a PhD in History (2006) from UCLA. He is the author of Jewish Identities in Iran\, Resistance and conversion to Islam and the Baha’i Faith (I.B. Tauris 2011). He is a regular contributor to EncyclopædiaIranica\, with his latest entry being “Kashan\, History to the Pahlavi Period.” Among his articles is “Set in Stone\, Homeless Corpses and Desecrated Graves in Modern Iran\,” published in the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies\, 2012. He co-authored with Nikki Keddie “Iran under the Later Qajars\, 1848-1922” in Cambridge History of Iran\, Vol VII\, 1991; and with Roy Mottahedh\, “Medieval Kashan: Crossroad of Commerce and Culture” in Euroasian Studies\, 2018\, Reprinted in Cities of Medieval Iranian\, 2020. His forthcoming article with Anthony Lee is titled “Race and Social Mobility in Turn of the Twentieth Century Yazd: The Rise and Fall of an Afro-Iranian Landowner.” \n\n\n[gravityform id=”192″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-a-historical-perspective-on-violence-and-urban-unrest-in-modern-iran/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:George Kiraz - The Syriac American Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:The Syriac American Diaspora\n\n\n\n\nGeorge Anton Kiraz\nTuesday\, April 18\, 2023 at 3:30pm\, Kaplan 365 \n\n \nThe Syriacs began to arrive on the Eastern shores of the United States during the mid-late 1800s and began to form a “society” of some sort by the turn of the century. By the first decade of the twentieth century\, some reached California (Los Angeles\, Fresno\, and San Francisco) and mingled with the Armenians. This talk will explore their journey\, describe the sub-culture they built to retain their identity\, and how they had to fight for their identity during the mid-twentieth century when they were joined by a larger number of coreligionists who had a different identity notion of the nation and self. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\n\n\nGeorge Anton Kiraz is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton. He is the Director of Beth Mardutho and co-founder of Gorgias Press.\n\n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”190″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/george-kiraz-the-syriac-american-diaspora/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:NELC
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SUMMARY:AchWorks 1 - Identity\, Alterity\, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World
DESCRIPTION:Identity\, Alterity\, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World\nThe Inaugural Symposium of the Achaemenid Workshops Series\nApril 12–14\, 2023 | 314 Royce Hall\nWatch Livestream\nMorning refreshments and check-in begin at 8:00 am.  Panels begin at 9:00 am.\n  \nThe Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is convening an international workshop on Identity\, Alterity\, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World\, held on April 12–14\, 2023 at UCLA. The symposium will include invited speakers whose research pertain to the history\, structures\, and reception of the Achaemenid empire. The overarching themes covered by the workshop are: current trends in Achaemenid scholarship; new horizons in art and archaeology; and the notions of identity\, alterity\, and the imperial impress in Achaemenid Elam and Persis\, Anatolia\, the Caucasus\, and Egypt. \nThe present workshop introduces a new series of symposia\, dubbed Achaemenid Workshops (AchWorks)\, which\, building on the achievements of Achaemenid studies in the past decades\, strive to revisit and reassess the state of Achaemenid scholarship over the coming years. with a dozen workshops hosted at leading institutions of ancient studies around the globe. \nCoordinated by the Pourdavoud Center in conjunction with our partner institutions and AchWorks’ Organizing Board\, these workshops aspire to become an intellectual hub for Achaemenid studies\, while affording an institutional framework to foster the next generation of scholars working on the Achaemenid world. \nClick here to register.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/achworks-1-identity-alterity-and-the-imperial-impress-in-the-achaemenid-world/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230409T113000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Foreign Policy Panel
DESCRIPTION:چرخش بھ شرق: تغییرو تداوم در سیاست خارجی جمھوری اسلامی\n\n\n\n\nTurning to the East: Changes and Continuities in the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Policy\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, April 9\, 2023 I 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM via Zoom \nRegistration Required \n\n\n\n\nLooking to the East and the New World Order\n\n\n\n\nKazem Alamdari\n\n\n\n\nMain Tenants of Postrevolutionary Iran’s Foreign Policy\n\n\n\n\nMehrzad Boroujerdi\n\n\n\n\nTurning to the East in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Both a Strategy and a Tactic\n\n\n\n\nTouraj Atabaki\nAbout the Speakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKazem Alamdari received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois\, Champaign-Urbana\, his MA in Educational Administration from Illinois State University\, and his BS from the University of Tehran in Psychology. He has taught at various universities\, including UCLA\, CSULA\, and CSUN. Alamdari has published ten books and numerous articles in English and Persian\, with the most recent being Civil Society: Theories\, Contexts\, and Experiences\, 2015. Alamdari was the recipient of a fellowship from the Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) in Japan\, Kyushu University in 1997. As a public intellectual\, he is frequently featured in the media and presents lectures at national and international conferences in different parts of the world. \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n  \nMehrzad Boroujerdi is Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Arts\, Sciences\, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Previously he was Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech\, and before that Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. His most recent book is Post-revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook (2018). He has been President of the Association for Iranian Studies\, a fellow of the American Council on Education\, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin\, a visiting scholar at UCLA\, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute\, and a co-PI of Iran Data Portal. He is frequently consulted by both government entities and media outlets as Al Jazeera\, Associated Press\, Economist\, Guardian\, LA Times\, NPR\, New York Times\, Reuters\, Spiegel\, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations from The American University. \n  \n  \n  \nTouraj Atabaki is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University. Atabaki studied theoretical physics and later history at the University of London and Utrecht University. Following positions at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam\, he joined Leiden University where he held the Chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia. Atabaki’s research encompasses historiography\, social history of labor and subaltern studies in 20th century Iran\, the Ottoman empire\, and Turkey\, as well as the Caucasus and Central Asia. His forthcoming publications with Cambridge University Press are: Social History of the Iranian Oil Industry and Fallen in the Whirlwind: Life and Time of Iranian Migrant Labour and Political Activists during the Soviet Great Purge. \n\n\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-foreign-policy-panel/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230405T143000
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SUMMARY:Gayane Shagoyan - From Ethnography to Anthropology in Armenia
DESCRIPTION:From Ethnography to Anthropology In Armenia\n\n\n\n\nGayane Shagoyan\nMonday\, April 5\, 2023 at 2:30pm\, Kaplan Hall 193\n***Seminar will be in Armenian*** \n\n\n\n\nEthnography as a discipline was formed in Armenia at the end of the 19th century in approximately the same way as elsewhere in Europe\, with the difference that here it did not go through the stage of colonial ethnography (there was only Volkskunde without Völkerkunde)\, if you do not take attempts to describe Armenian rural life as an example of self-exotization. \nThe name of the discipline – ‘azgagrut‘yun’ is a calque from the Russian ‘ethnography’. After the independence of Armenia in 1991\, the attitude and public demand for ethnography changed. They created the ground for the emergence of a new research lens\, when focus on traditions moved towards practices and from preserving the cultural heritage towards adaptive capabilities and development trends. And in the broad sense from the group to the individual – from ethnography to anthropology. \nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\n\n \nGayane Shagoyan is a senior researcher at the\nDepartment of Contemporary Anthropological Studies of\nthe Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography\, National\nAcademy of Sciences of Armenia. She received her PhD\nin anthropology from the Institute of Archaeology and\nEthnography in 2010. The areas of her research interests\ninclude daily life\, urban anthropology\, and memory\nstudies. She is the author of about 90 publications.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/gayane-shagoyan-from-ethnography-to-anthropology-in-armenia/
LOCATION:193 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230403T150000
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SUMMARY:Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal - How many grammars does Jewish Babylonian Aramaic have?
DESCRIPTION:How many grammars does Jewish Babylonian Aramaic have?\n\n\n\n\nElitzur Bar-Asher Siegal\nMonday\, April 3\, 2023 at 3:00pm\, Kaplan Hall 365 \n\n\n\n\nIn this lecture\, we will explore how languages evolve through linguistic diversity\, aiming to shed light on the intricate relationship between language\, its evolution\, and its transmission through historical texts. Drawing on the principles of sociolinguistics\, we will examine how speakers and writers of a language navigate between competing grammars. We will also explore the intricate process of ancient text transmission through scribes and copyists who acted as language agents with their own competing grammars. \nFocusing on the Babylonian Talmud\, we will demonstrate the linguistic richness and challenges encountered in studying the dialect of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. The lecture will highlight the methods and tools used by linguists to reconstruct the original grammars of the text\, as well as trace the grammar of copyists from the Middle Ages. By doing so\, we will show how classic philological questions can be answered using linguistic tools. \n  \nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\n\n\nElitzur Bar-Asher Siegal has a BA in Philosophy and Hebrew Language from Hebrew University (1999-2002\, summa cum laude) and PhD from Harvard University (2009). He joined the faculty of the department of Hebrew Language at Hebrew University in 2010 after being the lecturer in Semitics at Yale University (2008-2010). He is also a fellow at the Language\, Logic and Cognition Center at Hebrew University. Elitzur was a visiting professor at Harvard University (Spring 2012)\, the Jacob Perlow Visiting Professor\, Yale University (2017-8) and a short term visiting Professor\, École Pratique des Hautes Études\, Paris (2018-2019). This year he is a visiting professor at Yale University in Judaic Studies and in Linguistics.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Below\n\n[gravityform id=”187″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/elitzur-bar-asher-siegal-how-many-grammars-does-jewish-babylonian-aramaic-have/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230402T180000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Nonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran
DESCRIPTION:خشونت پرھیزی و انقلاب ارزش ھا در ایران\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran\nRamin Jahanbegloo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, April 2\, 2023 at 4:00pm\, Dodd Hall 121 \nDiscussion in Persian \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99540545809 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on April 2 to join.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2009\, the world watched in admiration the peaceful protests of young Iranians in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent presidential elections that re- elected Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Today\, a new generation is challenging the ideological structures of the Irnian theocratic regime. We have witnessed the courage and the resolution of young Iranians who have transformed their fear of the Iranian dictatorship into a social anger. This anger has revitalised Iranian civil society and motivated politically Iranians around the world. However\, the difference between today’s struggle of young Iranians and the previous civic movements is that it has neither an apparent leadership\, nor a well-defined ideology. Therefore\, we are not witnessing a revolution in the classic sense of the term\, but rather general rebellion. This is a turning point in Iran’s recent political history that the world cannot ignore: It looks as if the genie of change in Iran is trying once again to get out of the bottle. For Iranian youth seeking an end to authoritarianism and the advent of democracy\, the lessons gleaned from non-violence have been mixed. On the one hand\, the brutality and cruelty of the Iranian regime\, killing even school children\, has caused among the citizens of Iran a sense of pessimism toward the non-violence practised by moral heroes like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King\, Jr. But\, on the other hand\, recent images of the protests around Iran show young people fighting Iran’s security forces with bare hands. Trying not to be victims of their past\, they look instead to the future. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nRamin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian political philosopher. He is presently the Executive Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and the Vice-Dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University- Delhi-India. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy\, History and Political Science and later his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University. He has taught and held research positions at the Academy of Philosophy in Tehran\, the French Institute for Iranian Studies\, Harvard University\, the University of Toronto\, the Department of Contemporary Studies of the Cultural Research Centre in Tehran\, the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi\, India\, and York University in Toronto. He is the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain (2009) for his extensive academic works in promoting dialogue between cultures and his advocacy for non-violence and more recently the winner of the Josep Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize. He is also the founder of a nonviolent movement called Nonviolence Without Borders. The most recent of his thirty-two books written in English\, French\, Spanish\, Italian and Persian is Nonviolence: An Idea Whose Time has Come (Haus Curiosities 2023). \n[gravityform id=”191″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-nonviolence-and-the-revolution-of-values-in-iran/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T160000
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi Lecture 4
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran\nBetween Religion\, State\, and the Lure of the West\nA series of four lectures by \nHouchang Chehabi\nProfessor Emeritus of International Relations \nBoston University \nLecture 4: Dress\nMarch 10\, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm \nRegistration Requested for In-Person Attendance \nA hybrid Zoom live stream option is available for guests unable to attend in person. To view the lectures via the live stream\, please use the provided Zoom link. All four lectures will use the same Zoom link\, and no pre-registration is required. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99122797636 \nSeries Synopsis\nIran is one of very few non-Western countries that was never formally colonized. Th e presence of foreigners was limited in the Imperial Age\, and as a result it was largely local elites that\, motivated by a patriotic desire to “catch up” with the West\, introduced aspects of European culture into Iranian society in order to meet what has come to be known as the standard of “civilization.” Under Reza Shah\, Europeanization became state policy\, while during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah the state was less intrusive and opposition to Westernization increased. The Islamic Republic has tried to counter Western “cultural invasion” with at best mixed results. These policies have in turn been celebrated\, tolerated\, ignored\, or opposed by different sectors of Iranian society\, generating constant culture wars. This lecture series illustrates how religious strictures\, state policies\, and exposure to the wider world have affected everyday practices in three fundamental domains of human existence: names\, food\, and dress. \nFourth Lecture: Dress\nMen’s and especially women’s attire\, and its regulation by the state\, has arguably been the most contentious issue in Iran’s culture wars. This lecture examines state policies and societal reaction to them. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nHouchang Chehabi\nBorn to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi studied geography at the University of Caen and international relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris before going to Yale University\, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1986. He then taught at Harvard University and UCLA\, and in 1998 was appointed a professor of international relations and history at Boston University\, retiring in 2022. Since 2021 he has been an honorary professor in the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of three monographs\, has (co-)edited ten books\, and published over fifty articles and translations. \nSelected Works:\n\nOnomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (Boston: Ilex Foundation\, 2020)\nCulture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History\, 2018)\nIran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics\, Cultural Transformations\, and Transnational Connections (I.B. Tauris\, distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing\, 2010) (co-edited with Vanessa Martin)\nDistant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (Centre for Lebanese Studies\, in association with I.B. Tauris\, distributed by St. Martin’s Press\, 2006)\nPolitics\, Society\, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (Westview Press\, 1995) (co-edited with Alfred Stepan\, Gregory Kasza\, Arend Lijphart\, and Mattei Dogan)\nSultanistic Regimes ( Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) (coedited with Juan J. Linz)\nIranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\n\n  \n[gravityform id=”185″ title=”true” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi-lecture-4/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T110000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Eve MacDonald
DESCRIPTION:Telling Tales: Constructing Sasanian History in the Landscape\nThe narrative stories and physical landscapes of the Sasanian Empire run parallel to each other\, intersecting in areas where historical source and physical remnant of the material culture collide.  This is specifically relevant in the borderlands of the Sasanian’s vast realm\, between the lands of Eran and An-Eran\, where monumental structures survived for centuries after the fall of the empire and the memory of epic and traumatic events of a powerful dynasty lived on in the landscape.  This paper seeks to explore the interface between history and the landscape to try to glimpse the ways in which a population living in the lands of the Sasanian Empire remembered the history of the dynasty through the stories told. \nAbout the Speaker\nEve MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University. Broadly interested in the social history and archaeology of many places in the ancient Mediterranean and near east\, she has worked previously on the history and archaeology of Carthage and continues to research on the archaeological legacy of 19th and 20th century colonial occupation in North Africa. She is currently writing a history of the Sasanian Empire for Yale University Press and has worked on excavations in Iran and the Caucasus\, as well as more widely across the Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East.  She is currently working in the field on the Sasanian period fort at Fulayj\, Oman.  Her research aims to highlight different periods and cultures that make up our global ancient worlds – especially those outside the traditional Greco-Roman narrative. \nClick here to register for this event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-eve-macdonald/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T180000
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi Lecture 3
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran\nBetween Religion\, State\, and the Lure of the West\nA series of four lectures by \nHouchang Chehabi\nProfessor Emeritus of International Relations \nBoston University \nLecture 3: Food and Drink\nMarch 1\, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm \nRegistration Requested for In-Person Attendance \nA hybrid Zoom live stream option is available for guests unable to attend in person. To view the lectures via the live stream\, please use the provided Zoom link. All four lectures will use the same Zoom link\, and no pre-registration is required. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99122797636 \nSeries Synopsis\nIran is one of very few non-Western countries that was never formally colonized. Th e presence of foreigners was limited in the Imperial Age\, and as a result it was largely local elites that\, motivated by a patriotic desire to “catch up” with the West\, introduced aspects of European culture into Iranian society in order to meet what has come to be known as the standard of “civilization.” Under Reza Shah\, Europeanization became state policy\, while during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah the state was less intrusive and opposition to Westernization increased. The Islamic Republic has tried to counter Western “cultural invasion” with at best mixed results. These policies have in turn been celebrated\, tolerated\, ignored\, or opposed by different sectors of Iranian society\, generating constant culture wars. This lecture series illustrates how religious strictures\, state policies\, and exposure to the wider world have affected everyday practices in three fundamental domains of human existence: names\, food\, and dress. \nThird Lecture: Food and Drink\nThis lecture traces the evolution of Iranian culinary practices\, including cuisine (both native and foreign)\, drinking culture\, and table etiquette. \nAbout the Speaker\nHouchang Chehabi\nBorn to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi studied geography at the University of Caen and international relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris before going to Yale University\, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1986. He then taught at Harvard University and UCLA\, and in 1998 was appointed a professor of international relations and history at Boston University\, retiring in 2022. Since 2021 he has been an honorary professor in the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of three monographs\, has (co-)edited ten books\, and published over fifty articles and translations. \nSelected Works:\n\nOnomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (Boston: Ilex Foundation\, 2020)\nCulture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History\, 2018)\nIran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics\, Cultural Transformations\, and Transnational Connections (I.B. Tauris\, distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing\, 2010) (co-edited with Vanessa Martin)\nDistant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (Centre for Lebanese Studies\, in association with I.B. Tauris\, distributed by St. Martin’s Press\, 2006)\nPolitics\, Society\, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (Westview Press\, 1995) (co-edited with Alfred Stepan\, Gregory Kasza\, Arend Lijphart\, and Mattei Dogan)\nSultanistic Regimes ( Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) (coedited with Juan J. Linz)\nIranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\n\n  \n[gravityform id=”185″ title=”true” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi-lecture-3/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES: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:20230226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T180000
DTSTAMP:20230113T171604Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi
DESCRIPTION:Mohammad Mossadegh\, the Capitulations\, and the “Standard of Civilization”\nHouchang Chehabi\nSunday\, February 26\, 2023 at 4:00pm\, Dodd Hall 121 \nDiscussion in Persian \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94870537712 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on February 26 to join.) \nIn the Age of Empire\, Iran was one of the few non-European states to retain its sovereignty. The price it had to pay was the signing of unequal treaties that guaranteed the citizens of European countries extraterritorial rights\, usually called “capitulations.” Only by reforming themselves and meeting the European “standard of civilization” could countries like Iran hope to be accepted as equals and persuade the Europeans to renounce their capitulations. In this paper\, I chronicle the young Mohammad Mossadegh’s efforts to bring about the end of the capitulations and establish Iran’s full sovereignty\, both as a thinker and as a state official\, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. \nAbout the Speaker \nHouchang Esfandiar Chehabi is a scholar of Iranian studies. He is a professor emeritus of international relations and history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University\, and an honorary professor at the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. Chehabi was born to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Iran\, and grew up in Iran and Germany. He received his undergraduate education in France and his MA and PhD from Yale University. His publications include three monographs and ten (co)edited volumes\, as well as numerous articles\, book chapters\, and encyclopedia entries. \n[gravityform id=”186″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230222T130000
DTSTAMP:20221205T182306Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Anahita Mittertrainer
DESCRIPTION:Symbols of Royal Authority?  Early Sasanian Cityscapes in Southwestern Iran\n  \nThe early Sasanian royal city foundations of Gūr and Bīšāpūr and their respective surrounding areas were actively shaped by the new ruling dynasty with the goal of making an imprint of identity on the landscape and – especially in the initial phase – decisively influenced the development of the spatial\, structural\, and pictorial formal language of the new empire to be created. This lecture argues that the cities and their irrigated hinterlands were the first instances of early Sasanian territorialisation and possibly intended to convey an initial vision of the new empire – not only to the inhabitants of the cities\, but also to the long-established noble families in the surrounding areas. Thus\, these imperial power structures served as symbols of political identity and played an essential role in the formation of the early Sasanian state. \nAbout the Speaker\n Anahita Nasrin Mittertrainer is curator for the department of South West Asia and North Africa at Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich\, Germany. In 2019\, she received her Ph.D. at Ludwig-Maximilians- University (Munich\, Germany) for her doctoral thesis on Sasanian cities in Southwest Iran\, which was published in 2020 as Sinnbilder politischer Autorität? Frühsasanidische Städtebilder im Südwesten Irans. She has worked on excavations in Iran\, the Caucasus\, and Central Asia\, among other places. \n  \nMain image © Dr. Farzin Rezaeian; Speaker image © Nicolai Kaestner \nClick here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-anahita-mittertrainer/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T180000
DTSTAMP:20221215T001923Z
CREATED:20221215T001923Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Anne Hunnell Chen
DESCRIPTION:Dislodging Disciplinary Silos at Dura-Europos\nFounded by the Seleucids\, successively occupied by the Arsacids (Parthians) and Romans\, and spectacularly conquered in a Sasanian siege\, the borderland town of Dura-Europos (Syria) was home throughout its history to a fascinatingly diverse population. Since its initial excavation\, the site has become justly famous thanks to unique circumstances of preservation that resulted in the site’s retention of significant organic materials and other traces of daily life long-vanished elsewhere. Together\, the multiethnicity and significance of the site’s finds make it a rare (and invaluable) archaeological resource that transcends modern disciplinary boundaries. And yet\, the site and its important archaeological resources have been too often considered the purview of ‘Western’ disciplines\, despite the fact that the site’s Arsacid occupation was indeed its longest phase. This talk will first explore how the original excavators’ choices with regard to data-processing and publication strategies have had an enduring impact on who mobilizes Durene data and to what intellectual ends. It will then turn to introduce the efforts of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA)\, a project recently funded by the NEH and designed to help cut across the disciplinary silos that still very much shape research on the site. \nAbout the Speaker\nAnne Hunnell Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Art History and Visual Culture and Experimental Humanities Programs at Bard College. She specializes in the art and archaeology of the globally-connected Sasanian and Roman worlds. She has held a fellowship in the Department of the Ancient Near East at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and a postdoctoral associateship in Yale University’s ARCHAIA program for the Study of Premodern Cultures and Societies. She has published on Roman\, Persian\, and Digital Humanities topics\, and is also the founder and co-director of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA). Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, IDEA is aimed at dislodging enduring impacts of colonialism through digital reassembly and recontextualization of legacy archaeological data from the site of Dura-Europos (Syria). Dr. Chen also serves as network co-chair and Annotations Activity co-coordinator for the international Pelagios Network. \n  \nThe Zoom webinar link for those wishing to watch the live stream is: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94721468611\n  \nClick here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-anne-hunnell-chen/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T180000
DTSTAMP:20230111T212542Z
CREATED:20230110T193826Z
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi Lecture 2
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran\nBetween Religion\, State\, and the Lure of the West\nA series of four lectures by \nHouchang Chehabi\nProfessor Emeritus of International Relations \nBoston University \nLecture 2: Names\nFebruary 10\, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm \nRegistration Requested for In-Person Attendance \nA hybrid Zoom live stream option is available for guests unable to attend in person. To view the lectures via the live stream\, please use the provided Zoom link. All four lectures will use the same Zoom link\, and no pre-registration is required. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99122797636 \nSeries Synopsis\nIran is one of very few non-Western countries that was never formally colonized. Th e presence of foreigners was limited in the Imperial Age\, and as a result it was largely local elites that\, motivated by a patriotic desire to “catch up” with the West\, introduced aspects of European culture into Iranian society in order to meet what has come to be known as the standard of “civilization.” Under Reza Shah\, Europeanization became state policy\, while during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah the state was less intrusive and opposition to Westernization increased. The Islamic Republic has tried to counter Western “cultural invasion” with at best mixed results. These policies have in turn been celebrated\, tolerated\, ignored\, or opposed by different sectors of Iranian society\, generating constant culture wars. This lecture series illustrates how religious strictures\, state policies\, and exposure to the wider world have affected everyday practices in three fundamental domains of human existence: names\, food\, and dress. \nSecond Lecture: Names\nThis lecture discusses the evolution of naming practices\, including titles\, given names\, and family names. It will analyze the reasons for the introduction of family names in the early 1920s and shed light on the ways people chose surnames for themselves. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nHouchang Chehabi\nBorn to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi studied geography at the University of Caen and international relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris before going to Yale University\, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1986. He then taught at Harvard University and UCLA\, and in 1998 was appointed a professor of international relations and history at Boston University\, retiring in 2022. Since 2021 he has been an honorary professor in the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of three monographs\, has (co-)edited ten books\, and published over fifty articles and translations. \nSelected Works:\n\nOnomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (Boston: Ilex Foundation\, 2020)\nCulture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History\, 2018)\nIran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics\, Cultural Transformations\, and Transnational Connections (I.B. Tauris\, distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing\, 2010) (co-edited with Vanessa Martin)\nDistant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (Centre for Lebanese Studies\, in association with I.B. Tauris\, distributed by St. Martin’s Press\, 2006)\nPolitics\, Society\, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (Westview Press\, 1995) (co-edited with Alfred Stepan\, Gregory Kasza\, Arend Lijphart\, and Mattei Dogan)\nSultanistic Regimes ( Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) (coedited with Juan J. Linz)\nIranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\n\n  \n[gravityform id=”185″ title=”true” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi-lecture-2/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES: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:20230201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T180000
DTSTAMP:20230111T212531Z
CREATED:20230110T193822Z
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi Lecture 1
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran\nBetween Religion\, State\, and the Lure of the West\nA series of four lectures by \nHouchang Chehabi\nProfessor Emeritus of International Relations \nBoston University \nLecture 1: Iran and the Standard of “Civilization”\nFebruary 1\, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm \nRegistration Requested for In-Person Attendance \nA hybrid Zoom live stream option is available for guests unable to attend in person. To view the lectures via the live stream\, please use the provided Zoom link. All four lectures will use the same Zoom link\, and no pre-registration is required. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99122797636 \nSeries Synopsis\nIran is one of very few non-Western countries that was never formally colonized. Th e presence of foreigners was limited in the Imperial Age\, and as a result it was largely local elites that\, motivated by a patriotic desire to “catch up” with the West\, introduced aspects of European culture into Iranian society in order to meet what has come to be known as the standard of “civilization.” Under Reza Shah\, Europeanization became state policy\, while during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah the state was less intrusive and opposition to Westernization increased. The Islamic Republic has tried to counter Western “cultural invasion” with at best mixed results. These policies have in turn been celebrated\, tolerated\, ignored\, or opposed by different sectors of Iranian society\, generating constant culture wars. This lecture series illustrates how religious strictures\, state policies\, and exposure to the wider world have affected everyday practices in three fundamental domains of human existence: names\, food\, and dress. \nFirst Lecture: Iran and the Standard of “Civilization”\nThis introductory lecture provides a general outline of how the Iranian state and different sectors of Iranian society have responded to the challenge of Western ascendancy. Th e emphasis will be on cultural practices. \nAbout the Speaker\nHouchang Chehabi\nBorn to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi studied geography at the University of Caen and international relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris before going to Yale University\, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1986. He then taught at Harvard University and UCLA\, and in 1998 was appointed a professor of international relations and history at Boston University\, retiring in 2022. Since 2021 he has been an honorary professor in the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of three monographs\, has (co-)edited ten books\, and published over fifty articles and translations. \nSelected Works:\n\nOnomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (Boston: Ilex Foundation\, 2020)\nCulture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History\, 2018)\nIran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics\, Cultural Transformations\, and Transnational Connections (I.B. Tauris\, distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing\, 2010) (co-edited with Vanessa Martin)\nDistant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (Centre for Lebanese Studies\, in association with I.B. Tauris\, distributed by St. Martin’s Press\, 2006)\nPolitics\, Society\, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (Westview Press\, 1995) (co-edited with Alfred Stepan\, Gregory Kasza\, Arend Lijphart\, and Mattei Dogan)\nSultanistic Regimes ( Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) (coedited with Juan J. Linz)\nIranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\n\n[gravityform id=”185″ title=”true” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi-lecture-1/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES: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:20230122T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T140000
DTSTAMP:20230103T232435Z
CREATED:20230103T232405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230103T232435Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Nadereh Chamlou and Mansoureh Shojaee
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, January 22\, 2023 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom \nDiscussion in Persian \nRegistration Required  \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5o6mHEqFSlShMNVQQiHgXA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat Drives Iran’s Population Rejuvenation Policy?\nby Nadereh Chamlou \nand \nOne Century and Two Uprisings toward the Women’s Liberation Movement\nby Mansoureh Shojaee \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-nadereh-chamlou-and-mansoureh-shojaee/
CATEGORIES: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:20230111T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230111T130000
DTSTAMP:20221102T173923Z
CREATED:20221102T173923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221102T173923Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Arash Zeini
DESCRIPTION:The Birth of the Abestāg from the Spirit of Philology\nScholars have often discussed Zoroastrianism as an ancient Iranian religion that reaches back thousands of years into the middle of the second millennium BCE. For a long time\, the idea of monolithic continuity has dominated the scholarly discourse in the study of this religion. While Boyce preferred a theological continuity\, a view mostly rejected today\, others have ardently\, but to my mind unconvincingly\, argued for ritual continuity. Both camps have at some point associated all pre-Islamic empires\, but particularly the Achaemenid and Sasanian eras\, with the religious system of Zoroastrianism. After a brief examination of these views\, I will lay out some methodological concerns as a challenge to the discipline\, before turning my attention to the reception of an antique Iranian heritage in the Sasanian era (224–651 CE). I will argue that the late antique response played a major role in forming the heritage it was claiming as its own. \nAbout the Speaker\nArash Zeini engages with pre-Islamic Iranian cultures and languages\, focusing on Zoroastrianism\, particularly the late antique reception of the Avesta. In 2021\, Arash published The Roar of Silence\, a Festschrift in honor of François de Blois\, jointly edited with Adam Benkato. His monograph\, Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity\, published in 2020\, received the inaugural ‘AIS Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies’ in 2022. As a postdoctoral researcher on the Invisible East project (University of Oxford)\, Arash primarily works on Middle Persian and New Persian documents from the medieval East\, contextualizing these within the wider research questions of the project\, such as the idea of religiosity and conversion in Iranian cultures. Arash has previously worked and taught at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of St Andrews. \nPlease click here to register.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-arash-zeini/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T130000
DTSTAMP:20221121T231209Z
CREATED:20221121T171932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T231209Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Saeed Paivandi
DESCRIPTION:The Results of Four Decades of Authoritarian Islamization of Education in Iran \nSaeed Paivandi \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, January 8\, 2023 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom \nDiscussion in Persian \nRegistration Required  \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B0zjlJHmRb-c38OxE0BdcQ
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-saeed-paivandi/
CATEGORIES: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:20221128T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221128T130000
DTSTAMP:20221115T170601Z
CREATED:20221114T213959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T170601Z
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SUMMARY:Iran: What Next as the Revolution Continues?
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe UCLA Center for Middle East Development Presents \n\n\n\n  \nIran: What Next as the Revolution Continues? \n  \nA conversation with expert analysts from Europe\, the U.A.E.\, and the U.S.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n­­­ \nMonday\, November 28 \n10:00 AM Pacific Time \nZoom Webinar \nRegistration is required to obtain access details \n \n\n\n\n\n\nIran’s so called fourth revolution\, led by the nation’s women and young girls\, continues to thrive since Mahsa Amini’s death on September 16\, 2022. Despite internet shut-downs\, people have managed to leak hundreds of videos and pictures\, demonstrating both the courage of a people desperate for change and the cowardice of a regime which continues to brutalize\, arrest\, rape\, and murder its citizens\, some of whom are children\, simply for protesting for their basic human rights. \n  \nIn comparison to the weight of the crisis\, media outlets remain largely absent from the storytelling landscape. However\, the world has watched the footage on social media platforms\, almost in real time. Some world leaders have been vocal about their disdain for the regime’s handling of the protests\, showing solidarity and support for the people. A few have called for sanctions on members of security forces and the like. But again\, the response and action from the international community has been strikingly quiet. \n  \nWhy haven’t world leaders and media been more vocal about the heinous violations of human rights occurring on the ground? Are national leaders hesitant to become engaged because of fear of the Iranian government\, because of an inability to develop effective methods without a war\, because they are overwhelmed with other issues\, or because they are just not interested? What actions have actually been considered by outside governments? Should leaders of the world take any action against the Islamic Republic? And if so\, is it possible to do without stoking conflict with a volatile government? Should the nuclear deal be reconsidered or abandoned completely? Is regime change possible\, and if so\, how? Our panel of experts from Germany\, the United Arab Emirates\, and the United States will investigate these questions with CMED’s Director\, Professor Steven Spiegel.\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n***More information about the panel is available on the CMED Event Page.*** \n\n\n\n  \nOrganized by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development \nCo-sponsored by  \nUCLA Iranian Studies \nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures \nLuskin Department of Public Policy \nBurkle Center for International Relations  \n  \nPlease register here for the Zoom webinar. After you register\, we will forward Zoom access instructions for the event. The talk is viewable using a desktop or laptop computer\, tablet\, smartphone\, or by calling with a telephone. You may also view the webinar via YouTube live stream by returning to the CMED event page on the day of the event. For those who are unable to join the live event\, a recording will be available on the CMED website afterwards. \n  \nImage Credit (left to right; all images cropped from original): @from____iran on Instagram; PersianDutchNetwork\, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>\, via Wikimedia Commons; @jrobertson.nyc on Instagram; @insider on Instagram; @elahe4peace on Instagram
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iran-what-next-as-the-revolution-continues/
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221113T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221113T133000
DTSTAMP:20221031T181710Z
CREATED:20221031T181710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221031T181710Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Women in Iran: Past\, Present\, and Future\, A Double Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Women in Iran: Past\, Present\, and Future\nA Double Book Talk with Mahnaz Afkhami and Mona Tajali\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, November 13\, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom \nDiscussion in Persian \nRegistration Required  \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HETyPvAaTj6fx-3oJw99mQ
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-women-in-iran-past-present-and-future-a-double-book-talk/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221030T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221030T130000
DTSTAMP:20221010T234358Z
CREATED:20221010T234358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T234358Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series - Panel Discussion on the Roles of Gender & Women in the Current Protests in Iran
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion on the Roles of Gender & Women in the Current  Protests in Iran \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, October 30\, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom \nDiscussion in Persian \nRegistration Required  \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mtVBiDvtSyKJZFbDrkslkw
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-panel-discussion-on-the-roles-of-gender-women-in-the-current-protests-in-iran/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220605T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220605T130000
DTSTAMP:20220429T190537Z
CREATED:20220429T190537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220429T190537Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Nahid Pirnazar
DESCRIPTION: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 significant value of such documents is found in the areas of linguistics\, history\, sociocultural and literary issues\, in the form of verse and prose As an example\, Ketāb e Anūsi The Book of the Forced Converts\, was compiled by three poets\, Bābāi Ben Loṭf Bābāi Ben Farhād and Mashiah ben Rephael This historical narrative\, transliterated from Judeo Pasian to Perso Arabic script in 2021 reports about the forced conversions and the events relevant to Iranian Jewish communities that took place during the period of Shah Abbas I of the Safavid\, through the rise of the Afsharid period (1613-1730). \n  \nClick here to register.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-nahid-pirnazar/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:The World of Ancient Iran and the West
DESCRIPTION:An International Symposium\nConvened by M. Rahim Shayegan (University of California\, Los Angeles) and  Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum)\nMay 19–20\, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall\nMorning Refreshments: 8:00 am\nSymposium Begins: 9:00 am\nThe Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the J. Paul Getty Museum are convening for a third year an international symposium on the exchanges between ancient Iran and the Classical world. This year’s symposium\, held at UCLA over two days (May 19 and 20\, 2022)\, will mark the launch of the exhibit\, Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World at the Getty Villa in the spring of 2022. The symposium will include invited speakers\, UC faculty\, and Getty scholars\, whose research pertains to the nexus between ancient Persia and the West. The overarching themes covered by the symposium are: Achaemenid Persia and the West; Iran and the Hellenistic World; and Eastern and Western Entanglements in the Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Periods. \n  \nThe link for online hybrid attendance is: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92658651250 \n  \nClick here to download the full program.\nClick here to download the speaker abstract book.\nDr. Jeffrey Spier has a handout as part of his presentation.  To download the PDF of this handout\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-world-of-ancient-iran-and-the-west-2/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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