BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Near Eastern Languages & Cultures - UCLA - ECPv6.17.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Near Eastern Languages & Cultures - UCLA REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T180000 DTSTAMP:20230111T212542Z CREATED:20230110T193826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230111T212542Z UID:17386-1676044800-1676052000@nelc.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Main-Image.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T180000 DTSTAMP:20230111T212531Z CREATED:20230110T193822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230111T212531Z UID:17381-1675267200-1675274400@nelc.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Main-Image.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T140000 DTSTAMP:20230103T232435Z CREATED:20230103T232405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230103T232435Z UID:17368-1674387000-1674396000@nelc.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/BLS-Chamlou-and-Shojaee.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230111T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230111T130000 DTSTAMP:20221102T173923Z CREATED:20221102T173923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221102T173923Z UID:17277-1673434800-1673442000@nelc.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/35-5_T6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T130000 DTSTAMP:20221121T231209Z CREATED:20221121T171932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T231209Z UID:17326-1673177400-1673182800@nelc.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/BLS-Paivandi-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221128T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221128T130000 DTSTAMP:20221115T170601Z CREATED:20221114T213959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T170601Z UID:17304-1669629600-1669640400@nelc.ucla.edu 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 \, 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221113T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221113T133000 DTSTAMP:20221031T181710Z CREATED:20221031T181710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221031T181710Z UID:17255-1668339000-1668346200@nelc.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BLS-Book-Talk-Panel.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221030T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221030T130000 DTSTAMP:20221010T234358Z CREATED:20221010T234358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T234358Z UID:17170-1667129400-1667134800@nelc.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BLS-Mahsa-Panel-Flyer.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220605T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220605T130000 DTSTAMP:20220429T190537Z CREATED:20220429T190537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220429T190537Z UID:16966-1654428600-1654434000@nelc.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Pirnazar_Bilingual-Lecuture-Series_Persian.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220519 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220521 DTSTAMP:20220517T191208Z CREATED:20220509T211419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220517T191208Z UID:16987-1652918400-1653091199@nelc.ucla.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-16-at-8.42.51-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220516T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220516T163000 DTSTAMP:20220328T224110Z CREATED:20220328T211819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T224110Z UID:16811-1652713200-1652718600@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music DESCRIPTION:The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music\nThe 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 debauchery\, even criminality\, and a lack of social consciousness. This project explores ways that the female Lalehzari performers rejected the features of conventional femininity imposed on women through their performances of female masculinity. The female Lalehzari performers claimed their presence in the underclass and underworld male urban spaces previously inaccessible to women. Central to the methodological approach of this project is the enduring question of how to narrate the stories of subaltern performers who are missing from the various archives without limiting their stories to the manner in which they were sexualized and objectified by the entertainment industry. This project treats music as performance and explores the ways in which the Lalehzari female singers treated their songs as scripts and staged them in various song-and-dance scenes in pre-1979 Revolution commercial cinema (Film Farsi). It also investigates how Film Farsi scripts reacted to the separation of masculinity from the male body. It asks\, in what ways did female Lalehzari singers’ performance of female masculinity cite\, valorize\, and also mock and destabilize the masculinity of their male counterparts? How\, in other words\, did musicians\, performers\, and their audiences construct and construe the fictions of gender in the Lalehzari music scene? \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nMina Khanlarzadeh is a postdoctoral scholar in science and technology studies at Northwestern University and a visiting scholar in Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She holds a PhD from Columbia University\, and her research interests are in global political thought\, critical and postcolonial theory\, gender studies\, and modern Middle Eastern cultural and historical studies. She is currently working on two book projects\, Alienation\, Translation\, and Their Postcolonial Critics and Gender Fictions and the Urban Locations of Iran’s Arabesque Music. Work from both projects has been published in Religions and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies\, and is forthcoming in Popular Music and Society and the collection of essays\, Music and Society of Modern Iran (eds. Nahid Simadoust and Houchang Chehabi). Her poetry has been published in Arts of The Working Class and STILL DANCING (ed. Habib William Kherbek). She has also written numerous articles on Iranian contemporary music and global political thought in Reorient\, Z Magazine\, and Jadaliyya. \n  \nClick here to register and receive the Zoom information. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-the-performance-of-female-masculinity-in-lalehzari-music/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Khanlarzadeh_Bilingual-Lecuture-Series_English-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220515T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220515T130000 DTSTAMP:20220328T224125Z CREATED:20220328T211548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T224125Z UID:16806-1652614200-1652619600@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: اجراگری مردانگی توسط زنان هنرمند در موسیقی لاله‌زاری DESCRIPTION:اجراگری مردانگی توسط زنان هنرمند در موسیقی لاله‌زاری\nThe 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 debauchery\, even criminality\, and a lack of social consciousness. This project explores ways that the female Lalehzari performers rejected the features of conventional femininity imposed on women through their performances of female masculinity. The female Lalehzari performers claimed their presence in the underclass and underworld male urban spaces previously inaccessible to women. Central to the methodological approach of this project is the enduring question of how to narrate the stories of subaltern performers who are missing from the various archives without limiting their stories to the manner in which they were sexualized and objectified by the entertainment industry. This project treats music as performance and explores the ways in which the Lalehzari female singers treated their songs as scripts and staged them in various song-and-dance scenes in pre-1979 Revolution commercial cinema (Film Farsi). It also investigates how Film Farsi scripts reacted to the separation of masculinity from the male body. It asks\, in what ways did female Lalehzari singers’ performance of female masculinity cite\, valorize\, and also mock and destabilize the masculinity of their male counterparts? How\, in other words\, did musicians\, performers\, and their audiences construct and construe the fictions of gender in the Lalehzari music scene? \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nMina Khanlarzadeh is a postdoctoral scholar in science and technology studies at Northwestern University and a visiting scholar in Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She holds a PhD from Columbia University\, and her research interests are in global political thought\, critical and postcolonial theory\, gender studies\, and modern Middle Eastern cultural and historical studies. She is currently working on two book projects\, Alienation\, Translation\, and Their Postcolonial Critics and Gender Fictions and the Urban Locations of Iran’s Arabesque Music. Work from both projects has been published in Religions and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies\, and is forthcoming in Popular Music and Society and the collection of essays\, Music and Society of Modern Iran (eds. Nahid Simadoust and Houchang Chehabi). Her poetry has been published in Arts of The Working Class and STILL DANCING (ed. Habib William Kherbek). She has also written numerous articles on Iranian contemporary music and global political thought in Reorient\, Z Magazine\, and Jadaliyya. \n  \n  \nClick here to register and receive the Zoom information. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%b1%d8%a7%da%af%d8%b1%db%8c-%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%da%af%db%8c-%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%b3%d8%b7-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%87%d9%86%d8%b1%d9%85%d9%86%d8%af/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Khanlarzadeh_Bilingual-Lecuture-Series_Persian-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220501T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220501T130000 DTSTAMP:20211215T202114Z CREATED:20211215T202114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T202114Z UID:16576-1651404600-1651410000@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Fatemeh Shams DESCRIPTION:تنش شعر و قدرت در ایران ِ پس از انقلاب \nThe Tension Between Poetry and Power in Post-Revolutionary Iran\nشعر 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 از انقلاب وارد شدند؟‌ آنها توسط چه کسانی حمایت می‌شوند و از چه می‌نویسند؟ چه ارتباطی میان شعر، زبان، استبداد، و خاطره جمعی وجود دارد؟ در این سخنرانی فاطمه شمس با معرفی کتاب جدیدش که در سال ۲۰۲۱ توسط انتشارات آکسفورد تحت عنوان «یک انقلاب مقفّا:‌ دستکاریِ ایدئولوژیک در شعر دوره جمهوری اسلامی» منتشر شده است به این سؤالات پاسخ خواهد داد. \nWhat role did poetry and poets play during the 1979 revolution and the rise of the Islamic Republic? Why did leaders of the Islamic Republic pay so much attention to poetry? Who are the state-sponsored poets and how did they enter into the literary scene after the revolution? Who sponsored them and what did they write about? What is the relationship between poetry\, language\, despotism and collective memory? In this talk\, Fatemeh Shams will address these questions by introducing her recently published book\, A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the Islamic Republic (Oxford University Press\, 2021). \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Fatemeh Shams is an Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her Ph.D. in Oriental Studies from University of Oxford\, Wadham College. Her work focuses on the intersection of literature\, politics and society. She is interested in the evolution of poetry and patronage in the Persian literary tradition and the representation and transformation of this relationship in modern Iran. She has published articles and book chapters on poetry\, patronage and politics in the Iranian context. She has recently won the Humboldt Foundation Fellowship to join Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin in 2021 in order to embark on her second book project on exile and exilic writing in Persian tradition. \nفاطمه شمس: استادیار ادبیات معاصر در دانشگاه پنسیوالیای آمریکاست. از او تاکنون مقالات زیادی درباب ایدئولوژی، ادبیات و انقلاب منتشر شده است. همچنین سه مجموعه شعر با نام‌های «۸۸»، «نوشتن در مه»، و مجموعه دوزبانه «در را که شکستند» با ترجمه دیک دیویس منتشر شده است. او برنده جایزه شعر ژاله اصفهانی در سال ۲۰۱۲ و برنده جایزه کتاب سال لطیفه یارشاطر در سال ۲۰۱۶ است. کتاب جدید او «یک انقلاب مقفٌا: دستکاری ایدئولوژیک در شعر دوره جمهوری اسلامی» در سال ۲۰۲۱ توسط انتشارات آکسفورد منتشر شده است. \nPlease click here to register and receive the Zoom information. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-fatemeh-shams/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Shams_Bilingual-Lecuture-Series_Persian.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T123000 DTSTAMP:20220325T042932Z CREATED:20220324T163137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220325T042932Z UID:16793-1651057200-1651062600@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Iran Unglazed: Local\, National\, and Global Histories of Persian Tilework DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 27\, 2022 at 11:00am Pacific Time via Zoom\n\nRegistration Required \n\n\n\nThis 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 of museum “objects” and their original architectural homes. Through this lecture\, Dr. Overton highlights the circumstances that have informed the transformation and reception of Persian tiles over the last two centuries\, including their documentation\, plunder\, preservation\, exhibition\, commodification\, and most importantly\, perception by the audience. Dr. Overton ultimately seeks to unglaze the study of Persian tilework by moving beyond pristine surfaces and illuminating contested\, conditional\, and at times even ugly histories.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nKeelan Overton earned her PhD from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2011. She is an Independent Scholar and art historian specializing in the eastern Islamic world from Iran to India. Her recent book is the edited volume Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art\, Culture\, and Talent in Circulation\, 1400-1700 (Indiana University Press\, 2020). In fall 2021\, she was a Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute\, where she worked on her book in progress titled Iran Unglazed: Local\, National\, and Global Histories of Persian Tilework. She is currently teaching seminars on Persian architecture and preparing a virtual exhibition/website on the Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin.\n\n\nClick here to register. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iran-unglazed-local-national-and-global-histories-of-persian-tilework/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Overton-Lecture-Flyer-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T173000 DTSTAMP:20220330T190930Z CREATED:20220308T000011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220330T190930Z UID:16748-1650470400-1650475800@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series – Empire and Borderlands at Interplay: A Structural Approach (First Millennium BCE – First Millennium CE) DESCRIPTION:The 2022 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series\nFeaturing Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)\nThe Achaemenid Persian World Empire\nThe 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 of a (proto-)globalized world\, and the driving force behind many cultural developments\, whose manifold repercussions we may observe from Gibraltar to the Taklamakan Desert\, from the Aegean and Scythian lands to the sub-Saharan worlds\, and from the Bay of Bengal to eastern Africa. Our sources\, both written and archaeological\, are but a faint palimpsest bearing witness to the grandeur of the Achaemenid civilization\, and its impress on the antique world. The present Yarshater Lectures are an attempt at deducing\, from among the many ideological layers still cluttering our (narrative) sources\, including the many biases\, old and new\, that still guide modern scholarship\, the unique identity\, sense of purpose\, and political awareness that distinguished the Achaemenids\, eventually enabling them to forge a capacious vision of the world. In these lectures\, the Achaemenid Persian World Empire will be presented as a political formation that not only profoundly impacted its immediate and more distant surroundings\, but also served as an imperial model that most lastingly transformed its posterity.\n\nLecture 4: Empire and Borderlands at Interplay: A Structural Approach (First Millennium BCE – First Millennium CE)\nThe Achaemenid Empire represents a major evolutionary step in the longue durée of Afro-Asian state formations. The fourth lecture aims at illustrating the indebtedness of the Achaemenid polity to ancient Near Eastern and Afro-Asian precedents\, while exploring its unicity in light of the interplay between the imperial center and the borderlands. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\n\nRobert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck\, Austria\, where he has held since 2005 the Chair for “Cultural Interactions between the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean” in the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. \nDr. Rollinger’s scholarly interests are wide-ranging and encompass the cultural expanse between the Aegean world and the ancient Near East\, with a special focus on ancient historiography\, the comparative history of empires\, and the Achaemenid Empire. \nIn addition to his tenure at the University of Innsbruck\, he has held a number of prestigious chairs and fellowships worldwide: from 2010 to 2015\, he was the Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki in the Department of World Cultures\, heading the research project “Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East”; in 2020\, he was a Getty Scholar at the Getty Villa; since 2020\, he has been the NAWA Chair at the University of Wrocław\, Poland\, where he heads the international project “From the Achaemenid to the Roman Rule.” \nDr. Rollinger is also known for his numerous publications and important editorial work: he has been (co-)editing among others the prestigious series: Oriens et Occidens (Franz Steiner Verlag); Classica et Orientalia (Harrassowitz); Studies in Universal and Cultural History (Springer); Philippika (Harrassowitz); (The Proceedings of the) Melammu Symposia (Austrian Academy of Sciences); and Empires Through the Ages in Global Perspective (de Gruyter). More recently\, he published together with Bruno Jacobs the Blackwell Companion to the Achaemenid Empire (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2021)\, which shall serve as the new work of reference in the field. \nHis recent publications include: Imperien und Reiche in der Weltgeschichte: Epochenübergreifende und globalhistorische Vergleiche (coedited; Harrassowitz\, 2014); Mesopotamia in the Ancient World: Impact\, Continuities\, Parallels (coedited; Ugarit-Verlag\, 2015); Alexander und die großen Ströme: Die Flussüberquerungen im Lichte altorientalischer Pioniertechniken (Harrassowitz\, 2013); Short-term Empires in World History (coedited; Springer\, 2020); A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire\, 2 volumes (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (coedited; Wiley-Blackwell\, 2021); Empires to be Remembered (Studies in Universal and Cultural History) (coedited; Springer\, 2022); Decline\, Erosion and Implosion of Empires (Studies in Universal and Cultural History) (coedited; Springer\, forthcoming). \nHe is a member of numerous academic organizations and research groups\, among them: the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW); the German Archaeological Institute (DAI); and the Academia Europaea. \n  \n\nDownload the lecture series program here.\n  \n  \n\nClick here to RSVP. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/biennial-ehsan-yarshater-lecture-series-empire-and-borderlands-at-interplay-a-structural-approach-tenth-century-bce-tenth-century-ce/ LOCATION:314 Royce Hall CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Persia_TEAMFINAL_4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T140000 DTSTAMP:20220404T160219Z CREATED:20220404T160219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T160219Z UID:16856-1650459600-1650463200@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Priestess\, Queen\, Goddess: The Divine Feminine in Nile Valley Societies DESCRIPTION:The prominence of powerful goddesses\, the reverence awarded to the queen mothers of Kush\, and a series of sole-ruling queens (one of whom led her army in battle against the invading Romans)\, highlight the unusually high status of women in these ancient African societies along the Nile and serve as a fitting focus for the study of female power in the ancient world. \nThis lecture will examine more closely the queens\, priestesses\, and goddesses who were exceptionally prominent in ancient Nubia. Focusing on four specific women\, I will explore how ancient Africans of the Nile Valley understood female power and presence to be an essential enlivening element in maintaining Maat\, the balance of male and female energies\, in order to cultivate “divine right order” in the world and in the cosmos. \nThe women form a trinity of female power: a priestess\, a queen\, and a revered mother\, each associated with a goddess. The priestess is Amenirdis I\, Kushite royal daughter and god’s wife of Amun. The queens are Nasalsa\, queen mother of two ruling Kushite kings\, and Amanishakheto\, sole ruler of the kingdom of Meroe. The revered mother is Taese\, the woman whose marriage united two elite Nubian families who served the rulers of Meroe. Interwoven throughout the lecture will be the goddesses with whom these women were associated: Mut\, Hathor\, and Isis. \n  \nSolange Ashby received her Ph.D. in Egyptology with a specialization in ancient Egyptian language and Nubian religion from the University of Chicago. Dr. Ashby’s expertise in sacred ancient languages including Egyptian hieroglyphs\, Demotic\, and Coptic\, Ethiopic\, Biblical Greek and Biblical Hebrew underpins her research into the history of religious transformation in Northeast Africa and the Middle East. Her first book\, Calling Out to Isis: The Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae\, explores the temple of Philae’s history as a Nubian sacred site. Dr. Ashby has been awarded a President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California – Los Angeles. Her current research describes the roles of women – queens\, priestesses\, mothers – in traditional Nubian religious practices. In 2023\, Dr. Ashby will join the faculty of the department of Near EasternLanguages and Cultures at UCLA where she will teach Egyptology and Nubian Studies. She is a founding member of the William Leo Hansberry Society which seeks to create pathways for people of African descent – on the continent and in the diaspora – to engage in the study of African antiquity. \n  \n[gravityform id=”169″ title=”false” description=”false”] URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/priestess-queen-goddess-the-divine-feminine-in-nile-valley-societies/ LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall CATEGORIES:NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Queen-Qalhata.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220418T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220418T173000 DTSTAMP:20220330T190959Z CREATED:20220307T235850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220330T190959Z UID:16744-1650297600-1650303000@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series – Space and Universality: The Long Life of the Achaemenid Mental Map in Antiquity and Beyond (Sixth Century BCE – Sixth Century CE) DESCRIPTION:The 2022 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series\nFeaturing Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)\nThe Achaemenid Persian World Empire\nThe 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 of a (proto-)globalized world\, and the driving force behind many cultural developments\, whose manifold repercussions we may observe from Gibraltar to the Taklamakan Desert\, from the Aegean and Scythian lands to the sub-Saharan worlds\, and from the Bay of Bengal to eastern Africa. Our sources\, both written and archaeological\, are but a faint palimpsest bearing witness to the grandeur of the Achaemenid civilization\, and its impress on the antique world. The present Yarshater Lectures are an attempt at deducing\, from among the many ideological layers still cluttering our (narrative) sources\, including the many biases\, old and new\, that still guide modern scholarship\, the unique identity\, sense of purpose\, and political awareness that distinguished the Achaemenids\, eventually enabling them to forge a capacious vision of the world. In these lectures\, the Achaemenid Persian World Empire will be presented as a political formation that not only profoundly impacted its immediate and more distant surroundings\, but also served as an imperial model that most lastingly transformed its posterity. \nLecture 3: Space and Universality: The Long Life of the Achaemenid Mental Map in Antiquity and Beyond (Sixth Century BCE – Sixth Century CE)\nThe Achaemenid Empire ushered a new world order\, based on a novel conception of political geography\, which\, combined with an innovative language of power\, served to legitimize Achaemenid imperial/universalist claims. The longevity and impact of the Achaemenid imperial “model” and its language of power constitute the themes of the third lecture. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\n\nRobert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck\, Austria\, where he has held since 2005 the Chair for “Cultural Interactions between the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean” in the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. \nDr. Rollinger’s scholarly interests are wide-ranging and encompass the cultural expanse between the Aegean world and the ancient Near East\, with a special focus on ancient historiography\, the comparative history of empires\, and the Achaemenid Empire. \nIn addition to his tenure at the University of Innsbruck\, he has held a number of prestigious chairs and fellowships worldwide: from 2010 to 2015\, he was the Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki in the Department of World Cultures\, heading the research project “Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East”; in 2020\, he was a Getty Scholar at the Getty Villa; since 2020\, he has been the NAWA Chair at the University of Wrocław\, Poland\, where he heads the international project “From the Achaemenid to the Roman Rule.” \nDr. Rollinger is also known for his numerous publications and important editorial work: he has been (co-)editing among others the prestigious series: Oriens et Occidens (Franz Steiner Verlag); Classica et Orientalia (Harrassowitz); Studies in Universal and Cultural History (Springer); Philippika (Harrassowitz); (The Proceedings of the) Melammu Symposia (Austrian Academy of Sciences); and Empires Through the Ages in Global Perspective (de Gruyter). More recently\, he published together with Bruno Jacobs the Blackwell Companion to the Achaemenid Empire (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2021)\, which shall serve as the new work of reference in the field. \nHis recent publications include: Imperien und Reiche in der Weltgeschichte: Epochenübergreifende und globalhistorische Vergleiche (coedited; Harrassowitz\, 2014); Mesopotamia in the Ancient World: Impact\, Continuities\, Parallels (coedited; Ugarit-Verlag\, 2015); Alexander und die großen Ströme: Die Flussüberquerungen im Lichte altorientalischer Pioniertechniken (Harrassowitz\, 2013); Short-term Empires in World History (coedited; Springer\, 2020); A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire\, 2 volumes (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (coedited; Wiley-Blackwell\, 2021); Empires to be Remembered (Studies in Universal and Cultural History) (coedited; Springer\, 2022); Decline\, Erosion and Implosion of Empires (Studies in Universal and Cultural History) (coedited; Springer\, forthcoming). \nHe is a member of numerous academic organizations and research groups\, among them: the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW); the German Archaeological Institute (DAI); and the Academia Europaea. \n  \n\nDownload the lecture series program here.\n  \nClick here to RSVP. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/biennial-ehsan-yarshater-lecture-series-space-and-universality-the-long-life-of-the-achaemenid-mental-map-in-antiquity-and-beyond-sixth-century-bce-sixth-century-ce/ LOCATION:314 Royce Hall CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Persia_TEAMFINAL_3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220415T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220415T160000 DTSTAMP:20220404T153606Z CREATED:20220330T172118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T153606Z UID:16825-1650034800-1650038400@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:From the Jewish Antiquities to the Zena Ayhud: Alexander the Great in the Hebrew\, Arabic\, and Ethiopic Versions of Sefer Yosippon DESCRIPTION:One of the numerous medieval accounts about Alexander the Great appears in Sefer Yosippon\, a Hebrew adaptation of the works of Josephus produced in Italy in the tenth century. The anonymous author of the text slightly amends Josephus’s account of Alexander’s visit to Jerusalem\, which appears in Book 11 of the Jewish Antiquities. The subsequent popularity of Sefer Yosippon among medieval Jews\, Christians\, and Muslims results in further adaptations of the Josephan account of Alexander. In multiple stages of recensions produced in Hebrew and Arabic\, the story of Alexander in Jerusalem is interwoven with episodes drawn from the Alexander Romance traditions. Yonatan Binyam investigates the source-critical relationship between the accounts of Alexander as they appear in the Hebrew\, Arabic\, and Ethiopic versions of Sefer Yosippon. He outlines the connections between the various recensions of the Alexander Romance and the stories about Alexander that appear in the Copto-Arabic and Ethiopic versions of Sefer Yosippon\, the latter of which is known as the Zena Ayhud (or “History of the Jews”). Binyam demonstrates the value of this source-critical work for illuminating our understanding of the date and context of the reception of the Hebrew Sefer Yosippon within medieval Christian-Arabic and Ethiopic historiographical traditions. \n  \nYonatan Binyam is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Society and Genetics and the Bunche Center for African American Studies. Prior to coming to UCLA\, he was an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Department at Pennsylvania State University. He holds a doctorate in Religion from Florida State University. His research focuses on medieval Ethiopic receptions of ancient Greek and Latin texts\, as well as the study of race\, ethnicity\, and religion in late antiquity. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”176″ title=”false” description=”false”] URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/from-the-jewish-antiquities-to-the-zena-ayhud-alexander-the-great-in-the-hebrew-arabic-and-ethiopic-versions-of-sefer-yosippon/ LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall CATEGORIES:NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Alexander-in-Jerusalem.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220413T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220413T173000 DTSTAMP:20220330T191119Z CREATED:20220307T235402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220330T191119Z UID:16742-1649865600-1649871000@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series – Whither the Achaemenid Empire? Towards a New Connected History of Afro-Eurasia in Antiquity DESCRIPTION:The 2022 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series\nFeaturing Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)\nThe Achaemenid Persian World Empire\nThe 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 of a (proto-)globalized world\, and the driving force behind many cultural developments\, whose manifold repercussions we may observe from Gibraltar to the Taklamakan Desert\, from the Aegean and Scythian lands to the sub-Saharan worlds\, and from the Bay of Bengal to eastern Africa. Our sources\, both written and archaeological\, are but a faint palimpsest bearing witness to the grandeur of the Achaemenid civilization\, and its impress on the antique world. The present Yarshater Lectures are an attempt at deducing\, from among the many ideological layers still cluttering our (narrative) sources\, including the many biases\, old and new\, that still guide modern scholarship\, the unique identity\, sense of purpose\, and political awareness that distinguished the Achaemenids\, eventually enabling them to forge a capacious vision of the world. In these lectures\, the Achaemenid Persian World Empire will be presented as a political formation that not only profoundly impacted its immediate and more distant surroundings\, but also served as an imperial model that most lastingly transformed its posterity.\n\nLecture 2: Whither the Achaemenid Empire? Towards a New Connected History of Afro-Eurasia in Antiquity\nIn this lecture\, the history of the Achaemenid Empire as a powerful engine of transregional connectivity\, affecting all of Afro-Eurasia\, is explored. Of import is not only the Empire’s capacity to boost dynamic developments\, which may be qualified as an early example of globalization\, but also its ability to sustain cultural individuation processes and tolerate autonomous political formations. \nAbout the Speaker\n\nRobert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck\, Austria\, where he has held since 2005 the Chair for “Cultural Interactions between the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean” in the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. \nDr. Rollinger’s scholarly interests are wide-ranging and encompass the cultural expanse between the Aegean world and the ancient Near East\, with a special focus on ancient historiography\, the comparative history of empires\, and the Achaemenid Empire. \nIn addition to his tenure at the University of Innsbruck\, he has held a number of prestigious chairs and fellowships worldwide: from 2010 to 2015\, he was the Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki in the Department of World Cultures\, heading the research project “Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East”; in 2020\, he was a Getty Scholar at the Getty Villa; since 2020\, he has been the NAWA Chair at the University of Wrocław\, Poland\, where he heads the international project “From the Achaemenid to the Roman Rule.” \nDr. Rollinger is also known for his numerous publications and important editorial work: he has been (co-)editing among others the prestigious series: Oriens et Occidens (Franz Steiner Verlag); Classica et Orientalia (Harrassowitz); Studies in Universal and Cultural History (Springer); Philippika (Harrassowitz); (The Proceedings of the) Melammu Symposia (Austrian Academy of Sciences); and Empires Through the Ages in Global Perspective (de Gruyter). More recently\, he published together with Bruno Jacobs the Blackwell Companion to the Achaemenid Empire (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2021)\, which shall serve as the new work of reference in the field. \nHis recent publications include: Imperien und Reiche in der Weltgeschichte: Epochenübergreifende und globalhistorische Vergleiche (coedited; Harrassowitz\, 2014); Mesopotamia in the Ancient World: Impact\, Continuities\, Parallels (coedited; Ugarit-Verlag\, 2015); Alexander und die großen Ströme: Die Flussüberquerungen im Lichte altorientalischer Pioniertechniken (Harrassowitz\, 2013); Short-term Empires in World History (coedited; Springer\, 2020); A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire\, 2 volumes (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (coedited; Wiley-Blackwell\, 2021); Empires to be Remembered (Studies in Universal and Cultural History) (coedited; Springer\, 2022); Decline\, Erosion and Implosion of Empires (Studies in Universal and Cultural History) (coedited; Springer\, forthcoming). \nHe is a member of numerous academic organizations and research groups\, among them: the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW); the German Archaeological Institute (DAI); and the Academia Europaea. \n  \n\nDownload the lecture series program here.\n  \n  \nClick here to RSVP. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/biennial-ehsan-yarshater-lecture-series-whither-the-achaemenid-empire-towards-a-new-connected-history-of-afro-eurasia-in-antiquity/ LOCATION:314 Royce Hall CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Persia_TEAMFINAL_2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T173000 DTSTAMP:20220330T191054Z CREATED:20220307T235227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220330T191054Z UID:16735-1649692800-1649698200@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series – An Afro-Eurasian “Hyperpower” and Its Ancient Near Eastern Roots (First Millennium BCE) DESCRIPTION:The 2022 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series\nFeaturing Professor Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)\n  \nThe Achaemenid Persian World Empire\nThe 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 of a (proto-)globalized world\, and the driving force behind many cultural developments\, whose manifold repercussions we may observe from Gibraltar to the Taklamakan Desert\, from the Aegean and Scythian lands to the sub-Saharan worlds\, and from the Bay of Bengal to eastern Africa. Our sources\, both written and archaeological\, are but a faint palimpsest bearing witness to the grandeur of the Achaemenid civilization\, and its impress on the antique world. The present Yarshater Lectures are an attempt at deducing\, from among the many ideological layers still cluttering our (narrative) sources\, including the many biases\, old and new\, that still guide modern scholarship\, the unique identity\, sense of purpose\, and political awareness that distinguished the Achaemenids\, eventually enabling them to forge a capacious vision of the world. In these lectures\, the Achaemenid Persian World Empire will be presented as a political formation that not only profoundly impacted its immediate and more distant surroundings\, but also served as an imperial model that most lastingly transformed its posterity.\n\nLecture 1: An Afro-Eurasian “Hyperpower” and Its Ancient Near Eastern Roots (First Millennium BCE)\nThe lecture focuses on the structure\, genesis\, and historical setting of the Achaemenid Empire. It discusses major aspects of the royal ideology\, the position of the Great King\, and the Empire’s resilience in periods of crisis. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\n\nRobert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck\, Austria\, where he has held since 2005 the Chair for “Cultural Interactions between the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean” in the Department of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. \nDr. Rollinger’s scholarly interests are wide-ranging and encompass the cultural expanse between the Aegean world and the ancient Near East\, with a special focus on ancient historiography\, the comparative history of empires\, and the Achaemenid Empire. \nIn addition to his tenure at the University of Innsbruck\, he has held a number of prestigious chairs and fellowships worldwide: from 2010 to 2015\, he was the Finland Distinguished Professor at the University of Helsinki in the Department of World Cultures\, heading the research project “Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East”; in 2020\, he was a Getty Scholar at the Getty Villa; since 2020\, he has been the NAWA Chair at the University of Wrocław\, Poland\, where he heads the international project “From the Achaemenid to the Roman Rule.” \nDr. Rollinger is also known for his numerous publications and important editorial work: he has been (co-)editing among others the prestigious series: Oriens et Occidens (Franz Steiner Verlag); Classica et Orientalia (Harrassowitz); Studies in Universal and Cultural History (Springer); Philippika (Harrassowitz); (The Proceedings of the) Melammu Symposia (Austrian Academy of Sciences); and Empires Through the Ages in Global Perspective (de Gruyter). More recently\, he published together with Bruno Jacobs the Blackwell Companion to the Achaemenid Empire (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2021)\, which shall serve as the new work of reference in the field. \nHis recent publications include: Imperien und Reiche in der Weltgeschichte: Epochenübergreifende und globalhistorische Vergleiche (coedited; Harrassowitz\, 2014); Mesopotamia in the Ancient World: Impact\, Continuities\, Parallels (coedited; Ugarit-Verlag\, 2015); Alexander und die großen Ströme: Die Flussüberquerungen im Lichte altorientalischer Pioniertechniken (Harrassowitz\, 2013); Short-term Empires in World History (coedited; Springer\, 2020); A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire\, 2 volumes (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (coedited; Wiley-Blackwell\, 2021); Empires to be Remembered (Studies in Universal and Cultural History) (coedited; Springer\, 2022); Decline\, Erosion and Implosion of Empires (Studies in Universal and Cultural History) (coedited; Springer\, forthcoming). \nHe is a member of numerous academic organizations and research groups\, among them: the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW); the German Archaeological Institute (DAI); and the Academia Europaea. \n  \n\nDownload the lecture series program here.\n  \nClick here to RSVP. \n  URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/biennial-ehsan-yarshater-lecture-series-an-afro-eurasian-hyperpower-and-its-ancient-near-eastern-roots-first-millennium-bce/ LOCATION:314 Royce Hall CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Main-Image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220410T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220410T140000 DTSTAMP:20220204T220044Z CREATED:20220204T220044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220204T220044Z UID:16671-1649590200-1649599200@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Latest Developments in Afghanistan and Implications for Iran DESCRIPTION:Latest Developments in Afghanistan and Implications for Iran: A Panel Discussion\n  \nAhmad Nader Nadery \nFormer Chair of Independent Civil Service Commission in Kabul\, and Member of the Peace Negotiation Team for Afghanistan \nThe Taliban’s Return to Power and Its Implications for Afghanistan and Iran \n  \nHomeira Qaderi \nAfghan Writer and Women’s Rights Activist\, and Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University \nHow Women in Afghanistan have Strived for Their Rights\nFarah Karimi \nHead of the Dutch Parliamentary Delegation to the OSCE PA and Former UN Consultant for Capacity Building of the Afghan Parliament \nAn Expert Reflection on International Responses to the Crisis in Afghanistan \n  \nClick here to register and receive the Zoom webinar link. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-latest-developments-in-afghanistan-and-implications-for-iran/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Afghanistan-Panel-Flyer.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T130000 DTSTAMP:20220224T230532Z CREATED:20220224T230532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T230532Z UID:16701-1649415600-1649422800@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Iranian Studies: Āvānegār Film Screening and Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:Āvānegār\, a collaborative documentary narrated by Dr. Mohsen Mohammadi (Director of Indo-Persian Music at UCLA) explores the history of transcription of Iranian music\, based on decades of research in various archives in Iran\, Europe\, and the United States. Rare historical documents and sources are presented in the film\, and several historical notations of Iranian music are performed. Exclusively for the film\, Dr. Reza Vali (Professor of Composition at Carnegie Mellon University) arranged a five-movement piece that is performed by an ensemble of notable American musicians. Moreover\, several prominent Iranian musicians are featured\, including (in Persian alphabetical order) Navid Afghah\, Ali Bahramifard\, Kazem Davoudian\, Siroos Jamali\, Siamak Jahangiri\, Layla Ramezan\, and Behzad Ravaqi. This film is dedicated to the memory of Mohammad-Taghi Massoudieh (1927–1999)\, whose publications are invaluable and incomparable sources for researchers\, musicians\, composers\, and all who are interested in Iranian music. \nModerator:\nDr. Shahab Paranj \nComposer and Artistic director of Du Vert a L’infini Music Festival \nShahab Paranj is an Iranian composer and instrumentalist. He is considered as one of the pioneers among his generation of Iranian composers whose composition style integrates Persian and Western genres. \n  \nPanelists:\n  \nRichard Danielpour \nProfessor of Composition\, UCLA \nGrammy-Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour has established himself as one of the most gifted and sought-after composers of his generation. With Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison\, Danielpour created his first opera\, Margaret Garner. Danielpour is one of the most recorded composers of his generation\, and he has received several national and international awards and prizes. \n  \nReza Vali \nProfessor of Composition\, Carnegie Melon University \nIranian Composer Reza Vali is known as the “Persian Bartók\,” given that he combines traditional work with modern compositional techniques. He has received numerous honors and commissions\, and his music has been performed in Europe\, China\, Chile\, Mexico\, Hong Kong\, and Australia and is recorded on the Naxos\, New Albion\, MMC\, Ambassador\, Albany\, and ABC Classics labels. \n  \nDavid Garner \nProfessor of Composition\, San Francisco Conservatory of Music \nDavid Garner is an American composer of opera and vocal\, instrumental\, and chamber music. A composition autodidact\, Garner’s works have won the 2015 American Prize in Composition as well as several Global Music Awards. \n  \nAnn E. Lucas \nAssociate Professor of Ethnomusicology\, Boston College \nAnn E. Lucas is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in music traditions of the Persian and Arabic-speaking Near East.  Her primary research focuses on the history of music in Iran and the relationship between significant cultural upheaval and musical change over epochs. Her monograph\, won Society for Ethnomusicology’s Bruno Nettl Prize. \n  \nMohsen Mohammadi \nDirector of Indo-Persian Music\, UCLA \nMohsen Mohammadi specializes in the music of Iran and the Middle/Central/Near East and plays the setar. His publications are based on his experience as a musician\, on fieldwork\, and on a wide range of first-hand historical sources including manuscripts\, diaries and memories\, old newspapers\, and early recordings. His publications include Musical Souvenirs: European Transcriptions of Persian Music. \n  \nBehrouz Jamail \nDocumentarian\, Musician and Media Producer \nBehrouz Jamali’s musical education embraces Persian\, Western\, and Azeri instruments and styles. Behrouz Jamali’s filmmaking career focuses on social and musical documentaries. He has directed and produced several documentaries in collaboration with various media companies\, such as The Experts’ Take on REDES with Naxos Records. \nPlease click here to register and receive the Zoom information. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-avanegar-film-screening-and-panel-discussion/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Avanegar-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T163000 DTSTAMP:20220214T190202Z CREATED:20220214T190202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220214T190202Z UID:16690-1649084400-1649089800@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Shaul Bakhash DESCRIPTION:Book Talk with Shaul Bakhash:\nThe Fall of Reza Shah\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, April 4\, 2022 at 3:00pm Pacific Time via Zoom\nLecture in English\n\nRegistration Required \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tvfAF2NiT8qu6vUxlBoFzA URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-shaul-bakhash/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Bakhash_Bilingual-Lecuture-Series.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220317T130000 DTSTAMP:20220317T203459Z CREATED:20220317T203459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220317T203459Z UID:16781-1647518400-1647522000@nelc.ucla.edu 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\nPanels Begin: 9:00 am\nThe Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the Getty 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 pertain 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  \nPlease click here to register. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-world-of-ancient-iran-and-the-west/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-16-at-8.42.51-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220313T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220313T130000 DTSTAMP:20220126T231604Z CREATED:20220126T231604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220126T231604Z UID:16663-1647171000-1647176400@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Love at Eighty Film Screening DESCRIPTION:هشتادسالگی و عشق\nA Film Screening and Panel Discussion of Simin Behbahani: Love at Eighty\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, March 13\, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom\nFilm in Persian with English Subtitles\nPanel in Persian\n\nRegistration Required \n\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MkAi-NDfQR-rKKgZQI3kUw URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-love-at-eighty-film-screening/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Love-at-Eighty-Flyer.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220227T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220227T130000 DTSTAMP:20220202T220919Z CREATED:20220106T234557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220202T220919Z UID:16623-1645961400-1645966800@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: The Collective for Black Iranians DESCRIPTION:A Talk with the Collective for Black Iranians:\nOn the Importance of Centering Erased Black and Afro Iranian Histories from Iran and the Diaspora\n\nA Panel Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, February 27\, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom\nPanel in Persian and English\n\nRegistration Required \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies for a discussion centering the importance of storytelling and the point of view – two guiding principles in the Collective for Black Iranians’ work. Discover how the Collective creatively and critically deconstruct the way we see ourselves as Iranians and invite us to step into a culture that also stands at its Black and African intersections. \nAbout the Collective\nThe Collective was founded out of the necessity to be seen\, heard\, and understood. Through public education\, storytelling\, and advocacy\, the Collective shares its stories of belonging to the intersections of being Black\, Iranian and African/of African descent. Founding members\, Alex Eskandarkhah\, Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda\, Pardis Nkoy\, as well as resident historian\, Beeta Baghoolizadeh\, and other resident artists will be joining the panel for a global discussion of the work of the Collective\, the importance of sharing memories of belonging\, and stories of being Black\, Iranian\, and of African descent\, as well as contributing to the larger narrative of what it means to be who we are. \n  \nClick here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-the-collective-for-black-iranians/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Collective-for-Black-Iranians-Panel-Flyer-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220223T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220223T130000 DTSTAMP:20220126T170545Z CREATED:20220125T175046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220126T170545Z UID:16656-1645614000-1645621200@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Kianoosh Rezania DESCRIPTION:How Did the Ancient Iranians Coordinate Space? On the Old Iranian Absolute Frame of Reference\nFor verbal expression and nonverbal cognitive processing of spatial relations between two objects\, the speakers of a language use different frames of reference. (Psycho)linguistics classifies these into three main groups: intrinsic\, relative\, and absolute. This lecture aims to identify the old Iranian absolute frame of reference. After a short explanation of different frames of reference\, the presentation will examine four sorts of evidence to this end: Avestan and Old Persian textual testimonies\, the direction of Zoroastrian ritual in the Old Iranian period\, and the direction of some significant Achaemenid architectural constructions. The lecture will show that the ancient Iranians did not use the four geocentric cardinal points of east\, west\, south and north as the cardinal directions of their absolute frame of reference\, as research has implicitly taken for granted so far. The evidence\, conversely\, suggests that the old Iranian absolute frame of reference was constituted by the sunrise and sunset points of the winter and summer solstices. \nAbout the Speaker\nKianoosh Rezania is professor for the History of West Asian Religions at the Center for Religious Studies\, Ruhr University Bochum\, the co-director of the International Research Consortium Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe\,” and the PI of the long-term project “Zoroastrian Middle Persian: Digital Corpus and Dictionary (MPCD).” His main research interests cover history of Zoroastrianism\, Middle Persian literature\, the development of the concepts of time and space in (late) antiquity as well as Digital Humanities. \nHe holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran 1998)\, a M.A. in Iranian Studies from the University of Tehran (2002) and a Ph.D. in Old Iranian Studies from the Georg-August University Göttingen (2008). \nKianoosh Rezania is the author of Die zoroastrische Zeitvorstellung: eine Untersuchung über Zeit- und Ewigkeitskonzepte und die Frage des Zurvanismus (Harrassowitz 2010) and Die Raumkonzeptionen im älteren Zoroastrismus: kosmische\, kultische und soziale Räume (Harrassowitz 2017). \nClick here to register for this event. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-kianoosh-rezania/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Rezania-Flyer-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T130000 DTSTAMP:20220112T174713Z CREATED:20220112T174713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220112T174713Z UID:16641-1645009200-1645016400@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Céline Redard DESCRIPTION:Current Trends in Avestan Studies\nThis lecture discusses the major progress made in our understanding of the Avestan corpus/texts in the last years. Based on her recent publication co-written with Jean Kellens\, L’introduction à l’Avesta\, Céline Redard introduces the new vision of the Avesta\, leading to the new editions currently undertaken. The important ritual aspect will also be underlined\, with some concrete examples taken from her books The Srōš Drōn – Yasna 3 to 8\, and The Gujarati Ritual Directions of the Paragnā\, Yasna and Visperad Ceremonies (co-written with Kerman Daruwalla). \nAbout the Speaker\nBefore specializing in Iranian Studies\, Céline Redard studied Indo-European Linguistics\, Sanskrit and Latin in Switzerland. In 2010\, she obtained her PhD at EPHE (Paris\, France) for her doctoral thesis on the Vidēvdād 19. After working as a research assistant at the Collège de France (Paris) from 2008 to 2014\, she was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Liège in Belgium (2014-2016). Since 2017\, she works for the Multimedia Yasna project based at SOAS (London). \n  \nClick here to register and receive the Zoom information. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-celine-redard/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Redard-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220214T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220214T160000 DTSTAMP:20211215T005348Z CREATED:20211215T005348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T005348Z UID:16570-1644850800-1644854400@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Ali Banuazizi DESCRIPTION:Iranian Cultural Identity and the Politics of Religious Nationalism\nThe lecture begins with an exploration of the various bases for Iranian “cultural identity” (Iraniyat)—including a long pre-Islamic legacy\, the Persian language\, Shi’ism\, and the bonds and affinities among a people who have inhabited roughly the same territory for nearly three millennia. It makes a distinction between Iranian “cultural” and “national” identities and examines how the latter view of Iranian “national” identity was transformed into nationalist political ideologies from the last decades of the 19th century to the end of the Pahlavi era. It concludes with an analysis of the Islamic Republic’s sacralization of state authority and concerted efforts to promote “religious nationalism” as its official ideology. \nAbout the Speaker\nAli Banuazizi is a Research Professor of Political Science at Boston College and    a    research fellow at the Center for International Studies at M.I.T. He is the author of numerous articles on society\, culture\, and politics of Iran andt he Middle East\, coauthor (with A. Ashraf) of Social Classes\, the State and Revolution in Iran (in Persian\, 2008)\, and co-editor (with Myron Weiner) of three books on politics\, religion\, and society in Afghanistan\, Iran\, Pakistan\, and Central Asia. He served as the founding editor of the journal of Iranian Studies for 14 years (1968-82) and associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. He is a past President of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and of the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS). \nPlease click here to register and receive the Zoom webinar information. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-ali-banuazizi-2/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Banuazizi_Bilingual-Lecuture-Series_English.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220213T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220213T130000 DTSTAMP:20211215T003249Z CREATED:20211215T001926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211215T003249Z UID:16567-1644751800-1644757200@nelc.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Ali Banuazizi DESCRIPTION:هویت فرهنگی، ملی گرائی، و ناسیونالیسم اسلامی در ایران / Iranian Cultural Identity and the Politics of Religious Nationalism\nThe lecture begins with an exploration of the various bases for Iranian “cultural identity” (Iraniyat)—including a long pre-Islamic legacy\, the Persian language\, Shi’ism\, and the bonds and affinities among a people who have inhabited roughly the same territory for nearly three millennia. It makes a distinction between Iranian “cultural” and “national” identities and examines how the latter view of Iranian “national” identity was transformed into nationalist political ideologies from the last decades of the 19th century to the end of the Pahlavi era. It concludes with an analysis of the Islamic Republic’s sacralization of state authority and concerted efforts to promote “religious nationalism” as its official ideology. \nAbout the Speaker\nAli Banuazizi is a Research Professor of Political Science at Boston College and    a    research fellow at the Center for International Studies at M.I.T. He is the author of numerous articles on society\, culture\, and politics of Iran andt he Middle East\, coauthor (with A. Ashraf) of Social Classes\, the State and Revolution in Iran (in Persian\, 2008)\, and co-editor (with Myron Weiner) of three books on politics\, religion\, and society in Afghanistan\, Iran\, Pakistan\, and Central Asia. He served as the founding editor of the journal of Iranian Studies for 14 years (1968-82) and associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. He is a past President of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and of the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS). \nPlease click here to register and receive the Zoom webinar information. URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-ali-banuazizi/ CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Banuazizi_Bilingual-Lecuture-Series_Persian.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR