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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Institute Fall Reception 2024
DESCRIPTION:Pourdavoud Institute Fall 2024 Welcome Reception\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2024\n4:00 – 6:00 pm\nRoyce Hall 306\nRegistration Required\nThe Pourdavoud Institute 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 Institute’s stimulating programming and research agenda for the academic year 2024–25. \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-institute-fall-reception-2024/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Wu Xin
DESCRIPTION:It is with sincere regret that we have decided to cancel the upcoming lecture by Professor Wu Xin. Our campus\, like many others across the country\, is experiencing turbulent times with ongoing protests. We will reschedule this event at a later date when we will be able to welcome safely to campus our friends and colleagues.\n  \n\nRegal Metamorphosis: A Transcultural Journey of the Achaemenid Royal Women to the East\nXiwangmu\, also known as the Queen of the West\, is a significant deity in ancient Chinese mythology\, revered initially as the protector of departed souls. Her representation emerged during the late Western Han period around the 1st century BCE. Scholars have drawn parallels with Western deities such as Astarte\, Kybele\, and Athena\, yet little attention has been given to the origins of her function in Chinese funerary art. Analysis suggests that her origin lies in the queenly figures of the Achaemenid royal court. Through trade and intermarriage\, Persian noblewomen engaged with the Eurasian steppe nomads\, especially the Sakas\, who acted as cultural intermediaries between the Achaemenid court\, the steppe\, and China. This cultural exchange across Eurasia facilitated the transformation of Persian royal women into Chinese divine protectors. \nAbout the Speaker \nWu Xin received her undergraduate and master’s training at Beijing University\, focusing on Chinese archaeology and Central Asian Buddhist Art. She earned her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania\, specializing in the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. Her dissertation\, titled “Central Asia in the Context of the Achaemenid Persian Empire (6th to 4th Centuries B.C.)\,” reflects her interest in the interactions between Central Asia and the Achaemenid imperial power. With extensive experience in archaeological projects\, Wu Xin directed the Kyzyltepa Project in Uzbekistan and is finalizing a monograph titled Persia and the East\, which presents her renewed scholarship on the relationships between Central Asia\, the Eurasian steppe\, and the Achaemenid Empire. Previously a professor in the Department of History at Fudan University in Shanghai\, Wu Xin currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. \n  \nClick here to register for the event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-wu-xin/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240501T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240501T180000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Robert Rollinger
DESCRIPTION:Due to recent events on campus resulting in the cancellations of classes at UCLA today\, Professor Robert Rollinger’s lecture has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvienence and thank you for your understanding. We look forward to hosting you at one of our upcoming events soon.\n\nThe “Persian Wars”: An Alternative Perspective?\nThe “Persian Wars” are still regarded by many scholars and the interested general public as one of the major events in western history. The instructive and captivating narrative of Herodotus’ Histories became a pillar of Greek historical consciousness which\, after some breaks\, was transformed into a western European culture of remembrance since the 19thcentury. Scholarly literature on this event is abundant and flourishing. The underlying subtext of a permanent confrontation between allegedly well-defined blocks of cultural identities\, East and West\, Europe and Asia\, Orient and Occident\, and their charged markers of liberty vs. tyranny\, democracy vs. despotism\, truthfulness vs. shrewdness\, luxury vs. simplicity\, bravery vs. cowardness\, and individualism vs. collectivism\, have entered popular culture as well. If we look at the never-ending stream of contributions to the topic by modern scholarship one cannot avoid the conclusion that all “histories” of the “Persian Wars” are still more or less witty and erudite reproductions of Herodotus’ Histories. The basis of this approach is the adamant conviction that Herodotus was able (and willing) to separate fact from fiction and that his Histories by and large report what essentially had happened. The lecture tries to demonstrate the serious problems related to such an approach and to propose an alternative way to explore the topic. \nAbout the Speaker \nRobert Rollinger is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Innsbruck\, Austria\, where he has been holding\, 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. Dr. 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 in particular. Dr. 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 Science); 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 (Blackwell 2021)\, which shall serve as the new work of reference in the field. He 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. \nClick here to register for the event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-robert-rollinger/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Hilmar Klinkott
DESCRIPTION:Consolidation of Law\, Legal Order\, and the Question of Constitutionalizing Processes in the Achaemenid Empire\nThe Old Persian inscriptions of Darius I deal with a range of legal\, particularly constitutional questions. The famous grave inscription from Naqsh-i Rustam (DNb) constitutes the conceptional center of a thematical text corpus\, exemplified in specific details and different legal aspects in other inscriptions of Darius I. However\, it is a core question if these royal inscriptions had only a function of royal representation (and for the presentation of royal ideology) or if they also claimed to consolidate (royal or imperial) law. If so\, the royal epigraphic corpus of this particular Great King seems to illustrate an overarching legal concept shaped by its textual and thematic interrelations. Consequently\, the Achaemenid royal inscriptions\, and in particular the Darius Naqsh-i Rustam b text\, thus provide a draft for an imperial legal order that fundamentally defines the Great Kingship\, both in relation to the subjects and for the position of the Great King himself. The DNb inscription can thus be understood as a manifesto which enshrines in a general and fundamental way the conditions of royal rule in the Achaemenid Empire. With this in mind\, this lecture will present the argument for constitutionalizing processes in this multiethnic and multicultural polity. \nAbout the Speaker \nHilmar Klinkott is Professor of Ancient History and History of the Near East at the Institute for Classical Studies/Department of Ancient History at the University of Kiel. He studied Ancient History\, Classical Archaeology\, and Latin at the Ruprecht Carls University Heidelberg\, earning his MA in 1997. He continued his studies at the University of Tübingen\, earning his PhD in 2002. His thesis\, Der Satrap: Ein achaimenidischer Amtsträger und seine Handlungsspielräume (Verlag Antike)\, was published in 2005. After his habilitation in Ancient History at the University of Tübingen\, he became Akademischer Rat in the Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik at the Ruprecht Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 2012 and a member of the Heidelberg excellence cluster “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” in 2013. In the same year\, he changed his habilitation to the University of Heidelberg (“Umhabilitierung”). After Deputy Professorships in Hamburg (for Professor Christoph Schäfer\, 2009–2010)\, Mannheim (for Professor Christian Mann\, 2014/15) and Mainz (Professor Marietta Horster\, 2016)\, he was appointed Full Professor at the Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde of the Christian Albrechts University. Now at the University of Kiel\, Professor Klinkott continues to focus on the history of the ancient Near East and the Achaemenid empire. \nClick here to register for the event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-hilmar-klinkott/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Christian Sahner
DESCRIPTION:How Zoroastrians Argued with Muslims in the Early Islamic Period\nThis lecture will explore the early conflict between Zoroastrians and Muslims by examining the most important polemical treatise in the Zoroastrian tradition\, the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār (“The Doubt-Dispelling Disquisition”)\, written by the ninth/tenth century theologian and philosopher Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād. A sophisticated work of rationalist theology\, the treatise systematically critiques several rival religions of the late antique and medieval Middle East\, including Islam. The critique of Islam in chapters 11 and 12 is the only sustained\, systematic polemic against Islam in premodern Zoroastrian literature\, one that attacks monotheism by focusing on the problem of evil. This lecture will consider Zoroastrians’ relationship with Muslims\, the influence of Islamic theology on Zoroastrian thought\, and the place of the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār in Middle Persian literature. \nAbout the Speaker\nChristian C. Sahner (Ph.D.\, Princeton\, 2015) is an associate professor of Islamic history and a fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. His work explores the history of North Africa\, the Middle East\, and Central Asia during the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. He is especially interested in relations between Muslims and non-Muslims (principally Christians and Zoroastrians)\, religious conversion\, Islamic sectarianism\, and the intertwined histories of the Umayyad\, ʿAbbasid\, and Byzantine empires. His most recent book is The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam (Liverpool University Press\, 2023; Translated Texts for Historians). \n  \nClick here to register for the event. 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-christian-sahner/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240221T160000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Elspeth Dusinberre
DESCRIPTION:The Collapse of Empire: Gordion’s Transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic World\nThis talk will highlight the huge changes that characterized Gordion’s transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic periods. Gordion\, ancient capital of Phrygia\, was a large and thriving city of secondary importance during the period of the Achaemenid Persian empire (ca 550–333 BCE)\, a period when it participated in the network of interactions and practices that bound the empire together. When Alexander’s conquest led to the collapse of Achaemenid administrative infrastructure\, the impact on Gordion’s economy and cultural circumstance was profound. Its population plummeted\, the architectural and spatial organization of the site changed dramatically\, and new directions and means of trade and cultural interaction developed. Gordion’s archaeological remains reflect and emphasize the tremendous historical and political changes attending the end of the Achaemenid empire and the beginning of the Hellenistic period. \nAbout the Speaker \nElspeth Dusinberre (AB Harvard 1991\, PhD Michigan 1997) is Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado and a current Getty Villa Research Scholar. She is interested in cultural interactions in Anatolia. Her work has investigated the ways in which the Achaemenid Persian empire (ca. 550-330 BCE) affected local social structures in the give-and-take between Achaemenid and other cultures and has delved into pre-Achaemenid matters at the sites of Gordion and Sardis. Her first book\, Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis (Cambridge 2003)\, examines the impact of Achaemenid hegemony from the vantage of the Lydian capital. Her second and fourth books focus on the Phrygian capital: Gordion Seals and Sealings: Individuals and Society (Philadelphia 2005) and (with Ellen Kohler) The Lesser Phrygian Tumuli: The Cremations (Philadelphia 2023). Dusinberre’s third book\, Empire\, Authority\, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia (Cambridge 2013)\, considers all of Anatolia under Persian rule and proposes a new model for understanding imperialism. She has co-edited a Festschrift for Margaret Cool Root\, The Art of Empire in Achaemenid Persia (Leiden 2020)\, and at the moment is co-editing a volume on Middle and Late Phrygian Gordion. \nClick here to register for the event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-elspeth-dusinberre/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Institute
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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: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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