Myth, Literature, and Geography in Transoxiana from Late Antiquity to the Early Islamic Period: Siyavash at Bukhara Florian Schwarz (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Wednesday January 13, 2027 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom Registration Link: https://forms.gle/VgZ8xmueie9azyLE7 Join Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95409975203 The conquest of Transoxiana, the region beyond the river Oxus...

Civil Society and the Public Sphere in Early Modern Iran Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware) Wednesday February 17, 2027 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom Registration Link: https://forms.gle/NNDEfuGBqMDGzP9E6 Join Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91096921973 An old Orientalist trope going back to early modern Western observers holds that a despotic state assisted by...