Yarshater Center
Events
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Yarshater Lecture Series: Cameron Cross
Royce 306Spiderweb Stories: Translations, Adaptations, and Connections in Persian Romance In this talk, I will explore some avenues for comparative literary study through the framework of early Persian romances. The earliest extant representatives of this genre in Persian show that it is deeply imbricated with prior and adjacent narrative traditions, making it part of an intertextual...
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Pourdavoud Institute and Yarshater Center 2025 Fall Welcome
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)Pourdavoud Institute and Yarshater Center 2025 Fall Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 8, 2025 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Requested The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World and the Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions invites you to join us for a fall reception. In the company...
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Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Antigoni Zournatzi: Greek-Persian Encounters c. 550–c. 330 BCE
Royce 306Wednesday, December 3, 2025 Royce Hall 306, 4:00pm Download Event Flyer Here Zoom link for online attendance: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91230760258 RSVP link Greek-Persian Encounters c. 550 – c. 330 BCE: Looking Beyond Stereotypes Ancient Greek—and particularly Athenian—bias against the Achaemenid empire has contributed significantly to the modern perception of historical relations between the Greeks and the Persians...
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Biennial Yarshater Lecture Series: Frantz Grenet
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAncient Iran and Central Asia: Interactions and Shifting Identities March 4–11, 2026 A Series of Four Lectures at 4:00 pm Royce Hall 314 RSVP Link: https://forms.gle/fiCSCpULf7H3nJ6H8 The Pourdavoud Institute and Yarshater Center welcome Frantz Grenet (Collège de France) in March to deliver the four-part Biennial Yarshater Lecture Series on the theme, “Ancient Iran and Central...