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March 2021
Pahlavi Workshop: Pahlavi Iran and Global History
Pahlavi Iran and Global History To download the full program of events, click here. This final panel of the Iranian Studies workshop, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran, 1921-1979: A Workshop” will feature the research of: Roham Alvandi Associate Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science Paper: Bringing Down the Shah: Human Rights Activism and Late Pahlavi Iran Rasmus Elling Associate Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen Paper: City,…
Read More about Pahlavi Workshop: Pahlavi Iran and Global HistoryPahlavi Workshop: Pahlavi Foreign Relations
Pahlavi Foreign Relations To download the full program of events, click here. This third panel of the Iranian Studies workshop, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran, 1921-1979: A Workshop” will feature the research of: Gregory Brew Fellow, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University Paper: The Birth of the Pahlavi Petro-State: Oil Companies, American NGOs, and Dual Integration of Iranian Oil, 1941-1965 William Figueroa University of Pennsylvania Paper: China and the Pahlavis, 1921-1979 Chelsi Mueller Research…
Read More about Pahlavi Workshop: Pahlavi Foreign RelationsBilingual Lecture Series: Nazanin Shahrokni
Book Talk - Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran (University of California Press, 2020) by Nazanin Shahrokni To register and receive the Zoom webinar information, please click here. This lecture will be in English.
Read More about Bilingual Lecture Series: Nazanin ShahrokniBilingual Lecture Series: Nazanin Shahrokni
Book Talk - Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran (University of California Press, 2020) by Nazanin Shahrokni To register and receive the Zoom webinar information, please click here. This lecture will be in Persian.
Read More about Bilingual Lecture Series: Nazanin ShahrokniNELC Undergraduate Social
Join us to meet other students in the majors and minors, as well as current faculty. Win prizes for NELC trivia! RSVP below to receive access information:
Read More about NELC Undergraduate SocialThe Goddess Isis and the Kingdom of Meroe
Discussions of the widespread appeal of the cult of Isis in antiquity often omit any mention of the Nubian priests who served the rulers of the Kingdom of Meroe (located south of Egypt in the Sudan) and the royal donations of gold that they delivered to the temple of Isis at Philae, located at Egypt’s border with Nubia. Those funds were essential to the survival of the temple of Philae, allowing it to remain in active use for centuries after…
Read More about The Goddess Isis and the Kingdom of MeroePahlavi Workshop: Pahlavi State and Society
Pahlavi State and Society To download the full program of events, click here. This second panel of the Iranian Studies workshop, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran, 1921-1979: A Workshop” will feature the research of: Houchang Chehabi Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University Paper: Dual Society in Pahlavi Iran Bianca Devos Assistant Professor, Centre of Near and Middle East Studies, Philipps-University Marburg Paper: Islam and Censorship in Pahlavi Iran: a Case Study from the 1970s Kevan…
Read More about Pahlavi Workshop: Pahlavi State and SocietyPourdavoud Center Workshop: Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies Day 2
The origin of the Manichaean religion stands at the intersection of multiple cultural worlds: Iranian, Semitic, & Greco-Roman. Its literary and artistic remains enrich our understanding of those cultures and the exchange that went on among them in late antiquity. The scholars assembled for this workshop offer the latest insights obtained from the painstaking work of extracting information from the fragmentary and effaced relics of this religion with the aid of new research technologies and approaches. They report on work in progress related…
Read More about Pourdavoud Center Workshop: Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies Day 2Pourdavoud Center Workshop: Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies Day 1
The origin of the Manichaean religion stands at the intersection of multiple cultural worlds: Iranian, Semitic, & Greco-Roman. Its literary and artistic remains enrich our understanding of those cultures and the exchange that went on among them in late antiquity. The scholars assembled for this workshop offer the latest insights obtained from the painstaking work of extracting information from the fragmentary and effaced relics of this religion with the aid of new research technologies and approaches. They report on work in progress related…
Read More about Pourdavoud Center Workshop: Current Trends in Manichaeism Studies Day 1February 2021
Pahlavi Workshop: Roundtable on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Coup and Reflections on the Reza Pahlavi Period
Roundtable on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Coup and Reflections on the Reza Pahlavi Period The first panel of the Iranian Studies workshop, "History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran, 1921-1979: A Workshop" will feature a round table discussion centered on the 100th anniversary of the coup that initiated the Reza Pahlavi Period in Iran. This panel will be chaired by workshop organizer Dr. Robert Steele, the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellow in Iranian Studies at UCLA. To…
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