NELC Fall Reception
314 Royce HallThe Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures cordially invites you to the 2023-2024 NELC Fall Reception. We hope to see you on Tuesday, September 26 at 2:00pm-4:00pm at Royce Hall 314 to celebrate the start of the new quarter! Food and refreshments will be catered by the Naab Café. Please RSVP by clicking here....
Pourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2023
Royce 306Pourdavoud Center Fall 2023 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception. In the company of our supporters, colleagues, academic affiliates, students, and esteemed guests, we shall be...
Drew Longacre – Scribes and Their Psalters: Situating Ancient Psalm Collections in Their Scribal Contexts
Kaplan Hall 365The textual diversity evident in the Dead Sea Scrolls has forced scholars to reconsider fundamental questions about the history of the Hebrew Psalter and the nature of ancient Hebrew psalmody. In this lecture, Drew Longacre will introduce key methodological and technological developments in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls as material artifacts that shed...
Dr. Willemijn Waal – Literacy in the Late Bronze Aegean in the Mirror of Anatolia
365 Kaplan HallWhen comparing the surviving textual sources from the Late Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia, one is immediately struck by the great difference between these two text corpora. The Hittite tablet collections have yielded thousands of large, elaborate clay tablets containing a wide range of text genres, but hardly any daily economic administration. By contrast, the...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran
Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran: An Intersectional Approach to National Identity by Azadeh Kian examines the crucial shifts that affected Sunnite and subaltern women once Shi’ism became the state religion after the Iranian Revolution. Focusing on women in the Baluchistan and Golestan provinces of Iran, Kian...
Co-Sponsorship: Global Antiquity (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds
Royce 306A Forum for Exchanges on Ancient Studies at UCLA December 5–6, 2023 | Royce Hall 306 Global 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...
Iranian Studies: Alborz: We Climb Mountains Film Screening
314 Royce HallAlborz High school was initially an American Presbyterian missionary institution in Tehran that began as a grade school in 1873, in 1924 it became a junior college and in 1928 an accredited liberal arts college. After many upheavals and the forced departure of its founder, Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan in 1940, it was transformed into...
Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Neville McFerrin
Royce 306An Entangled Empire: Dress, Reciprocal Construction, and the Experience of Kingship at Persepolis In 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...
Reconnaissance-Birds and Celestial Signs in the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis Flood Accounts by Adam Miglio
365 Kaplan HallThe similarities between the Flood stories in the Gilgamesh Epic and thebook of Genesis have piqued scholarly curiosity over the past century. Aconspicuous similarity in the two stories is an account of three birdsreleased by the lone survivor of the Flood to determine if the floodwaterswere subsiding. This lecture examines Mesopotamian divinatory texts andastrological compendia...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Women’s Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan
314 Royce Hallادبیات داستانی معاصر زنان افغانستان در بستر تحولات اجتماعی- سیاسی Women's Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan Sunday, January 28, 2024 I 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99816401692 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on...