This free workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to Islamic manuscripts and manuscript culture, using the extensive holdings of the Special Collections at UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library. It is intended for advanced students and scholars with backgrounds in Islamic studies and/or manuscript studies. Sessions will be devoted to such topics as parchment and...

Mr. Chenian is a financial advisor with a long history of public service. In his presentation the speaker will focus on the role of strategic individuals in advancing community objectives in contrast to many of the diasporic institutions currently embedded within it that were founded in another place and time and are therefore perceived as...

The site of Adab, situated in Southern Mesopotamia between Nippur and Umma, was mostly active in the Old Akkadian period. Its mounds revealed palaces, temples and workshop installations. Around 3000 cuneiform sources were excavated either as part of the original or later illegal digs; their distribution in various archives dated to different sub-periods make this...

In the years immediately following World War II, what was once referred to during the years of post-genocide dispersion as թրքահայութիւն , ցրուածութիւն , գաղութահայութիւն , գաղթահայութիւն , and արտասահմանի հայութիւն became solidified as սփիւռք , and came to imagine itself as a transnationally organized homogenous entity. This presentation focuses on this period of transition...

Metal Dreams (Erevan, 2018) is the second book and first novel of the Western Armenian writer Christian Batikian. It is significant on a number of levels, not least of which pertains to its contribution to the vitality of Western Armenian, an endangered language. This presentation however, will not focus on the often-discussed topic of the...