Events
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From Enoch to Daniel: Reimagining the Past in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls
314 Royce HallSponsored by The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Cosponsored by The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Since the late 1940s, the approximately 1,000 manuscripts discovered in caves alongside the Dead Sea – popularly called the Dead Sea Scrolls – have been reshaping in significant ways study of the Bible and...
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Armenian Dialects
305 Kaplan HallAll welcome Pizza and refreshments will be served All proceedings will be in Armenian Hrach Martirosyan is currently Lecturer in Eastern Armenian in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. After receiving his MA in Philology from Vanadzor Pedagogical Institute, he pursued graduate studies under the supervision of Prof. Sargis...
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Creating the Cult of a Goddess: Politics and Religion at Mari in the Old Babylonian Period
Fowler A222 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesTraces of ancient Mesopotamian religion have been discovered by archaeologists working across the modern Middle East—temples and other religious structures, worn by time; small fragments of once-opulent cult statues and temple furnishings; clay tablets inscribed with stories of and hymns to the gods; and mundane records of administrators, concerned with tracking the many cults that...
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Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
Fowler A222 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series presentations at UCLA, which has a counterpart at the Collège de France, are delivered by a distinguished scholar whose work has impacted the study of the Iranian Civilization. Each biennial lecture series consists of four to five lectures on a single theme that is elaborated and amplified into a monograph....
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Translating Daniel Varuzhan’s Pagan Songs
Kaplan Hall 311"Daniel Varoujan’s Pagan Songs shocked readers when it was published in 1912. Russian Armenian critics condemned its frank descriptions of eroticism as pornographic and disapproved of its poetic paganism as a symptom of the "nationlist disease". For its unsympathetic view of Christianity and its glorification of the pagan era, the Armenian church considered it criminally...
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People of Empire: Assyrianness Through the Looking-Glass of the Neo-Assyrian State
In the first half of the first millennium BCE, the Neo-Assyrian state forged what Mario Liverani has called the world's "prototype empire". Empires are often associated with imperial peoples: a core population that maintains its distinctiveness and enjoys a privileged position within the imperial structure. Were the Assyrians such a people? The Neo-Assyrian state apparatus...
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‘I Founded therein a Palace of Cedar’: Constructing and Manipulating Distant Lands in the Ancient Near East
243 Royce HallBorders, frontiers, and the lands that lay beyond them were created and defined through a variety of physical, geographical, and moreover, social and cultural means in Mesopotamia. This talk centers on the ways in which one such distant land, the Cedar Forest (tir eren orqišti erēni) was construed in Sumerian and Akkadian textual sources, as...
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Armenian Mythology
365 Kaplan HallAll welcome Pizza and refreshments will be served All proceedings will be in Armenian Hrach Martirosyan is currently Lecturer in Eastern Armenian in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. After receiving his MA in Philology from Vanadzor Pedagogical Institute, he pursued graduate studies under the supervision of Prof. Sargis...
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Kaveh Madani
Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for their first Bilingual Lecture Series events of the academic year. These two lectures, featuring the research of Dr. Kaveh Madani, will be held virtually via Zoom. He will present “A Conversation with Kaveh Madani on Environmental Security in Iran and the Middle East” on Sunday, October 4, 2020 at...
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Kaveh Madani
Please join UCLA Iranian Studies for their first Bilingual Lecture Series events of the academic year. These two lectures, featuring the research of Dr. Kaveh Madani, will be held virtually via Zoom. He will present “Water Bankruptcy and Environmental Politics in Iran (A Conversation with Kaveh Madani)” on Monday, October 5, 2020 at 2:00pm Pacific...