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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Kaveh Madani
DESCRIPTION: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 Time. \nPlease note that this lecture will be in English. \nTo register for this event and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please visit: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ICCWuSlwSOe9d7U2jSNRRw
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-kaveh-madani-2/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Kaveh Madani
DESCRIPTION: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 11:30am Pacific Time. \nPlease note that this lecture will be in Persian. \nTo register for this event and receive the Zoom webinar information\, please visit: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xm_MGxf6Q3qxYT0pLHQFCQ
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-kaveh-madani/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T180000
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SUMMARY:Armenian Mythology
DESCRIPTION:  \nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nAll proceedings will be in Armenian \n  \nHrach 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 Harutyunyan at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan. His dissertation\n“Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon” forthcoming from Brill (c. 1000 pp.) forms part of the larger project to compile an Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Thereafter\, he moved to Leiden University as a Guest Lecturer in the field of Classical Armenian from an Indo-European perspective (2011-2015). Subsequently\, he held a postdoc at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna (2015- 2017)\, investigating Armenian personal names of Iranian origin under the supervision of Velizar Sadovski in the framework of an Iranian Prosopographical Dictionary. Most recently\, he returned to his position at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics to continue etymological research on native Armenian vocabulary. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”153″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/armenian-mythology/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Armenian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200310T134500
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SUMMARY:'I Founded therein a Palace of Cedar': Constructing and Manipulating Distant Lands in the Ancient Near East
DESCRIPTION:Borders\, 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 well as in artistic representations\, throughout the second and first millennia BCE. The image of the Cedar Forest finds its foundations in Old Babylonian literary texts\, where it is used as either an example of one far edge of the Mesopotamian world\, or as a setting for dramatic action\nsuch as the conflict between Gilgamesh and the monstrous Humbaba in the later Epic of Gilgamesh. Although these sources present images of the Cedar Forest as a fantastical\, nearly mythical land\, it was also anchored in reality\, linked to the cedar forests of Lebanon. The intersection of real and imagined qualities used to define distant lands allowed the Middle and Neo-Assyrian kings in particular to manipulate the image of these places for their own political\, religious\, and social gain. Through examining references to the Cedar Forest in royal inscriptions and other texts\, it becomes clear that such locations were carefully employed to mark the edges of political and military dominion\, a grand claim of the reach and extent of the Assyrian king’s rule. Though the Cedar Forest and other locations like it were connected to the core through trade and military encounters\, they remained abstracted and rendered fantastical by the subjective consideration of the distance that defined them. The mental map these locations collectively created was thus subject to shift over time\, continuously renegotiated based on the demands of political elites and social conceptions held by those who lived at the other end of the imagined world.\n  \n\nDr. Gina Konstantopoulos  \nAssistant Professor in the History of Ancient Western Asia \nUniversity of Tsukuba \n  \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”163″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/i-founded-therein-a-palace-of-cedar-constructing-and-manipulating-distant-lands-in-the-ancient-near-east/
LOCATION:243 Royce Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T134500
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SUMMARY:People of Empire: Assyrianness Through the Looking-Glass of the Neo-Assyrian State
DESCRIPTION: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 produced a great deal of textual material spanning many genres and purposes and covering much of its existence. A significant part of this material has been recovered and made available for scientific examination over the last two centuries. This rich body of evidence allows us to investigate how the Neo-Assyrian state understood “Assyrianness”. Who was regarded as Assyrian\, who was not\, and on what basis? \nI will argue that Assyrianness was not invested in a fixed differentiation between peoples within the empire. Assyrianness was instead bound up in the universal promise of empire. Assyrian imperialism sought to impose the divine order over the mundane world. Whatever conformed to the divine order was Assyrian by default: good\, proper\, “us.” Whatever did not conform to this order was the other: strange\, improper\, “them.” Refracted as it is through the looking-glass of the Neo-Assyrian state\, the evidence reveals an Assyrian identity located not in ethnonational constructs\, but in political subordination and modes of subsistence. This provides an interesting contrast with our understanding of other imperial peoples\, like those of Achaemenid Persia or of the familiar European colonial empires of the last few centuries. Assyrians were not an imperial people\, but the people of empire. \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”162″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nJonathan Valk \nLeiden University \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/people-of-empire-assyrianness-through-the-looking-glass-of-the-neo-assyrian-state/
CATEGORIES:Assyriology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T183000
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SUMMARY:Translating Daniel Varuzhan's Pagan Songs
DESCRIPTION:“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 anti-Christian\, while feminists claimed Varoujan objectified women by depicting them as “being created for the sexual gratification of men”. On the occasion of the first full translation of Pagan Songs into English\, translator Hratch Demiurge discusses the book’s tumultuous reception and the hypocrisy of many of its critics; explains the nuances of the new translation with side by side comparisons with past attempts by other translators; and\, finally\, explores the origins of the pagan movement in Western Armenian literature started largely by Varoujan’s book\, and its connection to the upsurge in neopaganism in Armenia after\nthe fall of the Soviet Union.”\n\n\n\nHRATCH DEMIURGE is a comedian\, poet\,  teacher and translator. He is currently in the \nprocess of translating the satirical biographies  of the “Armenian Molière”—Hagop Baronian\n—a timely work on the incompetence and  corruption of Armenian bigwigs in the latter half of\nthe 19th century. He lives and works in Los Angeles.\n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”161″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/translating-daniel-varuzhans-pagan-songs/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 311
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200312
DTSTAMP:20200224T191522Z
CREATED:20200206T211353Z
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SUMMARY:Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:The 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. The 2020 Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series honored guest lecturer is Professor Daniel Potts. \nThe 2020 Yarshater Lecture Series will be held in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA in Fowler A222. The lectures will take place at 4:00pm on March 2\, 4\, 6\, 9\, and 11\, 2020. \nPlease click here to view the full program. \nPlease click here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/biennial-ehsan-yarshater-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Fowler A222\, 308 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T151500
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SUMMARY:Creating the Cult of a Goddess:  Politics and Religion at Mari in the Old Babylonian Period
DESCRIPTION:Traces 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 could inhabit a single city. While the Assyriologist A. Leo Oppenheim cautioned that these remains were capable of revealing “only a dim reflection” of Mesopotamian religious practice\, and should therefore not be used to write a history of Mesopotamian religion\, I contend that these mundane remains in fact offer rich insights into the pervasive and dynamic nature of religion in Mesopotamian history. \nOffering a critical re-examination of administrative records from the ancient city of Mari\, the presentation examines a body of texts that refer to a goddess by the name of Ishtar Irradan along with a pair of ritual texts\, all found in the city’s palace archives. While the presentation uses this evidence to construct a lively story of cultic innovation and political ideology during a period of foreign rule in ca. 1800 BCE\, the ideas and methods developed here have important implications for the classification of ritual texts and the study of Mesopotamian literature as well as modern approaches to the study of polytheism and “divine multiplicity.” Finally\, the presentation considers the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of Mesopotamian history\, suggesting that the field of Assyriology and the training of Assyriologists can and needs to be driven forward by the engagement with the ancient material world—of which texts remain one crucial component. \n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Elizabeth Knott\nPostdoctoral Associate\, Babylonian Collection\, Yale University Research Affiliate\, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World\, NYU \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”160″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/creating-the-cult-of-a-goddess-politics-and-religion-at-mari-in-the-old-babylonian-period/
LOCATION:Fowler A222\, 308 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Assyriology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T200000
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SUMMARY:Armenian Dialects
DESCRIPTION:  \nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nAll proceedings will be in Armenian \n  \nHrach 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 Harutyunyan at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan. His dissertation\n“Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon” forthcoming from Brill (c. 1000 pp.) forms part of the larger project to compile an Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Thereafter\, he moved to Leiden University as a Guest Lecturer in the field of Classical Armenian from an Indo-European perspective (2011-2015). Subsequently\, he held a postdoc at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna (2015- 2017)\, investigating Armenian personal names of Iranian origin under the supervision of Velizar Sadovski in the framework of an Iranian Prosopographical Dictionary. Most recently\, he returned to his position at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics to continue etymological research on native Armenian vocabulary. \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”155″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/armenian-dialects/
LOCATION:305 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Armenian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T160000
DTSTAMP:20191202T201911Z
CREATED:20191202T201911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191202T201911Z
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SUMMARY:From Enoch to Daniel: Reimagining the Past in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by\nThe UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\nCosponsored by\nThe Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures \nSince 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 ancient Judaism. Often left out of discussions about the scrolls are the approximately 30 Jewish literary works written in Aramaic. This talk will introduce the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls\, survey their use of earlier biblical traditions\, and assess their place in the broader landscape of ancient Judaism. \nDaniel A. Machiela (PhD\, Notre Dame) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton\, Ontario. His research focuses on ancient interpretation of the Hebrew Bible\, Second Temple period Judaism\, the Dead Sea Scrolls\, and Aramaic language. \n  \n  \nRSVP at https://www.cjs.ucla.edu/event/from-enoch-to-daniel-reimagining-the-past-in-the-aramaic-dead-sea-scrolls/
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/from-enoch-to-daniel-reimagining-the-past-in-the-aramaic-dead-sea-scrolls/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T150000
DTSTAMP:20200221T200323Z
CREATED:20200211T221135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T200323Z
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SUMMARY:New Insights into the Inscribed Landscape of the Wadi Hammamat Quarries
DESCRIPTION:Located halfway between the Nile and the shores of the Red Sea\, the Wadi Hammamat is the modern name of ancient greywacke and siltstone quarries in the Eastern Desert (Egypt)\, exploited from the Predynastic period onwards. Known to us since the time of its first explorers\, namely K. R. Lepsius and J. Burton (19th century)\, the Wadi Hammamat quarries were explored by many epigraphic and archaeological survey teams throughout the last century. After Dr. Annie Gasse’s survey in the 1980’s—which uncovered hundreds of new to-be-published inscriptions from all periods—new research is currently ongoing. Beyond (re-)publishing the Pharaonic epigraphic material (about 380 inscriptions) in close collaboration with Dr. Gasse\, Vincent Morel and Dr. Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier are both seeking—in the course of their own research—to better apprehend this major quarrying area. From shedding new light on the symbolic landscape of the Wadi itself to drafting a new interpretive history of the local writing practices\, the multi-aspect research effort aims at recontextualizing ancient inscriptions\, too often considered as mere “expedition reports.” \n\nVincent Morel\nUniversité de Genève\nÉcole Pratique des Hautes Études – Université Paris\, Sciences & Lettres Yale University \n  \n\n  \nJean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier Sorbonne Université\nYale University \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”159″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/new-insights-into-the-inscribed-landscape-of-the-wadi-hammamat-quarries/
LOCATION:243 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Egyptology
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200221
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center: 14th Melammu Symposium
DESCRIPTION:“Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World”\nPlease click here to view the full symposium schedule.\n \nThe 14th Melammu Symposium: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World \nThe Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is convening the 14th Melammu Symposium at UCLA. The international three-day symposium held at Royce Hall will explore Iranian religions in light of ancient Near Eastern traditions and precedents. It hosts scholars whose work pertain to the interchange of ideas and practices between the ancient Near East\, Egypt\, the Classical and Hellenistic worlds\, and ancient Iran. The overarching themes of the symposium encompass: Elam\, the Ancient Near East\, and Persia; Ancient Egypt and Persia; the Divine in Achaemenid Material Culture; (Post-)Achaemenid Religious Practices in Literary Traditions; Religions and Religious Policy in the Hellenistic and Arsacid Worlds; and the Religious Landscape of the Sasanian World. \nPlease click here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-14th-melammu-symposium/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T180000
DTSTAMP:20191119T232418Z
CREATED:20191119T232418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191119T232418Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Gil Stein
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World for a lecture by Professor Gil Stein. \nAchaemenids or Persians?  Burials\, Material Culture\, and Imperial Identities in the Euphrates Valley (5th-4th centuries BCE)\nThe Achaemenid empire was the largest empire in the world in the 5th-4th centuries BCE\, encompassing numerous polities and cultural groups within its 20 satrapies. To rule this enormous empire\, the Persian elites had to gain the active support of the people they governed to get them to participate in the administrative and military apparatus of the Achaemenid state. How did this actually work in practice? This lecture examines two enigmatic Persian-period burials at the site of Hacınebi\, on the Euphrates River crossing at Zeugma/Apamea\, to investigate the relationship between material culture and social identity in the multi-ethnic empire. Achaemenid material culture was an imperial synthesis that combined stylistic elements from Scythia\, Mesopotamia\, Egypt\, and other regions; as a result\, it is very difficult to identify the ethnicity of any person in a burial based only on the style of specific objects. Taken together\, textual\, artistic\, and archaeological data on burial practices\, military organization\, and material culture styles at Hacınebi highlight and help us to understand the complex hybrid identities and shared cultural koine that linked Persian and non-Persian elites across the cosmopolitan Achaemenid empire. \nAbout the Speaker\nGil Stein is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and Director of the Chicago Center for Cultural Heritage Preservation. From 2002 to 2017 he served as Director of the Oriental Institute. He received his BA in Archaeology from Yale University and his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. His research investigates ancient economies\, the archaeology of colonialism\, inter-regional interaction\, the development of the earliest cities and states in the Near East\, zooarchaeology\, and the preservation of cultural heritage. He has directed excavations at the Uruk period Mesopotamian trading colony of Hacınebi in Turkey\, at Halaf and Ubaid period site of Tell Zeidan in Syria\, and is currently excavating at the 7000 year old town of Surezha in the Kurdistan region of Northeast Iraq.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-gil-stein/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T200000
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SUMMARY:History of the Armenian Language: Chronology
DESCRIPTION:1. Indo-European Origins; Classical Armenian; Middle Armenian\n2. Western and Eastern Dialects\nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nAll proceedings will be in Armenian \n  \nHrach 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 Harutyunyan at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan. His dissertation\n“Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon” forthcoming from Brill (c. 1000 pp.) forms part of the larger project to compile an Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Thereafter\, he moved to Leiden University as a Guest Lecturer in the field of Classical Armenian from an Indo-European perspective (2011-2015). Subsequently\, he held a postdoc at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna (2015- 2017)\, investigating Armenian personal names of Iranian origin under the supervision of Velizar Sadovski in the framework of an Iranian Prosopographical Dictionary. Most recently\, he returned to his position at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics to continue etymological research on native Armenian vocabulary. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”154″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/history-of-the-armenian-language-chronology/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Armenian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T134500
DTSTAMP:20200210T180748Z
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SUMMARY:Episodes from the Early History of Knowledge:  Instruction Manuals in Cuneiform Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the early history of the instruction manual\, focusing on cuneiform texts identified as technical procedures. Addressed to “you” as the grammatical subject\, procedures—in Akkadian\, nēpešum\, from the verb epēšu “to make\, compute”— encompassed topics ranging from mathematics\, glassmaking\, horse-training\, perfumery\, medicine\, and astronomy. Over the course of two millennia\, procedures would develop into one of the most long-standing vehicles for knowledge transmission in cuneiform cultures. However\, the longevity of the textual format\, which on its surface appears to transmit practical know-how\, belies a more dynamic history of linguistic innovation\, scribal hermeneutics\, and lexical ingenuity. From Old Babylonian school houses to Assyrian state archives\, procedures provided a textual space within which scribes could contemplate the material world\, numeracy\, lexicography\, writing\, classification\, and knowledge itself. Using instructions for perfumery\, horse-training\, and glassmaking as the starting point\, this talk presents a history and historiography of procedures in cuneiform scholarship with the aim of defamiliarizing what we know about procedures\, and in turn\, reassessing the broader impact of these early instruction manuals within the emerging field of history of knowledge. \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Eduardo A. Escobar\nStevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge The University of Chicago \n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”158″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/episodes-from-the-early-history-of-knowledge-instruction-manuals-in-cuneiform-scholarship/
LOCATION:Royce 243
CATEGORIES:Assyriology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T140000
DTSTAMP:20200128T231842Z
CREATED:20200128T231842Z
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UID:14570-1581078600-1581084000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Searching for Israel's Ancestors in the Genomic Age
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on the presenter’s collaboration with Stanford scientists\, this talk will explore recent use of genetic evidence to uncover the ancient ancestors of the Jews. What has been learned from such evidence about the ancient Israelites\, and why has this kind of research proven so controversial? The talk seeks to address these questions in a way that is accessible to people whatever their scientific background. \nSteven Weitzman serves as the Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and as the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Semitics Languages and Literatures in the department of Religious Studies. Among his publications is The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age (Princeton University Press)\, awarded a National Jewish Book Award. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”156″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/searching-for-israels-ancestors-in-the-genomic-age/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T134500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T150000
DTSTAMP:20200206T160749Z
CREATED:20200130T215333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200206T160749Z
UID:14611-1580996700-1581001200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Resource Mobilization\, Social Engineering\, and Opportunism: The Revival of Larsa in Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian State Project
DESCRIPTION:When a Babylonian and Median coalition put an end to Assyrian domination over the Ancient Near East in the late 7th century BCE\, the Babylonian kings set about to revitalize the heartland of their new state\, the Neo-Babylonian empire. One of the cities that benefited from this imperial program of rebuilding and land reclamation was Larsa\, an ancient cult center of the sun god Shamash in what is now southern Iraq. The main architect of this project was Nebuchadnezzar II. Although he is most (in)famously known through the Bible\, he also left his imprint in numerous Babylonian sources. \nHowever\, because we have no state archives from that period\, temple and private records are the primary source for reconstructing modes of state intervention. Using an unpublished 6th century BCE private archive from Larsa and other textual sources\, I will show that Larsa and its temple were revived for a combination of economic\, political\, and religious reasons\, and that they were kept small and semidependent by design. Finally\, I will argue that Nebuchadnezzar opportunistically exploited this revival to cast himself in the figure of a state builder. In addition to contributing to our understanding of imperial state policies in the first millennium BCE\, this research highlights the use of everyday documents to reconstruct the socio-economic life of urban and non-urban populations in the Ancient Near East. \n\n  \nDr. Odette Boivin\nVisiting Assistant Professor\, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World\, NYU \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”157″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/resource-mobilization-social-engineering-and-opportunism-the-revival-of-larsa-in-nebuchadnezzars-babylonian-state-project/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Assyriology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T160000
DTSTAMP:20191202T201649Z
CREATED:20191202T201649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191202T201649Z
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SUMMARY:Through the Female Gaze: Men in the Book of Genesis
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by\nThe UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies \nCosponsored by\nThe Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures \nWhile the bulk of biblical scholarship on the book of Genesis had been conducted by men and about men\, more recent works have used feminist approaches to center the female characters in Genesis from numerous perspectives\, enhancing our understanding of how the women in Genesis function. In light of these new works\, this talk will offer a critical reexamination of the men in the book of Genesis from a more feminist perspective to determine if previous scholarship on these characters can stand up to the female gaze. \nTammi J. Schneider is a Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University specializing in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East. Her BA is in Hebrew Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota and she received her doctorate in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Sarah: Mother of Nations published by The Continuum International Publishing Group\, Judges in the Berit Olam series published by Liturgical Press\, Mothers of Promise: Women in the Book of Genesis by Baker Academic Press\, and An Introduction to Ancient Mesopotamian Religion by Eerdmans Publishing Company. She has participated in many archaeological excavations in Israel and is presently the director of the educational program at the excavation of Tel Akko in Israel. She is a past President of the Regional Society of Biblical Literature and chairs their session on the ancient Near East and the Bible. She also serves on the Finance/Audit and Investment Committee for the national Society of Biblical Literature and serves on the Genesis Session for their Annual Meeting. She is presently writing a book on “peripheral” men in the book of Genesis and editing a volume on Mesopotamia and the Bible. \nRSVP at https://www.cjs.ucla.edu/event/through-the-female-gaze-men-in-the-book-of-genesis/
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/through-the-female-gaze-men-in-the-book-of-genesis/
LOCATION:193 Kaplan Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T180000
DTSTAMP:20200108T231006Z
CREATED:20191204T214842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200108T231006Z
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SUMMARY:Amuzegar Lecture Series: Robert Steele
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Iranian Studies Program for a lecture by Dr. Robert Steele. \nAncient Persia in Pahlavi Politics: The Imperial Celebrations of 1971 and Cultural Policy under the Shah\nIn October 1971\, heads of state\, political and cultural figures\, business leaders\, and journalists from around the world came to Persepolis at the invitation of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. They were there to celebrate the 2500th Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Many historians and commentators consider this event to have been a huge mistake – some even claim it sparked the widespread popular discontent with the Shah’s rule that culminated in the revolution of 1978/9. For decades\, coverage of the Celebrations has been characterized by sensationalism and an obsession with the supposed flamboyance of an oriental despot\, and a 2016 BBC documentary on the event titled Decadence and Downfall: The Shah’s Ultimate Party shows that not much has changed. This paper challenges the prevailing narrative of Celebrations\, looking beyond the extravagant parties to analyze them in the context of cultural policy in the late Pahlavi period. It examines what the regime sought to gain from holding such an event\, economically and politically as well as ideologically\, and the role played by the cultural structures of the Pahlavi state. \nAbout the Speaker\nRobert Steele is the inaugural recipient of the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Iranian Studies at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He earned his PhD from the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies\, specializing in 20th century Iranian history. His first book\, titled The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971: Nationalism\, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi Iran\, will be published in 2020\, and will be the first comprehensive study on the subject. \n \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-robert-steele/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200128T200000
DTSTAMP:20200125T003525Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200125T003525Z
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SUMMARY:Armenian Personal Names
DESCRIPTION:1. Native and Iranian Layers\n2. Divine Twins in the Armenian Epic\nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nAll proceedings will be in Armenian \n  \nHrach 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 Harutyunyan at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan. His dissertation\n“Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon” forthcoming from Brill (c. 1000 pp.) forms part of the larger project to compile an Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Thereafter\, he moved to Leiden University as a Guest Lecturer in the field of Classical Armenian from an Indo-European perspective (2011-2015). Subsequently\, he held a postdoc at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna (2015- 2017)\, investigating Armenian personal names of Iranian origin under the supervision of Velizar Sadovski in the framework of an Iranian Prosopographical Dictionary. Most recently\, he returned to his position at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics to continue etymological research on native Armenian vocabulary. \n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”146″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/armenian-personal-names/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200127T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200127T160000
DTSTAMP:20191202T200805Z
CREATED:20191202T191340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191202T200805Z
UID:14278-1580133600-1580140800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Does Jewish Biblical Scholarship Exist: A Historical Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Bible and Its Interpreters Seminar Series  \nModerator: William Schniedewind (UCLA) \nSponsored by: The UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies \nCosponsored by: The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Center for the Study of Religion \nHow and when did Jewish scholars enter into the mainstream of biblical scholarship?  What religious and other constraints prevented them from entering the mainstream until the second half of the twentieth century?  And once they entered\, did they produce a body of distinctive Jewish biblical scholarship? \nMarc Brettler is the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University.  He has also taught at Brandeis University\, Yale University\, Brown University\, Wellesley College and Middlebury College.  He has written God is King\, The Creation of History in Ancient Israel\, The Book of Judges\, and Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Israeli Hebrew.  He is co-author of The Bible and the Believer\, and co-editor of the New Oxford Annotated Bible\, The Jewish Study Bible\, and The Jewish Annotated New Testament\, and has contributed to all ten volumes of My People’s Prayer Book.  In 2017\, he was one of 100 scholars and leaders asked to participate in the “American Values Religious Voices” project.  He has written for The Forward and The Jerusalem Report\, has appeared on the Television series “Mysteries of the Bible\,” was heard on the National Public Radio show “All Things Considered\,” and was interviewed on “Fresh Air” by Terry Gross. \nRSVP at https://www.cjs.ucla.edu/event-list-classic/ \n\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/does-jewish-biblical-scholarship-exist-a-historical-perspective/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Hebrew & Jewish,Jewish Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200126T180000
DTSTAMP:20191119T002218Z
CREATED:20191119T002218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191119T002218Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Ahmad Kiarostami
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Iranian Studies Program at UCLA for a Bilingual Lecture Series film screening of Case No. I\, Case No. 2. The film and following Q&A with Ahmad Kiarostami will be in Persian.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-ahmad-kiarostami/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,NELC
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200122T133000
DTSTAMP:20200115T182624Z
CREATED:20200115T182512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200115T182624Z
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SUMMARY:The Arabicization of Christian Egypt: Reframing the Debate
DESCRIPTION:The linguistic evolution of Egypt has been studied at some length\, and with the invaluable evidence offered by the papyrological sources it has been possible to make very fine and detailed observations on the chronology and distribution of linguistic change. The different linguistic balance established by the Egyptian language with the two imperial languages that entered the country by conquest and served for centuries as languages of power is very striking: while Egyptian was used alongside Greek for a millennium after Alexander\, being redefined and reinforced in the process\, within half that time after the Arab conquest it gave way to Arabic\, having shown only a relatively low and specialised degree of linguistic interaction with it. Even though this difference has been in the background of the academic discussion of the topic in recent decades\, it has not been addressed directly\, because the most recent work has largely been of a micro-historical nature\, focusing on administrative linguistic practice. This presentation will first take a step back to look at the Orientalist historiography that still casts a shadow over the subject\, and then suggest some new avenues of analysis drawing on recent work in socio-linguistics. \nCo-Sponsored by: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, Islamic Studies Program\, Department of History\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies \n  \nDr. Arietta Papaconstantinou is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. Her research interests cover the religious\, social and economic history of Egypt and the Near East during the transition from the Roman Empire to the Caliphate. She is particularly interested in the evolution Christian communities during the first two centuries of Islamic rule. She likes to mobilise a wide range of sources and approaches\, from economic to textual and linguistic\, using traditional narrative sources as well as archaeology\, papyrology and epigraphy. Before joining Reading in 2011\, Papaconstantinou was Maitre de Conferences at the Universite Paris 1 – Pantheon Sorbonne\, where she had taught since 1999\, after several years at the Universities of Strasbourg\, Franche-Comte\, and Val de Marne (Paris XII). She was educated at the German School in Athens\, Deree College in Athens\, and the Universite de Strasbourg\, from where she holds an MA in Archaeology and a Ph.D. in Ancient History. \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”103″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-arabicization-of-christian-egypt-reframing-the-debate/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Arabic,Egyptology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T180000
DTSTAMP:20191211T224430Z
CREATED:20191211T224400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191211T224430Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Everett Wheeler
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Everett Wheeler of Duke University will present his research on “Parthians in the Roman Army” for the Pourdavoud Center on January 15\, 2020. \nParthians in the Roman Army\nThe open frontier along the Euphrates River between the Roman and Parthian empires by no means marked a cultural divide. From the time of Pompey on\, both powers availed themselves of forces from local dynasts and mercenaries. Parthian dynastic strife produced exiles and refugees\, some of which migrated into Roman territory with retinues and war bands. The Roman army’s need for horsearchers rendered Parthian skills most desirable. This lecture will survey Parthians in the Roman army with particular attention to two explicit Parthian units: the ala I Augusta Parthorum\, with service c. 6-401 in Pannonia\, on the Rhine\, in Spain\, North Africa\, and occasionally in the East\, and the ala Parthorum et Araborum\, active c. 38-70 on the Rhine. How ethnically Iranian these units were is unknown\, particularly after the first generation of service. Re-stocking of such ethnic units with new recruits from their homeland is controversial\, but probably occurred to some extent. From a Roman perspective\, however\, anyone from east of the Euphrates could be called a “Parthian\,” especially if their native tongue was “Parthian\,” e.g.\, Armenian\, which makes ascertaining ethnic identity within these units challenging. \nAbout the Speaker\nEverett L. Wheeler (A.B. with honors\, Indiana University; Ph.D.\, Duke University) is currently Scholar in Residence at Duke University. He has held research positions from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation\, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation\, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His hardcover publications include: Stratagem and the Vocabulary of Military Trickery (1988)\, translation (with Peter Krentz) of Polyaenus Strategika and related texts (1994)\, and (ed.) The Armies of Classical Greece (2007). His research focuses on ancient military history (both practice and theory) and the Eastern frontier of the Roman Empire\, especially the Upper Euphrates frontier and Transcaucasia. \nTo RSVP\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-everett-wheeler/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T194800
DTSTAMP:20200114T194851Z
CREATED:20200114T194814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200114T194851Z
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SUMMARY:The Indo-European Origins of the Armenian Language
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will address Indo-European origins of Armenian language\, possible Proto-Indo-European homelands\, the place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family\, and the age of the Armenian language. \nAll welcome \nPizza and refreshments will be served \nAll proceedings will be in Armenian \nCo-Sponsored by the UCLA Center for World Languages \nHrach 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 Harutyunyan at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Academy of Sciences in Yerevan. His dissertation “Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon” frthcoming from Brill (c. 1000 pp.) forms part of the larger project to compile an Indo-European Etymological Dictionary. Thereafter\, he moved to Leiden University as a Guest Lecturer in the field of Classical Armenian from an Indo-European perspective\n(2011-2015). Subsequently\, he held a postdoc at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna (2015- 2017)\, investigating Armenian personal names of Iranian origin under the supervision of Velizar Sadovski in the framework of an Iranian Prosopographical Dictionary. Most recently\, he returned to his position at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics to continue etymological research on native Armenian vocabulary. \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”143″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-indo-european-origins-of-the-armenian-language-2/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T140000
DTSTAMP:20191014T181514Z
CREATED:20191014T181514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191014T181514Z
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SUMMARY:Headless Men and Shattered Bodies: The Destruction of  Prisoner Statues during the Late Old Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:Six pharaohs of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties erected nearly life-size statues of kneeling bound foreigners in their pyramid complexes. These unique statues\, which are known as prisoner statues\, have only ever been discovered in fragments. This has led scholars to question whether the statues had been intentionally broken for ritualistic reasons. However\, only the prisoner statues from two pyramid complexes actually show evidence of intentional damage in antiquity; those from the complex of Pepi I were methodically decapitated while those from the complex of Pepi II were violently smashed apart. In this talk I will explore the ritualized context of this destruction and how its significance developed from one complex to the other. \n  \nDr. Tara Prakash is Assistant Professor of Ancient Art at the College of Charleston and currently the W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence in the Department of History at California State University\, San Bernardino. She received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University with a specialty in the art and archaeology of ancient Egypt. Dr. Prakash has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on issues of ethnicity and identity\, foreign interactions\, artistic agency\, and the visualization of pain and emotion in ancient Egypt\, and her current book project is the first comprehensive study on the prisoner statues. \n  \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”140″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/headless-men-and-shattered-bodies-the-destruction-of-prisoner-statues-during-the-late-old-kingdom/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T180000
DTSTAMP:20191017T215217Z
CREATED:20191014T211427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191017T215217Z
UID:13917-1575475200-1575482400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture: Yann Richard
DESCRIPTION:Some major landmarks of modern Iranian history such as the 1921 coup d’Etat or the toppling of Mosaddeq in 1953 are now checked with critical attention by historians. Was the 1953 coup against Mosaddeq an American achievement or did it eventually succeed through a popular uprising? If the Shiite clergy would be responsible for the coming back of the Shah\, how can we understand the ideological mixture of radical Islam and nationalism at the time of the 1979 revolution? Iranian awareness of history is often blurred by myths\, stereotypes and lack of a clear chronological scale. The talk will present some headlines of Persian history as an introduction to my last book Iran: A Social and Political History since the Qajars (Cambridge University Press\, 2019). \n \n[gravityform id=”141″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-yann-richard/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T200000
DTSTAMP:20191119T161356Z
CREATED:20191114T221555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191119T161356Z
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SUMMARY:A Panel on Peace: Navigating Identity in the Iranian Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:Hear from an interdisciplinary panel of experts and scholars discussing their experiences in the Iranian-American community and their ideas for bringing our community closer to our shared goal of unity and tolerance despite ethnic and religious differences. \nDr. Farid Holakouee is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with a private practice in Beverly Hills. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UCLA and his Master’s and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Alliant International University. He is the host of the talk show “In Session with Dr. Farid Holakouee” on Radio Hamrah. \n  \n  \nDr. Benjamin Radd is a lecturer in political science\, global studies\, public affairs\, and communications at UCLA. Dr. Radd is an expert on government and politics in the Middle East\, particularly Iran\, U.S. foreign policy\, and comparative law. He is also a research fellow at the UCLA Center for Middle East Development and he is a member of the UCLA International Institute. Dr. Radd holds a PhD (Political Science\, 2015) from …..UCLA and a JD (2003) from Stanford Law School. \n  \nDr. Nooshin Jahangiri chose to be a doctor as she was inspired by the role of the physicians in the community. She finished her medical training at Tehran University of Medical Sciences and attended the residency program at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield. She has been with Kaiser Permanente since 2011. Additionally\, she is part of the California Zoroastrian Center Core Education Group. \n  \n  \nDr. Nader Saiedi was born in Tehran\, Iran. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Pahlavi University in Shiraz and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin. In 2013\, he became the Taslimi Foundation Professor of Baha’i Studies in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. \n  \n  \nDr. Nooshin Valizadeh is a curriculum developer and instructional faculty member at USC’s Center for Race and Equity and UCLA’s Department of Sociology. Dr. Valizadeh’s teaching background and areas of research and expertise include: diversity and inclusion and issues of gender and racial equity in education. She has an MBA in Finance and is on the Advisory Board of Peace Over Violence\, a social service agency dedicated to the elimination of sexual and domestic violence. Dr. Valizadeh is a spoken word performer who strongly believes in the power of music and art to                                                   promote peace and social change. \n\n  \nEvent Flyer\nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”144″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/a-panel-on-peace-navigating-identity-in-the-iranian-diaspora/
LOCATION:Melintz Hall\, Royce Hall 314
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T124500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T124500
DTSTAMP:20191108T172545Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Coptic Religious Leadership: The Strategies of Mother Irini
DESCRIPTION:While religious leadership differs from other forms of leadership such as in the world of business and not-for-profit organisations (NGO’s)\, there is much overlap. For example\, in religious as well as in non-religious settings\, the most successful leaders are creative innovators who apply new strategies to get their message across\, make it visible\, and energize those working with them. In this presentation\, I analyse some of the methods introduced by Mother Irini\, the famous abbess of the Abu Saifein convent (d. 2006) who inspired the renewal of the monastic life for Coptic women. Nowadays\, the new and innovative models of governance she introduced continue to be applied across the Coptic Church. \nNelly van Doorn-Harder is professor of Religious Studies at Wake Forest University\, NC. She has produced numerous articles and books about the contemporary Coptic Church that focus\, among others\, on issues of gender\, leadership\, spirituality\, and freedom of religion. Her latest book is the edited volume Copts in Context: Negotiating Identity\, Tradition\, and Modernity. (2017) Some of her other publications are: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership from the Ottoman Period to the Present: The Modern Coptic Papacy (1798–2010) (2011\, with Magdi Guirguis)\, Between Desert and City. The Coptic Orthodox Church Today (1997 & 2004)\, and Contemporary Coptic Nuns (1995). Apart from studying the Copts of Egypt\, she has studied and published widely about Islam in Southeast Asia. One of her books in that area is Women Shaping Islam. Indonesian Muslim Women Reading the Qur’an (2006). \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”144″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n  \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/creative-coptic-religious-leadership-the-strategies-of-mother-irini/
LOCATION:Kaplan 365
CATEGORIES:Egyptology,NELC
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SUMMARY:Archaeology and the Kingdom of David and Solomon
DESCRIPTION:Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture Series\nThe United Monarchy –  the famed kingdom of David and Solomon – is at the center of a heated debate. While until 25 years ago there was a consensus that David and Solomon were historical figures who ruled over fairly large territories\, it is now questioned by many who believe either that these kings were either petty chiefs controlling a limited territory around Jerusalem or that they did not even exist. Given these doubts\, the archaeological evidence has come to the center of discussion stage. A broad examination of the nature of the Iron I-II transition\, however\, reveals major changes in practically every aspect of life\, from settlement patterns to various aspects of material culture\, including pottery form and decoration\, and architectural developments. While each change could\, in theory\, be a result of a number of causes\, a broad analysis of all the processes and transformations\, and especially their sequencing in time and space\, greatly narrows down the possible options. It is therefore the aim of the present lecture to briefly present the sweeping changes that accompanied the Iron I-II transition\, to reconstruct (temporally and spatially) the processes of growing social complexity that they reflect\, and subsequently to examine the implications of this analysis on the debate over the historicity of the so-called United Monarchy. \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nAvraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University) \nModerated by:\nDr. Aaron Burke (NELC) \nSponsored by:\nKershaw Chair for Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies \nCo-Sponsored by:\nDepartment of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Cotson Institute of Archaeology\nAlan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies \n  \nEvent Flyer\n  \nRSVP Below:\n[gravityform id=”138″ title=”false” description=”false”]\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/archaeology-and-the-kingdom-of-david-and-solomon/
LOCATION:Mathematical Sciences 4000A
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew & Jewish,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,NELC
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