John of Litharb (d. 738 CE), On the Soul: A Previously Unknown Syriac Treatise and the New Light it sheds on Islamic Kalām, on Byzantine Theology, and on Syriac Psychology
Kaplan Hall 365John of Litharb is a fairly well-known Syriac author from the turn of the seventh-and-eighth centuries, who participated in a robust circle of intellectual Christian theologians, historians and philosophers. Although he is known to have authored several important works, due to the accidents of manuscript transmission, only one very short letter of his was thought...
UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Hashem Pesaran
Kaplan Hall 365Please join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series. Dr. Hashem Pesaran will present his research in Kaplan Hall (former Humanities Building) on January 28, 2019 at 4:00pm. This lecture will be in English. Please see the attached flyer for details. US Sanctions: Unfulfilled Expectations and Challenges Facing the Iranian...
Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Robert Rollinger
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)Contextualizing the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: What Does Empire Mean in the 1st Millennium BCE? Looking at historical handbooks of the Ancient Near East, there appears to be a general agreement on structuring the outline of political history of the first millennium BCE. The epoch is conceptualized as a succession of three clearly defined empires. The first,...
UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Mary Hegland
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPlease join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series. Dr. Mary Helgand will present her research in Dodd Hall 121 on February 10, 2019 at 4:00pm. This lecture will be in Persian. Please see the attached flyer for details. روزهای انقلاب: «علی آباد» شیراز در ایران و جهان در قرن...
UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Mary Hegland
10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United StatesPlease join the UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach Program for their Bilingual Lecture Series. Dr. Mary Helgand will present her research in Bunche Hall 10383 on February 11, 2019 at 2:00pm. This lecture will be in English. Please see the attached flyer for details. Economic and Social Transformation in Aliabad: New Trends in Work, Life...
PRESERVATION AND INNOVATION: THE TRACKS OF THE MASTER SCRIBE
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesWhen we encounter a text, whether ancient or modern, we typically start at the beginning and work our way toward the end. For biblical and Mesopotamian literature, however, this habit can lead to misinterpretation. In the ancient Near East, “master scribes”—those who held the authority to produce and revise texts—regularly introduced changes in the course...
A Tale of Two Palaces: The Late Bronze Age at Hazor
Kaplan Hall 365Co-Sponsored by: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Kershaw Chair for Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies Tel Hazor is located in the Upper Galilee, about 15 km north of the Sea of Galilee. It was the largest Canaanite city in the 2nd millennium BCE, measuring approximately 84 hectares and consisting of an acropolis and a...
Wadi al-Jarf, the King Khufu’s Harbor on the Red Sea Coast: Overview of the Recent Discoveries
Since 2011, a joint team of the Paris-Sorbonne University and the French Institute in Cairo (IFAO) has been excavating an exceptional harbor complex at Wadi al-Jarf along the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea. Considered now as the oldest harbor in the world, this massive installation dates back to the very beginning of the Fourth...
Graduate Seminar in Armenian Studies: Women During and After the Velvet Revolution in Armenia
Kaplan 311Dr. Gohar Shahnazaryan is Director of the Yerevan State University Center for Gender and Leadership Studies (www.ysu.am/gender) and Co-Director of the Women’s Resource Center NGO (www.womenofarmenia.org) in Armenia. She holds a PhD in Sociology. Currently Dr. Shahnazaryan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sociology at YSU. She was a visiting scholar at...
Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Margaret Root
The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World announces the lecture of Dr. Margaret Root as part of the 2018-2019 Lecture Series. Dr. Root is Professor and Curator Emerita of Near Eastern and Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2018-2019 Getty Scholar. Kingship for a New...