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  • Graduate Seminar in Armenian Studies: Women During and After the Velvet Revolution in Armenia

    Kaplan 311

    Dr. 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...

  • Rethinking Divine Kingship in Ancient Egypt

    Kaplan Hall 365

    The divinity of the king and the power it implies has attracted the attention of Egyptologists ever since the inception of the field. Much of the debate has centered on determining whether the king was either the foremost of the human or the lowest of the gods. Inherent in these conversations was the assumption that...

  • HOW MOSES BECAME A LEVITE

    Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    The Bible presents Moses as Israel’s prophet par excellence and among the most prominent members of the Israelite tribe of Levi. But how does this picture of Moses square with actual history? How did the memory of an early Transjordanian holy man become part of a priestly tradition in ancient Israel? Answering these (and other)...

  • Tigran Mansurian 80th Anniversary Celebration

    Jan Popper Theater

    Sponsored by the Herb Alpert School of Music Co-sponsored by Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Symposium: "East and West: Search for Meeting Point" 2:00pm - 5:30pm March 6th, Jan Popper Theater FREE ADMISSION Armenia’s foremost living composer’s 80th anniversary is celebrated during a day-long symposium. Featured symposium speakers include composer/pianist Artur Avanesov (Armenia); Artistic Administrator...

  • Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Stefan Hauser

    Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)

    Dr. Stefan Hauser will present his research as part of the Pourdavoud Center 2018-2019 Lecture Series. Dr. Hauser is Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Mediterranean Culture at the Universität Konstanz, Germany. He is also a Getty Scholar for the 2018-2019 academic year. To RSVP, please click here.   Charax Spasinou Research on the Capital of...

  • The faces of the Priests of Amun Exploring Egyptian ‘yellow coffins’ with 3D-modelling

    Kaplan 365

    In collaboration with the Vatican Coffin Project a project was started based on a new methodological approach for studying ‘yellow coffins’. The project is mainly based on the analysis of ‘facial features’ carved on the lid. These are important elements regarding the typology and the classification of the statues, but they have never been considered...

  • Ottoman Armenian Theater and the Role of Actresses in Forging New Cultural Norms

    Kaplan Hall 365

    The presentation discusses the emergence of theater among Ottoman Armenians in the 19th century in the context of modernization and national awakening and the role Armenian actresses had in the development and popularization of the art. Theater played the dual role of reflecting and serving as an agent of sociocultural and political shifts. Largely concentrating...

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