Events
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Living Diaspora Concert
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesEvent Flyer Living Diaspora Concert Artistic Director Greg Hosharian. Featuring: Tinie T, Mihran Kirakosian, Jacob Armen, R-Mean, Ayline Amirayan, Alene Aroustamian, Jon Vato, and Hovig Demirjian. Royce Hall | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Ticketed Event To reserve your tickets please visit: Ticketmaster Royce Hall
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DWELLING ON THE PAST AND LONGING FOR HOME: ISRAEL IN EXILE
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThis talk examines the effect of the sixth century BCE deportations to Babylonia on Israelite identity. Paying close attention to the prophetic book of Ezekiel, whose community was deported from Jerusalem to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar, it explores how the experience of forced migration changed the way the people talked about themselves, their past, and their...
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UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Hashem Pesaran
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesPlease 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 27, 2019 at 4:00pm. This lecture will be in Persian. Please see the attached flyer for details. تحریم های آمریکا، انتظارات برآورده نشده و چالش های...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...