Events
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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Mark Garrison
Royce Hall Room 306Please join the Pourdavoud Center for the first talk of our 2018-2019 Lecture Series, featuring the research of Dr. Mark Garrison of Trinity University. Deities and Ritual at Persepolis: The Evidence from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives The texts and seals preserved as impressions from two large archives of administrative tablets at Persepolis reveal...
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Between Egypt and the Near East: Current Research on the Amarna Letters
Kaplan Hall 365Various aspects of the interaction between Egypt and other political and cultural centres of the Ancient Near East have always sparked the attention of scholars, trying to understand this multi-layered and complex issue — ranging from the interpretation of finds of Egyptian or Egyptianized objects at the ANE sites to a misapprehension in communication resulting...
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New Documentary Evidence for the Trade in Papers
10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United StatesWatermarked papers, which served as media for Islamic manuscripts (codices and documents), were imported from Europe at least since the 13th century. The study of trade in papers brings us, therefore, to Global history. This presentation will focus on recently published research on late production papers which were dispatched to the Yemeni and Ethiopian market...
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Israel and the Samaria Highlands: A Nomad Settlement Wave or Urban Expansion during the Early Iron Age?
Kaplan Hall A51 (Basement Level) 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Iron I period witnessed a wave of settlements in the highlands of Israel, mostly in Samaria but also to some extent in the Upper Galilee and Judah. This wave is usually associated with the genesis of Ancient Israel and is interpreted in light of the collapse of Canaanite urban centers at the end of...
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Hidden Treasures Unearthed: Armenian Arts and Culture of Eastern Europe
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe conference seeks to contribute to a longue durée approach to Near Eastern engagement with Europe with an emphasis on the early modern period (16th-18thcc.), which marked the heyday of Armenian communities as a crucial component of international trade hubs in eastern Europe, involving an interdisciplinary focus on the multifaceted role those communities played in...
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Photographic Exhibition of Armenian Art and Architecture of Eastern Europe
Powell Library RotundaThe exhibition of thirty images illustrating the artistic achievement of the Armenian communities in the Crimea, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria over several centuries in sacred and secular architecture, painting, silverwork, stone and wood carving, and other media complements the analytical discourse of the conference panels in introducing viewers directly to the objects themselves and...
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Concert of Early Modern Music of Eastern Europe and of the Armenian Communities of the Region
Powell Library RotundaPROGRAM The first half includes sacred and secular music for chamber ensemble by composers from the Ukraine, Romania, and Poland, most of which is receiving its LA Premiere. The consort is directed by Morgan O’Shaughnessey (UCLA grad., Music Department) The second half features a series of Armenian sacred and secular music from the period performed...
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Medieval Armenia’s Artistic Beauty
J. Paul Getty Museum - Museum Lecture HallHelen Evans is the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. She joined the Museum's staff in 1991 and is responsible for the acquisition, study, and interpretation of the Museum's collection of early Christian, early Jewish, and early-to-late East Christian and Byzantine art. Her exhibitions—including Byzantium and...
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Ehsan Yarshater: A Homage
Faculty CenterPlease join the Pourdavoud Center in celebrating the life and scholarly contributions of Professor Eshan Yarshater (1920-2018), the Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. Professor Yarshater’s prolific career has had a global impact. At UCLA, he is remembered with the endowed Yarshater Biennial Lecture Series, and at Columbia University, his memory...
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UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series with Dr. Afshin Matin-Asgari
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDr. Afshin Matin-Asgari will present his research in Dodd Hall 121 on November 25, 2018 at 4:00pm.