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ImaginePhD: Exploring Humanist Career Paths
Learn about career paths for humanities PhDs and identify a few starting points and resources related to your individual interests, skills and values so that you can start consider possibilities and build a plan for your own professional development and career goals with the ImaginePHD career planning and exploration tool. Please bring a laptop to this...
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Graduate Student Conference Talks and Q&A
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCome and hear what the graduate students in NELC are working on! Graduate students presenting their research at academic conferences in the next month will be giving their talks for the NELC community, and would love feedback and questions! Speakers (in order): Andrew Danielson Danielle Candelora Jacob Damm Jeremy Williams Timothy Hogue Marissa Stevens Event...
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The King of Kings’ Empire as a Garden in Ancient Iran
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine) This lecture explores the idea of the Sasanian Empire (Iranshahr) as a garden. The theme of the Persian Empire as a paradise has been explored by a number of scholars, but the continuation of this idea in Late Antiquity is neglected. The speaker will discuss how the Sasanian king of kings...
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Computers and Challenges of Writing in Persian
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA lecture in Persian by Behrooz Parhami (UCSB). November 19, 2017. The Persian script has presented some difficulties, ever since printing presses were introduced in Iran in the 1600s. The appearance of typewriters created additional problems and the introduction of digital computers added to the design challenges. These difficulties persisted, until high-resolution dot-matrix printing offered greater...
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Computers and Challenges of Writing in Persian
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA lecture in English by Behrooz Parhami (UCSB). November 20, 2017. The Persian script has presented some difficulties, ever since printing presses were introduced in Iran in the 1600s. The appearance of typewriters created additional problems and the introduction of digital computers added to the design challenges. These difficulties persisted, until high-resolution dot-matrix printing offered greater...
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Many Roads to Oxiana: Safavid and Mughal Poetry on Central Asian Campaigns
10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United StatesSunil Sharma (Boston University) Central Asia under the Uzbeks was viewed with ambivalence by their Persianate neighbors, the Safavids and Mughals. On the one hand, it was cherished as the cradle of Persian literature and the Timurid homeland, but at the same time its rulers were also frequently at war with them. Literary representations of military...
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The Achaemenid King and his Governors: Identity – Imitation – Identification
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)Maria Brosius (University of Toronto) While we may have a rather clear idea about the relationship between the Achaemenid king and his satraps, the relationship between the king and local governors and city-rulers has received less scholarly attention. An exception to this omission is Mausolus of Caria who seems to stand out because Greek sources...
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From Pastoral Nomads to Policemen: Ethnicity and Identity of the Medjay in Ancient Egypt
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesProfessor Kate Liszka will provide a lecture on the introduction of the diverse textual, artistic, and archaeological sources that help us identify how Medjay evolved from an ethnic group to Egypt’s most important police force. Come learn more about the Medjay people. Lunch will be provided. Kate Liszka completed her degree in Egyptology at the...
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Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Holiday Party
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCome join us for our First Annual Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Holiday Party! Come meet faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students within the program. Refreshments will be provided. Event Flyer Please RSVP for Event
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Great King / King of Kings. Survival and Transformation of a Persian Title in the Hellenistic Period, c. 330–30 BCE: From the Achaemenids to the Parthians
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)Rolf Strootman (Utrecht University) The Old Persian imperial titles Great King and King of Kings (xšāyaθiya vazạrka and xšāyaθiya xšāyaθiyānām) disappeared after the Macedonian conquest of the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BCE. But already before the Parthians reestablished Iranian kingship in Iran, the title Great King had returned in a Greek version: basileus megas. That title...