Events
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The Political Economy of the Canaanite Palace of Kabri
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesEvent Flyer Tel Kabri, in the western Galilee of modern day Israel, is a large, 34 ha site, surrounded by rich agricultural land. During the Middle Bronze Age it was the center of a Canaanite polity. Its location, 5 km from the Mediterranean coast, facilitated its connections to major land routes, as well as to...
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Abbas Kiarostami: The Man and His Arts
Royce Hall 314 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesOn Kiarostami's Poetic Landscapes Shiva Balaghi Abbas Kiarostami: The Belated Poet Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak The Artful Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami Hamid Naficy Take Me Home (2016) Film screening and remarks by Ahmad Kiarostami Roundtable discussion Moderated by Nayereh Tohidi *Presentations in English followed by a Roundtable Discussion in Persian Shiva Balaghi is a cultural historian, focusing...
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Greater Glory: Darius I and Divinity in Achaemenid Royal Ideology
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)Matthew Waters (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) The close link between the king and the divine has deep roots in Near Eastern royal ideologies, and the Persian kings during the Achaemenid period (c. 550-330 BCE) followed this tradition. Exactly how close was the link? Recent studies suggest a blurred line between the two especially during at...
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Sexuality and Cultural Change in Iranian Cinema
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA lecture in Persian by Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona). October 8, 2017. The history of Iranian cinema adequately reflects the construction of gender in Iran. But the expression of sexuality is a problematic notion on a number of levels. In western societies, the preoccupation with human sexuality prompted reflection about human physiology, gender identity,...
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What Kind of Wine did Rudaki Fancy?
Humanities Bldg. Rm 348 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)A lecture in English by Kamran Talattof (University of Arizona). October 09, 2017. One of the earliest Persian poets, Rudaki (859–941), employed the word wine within a wide semantic register in his poems. However, his unicity is most manifest when the process of wine making is depicted within a highly allegorical poem entitled “Mother of Wine."...
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FBI – Information Session: Collegiate Hiring Initiative and Honors Internship Program
Humanities Room 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesInformation Session: Collegiate Hiring Initiative and Honors Internship Program Interested in becoming an FBI Intern or looking for a full-time position? Join us to learn more about two of FBI's collegiate programs. Deadline to apply for both is October 15th. When: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Time: 6:30PM-8:30PM Where: University of California, Los Angeles; Kaplan...
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Rashīd al-Dīn in the Eye of the Beholder: Proposing a Holistic Approach to Reception History
10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United StatesPhoto: Humboldt Foundation/Wolfgang Hemmann Central Asia in Transition Lecture by Judith Pfeiffer (University of Bonn) Recent scholarship has painted a rather dim picture of the Mongol-Ilkhanid vizier and historian Rashīd al-Dīn’s (d. 718/1318) historiographical impact in the Muslim world. This lecture proposes a holistic approach to Rashīd al-Dīn’s oeuvre that includes both his historiographical and...
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How much of a physician was Rashīd al-Dīn?
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)Photo: Humboldt Foundation/Wolfgang Hemmann A lecture by Judith Pfeiffer (University of Bonn) Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍl Allāh Hamadānī (d. 718/1318) is often introduced as “ṭabīb,” or ‘physician,’ mostly to distinguish him from authors with similar names, notably the epistolographer Rashīd al-Dīn Waṭwāṭ (d. 578/1182). This paper discusses Rashīd al-Dīn’s scholarly persona as a physician. Starting from his epithet,...
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Searching for Scribal Curriculum in Ancient Israel
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesProfessor William Schniedewind will present the outlines of his research in progress—a book on Scribal Education in Ancient Israel. The research proposes that outlines of scribal curriculum in early Israel can now be reconstructed based on his interpretation of the recently fully published inscriptions from Kuntillet Ajrud and using parallels with Mesopotamian scribal curriculum and...
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Graduate Student Conference Talks and Q&A
Come 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!