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SUMMARY:Careers in Management
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Humanities Career Panel Series — \nLearn how your Humanities degree can help you reach the top of the career ladder. \nRSVP Here: \nhttp://humanities.ucla.edu/career/careers-in-management/ \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/careers-in-management/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 314\, 340 Royce Dr b100\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T180000
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SUMMARY:** CANCELLED ** How much of a physician was Rashīd al-Dīn?
DESCRIPTION:Photo: Humboldt Foundation/Wolfgang Hemmann \nTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. \nA lecture by Judith Pfeiffer (University of Bonn) \nRashīd 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\, ṭabīb\, the paper explores his role as a medical practitioner\, patron\, and author of scholarly medical treatises\, arguing that Rashīd al-Dīn’s name is henceforth to be included in earnest in the history of Islamic medicine. \nJudith Pfeiffer’s research focuses on the social\, political\, and intellectual history of the Nile to Oxus region with a particular emphasis on Iran\, Central Asia\, and Anatolia during the Later Middle and Early Modern Periods of Islamic history. She has a special interest in the ways in which political and confessional boundaries were re-negotiated and re-defined during the post-Mongol period\, and has worked on Islamization processes\, historiography\, and political thought during the 13th to 17th centuries. \nHer publications include History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East (2006\, co-edited with Sholeh Quinn); Theoretical Approaches to the Transmission and Edition of Oriental Manuscripts (co-edited with Manfred Kropp\, 2007); and Politics\, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th-15th Century Tabriz (2013). \nJudith received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies/History from the University of Chicago in 2003. In the same year she joined the Faculty of Oriental Studies in Oxford as a University Lecturer and then Associate Professor\, where she taught courses on Islamic History and Culture; Arabic\, Persian\, and Ottoman Turkish historical texts and palaeography; and special options on Seljuq\, Mongol\, Mamluk\, Timurid\, Ottoman\, and Safavid history and historiography. In 2016 she was appointed Alexander von Humboldt Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Bonn\, where she currently directs the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg on 13th to 16th century Islamicate intellectual history. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia \n\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/much-physician-rashid-al-din/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170519T140000
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SUMMARY:My Story: From Iran to NASA and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Azadeh Tabazadeh is an author\, environmental consultant\, and has worked as a senior research scientist at NASA. She has taught geophysics at Stanford University and received her doctoral degree in physical chemistry from UCLA. Named as a top “Brilliant 10” young scientist in the U.S. by ​Popular Science​ \, Tabazadeh has published more than 60 articles  and was given a Presidential White House Award. Come see Tabazadeh speak on her experiences\, including her TIME-featured memoir ​The Sky Detective​  that details her life growing up in Iran. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/story-iran-nasa-beyond/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T190000
DTSTAMP:20170428T213749Z
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SUMMARY:Careers in Education and Student Affairs
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Humanities Career Panel Series — \nWant to become a teacher? Do you want to find a career in student affairs? Take advantage of an opportunity to learn about careers in education by networking with professionals and exploring our resource fair. \nRSVP Here: \nhttp://humanities.ucla.edu/career/careers-education-student-affairs/
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/careers-education-student-affairs/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 314\, 340 Royce Dr b100\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170512T120000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Professionalization Workshop
DESCRIPTION:During the first half of this professionalization seminar on the academic job market\, a panel will share their experiences in the recent job market\, both as applicants and as hiring committee members. A Q&A will follow. In the second half\, we will talk about strategies for writing effective application materials and will workshop some of these common materials\, such as CV’s\, cover letters\, and teaching philosophy statements. Please bring a printed copy of the materials you hope to workshop. \n  \nDr. Julia Troche received her B.A. in History from UCLA in 2008. Her Ph.D. was awarded by Brown University in 2015 with the dissertation “Origins of Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt.” From 2015-2016 she was an Instructor of History at Missouri State University\, where she taught World History to 1600 CE and courses in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern history. Currently\, she is a Lecturer of Egyptology for the Near Eastern Languages and Culture department at UCLA. \n  \nEvent Flyer \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/afternoon-professionalization-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170501T160000
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SUMMARY:Lost Souls:  Photography of African Eunuchs & Female Servants in Qajar Iran
DESCRIPTION:©The Farhad Diba Collection of Qajar Photographs.\nCaption: Malek Jahan Khanom/ Mahd-e Olia\, the mother of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar \nA lecture in English by Pedram Khosronejad \nThe focus of scholars of photography of Qajar Iran\, remains fixed solely on photographic content\, without any consideration of the materiality of photographic form. Recognizing photographs as material culture is a way to address such a blind spot\, and suggests that any methodological use of them requires a more complex and subtle approach. Photographs of enslaved children\, women and men in Iran during the Qajar period provide compelling and haunting documentation of individuals (African slaves) otherwise lost to the written historical record. Yet the history of such photographs is firmly embedded in the dynamic of exploitation and dehumanization that lay at the core of African slavery in Qajar Iran. \nPedram Khosronejad is Farzaneh Family Chair and Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program (IPGS) at the Oklahoma State University and also associate member of Groupe Sociétés\, Religions\, Laicités\, CNRS-Paris\, France. He obtained his PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His research interests include cultural and social anthropology\, the anthropology of death and dying\, visual anthropology\, visual piety\, devotional artefacts\, and religious material culture\, with a particular interest in Iran\, Persianate societies and the Islamic world. He is author of Les Lions en Pierre Sculptée chez les Bakhtiari: Description et significations de sculptures zoomorphes dans une société tribale du sud-ouest de l’Iran\, The Anthropology of Persianate Societies\, Volume 2 (Sean Kingston Publishing\, U.K.). He is also the editor of several publications: The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi’ism: Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi’i Islam (I.B. Tauris); Saints and their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighboring Countries (Sean Kingston); Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema: Religion\, Martyrdom and National Identity (Sean Kingston); Unburied Memories: The Politics of Bodies\, and the Material Culture of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran (Routledge). He is also chief editor of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME). \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/lost-souls-photography-african-eunuchs-female-servants-qajar-iran/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170430T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170430T180000
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SUMMARY:Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) and the Creation of the “Sacred Defense Art”
DESCRIPTION:© Revayat-e Farth Institute\, Tehran\, Iran. Caption: Morteza Avini. \nA lecture in Persian by Pedram Khosronejad \nPedram Khosronejad is Farzaneh Family Chair and Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program (IPGS) at the Oklahoma State University and also associate member of Groupe Sociétés\, Religions\, Laicités\, CNRS-Paris\, France. He obtained his PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His research interests include cultural and social anthropology\, the anthropology of death and dying\, visual anthropology\, visual piety\, devotional artefacts\, and religious material culture\, with a particular interest in Iran\, Persianate societies and the Islamic world. He is author of Les Lions en Pierre Sculptée chez les Bakhtiari:  Description et significations de sculptures zoomorphes dans une société tribale du sud-ouest de l’Iran\, The Anthropology of Persianate Societies\, Volume 2 (Sean Kingston Publishing\, U.K.). He is also the editor of several publications: The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi’ism: Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi’i Islam (I.B. Tauris); Saints and their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighboring Countries (Sean Kingston); Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema: Religion\, Martyrdom and National Identity (Sean Kingston); Unburied Memories: The Politics of Bodies\, and the Material Culture of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran (Routledge). He is also chief editor of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME). \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iran-iraq-war-1980-88-creation-sacred-defense-art/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T200000
DTSTAMP:20170830T180156Z
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SUMMARY:Arabic-Hebrew Cafe
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URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/arabic-hebrew-cafe/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170411T123000
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SUMMARY:Senenmut Redivivus: The Interesting Life & Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Official
DESCRIPTION:Senenmut was one of ancient Egypt’s most famous personalities: chief minister and possible lover of Queen Hatshepsut (c. 1473-1478)\, Egypt’s female pharaoh. More monuments are known for Senenmut than for any other official of the New Kingdom\, implying his exceptional status during life. Recently\, an unassuming stone fragment in the Manchester Museum\, UK\, proved the existence of yet another statue of Senenmut. This lecture will present this rediscovery\, and attempt to explain the significance of the man\, his monuments and legacy. \n\nCampbell Price is Curator of Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum\, University of Manchester\, one of the UK’s largest Egyptian collections. He studied Egyptology at the University of Liverpool\, where he is an Honorary Research Fellow. His research focuses on elite monumental expression\, particularly non-royal temple sculpture\, during the First Millennium BC\, and the presentation of ancient Egypt in museums. Campbell has participated in fieldwork at Zawiyet Umm                                                                                    el-Rakham and Saqqara\, lectured widely around the UK                                                                                    and Europe\,and made international TV and radio                                                                                              appearances.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/senenmut-redivivus-interesting-life-afterlife-ancient-egyptian-official/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Egyptology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170409T180000
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SUMMARY:Literature: Its Existence and Its Appearance
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in Persian by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak \nBud o Nemud-e Sokhan (Literature: Its Existence and Its Appearance) brings together twenty select articles which Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak has written and published in the Persian language over three decades of academic service in the United States\, and which have a bearing on a novel understanding of the history of Persian Literature. In an extensive Introductory essay\, the author relates each of the works he analyzes and interprets to its specific social context and to the ways these essays\, taken collectively\, contribute to the formation and evolution of this world renowned literary belletristic tradition over eleven centuries of continued writing. In his talk the author will also chart the course for a new project\, that is a History of Persian Poetry conceptualized as a multinational cosmopolitan aesthetic tradition of universal relevance. \nAhmad Karimi-Hakkak is a professor of Persian Language\, Literature and Culture at the University of Maryland and now a visiting professor at the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages. He is the author\, translator and editor of twenty-three books and over one-hundred academic articles\, and has contributed to various leading encyclopedias such as Britannica and Iranica. His works have been translated into many languages and the Persian translation of one of his most important books\, titled Recasting Persian Poetry (Persian title: Tali`eh-ye Tajaddod dar She`r-e Farsi) is the standard textbook for Ph.D. programs in Persian literature in Iranian and Indian universities. \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/literature-existence-appearance/
LOCATION:161 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170407T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170407T133000
DTSTAMP:20170327T182348Z
CREATED:20170327T182247Z
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SUMMARY:The Inventors of the Alphabet — Erudite Scribes or Unlettered MinersOrly
DESCRIPTION:According to Orly Goldwasser’s analysis of the evidence\, the alphabet was invented around 1840 BCE by illiterate Canaanite mining experts working in the Sinai site of Serabit el-Khadem. This conclusion is based on a painstaking comparative analysis of the paleography of the Middle Kingdom hieroglyphs in the Egyptian temple on the site and the so-called “Proto-Sinaitic” inscriptions that were discovered primarily in and around the neighboring mines.The inventors of the alphabet were inspired by the highly pictorial hieroglyphs around them\, but they used them only as hardware for their new script in an innovative\, distinctly un-Egyptian manner.The graphemes of the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions represent mono-consonants (letters)\, and the pictorial meaning of each sign should always be discarded in order to reach the correct reading.Two related issues have often been raised in response to her theory. First\, how could illiterate\, “simple” people accomplish such an intellectual leap without prior education? Second\, is it not evident that erudite scribes would have had the necessary experience and culture to adopt the idea of mono-consonants from the ancient Egyptian script that they knew so well? \n\nOrly Goldwasser is an Israeli Egyptologist\, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University. She received her B.A. at Tel Aviv University\, continued studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, where she was awarded her M.A. and PhD degrees. She occupies the chair of Egyptology at the Hebrew University\, and is a Honorary Professor at the University of Göttingen\, she was guest professor at the University of Göttingen\, Harvard University and at the Collège de France. Her main interests are the semiotics of the hieroglyphic script\, intercultural relations: Egypt and the Levant\, metaphors and literary images in ancient Egyptian literature and the origin of the alphabet. She is the discoverer of the classification system in the hieroglyphic script. \n  \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/inventors-alphabet-erudite-scribes-unlettered-minersorly/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg. Rm 311
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Levantine,Levantine Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T210000
DTSTAMP:20170317T172918Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170317T172918Z
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SUMMARY:Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:A book celebration for Ali Behdad \nIn the decades after its invention in 1839\, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings\, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light—making the region one of the original sites for the practice of photography. A pioneering study of this intertwined history\, Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East (University of Chicago Press\, forthcoming 2016) traces the Middle East’s influences on photography’s evolution\, as well as photography’s effect on Europe’s view of “the Orient.” \nConsidering a range of Western and Middle Eastern archival material from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, Ali Behdad offers a rich account of how photography transformed Europe’s distinctly Orientalist vision into what seemed objective fact\, a transformation that proved central to the project of European colonialism. At the same time\, Orientalism was useful for photographers from both regions\, as it gave them a set of conventions by which to frame exotic Middle Eastern cultures for Western audiences. Behdad also shows how Middle Eastern audiences embraced photography as a way to foreground status and patriarchal values while also exoticizing other social classes. \nHosted reception at 6:00pm in the indoor atrium on the main level. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Department of English\, UCLA Department of Comparative Literature and UCLA Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/camera-orientalis-reflections-photography-middle-east/
LOCATION:Fowler Museum (Lenart Auditorium)\, 308 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T180000
DTSTAMP:20170120T003035Z
CREATED:20170120T003035Z
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SUMMARY:The Anatomy of Loyalty and Patterns of Patronage in the Religio-political Culture of Sixteenth Century Iran
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Khafipour discusses the spiritual dimensions of political loyalty that was instrumental in the formation of strong ties between the Safavid rulers and their chiefs at the epicenter of the order\, where power was continually contested. Drawing on a wide variety of historical and literary sources\, Islamic theology\, and theories of power\, he discusses the anatomy of political loyalty among the early Safavids within the context of early modern state formation and posits that hierarchies of spiritual power inherent in Sufi orders and sacrosanct mutual obligations that informs pir-murid interactions helped to create a strong patronage system that offered the early Safavids the ideological sources for long term success as a political order. \nHani Khafipour received his doctorate from the University of Chicago. He is a specialist in the history of medieval and early-modern Iran. His research encompasses study of the structures of political orders\, theories of power and state formation\, sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis. He has held research fellowships from the Iran Heritage Foundation (UK)\, and the American Institute of Iranian Studies.  He was an Andrew W. Mellon fellow\, and a fellow of the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute. Khafipour teaches courses on Islamic political thought and theory\, and medieval and modern history of Iran at the University of Southern California. His recent research and teaching interests has culminated in an edited volume\, Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid\, Ottoman\, and Mughal Literate Communities (Columbia University Press\, 2017)\, and a book manuscript\, The Mantle of Authority in an Early Modern Society (under preparation). He is the current History of Iran Section Editor for the Encyclopedia of Islam 3\, Brill.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/anatomy-loyalty-patterns-patronage-religio-political-culture-sixteenth-century-iran/
LOCATION:11348 Charles E. Young Research Library
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170305T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170305T180000
DTSTAMP:20170216T202034Z
CREATED:20170104T234759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T202034Z
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SUMMARY:Iran-China Relations in a Changing World
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in Persian \nAs two great civilizations with an illustrious imperial past\, Iran and China have a long history of trade\, political and cultural ties that go back to the ancient Silk Road more than 2100 years ago.  Islam was introduced to China by Persian speaking Muslims.  Currently\, China has more than 30 million Muslims living primarily in the Western part of the country. Against this historical backdrop\, Iran and China have witnessed an impressive expansion of their bilateral relations since the 1979 Iranian revolution. While we would briefly discuss the historical ties\, the major focus of this lecture would be on the multifaceted dimensions of Iran- China relations in the last 36 years\, including trade\, energy\, security\, and political relations. I would also discuss the possible future directions of Iran–China relations in the aftermath of the nuclear agreement\, thus shedding light on the larger implications of this relationship for the region and beyond. \nManochehr Dorraj received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas Austin and is currently professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University. He is the author\, coauthor\, editor or coeditor of 6 books and numerous articles and book chapters. He has been invited to present his scholarship in national and international symposiums\, including those in John Hopkins\, Yale\, Harvard\, Queens University (Canada)\, and Nottingham University (Great Britain). Manochehr Dorraj is a frequent commentator on global affairs in general and Middle East politics in particular. He has granted numerous interviews to international\, national and local media. He is also active in lecture circuits and has delivered many speeches to universities\, think tanks and community groups in Dallas-Fort Worth area and throughout the United States\, Canada\, Europe\, China and the Middle East. \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iran-china-relations-changing-world/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170303T140000
DTSTAMP:20170222T011009Z
CREATED:20170222T003932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170222T011009Z
UID:6871-1488542400-1488549600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The unusual New Kingdom Tomb-Chapel of Isisnofret on a rocky outcropping at Northwest Saqqara
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n Dr. Nozomu Kawai specializes in history\, art and archaeology of the New Kingdom in Egypt\, with a particular emphasis on the period from the late Eighteenth Dynasty to the Nineteenth Dynasty. She has been directing Japanese archaeological excavation at Northwest Saqqara / South Abusir since 2001. Her Ph.D. thesis was on the reign of Tutankhamun (Studies in the Reign of Tutankhamun\, Department of Near Eastern Studies\, Johns Hopkins University\, 2005). She is currently working for the revision of her original dissertation for publication. \n  \nEvent Flyer: 03317-Talk-Kawai-Nozomu.pdf
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/unusual-new-kingdom-tomb-chapel-isisnofret-rocky-outcropping-northwest-saqqara/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Egyptology,NELC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170228T150000
DTSTAMP:20170306T182708Z
CREATED:20170208T220848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170306T182708Z
UID:6652-1488283200-1488294000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Speed Dating (Artifacts) In Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:  \nWorkshop \nEver wanted to know how to date an Egyptian statue? What makes an Amenhotep III face recognizable? How can you tell if a piece was recarved? What about the dating of Egyptian non-royal objects? This workshop will teach some of the tricks of the trade – using the shape of an eye\, or a drooping lotus\, or a distinctive belly button – as well as introducing the standards of portraiture. Come and learn to date Egyptian artifacts like a pro. \nPIZZA WILL BE SERVED! \nDanielle Candelora is an Egyptology graduate student here at UCLA. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney is a professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/speed-dating-artifacts-ancient-egypt/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Egyptology
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T170000
DTSTAMP:20170127T201732Z
CREATED:20170127T193244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170127T201732Z
UID:6549-1487863800-1487869200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Egyptian Coffins and Sarcophagi in the San Diego Museum of Man: Some Technical Studies
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe San Diego museum of man has a collection of Saite and Ptolemaic coffins and mummies which were the subject of a technical study from 2007-2009.  Pigments\, binding media\, grounds\, wood and degradation products were characterized by x ray diffraction analyses\, x ray fluorescence spectroscopy\, polarized light microscopy\, wood anatomy\, gas chromatography mass spectrometry and Elisa\, a synopsis of the results of the study will be presented with examples of specific coffins illustrated. \nLight lunch provided. \nDavid Scott\nProfessor\nArt History\nUCLA Getty Conservation Program\nEvent Flyer \n  \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/egyptian-coffins-sarcophagi-san-diego-museum-man-technical-studies/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Egyptology,NELC
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170223
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170225
DTSTAMP:20170214T231629Z
CREATED:20161014T173119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170214T231629Z
UID:5625-1487808000-1487980799@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Annual Colloquia in Armenian Studies
DESCRIPTION:Program\nGraduate Presenters\nUndergraduate Presenters\nGraduate Planning Committee\nUndergraduate Planning Committee\nThe Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies is a forum for graduate students from various disciplines whose research bears on Armenian Studies to present scholarly papers in the humanities and social sciences\, within disciplines as wide-ranging as Anthropology\, Archaeology\, Art history\, Comparative Literature\, Gender Studies\, History\, and Political Science.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/agsc/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 314\, 340 Royce Dr b100\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170221T190000
DTSTAMP:20170216T021501Z
CREATED:20170216T021501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T021501Z
UID:6840-1487700000-1487703600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Opening at the Close: History and Politics in Late-10th- Century Armenia
DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the spectrum of Armenian historical writing from the second half of the 10th century\, arguing for a remarkable diversity of approach and experience. \n\n\nDr. Timothy W. Greenwood received his D.Phil from the University of Oxford\, and is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His teaching interests extend across mediaeval Byzantium and the Near East (6th–11th centuries) with particular interest in the Caucasus and Sasanian Persia. His research is centered upon Armenian political\, social and cultural history across the same period\, analyzing and exploiting literary\, epigraphic and architectural sources. A translation and commentary of an eleventh-century Armenian composition\, the Tiezerakan Patmut‘iwn or Universal History by Step’anos Taronec’i\, will be published in early 2017. \n\n\nEvent Flyer: 022117– Lecture — Greenwood\, Tim
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/opening-close-history-politics-late-10th-century-armenia/
LOCATION:Humanities Bldg. Rm 348
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/armenia.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T153000
DTSTAMP:20170214T185323Z
CREATED:20170214T185200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170214T185323Z
UID:6806-1487259000-1487259000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Archaeological Adventure of Museo Egizio (1903-1920)
DESCRIPTION:Ernesto Schiaparelli\, director of Museo Egizio between 1894 and 1928 responded to the need for an enlarged Egyptian collection at Turin. In 1903 the Missione Archeologica Italiana (M.A.I.) was founded\, promoting 12 archaeological expeditions at 11 sites in Egypt. With the important assistance of collaborators\, Schiaparelli undertook this fieldwork to better document the history of Ancient Egypt. Significantly\, the anthropological interest in human remains of these expeditions was at that time innovative\, and gave the Museo Egizio an original multidisciplinary perspective. The rich photographic\, and documentary archive of the M.A.I.’s allows the reconstruction not only of their organisation and the discoveries they made\, but also the daily life of an expedition. Excavations ended in 1920 with the fourth archaeological campaign of the site in Gebelein\, though the last crates of artefacts arrived in Turin in 1923. The extraordinary corpus of objects found during the excavations required the opening of new rooms to visitors\, and increased and completed the documentation of historical periods already on display. From then until the present day\, Museo Egizio has been excavating at Saqqara in a collaborative project with the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. The excavation in Saqqara allows the archaeological exploration\, and study\, of one of the New Kingdom’s most important necropolis. \nChristian Greco\nCurator\, Dutch National Museum of Antiquities \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/archaeological-adventure-museo-egizio-1903-1920-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Room 365\, 415 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,NELC
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nelc.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/021617-Lecture-Greco-Christian.pdf-Adobe-Acrobat-Pro-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T180000
DTSTAMP:20170202T225909Z
CREATED:20170202T225909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170202T225909Z
UID:6633-1487174400-1487181600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Excavations at Pasargadae: The First Imperial City of the Achaemenids
DESCRIPTION:The World Heritage site of Pasargadae was the first dynastic site of the Achaemenid Empire\, founded by Cyrus the Great\, in Fars\, in the sixth century BCE. Its palaces\, gardens\, and the mausoleum of Cyrus are outstanding examples of the first phase of royal Achaemenid art and architecture and testament to the grandeur of the Achaemenid civilization. In 2016\, a new comprehensive excavation project was launched at the site. The first season of work concentrated on the ruined\, solitary tower known as Zendān–e Soleymān (“Prison of Solomon”)\, with the aim of shedding more light on this enigmatic edifice that has been regarded as a tomb\, a fire temple\, or a depository. \nAli Mousavi was born and raised in Iran. He studied in Lyon\, France\, and took his B.A. in Art History\, and his M.A. in Archaeology\, from the University of Lyon\, France. He obtained his Ph.D. in archaeology of the ancient Near East from the University of California\, Berkeley. He excavated in France\, Turkey\, and Iran\, and contributed to the nomination of a number of archaeological sites and monuments for inscription on the World Heritage List of UNESCO. He is the author of a book on the site of Persepolis (Persepolis: Discovery and Afterlife of a World Wonder)\, co-editor of the book Ancient Iran from the Air\, and a number of scholarly articles. He worked as an Assistant Curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 2006 to 2013. He teaches art and archaeology of ancient Iran at UCLA. He is the director of the Pasargadae Archaeological Excavations. \n*Light refreshments will be served*
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/excavations-pasargadae-first-imperial-city-achaemenids/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170214T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170214T170000
DTSTAMP:20170202T230026Z
CREATED:20170104T234613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170202T230026Z
UID:6384-1487084400-1487091600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Metaphysical Subversions in Contemporary Iranian Art
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in English \nThe directional force of contemporary Iranian art\, especially photography\, the genius of its expression\, is principally the subversion of metaphysical concepts\, be they theological\, philosophical and/or ontological. Contemporary Iranian art makes transparent the arbitrariness of Truth centers\, thus resulting in the erasure of such cherished absolutes as the concept of author as God (artist as the creator of original concepts and forms)\, Art (as a privileged expression) and the a priori of an essence from which emanates all values. \nAbbas Daneshvari is the former chair of the Department of Art and presently the FERP Professor of Art History at California State University\, Los Angeles. He received his PhD from UCLA in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies and has taught at the University of California\, Berkeley and California State University\, Los Angeles. He was also a Fulbright scholar in Cairo\, Egypt where he lectured at the American University of Cairo and Cairo University. Dr. Daneshvari’s publications cover various aspects of Islamic and contemporary iconography as attested by his books Animal Symbolism in Warqa a Gulshah (Oxford University Press)\, Of Serpents and Dragons in Islamic Art (Mazda and the Persian Heritage Foundation) and most recently Amazingly Original\, Contemporary Iranian Art at Crossroads and Contemporary Iranian Photography\, Five Essays. Dr. Daneshvari is the author and editor of ten books and numerous monographs and articles on the arts of the Middle East and Contemporary European and American postmodernism. \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center on Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/metaphysical-subversions-contemporary-iranian-art/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T130000
DTSTAMP:20170119T175627Z
CREATED:20170117T015424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T175627Z
UID:6449-1486724400-1486731600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:New Light on Qubbet el-Hawa
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Bommas will be giving two lectures. First lecture will be from 11:00A-11:50A. Second lecture will be from 12:15P-1:00P. \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Martin Bommas\nReader in Egyptology\nGetty Scholar 2016-2017\nCurator of the Eton Myers Collection of Egyptian Arts at the University of Birmingham\nDirector of the Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project\nEditor-in-chief of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology  \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/new-light-qubbet-el-hawa/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,NELC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T170000
DTSTAMP:20170104T234315Z
CREATED:20170104T234315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170104T234315Z
UID:6381-1486652400-1486659600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Contested Terrains of Iranian Culture
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in English \nThroughout modern Iranian history\, culture has served as a means of imposing unity and cohesion onto society. The Pahlavi monarchs used it to project an image of Iran as an ancient civilization\, re-emerging as an equal to Western nations\, while the revolutionaries deployed it to remake the country into an Islamic nation. Just as Iranian culture has been continually re-interpreted\, the representations and avocations of Iranian identity vary amongst Iranians across the world. This presentation will explore how the contested and contradictory claims to culture can inform and reshape the conceptualization of culture. \nNasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities and Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Irvine. Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature\, the literature of Iranian exile and diaspora\, contemporary Iranian women’s writing.  Among her publications are Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History\, Forugh Farrokhzad\, Poet of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry co-edited with Dominic Parviz Brookshaw. Her most recent book entitled Iranian Culture was published by Routledge in September 2015 \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center on Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/contested-terrains-iranian-culture/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T170000
DTSTAMP:20170208T225000Z
CREATED:20170208T225000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170208T225000Z
UID:6678-1486540800-1486573200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Archaeological Adventure of Museo Egizio (1903-1920)
DESCRIPTION:Ernesto Schiaparelli\, director of Museo Egizio between 1894 and 1928 responded to the need for an enlarged Egyptian collection at Turin. In 1903 the Missione Archeologica Italiana (M.A.I.) was founded\, promoting 12 archaeological expeditions at 11 sites in Egypt. With the important assistance of collaborators\, Schiaparelli undertook this fieldwork to better document the history of Ancient Egypt. Significantly\, the anthropological interest in human remains of these expeditions was at that time innovative\, and gave the Museo Egizio an original multidisciplinary perspective. The rich photographic\, and documentary archive of the M.A.I.’s allows the reconstruction not only of their organisation and the discoveries they made\, but also the daily life of an expedition. Excavations ended in 1920 with the fourth archaeological campaign of the site in Gebelein\, though the last crates of artefacts arrived in Turin in 1923. The extraordinary corpus of objects found during the excavations required the opening of new rooms to visitors\, and increased and completed the documentation of historical periods already on display. From then until the present day\, Museo Egizio has been excavating at Saqqara in a collaborative project with the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. The excavation in Saqqara allows the archaeological exploration\, and study\, of one of the New Kingdom’s most important necropolis. \nChristian Greco is a curator at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/archaeological-adventure-museo-egizio-1903-1920/
LOCATION:CA
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170130T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170130T183000
DTSTAMP:20170120T171450Z
CREATED:20170120T171330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T171450Z
UID:6503-1485793800-1485801000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Politics of Inequality in Israel: New Insights from the Social Justice Protest of 2011
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE TALK\nIn Israel in the summer of 2011 at least one in five adult citizens participated in a wave of street protests\, critiquing rising inequality and demanding increased government intervention. This represented an exceptional departure from normal welfare state politics in Israel\, which lies outside the left/right division and is dominated by parties and pressure groups representing specific sectors of society. \nTo the extent that the social protest succeeded in breaking down barriers defined by class\, culture and politics\, what made this possible? The protest was dominated by affluent\, left-leaning secular Jews. Haredim (ultra-Orthodox) and Arabs\, sympathetic to some of the protest’s messages but alienated from its messengers\, generally refrained. However\, new evidence documents and helps explain exceptions.\nIt reveals a de facto alliance between traditionally dominant Ashkenazi (European) Jews and upwardly mobile segments of the historically marginalized Mizrachi (Middle Eastern) population. These findings have implications for both the political sociology of protest and the study of Israeli society and politics. \n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\nMichael Shalev is Visiting Israel Institute Professor of Political Science at UC-Berkeley. He is Emeritus Professor from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who served as chair of the Departments of Sociology and Political Science. Shalev’s primary interests are (1) the comparative political economy of rich democracies\, including studies of labor relations\, welfare states and gender inequality; and (2) electoral politics\, political economy and the welfare state in Israel. \nHe is co-editor with Asa Maron of Neoliberalism as a state project: Changing the political economy of Israel (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). His recent research is on the wave of mass protests in Israel and Southern Europe in 2011. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology &\nDepartment of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/politics-inequality-israel-new-insights-social-justice-protest-2011/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,NELC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T180000
DTSTAMP:20170123T234752Z
CREATED:20170123T234752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170123T234752Z
UID:6514-1485360000-1485367200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Western Iran in the Third Millennium BCE: The Early Trans-Caucasian Phenomenon Seen from Yanik Tepe
DESCRIPTION:The Early Trans-Caucasian (ETC)\, otherwise known as Kura–Araxes\, Karaz\, and Khirbet Kerak\, spanned the later part of the fourth and the entire third millennia BCE. Defined by distinctive pottery assemblages\, and also by building styles and portable hearths\, the ETC stretched over a vast expanse from the upper Euphrates Valley to the Caspian hills and from the Southern Caucasus to the Levant. While there has been much recent discussion of the ETC Phenomenon in the Southern Caucasus\, Turkey and the Levant\, little attempt has been made to integrate highly significant evidence from Iran. Ongoing publication of Charles Burney’s extensive excavations at Yanik Tepe\, conducted in the 1960s\, seeks to address many current concerns. This talk will summarize the extensive village plans and deep stratification in relation to chronology\, socio-economy\, cult\, origins and migration\, and regionalization. The intention is to provoke lively discussion. \nGeoffrey Summers obtained his PhD from The University of Manchester (UK 1982) which focused on the ETC levels at Yanik Tepe. Since then he has worked extensively in the Near East. From 1993 to 2012 he was Director of surveys and excavations at Iron Age capital Kerkenes in central Turkey. Dr. Summers is currently undertaking research in Mauritius\, focusing on Île de la Passe.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/western-iran-third-millennium-bce-early-trans-caucasian-phenomenon-seen-yanik-tepe/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170124T190000
DTSTAMP:20170118T204107Z
CREATED:20170118T204107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170118T204107Z
UID:6480-1485273600-1485284400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:To Refer or Not to Refer: Tracking Intertextuality in the Hebrew Bible
DESCRIPTION:Professor Machinist will develop aspects of intertextuality through several examples involving well-known biblical texts\, including Psalm 29—a famous “Canaanite” hymn in the Psalter. This seminar will be held in conjunction with Professor Schniedewind’s Ugaritic seminar. Graduate students are encouraged to read Psalm 29 and Y. Avishur’s chapter on “Psalm 29” in Studies in Hebrew and Ugaritic Psalms. \n  \n  \nDr. Peter Machinist\nHarvard Divinity School \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/refer-not-refer-tracking-intertextuality-hebrew-bible/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,NELC,Semitics
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170120T130000
DTSTAMP:20170119T161725Z
CREATED:20170105T193537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T161725Z
UID:6397-1484913600-1484917200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Modelling Long-Distance Interaction in the Middle Bronze Age
DESCRIPTION:The Old Assyrian trade network c. 1895-1865 BCE is by far the best documented example of how a long-distance commercial circuit was organized and run in the ancient world. But the Assyrian records show that the circuit to which they relate was not isolated. It formed part of a chain of comparable units and was kept intentionally separate from competing entities. This talk will explore some of those other linked and competing commercial networks of the Middle Bronze Age in the Near East (2000-1500 BCE)\, both through the Assyrian trade records and the contemporary archaeological assemblage from Anatolia and beyond. \nLight lunch provided. \nGojko Barjamovic\nLecturer on Assyriology; Director of Undergraduate Studies \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/modelling-long-distance-interaction-middle-bronze-agethe-old/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T200000
DTSTAMP:20170111T010131Z
CREATED:20170111T010131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170111T010131Z
UID:6424-1484848800-1484856000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:The Iranian Student Group at UCLA will be hosting a screening and Q&A with lm director  Jahangir Golestan for two back-to-back\, English-language documentaries: Homeless to Homeowner\, telling the story of Mohammad Mohanna\, who establishes a facility to serve  the homeless of Sacramento\, and Bam 6.6\, detailing the story of the Iranians that saved the  lives of a Jewish-American couple in the aftermath of Iran’s 2003 earthquake in Bam. This  free event is open to the public and made possible by the UCLA Iranian Studies Program. \nLight refreshments will be served | parking available at lots 2\, 3\, & 4
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/film-screening/
LOCATION:Haines 220\, 375 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1551 \, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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