Events
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Film Screening
Haines 220 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe 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...
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Modelling Long-Distance Interaction in the Middle Bronze Age
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe 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...
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To Refer or Not to Refer: Tracking Intertextuality in the Hebrew Bible
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesProfessor 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...
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Western Iran in the Third Millennium BCE: The Early Trans-Caucasian Phenomenon Seen from Yanik Tepe
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)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...
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The Politics of Inequality in Israel: New Insights from the Social Justice Protest of 2011
6275 Bunche HallABOUT THE TALK In 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...
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The Archaeological Adventure of Museo Egizio (1903-1920)
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...
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Contested Terrains of Iranian Culture
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA lecture in English Throughout 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...
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New Light on Qubbet el-Hawa
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDr. Bommas will be giving two lectures. First lecture will be from 11:00A-11:50A. Second lecture will be from 12:15P-1:00P. Dr. Martin Bommas Reader in Egyptology Getty Scholar 2016-2017 Curator of the Eton Myers Collection of Egyptian Arts at the University of Birmingham Director of the Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project Editor-in-chief of the...
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Metaphysical Subversions in Contemporary Iranian Art
NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365) 365 Humanities, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA lecture in English The 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...
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Excavations at Pasargadae: The First Imperial City of the Achaemenids
Royce Hall Room 306 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA (CALIFORNIA)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...