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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170214T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170214T170000
DTSTAMP:20170202T230026Z
CREATED:20170104T234613Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T130000
DTSTAMP:20170119T175627Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T170000
DTSTAMP:20170104T234315Z
CREATED:20170104T234315Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T170000
DTSTAMP:20170208T225000Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170130T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170130T183000
DTSTAMP:20170120T171450Z
CREATED:20170120T171330Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T180000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170120T130000
DTSTAMP:20170119T161725Z
CREATED:20170105T193537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T161725Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T200000
DTSTAMP:20170111T010131Z
CREATED:20170111T010131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170111T010131Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T130000
DTSTAMP:20170112T201949Z
CREATED:20170112T201932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170112T201949Z
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SUMMARY:Divine Priestesses: The Ptolemaic Queens in the Egyptian and Hellenistic Cults
DESCRIPTION:The Ptolemaic kings and queens were not only venerated as synnaoi theoi (‘temple-sharing gods’) in the Egyptian temples and received various cults of their own (including the Hellenistic and Egyptian ruler cults)\, but they also served as priests and priestesses themselves. In the ancient Egyptian understanding\, the king was per definitionem the high priest. This lecture will focus on the queens serving as priestesses\, both in the Hellenistic and the Egyptian contexts\, and analyse how these two worlds were possibly interlinked and based on existing traditions. \n\n \nLight lunch provided. \nDr. Martina Minas-Nerpel\nSwansea University\, United Kingdom \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/divine-priestesses-ptolemaic-queens-egyptian-hellenistic-cults/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170115T180000
DTSTAMP:20170104T233535Z
CREATED:20170104T233535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170104T233535Z
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SUMMARY:Persepolis After Alexander
DESCRIPTION:A lecture in Persian \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. \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/persepolis-after-alexander/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, 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:20170112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170112T173000
DTSTAMP:20170109T181800Z
CREATED:20170109T181738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T181800Z
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SUMMARY:Sea Peoples and Neo-Hittites in the ‘Land of Palistin’: Recent Discoveries at Tayinat on the Orontes
DESCRIPTION:Recent archaeological discoveries have begun to challenge the prevailing view of the Early Iron Age (ca. 1200-900 BCE) as an era of cultural devolution and ethnic strife\, or a ‘Dark Age’\, in the eastern Mediterranean\, as depicted in the Homeric epics and the Hebrew Bible. This illustrated talk will highlight the exciting discoveries of the University of Toronto’s ongoing excavations at ancient Tayinat. \nTIMOTHY HARRISON\n(University of Toronto) \nCosponsored by the\nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures\nUCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/sea-peoples-neo-hittites-land-palistin-recent-discoveries-tayinat-orontes/
LOCATION:Faculty Center
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161204T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161204T180000
DTSTAMP:20161102T174506Z
CREATED:20160924T234726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161102T174506Z
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SUMMARY:Two Book Talks by Ghobad Fakhimi and Fredun Hojabri
DESCRIPTION:Two Book Talks in Persian \nGhobad Fakhimi received his BS as a petroleum engineer in 1956. He later attended the Abadan Institute of Technology and Columbia University\, where he studied advanced chemical engineering. He then worked for NIOC\, first as a plant operator\, retiring as a member of the Board of Directors. Upon retirement\, Fakhimi founded Independent International Consultants (IIC) through which he provided counsel and analysis for different international oil and engineering companies. His book Thirty Years Iran Oil not only chronicles the life of Ghobad Fakhimi but sheds light on one of the most important periods of both Middle Eastern and world history (1969-1979). \nHis talk today is titled: “Iran’s Thirty Years of Oil History: Personal Memoirs Intersecting Declassified Documents” \nFredun Hojabri received his Ph.D. in Synthetic Fuels from Karlsruhe University in Germany in 1964. He then joined the newly established Aryamehr University of Technology as a professor of chemistry\, where he also served as academic vice-president from 1974 to 1976. Following the Cultural Revolution in Iran\, Hojabri moved to San Diego where he lectured at UCSD then worked as chief scientist at the Enpex Corporation. He was the founder of Sharif University of Technology Association (SUTA)\, and helped organize Shiraz University and FANNI (Tehran University) associates. \nHis talk today is titled: “Personal Memoirs Intersecting Nationalization of the Iranian Oil Industry\, Student Movements\, and the Formations of Aryamehr (Sharif) University of Technology” \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/two-book-talks-ghobad-fakhimi-fredun-hojabri/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161202T170000
DTSTAMP:20160929T021437Z
CREATED:20160927T225359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160929T021437Z
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SUMMARY:New Light on the Egyptian Origin of the Hebrew Alphabet
DESCRIPTION:The publication of a new inscription from Theban Tomb 99 sheds new light on the early history of the Hebrew Alphabet.  This ostracon is a bilingual “abecedary” written in Egyptian Hieroglyphic and Semitic.  It gives further evidence for an Egyptian connection to the origins of the early Hebrew alphabet. \nSponsored by the\nUCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures \nCosponsored by the\nUCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies\nUCLA College of Humanities\nKershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies\nCotsen Institute \n  \nComplete Program Schedule\n  \n\n[gravityform id=”15″ title=”true” description=”false” ajax=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/new-light-egyptian-origin-hebrew-alphabet/
LOCATION:Young Research Library (YRL) Room 11360\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Assyriology,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161128T133000
DTSTAMP:20161110T005005Z
CREATED:20161110T005005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161110T005005Z
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SUMMARY:New Methods in the Study of the Qur'an
DESCRIPTION:The date and provenance of the Qur’an\, as with all the literary sources for early Islamic history\, have been the subject of scholarly disagreement for decades. So have the questions of whether the Qur’an had one author or multiple authors\, and whether the suras are random mishmashes of verses from different periods or somewhat coherent textual units. The field has been ripe for the application of new methods as a way out of the various deadlocks. This presentation gives an overview of some of the methods recently applied to the study of the Qur’an\, including stylometry (quantitative analysis of style)\, radiocarbon dating\, X-Ray Fluorescence imaging\, and a new take on traditional textual criticism. \nBehnam Sadeghi specializes in the early centuries of Islamic religion and teaches courses on pre-modern intellectual history. He has done research on the early history of the Qur’an\, the hadith literature\, and the early legal debates about women in the public space. His doctoral dissertation examined methods of textual interpretation applied in the Hanafi school of law in the pre-modern period. He has taught Approaching Religion (covering early Islam)\, and courses on pre-modern theology\, pre-modern law\, and the early history of the Qur’an. \nEvent sponsored by UCLA Center for the Study of Religion and co-sponsored by UCLA Iranian Studies\, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/new-methods-study-quran/
LOCATION:11348 Charles E. Young Research Library
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T180000
DTSTAMP:20161028T200936Z
CREATED:20161021T001056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161028T200936Z
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SUMMARY:The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Omnia El Shakry\, Associate Professor of History at UC Davis What might it mean to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together\, not as a problem\, but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement? Traversing literatures minor and major\, Omnia El Shakry shows how postwar thinkers in Egypt translated and blended psychoanalytic theories with classical Islamic concepts. El Shakry explores how Freudian ideas of the unconscious were crucial to the formation of modern discourses of subje\nctivity in fields as diverse as psychology\, Islamic philosophy\, and the law. Rather than view Islamic discourses as hermetically sealed\, or traffic in dichotomous juxtapositions between East and West\, this talk focuses on the points of intersection and articulation between Islamic discourses and modern social scientific thought\, and between religious and secular ethics. The hybridization of psychoanalytic thought with Arab and Islamic discursive formations thus illustrates that the Arabic Freud\, like psychoanalysis itself\, was elaborated across the space of human difference. \n\nOmnia El Shakry is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Davis\, specializing in the cultural and intellectual history of the modern Middle East. She is the author of The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt\, and editor of the multi-volume Gender and Sexuality in Islam. \n  \nCo-Sponsored By:\n\nUCLA Center for European and Russian Studies\nDepartment of Comparative Literature\nNear Eastern Languages and Cultures\n\nParking available in Structure 2 for $12. \nEvent is free and open to the public. \n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/arabic-freud-psychoanalysis-islam-modern-egypt/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arabic,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161110T173000
DTSTAMP:20161107T193453Z
CREATED:20161107T193453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161107T193453Z
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SUMMARY:2015: Discourse on the Armenian Condition
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Seta B. Dadoyan (Independent scholar) \nThursday\, November 10\, 2016\n4:00 PM\n10383 Bunche Hall\nUCLA \nThe talk\, based on her recently published bilingual volume  The Armenian Condition in Hindsight and Foresight: A Discourse\, (Ontario: 2015) will focus on the basic arguments in support of the “peculiarities”\, which define the Armenian condition and through which Dadoyan runs a critical assessment of it in hindsight and foresight\, combining rather than separating the poles and methods of philosophy and social sciences. Taking the Centenary of the Genocide as a three dimensional “event” – past\, present\, future – she suggests new contexts and tools to reevaluate the intellectual culture\, historiography\, institutional practice\, cultural and linguistic policies\, and other areas of the Armenian “Metasystem.” The objective of the “discourse” is to open a space/forum for dialogue\, debate and critique. \nSeta B. Dadoyan holds a Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy. From 1981 to 2011 she taught at the American University of Beirut\, Haigazian University\, Columbia University (as Ordjanian Visiting Professor)\, St. Nersess Seminary\, University of Chicago\, and Yerevan State University. She is the recipient of two medals\, Dawit Anyaght‘ and Mesrop Mashtoc‘. In addition to many lectures and over fifty papers\, she is the author of nine volumes and editor co-author of two.  Her research focuses on medieval and modern Armenian social-political and intellectual cultures primarily in their interactive aspects within the Near Eastern world and with Islam in particular. \nCost: free and open to the public. \nSponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/2015-discourse-armenian-condition/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Armenian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161106T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161106T180000
DTSTAMP:20161103T184829Z
CREATED:20160913T224754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161103T184829Z
UID:4986-1478448000-1478455200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:[POSTPONED] Ups and Downs of Women's Quest for Equal Rights under the Islamic Republic of Iran
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Mehrangiz Kar \nMehrangiz Kar is a writer\, attorney\, and activist specializing in women’s rights and family law. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Gender and Women’s Studies Department of California State University\, Northridge (CSUN). Prior to this fellowship\, she worked as a senior expert at Family Health International (FHI)\, a Washington DC-based international development organization\, focusing on Islamic law and gender in the Middle East. Having practiced law in the Islamic Republic of Iran for 22 years\, she has published numerous books and articles on issues related to law\, gender equality and democracy in Iran and abroad. She was formerly a visiting scholar at Harvard University\, Brown University\, University of Cape Town\, Wellesley College\, and Brookings Institution. Kar has received several international awards for her human rights endeavors including the Democracy Award by the National Endowment for Democracy; Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize; and the Human Rights First Award. \n*Lecture in Persian \nThis event is made possible with the generous support of Farhang Foundation \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies \n***PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED***
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ups-downs-womens-quest-equal-rights-islamic-republic-iran/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161031T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161031T173000
DTSTAMP:20160915T203616Z
CREATED:20160915T203529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160915T203616Z
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SUMMARY:Performing Pamiri Identity in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:The Pamir mountain range straddling the border between China\, Tajikistan and Afghanistan lent its name to a specific group of Eastern Iranian languages\, the Pamir languages. Speakers of these languages belong in majority to the Ismaili branch of Shia Islam. They are known as Pamiris. As speakers of unwritten\, minority languages and as members of a religious minority in Central Asia\, the Pamiris have long been marginalized and at times even persecuted by those who were in power – most recently during the civil war that raged in Tajikistan almost immediately after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The civil war and the ensuing developments in Tajikistan and Central Asia at large have led the Pamiri community to rethink its identity. In this lecture\, I propose to explore the role of cultural production\, in particular performance practices\, in (re)shaping Pamiri identity\, in the more recent past\, against the background of Soviet and post-Soviet language and culture policy. \nGabrielle van den Berg is associate professor at the University of Leiden. She studied Persian language and culture at the University of Leiden and at the University of Dushanbe\, Tajikistan. She has held positions in Leiden\, Cambridge and Brussels. Her research interests include Persian literature and the history of Iran and Central Asia; she has published in particular on the oral traditions of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan and the Shahnama manuscript. tradition. \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Iranian Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/performing-pamiri-identity-central-asia/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T170000
DTSTAMP:20161004T232901Z
CREATED:20161004T224640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T232901Z
UID:5376-1477755000-1477760400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Islam and Muslims in an Age of ISIS and Islamophobia
DESCRIPTION:with\nProfessor Omid Safi\nDirector\, Islamic Studies Center\nDuke University \n\nA public event sponsored by the UCLA Islamic Studies-MRI Fund\nCo-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES)\nand the Center for the Study of Religion (CSR) \nFifteen years after the horrific attacks of 9/11\, the American Muslim community and the American democratic experiment both find themselves in a perilous state. No American community is viewed with more hostility and negativity. On one hand the community has had to perpetually defend itself against association with the vile attacks of groups like ISIS. On the other hand\, leading presidential candidates have talked about surveillance on the Muslim community\, allegations of Muslims’ disloyalty to America\, turning away Muslim refugees\, and shutting down mosques. Where do we go from here? How do we rebuild the bonds of the “Beloved community” that is the great hope of the American democratic experiment in this age of fear and fear-mongering? Omid Safi is a leading Muslim public intellectual. He is the Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center\, a leading institutions for research on Islam and promoting publicly accessible scholarship on Islam and Muslim communities worldwide. \nAbout the Speaker: \n \nOmid is a professor of Islamic Studies\, and specializes in contemporary Islamic thought and Islamic spirituality. He is the Chair for the Islamic Mysticism group at the American Academy of Religion\, the largest international organization devoted to the academic study of religion. Omid is an award-winning teacher and speaker\, and has been nominated ten times for professor of the year awards at Duke University\, University of North Carolina\, and Colgate University. \nLocation:\nUCLA Campus\, Young Hall CS 50 \nParking:\nPay-by-spaces are available on the lower level of Parking Structure 2\nFor directions click here\nAlternate parking available at Parking Structure 9 \nRegister Here!
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/islam-muslims-age-isis-islamophobia/
LOCATION:UCLA Campus\, Young Hall CS 50\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T160000
DTSTAMP:20161014T190652Z
CREATED:20161014T190652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161014T190652Z
UID:5742-1477749600-1477756800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dust-Flower-Flame
DESCRIPTION:Dust-Flower-Flame is a documentary film about the Iranian poet and theologian Tahirih Qurratul Ayn\, considered one of the most important figures of the feminist movements in 19th century in Iran \nShabnam Tolouei is an Iranian actress\, director and playwright. She studied filmmaking in Iran at Bagh-Ferdos Film School and has a B.A. in Theatre Studies from Université Paris X\, Nanterre\, France. She has been writing short stories for cultural magazines since 1990\, acting on stage since 1993\, and writing plays since 1994. She currently resides in Paris\, where she continues her work as an actress and director. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/dust-flower-flame/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T180000
DTSTAMP:20160913T225218Z
CREATED:20160909T014232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T225218Z
UID:4940-1477497600-1477504800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Celebrating the Ghaznavids:  Representations of Court Culture in Medieval Persian Poetry
DESCRIPTION:The first substantial amount of classical Persian poetry dates from the 11th century. A large part of this poetry has been composed for the Ghaznavid dynasty (11th-12th century)\, who ruled semi-independently over large territories of the eastern caliphate. The poetry produced for this dynasty has been of vital importance for the development of a flourishing poetical tradition in the centuries to follow. In this talk\, I will discuss one of the major genres of court poetry\, the qasida\, using some examples from the Ghaznavid court poets ʽOnsori\, Farrokhi and Manuchehri\, to show what aspects of court life appear in a panegyrical qasida and how these can inform us on life at the Ghaznavid court. This lecture will focus on poetical representations of a variety of celebrations at the Ghaznavid court\, with reference to the court poets and in connection to the work of the court historian Beyhaqi. \nGabrielle van den Berg is associate professor at the University of Leiden. She studied Persian language and culture at the University of Leiden and at the University of Dushanbe\, Tajikistan. She has held positions in Leiden\, Cambridge and Brussels. Her research interests include Persian literature and the history of Iran and Central Asia; she has published in particular on the oral traditions of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan and the Shahnama manuscript. tradition. \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/celebrating-ghaznavids-representations-court-culture-medieval-persian-poetry/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T150000
DTSTAMP:20161015T002359Z
CREATED:20161015T002359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161015T002359Z
UID:5764-1477054800-1477062000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Lunch Time Lecture of Egyptian Ministry Members
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/lunch-time-lecture-egyptian-ministry-members/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Egyptology,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161010T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161010T200000
DTSTAMP:20161010T222111Z
CREATED:20160924T232013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161010T222111Z
UID:5134-1476111600-1476129600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Ancient China in Comparative Perspective: An Afternoon of Papers in Honor of Professor Li Ling
DESCRIPTION:3:00-3:10: David Schaberg – Introduction \n3:10-3:40: Anthony Barbieri-Low (UCSB) – The Tombs of Scribes in Early Imperial China and Ancient Egypt in a Comparative Perspective \n3:40-4:20: Rahim Shayegan (UCLA) – Nugae sino-persicae: On Early Chinese-Persian Encounters \n4:20-4:50: Guolong Lai (University of Florida) – Methods of Decipherment in Chinese Paleography in Comparative Perspective \n4:50-5:20: Li Min (UCLA) – Sources of Geographic Knowledge in the Legendary Landscape of the “Yugong” \n5:20-5:50: Lothar von Falkenhausen (UCLA) – Bronze Age China and West Asia: Reviewing Some Possible Instances of Cultural Borrowings \n***Reception*** \n6:30-8:00: Keynote Address: Li Ling (Peking University) – Neighbors of the Western Zhou: The Inner Asian Backyard of Early Chinese Civilization \nProfessor Li Ling is a towering figure in the study of classical Chinese civilization today. Born in Xingtai (Hebei province) in 1948\, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Chinese Literature at Peking University since 1985. He has published prolifically in the areas of Chinese paleography (guwenzixue)\, classical philology\, intellectual history\, historical geography\, the history of science and technology\, as well as material culture and art history (with special emphasis on Chinese bronzes). He is especially interested in the connections between China and other parts of Eurasia in antiquity. \nRSVP ONLINE \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Iranian Studies\, the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library\, and the Humanities Division
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ancient-china-comparative-perspective-afternoon-papers-honor-professor-li-ling/
LOCATION:11360 Charles E. Young Research Library\,  280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161010T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161010T121500
DTSTAMP:20161007T234902Z
CREATED:20161007T234902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161007T234902Z
UID:5462-1476101700-1476101700@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Substantive Pull of Procedure in Early Islamic Courts: The Curious Case of Bughaybigha
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Intisar A. Rabb (Harvard Law School) \nIntisar A. Rabb is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School\, and director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program: SHARIAsource. She also holds an appointment as a Professor of History and as a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She has published the monograph\, Doubt in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press 2015)\, an edited volume\, Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought(with Michael Cook\, Asma Sayeed\, et al.\, Palgrave 2013)\, and articles on Islamic constitutionalism\, Islamic legal maxims\, and on the early history of the Qur’an text. She received a BA from Georgetown University\, a JD from Yale Law School\, and an MA and PhD from Princeton University. She has conducted research in Egypt\, Iran\, Syria\, and elsewhere. \nCost : Free and open to the public \nJohanna Romero\n310-825-1181\ncnes@international.ucla.edu \nSponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies\, International & Comparative Law Program (ICLP) at UCLA School of Law\, UCLA Islamic Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/substantive-pull-procedure-early-islamic-courts-curious-case-bughaybigha/
LOCATION:UCLA School of Law\, Room 1457
CATEGORIES:NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161009T180000
DTSTAMP:20160914T043535Z
CREATED:20160909T212403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160914T043535Z
UID:4965-1476028800-1476036000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Ehsan Yarshater in Conversation with Mandana Zandian
DESCRIPTION:A book talk by Mandana Zandian and Houra Yavari \nMandana Zandian is a graduate of Shahid Beheshti Medical School (1997) and presently works at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles\, where she is currently engaged in research on aggressive types of advanced cancers. Dr. Zandian is also a published poet\, author and journalist and serves on the editorial board of Rahavard quarterly journal and collaborates with Homa Sarshar in her weekly radio broadcasting programs. Some of her recent publications include: Omid o Azadi (Hope and Freedom)\, on the life and works of Iraj Gorgin (2012) and Baz-khani-e Dah-Shab (The Ten-Nights Revisited\, 2014). \nHoura Yavari is Assistant Editor at the Center for Iranian Studies\, and the Consulting Editor on Modern Persian Fiction for the Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia University). She received a BA in English Language and Literature and an MA in Psychology from the University of Tehran. Pursuing her studies in France and the US\, she received an M.ED.\, from the Bank Street College of Education\, while studying literature and literary criticism\, particularly as applied to modern Persian fiction. She has published extensively on topics in psychoanalysis and Persian literature\, including numerous articles and six books such as Modernity & Persian Fiction: A Literary Perspective (Tehran\, 2009)\, Living in the Mirror: A Literary Perspective (Tehran\, 2005)\, and Psychoanalysis and Literature in Iran: Two Texts\, Two Selves\, Two Worlds (Tehran\, 1995\, repr.\, 2007). \n*Lectures in Persian \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ehsan-yarshater-conversation-mandana-zandian/
LOCATION:147 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian
ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161006T193000
DTSTAMP:20161006T221429Z
CREATED:20160929T164606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T221429Z
UID:5273-1475778600-1475782200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:I Can Hear The Barbarians
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/can-hear-barbarians/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic,Arabic & Islamic Studies,Armenian,Assyriology,Egyptology,Hebrew & Jewish,Hebrew Bible,Israel Studies,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Levantine,Levantine Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology,NELC,Semitics,Turkic,Turkic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160922T040000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160922T170000
DTSTAMP:20160918T012830Z
CREATED:20160918T012304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160918T012830Z
UID:5077-1474516800-1474563600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Undergraduate Ice Cream Social
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-ice-cream-social/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Arabic & Islamic Studies,Armenian,Jewish Studies,Jewish Studies,Middle Eastern Studies,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160921T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160921T160000
DTSTAMP:20160918T012906Z
CREATED:20160721T235428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160918T012906Z
UID:4495-1474466400-1474473600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Humanities Welcome
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Welcome is an annual event held at the beginning of the academic year that invites faculty\, staff and students to come together to showcase the Humanities at UCLA. At the event\, we introduce the UCLA campus to the benefits of coursework and degrees in the Humanities. \nThe program includes an introduction from the Dean of Humanities\, a faculty member discussing their research\, alumni speakers. There is a reception to follow with representatives from on-campus Humanities clubs and opportunities to mingle with faculty\, staff and students. \nFor more information and to register\, please visit the Humanities Welcome Page.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/humanities-welcome/
LOCATION:1100 Schoenberg Music Building
CATEGORIES:NELC
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