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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T120000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Lunch Time Lecture of Egyptian Ministry Members
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160511T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160511T180000
DTSTAMP:20160708T182133Z
CREATED:20160706T195745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T182133Z
UID:1795-1462982400-1462989600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dynamics of Continuity and Creativity: Models of Change in Persian Poetry\, Classical and Modern
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/dynamics-continuity-creativity-models-change-persian-poetry-classical-modern/
LOCATION:11348 Charles E. Young Research Library
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160425T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160425T152000
DTSTAMP:20160708T185200Z
CREATED:20160708T170617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T185200Z
UID:2370-1461587400-1461597600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Kitāb al-Ḥayda and Early Ḥanbalī Creeds
DESCRIPTION:Among Islamic groups\, Sunnī traditionalists\, especially Ḥanbalīs\, were strongly opposed to kalām (dialectical theology). Their condemnation of kalām was such that it became an established article of their creeds. Notwithstanding this official condemnation\, there is evidence in their writings that they practiced kalām. For example\, Ḥanbalī practices of kalām have been examined in the work of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328)\, as have their influences on the disputational legal writings (jadal al-fiqh) of Ibn ʿAqīl (d. 513/1119). This talk investigates the role of kalām\, specifically apologetic kalām\, in fourth/tenth-century Ḥanbalī works through the lens of a pseudepigraphon. By examining the genesis of this pseudepigraphon — known in its later recensions under the title Kitāb al-Ḥayda (Book of evasion) — in al-Ibāna al-kubrā (The major creed) of Ibn Baṭṭa al-ʿUkbarī (d. 387/997)\, the presentation will highlight compelling textual evidence not only of the role of apologetic kalām but also of the transmission of pseudepigraphic narratives in the formation of Ḥanbalī creeds. \nRacha El Omari is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at University of California-Santa Barbara. Her research interests are in the areas of Islamic Theology\, Islamic Intellectual History\, and Arabic-Islamic Historiography. She received her PhD from Yale University (NELC). Her works include The Theology of Abū al-Qāsim al-Balkhī/al-Kaʿbī (d. 319/931) (Brill\, forthcoming)\, and “Accomodation and Resistance: Classical Muʿtazilites on Ḥadīth.” Published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/kitab-al-%e1%b8%a5ayda-early-%e1%b8%a5anbali-creeds/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Arabic & Islamic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160419T133000
DTSTAMP:20160708T185047Z
CREATED:20160708T170240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T185047Z
UID:2369-1461067200-1461072600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Painters and Painting Practices in the Theban Necropolis During the 18th Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:The lecture will outline some of the main results of a project funded by a Research Incentive Grant of the National Foundation for Scientific Research of Belgium (F.R.S. – FNRS) and devoted to the study of the painters responsible for the decoration of private tombs in the Theban Necropolis during the 18th dynasty\, their techniques\, practices\, work organisation\, employability and relations to their patrons. It will start by addressing the often skirted issue of art and artists in Ancient Egypt\, before analysing the various Egyptological data as well as new methodological strategies that allow us to study and track down those artists in their social but also individual identities.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/painters-painting-practices-theban-necropolis-18th-dynasty/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160418T180000
DTSTAMP:20160708T184955Z
CREATED:20160708T170111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T184955Z
UID:2368-1460998800-1461002400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Lucille Ball in Ancient Egypt? The Business Dealings of Lady Tsenhor in Persian Egypt
DESCRIPTION:If Tsenhor were alive today\, she would be wearing jeans\, drive a pick-up and enjoy a beer with the boys. Instead she was born c. 2500 years ago\, leaving behind an archive of Demotic papyri now kept in various European museums. These papyri allow us to reconstruct her life (in a way)\, showing that apart from being a housewife she worked as a funerary priest\, bought her own slaves\, owned land and did construction work with her second husband. A woman of many talents indeed. \n  \nKoen Donker van Heel is University Lecturer at the Papyrological Institute of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He is a specialist in abnormal hieratic and early Demotic documents (8th to 4th c. BCE.). His research deals with legal and socio-economic history of Egypt in the Nubian to Persian Periods.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/lucille-ball-ancient-egypt-business-dealings-lady-tsenhor-persian-egypt/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T203000
DTSTAMP:20160721T214659Z
CREATED:20160708T165051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T214659Z
UID:2365-1460662200-1460665800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Cities that Built the Bible
DESCRIPTION:The Cities That Built the Bible is a magnificent tour through fourteen cities: the cities of Tyre\, Sidon\, and Byblos\, Ugarit\, Nineveh\, Babylon\, Megiddo\, Athens\, Alexandria\, Jerusalem\, Qumran\, Bethlehem\, Nazareth\, and Rome. Along the way\, Cargill includes photos of artifacts\, dig sites\, ruins\, and relics\, taking readers on a far-reaching journey from the Grotto of the Nativity to the battlegrounds of Megiddo\, from the towering Acropolis of Athens to the caves in Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/cities-built-bible/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 314\, 340 Royce Dr b100\, Los Angeles \, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160331T133000
DTSTAMP:20160721T214754Z
CREATED:20160708T163351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T214754Z
UID:2361-1459425600-1459431000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Lesser Syrtis (Tunisia) in Antiquity
DESCRIPTION:The Lesser Syrtis\, or Mediterranean littoral of southeastern Tunisia\, is a pivotal region in North African history and archaeology. With the Gulf of Gabes as a natural harbor complex opposite the island of Jerba (associated with Calypso of the Lotus-Eaters)\, ancient populations of the area found themselves in an enviable strategic position with access to both the western Maghreb\, as well as the major cities of the eastern Mediterranean. The region was deemed important enough to be mentioned in the historical sources\, including Strabo\, and was considered a zone of emporia. Archaeological findings from survey and excavations over the past decades have highlighted the extent to which the region was a cultural crossroads\, with abundant Greek\, Roman\, Berber and Carthaginian material culture and inscriptions. Like the urban Tripoli to the east—with the “three cities” of Leptis Magna\, Oea and Sabratha—the Lesser Syrtis has its own urban triangle\, with the three centers of Gigthis\, Meninx and Zita. \nDr. Ali Drine is a Senior Archaeological Researcher and Director of Archaeological Mapping at the Institut National du Patrimoine in Tunisia\, where he oversees the excavations of the major archaeological sites in southern Tunisia. From 1997-2001 he co-directed the Jerba Project\, along with colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania. During this project\, he performed the archaeological survey of the island\, resulting in the publication of An Island Through Time: Jerba Studies\, Volume I\, The Punic and Roman Periods (2009)\, edited by Ali Drine\, Elizabeth Fentress and Renata Holod. Si Ali is currently co-directing the Zita Project\, together with scholars from UCLA and Brown University. He is a specialist of the Roman archaeology of Tunisia\, a topic on which he has published widely.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/lesser-syrtis-tunisia-antiquity/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Near Eastern Archaeology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160304T180000
DTSTAMP:20160721T214813Z
CREATED:20160708T162958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T214813Z
UID:2360-1457107200-1457114400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Turkish Conversation Hours
DESCRIPTION:Come and join us speak Turkish in an informal environment. All students of Turkish and native speakers are welcome to attend! \n  \nThis is a potluck style meeting\, feel free to bring a snack to share.Turkish coffee and tea will be provided.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/turkish-conversation-hours-2/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Turkic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160226T133000
DTSTAMP:20160721T215220Z
CREATED:20160708T162815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T215220Z
UID:2359-1456488000-1456493400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Tracing the Skill of Fresco Painting in Tell El-Dabca
DESCRIPTION:Around 1500 B.C.E. a palatial district has been constructed at the site of Tell el-Dabca\, directly above the Pelusiac branch of the Nile. There\, below the ramps of the entrances of both main buildings about 20 000 fragments of wall paintings have been discovered since 1992. These paintings are rather unusual in context of the Egyptian material culture: they display a rather strangely appearing ‘minoanizing’ iconography\, they are painted on lime plaster instead of the more widespread gypsum plaster and also not the usual tempera-\, but the fresco technique is extensively used. The latter aspect if of particular importance when we want to better understand the kind of transmediterranean relations during this period. Hence the seminar will discuss the different techniques traceable at the site\, try to approach the different necessary skills for their execution and how these might be spread in the Eastern Mediterranean.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/tracing-skill-fresco-painting-tell-el-dabca/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Egyptology,Near Eastern Archaeology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160212T133000
DTSTAMP:20160708T183535Z
CREATED:20160708T162453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T183535Z
UID:2358-1455278400-1455283800@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Settlement and Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant
DESCRIPTION:Scholarship describes both the Early Bronze Age and the Middle Bronze Age in the southern Levant as “urban” eras\, yet\, beyond broad superficial similarities\, the pattern of settlement and subsequent urban character of each period differs widely. Rather than assume that this precludes examining the two eras together\, however\, these differences instead raise questions about the variables and factors that influenced and affected settlement in the Bronze Age and the subsequent development of “urban” society in each era. Urban development affects all aspects of a society\, and is revealed through the organization\, size\, and distribution of settlement throughout a region; consequently\, the subsequent growth and sustainability of any urban society then hinges on the strength and stability of that settlement. Broad-scale and long-term examination of settlement patterns in the southern Levant reveals important differences between the Early and Middle Bronze Ages that have significant ramifications regarding the nature of urban society in each era. This paper will present data and analysis of settlement patterns in both the Early and Middle Bronze Age southern Levant and address how these patterns reflect the strength\, organization\, and stability of urban development in each era.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/settlement-urban-development-bronze-age-southern-levant/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Near Eastern Archaeology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T020000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160204T150000
DTSTAMP:20160721T215324Z
CREATED:20160708T162257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T215324Z
UID:2357-1454551200-1454598000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The Adoption of the "Adoption" Formula in Biblical Literature
DESCRIPTION:The metaphor of adoption saturates biblical literature\, yet there is no discrete adoption law in the Hebrew Bible. This metaphor did not draw upon one particular source or ancient Near Eastern legal tradition\, but had a wide range of associations rooted in familial and political life. The performative and ritual nature of adoption in the ancient Near East\, too\, is central to understanding the evolution of this metaphor and why it is so pervasive in biblical literature.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/adoption-adoption-formula-biblical-literaturet/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Hebrew Bible
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