Events
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Humanities Welcome
1100 Schoenberg Music BuildingThe 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. The program includes an introduction from the...
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Undergraduate Ice Cream Social
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I Can Hear The Barbarians
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Ehsan Yarshater in Conversation with Mandana Zandian
147 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesA book talk by Mandana Zandian and Houra Yavari Mandana 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...
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The Substantive Pull of Procedure in Early Islamic Courts: The Curious Case of Bughaybigha
UCLA School of Law, Room 1457A lecture by Intisar A. Rabb (Harvard Law School) Intisar 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...
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Ancient China in Comparative Perspective: An Afternoon of Papers in Honor of Professor Li Ling
11360 Charles E. Young Research Library 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United States3:00-3:10: David Schaberg - Introduction 3:10-3:40: Anthony Barbieri-Low (UCSB) - The Tombs of Scribes in Early Imperial China and Ancient Egypt in a Comparative Perspective 3:40-4:20: Rahim Shayegan (UCLA) - Nugae sino-persicae: On Early Chinese-Persian Encounters 4:20-4:50: Guolong Lai (University of Florida) - Methods of Decipherment in Chinese Paleography in Comparative Perspective 4:50-5:20: Li Min...
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Lunch Time Lecture of Egyptian Ministry Members
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Celebrating the Ghaznavids: Representations of Court Culture in Medieval Persian Poetry
Royce Hall Room 306 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe 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...
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Dust-Flower-Flame
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesDust-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 Shabnam 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...
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Islam and Muslims in an Age of ISIS and Islamophobia
UCLA Campus, Young Hall CS 50 Los Angeles, CA, United Stateswith Professor Omid Safi Director, Islamic Studies Center Duke University A public event sponsored by the UCLA Islamic Studies-MRI Fund Co-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) and the Center for the Study of Religion (CSR) Fifteen years after the horrific attacks of 9/11, the American Muslim community and the American democratic experiment both...