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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161029T153000
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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
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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
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UID:5764-1477054800-1477062000@nelc.ucla.edu
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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:I Can Hear The Barbarians
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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
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UID:5077-1474516800-1474563600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Undergraduate Ice Cream Social
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160127T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160127T130000
DTSTAMP:20160721T215344Z
CREATED:20160708T162012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T215344Z
UID:2355-1453885200-1453899600@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  \nPastries and coffee will be provided.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/turkish-conversation-hours/
LOCATION:Kaufman Room 136\, 10833 Le Conte Ave\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Turkic Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160125T133000
DTSTAMP:20160708T182941Z
CREATED:20160708T161612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T182941Z
UID:2353-1453723200-1453728600@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:A Better Story Tyrian Resistance\, Hasmonean Valor\, and the Authority of Narrative
DESCRIPTION:New archaeological discoveries from two sites in Israel’s Upper Galilee illuminate the territory and autonomy of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre from the early years of Achaemenid rule until c. 140 BCE – with implications for both the historicity of 1 Maccabees and the literary impetus of its author. The first site is Mizpe Yammim\, a Tyrian border shrine and watchtower. The second site is Tel Kedesh\, where c. 500 BCE the Tyrian royal house built a huge compound for the collection of agricultural goods; the compound was remodeled and used by the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucids of Syria. The evidence shows that the Achaemenids gave the Tyrian royal house control of the Upper Galilee and its agricultural bounty\, but that this disappeared under the Ptolemies and Seleucids\, who reduced scions of elite families to provincial functionaries. \n  \nShortly after the middle of the second century\, the compound at Kedesh was abandoned in haste and never returned to administrative use. Within a year or two the building’s archive was deliberately polluted by an infant burial; a few years later squatters occupied portions of the building. The author of 1 Maccabees describes a battle c. 143 BCE in which Jonathan chased Seleucid forces to Kedesh – but the juxtaposition of text and archaeological evidence suggest a very different scenario. The building’s abandonment marks the effective end of imperial authority here\, while the burial in the archive room suggests that Tyrian administrators took advantage of imperial weakness for their own political liberation. The author of 1 Maccabees\, writing at least a generation later\, then “borrowed” an episode that properly belonged to Tyrian history in order to create a heroic persona for Jonathan and to support then-current Hasmonean interests in the Upper Galilee\, a territory considered to be Israelite by divine right. In overwriting an episode of Tyrian resistance as Judean military victory\, he transformed felt geographic destiny into history.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/better-story-tyrian-resistance-hasmonean-valor-authority-narrative/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations,Israel Studies,Near Eastern Archaeology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160121T130000
DTSTAMP:20160708T182244Z
CREATED:20160708T180933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T182244Z
UID:2387-1453377600-1453381200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Secret Knowledge and Doubtful Priests in Ancient Egyptian Literature
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will discuss two themes of my ongoing book project “Cult Practice in Ancient Egyptian Literature”. First\, Egyptian literary texts (narratives\, wisdom texts and discourses) often make reference to “secret knowledge.” What does this mean? Second\, doubt is an important motif in several of these texts\, that is\, doubts about the claims of certain priests\, doubts about the efficacy of magic and offerings\, and even priestly self-doubt. What role does this motif play in these texts? \n  \nFranziska Naether is assistant professor of Egyptology at the Egyptological Institute and Egyptian Museum “Georg Steindorff” at the University of Leipzig. Her dissertation “Sortes Astrampsychi” focused on a complex Greek lot oracle from Roman Egypt and other divinatory methods and their legacy. Naether’s research interests include ancient Egyptian literature\, religion and its material culture\, representation and communication of rulers\, papyrology and digital humanities. From 2005 to 2008\, she was collaborator of the initial phase of the “Trismegistos” database and is now working for the “Demotistische Literaturübersicht\,” a review project for demotic studies featured in the journal “Enchoria” and in Trismegistos. Naether is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York for the 2015-16 academic year and currently for a short leave at the Getty Research Institute.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/secret-knowledge-doubtful-priests-ancient-egyptian-literature-2/
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:20151109T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151109T150000
DTSTAMP:20160708T192140Z
CREATED:20160708T192121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T192140Z
UID:2412-1447075800-1447081200@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Philosophy in Context: Arabic and Syriac Manuscript Transmissions in the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:This European funded project aims at understanding the conditions of the reception and transmission of philosophy of Greek tradition in the Arabic and Syriac languages in the geographical frame of the Mediterranean World\, and describing the vast amount of philosophical works preserved in libraries around the Mediterranean in a systematic way. \nThe codicological description is integrated in a database that will be open to the scholarly community.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/philosophy-context-arabic-syriac-manuscript-transmissions-mediterranean/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arabic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151026T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151026T140000
DTSTAMP:20160708T190453Z
CREATED:20160708T190453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T190453Z
UID:2409-1445864400-1445868000@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Egypt and Israel
DESCRIPTION:This talk will survey the many interconnections between Egypt and Israel during the biblical period\, with a special focus on the manner in which Egyptian literary\, religious\, and magical texts inform the biblical narratives of Joseph (Genesis 37-50) and Moses (Exodus 1-15). To mention just two examples here: just as Isis hides baby Horus amongst the papyrus reeds\, so does Moses’s mother hide her baby in similar fashion; and just as Isis suckles Horus\, as depicted in various statuettes\, so must Moses’s mother become the wet-nurse of her child.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/egypt-and-israel/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Ancient Near East & Egyptology,Egyptology,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151015T170000
DTSTAMP:20160721T215400Z
CREATED:20160708T185455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160721T215400Z
UID:2406-1444924800-1444928400@nelc.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Ice Cream Social
DESCRIPTION:Come and learn about the different majors and minors offered by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.\nMeet other students in the majors and minors and current faculty.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/ice-cream-social/
LOCATION:NELC Seminar Room (Humanities 365)\, 365 Humanities\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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