Events
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Heroes to Hostages: US—Iran Diplomacy through Race Relations and Human Rights
Heroes to Hostages: US—Iran Diplomacy through Race Relations and Human Rights Monday, May 20, 2024 I 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Zoom Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QUtvGrfQTl2ZcaQhcdlJ1Q This presentation appraises US-Iranian diplomacy through race relations and human rights. Intellectuals of the post-Mosaddeq era gave voice to an anti-colonial rhetoric that burst wide open during the Islamic Revolution of...
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8th Annual Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies
10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, United StatesPlease join us on May 24, 2024 at Bunche Hall 10383 from 10:30am-4:30pm for the 8th Annual Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies. The Colloquium is composed of four panels investigating the interplay between linguistics and IT, comparative genocide, literature and neurogymnastics, and politics and ecology, as these disciplines relate to Armenia and Armenians. This event...
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Bilingual Lecture Series: Socio-Economic Stratification, Labor Issues, and the Labor Movement in Iran
قشر بندی اجتماعی-اقتصادی، مسائل کارگری و جنبش کارگران در ایران Socio-Economic Stratification, Labor Issues, and the Labor Movement in Iran Sunday, June 2, 2024 I 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Zoom Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CpBto5YGT-WkGYFOwtwB5Q Kazem Alamdari Discussant Touraj Atabaki نقش کارگران بیکار و ناپایدارکار در جنبشهای اعتراضی ایران ۱۴۰۲-۱۳۹۶ ( ۲۰۱۷-۲۰۲۳) The Agency of Unemployed and...
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25th UCLA-St. Shenouda Conference
Royce 314The first UCLA-St. Shenouda Conference was organized back in 1999. It is the longest annual conference of Coptic Studies outside of Egypt. The conference this year is dedicated to the Life and Times of St. Shenouda the Archimandrite and will honor the achievement of Professor Dwight W. Young. The papers related to this topic will...
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2024-25 NELC Fall Welcome Reception
314 Royce HallPlease RSVP: https://forms.gle/YmzRJDVeF4sF5KJ76
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Pourdavoud Institute Fall Reception 2024
Royce 306Pourdavoud Institute Fall 2024 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 9, 2024 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception. In the company of our supporters, colleagues, academic affiliates, students, and esteemed guests, we shall be introducing...
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Cotsen Advanced Seminar Series Archaeologies of Forced Migration: Approaches, Case Studies, and Prospects
We are pleased to invite you to the Cotsen Advanced Seminar “Archaeologies of Forced Migration: Approaches, Case Studies, and Prospects.” The symposium will be held over three days from the evening of Oct. 24th through Oct. 26th. Attendees are encouraged, though not required, to register for the event if they would attend any part of...
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Pourdavoud & Iranian Studies Co-Sponsored Lecture: Panagiotis Agapitos
Royce 306Byzantium Within a Medieval Eurafricasian Literary Polysystem: Historiography, Fictional Tales, and the Practices of Narrative Representation Byzantium and its literature has been excluded from the national canons of European literatures. While there are some obvious reasons for this exclusion in the 18th–19th century, it is woth noting that also Byzantinists supported this exclusion by...
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Reading Tool Marks on Egyptian Stone Sculpture by Anna Serotta
365 Kaplan HallPlease join us on November 19 for Anna Serotta's lecture, Reading Tool Marks on Egyptian Stone Sculptures. This lecture presents a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the production of ancient Egyptian stone sculpture, including the systematic characterization of tool marks, the examination of ancient tools, experimental archaeology, and consultation with contemporary stone carvers. This approach is demonstrated...
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Yarshater Center & Iranian Studies Symposium and Workshop: Nezāmi and the Iranian World
Royce 306Nezāmi and the Iranian World November 21–22, 2024 | UCLA Royce Hall 306 A symposium and workshop convened by Domenico Ingenito (University of California, Los Angeles) Morning Refreshments at 8:30am Conference beings at 9:00am “Nezāmi and the Iranian World” is a two-day conference (November 21–22, 2024) that brings together specialists of Persian literature, junior faculty,...