Events
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AchWorks 1 – Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World
314 Royce HallIdentity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World The Inaugural Symposium of the Achaemenid Workshops Series April 12–14, 2023 | 314 Royce Hall Watch Livestream Morning refreshments and check-in begin at 8:00 am. Panels begin at 9:00 am. The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is convening an international...
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George Kiraz – The Syriac American Diaspora
365 Kaplan HallThe Syriac American Diaspora George Anton Kiraz Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 3:30pm, Kaplan 365 The Syriacs began to arrive on the Eastern shores of the United States during the mid-late 1800s and began to form a "society" of some sort by the turn of the century. By the first decade of the twentieth century,...
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Bilingual Lecture Series: A Historical Perspective on Violence and Urban Unrest in Modern Iran
121 Dodd Hall 390 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United Statesخشونت و آشوبهای شهری در ایران معاصر از دید تاریخی A Historical Perspective on Violence and Urban Unrest in Modern Iran Mehrdad Amanat Sunday, May 7, 2023, 4:00 PM, Dodd Hall 121 Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99522637738 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on May 7 to join.)...
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Bilingual Lecture Series – Being Woman: Diverse Voices of Women from Afghanistan and Iran
زن بودن : صداهای گوناگون زنان از افغانستان و ایران Being Woman: Diverse Voices of Women from Afghanistan and Iran Roundtable discussion in Persian Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 11:30am Pacific via Zoom Zoom Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZDUx9ZPvSvO_zhNLIzFkKg About the Panelists Haifa Asadi (Youth Generation of Arab Iranian Women) Haifa Asadi is an advocate for gender, racial,...
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Verena Lepper – How to Read Papyri: A Virtual Approach
365 Kaplan HallThe papyrus collection of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin contains several thousand papyri, including countless fragments of various sizes, some folded, some rolled, some wrapped. The writing is often hidden in the interior of the papyrus and is often inaccessible to methods that are only sensitive to areas close to the surface. The time-consuming physical...
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24th UCLA-St. Shenouda Conference
314 Royce HallUCLA-St. Shenouda Conference Hany N. Takla The 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 consists of papers related to the wider field of Coptic Studies featuring presenters from US, Canada, Australia, and the Czech Republic. The subject...
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NELC Fall Reception
314 Royce HallThe Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures cordially invites you to the 2023-2024 NELC Fall Reception. We hope to see you on Tuesday, September 26 at 2:00pm-4:00pm at Royce Hall 314 to celebrate the start of the new quarter! Food and refreshments will be catered by the Naab Café. Please RSVP by clicking here....
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Pourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2023
Royce 306Pourdavoud Center Fall 2023 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required The Pourdavoud Center 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...
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Drew Longacre – Scribes and Their Psalters: Situating Ancient Psalm Collections in Their Scribal Contexts
Kaplan Hall 365The textual diversity evident in the Dead Sea Scrolls has forced scholars to reconsider fundamental questions about the history of the Hebrew Psalter and the nature of ancient Hebrew psalmody. In this lecture, Drew Longacre will introduce key methodological and technological developments in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls as material artifacts that shed...
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Dr. Willemijn Waal – Literacy in the Late Bronze Aegean in the Mirror of Anatolia
365 Kaplan HallWhen comparing the surviving textual sources from the Late Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia, one is immediately struck by the great difference between these two text corpora. The Hittite tablet collections have yielded thousands of large, elaborate clay tablets containing a wide range of text genres, but hardly any daily economic administration. By contrast, the...