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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Foreign Policy Panel
DESCRIPTION:چرخش بھ شرق: تغییرو تداوم در سیاست خارجی جمھوری اسلامی\n\n\n\n\nTurning to the East: Changes and Continuities in the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Policy\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, April 9\, 2023 I 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM via Zoom \nRegistration Required \n\n\n\n\nLooking to the East and the New World Order\n\n\n\n\nKazem Alamdari\n\n\n\n\nMain Tenants of Postrevolutionary Iran’s Foreign Policy\n\n\n\n\nMehrzad Boroujerdi\n\n\n\n\nTurning to the East in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Both a Strategy and a Tactic\n\n\n\n\nTouraj Atabaki\nAbout the Speakers \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKazem Alamdari received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois\, Champaign-Urbana\, his MA in Educational Administration from Illinois State University\, and his BS from the University of Tehran in Psychology. He has taught at various universities\, including UCLA\, CSULA\, and CSUN. Alamdari has published ten books and numerous articles in English and Persian\, with the most recent being Civil Society: Theories\, Contexts\, and Experiences\, 2015. Alamdari was the recipient of a fellowship from the Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) in Japan\, Kyushu University in 1997. As a public intellectual\, he is frequently featured in the media and presents lectures at national and international conferences in different parts of the world. \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n  \nMehrzad Boroujerdi is Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Arts\, Sciences\, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Previously he was Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech\, and before that Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. His most recent book is Post-revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook (2018). He has been President of the Association for Iranian Studies\, a fellow of the American Council on Education\, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin\, a visiting scholar at UCLA\, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute\, and a co-PI of Iran Data Portal. He is frequently consulted by both government entities and media outlets as Al Jazeera\, Associated Press\, Economist\, Guardian\, LA Times\, NPR\, New York Times\, Reuters\, Spiegel\, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations from The American University. \n  \n  \n  \nTouraj Atabaki is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History and Professor Emeritus of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at Leiden University. Atabaki studied theoretical physics and later history at the University of London and Utrecht University. Following positions at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam\, he joined Leiden University where he held the Chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia. Atabaki’s research encompasses historiography\, social history of labor and subaltern studies in 20th century Iran\, the Ottoman empire\, and Turkey\, as well as the Caucasus and Central Asia. His forthcoming publications with Cambridge University Press are: Social History of the Iranian Oil Industry and Fallen in the Whirlwind: Life and Time of Iranian Migrant Labour and Political Activists during the Soviet Great Purge. \n\n\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-foreign-policy-panel/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Gayane Shagoyan - From Ethnography to Anthropology in Armenia
DESCRIPTION:From Ethnography to Anthropology In Armenia\n\n\n\n\nGayane Shagoyan\nMonday\, April 5\, 2023 at 2:30pm\, Kaplan Hall 193\n***Seminar will be in Armenian*** \n\n\n\n\nEthnography as a discipline was formed in Armenia at the end of the 19th century in approximately the same way as elsewhere in Europe\, with the difference that here it did not go through the stage of colonial ethnography (there was only Volkskunde without Völkerkunde)\, if you do not take attempts to describe Armenian rural life as an example of self-exotization. \nThe name of the discipline – ‘azgagrut‘yun’ is a calque from the Russian ‘ethnography’. After the independence of Armenia in 1991\, the attitude and public demand for ethnography changed. They created the ground for the emergence of a new research lens\, when focus on traditions moved towards practices and from preserving the cultural heritage towards adaptive capabilities and development trends. And in the broad sense from the group to the individual – from ethnography to anthropology. \nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\n\n \nGayane Shagoyan is a senior researcher at the\nDepartment of Contemporary Anthropological Studies of\nthe Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography\, National\nAcademy of Sciences of Armenia. She received her PhD\nin anthropology from the Institute of Archaeology and\nEthnography in 2010. The areas of her research interests\ninclude daily life\, urban anthropology\, and memory\nstudies. She is the author of about 90 publications.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/gayane-shagoyan-from-ethnography-to-anthropology-in-armenia/
LOCATION:193 Kaplan Hall
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SUMMARY:Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal - How many grammars does Jewish Babylonian Aramaic have?
DESCRIPTION:How many grammars does Jewish Babylonian Aramaic have?\n\n\n\n\nElitzur Bar-Asher Siegal\nMonday\, April 3\, 2023 at 3:00pm\, Kaplan Hall 365 \n\n\n\n\nIn this lecture\, we will explore how languages evolve through linguistic diversity\, aiming to shed light on the intricate relationship between language\, its evolution\, and its transmission through historical texts. Drawing on the principles of sociolinguistics\, we will examine how speakers and writers of a language navigate between competing grammars. We will also explore the intricate process of ancient text transmission through scribes and copyists who acted as language agents with their own competing grammars. \nFocusing on the Babylonian Talmud\, we will demonstrate the linguistic richness and challenges encountered in studying the dialect of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. The lecture will highlight the methods and tools used by linguists to reconstruct the original grammars of the text\, as well as trace the grammar of copyists from the Middle Ages. By doing so\, we will show how classic philological questions can be answered using linguistic tools. \n  \nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\n\n\nElitzur Bar-Asher Siegal has a BA in Philosophy and Hebrew Language from Hebrew University (1999-2002\, summa cum laude) and PhD from Harvard University (2009). He joined the faculty of the department of Hebrew Language at Hebrew University in 2010 after being the lecturer in Semitics at Yale University (2008-2010). He is also a fellow at the Language\, Logic and Cognition Center at Hebrew University. Elitzur was a visiting professor at Harvard University (Spring 2012)\, the Jacob Perlow Visiting Professor\, Yale University (2017-8) and a short term visiting Professor\, École Pratique des Hautes Études\, Paris (2018-2019). This year he is a visiting professor at Yale University in Judaic Studies and in Linguistics.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP Below\n\n[gravityform id=”187″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/elitzur-bar-asher-siegal-how-many-grammars-does-jewish-babylonian-aramaic-have/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Nonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran
DESCRIPTION:خشونت پرھیزی و انقلاب ارزش ھا در ایران\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNonviolence and the Revolution of Values in Iran\nRamin Jahanbegloo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, April 2\, 2023 at 4:00pm\, Dodd Hall 121 \nDiscussion in Persian \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99540545809 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on April 2 to join.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2009\, the world watched in admiration the peaceful protests of young Iranians in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent presidential elections that re- elected Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Today\, a new generation is challenging the ideological structures of the Irnian theocratic regime. We have witnessed the courage and the resolution of young Iranians who have transformed their fear of the Iranian dictatorship into a social anger. This anger has revitalised Iranian civil society and motivated politically Iranians around the world. However\, the difference between today’s struggle of young Iranians and the previous civic movements is that it has neither an apparent leadership\, nor a well-defined ideology. Therefore\, we are not witnessing a revolution in the classic sense of the term\, but rather general rebellion. This is a turning point in Iran’s recent political history that the world cannot ignore: It looks as if the genie of change in Iran is trying once again to get out of the bottle. For Iranian youth seeking an end to authoritarianism and the advent of democracy\, the lessons gleaned from non-violence have been mixed. On the one hand\, the brutality and cruelty of the Iranian regime\, killing even school children\, has caused among the citizens of Iran a sense of pessimism toward the non-violence practised by moral heroes like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King\, Jr. But\, on the other hand\, recent images of the protests around Iran show young people fighting Iran’s security forces with bare hands. Trying not to be victims of their past\, they look instead to the future. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nRamin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian political philosopher. He is presently the Executive Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and the Vice-Dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University- Delhi-India. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy\, History and Political Science and later his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University. He has taught and held research positions at the Academy of Philosophy in Tehran\, the French Institute for Iranian Studies\, Harvard University\, the University of Toronto\, the Department of Contemporary Studies of the Cultural Research Centre in Tehran\, the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi\, India\, and York University in Toronto. He is the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain (2009) for his extensive academic works in promoting dialogue between cultures and his advocacy for non-violence and more recently the winner of the Josep Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize. He is also the founder of a nonviolent movement called Nonviolence Without Borders. The most recent of his thirty-two books written in English\, French\, Spanish\, Italian and Persian is Nonviolence: An Idea Whose Time has Come (Haus Curiosities 2023). \n[gravityform id=”191″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-nonviolence-and-the-revolution-of-values-in-iran/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230310T160000
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi Lecture 4
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran\nBetween Religion\, State\, and the Lure of the West\nA series of four lectures by \nHouchang Chehabi\nProfessor Emeritus of International Relations \nBoston University \nLecture 4: Dress\nMarch 10\, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm \nRegistration Requested for In-Person Attendance \nA hybrid Zoom live stream option is available for guests unable to attend in person. To view the lectures via the live stream\, please use the provided Zoom link. All four lectures will use the same Zoom link\, and no pre-registration is required. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99122797636 \nSeries Synopsis\nIran is one of very few non-Western countries that was never formally colonized. Th e presence of foreigners was limited in the Imperial Age\, and as a result it was largely local elites that\, motivated by a patriotic desire to “catch up” with the West\, introduced aspects of European culture into Iranian society in order to meet what has come to be known as the standard of “civilization.” Under Reza Shah\, Europeanization became state policy\, while during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah the state was less intrusive and opposition to Westernization increased. The Islamic Republic has tried to counter Western “cultural invasion” with at best mixed results. These policies have in turn been celebrated\, tolerated\, ignored\, or opposed by different sectors of Iranian society\, generating constant culture wars. This lecture series illustrates how religious strictures\, state policies\, and exposure to the wider world have affected everyday practices in three fundamental domains of human existence: names\, food\, and dress. \nFourth Lecture: Dress\nMen’s and especially women’s attire\, and its regulation by the state\, has arguably been the most contentious issue in Iran’s culture wars. This lecture examines state policies and societal reaction to them. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nHouchang Chehabi\nBorn to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi studied geography at the University of Caen and international relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris before going to Yale University\, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1986. He then taught at Harvard University and UCLA\, and in 1998 was appointed a professor of international relations and history at Boston University\, retiring in 2022. Since 2021 he has been an honorary professor in the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of three monographs\, has (co-)edited ten books\, and published over fifty articles and translations. \nSelected Works:\n\nOnomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (Boston: Ilex Foundation\, 2020)\nCulture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History\, 2018)\nIran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics\, Cultural Transformations\, and Transnational Connections (I.B. Tauris\, distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing\, 2010) (co-edited with Vanessa Martin)\nDistant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (Centre for Lebanese Studies\, in association with I.B. Tauris\, distributed by St. Martin’s Press\, 2006)\nPolitics\, Society\, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (Westview Press\, 1995) (co-edited with Alfred Stepan\, Gregory Kasza\, Arend Lijphart\, and Mattei Dogan)\nSultanistic Regimes ( Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) (coedited with Juan J. Linz)\nIranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\n\n  \n[gravityform id=”185″ title=”true” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi-lecture-4/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Eve MacDonald
DESCRIPTION:Telling Tales: Constructing Sasanian History in the Landscape\nThe narrative stories and physical landscapes of the Sasanian Empire run parallel to each other\, intersecting in areas where historical source and physical remnant of the material culture collide.  This is specifically relevant in the borderlands of the Sasanian’s vast realm\, between the lands of Eran and An-Eran\, where monumental structures survived for centuries after the fall of the empire and the memory of epic and traumatic events of a powerful dynasty lived on in the landscape.  This paper seeks to explore the interface between history and the landscape to try to glimpse the ways in which a population living in the lands of the Sasanian Empire remembered the history of the dynasty through the stories told. \nAbout the Speaker\nEve MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University. Broadly interested in the social history and archaeology of many places in the ancient Mediterranean and near east\, she has worked previously on the history and archaeology of Carthage and continues to research on the archaeological legacy of 19th and 20th century colonial occupation in North Africa. She is currently writing a history of the Sasanian Empire for Yale University Press and has worked on excavations in Iran and the Caucasus\, as well as more widely across the Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East.  She is currently working in the field on the Sasanian period fort at Fulayj\, Oman.  Her research aims to highlight different periods and cultures that make up our global ancient worlds – especially those outside the traditional Greco-Roman narrative. \nClick here to register for this event.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-eve-macdonald/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi Lecture 3
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran\nBetween Religion\, State\, and the Lure of the West\nA series of four lectures by \nHouchang Chehabi\nProfessor Emeritus of International Relations \nBoston University \nLecture 3: Food and Drink\nMarch 1\, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm \nRegistration Requested for In-Person Attendance \nA hybrid Zoom live stream option is available for guests unable to attend in person. To view the lectures via the live stream\, please use the provided Zoom link. All four lectures will use the same Zoom link\, and no pre-registration is required. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99122797636 \nSeries Synopsis\nIran is one of very few non-Western countries that was never formally colonized. Th e presence of foreigners was limited in the Imperial Age\, and as a result it was largely local elites that\, motivated by a patriotic desire to “catch up” with the West\, introduced aspects of European culture into Iranian society in order to meet what has come to be known as the standard of “civilization.” Under Reza Shah\, Europeanization became state policy\, while during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah the state was less intrusive and opposition to Westernization increased. The Islamic Republic has tried to counter Western “cultural invasion” with at best mixed results. These policies have in turn been celebrated\, tolerated\, ignored\, or opposed by different sectors of Iranian society\, generating constant culture wars. This lecture series illustrates how religious strictures\, state policies\, and exposure to the wider world have affected everyday practices in three fundamental domains of human existence: names\, food\, and dress. \nThird Lecture: Food and Drink\nThis lecture traces the evolution of Iranian culinary practices\, including cuisine (both native and foreign)\, drinking culture\, and table etiquette. \nAbout the Speaker\nHouchang Chehabi\nBorn to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi studied geography at the University of Caen and international relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris before going to Yale University\, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1986. He then taught at Harvard University and UCLA\, and in 1998 was appointed a professor of international relations and history at Boston University\, retiring in 2022. Since 2021 he has been an honorary professor in the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of three monographs\, has (co-)edited ten books\, and published over fifty articles and translations. \nSelected Works:\n\nOnomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (Boston: Ilex Foundation\, 2020)\nCulture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History\, 2018)\nIran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics\, Cultural Transformations\, and Transnational Connections (I.B. Tauris\, distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing\, 2010) (co-edited with Vanessa Martin)\nDistant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (Centre for Lebanese Studies\, in association with I.B. Tauris\, distributed by St. Martin’s Press\, 2006)\nPolitics\, Society\, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (Westview Press\, 1995) (co-edited with Alfred Stepan\, Gregory Kasza\, Arend Lijphart\, and Mattei Dogan)\nSultanistic Regimes ( Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) (coedited with Juan J. Linz)\nIranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\n\n  \n[gravityform id=”185″ title=”true” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi-lecture-3/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T160000
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi
DESCRIPTION:Mohammad Mossadegh\, the Capitulations\, and the “Standard of Civilization”\nHouchang Chehabi\nSunday\, February 26\, 2023 at 4:00pm\, Dodd Hall 121 \nDiscussion in Persian \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/94870537712 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 4:00pm on February 26 to join.) \nIn the Age of Empire\, Iran was one of the few non-European states to retain its sovereignty. The price it had to pay was the signing of unequal treaties that guaranteed the citizens of European countries extraterritorial rights\, usually called “capitulations.” Only by reforming themselves and meeting the European “standard of civilization” could countries like Iran hope to be accepted as equals and persuade the Europeans to renounce their capitulations. In this paper\, I chronicle the young Mohammad Mossadegh’s efforts to bring about the end of the capitulations and establish Iran’s full sovereignty\, both as a thinker and as a state official\, in the first quarter of the twentieth century. \nAbout the Speaker \nHouchang Esfandiar Chehabi is a scholar of Iranian studies. He is a professor emeritus of international relations and history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University\, and an honorary professor at the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. Chehabi was born to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Iran\, and grew up in Iran and Germany. He received his undergraduate education in France and his MA and PhD from Yale University. His publications include three monographs and ten (co)edited volumes\, as well as numerous articles\, book chapters\, and encyclopedia entries. \n[gravityform id=”186″ title=”true” description=”true”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi/
LOCATION:121 Dodd Hall\, 390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Anahita Mittertrainer
DESCRIPTION:Symbols of Royal Authority?  Early Sasanian Cityscapes in Southwestern Iran\n  \nThe early Sasanian royal city foundations of Gūr and Bīšāpūr and their respective surrounding areas were actively shaped by the new ruling dynasty with the goal of making an imprint of identity on the landscape and – especially in the initial phase – decisively influenced the development of the spatial\, structural\, and pictorial formal language of the new empire to be created. This lecture argues that the cities and their irrigated hinterlands were the first instances of early Sasanian territorialisation and possibly intended to convey an initial vision of the new empire – not only to the inhabitants of the cities\, but also to the long-established noble families in the surrounding areas. Thus\, these imperial power structures served as symbols of political identity and played an essential role in the formation of the early Sasanian state. \nAbout the Speaker\n Anahita Nasrin Mittertrainer is curator for the department of South West Asia and North Africa at Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich\, Germany. In 2019\, she received her Ph.D. at Ludwig-Maximilians- University (Munich\, Germany) for her doctoral thesis on Sasanian cities in Southwest Iran\, which was published in 2020 as Sinnbilder politischer Autorität? Frühsasanidische Städtebilder im Südwesten Irans. She has worked on excavations in Iran\, the Caucasus\, and Central Asia\, among other places. \n  \nMain image © Dr. Farzin Rezaeian; Speaker image © Nicolai Kaestner \nClick here to RSVP and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-anahita-mittertrainer/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T180000
DTSTAMP:20221215T001923Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Anne Hunnell Chen
DESCRIPTION:Dislodging Disciplinary Silos at Dura-Europos\nFounded by the Seleucids\, successively occupied by the Arsacids (Parthians) and Romans\, and spectacularly conquered in a Sasanian siege\, the borderland town of Dura-Europos (Syria) was home throughout its history to a fascinatingly diverse population. Since its initial excavation\, the site has become justly famous thanks to unique circumstances of preservation that resulted in the site’s retention of significant organic materials and other traces of daily life long-vanished elsewhere. Together\, the multiethnicity and significance of the site’s finds make it a rare (and invaluable) archaeological resource that transcends modern disciplinary boundaries. And yet\, the site and its important archaeological resources have been too often considered the purview of ‘Western’ disciplines\, despite the fact that the site’s Arsacid occupation was indeed its longest phase. This talk will first explore how the original excavators’ choices with regard to data-processing and publication strategies have had an enduring impact on who mobilizes Durene data and to what intellectual ends. It will then turn to introduce the efforts of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA)\, a project recently funded by the NEH and designed to help cut across the disciplinary silos that still very much shape research on the site. \nAbout the Speaker\nAnne Hunnell Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Art History and Visual Culture and Experimental Humanities Programs at Bard College. She specializes in the art and archaeology of the globally-connected Sasanian and Roman worlds. She has held a fellowship in the Department of the Ancient Near East at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and a postdoctoral associateship in Yale University’s ARCHAIA program for the Study of Premodern Cultures and Societies. She has published on Roman\, Persian\, and Digital Humanities topics\, and is also the founder and co-director of the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA). Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, IDEA is aimed at dislodging enduring impacts of colonialism through digital reassembly and recontextualization of legacy archaeological data from the site of Dura-Europos (Syria). Dr. Chen also serves as network co-chair and Annotations Activity co-coordinator for the international Pelagios Network. \n  \nThe Zoom webinar link for those wishing to watch the live stream is: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94721468611\n  \nClick here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-anne-hunnell-chen/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230210T180000
DTSTAMP:20230111T212542Z
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi Lecture 2
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran\nBetween Religion\, State\, and the Lure of the West\nA series of four lectures by \nHouchang Chehabi\nProfessor Emeritus of International Relations \nBoston University \nLecture 2: Names\nFebruary 10\, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm \nRegistration Requested for In-Person Attendance \nA hybrid Zoom live stream option is available for guests unable to attend in person. To view the lectures via the live stream\, please use the provided Zoom link. All four lectures will use the same Zoom link\, and no pre-registration is required. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99122797636 \nSeries Synopsis\nIran is one of very few non-Western countries that was never formally colonized. Th e presence of foreigners was limited in the Imperial Age\, and as a result it was largely local elites that\, motivated by a patriotic desire to “catch up” with the West\, introduced aspects of European culture into Iranian society in order to meet what has come to be known as the standard of “civilization.” Under Reza Shah\, Europeanization became state policy\, while during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah the state was less intrusive and opposition to Westernization increased. The Islamic Republic has tried to counter Western “cultural invasion” with at best mixed results. These policies have in turn been celebrated\, tolerated\, ignored\, or opposed by different sectors of Iranian society\, generating constant culture wars. This lecture series illustrates how religious strictures\, state policies\, and exposure to the wider world have affected everyday practices in three fundamental domains of human existence: names\, food\, and dress. \nSecond Lecture: Names\nThis lecture discusses the evolution of naming practices\, including titles\, given names\, and family names. It will analyze the reasons for the introduction of family names in the early 1920s and shed light on the ways people chose surnames for themselves. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nHouchang Chehabi\nBorn to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi studied geography at the University of Caen and international relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris before going to Yale University\, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1986. He then taught at Harvard University and UCLA\, and in 1998 was appointed a professor of international relations and history at Boston University\, retiring in 2022. Since 2021 he has been an honorary professor in the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of three monographs\, has (co-)edited ten books\, and published over fifty articles and translations. \nSelected Works:\n\nOnomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (Boston: Ilex Foundation\, 2020)\nCulture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History\, 2018)\nIran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics\, Cultural Transformations\, and Transnational Connections (I.B. Tauris\, distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing\, 2010) (co-edited with Vanessa Martin)\nDistant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (Centre for Lebanese Studies\, in association with I.B. Tauris\, distributed by St. Martin’s Press\, 2006)\nPolitics\, Society\, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (Westview Press\, 1995) (co-edited with Alfred Stepan\, Gregory Kasza\, Arend Lijphart\, and Mattei Dogan)\nSultanistic Regimes ( Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) (coedited with Juan J. Linz)\nIranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\n\n  \n[gravityform id=”185″ title=”true” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi-lecture-2/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T180000
DTSTAMP:20230111T212531Z
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SUMMARY:Iranian Studies Lecture Series: Houchang Chehabi Lecture 1
DESCRIPTION:Aspects of Everyday Life in Iran\nBetween Religion\, State\, and the Lure of the West\nA series of four lectures by \nHouchang Chehabi\nProfessor Emeritus of International Relations \nBoston University \nLecture 1: Iran and the Standard of “Civilization”\nFebruary 1\, 2023 | Royce Hall 314 | 4:00 pm \nRegistration Requested for In-Person Attendance \nA hybrid Zoom live stream option is available for guests unable to attend in person. To view the lectures via the live stream\, please use the provided Zoom link. All four lectures will use the same Zoom link\, and no pre-registration is required. \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/99122797636 \nSeries Synopsis\nIran is one of very few non-Western countries that was never formally colonized. Th e presence of foreigners was limited in the Imperial Age\, and as a result it was largely local elites that\, motivated by a patriotic desire to “catch up” with the West\, introduced aspects of European culture into Iranian society in order to meet what has come to be known as the standard of “civilization.” Under Reza Shah\, Europeanization became state policy\, while during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah the state was less intrusive and opposition to Westernization increased. The Islamic Republic has tried to counter Western “cultural invasion” with at best mixed results. These policies have in turn been celebrated\, tolerated\, ignored\, or opposed by different sectors of Iranian society\, generating constant culture wars. This lecture series illustrates how religious strictures\, state policies\, and exposure to the wider world have affected everyday practices in three fundamental domains of human existence: names\, food\, and dress. \nFirst Lecture: Iran and the Standard of “Civilization”\nThis introductory lecture provides a general outline of how the Iranian state and different sectors of Iranian society have responded to the challenge of Western ascendancy. Th e emphasis will be on cultural practices. \nAbout the Speaker\nHouchang Chehabi\nBorn to a German mother and an Iranian father in Tehran\, Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi studied geography at the University of Caen and international relations at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris before going to Yale University\, where he earned his Ph.D. in political science in 1986. He then taught at Harvard University and UCLA\, and in 1998 was appointed a professor of international relations and history at Boston University\, retiring in 2022. Since 2021 he has been an honorary professor in the School of History of the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of three monographs\, has (co-)edited ten books\, and published over fifty articles and translations. \nSelected Works:\n\nOnomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (Boston: Ilex Foundation\, 2020)\nCulture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (Amsterdam: International Institute of Social History\, 2018)\nIran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics\, Cultural Transformations\, and Transnational Connections (I.B. Tauris\, distributed by Bloomsbury Publishing\, 2010) (co-edited with Vanessa Martin)\nDistant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (Centre for Lebanese Studies\, in association with I.B. Tauris\, distributed by St. Martin’s Press\, 2006)\nPolitics\, Society\, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (Westview Press\, 1995) (co-edited with Alfred Stepan\, Gregory Kasza\, Arend Lijphart\, and Mattei Dogan)\nSultanistic Regimes ( Johns Hopkins University Press\, 1998) (coedited with Juan J. Linz)\nIranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\n\n[gravityform id=”185″ title=”true” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-lecture-series-houchang-chehabi-lecture-1/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230122T140000
DTSTAMP:20230103T232435Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Nadereh Chamlou and Mansoureh Shojaee
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, January 22\, 2023 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom \nDiscussion in Persian \nRegistration Required  \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5o6mHEqFSlShMNVQQiHgXA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat Drives Iran’s Population Rejuvenation Policy?\nby Nadereh Chamlou \nand \nOne Century and Two Uprisings toward the Women’s Liberation Movement\nby Mansoureh Shojaee \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-nadereh-chamlou-and-mansoureh-shojaee/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230111T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230111T130000
DTSTAMP:20221102T173923Z
CREATED:20221102T173923Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Arash Zeini
DESCRIPTION:The Birth of the Abestāg from the Spirit of Philology\nScholars have often discussed Zoroastrianism as an ancient Iranian religion that reaches back thousands of years into the middle of the second millennium BCE. For a long time\, the idea of monolithic continuity has dominated the scholarly discourse in the study of this religion. While Boyce preferred a theological continuity\, a view mostly rejected today\, others have ardently\, but to my mind unconvincingly\, argued for ritual continuity. Both camps have at some point associated all pre-Islamic empires\, but particularly the Achaemenid and Sasanian eras\, with the religious system of Zoroastrianism. After a brief examination of these views\, I will lay out some methodological concerns as a challenge to the discipline\, before turning my attention to the reception of an antique Iranian heritage in the Sasanian era (224–651 CE). I will argue that the late antique response played a major role in forming the heritage it was claiming as its own. \nAbout the Speaker\nArash Zeini engages with pre-Islamic Iranian cultures and languages\, focusing on Zoroastrianism\, particularly the late antique reception of the Avesta. In 2021\, Arash published The Roar of Silence\, a Festschrift in honor of François de Blois\, jointly edited with Adam Benkato. His monograph\, Zoroastrian Scholasticism in Late Antiquity\, published in 2020\, received the inaugural ‘AIS Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies’ in 2022. As a postdoctoral researcher on the Invisible East project (University of Oxford)\, Arash primarily works on Middle Persian and New Persian documents from the medieval East\, contextualizing these within the wider research questions of the project\, such as the idea of religiosity and conversion in Iranian cultures. Arash has previously worked and taught at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of St Andrews. \nPlease click here to register.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-lecture-series-arash-zeini/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230108T130000
DTSTAMP:20221121T231209Z
CREATED:20221121T171932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T231209Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Saeed Paivandi
DESCRIPTION:The Results of Four Decades of Authoritarian Islamization of Education in Iran \nSaeed Paivandi \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, January 8\, 2023 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom \nDiscussion in Persian \nRegistration Required  \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B0zjlJHmRb-c38OxE0BdcQ
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-saeed-paivandi/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221128T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221128T130000
DTSTAMP:20221115T170601Z
CREATED:20221114T213959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T170601Z
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SUMMARY:Iran: What Next as the Revolution Continues?
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe UCLA Center for Middle East Development Presents \n\n\n\n  \nIran: What Next as the Revolution Continues? \n  \nA conversation with expert analysts from Europe\, the U.A.E.\, and the U.S.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n­­­ \nMonday\, November 28 \n10:00 AM Pacific Time \nZoom Webinar \nRegistration is required to obtain access details \n \n\n\n\n\n\nIran’s so called fourth revolution\, led by the nation’s women and young girls\, continues to thrive since Mahsa Amini’s death on September 16\, 2022. Despite internet shut-downs\, people have managed to leak hundreds of videos and pictures\, demonstrating both the courage of a people desperate for change and the cowardice of a regime which continues to brutalize\, arrest\, rape\, and murder its citizens\, some of whom are children\, simply for protesting for their basic human rights. \n  \nIn comparison to the weight of the crisis\, media outlets remain largely absent from the storytelling landscape. However\, the world has watched the footage on social media platforms\, almost in real time. Some world leaders have been vocal about their disdain for the regime’s handling of the protests\, showing solidarity and support for the people. A few have called for sanctions on members of security forces and the like. But again\, the response and action from the international community has been strikingly quiet. \n  \nWhy haven’t world leaders and media been more vocal about the heinous violations of human rights occurring on the ground? Are national leaders hesitant to become engaged because of fear of the Iranian government\, because of an inability to develop effective methods without a war\, because they are overwhelmed with other issues\, or because they are just not interested? What actions have actually been considered by outside governments? Should leaders of the world take any action against the Islamic Republic? And if so\, is it possible to do without stoking conflict with a volatile government? Should the nuclear deal be reconsidered or abandoned completely? Is regime change possible\, and if so\, how? Our panel of experts from Germany\, the United Arab Emirates\, and the United States will investigate these questions with CMED’s Director\, Professor Steven Spiegel.\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n***More information about the panel is available on the CMED Event Page.*** \n\n\n\n  \nOrganized by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development \nCo-sponsored by  \nUCLA Iranian Studies \nUCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures \nLuskin Department of Public Policy \nBurkle Center for International Relations  \n  \nPlease register here for the Zoom webinar. After you register\, we will forward Zoom access instructions for the event. The talk is viewable using a desktop or laptop computer\, tablet\, smartphone\, or by calling with a telephone. You may also view the webinar via YouTube live stream by returning to the CMED event page on the day of the event. For those who are unable to join the live event\, a recording will be available on the CMED website afterwards. \n  \nImage Credit (left to right; all images cropped from original): @from____iran on Instagram; PersianDutchNetwork\, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>\, via Wikimedia Commons; @jrobertson.nyc on Instagram; @insider on Instagram; @elahe4peace on Instagram
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iran-what-next-as-the-revolution-continues/
CATEGORIES:NELC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221113T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221113T133000
DTSTAMP:20221031T181710Z
CREATED:20221031T181710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221031T181710Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Women in Iran: Past\, Present\, and Future\, A Double Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Women in Iran: Past\, Present\, and Future\nA Double Book Talk with Mahnaz Afkhami and Mona Tajali\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, November 13\, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom \nDiscussion in Persian \nRegistration Required  \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HETyPvAaTj6fx-3oJw99mQ
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-women-in-iran-past-present-and-future-a-double-book-talk/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Iranian Studies":MAILTO:iranianstudies@humnet.ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221030T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221030T130000
DTSTAMP:20221010T234358Z
CREATED:20221010T234358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T234358Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series - Panel Discussion on the Roles of Gender & Women in the Current Protests in Iran
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion on the Roles of Gender & Women in the Current  Protests in Iran \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, October 30\, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom \nDiscussion in Persian \nRegistration Required  \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mtVBiDvtSyKJZFbDrkslkw
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-panel-discussion-on-the-roles-of-gender-women-in-the-current-protests-in-iran/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T100000
DTSTAMP:20221019T212930Z
CREATED:20221013T214337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221019T212930Z
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SUMMARY:#WomenLifeFreedom: The Iranian Protest Movement
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by \nThe UCLA Center for Middle East Development \nCo- Sponsored by \nThe Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures \nThe UCLA Program of Iranian Studies \nSome refer to it as Iran’s fourth revolution\, others question whether it is motivated by Islamophobia\, and Western leaders and media remain largely silent. Though the current wave of nationwide demonstrations in Iran is complex and difficult to comprehend\, one thing is clear: the people want regime change and are risking their lives to battle a brutal and ruthless armed conglomerate of state and local police— and have been doing so for a month (and counting)! How did Iranians reach their current state? What distinguishes this round of protests from previous movements? What are people demanding and how are they organizing despite a government shutdown of the internet? Why haven’t US leaders and media been more vocal about the heinous violations of human rights occurring on the ground? How and why are young women and girls at the forefront of the fight for freedom and liberty? Our panel of experts will investigate these questions and will provide the opportunity for our audience to ask their own. \n\nPANELIST — Haleh Esfandiari is Director Emerita and Distinguished Scholar of the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center in Washington DC. She is currently a Middle East Program and Public Policy Scholar at the Wilson Center. She is the author of “My Prison\, My Home\,” based on her arrest and imprisonment by the Iranian security authorities in 2007. In March 2017\, the Wilson Center announced the launch of the Haleh Esfandiari Forum\, an annual lecture on women’s empowerment in the MENA region. The inaugural lecture was given by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Among her awards are the Special American Red Cross Award and the Women’s Equality Award from the National Council of Women’s Organizations. She received an honorary degree from Georgetown University Law Center. \n\nPANELIST — Dr. Sara Bazoobandi is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Institute for Middle East Studies of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. She is also a senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council\, a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington\, and a non-resident fellow at ISPI in Milan. Prior to this\, she was a senior lecturer in international political economy at Regent’s University London from 2013 to 2018\, and a research fellow at the National University of Singapore from 2011 to 2012. She has also worked outside of academia\, in the infrastructure construction sector in Iran. Her education background includes a civil engineering degree that she obtained in Iran\, and and MSc and PhD that she completed in the UK. She grew up in Iran and has been living in Europe since 2005. \n\nPANELIST — Dr. Mahya Ostovar\, who left Iran 10 years ago\, is a lecturer at University of Galway\, Ireland. Active in “1 million signatures for equality\,” Dr. Ostovar describes herself as a feminist. During PhD studies in France\, her research focused on campaigns against mandatory hijab in Iran—such as “My Stealthy Freedom” and “White Wednesdays.” She was also active in the “#LetUsTalk” movement\, which appeals to the West to silence the criticism of Islamophobia\, especially by Middle Eastern women\, and the “#No2Hijab campaign\,” which calls on Iranian women not to wear the headscarf in Iranian public. Dr. Ostovar was also one of the co-founders of “Let Women In\,” a campaign to lobby FIFA to take concrete actions against Iran’s state-wide segregation\, after an Iranian female football fan was arrested for attempting to enter the stadium and later tragically died by self-immolation. Dr. Ostovar’s primary focus in all these activities has been the equality of women and their rights over their bodies. Her publications include\, “A Performative Identity Perspective of Cyberactivism: The Case of My Stealthy Freedom” and “Producing Solidarity in Social Media Activism: The Case of My Stealthy Freedom\,” among others. \n\nMODERATOR— Salomé Mohajer is an Iranian-American who left Iran before the 1979 Revolution\, and who speaks Farsi/Persian fluently. She is a UC Santa Cruz Alumni where she majored in Women Studies\, focusing on third world feminisms. She later obtained a Masters in Teaching through a Teach for America/Pace University partnership\, served as a public school educator in New York City for a decade\, and was a founding teacher at a KIPP charter school in Gary\, Indiana. She brings her lifelong passion for social justice and political change to CMED\, where she manages major projects\, produces virtual events\, and oversees the CMED internship program. \n* Registration is required for this event. If you are unable to join the live event\, a recording will be available on the CMED website after the event concludes.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/womenlifefreedom-the-iranian-protest-movement/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221007T180000
DTSTAMP:20220928T153833Z
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2022
DESCRIPTION:Pourdavoud Center Fall 2022 Welcome Reception\nFriday\, October 7\, 2022\n4:00 – 6:00 pm\nRoyce Hall 306\nRegistration Required\n  \nThe Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception. \nIn the company of our supporters\, colleagues\, academic affiliates\, students\, and esteemed guests\, we shall be introducing the Center’s stimulating programming and research agenda for the academic year 2022–23. \nLight refreshments will be served. Parking in Lot 2 or Lot 5 is recommended. \nThis event will adhere to all university COVID-19 guidelines. For current policies and guidance\, please visit https://covid-19.ucla.edu/. \nPlease click here to RSVP.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-center-fall-reception-2022/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Iranian
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220928T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220928T160000
DTSTAMP:20220922T164223Z
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SUMMARY:NELC Welcome Reception Fall 2022
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a fall reception at Royce Hall to commemorate the past and celebrate the upcoming academic year in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. \nThe event will be held on the balcony of Royce 306. Self-pay parking is available in UCLA lots 2\, 3\, 4\, and 5. Please view the UCLA Interactive Map for location details. \nRSVP [gravityform id=”171″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/nelc-welcome-reception-fall-2022/
LOCATION:Royce Hall Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA (CALIFORNIA)\, 90095
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220605T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220605T130000
DTSTAMP:20220429T190537Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Nahid Pirnazar
DESCRIPTION:Judeo Persian Writings an original comprehensive collection published in 2021 gives parallel examples in Judeo Persian and Perso Arabic script and their translations into English Most Judeo Persian documents not only reflect the twenty seven centuries of Jewish life in Iran\, but they are also a testament to their intellectual\, cultural\, and socioeconomic conditions The significant value of such documents is found in the areas of linguistics\, history\, sociocultural and literary issues\, in the form of verse and prose As an example\, Ketāb e Anūsi The Book of the Forced Converts\, was compiled by three poets\, Bābāi Ben Loṭf Bābāi Ben Farhād and Mashiah ben Rephael This historical narrative\, transliterated from Judeo Pasian to Perso Arabic script in 2021 reports about the forced conversions and the events relevant to Iranian Jewish communities that took place during the period of Shah Abbas I of the Safavid\, through the rise of the Afsharid period (1613-1730). \n  \nClick here to register.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-nahid-pirnazar/
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:20220603T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T130000
DTSTAMP:20220520T205229Z
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SUMMARY:Love\, Service\, and the State: An analysis of communication and persuasion in Old Kingdom Egyptian letters and decrees
DESCRIPTION:This research explores how self-perception and royal ideology shaped and legitimized the ethics of community behavior and hierarchical interaction at the end of the Egyptian Old Kingdom (ca. 2700-2200 BCE). First\, my analysis of politeness in private letters determines the ancient Egyptian behavioral expectations around inferiors\, superiors\, and equals. Subsequently\, I investigate how the pharaoh’s rhetoric instrumentalized the community focus seen in letters to shape his ideology of state service in royal letters and decrees. Critical Discourse Analysis reveals that royal texts legitimize the king as an intellectually superior being\, distinguished from the uniform mass through a series of divine qualities that include his authoritative speech. I show that the Old Kingdom state language willingly obfuscated the boundary between cooperation and coercion\, masking conscripted service as an act of love for the king. Paradoxically\, the autocratic enforcement of social collaboration resulted in the gradual empowerment of local chiefs\, which eventually led to the collapse of the Old Kingdom centralized regime. Therefore\, I use language as a medium to obtain information about the ethical\, conceptual\, and ideological principles of the earliest Egyptian state\, focusing on what was left unsaid as commonsensical knowledge\, rather than what the texts explicitly express. This work ultimately explains the role that collective identity and community values played in the Egyptians’ acceptance of authoritarianism\, questioning a top-down approach to power imposition. It shows that the pharaohs’ commands were based on an ideological appeal to willful cooperation or love\, rather than coerced obligation. \n  \n Victoria Almansa-Villatoro obtained her Ph.D. in Egyptology at Brown University in 2022. She is an incoming Junior Research Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2022-2025) and specializes in the use of language and hieroglyphs’ iconicity to understand oral knowledge and ideology in Old Kingdom Egypt. Since 2019 she is a member of the AERA archaeological project in Giza\, and assistant director to the Royal Necropolis and Pyramids of Nuri Expedition since 2021. \n  \n[gravityform id=”182″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/love-service-and-the-state-an-analysis-of-communication-and-persuasion-in-old-kingdom-egyptian-letters-and-decrees/
LOCATION:348 Kaplan Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220602T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220602T160000
DTSTAMP:20220520T204507Z
CREATED:20220520T204507Z
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SUMMARY:Becoming a Titan: Hermann Grapow’s Position in Egyptology and National Socialist Initiatives for the Humanities\, 1938–45
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be a case study of the academic and political roles of one of the most prominent German Egyptologists of the 20th century during the second part of the Nazi period: Hermann Grapow (1885–1967). Grapow\, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Berlin and a senior administrator of the university and the Prussian Academy of Arts and Sciences between 1938 and 1945\, was instrumental in repositioning Egyptology during these years under his own leadership\, and to open the discipline to National Socialist initiatives for the Humanities. It can be demonstrated that Grapow not only used the opportunities that the new political situation offered for his personal professional ascent but that he embraced National Socialist agendas as a pathway for future research and teaching as much as he condoned the Nazi regime’s ‘fate-given’ racist and expansionist politics. The lecture will provide additional evidence and arguments in the context of recent debates about how to properly contextualize Egyptology and the position of Egyptologists in Nazi Germany. \n  \nThomas Schneider (Dr.phil. and Habilitation\, University of Basel) is Professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia and Executive Director of the Pacific Alliance of Liberal Arts Colleges. Prior to UBC\, he was the inaugural holder of the Chair in Egyptology at Swansea University\, Wales. He recently served as Associate Vice President (International) at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen\, China (2018-20) and held visiting professorships at the University of Vienna\, the University of Heidelberg and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. \n  \n[gravityform id=”181″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/becoming-a-titan-hermann-grapows-position-in-egyptology-and-national-socialist-initiatives-for-the-humanities-1938-45/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220521
DTSTAMP:20220517T191208Z
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SUMMARY:The World of Ancient Iran and the West
DESCRIPTION:An International Symposium\nConvened by M. Rahim Shayegan (University of California\, Los Angeles) and  Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum)\nMay 19–20\, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall\nMorning Refreshments: 8:00 am\nSymposium Begins: 9:00 am\nThe Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the J. Paul Getty Museum are convening for a third year an international symposium on the exchanges between ancient Iran and the Classical world. This year’s symposium\, held at UCLA over two days (May 19 and 20\, 2022)\, will mark the launch of the exhibit\, Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World at the Getty Villa in the spring of 2022. The symposium will include invited speakers\, UC faculty\, and Getty scholars\, whose research pertains to the nexus between ancient Persia and the West. The overarching themes covered by the symposium are: Achaemenid Persia and the West; Iran and the Hellenistic World; and Eastern and Western Entanglements in the Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Periods. \n  \nThe link for online hybrid attendance is: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92658651250 \n  \nClick here to download the full program.\nClick here to download the speaker abstract book.\nDr. Jeffrey Spier has a handout as part of his presentation.  To download the PDF of this handout\, please click here.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/the-world-of-ancient-iran-and-the-west-2/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC,Pourdavoud Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220516T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220516T163000
DTSTAMP:20220328T224110Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music
DESCRIPTION:The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music\nThe Arabic-infused Iranian popular musical genre\, Lalehzari (or Kucheh-Bazari)\, was well liked amongst Iran’s underclass in the last few decades before the 1979 Revolution. In the sixties and seventies\, the taste for Lalehzari music clearly indicated a lower social class and was associated by mainstream culture with debauchery\, even criminality\, and a lack of social consciousness. This project explores ways that the female Lalehzari performers rejected the features of conventional femininity imposed on women through their performances of female masculinity. The female Lalehzari performers claimed their presence in the underclass and underworld male urban spaces previously inaccessible to women. Central to the methodological approach of this project is the enduring question of how to narrate the stories of subaltern performers who are missing from the various archives without limiting their stories to the manner in which they were sexualized and objectified by the entertainment industry. This project treats music as performance and explores the ways in which the Lalehzari female singers treated their songs as scripts and staged them in various song-and-dance scenes in pre-1979 Revolution commercial cinema (Film Farsi). It also investigates how Film Farsi scripts reacted to the separation of masculinity from the male body. It asks\, in what ways did female Lalehzari singers’ performance of female masculinity cite\, valorize\, and also mock and destabilize the masculinity of their male counterparts? How\, in other words\, did musicians\, performers\, and their audiences construct and construe the fictions of gender in the Lalehzari music scene? \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nMina Khanlarzadeh is a postdoctoral scholar in science and technology studies at Northwestern University and a visiting scholar in Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She holds a PhD from Columbia University\, and her research interests are in global political thought\, critical and postcolonial theory\, gender studies\, and modern Middle Eastern cultural and historical studies. She is currently working on two book projects\, Alienation\, Translation\, and Their Postcolonial Critics and Gender Fictions and the Urban Locations of Iran’s Arabesque Music. Work from both projects has been published in Religions and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies\, and is forthcoming in Popular Music and Society and the collection of essays\, Music and Society of Modern Iran (eds. Nahid Simadoust and Houchang Chehabi). Her poetry has been published in Arts of The Working Class and STILL DANCING (ed. Habib William Kherbek). She has also written numerous articles on Iranian contemporary music and global political thought in Reorient\, Z Magazine\, and Jadaliyya. \n  \nClick here to register and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-the-performance-of-female-masculinity-in-lalehzari-music/
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:20220515T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220515T130000
DTSTAMP:20220328T224125Z
CREATED:20220328T211548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T224125Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: اجراگری مردانگی توسط زنان هنرمند در موسیقی لاله‌زاری
DESCRIPTION:اجراگری مردانگی توسط زنان هنرمند در موسیقی لاله‌زاری\nThe Arabic-infused Iranian popular musical genre\, Lalehzari (or Kucheh-Bazari)\, was well liked amongst Iran’s underclass in the last few decades before the 1979 Revolution. In the sixties and seventies\, the taste for Lalehzari music clearly indicated a lower social class and was associated by mainstream culture with debauchery\, even criminality\, and a lack of social consciousness. This project explores ways that the female Lalehzari performers rejected the features of conventional femininity imposed on women through their performances of female masculinity. The female Lalehzari performers claimed their presence in the underclass and underworld male urban spaces previously inaccessible to women. Central to the methodological approach of this project is the enduring question of how to narrate the stories of subaltern performers who are missing from the various archives without limiting their stories to the manner in which they were sexualized and objectified by the entertainment industry. This project treats music as performance and explores the ways in which the Lalehzari female singers treated their songs as scripts and staged them in various song-and-dance scenes in pre-1979 Revolution commercial cinema (Film Farsi). It also investigates how Film Farsi scripts reacted to the separation of masculinity from the male body. It asks\, in what ways did female Lalehzari singers’ performance of female masculinity cite\, valorize\, and also mock and destabilize the masculinity of their male counterparts? How\, in other words\, did musicians\, performers\, and their audiences construct and construe the fictions of gender in the Lalehzari music scene? \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nMina Khanlarzadeh is a postdoctoral scholar in science and technology studies at Northwestern University and a visiting scholar in Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She holds a PhD from Columbia University\, and her research interests are in global political thought\, critical and postcolonial theory\, gender studies\, and modern Middle Eastern cultural and historical studies. She is currently working on two book projects\, Alienation\, Translation\, and Their Postcolonial Critics and Gender Fictions and the Urban Locations of Iran’s Arabesque Music. Work from both projects has been published in Religions and British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies\, and is forthcoming in Popular Music and Society and the collection of essays\, Music and Society of Modern Iran (eds. Nahid Simadoust and Houchang Chehabi). Her poetry has been published in Arts of The Working Class and STILL DANCING (ed. Habib William Kherbek). She has also written numerous articles on Iranian contemporary music and global political thought in Reorient\, Z Magazine\, and Jadaliyya. \n  \n  \nClick here to register and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%b1%d8%a7%da%af%d8%b1%db%8c-%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%da%af%db%8c-%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%b3%d8%b7-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%87%d9%86%d8%b1%d9%85%d9%86%d8%af/
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:20220513T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220513T170000
DTSTAMP:20220412T183907Z
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SUMMARY:Gilgamesh and the Translation of Philological Crises
DESCRIPTION:This year\, the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh celebrates the 150th anniversary of its modern rediscovery in 1872: since then\, the epic has swept like a Flood through the literary world\, and it continues to be celebrated as the oldest entry in the literary canon. \nIn this talk\, Sophus Helle offers an introduction to the epic and its modern afterlife\, focusing on the particular challenges that face the translators of premodern texts\, who must contend with the cruxes and crises that come with the manuscript medium. \nTranslators of such texts must confront the question of how to render philological problems—or\, as Helle terms them\, “crises of reading”—including fragmentary sections\, variation across manuscripts\, obscure words\, and the like. Helle argues that these philological problems can have their own poetics\, their own set of aesthetic effects\, which translators can engage with in creative ways. \n  \nCo-sponsored by The Center for the Study of Religion \n  \nSophus Helle is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. He previously translated Gilgamesh into Danish with his father\, the poet Morten Søndergaard. He is currently working on a book about Enheduana\, the first known author. \n  \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”177″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/gilgamesh-and-the-translation-of-philological-crises/
LOCATION:Kaplan Hall 365
CATEGORIES:Assyriology
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220501T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220501T130000
DTSTAMP:20211215T202114Z
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Fatemeh Shams
DESCRIPTION:تنش شعر و قدرت در ایران ِ پس از انقلاب \nThe Tension Between Poetry and Power in Post-Revolutionary Iran\nشعر و شاعران چه نقشی در پیروزی انقلاب ۵۷ و به مسند نشاندن حاکمان جمهوری اسلامی داشتند؟ چرا حاکمان جمهوری اسلامی به شعر اهمیت می‌دهند؟‌ شاعران حکومتی چه کسانی هستند و چگونه به عرصه شعر بعد از انقلاب وارد شدند؟‌ آنها توسط چه کسانی حمایت می‌شوند و از چه می‌نویسند؟ چه ارتباطی میان شعر، زبان، استبداد، و خاطره جمعی وجود دارد؟ در این سخنرانی فاطمه شمس با معرفی کتاب جدیدش که در سال ۲۰۲۱ توسط انتشارات آکسفورد تحت عنوان «یک انقلاب مقفّا:‌ دستکاریِ ایدئولوژیک در شعر دوره جمهوری اسلامی» منتشر شده است به این سؤالات پاسخ خواهد داد. \nWhat role did poetry and poets play during the 1979 revolution and the rise of the Islamic Republic? Why did leaders of the Islamic Republic pay so much attention to poetry? Who are the state-sponsored poets and how did they enter into the literary scene after the revolution? Who sponsored them and what did they write about? What is the relationship between poetry\, language\, despotism and collective memory? In this talk\, Fatemeh Shams will address these questions by introducing her recently published book\, A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the Islamic Republic (Oxford University Press\, 2021). \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Fatemeh Shams is an Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her Ph.D. in Oriental Studies from University of Oxford\, Wadham College. Her work focuses on the intersection of literature\, politics and society. She is interested in the evolution of poetry and patronage in the Persian literary tradition and the representation and transformation of this relationship in modern Iran. She has published articles and book chapters on poetry\, patronage and politics in the Iranian context. She has recently won the Humboldt Foundation Fellowship to join Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin in 2021 in order to embark on her second book project on exile and exilic writing in Persian tradition. \nفاطمه شمس: استادیار ادبیات معاصر در دانشگاه پنسیوالیای آمریکاست. از او تاکنون مقالات زیادی درباب ایدئولوژی، ادبیات و انقلاب منتشر شده است. همچنین سه مجموعه شعر با نام‌های «۸۸»، «نوشتن در مه»، و مجموعه دوزبانه «در را که شکستند» با ترجمه دیک دیویس منتشر شده است. او برنده جایزه شعر ژاله اصفهانی در سال ۲۰۱۲ و برنده جایزه کتاب سال لطیفه یارشاطر در سال ۲۰۱۶ است. کتاب جدید او «یک انقلاب مقفٌا: دستکاری ایدئولوژیک در شعر دوره جمهوری اسلامی» در سال ۲۰۲۱ توسط انتشارات آکسفورد منتشر شده است. \nPlease click here to register and receive the Zoom information.
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-fatemeh-shams/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,NELC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T130000
DTSTAMP:20220412T184940Z
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SUMMARY:‘Aqām al-ḥajj Fulān’: The Leaders of Abbasid Pilgrimage in the Early Islamic  Annalistic Tradition
DESCRIPTION:The caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (d. 193/809) allegedly led the ḥajj nine times over the course of his twenty-three-year reign\, in 188/804 he was also the last ʿAbbāsid caliph to lead the pilgrimage rites. The pilgrimage served as a means of legitimation as well as a place of succession and nomination\, with Hārūn and his wife Zubayda bt. Jaʿfar (from whence the Darb Zubayda) in particular undergoing extensive infrastructural works on the pilgrimage route. The leaders of the ḥajj – and of the summer expeditions (ṣawāʾif) – are the most consistently provided information in the early Islamic annalistic tradition (tawārīkh)\, being found at the end of each year\, reflecting the place of the event in the Islamic calendar. For the early ʿAbbāsid period\, the pilgrimage akhbār are tremendously consistent\, demonstrating few discrepancies across late ninth/early tenth century sources (ten disagreements across one hundred and one notices). The agreement between the early Baṣran traditionist Khalı̄fa b. Khayyāṭ (d. 240/854) and al-Ṭabarī (d.310/923) demonstrates that this information was circulating in a complete form by the mid-ninth century. This contrasts with the leaders of the Umayyads pilgrimage season\, which is reported with significant variation in the same sources. The near unanimity epitomises the consistency of the sources for the Abbasid period\, further evidencing their centralising narratives. The most well-known leaders are undoubtedly the caliphs and their sons\, leading it twenty-five times\, when they were not present it was nearly always a member of the ʿAbbāsid family. This talk collates the ʿAbbāsid leadership reports (from 132/750 – 232/847) across our early annalistic sources and aims to answer the major questions that a detailed overview of the material raises: who was leading the ḥajj for the early ʿAbbāsids\, where does this material derive from and what is the connection between pilgrimage ceremonial and caliphal nomination? \n  \nCo-sponsored by CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and UCLA Islamic Studies Program \n  \nLeone Pecorini Goodall is a third year PhD student in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh/St. Andrews (supervisors: Marie Legendre\, Yannis Stouraitis and Tim Greenwood). His thesis explores the patterns and means of succession of the late Umayyad and early Abbasids\, focusing on over-looked aspects of succession such as the matrilineal line\, age\, eligibility and ‘failed’ heirs. His research makes use of Arabic\, Armenian\, and Greek language sources\, adopting a source-critical and comparative approach. \n  \n[gravityform id=”178″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/aqam-al-%e1%b8%a5ajj-fulan-the-leaders-of-abbasid-pilgrimage-in-the-early-islamic-annalistic-tradition/
LOCATION:365 Kaplan Hall
CATEGORIES:Arabic & Islamic Studies
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