Humanities
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,...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran
Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran: An Intersectional Approach to National Identity by Azadeh Kian examines the crucial shifts that affected Sunnite and subaltern women once Shi’ism became the state religion after the Iranian Revolution. Focusing on women in the Baluchistan and Golestan provinces of Iran, Kian...
Co-Sponsorship: Global Antiquity (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds
Royce 306A Forum for Exchanges on Ancient Studies at UCLA December 5–6, 2023 | Royce Hall 306 Global Antiquity is convening a workshop titled (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds. This event, held at UCLA over two days, December 5–6, 2023, will include invited speakers from the University of California and the greater Los Angeles area whose research focuses on...
Iranian Studies: Alborz: We Climb Mountains Film Screening
314 Royce HallAlborz High school was initially an American Presbyterian missionary institution in Tehran that began as a grade school in 1873, in 1924 it became a junior college and in 1928 an accredited liberal arts college. After many upheavals and the forced departure of its founder, Dr. Samuel Martin Jordan in 1940, it was transformed into...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Women’s Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan
314 Royce Hallادبیات داستانی معاصر زنان افغانستان در بستر تحولات اجتماعی- سیاسی Women's Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan Sunday, January 28, 2024 I 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99816401692 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Towfigh Magazine
314 Royce HallA Celebration of 100 Years of the Towfigh Satirical Magazine Sunday, February 4, 2024 I 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 Alternate live stream on Zoom: Registration Required This year marks the 100th Anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Towfigh satirical magazine in Iran, which addressed the bitter issues...
Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Elspeth Dusinberre
Royce 306The Collapse of Empire: Gordion’s Transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic World This talk will highlight the huge changes that characterized Gordion’s transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic periods. Gordion, ancient capital of Phrygia, was a large and thriving city of secondary importance during the period of the Achaemenid Persian empire (ca 550–333...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Reza Shah’s Exile in Mauritius
314 Royce Hallتبعید رضا شاه بھ موریس Reza Shah’s Exile in Mauritius Sunday, February 25, 2024 I 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Royce Hall 314 Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92711078735 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on February 25 to join.) بعد از کناره گیری رضا شاه در سال...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Forugh Farrokhzad: A Journey Along the Line of Time Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Online Via ZoomSunday, March 3, 2024 I 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM | ONLINE ONLY Live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94371748384 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 3:30pm on March 3 to join.) Forugh Farrokhzad: A Journey Along the Line of Time is a lyrical portrayal of the tumultuous life and works of a...
Bilingual Lecture Series: Reflections on Various Aspects and Impacts of Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran and Internationally Panel
"نگاھی سنجش گرانھ بھ اثرات داخلی و بین المللی جنبش "زن، زندگی، آزادی Reflections on Various Aspects and Impacts of Woman, Life, Freedom Movement in Iran and Internationally Sunday, March 10, 2024 I 11:30 AM | Zoom Registration Required Farzaneh Bazrpour (Journalist, Iran International) “Iranian Newspapers’ Diversion from the Official State Clichés because of Mahsa’s...