• 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 306

    A 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 Hall

    Alborz 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 Hall

    ادبیات 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 Hall

    A 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 306

    The 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 Hall

    تبعید 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: 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...

  • Iranian Studies: And, Towards Happy Alleys Film Screening

    314 Royce Hall

    Fascinated by Iran’s film culture and the poetic works of the feminist poet Forough Farrokhzad, Indian filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh sets out in search of the protagonists of Iranian cinema. The numerous interviews she conducts over a period of six years with filmmakers Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Shirvani and human rights activist Nasrin Sotudeh, among others, show...