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Jonathan Winnerman among 7 new Humanities faculty appointments for 2025-26
Published: October 1, 2025Jonathan Winnerman, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, studies kingship and sacred power in ancient Egypt and from a comparative perspective. He specializes in the texts and visual culture of the New…
Read MoreAnthology edited by Carol Bakhos covers nearly a millennium of Jewish history
Published: October 1, 2025A new book edited by Carol Bakhos covers the extensive period between the rise of Alexander the Great and the emergence…
Read MoreGurdjieff Armenia 2025 Conference
Published: September 4, 2025Gurdjieff Armenia 2025 Conference September 17-20 Organized by the Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies, UCLA Co-sponsored by the Institute for Armenian Studies, Yerevan State University together with the Dornsife Institute…
Read More2025-2026 Applications for the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies Open
Published: August 7, 2025
Call for Applications for the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World announces a call for applications for the Morvarid…
Read MoreIslamicate Manuscripts Initiative video features 2 Humanities scholars
Published: June 25, 2025
Image description: UCLA Library, Professor Luke Yarbrough, top right, Azeem Malik, bottom left, and pages from volumes in the Islamicate Manuscripts Initiative. UCLA Humanities | June 24, 2025 Since 2022,…
Read MoreFaculty Spotlight: Gina Konstantopoulos
Published: June 16, 2025
Gina Konstantopoulos is Associate Professor of Assyriology and Cuneiform Studies and has worked at UCLA since 2021. Her work centers on religion, magic, and literature in Mesopotamia, with a focus…
Read MoreFaculty Spotlight: Lara Fabian
Published: April 9, 2025
Lara Fabian works as an Assistant Professor of Iranian Archaeology in the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department. Her upbringing was peripatetic, but most of her adult life was spent…
Read MoreA New Era for Iranian Studies: UCLA Celebrates Yarshater Center Launch
Published: December 3, 2024
Campus leaders, faculty, community members celebrate launch of UCLA Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions Photo: M. Rahim Shayegan, director of the Pourdavoud Institute and Yarshater Center;…
Read MoreWho wrote the Bible? In new book, upcoming lecture, William Schniedewind offers bold new answers
Published: November 27, 2024written by Ashna Madni Who really wrote the Bible? A Dec. 3 lecture by William Schniedewind will offer a bold new answer to that age-old question. “Although the Hebrew Bible rarely speaks…
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