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Bilingual Lecture Series: Calendar and Identity: Why did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity?

10383 Bunche Hall 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles

Calendar and Identity: Why did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity? Monday, April 7, 2025 at 3:00pm, Bunche Hall 10383 Alternate live stream on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95885037418 (No need to register in advance, just click the link at 3:00pm on April 7 to join.) Since the end of the Sasanian era, the Persian solar calendar—and the associated rite of Norouz—has endured and grown to become a significant feature of Iranian, and to some extent the Persianate, cultural identity. With Hijra as its starting point but based on vernal equinox, it is...

Hammer Art History Lecture by Shawon Kinew, “St. Paul Among the Snakes: A Maltese Artist Goes Home, c. 1660”

Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles

Abstract: At the end of the 1650s, Melchiorre Cafà, a Maltese sculptor, was newly established in Rome. Rome was the most significant site for sculptural production in Europe at that time. It was also a Golden Age of sculpture as artists vied for papal commissions and pushed the limits of their medium. They transformed hard stone into weightless apparitions. But, in his early days in the Caput Mundi, Cafà returned home conceptually. He carved in the humble material of wood the patron saint of his island, St. Paul, to be sent back to Malta. Today the sculpture is at the...