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SUMMARY:Indranil Chakravarty The Power of Intercultural Dialogue: Octavio Paz Between Mexico and India
DESCRIPTION:Based on his recent book\, The Tree Within: Octavio Paz’s Years in India (Penguin\, 2025)\, Chakravarty explains how the Mexican Nobel Laureate poet and diplomat\, Octavio Paz\, became a cultural bridge between two parts of the Global South that are separated by geography\, language\, culture and history. As Mexico’s ambassador to India in the 1960s\, Paz immersed himself in the country’s contemplative traditions\, travelled widely\, forged deep friendships with some of India’s finest minds\, and produced some of his most inspired poetry and essays. By his own admission\, he experienced a ‘second birth’. While exploring the poet’s inner journey by delving into multilingual archives\, declassified diplomatic files\, personal letters and intimate interviews\, Chakravarty explains how Paz prepared\, emotionally and intellectually\, for a deep engagement with India\, allowing it to reshape him. While he gave poetic form to several Indian philosophical concepts and became a mentor to an entire generation of avant garde painters\, he opened pathways through which Latin American writers and artists could draw inspiration from Indian culture. \n\n\n\nIndranil Chakravarty is a writer\, filmmaker and academic based in India. His main interest lies in tracing the history of cultural interactions between India and Latin America. For more than two decades\, he has been a professor of film history at India’s premiere film institutes and has made several documentaries. He studied at Presidency College in Calcutta\, Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in Havana\, and received his PhD from Victoria University of Wellington. His publications include The New Latin American Cinema\, India’s Audiovisual Market\, and a book in Spanish titled Redescubriendo a Tagore\, about the discourse around the Indian poet in Hispanic literature. His next book\, Hometowns (2027)\, is the biography of an Indian villager in the 19th century who led Brazilian battalions in two wars.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/indranil-chakravarty-the-power-of-intercultural-dialogue-octavio-paz-between-mexico-and-india/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302\, Lydeen Library
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Panel Discussion on Current Situation in Iran
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion on Current Situation in Iran\nMONDAY\, NOVEMBER 2\, 2026\n11:00 AM PST\nIn Persian \nONLINE ONLY\nTo watch on Zoom: https://ucla.in/4yjoB6Q \nPanelists and Discussions Include: \nIran and the War: Domestic and International Repercussions\nThis presentation examines the cumulative impact of recent developments on Iran’s domestic politics and foreign policy. It argues that\, taken together\, they have significantly altered the strategic calculations of Iran’s political leadership\, reshaping its approach to domestic governance\, regime security\, regional strategy\, and relations with the international community. The presentation will assess both the immediate consequences of these changes and their longer-term implications for the trajectory of the Islamic Republic. \nMehrzad Boroujerdi (Missouri University of Science and Technology) is Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Arts\, Sciences\, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He previously served as Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech and Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. He has held fellowships and visiting appointments at Harvard\, the University of Texas at Austin\, UCLA\, and the Middle East Institute. A former President of the Association for Iranian Studies\, Boroujerdi is the author\, co-author\, or editor of several books on Iranian politics and intellectual history\, including Iranian Intellectuals and the West and Post-Revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook\, and Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft. He is also the co-founder of the Iran Data Portal. \nIran’s Economic Crisis and the Erosion of State Capacity\nIran’s current recession and severe inflation are the latest phase of a much longer economic crisis. For roughly fifteen years\, weak investment and limited gains in living standards have left the economy less able to absorb shocks. This talk examines how sanctions\, policy failures\, political uncertainty\, and conflict have compounded those pressures\, and how falling real incomes\, deteriorating infrastructure\, and shrinking economic opportunity affect the state’s capacity to meet basic needs. It concludes by considering what economic recovery would require and why a durable improvement depends on institutional as well as economic change. \nMahdi Ghodsi (Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies) is a Senior Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)\, where he leads the International Economics research group. He also teaches at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and is a Senior Fellow and Head of the Economy Unit at the Centre for Middle East and Global Order. His research examines international trade\, cross-border investment\, Iran’s economy\, sanctions\, and the economic consequences of political change. \nThe Social Construction of War across Two Moments\nThis presentation explores how war is socially constructed and given meaning through the voices\, practices\, and cultural productions of civil society in Iran. Drawing on materials produced by artists\, academics\, civil society activists\, and independent cultural institutions at two different moments of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran—the 12-day war of June 2025 and the 40-day war that began in February 2026—this presentation traces shifts in how war is narrated. Situating these responses within the political rupture that followed the Dey protests\, the presentation explores the emergence of new meanings and political imaginaries\, as well as shifting tensions among vulnerability\, resistance\, and everyday life under wartime conditions. \nAzam Khatam (University of Toronto) is the Editor-in-Chief of the Global Iranian Studies Review at the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research focus on cities\, social movements\, development politics\, and Iranian universities. She has published extensively on the transformation of Tehran\, state–space relations\, social movements and public space\, and civic associations in universities. Her recent publications include “Archiving the War: On Public Statements and Political Memory” in Reflections on the June 2025 War (Jadaliyya); “Organizing at Universities and Unfolding Revolution in Iran” in Global Iranian Studies Review; “Densification and Speculative Real Estate in Tehran” in Urban Studies (forthcoming); and “Mahsa Amini’s Killing: State Violence and the Morality Police in Iran” in Human Geography (2023). \nEvent in Persian\nThis event is made possible with the co-sponsorship of the UCLA Program of Iranian Studies and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, as well as with the major support of the Amuzegar Chair in Iranian and the Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-panel-discussion-on-current-situation-in-iran/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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SUMMARY:NADINE A Performance by Luiza Romão
DESCRIPTION:NADINE\nIn this shorter performance\, Luiza Romão presents several scenes from the show Nadine\, using a sampler and a microphone on a stand. Adaptable to different formats and performance spaces\, the piece touches on aspects of detective fiction and presentsthe poems with a stronger emphasis on spoken word. \nSynopsis:\nBased on Luiza Romão’s book of the same name\, Nadine tells the story of a young woman who\, after being murdered\, decides to investigate her own crime. Blending spoken word with crime fiction\, the performance explores themes such as gender\, the representation of violence\, and the states of vulnerability associated with sleep. Onstage\, the poems come to life alongside the original soundtrack created by José Paes de Lira. Featuring various special guest appearances in voice-over\, the audio tracks are triggered through a sampler\, creating soundscapes\, musical recordings\, and vocal architectures. The event will be hold both in Portuguese and English. \nLUIZA ROMÃO\nPoet\, actress\, and researcher\, Luiza Romão is the author of Sangria\, Também guardamos pedras aqui (winner of the Jabuti Prize for Best Poetry Book and Book of the Year)\, and Nadine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts and a master’s degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the University of São Paulo (USP)\, where she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. researching the relationship between literature and performance. \nHer work has been presented at major festivals in Brazil and abroad\, including performances in Argentina\, Germany\, Cuba\, China\, Spain\, Portugal\, Switzerland\, the Netherlands\, Mexico\, Costa Rica\, France\, and Uruguay\, among other countries. \n 
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/nadine-a-performance-by-luiza-romao/
LOCATION:Lydeen Library\, 345 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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