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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Afshin Matin-Asgari
DESCRIPTION:An Update on the US-Israeli War on Iran\nAfshin Matin-Asgar\nCalifornia State University\, Los Angeles\nSunday\, December 13\, 2026 \nLecture in Persian \nRoyce Hall 314\, 4:00pm \nZoom link for hybrid online viewing: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97189398973\nRegistration requested: https://forms.gle/NvbydTUWyWui9x9z7 \nBased on the research published in\, Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations\, this book talk will briefly review the events leading to the US-Israeli war on Iran\, followed by a summary of the most recent developments in the war and a discussion of how they are interpreted by Iranian and international scholars and political observers. \n  \n  \nAfshin Matin-Asgari is professor emeritus of modern Middle East history at California State University\, Los Angeles. His specialty is 20th century Iranian intellectual and political history\, particularly leftist movements. He is the author of Iranian Student Opposition to the Shah: 1960s-1970s (Mazda Publishers\, 2002)\, Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity (Cambridge University Press\, 2018) and Axis of Empire: A History of Iran-US Relations (Verso Publishers\, 2026)\, as well as more than thirty articles and book chapters.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-afshin-matin-asgari/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 314\, 340 Royce Drive\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Iranian
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SUMMARY:Idol Talk: False Worship in the Early Christian World
DESCRIPTION:Are idols real? Do gods or demons dwell in them or around them? Or are they empty\, devoid of existence except in the mind of the idolater? Ancient Christians and Jews gave very different answers to these questions. \nRSVP for this in-person event. \nSonja Anderson (UCLA\, B.A.; University of Notre Dame\, M.T.S.; Yale University\, M.A.\, M.Phil.\, Ph.D.) teaches courses in ancient Christianity and Judaism\, religious violence\, gender and Catholicism\, apocalypticism\, and religion and medicine. Her current book project\, Idol Talk: False Worship in the Early Christian World\, will be published with Edinburgh University Press and explores how ancient Christians and Jews used idolatry polemic to claim a distinctive identity for themselves over against their pagan peers and how scholarly narratives have replicated this claim to uniqueness. Her training is in ancient biblical and parabiblical texts\, but lately she is interested in the history of Catholic book publishing in 20th–21st-century America\, and in being more anti-AI with every passing day. Her favorite place to be is in conversation with students and colleagues about the weirdness of how we imagine ancient religion. She is a Benedictine oblate of Saint John’s Abbey.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/idol-talk-false-worship-in-the-early-christian-world/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSR
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SUMMARY:Yarshater Lecture Series: Florian Schwarz
DESCRIPTION:Myth\, Literature\, and Geography in Transoxiana from Late Antiquity to the Early Islamic Period: Siyavash at Bukhara\nFlorian Schwarz\n(Austrian Academy of Sciences)\nWednesday January 13\, 2027 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time\nRoyce Hall 306 and Via Zoom \nRegistration Link: https://forms.gle/VgZ8xmueie9azyLE7\nJoin Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95409975203 \nThe conquest of Transoxiana\, the region beyond the river Oxus (Amu Darya)\, in the 7th to 8th centuries is generally regarded as a major historical watershed in the history of Central Asia. This view obscures deeper processes of transformation that affected the entire eastern Iranian world since long before the end of the Sasanian empire. The ideological shifts and re-ordering of the geography of power in late antique eastern Iran and Central Asia came along with a re-framing of the mythical geography of Iranian epic narratives. This presentation explores the underlying historical processes behind the complex literary representations of the story of Siyavash\, the tragic hero whose story and memory became deeply enmeshed with the historical transformations in the late antique and early Islamic Iranian East. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nFlorian Schwarz is Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and affiliate professor at the University of Vienna. He previously taught at the Ruhr University of Bochum and the University of Washington in Seattle. His work on the history of Iran and Central Asia from late antiquity to the early 20th century includes research on Sufi communities\, manuscript culture\, transimperial elites\, urban history\, and rural spaces. He is particularly interested in long-term transformations\, borderlands\, and trans-regional and trans-/non-imperial spaces. Among his recent publications\, a book-length chapter titled “Land Behind Bukhara” (2022)\, explores the emergence and transformation of the oasis of Bukhara as a historical landscape from antiquity to the early modern period. The author or co-editor of nine books\, he serves on the editorial boards of the Brill Handbook of Oriental Studies\, Section 1: The Near and Middle East\, two Iranian Studies monograph series for the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press\, and the book series Afro-Eurasian Transformations (Harrassowitz).
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/yarshater-lecture-series-florian-schwarz/
LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Yarshater Center
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SUMMARY:The Question of Antisemitism: A Guide for a World Divided by Israel-Palestine – Dov Waxman
DESCRIPTION:Since the October 7\, 2023\, attack by Hamas on Israel and Israel’s ensuing war in Gaza\, difficult questions about when criticism of Israel or support for Palestine becomes antisemitic have moved to the center of public life and political debate. Amid growing antisemitism and fierce disagreement over what is or isn’t antisemitic\, what is needed now more than ever is a clearer and more sophisticated understanding of antisemitism and how it relates to Israel-Palestine. In The Question of Antisemitism\, Dov Waxman provides precisely that\, presenting an authoritative guide to today’s contentious debates about antisemitism\, anti-Zionism\, and Israel-Palestine. \nDov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and former director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Before joining UCLA\, he was the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies\, a Professor of Political Science\, and the director of the Middle East Center at Northeastern University. He was previously an associate professor at the City University of New York\, an assistant professor at Bowdoin College\, and a visiting professor at the Middle East Technical University. He has also had visiting fellowships at Oxford University\, the Hebrew University\, Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University. He graduated from Oxford University and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His research and writing focus on the Israel-Palestine issue\, contemporary antisemitism\, Jewish politics\, Israeli politics\, Israel-Diaspora relations\, U.S.-Israel relations\, and U.S.-Middle East relations. He is the author four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006)\, Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011)\, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016)\, and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (published by Oxford University Press in 2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Guardian\, Haaretz\, The Forward\, The Atlantic\, Time\, Slate\, Foreign Policy and many other places. \nThursday\, January 14\, 2027 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nThe Question of Antisemitism: A Guide for a World Divided by Israel-Palestine\nDov Waxman (UCLA)\nModerator: Michael Rothberg (UCLA) \nCosponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Bedari Kindness Institute \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-question-of-antisemitism-a-guide-for-a-world-divided-by-israel-palestine-dov-waxman/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alan D. Leve Center Book Talk Series
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SUMMARY:Priestly Mathematical Thought in Biblical and Second Temple Jewish Literatures – Liane M. Feldman
DESCRIPTION:Contrary to what we might think at first\, biblical and Second Temple Jewish literatures are filled with mathematical thought. The densest concentration of mathematical thought in these texts is found in writings concerned with priestly and priestly-adjacent matters such as temples and sacrifice. Embedded within larger narrative contexts\, these instances of counting\, calculation\, and measurement offer a unique glimpse into the socio-historical contexts of these texts and their relationship to broader knowledge networks in the ancient world. Mathematics in the ancient world\, as in modernity\, is highly contextual and culturally conditioned. How one counts or approaches even a simple arithmetical problem can and did vary widely. This talk will explore the diversity of maths in texts such as the pentateuchal priestly source\, Ezekiel\, and the Aramaic Levi Document and consider why counting and calculation might play substantial role in priestly literary writings. \nLiane Feldman is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion and Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of the award-winning The Story of Sacrifice: Ritual and Narrative in the Priestly Source (Mohr Siebeck\, 2020) and The Consuming Fire: The Complete Priestly Source from Creation to the Promised Land (University of California\, 2023 and 2024). She is currently writing a monograph on numerate education and mathematical thought in the Bible under contract to be published in the Anchor Yale Reference Library. \nWednesday\, January 20\, 2027 • 306 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nPriestly Mathematical Thought in Biblical and Second Temple Jewish Literatures\nLiane M. Feldman (Princeton University)\nThe Bible and its Interpreters Seminar Series \nRSVP
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/priestly-mathematical-thought-in-biblical-and-second-temple-jewish-literatures-liane-m-feldman/
LOCATION:UCLA Royce Hall\, Room 306\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270127T160000
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SUMMARY:Pourdavoud Lecture Series: John Hyland
DESCRIPTION:Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Approaches to Historical Reconstruction and Political Myth\nJohn Hyland\n(Christopher Newport University)\nWednesday January 27\, 2027 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time\nRoyce Hall 306 and Via Zoom \nRegistration Link: https://forms.gle/PEZw9xf3oFGjXzZk8\nJoin Livestream Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95846831926 \nAchaemenid Persia’s expeditions against the Greek city-states in the early 5th century BCE are the most (in)famous events in the empire’s history\, crucial to Greco-Roman stereotypes of the “Barbarian” and misleading narratives of Persian decadence and decline. In the absence of Achaemenid narratives to counter the Greek source tradition\, the so-called “Persian Wars” are widely perceived as failures of an over-extended empire against outnumbered\, but militarily superior Greek defenders. Modern receptions have transformed the memory of these events into a powerful political myth\, which represents Greek victories over Persia as origin points for European civilization and symbols of liberty’s ability to overcome imperial despotism. France\, Britain\, the United States\, and other world powers\, not to mention modern Greece\, have vied to represent themselves as heirs to this ancient Greek heroic tradition\, while depicting their enemies as heirs to Xerxes’ Persia and its ultimate failure. Modern Iran\, in turn\, has grappled repeatedly with problems of external perception rooted in hostile Persian War myth. The current war adds particular urgency to the challenge of disentangling the complex ancient history from its modern ideological representations. \nFortunately\, disciplinary progress and emerging evidence now permits more critical historical approaches to Achaemenid contexts and perspectives on Persian-Greek conflicts. Drawing on the speaker’s recent book\, Persia’s Greek Campaigns (Oxford\, 2025)\, this talk will demonstrate the possibilities for historical reconstruction. Examining Xerxes’ effective use of campaign “spectacles” to project imperial power\, problematizing the sources’ depictions of Greek military superiority\, and highlighting iconographic evidence that the Achaemenids represented their Greek campaigns as victories\, the talk will offer a more complex picture of imperial frontier interactions that challenges the modern uses and abuses of the Persian War tradition. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nJohn Hyland is a Professor in the Department of History at Christopher Newport University. He holds a Ph.D. from the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago (2005)\, and has written or co-edited three books\, including Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires (Brill\, 2025) and Persia’s Greek Campaigns: Kingship\, War\, and Spectacle on the Achaemenid Frontier (Oxford\, 2025). His next project will explore the modern afterlife of the Persian Wars as a contested political symbol between the United States\, Britain\, France\, Greece\, and Iran.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/pourdavoud-lecture-series-john-hyland/
LOCATION:Royce 306\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Pourdavoud Institute
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SUMMARY:World Languages Day 2027
DESCRIPTION:World Languages Day\, a cherished UCLA tradition\, returns to spotlight the university’s diverse language programs. \nOpen to all UCLA students\, World Languages Day offers opportunities to explore UCLA’s language offerings\, engage with faculty and peers and learn about the academic and professional benefits of multilingualism. \nWhether you’re curious about studying a new language or deepening your existing knowledge\, World Languages Day invites you to discover the many ways languages shape our understanding of the world. \nJoin us on February 3 to enjoy interactive activities\, cultural experiences\, performances and opportunities to win prizes!
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/world-languages-day-2027/
LOCATION:Wilson Plaza
CATEGORIES:Humanities Division
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SUMMARY:Careers in Higher Education: A Humanities Career Panel Series Event
DESCRIPTION:Did you know there are nearly 30\,000 employees at UCLA\, and that the University of California is one of the top employers in the LA area?  UCLA can be a great place to launch or build your career after graduation\, offering opportunities across a wide range of fields and professions. Hear from alumni who have built rewarding careers at their alma mater and learn how the knowledge and skills you’ve gained at UCLA can help you become part of what makes this university one of the nation’s best. \nPizza and drinks will be served! \nNote: This event is in-person only. No Zoom option will be available. \nUCLA students can RSVP here. \nVisit this page for more information about the Humanities Career Panel Series and other upcoming events.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/higher-education-careers-2027/
LOCATION:Dodd Hall Room 247\, 315 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Humanities Career Panel Series
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