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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Calendar and Identity: Why did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity?
DESCRIPTION:Calendar and Identity:\nWhy did the Persian solar calendar survive for 1400 years and become an important feature of Iranian identity?\nMonday\, April 7\, 2025 at 3:00pm\, Bunche Hall 10383 \nAlternate live stream on Zoom: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/95885037418 \n(No need to register in advance\, just click the link at 3:00pm on April 7 to join.) \n \n\n\n\nSince 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 a unique solar time reckoning throughout the Muslim world and beyond. This talk explores the circumstances that allowed its survival and adoption as a national calendar of Iran at the turn of the 20th century. \nAbout the Speaker \n\n\n\nAbbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. Since 1983\, he has taught history of early modern and modern Iran\, Shi’ism\, modern Middle East\, and the Persianate world at Yale. He has authored eight books\, most recently Iran: A Mod-ern History (Yale University Press\, 2017) and Ahd-e Qajar va Sowda-ye Farang in Persian (London\, 2021). He has edited and coedited thirteen volumes and published numerous articles\, encyclopedia entries\, and op eds. His forthcoming books include A Study of the Solar Calendar and Iranian Identity (2024 in Persian); A Study of Historiography and Reconstruction of National Identity in Iran (2024 in Persian and 2025 in English); A New Biography of Fatemah Zarin-Taj Baraghani Qorrat al-Ayn Tahereh (OneWorld\, 2025 in English); Companion of Qajar Studies (Cambridge University Press\, 2025); and Circle of Justice: Persian Art of Governance (Yale University Press\, 2026). Amanat served as the Chair of the Yale Council on Middle East Studies and as the Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. He was the editor-in-chief of the journal of Iranian Studies and he is the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming series Sources for the Study of the Persianate World.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-calendar-and-identity-why-did-the-persian-solar-calendar-survive-for-1400-years-and-become-an-important-feature-of-iranian-identity/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bilingual Lecture Series,Iranian
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SUMMARY:Hammer Art History Lecture by Shawon Kinew\, “St. Paul Among the Snakes: A Maltese Artist Goes Home\, c. 1660”
DESCRIPTION: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 center of local devotional practices\, still carried in processions celebrating the Apostle’s shipwreck in Malta. Our time is connected to Paul’s and to Cafà’s in this living tradition. A study of Cafà’s St. Paul is one of Mediterranean cultural continuities\, and a meditation on the ethnographic gaze of the art historian. \nShawon Kinew is an art historian of early modern Southern Europe at Harvard University and specializes in seventeenth-century Rome’s art and theory. Her research on Roman Baroque sculpture focuses on the Maltese artist Melchiorre Cafà\, who is the subject of a book manuscript in preparation\, Baroque Softness: Melchiorre Cafà and the Sculpture of Mysticism. \nRegister to attend in Royce 314 \nMore information about past Hammer Art History Lectures can be found here.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/rescheduled-hammer-art-history-lecture-by-shawon-kinew-st-paul-among-the-snakes-a-maltese-artist-goes-home-c-1660/
LOCATION:Royce 314\, 10745 Dickson Ct\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,Hammer Art History Annual Lecture,Humanities
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