Humanities

Pourdavoud Center Workshop: Udjahorresnet’s Egypt

Published: April 13, 2021

Udjahorresnet’s Egypt: The Crossroads of Conquest and Identity under Achaemenid Rule The concept for this workshop was inspired by the open access volume, Udjahorresnet and His World (JAEI 26, 2020),…

Professional Development Roundtable: The Job Market Dossier

Published: April 12, 2021

Please, be invited to our professional development roundtable on the job market dossier. Professors Arroyo, Marturano, and van Delden will answer all of your questions about the documents you need to submit…

Imposter Syndrome Roundtable

Published: April 9, 2021

Join the GOAL program Thursday, April 15th at 3 pm via Zoom for an open and casual conversation on Imposter Syndrome which many students experience at some point during their…

Slavery’s Archive in the Premodern World

Published: April 6, 2021

CMRS Workshop Organized by Lamia Balafrej, Assistant Professor, Arts of the Islamic World, UCLA Department of Art History Slavery is often equated with archival lack and erasure, an assumption perhaps inherited…

Symposium in Homage to Michel Jeanneret (1940-2019)

Published: April 6, 2021

Organized by Jean-Claude Carron (Research Professor, UCLA). This symposium convened to honor Michel Jeanneret (1940-March 2019) will memorialize the critical and creative achievements of one of the pillars of early…

Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Almut Hintze

Published: March 12, 2021

The Yasna Ritual in Performance Up to the present day Zoroastrian priests perform a millennia old ritual, the Yasna, in which the recitation of ancient Avestan texts accompanies the performance…

California Medieval History Seminar, Spring 2021

Published: March 9, 2021

The seminar meets to discuss four pre-distributed research papers  Participants are scholars in the field at various stages of their careers. All attendees at the seminar are expected to read…

Works-in-Progress Happy Hour with Professor Raphaëlle Burns

Published: March 9, 2021

Professor Raphaëlle Burns, Department of French & Francophone Studies, UCLA “The Stories We Tell: Novellas, News, and the Uses of Casuistry in Early Modern Europe” Raphaëlle Burns teaches and writes about…