Pahlavi Foreign Relations To download the full program of events, click here. This third panel of the Iranian Studies workshop, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran, 1921-1979: A…
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Pahlavi Workshop: Roundtable on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Coup and Reflections on the Reza Pahlavi Period
Published: January 25, 2021Roundtable on the 100th Anniversary of the 1921 Coup and Reflections on the Reza Pahlavi Period The first panel of the Iranian Studies workshop, “History and Historiography of Pahlavi Iran,…
“Agamemnon’s Cluelessness: Reason and Eudaimonia” | Josiah Ober
Published: January 22, 2021There is a password on this Zoom meeting; please contact sshapiro@humnet.ucla.edu if you need the password. Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92119103392?pwd=d05MSEt4NTlVOEJRdXQySGxmV2wzdz09
“Slave Cooks and Roman Comedy: Resistance in the Kitchen” | Amy Richlin
Published: January 22, 2021Bilingual Lecture Series: Panel on Development
Published: January 22, 2021“Socio-Economic Development Strategies and Challenges in Iran,” a panel discussion featuring Azam Khatam (York University), Kaveh Ehsani (DePaul University), and Kevan Harris (UCLA) will take place via Zoom on Monday,…
Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Carlo G. Cereti
Published: January 22, 2021Narseh’s Diadem: Religion, Royalty, and Power under the Early Sasanians This talk focuses on the Sasanian king Narseh (293-302 CE), who celebrated his accession to the throne through the bilingual…
Critical Conversation: Exploring Visual Materials in the Early Modern World—Opportunities and Challenges for Global History
Published: January 22, 2021Presented by Chase Caldwell Smith, UCLA and Jeffery C. J. Chen, Stanford University Zoom Meeting Host – Zirwat Chowdhury, Assistant Professor of Art History, UCLA Respondent – Bronwen Wilson, Director…
Chamber Music Conversations from the Clark: Ying Quartet
Published: January 22, 2021Join us for an exclusive online event featuring a concert performed by the Gryphon Trio just for our audience, followed by a live Q & A with the musicians moderated…
Book launch: “Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry”
Published: January 20, 2021Domenico Ingenito’s “Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry” (Brill, 2020) A conversation with Paul Losensky (Indiana University) and Jane Mikkelson (University of…
8th Latin American & Iberian Film Festival
Published: January 19, 2021Due to the global pandemic, the 8th edition of the annual film festival has been transferred to an online format. This offers a unique possibility of reaching a wider audience…
CMRS Reading Group for Graduate Students and Faculty
Published: January 12, 2021CMRS hosts a monthly medieval and Renaissance reading group for graduate students and faculty. CMRS-affiliated graduate students and faculty propose and share an article or a book particularly important for…
CMRS Reading Group for Graduate Students and Faculty
Published: January 12, 2021CMRS hosts a monthly medieval and Renaissance reading group for graduate students and faculty. CMRS-affiliated graduate students and faculty propose and share an article or a book particularly important for…
“Bodies and Maps” — A New Book
Published: January 12, 2021Since antiquity, artists have visualized the known world through the female (sometimes male) body. In the age of exploration, America was added to figures of Europe, Asia, and Africa who…
CMRS Reading Group for Graduate Students and Faculty
Published: January 12, 2021CMRS hosts a monthly medieval and Renaissance reading group for graduate students and faculty. CMRS-affiliated graduate students and faculty propose and share an article or a book particularly important for…
Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Nikolaus Overtoom
Published: January 3, 2021Reconsidering the Emergence of the Parthian State: The Crisis of the 240s-230s BCE in the Hellenistic Middle East Nikolaus Overtoom’s study of the rise of the Parthian Empire, Reign of…
“Slave Cooks and Roman Comedy: Resistance in the Kitchen” | Amy Richlin
Published: December 26, 2020Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Jason Schlude
Published: December 23, 2020Book Talk: Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace This volume offers an informed survey of the problematic relationship between the ancient empires of Rome and Parthia from c. 96/95…
Pourdavoud Center/Amuzegar Lecture Series: Afshin Marashi
Published: December 14, 2020The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran This book talk will provide an overview of Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the…
“The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic” – New Book Salon
Published: December 10, 2020Professor Andrea Moudarres, UCLA Department of Italian, discusses his recent book, The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic. The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic follows the same narrative of internal strife,…
A Library of Memories: Textual Preservation at the Monastery of St. Michael in Egypt
Published: December 10, 2020The Annual Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture This year’s speaker is Andrea M. Achi, PhD, Assistant Curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters…