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Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore
The Pourdavoud Center is proud to announce the recent publication of an edited volume by Director Rahim Shayegan. Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore was published as...
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Getty Symposium: Palmyra and the East
The J. Paul Getty Museum extends an invitation to their two-day symposium, “Palmyra and the East.” This event, co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the...
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Best Wishes for a Joyous Norouz
On behalf of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA, we would like to offer our best wishes for a joyous Norouz....
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Motivations in the Ancient Middle East: Rome, Parthia, and Realpolitik
Jason Schlude (College of St. Benedict and St. John's University) -
The Lords of Canals: Re-Examining the Sasanian Hydraulic Landscapes and Their Heritage in the Islamic Period
Mehrnoush Soroush (Harvard University) -
Charax Spasinou: Research on the Capitol of Mesene and the Arsacid Center of Trade
Stefan R. Hauser (University of Konstanz/Getty Scholar) -
Kingship for a New World: Achaemenid Art and its Global Resonances
Margaret Root (University of Michigan / Getty Scholar) -
Contextualizing the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: What Does Empire Mean in the 1st Millennium BCE?
Robert Rollinger (Universität Innsbruck, Austria) -
Transmillenial Ecologies of Iranian Religion and Identity
Matthew P. Canepa (University of California, Irvine) -
Ehsan Yarshater: A Homage
M. Rahim Shayegan (UCLA), Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware), ProdsOktor Skjærvø (Harvard), Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (UCLA), Elton Daniel (Columbia University), and Ali Gheissari (University of San Diego) -
Deities and Ritual at Persepolis: The Evidence from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives
Mark Center Garrison (Trinity College) -
The Study of Zoroastrianism and the Academic Study of Religion
Albert de Jong (Leiden University)
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Motivations in the Ancient Middle East: Rome, Parthia, and Realpolitik
Jason Schlude (College of St. Benedict and St. John's University) -
The Lords of Canals: Re-Examining the Sasanian Hydraulic Landscapes and Their Heritage in the Islamic Period
Mehrnoush Soroush (Harvard University) -
Charax Spasinou: Research on the Capitol of Mesene and the Arsacid Center of Trade
Stefan R. Hauser (University of Konstanz/Getty Scholar) -
Kingship for a New World: Achaemenid Art and its Global Resonances
Margaret Root (University of Michigan / Getty Scholar) -
Contextualizing the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: What Does Empire Mean in the 1st Millennium BCE?
Robert Rollinger (Universität Innsbruck, Austria) -
Transmillenial Ecologies of Iranian Religion and Identity
Matthew P. Canepa (University of California, Irvine) -
Ehsan Yarshater: A Homage
M. Rahim Shayegan (UCLA), Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware), ProdsOktor Skjærvø (Harvard), Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (UCLA), Elton Daniel (Columbia University), and Ali Gheissari (University of San Diego) -
Deities and Ritual at Persepolis: The Evidence from the Persepolis Fortification and Treasury Archives
Mark Center Garrison (Trinity College) -
The Study of Zoroastrianism and the Academic Study of Religion
Albert de Jong (Leiden University)