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The Pourdavoud Center is pleased to share the announcement from the Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University regarding the new fascicle of Volume XVII of Encyclopaedia Iranica. Their…

Chancellor Block recently shared his Fall 2022 quarterly update, which includes a piece titled “Bruins Respond to Unrest in Iran.” “Since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September, Iranians…

Photo provided by UCLA Newsroom: Around the world — including at this demonstration in Australia — people have expressed support for the protests in Iran. Matt Hrkac/Flickr UCLA Newsroom |…

The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, announces a search for a tenure-track position in Ancient Iranian Archaeology and Art History at…

The Encyclopaedia Iranica has published a new article featuring the life and academic career of Professor Ebrahim Pourdavoud, an iconic scholar of ancient Iran. He was responsible for instituting the…

Call for Applications for the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World announces a call for applications for the Morvarid…

The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA is hiring two full-time career positions in academic administration beginning in Fall 2022.  The Center is seeking a…

The Pourdavoud Center is proud to be the academic partner for Ancient Iran and the Classical World, the newly opened exhibit at the Getty Villa location of the J. Paul…

The UCLA Archaeological Gazetteer of Iran, a Pourdavoud Center research initiative, has been featured in the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeological annual magazine publication, Backdirt. The article, co-written by Gazetteer…

The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World would like to express its deep appreciation to Ms. Nastaran Akhavan for her financial support of the UCLA Archaeological Gazetteer…