The Pourdavoud Center is pleased to share the announcement from the Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University regarding the new volume of Encyclopaedia Iranica and other center…
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A New Pledge of Support for the UCLA Archaeological Gazetteer of Iran
Published: November 1, 2021The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World would like to express its deep gratitude to Dr. Haleh Emrani and the Gramian-Emrani Foundation for their financial support of…
Read MoreAnnouncing A New Series: Iran and the Ancient World
Published: October 28, 2021Iran and the Ancient World Under the directorship of Professor M. Rahim Shayegan, the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA has established a series, Iran…
Read MoreAnnouncing the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies 2021-2022 Awardees
Published: September 24, 2021The UCLA Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is pleased to announce the awarding of the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies. This fellowship was established…
Read MoreEmergency Support for Afghan Scholars at Risk
Published: September 1, 2021Dear colleagues and friends of the UCLA campus, With the support of campus leadership, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies launched an emergency effort to respond to the Taliban…
Read MoreCall for Applications for the 2021-22 Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies
Published: August 5, 2021Call for Applications for the 2021-22 Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World announces a call for applications for the…
Read MoreVolume XVI of Columbia University’s Encyclopaedia Iranica Published
Published: July 26, 2021The Yarshater Center is pleased to announce that Volume XVI of Columbia University’s Encyclopaedia Iranica has now been published by Brill. (https://brill.com/flyer/title/61057) This bound volume replaces the older unbound fascicles XVI.1 through XVI.6…
Read MoreAnnouncing the Launch of the UCLA Archaeological Gazetteer of Iran
Published: March 18, 2021The UCLA Pourdavoud Center is pleased to announce the public launch of our new major research project, the UCLA Archaeological Gazetteer of Iran. This project is a free-access, web-based encyclopedia…
Read MoreYarshater Center Launches New Encyclopaedia Iranica Online Website
Published: February 16, 2021The Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University is pleased to announce that the Encylopaedia Iranica Online is now freely accessible at https://brill.com/eiro or through https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopaedia-iranica-online. This new website, hosted…
Read MoreWinter 2021 Virtual Events
Published: November 23, 2020Due to the continued risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic, all Pourdavoud Center events for Winter Quarter 2021 will be hosted virtually via Zoom. Professionally edited videos of all lectures…
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