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At the close of another year, we would like to seize this moment and, on behalf of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA, extend…

The Pourdavoud Center will host a memorial event to celebrate the life and scholarly contributions of Professor Eshan Yarshater (1920-2018), the Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia…

The Pourdavoud Center is proud to announce the addition of two scholars: Dr. Ali Mousavi, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Iranian Archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures,…

Videos of lectures from the 2017-2018 academic year are now available for viewing on the Pourdavoud Center website.  Please click here to view these videos and additional media content in…

It is with great sadness that the Pourdavoud Center shares the passing of Professor Ehsan Yarshater, the Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University.  The faculty, staff,…

The Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University has received a $10 million gift to formally endow the center.  Upon receiving this endowment, the center will be renamed as the…

The School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London has received a £5 million gift to create the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies.  The institute, to be co-chaired…

The Pourdavoud Center sponsored a workshop on “Ancient Iran and the Heritage of Ancient Near East” as part of the Rencontre Assyriologique and the Melammu Symposia in Innsbruck, Austria from July 16…

On behalf of the Getty Research Institute, you are invited to attend an afternoon dedicated to Classical World in Context: Persia Hellenistic, Persianistic, Greco-Persian on Thursday, February 15, 2018, 2pm-4:30pm, at…

For a second year, the 2018/2019 term of the Getty Scholars Program at the Villa will address the political, intellectual, religious, and artistic relations between Persia, Greece, and Rome from…