Events

Panagiotis Agapitos: Byzantium Within a Medieval Eurafricasian Literary Polysystem

Pourdavoud Institute Fall Reception 2024

The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception.

CANCELED: Robert Rollinger: The “Persian Wars”

Due to recent events on campus resulting in the cancellations of classes at UCLA today, Professor Robert Rollinger’s lecture has been canceled.

Hilmar Klinkott: Consolidation of Law, Legal Order, and the Question of Constitutionalizing Processes in the Achaemenid Empire

Christian Sahner: How Zoroastrians Argued with Muslims in the Early Islamic Period

This lecture will explore the early conflict between Zoroastrians and Muslims by examining the most important polemical treatise in the Zoroastrian tradition, the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār (“The Doubt-Dispelling Disquisition”).

Elspeth Dusinberre: The Collapse of Empire

This talk will highlight the huge changes that characterized Gordion’s transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic periods.

Neville McFerrin: An Entangled Empire

In reliefs across Persepolis, the Achaemenid administrative center, depictions of mediated bodies offer insight into an imperial ideology that generates inclusion through categorical and material slippages.

Co-Sponsorship: (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds

Global Antiquity is convening a workshop titled (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds. This event, held at UCLA over two days, will include invited speakers whose research focuses on the ancient worlds.

Pourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2023

Achaemenid Workshop 2

The Achaemenid Persian Empire and Imperial Transformations in the Ancient Near East, the second Achaemenid Workshop, brings together scholars whose research pertains to the history, structures, and impact of the Achaemenid empire.