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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Eve MacDonald

Telling Tales: Constructing Sasanian History in the Landscape The narrative stories and physical landscapes of the Sasanian Empire run parallel to each other, intersecting in areas where historical source and...

Pourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2023

306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Pourdavoud Center Fall 2023 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required   The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World...

Co-Sponsorship: Global Antiquity (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds

306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

A Forum for Exchanges on Ancient Studies at UCLA December 5–6, 2023 | Royce Hall 306 Global Antiquity is convening a workshop titled (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds. This event, held at UCLA...

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Neville McFerrin

306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

An Entangled Empire:  Dress, Reciprocal Construction, and the Experience of Kingship at Persepolis In reliefs across Persepolis, the Achaemenid administrative center, depictions of mediated bodies offer insight into an imperial...

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Elspeth Dusinberre

306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

The Collapse of Empire: Gordion’s Transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic World This talk will highlight the huge changes that characterized Gordion’s transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic...

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Christian Sahner

314 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

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...

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Hilmar Klinkott

306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Consolidation of Law, Legal Order, and the Question of Constitutionalizing Processes in the Achaemenid Empire The Old Persian inscriptions of Darius I deal with a range of legal, particularly constitutional...

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Wu Xin

306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Regal Metamorphosis: A Transcultural Journey of the Achaemenid Royal Women to the East   Xiwangmu, also known as the Queen of the West, is a significant deity in ancient Chinese...