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The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World announces a call for applications for the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies. This fellowship is awarded to outstanding graduate students whose works encompass different facets of Zoroastrian studies, that is, the Zoroastrian religion, its ancient history, languages, and scriptures.
Prof. Lothar von Falkenhausen, a member of the Pourdavoud Institute faculty advisory committee, was elected by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as a new Foreign Associate.
The new UCLA Jeffrey P. Cunard Center for Global Antiquity, made possible by alumnus Jeffrey Cunard’s $11 million blended gift, will center ancient studies at UCLA.
The Pourdavoud Institute is pleased to share the program of "The Achaemenid Persian Empire and its Non-Western Borderlands: A Change of Paradigm," a conference hosted by the University of Innsbruck.
The Pourdavoud Institute announces a call for applications for the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies. This fellowship is awarded to outstanding graduate students whose works encompass different facets of Zoroastrian studies.
Iran and the Ancient World by former Pourdavoud associate Jake Nabel promotes a more expansive role for Iranian studies in the current research landscape.
On behalf of the Pourdavoud Institute, we would like to extend our best wishes for a serene Norouz 1404.
Campus leaders, faculty, community members celebrate launch of UCLA Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions.
UCLA has received a commitment of $11 million from the Persian Heritage Foundation to establish the Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions, a research hub that aims to advance knowledge of ancient Iranian literature and culture worldwide.
