Articles Tagged: Humanities

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Gunvor Lindström

Published: March 20, 2025

The Denavar Satyrs as Time Travelers: From Ancient Persia to Greece, Rome, and 20th Century Collections The influence of Greco-Roman artistic traditions on the Parthian Empire (c. 250 BCE–225 CE)…

Read More

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Yuhan Vevaina

Published: February 12, 2025

Zoroastrian Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity The Sūdgar Nask of Dēnkard Book 9 is a commentary on the ‘Old Avesta’ of the 2nd millennium BCE produced in Pahlavi (Zoroastrian Middle Persian)…

Read More

The Bible in Its Ancient Iranian Context

Published: December 16, 2024
The text "The Bible in Its Ancient Iranian Context" layered on top of a statue of Xerxes and a folio extract of Esther from the Cairo Genizah

March 13-14, 2025 | 306 & 314 Royce Hall UCLA An International Conference Convened by: M. Rahim Shayegan, UCLA William Schniedewind, UCLA Catherine Bonesho, UCLA Co-sponsored by: The Pourdavoud Institute…

Read More

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Carlo Cereti

Published: November 12, 2024

The Rise of Persian: Understanding the Evolution of Writing in the Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods This talk explores the evolution of writing during the Sasanian and early Islamic periods,…

Read More

Pourdavoud Institute Fall Reception 2024

Published: August 12, 2024

Pourdavoud Institute Fall 2024 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 9, 2024 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World invites…

Read More

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Hilmar Klinkott

Published: March 6, 2024

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…

Read More

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Elspeth Dusinberre

Published: January 23, 2024

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…

Read More