Articles Tagged: Humanities

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,…

From Šalām to Drōd: A History of Middle Iranian Epistolary Traditions This lecture will explore the letters written in late antique Iran and Central Asia in Middle Persian, Bactrian, and…

Byzantium Within a Medieval Eurafricasian Literary Polysystem: Historiography, Fictional Tales, and the Practices of Narrative Representation   Byzantium and its literature has been excluded from the national canons of European…

Due to recent events on campus resulting in the cancellations of classes at UCLA today, Professor Robert Rollinger’s lecture has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvienence and thank you…

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…

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…

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…

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…