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…
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Pourdavoud Lecture Series: Hilmar Klinkott
Published: March 6, 2024Consolidation 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 MoreInaugural Pourdavoud Faculty Lunch Lecture Series with Prof. Lara Fabian
Published: March 4, 2024Last week, Prof. Lara Fabian gave the first talk of the new Pourdavoud Faculty Lunch Talk series entitled “Of Pithoi and the Parthians: Burial Practices in the Talış Highlands.” Professor…
Read MorePourdavoud Lecture Series: Elspeth Dusinberre
Published: January 23, 2024The 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 MorePourdavoud Lecture Series: Wu Xin
Published: September 26, 2023Regal 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…
Read MorePourdavoud Lecture Series: Christian Sahner
Published: September 26, 2023How 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…
Read MorePourdavoud Lecture Series: Neville McFerrin
Published: September 26, 2023An 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…
Read MorePourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2023
Published: August 28, 2023Pourdavoud 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…
Read MoreChristina Chandler – Carving Out Official Identities: Inscribed Seals with Titles from the Persepolis Fortification Archive
Published: March 1, 2023Carving Out Official Identities: Inscribed Seals with Titles from the Persepolis Fortification Archive Christina Chandler Friday, March 3, 2023 at 3:00pm, Kaplan Hall 348 The administrative documents from the Persepolis…
Read MoreAchWorks 1 – Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World
Published: February 22, 2023Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World The Inaugural Symposium of the Achaemenid Workshops Series April 12–14, 2023 | 314 Royce Hall Morning refreshments and check-in begin…
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