Articles Tagged: Humanities

Pourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2022

Published: September 7, 2022

Pourdavoud Center Fall 2022 Welcome Reception Friday, October 7, 2022 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required   The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World…

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The World of Ancient Iran and the West

Published: March 17, 2022

An International Symposium Convened by M. Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles) and  Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum) May 19–20, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall Morning Refreshments: 8:00…

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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Kianoosh Rezania

Published: January 24, 2022

How Did the Ancient Iranians Coordinate Space? On the Old Iranian Absolute Frame of Reference For verbal expression and nonverbal cognitive processing of spatial relations between two objects, the speakers…

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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Céline Redard

Published: January 11, 2022

Current Trends in Avestan Studies This lecture discusses the major progress made in our understanding of the Avestan corpus/texts in the last years. Based on her recent publication co-written with…

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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: John W.I. Lee

Published: October 22, 2021

Greek ‘Concubines’ and Achaemenid Dynastic Politics The civil war of 401 BC between Cyrus the Younger and his older brother King Artaxerxes II (r. 405/4-359/8 BC) is well known to Achaemenid historians,…

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