Articles Tagged: Humanities

Pourdavoud Center Fall 2020 Welcome Event

Published: October 6, 2020

You Are Invited: Pourdavoud Center Fall 2020 Welcome Event Friday, October 23, 2020 at 11:00am PST via Zoom Registration Required Please join us for a digital fall reception to celebrate…

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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Henry Colburn

Published: September 18, 2020

Achaemenid Egypt: The Archaeology of a Colonial Encounter Traditionally, Egyptologists have regarded the period of Achaemenid Persian rule (the 27th Dynasty, c. 526-404 BCE) as an unmitigated disaster for the…

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Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Gil Stein

Published: November 19, 2019

Please join the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World for a lecture by Professor Gil Stein. Achaemenids or Persians?  Burials, Material Culture, and Imperial Identities in the…

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Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series

Published: September 16, 2019

The Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series presentations at UCLA, which has a counterpart at the Collège de France, are delivered by a distinguished scholar whose work has impacted the study of…

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14th Melammu Symposium

Published: September 16, 2019

Fourteenth Symposium of the Melammu Project “Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World” Please click here to view the full symposium schedule. The 14th Melammu Symposium: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in…

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Ancient Iran and the Classical World

Published: March 8, 2019

You are invited to attend: Ancient Iran and the Classical World A two-day international symposium jointly hosted by the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA…

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