UCLA Iranian Studies

The UCLA Program on Central Asia will present tomorrow: The Merits of Balkh: A conversation with Arezou Azad and Edmund Herzig (University of Oxford) Thursday, June 3, 2021... 10:0011:30 AM (Pacific Time) Click here to RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/web/register/WN_sjaqXakgROeDJt8JOhU6qw

Professor Domenico Ingenito's podcast interview on KCRW is now available. To listen to the discussion about his book, Beholding Beauty: Sadi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry, please visit: https://www.kcrw.com//domenico-ingenito-beauty-sadi-shiraz

The UCLA Fowler Museum is hosting an intimate conversation with renowned Iranian Jewish artist Soraya Sarah Nazarian and her daughters, Shulamit Nazarian, Founder of Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, and Sharon Nazarian, Senior Vice President of International Affairs at Anti-Defamation League. They will recount Soraya’s extraordinary journey as an immigrant, artist, and philanthropist. The program is free of charge but RSVP is required. Wednesday, May 26 at 5:00pm Pacific Time RSVP and more information can be found here: https://www.uclahillel.org/sorayanazarianrsvp

The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is proud to host a book salon featuring Domenico Ingenito's Beholding Beauty: Sa’di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry, Brill, 2020. To RSVP for the online event on May 19 at 5:00pm, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us//register/tJckde2srDIqE9T-jmex20Sx5eT

The Indo-Persian Musical Confluence Symposium Eight "Indo-Persian Music Histories II" Sunday, May 16, 2021 10am PT, Zoom... RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us//register/tJ0qfuyspzIvGtN_07BAGIoG42u Link to Calendar Event: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu//indo-persian-musical-conf/ See more

The Indo-Persian Confluence Symposium Indo-Persian Musical Connections: Modal Negotiations Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 10:00am Pacific via Zoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us//register/tJIod-uvrTIsHd1-8B9MhRgUucP... We are pleased to present the first event in the Indo-Persian Musical Confluence series, which features a panel that considers what musical modality reveals about transregional cultural connections across West, Central and South Asia. The panel is followed by a performance of Indo-Iranian music by Rahul Neuman and Naghme Sarang. The panel, consisting of Taees Gheirati (UBC), Deepak Paramashivan (University of Alberta) and Behzad Namazi (Ohio University), examines these transregional cultural connections by comparing underlying modal structures, analyzing previously undiscussed descriptions of mode, and considering reflexive perspectives on mode from musicians across all three regions. By utilizing the transregional framework that musical modality provides as a primary category of analysis, this panel opens up new discussions on how to think about both historic and contemporary cross-cultural alignments in music that are clearly central to defining multiple music traditions in multiple places. This allows researchers to read specific concepts of musical modality as aspects of cultural production that relate to larger regional contexts. For more information, including the link to RSVP, please visit: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu//indo-persian-musical-conn/ Event Co-Sponsors UCLA Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology UCLA Center for Musical Humanities UCLA Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies UCLA Iranian Studies Program UCLA Center for India and South Asia (CISA)

UCLA's own Professor Domenico Ingenito will be giving a talk on Persian Sufi Poetry for Indiana University's Islamic Studies Program tomorrow, October 28 at 4:00pm EDT. Please click the link below to register. https://events.iu.edu//146824-domenico-ingenito-ucla-the-v

Dr. Kaveh Madani, Water Bankruptcy and Environmental Politics in Iran (A Conversation with Kaveh Madani), Monday, October 5, 2020 at 2:00pm

Dr. Kaveh Madani, A Conversation with Kaveh Madani on Environmental Security in Iran and the Middle East, Sunday, October 4, 2020

The final talks from the Fourteenth Melammu Symposium, Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World, are now available. This last panel, The Religi...ous Landscape of the Sasanian World, features the presentations of Matthew Canepa (University of California, Irvine) and Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Breslau). https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/videos/

The availability of talks from the Fourteenth Melammu Symposium, Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World, continues with the second half of the... panel, Religions and Religious Policy in the Hellenistic and Arsacid Worlds. Recorded on February 20, 2020, these videos include the presentations of Deirdre Klokow (University of Southern California) and Vito Messina (University of Torino). https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/videos/

The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World announces a call for applications for the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies. Thi...s fellowship is intended to be awarded to graduate students whose works encompass different facets of Zoroastrian studies, that is, the Zoroastrian religion, its ancient history, languages, and scriptures. Eligible recipients are any full-time, UCLA-enrolled graduate students in good academic standing whose work pertains to Zoroastrian studies. Please visit the Pourdavoud website to read the full call for applications and for applications on how to apply. https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu//call-for-applications-for-th/

Two new videos from the Fourteenth Melammu Symposium, Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World, are now available. These videos, recorded on Fe...bruary 20, 2020, are part of Panel V: Religions and Religious Policy in the Hellenistic and Arsacid Worlds, and feature the research of Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of Southern California) and Rolf Strootman (Utrecht University). https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/videos/