Dear Friends,
Happy New Year from everyone at the Center for Near Eastern Studies. We are excited to announce the launch of "Listen to Learn," a CNES-produced multimedia language resource for Arabic, Turkish, and Persian, and would like to extend a special thanks to all of the students, staff, and language specialists who helped bring this ambitious and innovative project to life. We would also like to highlight our updated "Resources" page on the Center website, specifically the research guides on "Ancient Near East and Egypt" and "Middle Eastern Studies," maintained by David Hirsch, UCLA Library's Middle East Bibliographer. Finally, the applications for the 2013-2014 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) are available on our Center website.
We are looking forward to an exciting quarter of events and Center happenings, and we wish you all the best in 2013.
Sincerely,
Sondra Hale and Gabriel Piterberg
Interim Co-Directors, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Spotlight Event
Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography - Route 181 (2003)
A two-part film screening. Discussion with Eyal Sivan and Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA History, will follow the second screening.
Part 1 - Thursday, January 24, 2013 / 6 PM
Part 2 - Thursday, January 31, 2013 / 6 PM
Humanities A51
UCLA
Film is in Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles.
Part 2 of a quarterly film series:
Spring 2013 - Jaffa, The Orange’s Clockwork (2009)
Calendar of Events
Patriot of Persia
A book reading by Christopher de Bellaigue, Journalist.
*Lecture in English
Thursday, January 10, 2013 / 2 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Bilingual Lecture Series / Cosponsored by the Keddie Balzan Fund
Commemoration of the Iranian Media Legend Iraj Gorgin
A book launch.
*Lecture in Persian
Sunday, January 13, 2013 / 5 PM
147 Dodd Hall
UCLA
Bilingual Lecture Series / Co-sponsored by the UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department, Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies
The National Park Biodiversity: Conservation in Wartime Iraq
A lecture by Bridget Guarasci, Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, UCLA.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 / 3 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Palestine & the UN
A panel discussion with Asli Bali, UCLA Law; Steven Spiegel, UCLA Political Science; and UCLA Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala, who will also moderate the discussion.
Thursday, January 24, 2013 / 12 PM
Bunche Hall, Room 6275
*Please note, RSVP required.
Sponsored by the Burkle Center for International Relations, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Center for Middle East Development
From Ancient Persia to Contemporary LA: 2,700 Years of Iranian Jewish History
A conference organized in conjunction with the exhibition Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews, this day-long conference brings together distinguished scholars to examine topics including religions and cultures in ancient Persia, religious minorities under Shiite Islamic rule, and contemporary issues of identity and culture, including women in Iran and the Jewish-Persian diaspora.
Sunday, January 27, 2013 / 10 AM - 5:30 PM
Fowler Museum
UCLA
Sponsored by Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Department of History, Center for Jewish Studies, Center for the Study of Religion, Conference funding provided by Y&S Nazarian Family Foundation
Discussion on a 4-Volume Book on the Holocaust
A panel discussion with Dr. Ardeshir Babaknia, Dr. Jaleh Pirnazar, and Reza Goharzad, Journalist.
*Lecture in Persian
Sunday, January 27, 2013 / 6 PM
121 Dodd Hall
UCLA
Bilingual Lecture Series / Cosponsored by the UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department, Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies
Safety of Journalists: Screening of The Ayatollah’s Seal
A film screening of the documentary, The Ayatollah’s Seal, followed by discussion and Q&A with Sadeq Saba, Head of BBC Persian.
*Q&A in English
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 / 2 - 4 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Bilingual Lecture Series / Cosponsored by the UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department, Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies
The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings
A book talk by Ziad Abu-Rish (Co-editor Jadaliyya e-zine/PhD candidate, UCLA History), Aslı Bâli (UCLA Law), and Nouri Gana (UCLA Department of Comparative Literature / Near Eastern Languages and Cultures).
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 / 4:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Said Sarmad the Jewish Saint
A Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Nahid Pirnazar, UCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013 / 2 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Sponsored by the Program on Central Asia
Mapping Red Sea Frontiers: Space and Mobility between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
A presentation by Professor Jonathan Miran, Western Washington University.
Tuesday, February 05, 2013 / 4:30 PM - 6 PM
10383 Bunche hall
UCLA
Sponsored by the African Studies Center
The Unreturned (2010)
A film screening of the documentary, The Unreturned, and discussion with Asli Bali, UCLA Law School.
Part of the UCLA International Human Rights Film Series.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 /
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
James Bridges Theater
Melnitz Hall
UCLA
Cosponsored by the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project
2013 Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
Friday, February 15, 2013 /
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Royce Hall 314
UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department, Armenian Graduate Student Association
A lecture by Maya Mikdashi, New York University
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 / 12 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Sponsored by UCLA's Islamic Studies program and the Law School's Critical Race Studies
The Mongols from the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History
A one-day conference sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Time to be announced.
11348 Presentation Room
Young Research Library
UCLA
Sponsored by UCLA Asia Institute, Program on Central Asia, Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History
Inhumanities: UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference
A two-day conference. Plenary speakers include: Samera Esmeir (UC Berkeley), David T. Goldberg (UC Irvine), Marc Nichanian (Independent Scholar), Leela Gandhi (University of Chicago).
Friday, February 22-23, 2013
Time to be announced.
Royce Hall 306
UCLA
More information available at the conference website.
Sponsored by Department of History, UCLA Law, Comparative Literature, English, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Campus Programs Committee, The Humanities Dean’s Discretionary Fund, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities “Cultures in Transnational Perspective”, John Charles Hillis Chair of English Department, Postcolonial Theory & Literary Studies, GSA Humanities Council
Ardeshir Mohasses: The Rebellious Artist (2012)
A film screening of the documentary, Ardeshir Mohasses: The Rebellious Artist, followed by Q&A with Bahman Maghsoudlou, Director/Writer/Producer.
Sunday, February 24, 2013 / 5 PM
TBD
UCLA
Bilingual Lecture Series / Cosponsored by the UCLA Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department, Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies
Nationalist Internationalism, or a Pre-history of Non-Alignment
A lecture by Noor-Aiman I. Khan, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Program in Middle East and Islamic Civilizations, Colgate University.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 / 3 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Historiography of the Middle East
Labor Migration from Bulgaria to Turkey, Ethnic Kinship, and the Politics of Relative Privilege
A lecture by Ayse Parla, Sabanci University.
Thursday, February 28, 2013 / 12:30 PM
352 Haines Hall
UCLA
Sponsored by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Anthropology, Culture, Power, and Social Change Group
Western Ottoman Workshop
*Please note, RSVP required.
Friday, March 01 - Saturday, March 02, 2013
Time to be announced.
306 Royce Hall
UCLA
Survival in the Diaspora
The 2nd Annual Judeo-Spanish Conference.
Tuesday, March 05 - Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Time to be announced.
Young Research Library Presentation Room
UCLA
Sponsored by UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Jewish Studies
The Propagation of Islam in the Siberian Khanate: Legend, History and Aftermath
A Religions of the Silk Road Lecture by Hamid Algar, UC Berkeley.
Friday, March 08, 2013 / 2 PM - 3:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Sponsored by the UCLA Asia Institute, Program on Central Asia, Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Center for the Study of Religion
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