Calendar
Results For 2012
Saturday, January 07, 2012
Fazilat-e bakhshesh dar zendegi-ye fardi va siyasi (The Virtue of Forgiveness in Personal and Political Life)
A lecture by Arash Naraghi, Moravian College
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Role of the Media as a Partner in Protecting the Environment and Reaching Sustainable Development in Egypt
6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Tunisian Film Screening
Screening of two films about Tunisia
4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, a talk by Steven Cook, Council on Foreign Relations
Please join us for a talk by Steven Cook from the Council on Foreign Relations about his new book, The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square. This talk is co-sponsored by the Burkle Center for International Relations, the Center for Near Eastern Studies & the Center for Middle East Development.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, January 27, 2012
Imagining “Back Home” in an era of Homeland (In)security: Palestinian American youth, education and the “War on Terror
A lecture by Thea Abu El-Haj, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The Immortal Song of Freedom
A book talk by Parvaneh Bahar, Author
6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, February 03, 2012
Abd al-Hamid al-Katib on the Identity of the Bureaucracy
A lecture by Wadad Kadi, University of Chicago
2:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, February 06, 2012
Pious Citizens: Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran
Hossein Ziai Memorial Lecture by Monica Ringer, Amherst College
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, February 13, 2012
Egypt: Whither the Revolution?
Joel Beinin, Stanford University and Hazem Kandil, UCLA
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, February 13, 2012
Muslim Women Reclaiming Identity [Bazyabi Howiyat-e Zan-e Musalman]
A lecture by Tooran Valimorad, Journalist and writer based in Iran
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
What Is the History of Disability in the Middle East, and Why Does It Matter?
A lecture by Sara Scalenghe, Loyola University Maryland
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Law, Human Rights, and Revolution: Transitions in the Wake of the Arab Spring
A two-day symposium
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, February 17, 2012
Law, Human Rights, and Revolution: Transitions in the Wake of the Arab Spring
A two-day symposium
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, February 17, 2012
Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
9:30 AM - 6:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
A Jewish Voice From Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel A-Levi
Book Launch
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, February 24, 2012
The False Paradigm of Parity and Partition: Revisiting 1967
A lecture by Ilan Pappé, University of Exeter
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Prof. Azat Yeghiazaryan
Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Prof. Azat Yeghiazaryan
Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Secularism and Gender in Iran of Today
A panel discussion
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, March 05, 2012
Al-Mutanabbi Street: Poetry and Art from Tragedy
An exhibition and reading to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the bombing of the historic heart of Baghdad’s intellectual and literary community.
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Transformation of the Religious Academia in Iran under the “Islamic” State
A lecture by Kenji Kuroda, UCLA
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Prof. Azat Yeghiazaryan
Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Revolution, Reform and Repression: Challenges to Women’s Inclusion and Equality in the Middle East & North Africa
The 1st Annual International Women’s Day Lecture by Sussan Tahmasebi,
Million Signature Campaign founding member &
Recipient of HRW’s Alison Des Forges Human Rights Award
4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Prof. Azat Yeghiazaryan
Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Poetics and Politics of Iran's National Epic, The Shahnameh
A lecture by Mahmoud Omidsalar, California State University, Los Angeles
5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, March 12, 2012
Poetics and Politics of Iran's National Epic, The Shahnameh
A lecture by Mahmoud Omidsalar, California State University, Los Angeles
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
An Event Honoring Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl
5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Text in Context: A Teach-in on President Yudof's Letter
Commentary by Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Rethinking Armenian History through Paradigms of Interaction: The Armenian Experience with Islam as Case Study
A lecture by Seta Dadoyan, Yerevan State University
4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, April 19, 2012
The Modern Recovery of the Ismaili Legacy and Its Importance for the Study of the Fatimids
A lecture by Paul Walker, University of Chicago
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, April 20, 2012
How much Arabic is in my poems: A Poetry reading interspersed by an essay on poetics and politics
Poet Maged Zaher
2:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, April 21, 2012
A Night with Abbas Maroufi, author of The Symphony of the Dead
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Iran and the Arab Spring: What is next?
A lecture by Mohamad Hossein Hafezian, Montclair State University
5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, April 23, 2012
Iran and the Arab Spring: What is next?
A lecture by Mohamad Hossein Hafezian, Montclair State University
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Living History with Professor James L. Gelvin
Gelvin is the author of the recently released book "The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know"
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Beautiful Resistance: Defying the Occupation Through the Theater and the Arts
Talk by Abdelfattah Abusrour, Al-Rowwad Cultural & Theatre Center
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, April 26, 2012
The Other Shift: Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
A lecture by Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, Australia
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Sayyid Zia, the First or Second Man of the Coup?
A lecture by Sadreddin Elahi, Independent Journalist and Writer
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, April 30, 2012
Rebellion and Repression on the Arabian Peninsula
A colloquium with Tariq Ali, editor, New Left Review; Fred Lawson, Mills College
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, May 04, 2012
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies Annual Dissertation Workshop
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies invites doctoral candidates to its 14th
annual Dissertation Workshop to be held May 4-6, 2012 at the University of California,
Los Angeles.
Time to be announced. Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, May 05, 2012
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies Annual Dissertation Workshop
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies invites doctoral candidates to its 14th
annual Dissertation Workshop to be held May 4-6, 2012 at the University of California,
Los Angeles.
Time to be announced. Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, May 06, 2012
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies Annual Dissertation Workshop
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies invites doctoral candidates to its 14th
annual Dissertation Workshop to be held May 4-6, 2012 at the University of California,
Los Angeles.
Time to be announced. Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, May 06, 2012
From Pashas to Pariahs: The Arrogant Years of Egypt's Jewry
A lecture by Lucette Lagnado, Author, Reporter
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, May 07, 2012
Urban Renewal and its Discontents: IBA 1984/87
A lecture by Esra Akcan, University of Illinois at Chicago
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, May 07, 2012
The Black Mediterranean: Migration and Revolution in the Global Millennium
A public lecture by Alessandra Di Maio, University of Palermo, English.
4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Making Citizens and Contesting Citizenship in Late Ottoman Palestine
A lecture by Michelle Campos, University of Florida
3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Complex Compatriots: Jews in Post-Vichy Algeria
A lecture by Sung Choi, UCLA
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Civility and Sectarianism in Syria: What Now?
A lecture by Lindsay Gifford, UCLA
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, May 18, 2012
The Tigers of Jinbah: Smugglers and border entrepreneurs in the southern West Bank and Israel (2005-2010)
A talk by Cedric Parizot, CNRS and Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Aix en Provence
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, May 18, 2012
Findings from the George Washington University Coptic Diaspora Survey: Implications for Egypt and its Development
A panel presentation
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, May 18, 2012
Rethinking Food Provisioning in Complex Societies and Urban Centers: If Animal Bones Could Only Talk
A lecture by Levent Atici, University of Nevada
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, May 24, 2012
2012 Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies
Structures of Personalized Power in the Modern Middle East: Presidents, Prime Ministers and Party Bosses, A two-day conference honoring the scholarship of Professor Roger Owen
3:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, May 25, 2012
2012 Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies
Structures of Personalized Power in the Modern Middle East: Presidents, Prime Ministers and Party Bosses, A two-day conference honoring the scholarship of Professor Roger Owen
9:45 AM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Resentment of the Iranian Intelligentsia
An approach to the psychological complexities of the Third-Worldly intelligentsia, with emphasis on its Iranian case, on the basis of the Nietzsche and Max Scheler’s analysis of the social-psychological phenomenon of “Resentment”
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, June 25, 2012
National Association of Professors of Hebrew
2012 International Conference at UCLA.
The 2012 International Conference of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew will be held from June 25-27, 2012.
A Special Panel Discussion is scheduled on June 27th, from 4-5:45 pm in Royce 314.
This event is not open to the public because of space consideration. If you have any questions, please e-mail Prof. Lev Hakak, chair for the NAPH conference, at hakak@humnet.ucla.edu - 12:45 AM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, September 16, 2012
In The Name of Iran
A book reading by Parastou Forouhar, Artist and Author
5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, September 20, 2012
What Happens After Zionism
Editors/authors present two new books on the Israeli/Palestinian conundrum
7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
International Institute IDP Open House & Fall Reception-Part of 'Welcome Week'!
As part of the campus-wide 'True Bruin Welcome Week' activities, the International Institute Interdepartmental Programs (IDPs) will be hosting an Open House & Fall Reception, to which you are cordially invited.
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, October 05, 2012
Nowhere to Turn: Abuse and Exploitation of Migrant Workers in the Arab World
A lecture by Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Human Rights Watch
12:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, October 08, 2012
Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan: 1500-2014
A lecture by Thomas Barfield, Boston University
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
We invite you to join in the 26th Annual UCLA Study Abroad Fair. Each year, more than 2000 students visit the fair to learn about the wide variety of study abroad programs available.
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, October 13, 2012
International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora
2012 IAAB International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora, Day 1
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, October 14, 2012
International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora
2012 IAAB International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora, Day 2
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, October 19, 2012
Arab Film Festival
16th Annual Arab Film Festival: October 19th - 21st
8:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Nine Rubies
A book talk by Mahru Ghashghaei and Susan Snyder, Authors
5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Monday, October 22, 2012
Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World
The aim of this colloquium is to explore how authoritative texts, culture heroes, and authors were invoked ritually for cursing, protection, and divination in the ancient and late antique Near Eastern and Mediterranean world. The speakers represent a wide range of specializations in ancient ritual practice, including Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian materials.
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Relative Chronology of the Passages of the Qur'an: A New Approach to an Old Problem
A lecture by Professor Behnam Sadeghi, Stanford University
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me: Poetry by Palestinian Poet Ghassan Zaqtan
Zaqtan will perform his poems in Arabic alongside his translator, Fady Joudah, who will read them in English.
4:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Reassessing the Recent History of Political Islam in Light of the Arab Uprisings
A lecture by Professor James Gelvin, History Department, UCLA
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Israel/Palestine in Eyal Sivan’s Cinematography - Izkor: Slaves of Memory (1990)
Film Screening followed by discussion with Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, November 04, 2012
The Particularities of Our Culture [Ekhtesasat-e Farhangie ma]
A lecture by Morteza Mardiha, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Intro,Q&A
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
Perish the Thought: Israel and the Search for Peace in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War
A lecture by Dr. Avi Raz, Oxford University
4:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, November 08, 2012
UCLA: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 1 of a two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
1:00 PM - 5:45 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, November 09, 2012
UCI: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Day 2 two-day program at UCLA and UC Irvine, showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan’s archaeology and history
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, November 09, 2012
Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian Print, 1512-2012
A Conference in Honor of Professor Richard Hovannisian | An international conference organized by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History [established by the Armenian Educational Foundation]
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian Print, 1512-2012
A Conference in Honor of Professor Richard Hovannisian | An international conference organized by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History [established by the Armenian Educational Foundation]
9:15 AM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian Print, 1512-2012
A Conference in Honor of Professor Richard Hovannisian | An international conference organized by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History [established by the Armenian Educational Foundation]
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Labour Agency in Refashioning the Discourse of Modernity and Social Developments in Iran [Forudastan va Bazkhani-ye Goftman Tajadod dar Iran]
A lecture by Touraj Atabaki, International Institute of Social History.
5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Captive Consumers? Shopping, Urban Space, and the Colonial Politics of Middle East Consumption
A lecture by Nancy Reynolds, Washington University in St. Louis
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
2013-2014 FLAS Fellowship Information Session
Learn about opportunities for language and area studies fellowships for the summer and academic year. Graduate and undergraduate students in all disciplines are invited.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Algeria's Cultural Identity: Fanon, Yacine & Mammeri
A lecture by Kenneth Brown, Founding Editor Mediterraneans, Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, France
4:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Thursday, November 15, 2012
From the Arabs to the Mongols: Narratives of Foreign Conquest in Modern Iranian History Writing
Edmund Herzig, University of Oxford
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Friday, November 16, 2012
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
A two-day core conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Moralism, Fundamentalism, and the Rhetoric of Decline in Eurasia, 1600–1900
A core program conference at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library organized by Clark Professors Andrea S. Goldman and Gabriel Piterberg, (UCLA)
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Myths in Bahram Beyzaie's Works [اسطورهها در آثار بهرام بیضایی]
A lecture by Bahram Beyzaie, film/theater Director, screen/play writer, researcher
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
Sunday, December 09, 2012
A Night of Poetry with Renowned Iranian Poet: Houshang Ebtehaj (Sayeh)
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Save to Outlook Calendar or iCal
