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Association for Iranian Studies Conference at UNAM's Philological Institute in Mexico City 🇲🇽

UCI Professors and Graduate students presented their talks to the association

Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar: Viennese Photographers and their Persian Sitters: 1863-1905, UCI Center for Persian Studies, 2024.

We are happy to announce the publication of the history of photography in Austria and Persia by the Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Viennese Photographers and their Persian Sitters 1863-1905 The research resulting in the present volume was part of a larger study on the interactions between Persia and Austria going back to the 17th century. That study will form the basis of a forthcoming book on Austrians in Persia and Persians in Austria in the 19th century. As the focus of that study w...

Day 2: UC Irvine Nastaran Akhavan Conference on Naval Connectivity in the Iranian Worlds and beyond (Melammu 17)

Photos by Ebrahim Safi

Day 1: UC Irvine Nastaran Akhavan Conference on Naval Connectivity in the Iranian Worlds and beyond (Melammu 17)

Photos by Ebrahim Safi

Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck/Wroclaw) :
"Herodotus, the “Persian Wars” and our view on the past: Problems and Perspectives" talk at the Center for Persian Studies, with the co-sponsorship of the Dept. of Classics.

Herodotus, the “Persian Wars” and our view on the past: Problems and Perspectives A talk by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck/Wroclaw) at the Jordan Center for Persian Studies | University of California, Irvine | June 2024

Group photo at the UC Irvine conference on Naval Connectivity in the Iranian Worlds (Melammu 17), Nastaran Akhavan Conference at Santa Catalina Island

photo by Ebrahim Safi

Celebrating the release of "Our Sorrow" cd by Maliheh Moradi & Ehsan Matoori

Program for the Naval Connectivity around the Iranian Worlds - From the Persian Gulf towards the Mediterraneans and the Indian Ocean Conference

Program for the Naval Connectivity around the Iranian Worlds - From the Persian Gulf towards the Mediterraneans and the Indian Ocean at UC Irvine Center for Persian Studies

Naval Connectivity around the Iranian Worlds - From the Persian Gulf towards the Mediterraneans and the Indian Ocean
with Ch. Schafer and Robert Rollinger
Nastaran Akhavan International Conference (Melammu 17)

Please join us at the Jordan Center for Persian Studies in celebration of the new cd release entitled Our Sorrow, by Maliheh Moradi and Ehsan Matoori.

CDs are available for purchase and signing, followed by a brief performance by the artists

Date: June 11, 2024

Time: 6:30 pm

Location: Humanities Gateway #1341 | The Jordan Center for Persian Studies

Please join us for a talk by Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck/Wroclaw) entitled:

“Herodotus, the ‘Persian Wars’ and our view on the past: Problems and Perspectives”

Date: Tuesday, June 4
Time : 6:00 pm
Location: Humanities Gateway #1341

Please join us for a talk by Saeed Talajooy (University of St Andrews) entitled "Reformulation of the Ideals of Heroism in Bahram Beyzaie’s Early Plays"

Date: May 30, 2024 | Time: 6:00 pm

Location: Humanities Gateway #1341 | The Jordan Center for Persian Studies

*this event is open to public

Photos from the New Horizons in premodern Iranian Studies at UC Irvine Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture

کنفرانس ایرانشناسی در دانشگاه کالیفرنیا در ارواین

Please join us for the latest research of Prof. Hilmar Klinkott (University of Kiel) on Darius I and his reading of the legal aspects of his tomb inscription.

Please join us for a talk by Yuthika Sharma titled “The Dilli Qalam: Beyond Mughal and Company painting in 19thC India

May 3 | 12:30 | Humanities Gateway | Room #1341
Jordan Center for Persian Studies

*This event is co-sponsored by Early Cultures Department

Convened in person May 4th, 2024 at UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture

𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀: Dr. Adam Benkato, Associate Professor and Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Iranian Studies, University of California, Berkeley: “Of Margins, Outskirts, and Ruins, or, what can Chorasmian tell us?”

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𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝟭: 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿: Simin Amini (UCI), Graduate Student, Visual Studies Program

Layah Ziaii-Bigdeli (UCI): “Revisiting Sasanian Silverware: Inscriptions, New Discoveries and Chronological Reassessment”

Atiyeh Taghiei (UCLA): “Premodern Iranian Religious Identity and the Poetry of Abū Manṣūr Daqīqī (4th/10th century)”

Hong Chen (UCLA): ““Horus… Joyous in Finding the Power of Asia” - Constructing Egyptian Identity during the Achaemenid Period”

Ethan Friedland (UCLA): “Herodotus’ Earth and Water Logos in the Avestan Vīdēvdād?”

𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝘁: Dr. Carlo G. Cereti, Ferdowsi Presidential Chair in Zoroastrian Studies and Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine

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𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝟮: 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆
𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿: Melissa DePierro (UCI), Graduate Student, Visual Studies Program

Marco Ferrario (Independent Scholar): “An Achaemenid Small World Towards a Glocal Social and Economic History of Northeastern Central (Eur)Asia From Cyrus to Alexander”

Parisa Atighi (UMinn): “Rethinking Sasanian Art: A Socio-Economic Perspective on Elite Patronage and Collective Memory”

Fatemeh Kameli (UCSB): “The Benefits and Entitlements of Ethnically Labeled Workers in the Achaemenid Heartland: Evidence from the Persepolis Archive”

Mark K. Gradoni (UCI): “A late Sasanian Hoard from 7th Century Egypt II: Monetary Production, Currency Circulation, and Insights into the Economy and Society of late antique Ērānšahr”

𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝘁: Dr. Touraj Daryaee, Masseh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine

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𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝟯: 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆
𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿: Bermet Nishanova (UCI), Graduate Student, Visual Studies Program

Ehsan Behbahani (UW): Archeologia dell’Architettura: New Horizons for Architectural Studies in Iranian Pre-Islamic Archaeology”

Sophie Xiaofei Lei (Harvard): “From the Western Region to a Moon Pond: a Reinterpretation of Twelve-Lobed Obolong Cup of Green Glass in Shōsōin”

Henry Ziegler (UCB): “Four Sasanian Seals in the Edward Gans Collection”

Ileana De Giuseppe (UCI): “Unveiling domestic Spaces: Negotiating Cultural Identity in Seleucid Empire (312-64 BCE) through domestic architecture”

𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗻𝘁: Dr. Matthew P. Canepa, Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djali Presidential Chair of Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran and Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine

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A talk with the 2023 Pulitzer Prize winner for her play entitled "English," Sanaz Toosi at UC Irvine, co-sponsored by the Jordan Center for Persian Studies

About English:
A quietly powerful play about four Iranian adults preparing for an English language exam in a storefront school near Tehran, where family separations and travel restrictions drive them to learn a new language that may alter their identities and also represent a new life.

We would like to thank Daphne Lei, Professor, Department of Drama, the Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and the Director, Illuminations, the Chancellor’s Arts and Culture Initiative

Photos from the Ardeshir Mohassess book launch at the Center for Persian Studies

Photos by Ebrahim Safi

Ardeshir Mohassess: A Retrospective, A. Babaknia & A. Banuazizi, UCI Jordan Center, 2024.

Photos of recent book published under the auspices of the Center for Persian Studies at UC Irvine.

Photos from Prof. Mo Rafi's lecture on Islam in Germany, with Prof. Carlo Cereti making the introductions

The Jordan Center for Persian Studies in collaboration with ADVOCARTSY would like to invite you for the book launch of Ardeshir Mohassess: A Retrospective, by Ary Babaknia & Ali Banuazizi

Saturday, April 27 | 2:00 pm | Followed by Reception
Humanities Instructional Building (HIB 135)
Jordan Center for Persian Studies

Please join us tomorrow afternoon for a talk co-sponsored by the center by Prof. Mo Rafi

Photos from Prof. Matt Canepa's talk and reception in his honor at the Center for Persian Studies

The Center for Persian Studies at UC Irvine is happy to announce its new publication, Ardeshir Mohassess: A Retrospective, by Dr. Ari Babaknia, and an essay by Dr. Ali Banuazizi.

The book will be available after the book launch at the end of April, 2024.

Ardeshir Mohassess: A Retrospective Over the past few decades, the Western World has become increasingly aware of the vibrancy, variety, and high caliber of contemporary artistic productions in Iran. The works of Ardeshir Mohassess, Iran's foremost contemporary cartoonist, graphic artist and painter, have undoubtedly played a key i...

Sanaz Toossi: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama

Thursday, Apr 25, 2024
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM PDT (GMT-7)
UCI Student Center, Emerald Bay Event Room

*This event is co-sponsored by Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture and Claire Trevor School of the Arts.

Sanaz Toossi is an Iranian American playwright from Orange County, California. She received her MFA in playwriting from NYU Tisch School. Her plays include the critically acclaimed ENGLISH and WISH YOU WERE HERE. Sanaz Toossi will speak about these two plays as well as how her upbringing as a second-generation bilingual and bicultural Iranian American informs her playwriting.

Her plays are poignant, caring, powerful, bold, and from time to time, hilarious. ENGLISH is the 2023 Pulitzer Prize Winning play. It takes place in a classroom near Tehran, where four Iranians take English lessons for the TOEFL test. As the travel ban disrupted many lives, English became an essential tool for many Iranians to start a new life and a new identity, or simply to be with their family. WISH YOU WERE HERE follows the stories of five Iranian women from 1978 to 1991. The intimacy and complexity of their relationship is played out against the background of the 1978 Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War, emigration, and other political and economic crises.

Sanaz Toossi is currently under commission at Atlantic Theater Company (Launch commission; Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation grant), Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival (American Revolution Cycle). She was the 2019 P73 Playwriting Fellow, a recipient of the 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award, the 2022 recipient of The Horton Foote Award, the 2023 recipient of the Best New American Play Obie Award, and the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

UCI Student Center, Emerald Bay Event Room University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, United

Please join us for the book launch of Prof. Matt Canepa on Wednesday, April 17th, HG1341 at 6:00pm
A reception is to follow his talk entitled: Persian Cultures of Power

More photos Photos from Dr. Amir Hosein Pourjavady's talk on "Music Making in Iran from the Fifteenth to the Early Twentieth Century," speaking of musicians and courtesans of Safavid through Qajar period.

Photos from Dr. Amir Hosein Pourjavady's talk on "Music Making in Iran from the Fifteenth to the Early Twentieth Century"

TODAY

A lecture based on the new book by Dr. Amir Hosein Pourjavady

"Music Making in Iran from the Fifteenth to the Early Twentieth Century"

Thursday, April 4th
Time: 6:00pm