Join us on Monday January 11th, 2016, 6-8 pm in Humanities Gateway HG 1010 for a lecture titled "Letters from Persepolis, Susa, and Tehran" by Dr. Touraj Daryaee from UCI and Dr. Alexander Nagel from Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History.
Dr. Touraj Daryaee is a contemporary Persian Iranologist and historian, now the Howard Baskerville Professor in the history of Iran and the Persianate World at the University of California, Irvine. His elementary and secondary schooling was in Tehran, Iran and Athens, Greece. Daryaee took his Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. He specializes in the history and culture of Ancient Persia. His most famous publications include Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire and Sasanian Iran (224-651 CE): Portrait of a Late Antique Empire. Most recently he has written a book on Iranian history from the Pre-historic era to modern history.Touraj Daryaee is the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies & Culture and the Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. He is the editor of the Name-ye Iran-e Bastan: The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, as well as Dabir: Digital Archives of Brief notes & Iran Review, and the creator of Sasanika: The Late Antique Iran Project.
Dr. Alexander Nagel is currently a Research Associate in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History working on ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern materials, and continues to publish on materials excavated in Greece and the Middle East. He holds a PhD from the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (2010). Originally from Berlin in Germany, where he received an M.A. in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History from Humboldt University in 2003, he also held research positions with the Pergamon-Museum in Berlin between 2001 and 2006. For his doctoral research, he worked on pigments, paint bowls and the polychromy of architectural sculpture excavated at Persepolis in Iran. During a three year position as Assistant Curator in the Smithsonian Institution between 2010 and 2013 he was responsible for research projects and exhibitions related to the publication of archival materials and collections from early excavations in Iraq (Samarra) and Iran (Persepolis, Pasargadae), ancient Iranian ceramics, ancient Near Eastern seals, ancient Egyptian glass, and more. He is a board member of the local Washington DC society of the Archaeological Institute of America and has served on the Program Committee for the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental research since 2010, won several prestigious fellowships and supports communities in the Middle East towards the projection of their cultural heritage.
Reception to follow after the event.
This event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Touraj Daryaee is a contemporary Persian Iranologist and historian, now the Howard Baskerville Professor in the history of Iran and the Persianate World at the University of California, Irvine. His elementary and secondary schooling was in Tehran, Iran and Athens, Greece. Daryaee took his Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. He specializes in the history and culture of Ancient Persia. His most famous publications include Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire and Sasanian Iran (224-651 CE): Portrait of a Late Antique Empire. Most recently he has written a book on Iranian history from the Pre-historic era to modern history.Touraj Daryaee is the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies & Culture and the Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine. He is the editor of the Name-ye Iran-e Bastan: The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, as well as Dabir: Digital Archives of Brief notes & Iran Review, and the creator of Sasanika: The Late Antique Iran Project.
Dr. Alexander Nagel is currently a Research Associate in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History working on ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern materials, and continues to publish on materials excavated in Greece and the Middle East. He holds a PhD from the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (2010). Originally from Berlin in Germany, where he received an M.A. in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History from Humboldt University in 2003, he also held research positions with the Pergamon-Museum in Berlin between 2001 and 2006. For his doctoral research, he worked on pigments, paint bowls and the polychromy of architectural sculpture excavated at Persepolis in Iran. During a three year position as Assistant Curator in the Smithsonian Institution between 2010 and 2013 he was responsible for research projects and exhibitions related to the publication of archival materials and collections from early excavations in Iraq (Samarra) and Iran (Persepolis, Pasargadae), ancient Iranian ceramics, ancient Near Eastern seals, ancient Egyptian glass, and more. He is a board member of the local Washington DC society of the Archaeological Institute of America and has served on the Program Committee for the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental research since 2010, won several prestigious fellowships and supports communities in the Middle East towards the projection of their cultural heritage.
Reception to follow after the event.
This event is free and open to the public.