UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture

Join us on June 17 at 6:00 PM for a talk by Dr. Arvin Maghsoudlou, Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Iranian Art at LACMA.

“Give them a Cup of the Old”: The Reception and Recontextualization of Sasanian Silver Vessels

UC Irvine, Humanities Gateway 1341

Free and open to the public.

https://www.humanities.uci.edu/events/give-them-cup-old-reception-and-recontextualization-sasanian-silver-vessels

Join us for New Horizons in Premodern Iranian Studies II on May 30th, 2026, from 8:30 AM–5:30 PM in Humanities Gateway 1030 at UC Irvine.

Explore new research on the history, art, archaeology, and cultures of premodern Iran.

https://www.humanities.uci.edu/events/new-horizon-premodern-iranian-studies-ii

Join us for The Cedars of the Zagros Mountains? Rethinking the Mesopotamian Evidence and Its Connections with the Iranian Plateau, a lecture by Gioele Zisa.

Wednesday, April 29th, 6:00 PM
Humanities Gateway Room 1341

Join us next week for a talk by Aydogdy Kurbanov, “Eastern Frontiers of the Sasanian Empire: Analysis of Sites and Finds in Southern Turkmenistan,” on April 16th at 6:00 PM in Humanities Gateway 1341 at UCI.

Join us for a book talk with Dalia Dassa Kaye.
April 14th, 3:30 PM
Humanities Gateway 1030, UC Irvine

Dalia Dassa Kaye discusses Enduring Hostility: The Making of America’s Iran Policy, examining the historical roots of U.S.–Iran tensions. Moderated by Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

This event will introduce material from and update the arguments in the author’s late 2025 Stanford University Press book. It will consider how to place the current war in Iran into historical perspective, and what is similar or different about Washington’s military actions compared to past and recent U.S. wars. These questions will be central to the discussion.

Sponsors: UCI’s Forum for the Academy and the Public, Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, and Department of History.