UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture

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.

Dear Friends and Supporters of the Center for Persian Studies,

We would like to wish you, Iran and its people a better year to come. The same wish goes to Afghanistan and all those who partake in this important Pan-Iranian celebration across the world.

Nowruz Pirooz!

Group photo from the Nastaran Akhavan Symposium on Iranian Religions

Nastaran Akhavan Symposium in Iranian Religions at the Jordan Center for Persian Studies at UCI

Mazdak and the Transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Iranian World

Date: Friday, March 13
Time: 9:00 am- 5:30 pm
Location: HG 1030
Zoom: https://uci.zoom.us/j/99843724605
This event is cosponsored by the Encyclopaedia Iranica and UCI Department of Classics

کنفرانس مزدک در مرکز ایران شناسی سمویل جردن در دانشگاه کالیفرنیا در ارواین

Upcoming lecture: “Biases and Misuse in an Age of Prejudice: The Case of the Zoroastrians of Iran in the Modern Period,” by Massimiliano Vassalli.

March 12, 4–5 PM
Persian Studies Room, Humanities Gateway (HG13), UC Irvine

Learn more: https://www.humanities.uci.edu/events/biases-and-misuse-age-prejudice-case-zoroastrians-iran-modern-period

Photos from Prof. Mateo Farzaneh's lecture on the Persian influence on Andalusia (Spain)

This Friday Dr. Mateo Farzaneh will speak on Perisan influence in Medieval Spain