EVENT DETAILS

Cyrus the Great: From Ancient Persia to the European Literary Imagination

Sponsored by

Farhang Foundation

presents

LECTURE SCHEDULE

10:30 am Welcoming Remarks by Touraj Daryaee (UCI)

10:45 am Rahim Shayegan (UCLA)
“From Cyrus to Darius: Conquest, Usurpation, and Continuity”

11:15 am Ali Mousavi (UCLA)
“Pasargadae and the Kingdom of Solomon”

11:45 am Khodadad Rezkhani (University of Nevada, Reno)
“Cyrus as the Ideal King in European Medieval Literature”

12:15 pm Sheiba Kaufman (UCI)
“To bestow a Cyrus upon the world to make many Cyruses:
Discovering Europe’s Ideal Ruler in Persia’s Legendary King”

12:45 pm LUNCH BREAK

2:30 pm Movie screening of Intolerance (Silent film 1916)
Comments by Allison Perlman (UCI)
Griffith’s Intolerance in its Time: Melodrama and Moviegoing in 1916
Live music by Hesam Abedini and Persian Music Ensemble

4:00 pm Closing Remarks by Mazyar Lotfalian (UCI)

***Event is Free and Open to the public.***