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DESCRIPTION:-------- WEDS TALKS: PERSIAN KINGS ON EGYPTIAN SOIL: CULTURE AN
 D IDENTITY  NEGOTIATION AS AN EXPRESSION OF POWER [1] --------------------
 -------\n\n\n*ABSTRACT:* This presentation aims to highlight textual and a
 rtistic case  studies during Egypt’s 27th Dynasty (ca. c. 525–404 BCE) tha
 t showcase  the manipulation of Egyptian culture by the new Persian rulers
 . These Persian  kings represented themselves as traditional pharaohs with
 in Egypt’s borders  and utilized longstanding Egyptian artistic motifs and
  textual traditions in  their monumental constructions. These cultural the
 mes, however, were not  always copied blindly; some were manipulated in
  subtle ways to send targeted  messages to audience(s) of this art. Schola
 rs tend to situate textual and  visual styles within the longue durée of c
 ultural tradition and pick a  singular, official, and centralized perspe
 ctive to narrate the history and  reception of that art. In the case of Eg
 ypt, this perspective is often that  of the king, and assumes there was 
 a monolithic message sent to his people.\n\n\n But we are not dealing with
  a homogeneous people; a diverse population  would have had varied reacti
 ons and interpretations to this visual signaling.  By highlighting both th
 e augmentation of traditional texts and motifs  undertaken by the Persians
  and the multiplicity of perspectives they hold for  their audience(s), w
 e can better understand ancient art as being dynamic in  function and inte
 rpretation, rather than as a static snapshot of  carbon-copied royal auth
 ority.\n\n*BIO: *Marissa Stevens is the Assistant Director of the Pourdavo
 ud Institute  for the Study of the Iranian World and Yarshater Center for 
 the Study of  Iranian Literary Traditions. Trained as an Egyptologist who 
 studies the  materiality, social history, and texts of the Third Interme
 diate Period and  Late Period, she first earned an Honors BA in History a
 nd Sociology from  Washington & Jefferson College and an MA from the Unive
 rsity of Chicago,  before completing her PhD at the University of Califor
 nia, Los Angeles in the  Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture
 s. Combining art historical  and linguistic approaches, her research inte
 rests focus on how objects can  solidify, maintain, and perpetuate socia
 l identity, especially in times of  crisis when more traditional means of
  self-identification are absent.\n\nDate: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 12
 :00pm to 1:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Contact Name: Sumiji Takahahshi\n\n\n\n
 \n\n\n\n\n Contact Phone: 310-825-4169\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Contact Email: su
 takahashi@ioa.ucla.edu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Registration: registration not re
 quired\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Events Tags: Pizza Talk [2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Loc
 ation: Fowler A222 (Seminar Room)\n\n[1] https://ioa.ucla.edu/content/weds
 -talks-persian-kings-egyptian-soil-culture-and-identity-negotiation-expres
 sion-power [2] https://ioa.ucla.edu/event-tags/pizza-talk
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260415T120000
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LOCATION:Fowler A222 (Seminar Room)
SUMMARY:WEDS TALKS: Persian Kings on Egyptian Soil: Culture and Identity Ne
 gotiation  as an Expression of Power
URL;TYPE=URI:https://ioa.ucla.edu/content/weds-talks-persian-kings-egyptian
 -soil-culture-and-identity-negotiation-expression-power
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