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Pashto Literature in North India in the 16th-18th Centuries
Monday, April 16, 2018
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Islamic Factor: Socialists, Islamists and the Soviet Union in Cold War Eurasia
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Afghan Shia Revolution
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The Economic Role of the Jewish Community in Afghanistan (1880-1950)
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Looking Back on 50 Years of Musical Research in Afghanistan
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Parsing Counterinsurgency
Monday, April 20, 2015
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Living with an Afghan Warlord
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Afghan Rumour Bazaar: Secret Sub-Cultures, Hidden Worlds and the Everyday Life of the Absurd
Thursday, February 26, 2015
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Dehumanizing Stereotypes of the "Other" in Afghan Ethnic Relations
Thursday, January 22, 2015
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
From Sufis to Taliban: Trajectories of Islam in Afghanistan
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Remnants of a Great Past Reconstructed: Revival of the National Museum in Herat, Afghanistan
Thursday, May 29, 2014
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Afghanistan, Pashto and the Creation of a Literary Language
Thursday, April 10, 2014
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Book Talk: Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
Monday, April 29, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Buddhas of Mes Aynak
Friday, March 8, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Watches Without Time: An American Soldier in Afghanistan
Thursday, December 6, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
UCI: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Friday, November 9, 2012
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
UCLA: Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
Thursday, November 8, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Do Fair Elections Enhance Perceptions of Government? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
Friday, October 12, 2012
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Political Legitimacy in Afghanistan: 1500-2014
Monday, October 8, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Human Rights for Afghan Women
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
7:00 PM
Concepts of Statehood and Territoriality in Early Modern Afghanistan
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Gallery Tour of "Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women"
Saturday, April 7, 2012
10:45 AM
Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Heroin Heroines: Women and the Men Who Work with Them in Afghanistan's Drug Trade
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Emergence and Tides of a Contemporary Saint: Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan, Afghanistan
Friday, November 18, 2011
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes
Thursday, November 17, 2011
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
The Indian Ulema in Afghanistan
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
World History Through Afghan Muslim Eyes
Monday, February 28, 2011
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Life and Legacy of an Afghan Leader: Ahmed Shah Massoud
Monday, April 6, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Afghan Society after the Taliban: The View from the Hills
Monday, November 17, 2008
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM


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About Afghan Studies

Since its inception in 2008, the UCLA Asia Institute’s Program on Central Asia has created an ongoing series of conferences and seminars devoted to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Afghanistan.

Learn more about Afghan Studies at UCLA here

Conferences

From Sufis to Taliban

From Sufis to Taliban
A recent conference brought scholars from across the country and the world to discuss the development of Islam in Afghanistan.
November 6, 2014

 

Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World

Beyond the Bamiyan Buddhas: Archaeology and History in the Modern and Ancient Persianate World
A two-day joint conference at UCLA and UCI showcasing the cutting-edge of international research on Afghanistan's archaeology and history.
November 8-9, 2012

 

Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes

Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes
This conference focused on historical writings by Afghans since the formation of the Afghan state in the mid-18th century.
November 17, 2011

 

Afghanistan in Ink

Afghanistan in Ink: Literatures of Nation, War, and Exile
This conference focused on works written or recorded in the tumult of the past three decades.
January 14, 2010

Podcasts & Publications

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PODCAST: Parsing Counterinsurgency: American Military Policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, 1979-2011
Afghan Studies Lecture by Mesrob George Vartavarian, USC
War Crimes and Psychological Trauma: Afghan Diasporic Fiction on Afghanistan
A Working Paper by Mir Hekmatullah Sadat
Local Power and Transnational Resources: An Anthropological Perspective on Rural Rehabilitation in Afghanistan
A working paper by Alessandro Monsutti
Islam in the New Afghan Public Sphere
Podcast of a public lecture by Nushin Arbabzadah, UCLA held on Thursday, January 22, 2009.
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Talk With the Taliban?
Two European-based anthropologists say that Afghans may be more inclined than some others to speak with enemies and to entertain views opposed to their own.


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