The Program of Iranian Studies at UCLA offers, and shall further endeavor to present, a rich array of conferences, workshops, and lectures within the field of Iranian Studies, or in conjunction with other disciplines.

Among the most notable lecture series are the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures Series, which, inspired by the Quatre Leçons au Collège de France, seeks to promote scholarship by enabling distinguished members of the Academe to present a series of lectures, which promise to open up new perspectives and spearhead advances within the wider field of Iranology. The proceedings of the Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series will be published as monographs in the Intellectual Traditions Series, ed. Hossein Ziai, at Mazda Publishers.

The Musa Sabi Chair proposes to organize in the coming years a number of conferences and symposia centered on the pre-Islamic Iranian world. The first of these symposia, which will be offered in conjunction with the field of Jewish Studies, as well as the Center of Jewish Studies, shall investigate the Iranian cultural context of the Babylonian Talmud.