A New Vision of the Ancient Worlds

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The UCLA Cunard Center for Global Antiquity is a leading academic hub for ancient studies. Through its projects, research, and curricula, it seeks to be a disciplinary home to stimulating intellectual encounters and exchanges for scholars working on the ancient world.

‘A new, higher form of humanism’

Announcing the UCLA Jeffrey P. Cunard Center for Global Antiquity

Babylonian blue and gold ceramic panel depicting a lion.

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Interdisciplinary Approach

By adopting a capacious and cross-disciplinary discourse on antiquity, Global Antiquity strives to foreground the entanglements of past cultural achievements and inspire a new vision of the ancient worlds.

Jade Disc from 2nd century BCE China.
Research

Workshops & Lecture Series

Global Antiquity hosts a robust program of events, workshops, and lectures, including the Distinguished Speaker Series program and a biennial international workshop on Global Antiquity.