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Ancient Studies Calendar

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Affiliated Event: Bridging EurAsia

Mon November 16 – Thu November 19, 2026Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna

Nov16

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series- The Ends of Asia: Japanese Archaeology and Anthropology in the Middle East

Mon November 16, 20264:00 pm–5:30 pmBunche Hall 5288

Ancient Studies Calendar event highlighting the Near East.

Nov16

In the Heart of the World's First Democracy: Excavations in the Athenian Agora with John Papadopoulos

Mon November 16, 20264:00 pmDodd 146

Ancient Studies Calendar event highlighting the classical world.

Nov16

Law in Early China with Mark Edward Lewis

Tue November 17, 20263:30 pm–5:00 pmRoyce Hall 243

Ancient Studies Calendar event highlighting China.

Nov17

Cotsen Wednesday Talk- Qin-Han Convict Laborers through Their Cemeteries: Tombs, Fetters, and Human Bones

Wed November 18, 202612:00 pm–12:50 pmFowler A222

Ancient Studies Calendar event highlighting Asia.

Nov18

Cotsen Author Spotlight- Economic Trends during the Age of Confucius with Lothar von Falkenhausen

Wed November 18, 20266:00 pmJames West Alumni Center, Founders Room

Nov18

UCLA/Getty Conservation Program's Distinguished Speaker Series with Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya

Fri November 20, 202610:00 amZoom

Nov20

Cunard Lecture Series

Ancient Near Eastern Narratives: Making a Case for the Epistemic Function of Myth in Text and Image with Beate Pongratz-Leisten

Wed December 2, 20264:00 pmRoyce Hall 306

Beate Pongratz-Leisten’s book Myth, Text, and Image in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Narrative Reading of the World makes a case for establishing human thinking-in-images as an essential part of ancient Mesopotamian reasoning based in the fact that in the human mind, imagistic thinking exists alongside rational logical thought.