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Cotsen Wednesday Talk- Trial by Fire, Floods, and Email in the Cotsen: Public Engagement, Public Scholarship, and Making a Case for Archaeology in 2025 with Jason De León

Fowler Museum A222 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to its first Wednesday lunch talk of Spring Quarter. On Wednesday, April 2 at 12:00 pm in Fowler A222, Jason De León (Archaeology; Director, Cotsen Institute) will deliver a talk titled Trial by Fire, Floods, and Email in the Cotsen: Public Engagement, Public Scholarship, and Making a Case...

Pourdavoud Lecture Series- Zoroastrian Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity with Yuhan Vevaina

Royce Hall 306 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, California

The Sūdgar Nask of Dēnkard Book 9 is a commentary on the ‘Old Avesta’ of the 2nd millennium BCE produced in Pahlavi (Zoroastrian Middle Persian) in the Sasanian (224–651 CE) and early Islamic centuries. This commentary is a value-laden, ideologically motivated discourse that displays a rich panoply of tradition-constituted forms of allegoresis. It mobilizes complex forms...

Creating Urban Archaeology: Entanglements of Archaeological Fieldwork, Research Agendas and Geopolitical Developments in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods with Rubina Raja

Kaplan Hall 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California

The Departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Classics, and Anthropology and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invite you to a talk by Professor Rubina Raja (Classical Archaeology and Art, Aarhus) titled Creating Urban Archaeology: Entanglements of Archaeological Fieldwork, Research Agendas and Geopolitical Developments in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods. The talk will take...

Symposium- Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions

Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

Download the Conference Program Download the Abstract Booklet Zoom Webinar Link Global Antiquity is convening its second annual symposium that will be held at UCLA, and live-streamed on Zoom, on April 10–11, 2025. Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions aims to assess the state of ancient studies, its relevance to the Humanities today, and...

Spread and Stack: The Development of the Roman Catholic Church from 33–461 with Gabriel Rossman

Kaplan Hall 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California

The Center for the Study of Religion invites you to a talk by Gabriel Rossman, which will take place on Wednesday, April 16 at 12:30 pm in Kaplan 365 and over Zoom. In this lecture, he attempts to explain the development of Christianity over its first six centuries from a highly localized charismatic sect to...

(Mis)using the Bible: White Evangelicalism and Christian Nationalism in America

Royce Hall 306 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, California

The Center for the Study of Religion invites you to a symposium on White Evangelicalism and Christian Nationalism, both of which have occupied an increasingly prominent position since—and in many ways before—the first Trump administration. Events such as January 6 and the second Trump presidency have highlighted the entanglement of politics and religious belief that...

Cotsen Graduate Archaeology Conference

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is excited to announce the upcoming 10th Cotsen Graduate Archaeology Conference, which will take place on Thursday, May 1–Friday, May 2, 2025. The conference theme is Plural Geographies: Exploring Alternative Ecologies and Navigating Through the Field. It will feature keynote speakers Dr. Anna Agbe-Davies (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Dr. Mena Agha...

Pourdavoud Lecture Series- Regal Metamorphosis: A Transcultural Journey of the Achaemenid Royal Women to the East with Wu Xin

Royce Hall 306 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, California

The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to the next iteration of its lecture series featuring Professor Wu Xin (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr), who will speak on a Regal Metamorphosis: A Transcultural Journey of the Achaemenid Royal Women to the East. The event will take place on...