Mycenaean Histories: Breaking and Reassembling the Late Bronze Age with Dimitri Nakassis

Dodd Hall 248 315 Portolo Plaza, Los Angeles

The Department of Classics invites you to a lecture by Professor Dimitri Nakassis (Classics, University of Colorado Boulder) titled Mycenaean Histories: Breaking and Reassembling the Late Bronze Age. The event will take place on Monday, February 10 at 5:00 pm in Dodd 248, and all are welcome! For more information, please see the flyer above and the...

Cotsen Wednesday talk with Jean-Paul Crielaard

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

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday pizza talks. Please join Professor Jean-Paul Crielaard (Mideterranean Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) on Wednesday, February 12 at 12:00 pm in Fowler A222. Please check back for more information closer to the date of the event.

Cotsen Wednesday Talk- Disabled Ideals in Archaic Greek Religious Practices with Debby Sneed

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

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday pizza talks. On Wednesday, February 19, Professor Debby Sneed (Classics, Cal State Long Beach) will speak on Disabled Ideals in Archaic Greek Religious Practices. The event will take place at 12:00 pm in Fowler A222, and all are welcome! For...

Sustaining Heritage and Empowering Communities: The Dynamic Legacy of the Ifugao Rice Terraces

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

The Ifugao Rice Terraces, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Philippines, represent a living cultural landscape shaped by centuries of Indigenous knowledge and community resilience. This lecture will explore the multifaceted efforts to preserve and sustain this iconic heritage amid challenges posed by climate change, modernization, and globalization. Drawing on his extensive experience with community-led...

Meet the People Who Built Japan: Early Medieval Craft and Technology in the Aftermath of Disaster with Ariel Stilerman

Royce Hall 243 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Yanai Initiative presents a lecture by Professor Ariel Stilerman (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford), who will deliver a talk titled Meet the People Who Built Japan: Early Medieval Craft Technology in the Aftermath of Disaster. This event will take place on Sunday, February 23 from 4:00–5:30 pm in Royce 243.

Cotsen Wednesday Talk- A Diachronic Perspective on Farming in Ancient Anatolia: Twelve Millennia of Agriculture in Two Centuries of Paleoethnobotanical Research with Lorenzo Castellano

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

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday pizza talks. On Wednesday, February 26, Dr. Lorenzo Castellano (Postdoctoral Scholar, Cotsen Institute) will speak on A Diachronic Perspective on Farming in Ancient Anatolia: Twelve Millennia of Agriculture in Two Centuries of Paleoethnobotanical Research. The event will take place at...

Cotsen Wednesday Talk- Earthen Acts: Allpa and the Built Environment at Pisaq, an Inca Royal Estate (Cusco, Peru) with Rachel Schloss

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

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday pizza talks. On Wednesday, March 5, Rachel Schloss (PhD Student, Archaeology IDP) will speak on Earthen Acts: Allpa and the Built Environment at Pisaq, an Inca Royal Estate (Cusco, Peru). The event will take place at 12:00 pm in Fowler...

Cotsen Wednesday Talk- The Waystation Initiative: Framework, Achievements, and Future Goals with Li Min and Lyssa Stapleton

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

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the last in its series of Wednesday pizza talks of winter quarter. On Wednesday, March 12, Professor Li Min (Anthropology and Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA) and Dr. Lyssa Stapleton (Waystation Initiative, Cotsen Institute) will speak on The Waystation Initiative: Framework, Achievements, and Future Goals. The event will...

The Bible in its Ancient Iranian Context

Royce Hall 306 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, California

March 13-14, 2025 UCLA An International Conference Convened by: M. Rahim Shayegan, UCLA William Schniedewind, UCLA Catherine Bonesho, UCLA Co-sponsored by: The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World The Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Although there has been renewed interest in the Persian period in biblical scholarship, the profound impact...

NELC After Antiquity Graduate Colloquium- A Scholarly Idiom of Sovereignty with Matthew Keegan

Kaplan Hall 398 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Islamic Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures invites you to the next in its series of After Antiquity Graduate Colloquia. On Tuesday, February 25 at 12:00 pm in Kaplan 398, Professor Matthew Keegan (Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College) will deliver a talk titled A Scholarly Idiom of Sovereignty: An...