The Department of Classics invites you to a lecture by Professor Jinyu Liu (History, Emory) titled Labeling Ethnicities of Enslaved and Freed Individuals in the Early Roman Empire: Fluidity and Complexity. The event will take place on Monday, March 3 at 5:00 pm in Dodd 248 and will be followed by a reception. Please check...
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday pizza talks. On Wednesday, March 5, Sarah Beckmann (Classics and Cotsen) will speak on Alterity, Enslavement and Empire in a Roman Genre Sculpture: The Oplontis-Borghese Boy with Duck. The event will take place at 12:00 pm in Fowler A222, and...
The Early Modern Research Group (EMRG), sponsored by the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, is pleased to announce a works-in-progress presentation this Thursday, March 6 from 12:00-1:00 pm PST on Zoom. Sofia Yazpik (PhD Student, Art history) will present a paper titled The Codex Osuna: A Landmark Nahua Lawsuit in Early Colonial Mexico City. For...
Colleagues from UCLA and the University of Oxford invite you to attend presentations of this term's Anatolia Seminar. The second talk will take place on Friday, March 7 at 9:00 am pacific time (5:00 pm GMT) in Kaplan 365 and on Zoom. The event will feature a conversation between Thomas Motter (UCLA) and Krishnan Ram-Prasad...
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...
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...
The Departments of Classics and World Arts and Cultures/Dance are proud to invite you to a conversation between Anurima Banerji (World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA) and Brooke Holmes (Classics, Princeton), titled Practicing Genealogies of Classicization: Theory, Method, and Making. The event will take place on Thursday, March 13 from 4:30–5:30 pm in Dodd 248. For...
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...
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...
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...
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