The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is happy to announce the continuation of its Wednesday series of talks. Please find below additional information on the first one of the quarter, which will be presented by Wenden Wang (Visiting Graduate Scholar, UCLA).
Sponsored by the UCLA Emeriti Association and the UCLA Retirees Association. The Emeriti and Retirees Associations invite you to an insightful UCLA Conversation on the importance of the humanities to society and to UCLA with David Schaberg, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, who served as Dean of Humanities from 2011 to 2022. Professor Schaberg, an...
Please join us to welcome in the new academic year, see old friends and meet new people. Click here to let us know that you will be coming by October 5th. Thank you!
The Department of Classics is pleased to present the Joan Palevsky Chair of Classics Inaugural Lecture. The talk is titled "Projecting the Past: Plato's Historical Imagination" and will be delivered by Professor Kathryn Morgan, Department of Classics and Global Antiquity Board member. As the focus will be the creation of the historical imagination and an...
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is excited to invite you to the second in its series of Wednesday afternoon talks. Please join Tracey Mayfield (Lecturer in Anthropology, University of South California), who will be speaking on Native Raizal Heritage: Landscape Utilization and Cultural Patrimony on Old Providence and Santa Catalina Islands, Colombia (1629–present) in Fowler Museum...
The Andean Working Group is excited to announce its first event of the year, organized in partnership with the Architecture Working Group and the Digital Archaeology Lab at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. On Thursday, October 19th at 4pm PT, Dr. Giles Spence Morrow, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, will present his...
The UCLA Department of Classics presents A Careers After Classics Lecture Series featuring New Yorker Cartoonist Navied Mahdavian who will be speaking about his new book “This Country” His talk will be at 12 PM on Monday, Oct. 23 in Dodd 248. All are welcome!
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is excited to invite you to the third in its series of Wednesday afternoon talks. Please join Luis Muro Ynoñán (Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in Anthropology, LACMA), who will present on "Moche Deathscapes: Performance, Politics, and the Creation of Myth in Huaca La Capilla-San José de Moro (AD 650–740), Perfu" in...
The textual diversity evident in the Dead Sea Scrolls has forced scholars to reconsider fundamental questions about the history of the Hebrew Psalter and the nature of ancient Hebrew psalmody. In this lecture, Drew Longacre will introduce key methodological and technological developments in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls as material artifacts that shed...