On the Early Intellectual Origins of Yingzao Fashi: The Chinese Neolithic Site Shimao and the Reinforcement Technology of Chinese Ancient City Walls

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

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).

Humanities to Society and to UCLA with Professor David Schaberg

UCLA Faculty Club 480 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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...

Projecting the Past: Plato’s Historical Imagination

Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

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...

Native Raizal Heritage: Landscape Utilization and Cultural Patrimony on Old Providence and Santa Catalina Islands, Colombia (1629-present)

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

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...

Thinking Through the Tool: Immersive Virtual Reality at Mawchu Llacta and Huaca Colorada, Peru

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

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...

A Careers After Classics Lecture Series Talk with Navied Mahdavian

Dodd Hall 248 315 Portolo Plaza, Los Angeles

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!

Moche Deathscapes: Performance, Politics, and the Creation of Myth in Huaca La Capilla-San José de Moro (AD 650–740), Peru with Luis Muro Ynoñán

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

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...

Drew Longacre – Scribes and Their Psalters: Situating Ancient Psalm Collections in Their Scribal Contexts

Kaplan Hall 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California

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...