Global Antiquity

Global Antiquity is pleased to announce a brownbag lunch talks featuring Professor Sarah Beckmann (Classics, Cotsen Institute), who will speak on The Trouble with Cupids in Royce 306 on Friday, February 23. Lunch will be provided at 12:00 pm with the talk beginning shortly thereafter and followed by a discussion until 1:30 pm. This talk is hosted to provide a casual...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday talks. On Wednesday, February 28 at 12:00 pm, Ken Seligson (Cultural Anthropology, CS Dominguez Hills) will speak on In the Shadow of Giants: The Earliest Ballcourt Sites in the Puuc Region of the Northern Maya Lowlands in Fowler Museum A222. Please check back for more...

The UCLA Waystation Project, the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, and the Center for Chinese Studies invite you to lecture by Professor Li Liu (Stanford University) on Friday, March 1 at 1:00 pm in the Young Research Library Presentation Room. The talk, titled Drinking and Dancing as Cultural Identity: Exploring the Origins and Dispersal...

“How to Think About the Past” Lecture by Katherine Elizabeth Fleming President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust and Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization, Department of History, New York University (NYU) March 2, 2024 4:00 p.m. UCLA Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium Reception to follow Event is free but advance registration is...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday afternoon talks. On March 6, Professor Sarah Madole Lewis (Borough of Manhattan Community College) will present on Archaeological Evidence for Sarcophagi as Multi-use Family Tombs in Roman Asia Minor in Fowler A222.

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the winter Waystation workshop, titled Strategizing Voluntary Returns of Cultural Heritage to Mexico and Central America. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format on Saturday, March 9 from 10:00 am–5:00 pm. For more information, please see the flyer below, and click here to register.

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday talks. On Wednesday, March 13 at 12:00 pm, Rachel Wood (Archaeology IDP) will speak on Creating Color: Opaque Red Glass Production in Celtic Europe in Fowler Museum A222. Please check back for more information in the coming weeks.

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the final in its series of Wednesday afternoon talks of the winter quarter. On March 13, Rachel Wood (Archaeology IDP) will speak on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Celtic Opaque Red Glass in Fowler A222 at 12:00 pm.

Pourdavoud Lecture Series: How Zoroastrians Argued with Muslims in the Early Islamic Period This lecture will explore the early conflict between Zoroastrians and Muslims by examining the most important polemical treatise in the Zoroastrian tradition, the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār (“The Doubt-Dispelling Disquisition”), written by the ninth/tenth century theologian and philosopher Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād. A sophisticated work of rationalist...