UCLA's department of Classics invites you to an international conference on Plato and Lyric Poetry. The event will take place from Friday, October 18–Saturday, October 19 from 9:00 am–6:00 pm in Dodd Hall 248. For more information, including the complete program, please scan the QR code on the flyer above or follow this link. This event...
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA is pleased to announce a Cotsen Advanced Seminar on Archaeologies of Forced Migration: Approaches, Case Studies, and Prospects. The event will be held on the evening of Thursday, October 24–Saturday, October 26, 2024 and is organized by Aaron A. Burke (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Li Min (Anthropology/Asian Languages...
The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies Invites you to A Zooarchaeological Perspective on the Ongoing Asian Turtle Crisis Jada Ko (Voss Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown) Thursday, October 24, 12:30–1:45 pm Perloff Hall 1102 A decade following the opening up of China in 1979, growing demand for freshwater turtles, especially for Chinese medicine, tonics, and...
UCLA's Program in Indo-European Studies is pleased to announce the Thirty-Fifth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. The event will be held in Royce 314 on Friday and Saturday, October 25-26, 2024. For my information and the complete program, please click here. To register to attend the conference via Zoom, please click here.
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology hopes that you will save the date for a lunch talk by Nadia Ben Marzouk (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) on Wednesday, October 30. At 12:00 pm in Fowler A222, Dr. Ben Marzouk will speak on Crafting Communities into Contact: Seals, Scripts, and the Making of an East Mediterranean...
On February 5, 2024, the Fowler returned a group of objects to His Majesty, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the 16th Asante King (Asantehene). On July 23, 2024, 20 historical treasures were returned to the Warumungu community in Tennant Creek, in the northern Territory of Australia. Join Silvia Forni, the Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director of the...
Global Antiquity is pleased to invite you to the first in its 2024–2025 Faculty Lunch Series talks, featuring Professor Solange Ashby (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA). On Friday, November 8 from 12:00 pm–1:30 pm in Royce 306, she will speak on Nubian Rites, Linguistics, and Gold: An Unusual Demotic Term Explored. Lunch and...
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday lunch talks featuring Gabriel Silva-Collins (Archaeology IDP, UCLA). For additional information, please see the flyer above.
Byzantium Within a Medieval Eurafricasian Literary Polysystem: Historiography, Fictional Tales, and the Practices of Narrative Representation Friday, November 15, 4:00–6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Co-sponsored by the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World and Iranian Studies Byzantium and its literature has been excluded from the national canons of European literatures. While there...
