Global Antiquity

The departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Art History invite you to a talk by Professor Serdar Yalçin (Getty Villa Scholar/Art History, Macalester College) titled From One Hand to Another: Turbulent Lives of Cylinder Seals from Ancient Western Asia. The event will take place on Wednesday, December 4 at 4:00 pm in Kaplan...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to a talk by UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press author Camilla Norman on the statue-stelae of Daunia in northern Apulia, Italy. These are unique artifacts with complex and rich imagery, created by a society that remains largely enigmatic. These stelae, though depicting an agrarian and seemingly egalitarian...

The UCLA Humanities Division and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures invites you to the next meeting of its After Antiquity Graduate Colloquium. On Thursday, December 5 at 12:30 pm in Kaplan 365, Dima el-Mouallem will speak on Beyond the Bloodline: Divine Legacy in Islamic Thought. Please RSVP here. Questions may be directed...

Taming the Desert: Resilience, Religion, and Ancestors in Ancient Peru With Luis Muro Ynoñán Friday, December 6, 2024 11:00 a.m. PT Live streaming via Zoom Luis A. Muro Ynoñán will discuss the exhibition Taming the Desert: Resilience, Religion, and Ancestors in Ancient Peru, which features Moche and Nasca ceramics and textiles from the collections of...

NINO (Netherlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten) invites you the NINO Postdoctoral Research Fellow 5th Annual Conference, Unseen-Untold: Stories of Ancient Non-elite Communities. The event will take place in person at Leiden University from December 18–20, 2024, but it will also be livestreamed. Following the general call in social sciences to focus on those forgotten by...

The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to the next in its lecture series, From Šalām to Drōd: A History of Middle Iranian Epistolary Traditions featuring Professor Adam Benkato (Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley). The event will take place on Wednesday, January 8 at 4:00 pm in Royce...

The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to the next in its lecture series featuring Professor Carlo Cereti (Classics and Religions, UC Irvine), who will speak on The Rise of Persian: Understanding the Evolution of Writing in the Sasanian and Early Islamic Periods. The event will take place on Wednesday,...