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...
Global Antiquity is pleased to invite you to the next in its 2024–2025 Faculty Lunch Series talks, featuring Professor David Schneller (Art History, UCLA). On Friday, December 6 from 12:00–1:30 pm in Royce 306, he will speak on Composite Creations: Cross-Cultural Experimentation in the Eastern Mediterranean. Lunch and refreshments will be served at 12:00 pm followed immediately by the...
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...
Please note that due to recent events and the campus closure, this event has been postponed. Global Antiquity is pleased to invite you to its first Faculty Lunch Series talk of the new year, featuring Professor David Schaberg (Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA). On Friday, January 10 from 12:00–1:30 pm in Royce 306, he will speak on Lineage Histories in...
Myth, Time and Cosmology in the Ancient Maya Murals of San Bartolo In-Person and Online This talk will present new interpretations of one of the most important artworks from ancient Maya civilization — the wall paintings of San Bartolo, Guatemala. Discovered in a buried room in 2001, the paintings are among the earliest examples of...
The Andean Working Group invites you to a talk titled Beyond the Horizon: Pericentric Complexity in the Chavín Phenomenon at Atalla, Peru by Professor Michelle Young (Anthropology, Vanderbilt). The event will take place on Monday, January 27 at 5:00 pm in Fowler A222 and on Zoom. Registration is required for in-person and virtual participation. To...
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,...
The Ifugao Rice Terraces, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Philippines, represent a living cultural landscape shaped by centuries of Indigenous knowledge and community resilience. This lecture will explore the multifaceted efforts to preserve and sustain this iconic heritage amid challenges posed by climate change, modernization, and globalization. Drawing on his extensive experience with community-led...
The Yanai Initiative presents a lecture by Professor Ariel Stilerman (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford), who will deliver a talk titled Meet the People Who Built Japan: Early Medieval Craft Technology in the Aftermath of Disaster. This event will take place on Sunday, February 23 from 4:00–5:30 pm in Royce 243.
