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...
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is pleased to announce its first Wednesday Lunch Talk of winter quarter. On January 22 at 12:00 pm in Fowler A222, UCLA graduate student, Sofia Pitouli (Art History) will deliver a lecture titled Approaching Mountain Landscapes: The Case of the Pindos Mountains. For more information, please see the flyer above.
Due to the ongoing uncertainty caused by the fires in the Los Angeles area, please be aware that this lecture has been postponed. 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 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 Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures is pleased to announce the next ‘After Antiquity’ Graduate Colloquium, sponsored by the UCLA Humanities Division. The event will take place on Wednesday, February 5 at 12:00 pm in Kaplan 365. Lunch is provided for UCLA students and faculty who RSVP. The ‘After Antiquity’ Graduate Colloquium is...
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.
March 13-14, 2025 UCLA An International Conference Convened by: M. Rahim Shayegan, UCLA William Schniedewind, UCLA Catherine Bonesho, UCLA Co-sponsored by: The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World The Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies Although there has been renewed interest in the Persian period in biblical scholarship, the profound impact...
