Global Antiquity

The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to its 50th Anniversary Ground Breaking lecture series on February 8, 2024. The lecture, titled When Communities Engage: Empowering Archaeological Practice, will be given by Professor Stephen Acabado in the Founders Room in the James West Alumni Center. This event is in-person only. Registration is required. Please click here...

The CMRS Center for Early Global Studies invites you the Mediterranean Seminar Winter Workshop for 2024, titled Intermediaries, Middle Grounds, Middle Sea. The workshop will take place from Friday, February 9 to Saturday, February 10 in Royce 306 and 314. As the theater of engagement and integration of communities originating on the shores or from the...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday lunch talks. On Wednesday, February 14 at 12:00 pm, Luiza Osorio G. Silva (Art History, Archaeology, and Visual Studies, UC Irvine) will deliver a presentation titled Was Pharaoh Egypt? Middle Kingdom Kingship in Context. Please note that the talk will take place in...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday talks. On Wednesday, February 21 at 12:00 pm, Cornelius Holtdorf (Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University) will speak on Archaeology, Heritage and the Future in Fowler Museum A222. Please check back for more information in the coming weeks.    

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.