The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies invites you to a Hammer Art History Lecture by Suzanne Blier (Harvard University) on Patterns of Anomaly in African Ivories on Tuesday, April 2 from 5:00–6:00 pm. To register to attend in person in Royce 314, please click here. To register for the Zoom link, please click...
The UCLA Department of Classics invites you to a talk by Professor Alex Dressler (University of Wisconsin-Madison) titled The Way and Its Poor: Bareness of Life in Roman Aesthetic Theory. The lecture will take place on Thursday, April 4 at 4:00 pm in Dodd 248 and will be followed by a reception.
a panel discussion organized by Professor Ioanna Kakoulli (Acting Director, UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture) April 6-7, 2024 8:30 to 11:30 a.m PST 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. EET (Cyprus/Greece) 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. CET (Central Europe) via Zoom RSVP here: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpcuGppzgtG9MXuDP_KRmVSgGN_KqFrSMP#/registration The Eastern Mediterranean, a cradle of ancient civilizations, stands at the...
Presented by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion and the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures. The story of the Twelve Tribes of Israel begins in the Hebrew Bible. But all around the world, there are stories about what happened next...
The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the first in its regularly scheduled Wednesday lunch talks of Spring Quarter. On Wednesday, April 10 at 12:00 pm in Fowler A222, Professor Justin Walsh (Department of Art, Chapman University) will speak on Archaeology in Space: The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International...
Global Antiquity is pleased to announce the next in its series of brownbag lunch talks featuring Professor Bryant Kirkland (Classics), who will speak on Cities in Situ: Landscape in Dio Chrysostom's Urban Orations in Royce 306 on Monday, April 15. Lunch will be provided at 12:00 pm with the talk beginning shortly thereafter and followed by a discussion until 1:30...
Consolidation of Law, Legal Order, and the Question of Constitutionalizing Processes in the Achaemenid Empire The Old Persian inscriptions of Darius I deal with a range of legal, particularly constitutional questions. The famous grave inscription from Naqsh-i Rustam (DNb) constitutes the conceptional center of a thematical text corpus, exemplified in specific details and different legal...
UCLA's Department of Classics Presents The Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor Nandini Pandey, Johns Hopkins University The Colorblindness Gap: From Roman Diversity Beyond Affirmative Action? The Department of Classics is pleased to invite you to the annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture. The event will take place on Thursday, April 25, with a reception beginning...
The Andean Working Group is pleased to announce that Dr. Jorge Tomasi, faculty member at CONICET - Laboratorio de Arquitecturas Andinas y Construcción con Tierra, will speak on Making a House: The Mutual Upbringing (Crianza) of Architecture and People in Andean Highland Pastoralism (Susques, Jujuy, Argentina). The lecture will take place on Zoom at 12:00...
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED The “Persian Wars”: An Alternative Perspective? Wednesday, May 1 from 4:00–6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Requested—Please click here The “Persian Wars” are still regarded by many scholars and the interested general public as one of the major events in western history. The instructive and captivating narrative of...
