Global Antiquity

Byzantium Within a Medieval Eurafricasian Literary Polysystem: Historiography, Fictional Tales, and the Practices of Narrative Representation Friday, November 15, 4:00–6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Co-sponsored by the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World and Iranian Studies Byzantium and its literature has been excluded from the national canons of European literatures. While there...

Byzantine Crime Novels in the Twenty-first Century: From History to Fiction A lecture by Panagiotis Agapitos Gutenberg Distinguished Research Fellow University of Mainz Saturday, November 16, 2024 4:00 p.m. 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Campus Reception to follow RSVP link: https://forms.gle/AMserxQLbWa2exNS9 Event is free but RSVPs are requested. Conversation following the lecture with Sharon Gerstel, Director, UCLA...

The department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures invites you to a lecture by Anna Serotta (Metropolitan Museum of Art) on Reading Tool Marks on Egyptian Stone Sculpture. The talk will take place on Tuesday, November 19 in Kaplan 365 at 4:00 pm. For additional information, please see the flyer above.

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday lunch talks featuring Lauren Pratt (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA). Please see the flyer above for more information.

Glenn Wharton Professor, Department of Art History Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage Invites you to attend UCLA/Getty Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series featuring: Julianne Polanco State Historic Preservation Officer California Office of Historic Preservation speaking on “Historic Preservation: Relevancy, Community, and Resilience in a Changing Climate” Thursday, November...

Description: This talk presents the ongoing work of the I.Sicily and Crossreads projects. I.Sicily is a multilingual digital corpus of the inscriptions of ancient Sicily based upon fresh autopsy (sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk); Crossreads is 5-year ERC project developing and applying linguistic, palaeographic and archaeometric analyses to this corpus (crossreads.web.ox.ac.uk). The ambition of both projects is to make...

The UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage invites you to a Conservation Conversation with Xiao Ma titled Ancient Chinese Lime-based Building Materials: Its Archaeometric Studies and Conservation Materials Development. The event will take place on Friday, November 22 at 4:00 pm on Zoom. To receive the Zoom link for this talk, please register...

Drs. Mileto and Vegas are Professors of Architecture and Historic Preservation at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, and directors of the research group Res-Arquitectura: Research, Conservation, and Dissemination of Architectural Heritage. They are also current Getty Scholars, housed in the Getty Conservation Institute. Focusing on earthen materials in the built environment, like the use of rammed...

Who wrote the Bible? Its books have no bylines. Tradition long identified Moses as the author of the Pentateuch, with Ezra as editor. Ancient readers also suggested that David wrote the psalms and Solomon wrote Proverbs and Qohelet. Although the Hebrew Bible rarely speaks of its authors, people have been fascinated by the question of...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the last Wednesday Talk of fall quarter. On Wednesday, December 4 at 12:00 pm, UCLA graduate students Mary Anastasi (Department of Classics), Lucha Martinez de Luna (Archaeology IDP), and Maryan Ragheb (Archaeology IDP) will speak on A New Path for Cultural Objects: Three Case Studies from the...