Global Antiquity

  Pigments in Ancient Greek Painting & Medicine: Ecology, Materiality and the Alchemical Laboratory lecture by Ioanna Kakoulli (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA) Saturday, April 29, 2023 3:00 p.m. 306 Royce Hall Reception to follow Ancient Greek paintings between the fourth century BC and the third century AD are characterized by a splendor...

Please join the Department of Classics for a brownbag lunch talk by Dr. Christopher L. Gipson (Loyola Marymount University, Department of Classics) for a talk titled "Reader’s Digest: Extinguishing Kleos in Lykophron’s Alexandra." The lecture will take place in person in Dodd Hall 248 and via Zoom from 12–1pm. For the Zoom link, please contact...

In this graduate workshop hosted by the Department of Classics, Professor Rob Sobak of Bowdoin College will take Classics students through the process of applying for a job at a small liberal arts college (SLAC) in the US.

Drawing on her in-progress book project on Forgetting, this seminar will explore the place of memory and forgetting in the reception of Second Temple Judaism, revisiting the supposed Rabbinic retreat from “history” after the Roman destruction of the Temple in 70 CE and exploring Christian and Jewish contestation over pre-70 Jewish pasts, from antiquity to...

It is often noted how the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed our understanding of ancient Judaism, radically expanding our evidence for Jews and Judaism prior to the rise of Christianity. Yet this material also stands as a striking reminder of how much of the literary heritage of Jewish antiquity has been lost to...

The Andean Working Group presents "Materiality of Wak'as: Between History and Archaeology at Sacsayhuaman, Cuzco" by Peter Kaulicke, Professor in the Humanities Department at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Registration is required. Register here. This event is co-sponsored by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the UCLA Latin American Institute. For additional information, please contact Alba Menéndez Pereda...

Historical Trajectories of Hellenism in Asia Minor lecture by Paschalis Kitromilides (Academy of Athens) Date: May 7, 2023 Time: 3:00 PM Location: 314 Royce Hall Reception to follow Introductory remarks by The Honorable Ioannis Stamatekos, Consul General of Greece in Los Angeles Moderated by Sharon Gerstel (UCLA) & Dimitris Krallis (Simon Fraser University) Professor Paschalis...

The Program in Indo-European Studies is delighted to announce that Professor Birgit Anette Rasmussen (Olsen) of the University of Copenhagen will be giving a block seminar in early May. This five-session seminar will discuss Indo-European morphology, Indo-European alliances and fosterage, and the vocabulary of pastoralism. Further details may be found here.

The UCLA Department of Art History presents an exciting workshop entitled “Does technology alter our conception of conservation ethics?” led by Professor Maximiliaan Martens. In a paper published in 2015 (https://doi.org/10.4000/ceroart.4765), Maximiliaan Martens argued that ethics in conservation of works of art ought to be considered as evolving rather than static. The availability of new technology...

In biblical texts, we find preserved the “mark of contradictions, fragmentations, and adjunctions,” as intellectual historian Michel de Certeau once wrote (The Writing of History 1988: 313). This talk will explore the mark of contradictions in what may seem a peripheral set of texts within the broader biblical narrative, the Samson stories of Judges 13-16....