Global Antiquity

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is excited to invite you to the third in its series of Wednesday afternoon talks. Please join Luis Muro Ynoñán (Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in Anthropology, LACMA), who will present on "Moche Deathscapes: Performance, Politics, and the Creation of Myth in Huaca La Capilla-San José de Moro (AD 650–740), Perfu" in...

The Program in Indo-European studies proudly invites you to the 34th Annual Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC 34). It will take place on October 27–28 in Royce Hall 314. For additional information or to register, please click on this link and see the program below.

The textual diversity evident in the Dead Sea Scrolls has forced scholars to reconsider fundamental questions about the history of the Hebrew Psalter and the nature of ancient Hebrew psalmody. In this lecture, Drew Longacre will introduce key methodological and technological developments in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls as material artifacts that shed...

  The Department of Classics invites you to a talk by Victoria Wohl entitled Autobiography of a Demon on Thursday, November 2 at 4 PM in Dodd 248.

The Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA is pleased to announce a lecture by Zhao Hao titled Isolation and Connection: New Progress and Interpretation of Sanxingdui Culture. The talk will take place on Friday, November 3, 2023 from 1:00–3:00 pm in Bunche Hall 10383. To RSVP, please follow this link. Abstract: The archaeological discoveries made...

The Cotsen's Teen Friends of Archaeology group cordially invites you attend “Framing Victory: Salamis, the Athenian Acropolis, and the Agora,” presented by Professor John Papadopoulos. Please follow this link or scan the bardcode below to register. Teens, 13-19 years old, can register for the in-person event. All ages can register to join the lecture on...

The UCLA Department of Classics Presents: Filling The Gap: New Considerations of the East Pediment of the Athenian Parthenon From the ancient writer Pausanias, we learn that the east pediment of the Athenian Parthenon depicted the birth of Athena. However, the figures in the center of the pediment were probably destroyed as early as in...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is excited to invite you to the fourth in its series of Wednesday afternoon talks. Please join Zichao Wang (Graduate Student in Archaeology IDP, UCLA), who will be speaking on Origins of Tang Funerary Stone Sculptures: A Symptom of Tang Imperialism in Fowler Museum A222 from 12:00–12:50pm.

The department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and the Program in Indo-European Studies invite you to a talk by Dr. Willemijn Waal on Literacy in the Late Bronze Age Aegean in the Mirror of Anatolia. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, November 8 at 6:00 pm in Kaplan Hall 365. For more information,...