Global Antiquity

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....

Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion, this talk looks at a few examples of Paul’s ethical reasoning and then discusses how his ethical discourse compares with those of several types current today. RSVP required for Zoom access. Click here   Adela Yarbro Collins is an American author and academic, who has served as...

Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis Register for the Talk Community engagement is now essential to ethical field practice in archaeology and conservation. Although it represents a significant change from traditional fieldwork, working more closely with host communities leads to significantly better and more sustainable outcomes. This talk will discuss our collaborative efforts to build and...

Please join the Department of Art History and the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies in Dodd Hall 247, Thursday May 18, from 4-6, for three talks, followed by a discussion with light refreshments. It’s an opportunity to hear about Paul Niell’s research (Stella Nair’s collaborator in “The Forgotten Canopy”) as well as the that of...

A Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership Conference, co-sponsored by the Departments of Classics and English, UCLA. May 19th – 20th, 2023. Organizers: Louise Hornby (English) & Alex Purves (Classics) Keynote Speaker: John Durham Peters, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies, Yale University. Confirmed Speakers/Participants Shane Butler, Johns Hopkins University Elizabeth DeLoughrey, UCLA Katharine Earnshaw,...