UCLA Department of Classics Graduate Student Conference

Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

UCLA Graduate Student Conference 2023 Department of Classics September 29-30, 2023 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Knowing and Knowing Nothing: Learning, Teaching, and Apprenticeship in the Ancient Mediterranean Keynote Address by Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Associate Professor & Chair of Classical Studies at Denison University, “Knowing and Not Knowing Others: Ethnography as an Unreliable Teacher.” This conference...

Pourdavoud Center Fall Reception 2023

Royce Hall 306 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, California

Pourdavoud Center Fall 2023 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required   The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World invites you to join us for a fall reception. In the company of our supporters, colleagues, academic affiliates, students, and esteemed guests, we shall be...

The Weight of a Patina of Time with Gala Porras-Kim

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Glenn Wharton Professor, Department of Art History Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Matthew H. Robb Mesoamerican Specialist, Library of Congress invite you to attend UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Gala Porras-Kim speaking on The weight of a patina of time (on view at the Fowler...

On the Early Intellectual Origins of Yingzao Fashi: The Chinese Neolithic Site Shimao and the Reinforcement Technology of Chinese Ancient City Walls

Fowler Museum A222 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is happy to announce the continuation of its Wednesday series of talks. Please find below additional information on the first one of the quarter, which will be presented by Wenden Wang (Visiting Graduate Scholar, UCLA).

Humanities to Society and to UCLA with Professor David Schaberg

UCLA Faculty Club 480 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Sponsored by the UCLA Emeriti Association and the UCLA Retirees Association. The Emeriti and Retirees Associations invite you to an insightful UCLA Conversation on the importance of the humanities to society and to UCLA with David Schaberg, Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, who served as Dean of Humanities from 2011 to 2022. Professor Schaberg, an...

Projecting the Past: Plato’s Historical Imagination

Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

The Department of Classics is pleased to present the Joan Palevsky Chair of Classics Inaugural Lecture. The talk is titled "Projecting the Past: Plato's Historical Imagination" and will be delivered by Professor Kathryn Morgan, Department of Classics and Global Antiquity Board member. As the focus will be the creation of the historical imagination and an...

Native Raizal Heritage: Landscape Utilization and Cultural Patrimony on Old Providence and Santa Catalina Islands, Colombia (1629-present)

Fowler Museum A222 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is excited to invite you to the second in its series of Wednesday afternoon talks. Please join Tracey Mayfield (Lecturer in Anthropology, University of South California), who will be speaking on Native Raizal Heritage: Landscape Utilization and Cultural Patrimony on Old Providence and Santa Catalina Islands, Colombia (1629–present) in Fowler Museum...

Thinking Through the Tool: Immersive Virtual Reality at Mawchu Llacta and Huaca Colorada, Peru

Fowler Museum A222 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Andean Working Group is excited to announce its first event of the year, organized in partnership with the Architecture Working Group and the Digital Archaeology Lab at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. On Thursday, October 19th at 4pm PT, Dr. Giles Spence Morrow, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, will present his...