Global Antiquity

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,...

The Department of Classics is organizing a majors/minors information session on Monday, November 13 at 12:00 pm. Any undergraduate students interested in Classics and/or ancient studies are encouraged to attend! Pizza will be provided. For more information, please see the flyer below.

Ancient Studies Social Hour is back this coming Tuesday, Nov. 14 (week 7) with not one but two guests of honor! Please join us for casual conversation in the dining hall with your fellow students + Professors Sarah Morris and John Papadopoulos. The group will meet outside Epic (Covel) at 5:30 pm. Those without meal plans are welcome to attend!...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is excited to invite you to the fifth in its series of Wednesday afternoon talks. Please join Huang Yizhi (Visiting Graduate Scholar, UCLA), who will be speaking on The Specialized Production of Proto-porcelain Production in Lower Yangtze River (ca. 1600–200 BCE) in Fowler Museum A222 from 12:00–12:50pm.

November 28th, 2:00–3:15 pm in person (Kaplan 365) or on Zoom Register here for both in-person or Zoom attendance The Center for the Study of Religion invites you to lecture by Walid Saleh (University of Toronto), who, back by popular demand, provides an overview of the major features of Classical Islam that solidified during the...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is excited to invite you to the final Wednesday afternoon talk of Fall Quarter. Please join Wolfgang Alders (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arkansas), who will be speaking on Integration and Autonomy in the Island Hinterland of Zanzibar Stone Town, 8th–19th centuries CE in Fowler Museum A222 from 12:00–12:50pm.

(Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds A Forum for Exchanges on Ancient Studies at UCLA December 5–6, 2023 | Royce Hall 306 Global Antiquity is convening a workshop titled (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds. This event, held at UCLA over two days, December 5–6, 2023, will include invited speakers from the University of California and the greater Los Angeles area whose...