Global Antiquity

The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the first in its regularly scheduled Wednesday lunch talks of Spring Quarter. On Wednesday, April 10 at 12:00 pm in Fowler A222, Professor Justin Walsh (Department of Art, Chapman University) will speak on Archaeology in Space: The Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE) on the International...

Global Antiquity is pleased to announce the next in its series of brownbag lunch talks featuring Professor Bryant Kirkland (Classics), who will speak on Cities in Situ: Landscape in Dio Chrysostom's Urban Orations in Royce 306 on Monday, April 15. Lunch will be provided at 12:00 pm with the talk beginning shortly thereafter and followed by a discussion until 1:30...

Consolidation of Law, Legal Order, and the Question of Constitutionalizing Processes in the Achaemenid Empire The Old Persian inscriptions of Darius I deal with a range of legal, particularly constitutional questions. The famous grave inscription from Naqsh-i Rustam (DNb) constitutes the conceptional center of a thematical text corpus, exemplified in specific details and different legal...

UCLA's Department of Classics Presents The Annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture Professor Nandini Pandey, Johns Hopkins University The Colorblindness Gap: From Roman Diversity Beyond Affirmative Action? The Department of Classics is pleased to invite you to the annual UCLA Joan Palevsky Lecture. The event will take place on Thursday, April 25, with a reception beginning...

The Andean Working Group is pleased to announce that Dr. Jorge Tomasi,  faculty member at CONICET - Laboratorio de Arquitecturas Andinas y Construcción con Tierra, will speak on Making a House: The Mutual Upbringing (Crianza) of Architecture and People in Andean Highland Pastoralism (Susques, Jujuy, Argentina). The lecture will take place on Zoom at 12:00...

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED The “Persian Wars”: An Alternative Perspective? Wednesday, May 1 from 4:00–6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Requested—Please click here The “Persian Wars” are still regarded by many scholars and the interested general public as one of the major events in western history. The instructive and captivating narrative of...

The Center for the Study of Religion invites you to a conversation between Richard Moves Camp and the editor and associate editor of his book My Grandfather’s Altar: Five Generations of Lakota Holy Men. They will share stories from this oral-literary narrative account of five generations of Lakota religious tradition on Monday, May 6 from...

The UCLA Waystation Initiative invites you to a lecture by Professor Hui Fang (Shandong University) titled Transforming from Yi to Xia: A Bioanthropological Observation on Cultural Transition. The talk will take place on Tuesday, May 7 at 4:00 pm in person in Fowler A222 as well as on Zoom. For the Zoom meeting information, please...

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Regal Metamorphosis: A Transcultural Journey of the Achaemenid Royal Women to the East Xiwangmu, also known as the Queen of the West, is a significant deity in ancient Chinese mythology, revered initially as the protector of departed souls. Her representation emerged during the late Western Han period around...

Please note that this event has been postponed Presented by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion. Since the Hebrew Bible is a sacred text for Jews and Christians many readers naturally assume it cannot contain any humor. This talk will explore several biblical narratives...