Global Antiquity

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,...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Global Antiquity, and the East Asian Library at UCLA are pleased to present a cross-cultural workshop on religious power and political communication in Early Chinese and Maya Civilizations. Date: 1-6 pm May 22, Monday. Place: Main Conference Room 11360, First Floor of Young Research Library UCLA. Program: 1 pm opening...

September 21 & September 22, 2023  Via Zoom  REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN https://forms.gle/JSmJrcxf58gFakna9

Glendi! Beginning of the Year Celebration Saturday, September 23, 2023 7:00-9:00 PM Rolfe Courtyard, UCLA campus Music performance featuring Petros Antoniadis, Alexis Cohen, Emmanuela Chiotaki and Eirini Nomikos Opening Remarks by: Ioanna Kakoulli, Acting Director, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA Alexandra Minna Stern, Dean of Humanities, Professor, Departments of English, History, and the Institute for Society...

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures cordially invites you to the 2023-2024 NELC Fall Reception. We hope to see you on Tuesday, September 26 at 2:00pm-4:00pm at Royce Hall 314 to celebrate the start of the new quarter! Food and refreshments will be catered by the Naab Café. Please RSVP by clicking here. We...

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 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...

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...

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).