The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA is pleased to announce a Cotsen Advanced Seminar on Archaeologies of Forced Migration: Approaches, Case Studies, and Prospects. The event will be held on the evening of Thursday, October 24–Saturday, October 26, 2024 and is organized by Aaron A. Burke (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Li Min (Anthropology/Asian Languages...

  The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies Invites you to A Zooarchaeological Perspective on the Ongoing Asian Turtle Crisis Jada Ko (Voss Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown) Thursday, October 24, 12:30–1:45 pm Perloff Hall 1102   A decade following the opening up of China in 1979, growing demand for freshwater turtles, especially for Chinese medicine, tonics, and...

UCLA's Program in Indo-European Studies is pleased to announce the Thirty-Fifth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. The event will be held in Royce 314 on Friday and Saturday, October 25-26, 2024. For my information and the complete program, please click here. To register to attend the conference via Zoom, please click here.

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology hopes that you will save the date for a lunch talk by Nadia Ben Marzouk (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) on Wednesday, October 30. At 12:00 pm in Fowler A222, Dr. Ben Marzouk will speak on Crafting Communities into Contact: Seals, Scripts, and the Making of an East Mediterranean...

On February 5, 2024, the Fowler returned a group of objects to His Majesty, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the 16th Asante King (Asantehene). On July 23, 2024, 20 historical treasures were returned to the Warumungu community in Tennant Creek, in the northern Territory of Australia. Join Silvia Forni, the Shirley & Ralph Shapiro Director of the...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday lunch talks featuring Gabriel Silva-Collins (Archaeology IDP, UCLA). For additional information, please see the flyer above.

Byzantium Within a Medieval Eurafricasian Literary Polysystem: Historiography, Fictional Tales, and the Practices of Narrative Representation Friday, November 15, 4:00–6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Co-sponsored by the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World and Iranian Studies Byzantium and its literature has been excluded from the national canons of European literatures. While there...

Byzantine Crime Novels in the Twenty-first Century: From History to Fiction A lecture by Panagiotis Agapitos Gutenberg Distinguished Research Fellow University of Mainz Saturday, November 16, 2024 4:00 p.m. 314 Royce Hall, UCLA Campus Reception to follow RSVP link: https://forms.gle/AMserxQLbWa2exNS9 Event is free but RSVPs are requested. Conversation following the lecture with Sharon Gerstel, Director, UCLA...

The department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures invites you to a lecture by Anna Serotta (Metropolitan Museum of Art) on Reading Tool Marks on Egyptian Stone Sculpture. The talk will take place on Tuesday, November 19 in Kaplan 365 at 4:00 pm. For additional information, please see the flyer above.