Global Antiquity

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is pleased to invite you to its first Wednesday Talk of 2024-25. On October 9 at 12:00 pm, Kylie Thomsen (PhD Candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) will speak on “Approaches to Studying Statuary Reuse in Ancient Egypt”in Fowler A222. As usual, pizza will be provided. For more information, please see...

Pourdavoud Institute Fall 2024 Welcome Reception Wednesday, October 9, 2024 4:00 – 6:00 pm Royce Hall 306 Registration Required The Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World is pleased to announce their fall reception. In the company of its supporters, colleagues, academic affiliates, students, and esteemed guests, the director and staff shall be...

The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion invites you to join for its annual Study of Religion Fall Reception. The event will be held on Thursday, Oct 10 from 4:00–5:30 pm in Royce Hall, Room 306. Please come gather with colleagues, students, and friends of the center to celebrate the start of the new...

UCLA's departments of Classics and History invite you to a lecture by Professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Classics/African American Studies/Latino Studies/Center for Human Values, Princeton) titled On the Wings of Locusts: Ancient Rome and New Ecological Histories. The event will take place on Monday, October 14 in Bunche Hall 6275 at 4:00 pm. We hope to...

Era of the Living Dead: Memory, Sacrifice and the "Royal" Tombs at Umm el-Marra, Syria Thursday, October 17 James West Alumni Center, Founders Room Reception at 6:00 pm Lecture at 7:00 pm Excavations at Tell Umm el-Marra (perhaps ancient Tuba) in northern Syria revealed a large Early Bronze Age elite mortuary complex raised up in...

  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...

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...