The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures is pleased to announce the next ‘After Antiquity’ Graduate Colloquium, sponsored by the UCLA Humanities Division. The event will take place on Wednesday, February 5 at 12:00 pm in Kaplan 365. Lunch is provided for UCLA students and faculty who RSVP. The ‘After Antiquity’ Graduate Colloquium is...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday pizza talks. Please join Professor Jean-Paul Crielaard (Mideterranean Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) on Wednesday, February 12 at 12:00 pm in Fowler A222. Please check back for more information closer to the date of the event.

The Ifugao Rice Terraces, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Philippines, represent a living cultural landscape shaped by centuries of Indigenous knowledge and community resilience. This lecture will explore the multifaceted efforts to preserve and sustain this iconic heritage amid challenges posed by climate change, modernization, and globalization. Drawing on his extensive experience with community-led...

The Yanai Initiative presents a lecture by Professor Ariel Stilerman (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford), who will deliver a talk titled Meet the People Who Built Japan: Early Medieval Craft Technology in the Aftermath of Disaster. This event will take place on Sunday, February 23 from 4:00–5:30 pm in Royce 243.