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.

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday pizza talks. On Wednesday, February 26, Dr. Lorenzo Castellano (Postdoctoral Scholar, Cotsen Institute) will speak on A Diachronic Perspective on Farming in Ancient Anatolia: Twelve Millennia of Agriculture in Two Centuries of Paleoethnobotanical Research. The event will take place at...

The Architecture Working Group is pleased to announce that its next event will be held on Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 4:00 pm pacific time via Zoom. At that time, Professor Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy (Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia), an architectural historian who studies relationships between identity and space, will speak on Place,...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is pleased to invite you to a book talk by Lisa J. Lucero. On Thursday, February 27 at 6:00 pm in the James West Alumni Center, she will discuss her recent book, Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet. She will present its major themes, including the Maya inclusive...

Colleagues from UCLA and the University of Oxford invite you to attend presentations of this term's Anatolia Seminar. The first talk will take place on Friday, February 28 at 9:00 am pacific time (5:00 pm GMT) in Kaplan 365 and on Zoom. The lecture, delivered by Lorenzo d'Alfonso (ISAW), is titled After the Hittites: Iron...

The Department of Classics invites you to a lecture by Professor Jinyu Liu (History, Emory) titled Labeling Ethnicities of Enslaved and Freed Individuals in the Early Roman Empire: Fluidity and Complexity. The event will take place on Monday, March 3 at 5:00 pm in Dodd 248 and will be followed by a reception. Please check...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the next in its series of Wednesday pizza talks. On Wednesday, March 5, Sarah Beckmann (Classics and Cotsen) will speak on Alterity, Enslavement and Empire in a Roman Genre Sculpture: The Oplontis-Borghese Boy with Duck. The event will take place at 12:00 pm in Fowler A222, and...

The Early Modern Research Group (EMRG), sponsored by the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, is pleased to announce a works-in-progress presentation this Thursday, March 6 from 12:00-1:00 pm PST on Zoom. Sofia Yazpik (PhD Student, Art history) will present a paper titled The Codex Osuna: A Landmark Nahua Lawsuit in Early Colonial Mexico City. For...

Colleagues from UCLA and the University of Oxford invite you to attend presentations of this term's Anatolia Seminar. The second talk will take place on Friday, March 7 at 9:00 am pacific time (5:00 pm GMT) in Kaplan 365 and on Zoom. The event will feature a conversation between Thomas Motter (UCLA) and Krishnan Ram-Prasad...

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology invites you to the last in its series of Wednesday pizza talks of winter quarter. On Wednesday, March 12, Professor Li Min (Anthropology and Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA) and Dr. Lyssa Stapleton (Waystation Initiative, Cotsen Institute) will speak on The Waystation Initiative: Framework, Achievements, and Future Goals. The event will...

The Departments of Classics and World Arts and Cultures/Dance are proud to invite you to a conversation between Anurima Banerji (World Arts and Cultures/Dance, UCLA) and Brooke Holmes (Classics, Princeton), titled Practicing Genealogies of Classicization: Theory, Method, and Making. The event will take place on Thursday, March 13 from 4:30–5:30 pm in Dodd 248. For...

Islamic Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures invites you to the next in its series of After Antiquity Graduate Colloquia. On Tuesday, February 25 at 12:00 pm in Kaplan 398, Professor Matthew Keegan (Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College) will deliver a talk titled A Scholarly Idiom of Sovereignty: An...