The Cunard Center hosts a program of annual symposia, workshops, and lecture series to reach and impact the academic community and the public sphere. These events draw leading scholars from around the world to share their research and expertise, stimulate new ideas, and pioneer interdisciplinary scholarship on ancient worlds.
2025 (April 10-11, 2025): Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions, the Cunard Center’s second annual symposium, assessed the state of ancient studies, its relevance to the Humanities today, and its future directions.
2023 (December 5-6, 2023): (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds, the Cunard Center’s first symposium, reflected on a more equitable treatment of antiquity by emphasizing the diversity of the ancient worlds, the entanglement of past cultural achievements, and the relevance of these perspectives for the present.
The Cunard Center’s Distinguished Speaker Series allows leading scholars from any field of ancient studies to present their work. Lectures are livestreamed to a global audience and recordings are made freely available on our video library.
The Cunard Center’s Faculty Lunch Series foregrounds cutting-edge research by UCLA faculty and other local scholars, affording them a forum for spirited interdisciplinary exchanges within a casual setting.
The Cunard Center’s Video Library is a free, digital repository of cutting-edge lectures delivered by distinguished faculty and scholars at our events. The library is a citable research tool, capturing recent intellectual forays and constituting a novel source of scholarly publication that enhances academic discourse.
