Video Library

Climate Change along the Silk Road?

Date: April 24, 2025
Event: Global Antiquity Distinguished Speaker Series
Speaker: Sitta von Reden (University of Freiburg)

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Navigating the Nuances of Rethinking Indigenous Histories and Orality

Date: April 11, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Kevin White (University of Toronto)

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Trans-temporal Perspectives on the Moche of Northern Peru: Archaeology, Heritage, and Indigeneity

Date: April 11, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Luis Muro Ynoñán (Field Museum)

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Toward a Critical History of Peruvian Archaeology

Date: April 11, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Henry Tantaleán (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos)

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Relational Ontologies in Archaeological Practice: A Perspective from Animal Matter in Teotihuacan

Date: April 11, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Nawa Sugiyama (University of California, Riverside)

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Building Asia: Buddhist Kingship as a Basis for Defining Asia in Antiquity

Date: April 11, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Stephanie Balkwill (University of California, Los Angeles)

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On the Ideological Functions of Old Chosŏn in the Modern Koreas Today

Date: April 11, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Andrew Logie (University of Helsinki)

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The Use of Quantitative Data in Studying Antiquity: Building Up a Case of Economic Growth in Late Bronze Age China

Date: April 11, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Li Feng (Columbia University)

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Unveiling the Mystery of the First Dynasty: An Integrative Approach to the Archaeology of Early China

Date: April 11, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Li Min (University of California, Los Angeles)

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The Archaeology of the Arsacid World: The Material Consequences of Being a Stepchild of History

Date: April 10, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Lara Fabian (University of California, Los Angeles)

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Near Eastern Archaeology in an Age of Durable Disorder

Date: April 10, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Aaron Burke (University of California, Los Angeles)

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Cross-Cultural Comparison in Egyptology

Date: April 10, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Ellen Morris (Barnard College)

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Connected Pasts, Modern Entanglements: Current Problems and Future Directions for Assyriology

Date: April 10, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Gina Konstantopoulos (University of California, Los Angeles)

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Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race

Date: April 10, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speakers: Hannah Čulík-Baird (University of California, Los Angeles) & Mathias Hanses (The Pennsylvania State University)

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From Decline to a Deeply Connected World: The Southern Levant between the Mediterranean and the Early Indian Ocean Trade

Date: April 10, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Boris Chrubasik (University of Toronto)

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The Epistemics of Mass Enslavement: Outlining a Research Program

Date: April 10, 2025
Event: Whither Global Antiquity? Retrospection and Future Directions
Speaker: Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)

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