Pizza Talk: “The Shimmer of Bodies: Aztec Luxury in Context”
Speaker: Dr. Patrick Hajovsky, Associate Professor, Art History, Southwestern UniversityTaking a critical perspective, I argue that Aztec "luxury" objects worn or held on the body linked valor and value to […]
Friday Seminar: “Keepers of Tradition, Harbingers of Change: Tracing Communities of Practice in Greco-Roman Karanis, Egypt”
Speaker: Dr. Sonali Gupta-Agarwal, UCLA Traditions are transmitted through teaching and learning. The manner in which knowledge relating to craft production gets transmitted can help us in understanding the causes behind cultural […]
Pizza Talk: “Rediscovering Masis Blur: A Neolithic Settlement in the Ararat Plain, Armenia”
Speaker: Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky, Ph.D. Candidate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLAThis talk is a summary of field research conducted by Cotsen/UCLA doctoral student Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky at Masis Blur, Armenia, over the […]
Hidden Jewels, Forbidden Paths: Secrets of Rome and Turin
June 20 - July 1, 2017On this trip, Director's Council members saw behind the scenes of the Museo Egizio in Turin, Itlay—the second largest collection of Egyptian antiquities (after Cairo)—and […]
Cuisine and cooking at the crossroads of civilization: new discoveries from Iraqi Kurdistan
Willeke Wendrich, Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, cordially invites Friends of Archaeology members to a special dinner and lecture on October 3, 2017 with Alan Farahani, Post […]
Pizza Talk: “Disability and Age in Ancient Greece: A Case Study”
Speaker: Debby Sneed, PhD Candidate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLAIn this talk, Debby will use literary and archaeological evidence to argue that ancient Greeks notonly tolerated the birth of deformed […]
Pizza Talk: “Digital Buddhism: 3D Modeling and Photogrammetry in the Study of Chinese Buddhist Architecture”
Speaker: Dr. Di Luo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Asia, New York University ShanghaiBuddhist architecture in China since the 11th century has often featured miniature pagodas and pavilions in the interior. […]
Friday Seminar: “New Perspectives on Ancient Trade”
Speaker: Dr. Norman Yoffee, University of MichiganOld Assyrian texts from Mesopotamia, ca. 1950-1750 BCE, shed light on merchants and markets in Mesopotamia and the relationship between merchants and the Old […]
