Speaker: Elena SesmaUC Berkeley, Postdoctoral FellowBio:Elena Sesma received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2019 and is currently a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. Elena specializes in historical archaeology, community based methods and engaged anthropology, Black Feminist Theory, and memory studies. Her most recent research focused on an early 19th century […]

Speaker:Marina GallinaroCotsen visiting scholarAbstract:Rock art is one of the most fascinating cultural manifestations of humankind. The integration of rock art studies within the archaeological and anthropological domain faces crucial challenges. The complexity of documentation and publication and lack of reliable dating have hampered its immense potential as an archaeological source. This is particularly true for […]

Speaker: Dr. Carla Hernández GaravitoChancellor’s Postdoctoral FellowDepartment of Anthropology, UC RiversideAbstract:The Inka expansion on the Central Andes brought into the Empire several polities with different histories, traditions, and identities. The increasing pressure to manage diversity and territorial expansion led the Inka to build upon familiarity with their subjects whenever possible. In this presentation, I explore once […]

Archaeology of Ancient Israel Lecture SeriesSpeaker:Avraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University)Moderated by:Dr. Aaron Burke (NELC)Sponsored by:Kershaw Chair for Ancient Eastern Mediterranean StudiesCo-Sponsored by:Department of Near Eastern Languages and CulturesCotsen Institute of ArchaeologyAlan D. Leve Center for Jewish StudiesThe United Monarchy –  the famed kingdom of David and Solomon – is at the center of a heated debate. While […]

Speaker:Kathryn R. Morgan, Ph.D.Oriental Institute Postdoctoral ScholarAssistant Director of the Chicago-Tübingen Expedition to ZincirliUniversity of ChicagoAbstract:Recent excavations at the edge of the upper mound of Zincirli Höyük in Gaziantep province, southeastern Turkey, have discovered important remains of the Middle Bronze II period, destroyed in a conflagration. Zincirli is best known from its Iron Age heyday, […]

Presenters 報告者:1:00-1:30 Kirie Stromberg 益田雾繪 (UCLA 加州大學洛杉磯分校): Beyond Form:Preliminary Thoughts on Music and Visual Abstraction in Early China 早期中國的音樂與視覺抽象化表达1:40-2:20 Gao Jiangtao 高江涛 (CASS 中國社會科學院考古研究所):Comprehensive Analysisof Musical relics Unearthed from Taosi Site 鼍鼓逢逢：陶寺遗址出土乐器综析2:30-3:00 Zhang Wenjie 張聞捷 (Xiamen University 厦门大學) New Thinking on the ChimeBells of Wangsun Gao 對王孫誥編鐘的一些新思考3:10-3:40 Li Guangming 李光明 (UCLA 加州大學洛杉磯分校) The Tonal Structure […]

Speaker:Dr. Michael W. LoveProfessorDepartment of AnthropologyCSU NorthridgeAbstract:The Preclassic Period on the Pacific coast of Guatemala and Chiapas was a dynamic time, beginning with the establishment of the first sedentary villages and ending with the large city-states of the Late Preclassic.  Although royal tombs and stelae with portraits of rulers capture the headlines, household archaeology offers […]

The inaugural event in the Cotsen Speaker Series, this is a two-day program consisting of a talk and panel discussion, that will allow scholars from both UCLA and the wider world to showcase a range of intellectual, theoretical, and research perspectives. Click Here to RSVP  December 5th, 4pm -6pmWitnessing and Translating: The Indigenous/Science ProjectSpeaker: Alison WylieProfessor, University of […]

SPEAKER:Dr. Arlen F. ChaseVisiting ProfessorDept. of AnthropologyPomona CollegeABSTRACT:Perceptions about the ancient Maya have changed significantly in the last decade with the advent of new technologies and as a result of continuous dedicated research that seeks to define their social and political organization. With its ability to penetrate dense tropical canopies, LiDAR has revolutionized the field […]

The UCLA/Getty Conservation Program presents “The man who can read the unreadable,” computer scientist and professor W. Brent Seales, the first speaker in the 50th Anniversary Lecture Series. Currently a Getty Conservation Institute Scholar, Seales and his team have been key to revealing texts on papyri that are too fragile to unroll, such as Homers […]