Please join us for a casual conversation led by Getty curatorial assistants Judith Barr and Nicole Budrovichon Friday, Feb. 26th at 1PM via Zoom. This session will present case studies, tracing the voyage of a mosaic from France and the serendipitous discovery of an Etruscan cinerary urn in a Pittsburgh department store! All are undergraduate students are...
Please join us for a casual conversation led by Getty conservators Leslie Rainer and Thomas Roby on Friday, March 5th at 4PM via Zoom. Join us as Getty conservators Thomas Roby and Leslie Rainer discuss their work to preserve Roman wall paintings and mosaics on site! All are undergraduate students are welcome! To join the discussion, please access...
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Please join us for a casual conversation led by 51b’s TA Carly Pope on Friday, March 12th at 3PM via Zoom. Using the example of Rome's 'eighth hill', this session will examine the kinds of data pottery convey, how they were made, used, and discarded, as well as what they can tell us about trade. To conclude the...
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Graduate Workshop April 7th - "οὐ σάφα εἰδώς: Agency, Knowledge, and the Defense of Ignorance in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and the Aeneid" by Ben Davis The UCLA Classics Graduate Workshop is a bi-weekly seminar for graduate students in Classics and related fields; the purpose of the workshop is to provide a venue in...
The 2021 Annual Joan Palevsky Lecture will be a Departmental Roundtable Panel, featuring a discussion among members of the UCLA Classics Department of plagues in antiquity, including the plagues of 5th century Athens, Antonine Rome and Justinian. In addition to discussing medical, literary, historical, and archaeological sources, we will also consider the nature of the...
Watch the recorded Palevsky Lecture here. The 2021 Annual Joan Palevsky Lecture was a Departmental Roundtable Panel that featured a discussion among members of the UCLA Classics Department of plagues in antiquity, including the plagues of 5th century Athens, Antonine Rome and Justinian. In addition to discussing medical, literary, historical, and archaeological sources, the panel...
