Lorenzo D’Alfonso | After the Hittites: Iron Age Central Anatolia and Niğde Kınık Hoyuk (2019–2024)

Kaplan 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

This term the Oxford Anatolian Seminar will exceptionally be held at UCLA (co-convenors: Philomen Probert, Michele Bianconi, Anthony Yates). The first meeting will be held on Friday, February in Kaplan 365. The speaker for the event is Lorenzo D’Alfonso (ISAW, New York University), who will be presenting a lecturer entitled: “After the Hittites: Iron Age...

Michele Bianconi | How does one ‘decipher’ a language that is perfectly readable? The joys and sorrows of Messapic philology

Dodd 232 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

PIES grad sem will meet for Week 9 on Thursday, March 6th (not the usual Wednesday) between 6-8pm in Dodd 232 and on Zoom at the following link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh. This week, we are delighted to welcome Michele Bianconi (Departmental Lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics at Wolfson College, University of Oxford) for a presentation titled "How does one 'decipher' a language that is perfectly readable? The...

Relative Clauses in Hittite and Indo-European | A conversation between Thomas Motter (University of California, Los Angeles) and Krishnan Ram-Prasad (University of Oxford)

Kaplan 365 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA

This term the Oxford Anatolian Seminar will exceptionally be held at UCLA (co-convenors: Philomen Probert, Michele Bianconi, Anthony Yates). The second meeting will be held at 9 AM PST (5 PM GMT) on Friday, March 7th in Kaplan 365. This meeting will be a conversation between Thomas Motter (University of California, Los Angeles) and Krishnan...

Jesse Lundquist | Once More “Der griechische verbalaccent”

Dodd 232 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

This upcoming Monday 3/10 we will have a special lecture from Jesse Lundquist (Princeton University). His talk is entitled: Once More "Der griechische verbalaccent". The talk will take place in Dodd 232 at 4:00 PM. We hope to see you there.

AOS Practice Talks | PIES Grad Seminar

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

PIES grad sem will meet for Week 10 on Wednesday, March 12 between 6-8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at the following link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh. This week, we will have three practice talks for AOS 2025 (schedule): John Clayton: "Arundhatī́ 'Wound-Setter': Parasitism, Medicine, & Sexuality in Ancient India" Anahita Hoose: "Anti-Sacrifice Propaganda in Jain Narrative Literature" Anthony Yates: "The Ablaut of Hittite ḫi-Verbs in –(a)i– and a New...

AOS Practice Talks | PIES Grad Seminar

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

PIES Grad Sem will start its spring iteration of meetings on Tuesday, April 1 between 6-8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh   This week, we will pick up where we left off last quarter with more AOS practice talks:    Alex Roy will give a presentation titled "Quasi-causative circumlocutions in early Vedic".   Elisa Migliaretti will give us...

Aidan Ackerman | Hercules Lustrator Orbis

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

We will resume our graduate seminar meetings on Tuesday, April 15 between 6-8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh. This week, we will hear from Aidan Ackerman with a presentation titled "Hercules Lustrator Orbis". As usual, the seminar will be accompanied by food and drinks.

Block Seminar 2025 | Session 1, Khotanese and Ossetic

Dodd 248 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

We are excited to welcome Ron Kim as our 2025 Block Seminar speaker. The first session will cover Khotanese and Ossetic. A full schedule can be found here. For those wishing to participate on Zoom, you can join here.

Block Seminar 2025 | Professor Ronald Kim

Dodd Hall 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

We are excited to welcome Professor Ronald Kim of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan as our 2025 Block Seminar speaker. A full schedule can be found below: For those wishing to participate on Zoom, you can join here. We hope to see you there!

Block Seminar 2025 | Session 2, Khotanese and Ossetic

Dodd 232 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

We are excited to welcome Ron Kim as our 2025 Block Seminar speaker. The second session will cover Khotanese and Ossetic. A full schedule can be found here. For those wishing to participate on Zoom, you can join here.