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...

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.

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...

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...

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.