Global Antiquity

The Andean Working Group presents "Materiality of Wak'as: Between History and Archaeology at Sacsayhuaman, Cuzco" by Peter Kaulicke, Professor in the Humanities Department at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Registration is required. Register here. This event is co-sponsored by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and the UCLA Latin American Institute. For additional information, please contact Alba Menéndez Pereda...

It is often noted how the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed our understanding of ancient Judaism, radically expanding our evidence for Jews and Judaism prior to the rise of Christianity. Yet this material also stands as a striking reminder of how much of the literary heritage of Jewish antiquity has been lost to...

Drawing on her in-progress book project on Forgetting, this seminar will explore the place of memory and forgetting in the reception of Second Temple Judaism, revisiting the supposed Rabbinic retreat from “history” after the Roman destruction of the Temple in 70 CE and exploring Christian and Jewish contestation over pre-70 Jewish pasts, from antiquity to...