Pizza Talk

VIRTUAL PIZZA TALK: Cultural Heritage? A Personal Tale from Tell Mozan in Syria

Dr. Giorgio Buccellati, Research Professor and Director, Mesopotamian Lab, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Dr. Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Visiting Professor, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Wednesday February 24th, 12:00pm (PT)

Urkesh was one of the first cities in history, dating back to the fourth millennium. It is, today, a large cultural hill, known as Tell Mozan, in northeastern Syria, an area ravaged by war.

VIRTUAL PIZZA TALK: Indigenous Peoples, Iberian Colonists, and Culture Contact: Architectural Dialogues at the Berry Site, Upper Catawba Valley, Western North Carolina, 1400-1600

Dr. Chris Rodning
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
Wednesday February 17th, 12:00pm (PT)

VIRTUAL PIZZA TALK: Community-based Practice in Cultural Heritage Conservation: The Kamehameha I Sculpture of Hawai’i

Dr. Glenn Wharton
Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair, UCLA/Getty Program in the
Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Wednesday February 10th, 12:00pm (PT)

VIRTUAL PIZZA TALK: Infrastructures of Race and War: An Indigenous Archaeology of Insurrection

Dr. Tiffany Fryer
Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Society of Fellows, Princeton University
Wednesday January 27th, 12:00pm (PT)

Register for this Cotsen Virtual Pizza Talk here! You will receive instructions on viewing the talk after registering. 

VIRTUAL PIZZA TALK: Material, Function, and Colonialism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Akan Copper-Alloy Gold Weights

Marci J. Burton, Mellon Conservation Fellow, Fowler Museum; Carlee Forbes, Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Fowler Museum; Erica P. Jones, Associate Curator of African Arts, Fowler Museum
Wednesday, December 9th, 12:00pm - 1:00pm PT