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ABSTRACT: The Tang dynasty (618-907 CE) undoubtedly marks a special period ofChinese history for its cultural inclusiveness, marvelous artistic achievements, andunprecedented international influence. This talk will examine a special category of Tangimperial art: the funerary stone sculptures placed in front of the mausolea of emperors andtombs of high-level officials. By looking at the precedents of these finely produced anddeliberately displayed statues, both from Han to Tang, and from East Asia to Inner Asia, Iargue that all the categories of Tang funerary stone sculptures had come into being in aregionalist manner at least since the Southern and Northern Dynasties period (420-589CE), whereas the effort to incorporate these distinct regional traditions reflects this newlyborn empire's ambition of creating a "Culture of Ours."
BIO: Zichao Wang is currently a Ph.D student at the Archaeology InterdepartmentalProgram at UCLA. He graduated from the Chinese University at Hong Kong and McGillUniversity for two masters' degrees. Therefore, he is now a complete historian and a partialarchaeologist. With a focus on the political and cultural history of early China, he has beenwriting broadly on various topics of Chinese history. At UCLA, he attempts to fullyincorporate different sources and approaches to achieve a more comprehensiveunderstanding of Chinese history, which is, inevitably, also a part of world history.
Contact Sumiji Takahashi
Email sutakahashi@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone 310-825-4169
ABSTRACT: Death in the Moche world has traditionally been examined from object-centered perspectives that have favored discourses about hierarchy, status and power. However, such perspectives have left behind discussions about deathscapes and their role in the production of ancestors and the (re)distribution of political power. Based on my excavations at Huaca La Capilla, a monumental structure located in the Late Moche (650-850 CE) cemetery of San José de Moro, Jequetepeque Valley, I examine the dynamic and changing nature of mortuary landscapes and their monuments. I argue that Huaca La Capilla was the locus of body-centered performances that preceded the burial of Moche elite individuals. These performances were, ultimately, involved in the (re)production of myths of Moche ancestrality and particular notions of time, history, and construction of the being that gave political legitimacy to ruling groups in times of deep crisis.
BIO: Luis A. Muro Ynoñán is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a Visiting Lecturer in the UCLA Department of Art History. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Scientist at the Field Museum and a Pre-doctoral Fellow at the Pre-Columbian Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks. He holds a MA and Ph.D. from Stanford University and a BA and Licenciatura from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. As a Peruvian archaeologist, Dr. Muro is broadly interested in the relationships between performance, death, and politics in the ancient Andes, integrating anthropological and performance theory with multi-scalar methods of spatial analysis and absolute dating techniques. He is now leading the Úcupe Cultural Landscape Project in Lambayeque, Peru, a multidisciplinary project that seeks to study the origins of Moche religion in relation to climatic fluctuations in the Andes in the first millennium CE.
Contact Sumiji Takahashi
Email sutakahashi@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone 310-825-4169
This workshop will provide participants with first-hand experience of the complete process of creating, importing and interacting with 3D digital assets in collaborative Virtual Reality. Photogrammetric and LiDAR scans of archaeological contexts and artifacts will be used to walk workshop participants through the process of creating collaborative research spaces in the Metaverse. Metaquest Virtual Reality headsets will be available on site for a limited number of participants. This hybrid workshop will take place in person, online over Zoom, and partially on Spatial.io, a web-based metaverse platform that allows participants to engage with content in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and through their web browser on desktop and mobile devices. Registration is required to be granted access into the virtual presentation space. Those with access to Metaquest Virtual Reality headsets of their own are welcome and encouraged to attend as fully immersed participants for those sections of the workshop. Space is limited to 30 participants; prior registration is required. Registered participants will be contacted closer to the presentation date with detailed instructions and a Zoom link for those joining remotely.
Contact Rachel Schloss
Email rachelschloss@ucla.edu
Phone
Contact Rachel Schloss
Email rachelschloss@ucla.edu
Phone
ABSTACT: The islands of Old Providence and Santa Catalina, located 130 miles off the coast of Nicaragua and around 8.5 square miles in size, have been a center of global trade, resource extraction, and military action since 1629, when the English Puritan venture capitalists of the Providence Island Company —whose shareholders also held stakes in the Virginia Company. The Virginia Company was one of the first to enter the American slave market, beginning in 1619, when their ship, the Treasurer, docked in Virginia several days after the first slaves arrived on the White Lion. The Islands are still occupied by descendants of the original English Puritan colonists, enslaved Africans, and self-
emancipated Africans, who established a coterminous Maroon colony that included peoples of Indigenous and European descent fleeing the colonial industrial complex; and who now identify collectively as Raizal. In her presentation, Dr. Mayfield explores Native Raizal heritage —both tangible and intangible— through the lens of enduring forms of landscape utilization and discrete types of cultural patrimony.
BIO: Dr. Tracie Mayfield is an anthropological archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and teaching professor with research specializations in the archaeologies of colonialism, zooarchaeology, ceramics, heritage studies, and community-led research. She is the Principal Investigator of the Old Providence and Santa Catalina Island (Colombia) Archaeological Project and Co-Director of the San Pedro, Ambergris Caye (Belize) Archaeological Project.
Contact Sumiji Takahashi
Email sutakahashi@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone 310-825-4169
ABSTACT: Renmu (絍木 “reinforcing timber”) is a timber component that was used to build ancient city walls. It is recorded in the early twelfth-century compilation of architectural principles known as Yingzao fashi營造法式 (Principles and Forms of Architectural Constructions). Wendan is willing to share
her stories about how to explore renmu’s function and reconstruct its form by interpreting documents and analyzing similar remains from ancient city sites. And based on the shear strength reduction finite
element technique, she attempts to verify the feasibility of reconstruction using the Abaqus software to analyze the overall stability of the slope in these reconstruction schemes.
BIO: Wendan Wang is from Hunan, China. She received her BA in Archaeology at Jilin University. Her next destination was Nanjing University where she was trained as an architectural archaeologist and obtained an MA. Her doctoral research will focus on Chinese buildings and settlements in the late Neolithic Age.
Renmu (絍木 “reinforcing timber”) is a timber component that was used to build ancient city walls. It is recorded in the early twelfth-century compilation of architectural principles known as Yingzao fashi營造法式 (Principles and Forms of Architectural Constructions). Wendan is willing to share her stories about how to explore renmu’s function and reconstruct its form by interpreting documents and analyzing similar remains from ancient city sites. And based on the shear strength reduction finite element technique, she attempts to verify the feasibility of reconstruction using the Abaqus software to analyze the overall stability of the slope in these reconstruction schemes.
Contact Sumiji Takahashi
Email sutakahashi@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone 310-825-4169
Glenn Wharton
Professor, Department of Art History
Lore and Gerald Cunard Chair,
UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
and
Matthew H. Robb
Mesoamerican Specialist, Library of Congress
invite you to attend
UCLA/Getty Program's Distinguished Speaker Series
featuring
Gala Porras-Kim
speaking on
The weight of a patina of time
(on view at the Fowler through October 29)
Friday, October 6, 2023
11:00 a.m. PT
Live streaming via Zoom
RSVP here
Please submit your questions in advance of the webinar via email to:
hnadworny@support.ucla.edu by Wednesday, October 4 at 12:00 p.m.
Instructions to join the webinar will be provided once your registration
has been confirmed.
About the Speaker: Gala Porras-Kim (b. 1984, Bogotá; lives and works in Los Angeles/London) received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2009 and an MA in Latin American studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012.
Contact
Email hnadworny@support.ucla.edu
Phone
The second Waystation Workshop focuses on the development of inclusive, collaborative, and reciprocal relationships with communities and nations of origin. The presentations, discussions, and lessons from this workshop will contribute to best practices for the Waystation and will serve to introduce concepts and terminology to workshop participants.
During three sessions across two days, we will present and discuss:
- Concepts and case studies for voluntary returns
- Consensus building with communities of origin
- Consensus building with nations of origin
- Long-term strategies for returned objects
Register here
Please complete the registration form at the link above. Once you have registered, a full program and Zoom link will be emailed to you.
Program
September 21
Welcome — Incoming Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Jason De León
Introductory Remarks — Stephen E. Nash
3:00-3:30 pm PST/6:00-6:30 am +1 day China/Philippines
Session #1 - 3:30-5:30 pm PST/6:30-8:30 am +1 day China/Philippines
Introduction to Consensus Building & Community Engagement
Discussants – Stacie Nicole Smith and Landis Smith
Breakfast/Lunch Break - 5:30-6:00 pm PST/8:30-9:00 am China/Philippines
Session #2 - 6:00-8:00 pm PST/9:00-11:00am +1 day China/Philippines
Consensus Building with Nations and Communities
Discussants – Marlon Martin & Zhi Xiaoyong
September 22
Session #3 - 4:30-6:30 pm PST/7:30-9:30 am +1 day China/Philippines
The Stewardship Commitment: Long-Term Care of Returned Objects
Discussants: Fang Hui and Karen Eyre Moshie Ortua-Artiaga
Concluding Session - 6:30-7:00 pm PST/9:30-10:00 am +1 day China/Philippines
All Discussants and Moderators
Contact Zichan Wang
Email waystation@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone
Archaeology and anthropology were once closely related fields of research. Today, they have drifted apart. David Wengrow reflects on his book, co-authored with David Graeber: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, which is an attempt to see what happens when you put them back together again, after a period of mutual estrangement. The results are surprising, and have significant implications across the social sciences, presenting an overall picture of human history and development that is starkly at odds with received theories and conventional wisdom.
June 8, 2023
In-person at the Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum
6pm Lecture
7pm Reception
Email mjacobson@ioa.ucla.edu to RSVP for the in-person lecture and reception (required).
David Wengrow is Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (UCL) and has been a visiting professor at New York University, the University of Auckland, and the University of Freiburg. David has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Africa and the Middle East. He is the author of three books including What Makes Civilization?, and co-author with David Graeber of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
Contact Michelle Jacobson
Email mjacobson@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone
The newest publication from the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Archaeology Outside the Box, intends to make contemporary archaeology germane to the general public as well as researchers in other disciplines. In thirty-one richly illustrated chapters, a variety of projects is presented by an international group of archaeologists, anthropologists, architects, and artists. These aim to broaden the applicability of archaeology by reflecting on archaeological remains in novel ways or addressing contemporary concerns with archaeological theory and research methods. Demonstrating the fascinating and pertinent nature of archaeology, the authors go far beyond its definition as a discipline that unearths obiects of ancient material culture.
June 1, 2023
In-person at the Luskin Conference Center
6pm Lecture
7pm Reception
Online (Zoom)
6pm Lecture
Email mjacobson@ioa.ucla.edu to RSVP for the in-person lecture and reception by May 25 (required) or register for Zoom here.
Hans Barnard has both an MD, and a PhD in archaeology from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Since 1990 he has participated in archaeological field projects throughout the world. He has published more than a hundred articles and book chapters, as well as several books, among which are the edited volumes The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism, with Willeke Wendrich; The History of the Peoples of the Eastern Desert, with Kim Duistermaat; and most recently, Archaeology Outside the Box, all published by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.
Contact Michelle Jacobson
Email mjacobson@ioa.ucla.edu
Phone
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