The Andean Working Group presents "Kubler in Cuzco: Shaping Architectural Modernity After the 1950 Earthquake" by Dr. Lucia Allais, Associate Professor in the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
Registration is required for in-person and virtual participation. Register at tinyurl.com/AWGAllais
The 2025 Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Graduate Student Conference centers on the theme of “Plural Geographies: exploring Alternative Ecologies and navigating through the Field.” This topic is meant to provide a platform for alternative approaches to archaeological methods. With this year’s theme, the conference organizing committee encourages graduate students to reflect, explore, and challenge the field of archaeology and related fields, especially through spatial, placebased, land-based, ecological, or geographical means, construed broadly.
This event has reached full capacity and is no longer accepting reservations - please email outreach@ioa.ucla.edu for information about future events.
Visit the labs, participate in a variety of activities including dig boxes, pottery-making, rock art, photobooth, and more!
The Andean Working Group presents "Beyond the Horizon: Pericentric Complexity in the Chavín Phenomenon at Atalla, Peru" by Dr. Michelle Young, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.
Registration is required for in-person and virtual participation.
Andean Working Group is pleased to announce Dr. Vladimir Gil Ramón's talk titled "Andean Environmental Conflicts, Risks, Disaster, and Development in the Anthropocene." Dr. Gil Ramón is a faculty member in the Department of Social Sciences and Environmental Development Master's Program at PUCP (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). His research explores relationships between mining industries, the nation-state, and environmental risk, with publications including the 2020 book Fighting for Andean Resources.
Cotsen Advanced Seminar, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
October 24–26, 2024
Organized by
Aaron A. Burke, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Li Min, Anthropology/East Asian Languages and Cultures
The Andean Working Group presents Making a House: The mutual upbringing (crianza) of architecture and people in Andean highland pastoralism (Susques, Jujuy, Argentina) with Dr. Jorge Tomasi from CONICET - Laboratorio de Arquitecturas Andinas y Construcción con Tierra, National University of Jujuy.
A virtual panel discussion organized by Professor Ioanna Kakoulli, Acting Director, UCLA SNF Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
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Please join us for the 10th biannual Cotsen Institute of Archaeology GSAA Graduate Archaeology Research Conference. This year's theme: 'Plural Geographies: exploring Alternative Ecologies and navigating through the Field' will highlight interdisciplinary global research focused on themes of geography, space, and place.