Lecture Series from Previous Academic Years
Spring 2017
Nezu Ka’ichirō's Buddha Heads, Yamanaka Sadajirō, and Tianlongshan's Sculptural Diaspora
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
The Medieval Treasury across Frontiers and Generations: The Kingdom of León-Castilla in the Context of Muslim-Christian Interchange (c. 1050-1200)
Cosponsor: Departments of History and Art & Archaeology, Princeton; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid
2016-17
The Visualization of Political Rhetoric
in the Reign of Nerva
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Colloquium: The Modernity of Sculpture
9:00 am–5:00 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
Xenophon in a Pontic Landscape: Settlement Models for the Iron Age in the Kırkgeçit çayı Drainage, Sinop (Turkey)
Africa and Europe: Rethinking Medieval and Early Modern Artistic Engagements and Cross-Currencies
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
A History of Detail
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Abydos, Egypt: Landscape of Kings, Landscape of Myth
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Oil, Amber, Fire, Smoke: Greek Art beyond Materials
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Once again, Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
Alberti's Eye - The Body of Vision
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Council of the Humanities
Michelangelo and paper as palimpsest: drawings, letters, records, and sonnets
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Investigating a Minoan Coastal Town in East Crete: New Work at Palaikastro, 2012-16
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Agents of Changes in the Material Culture of the Empire: Technical and Aesthetical Innovations at the Abbasid Court
Symposium: The Berlin Painter and his World
9:00 am–5:00 pm ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
Christian Time in Early Modern Europe
http://history.princeton.edu/news-events/events/christian-time-early-modern-europe
9:00 am–5:00 pm ∙ 211 Dickinson Hall
Pathos, Symptom, Expression: Laocoon in Europe, 16th to 20th Centuries
From Ife to Ifranji: Materials in a World System, circa 1300
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
2015-16
Cazzon da mulo - Wit and Irony in Michelangelo da Caravaggio’s “Boy Bitten by a Lizard”
106 McCormick Hall, 4:30 pm
Shared Romanitas: Roman Imperial Cameos in the Byzantine East and Latin West
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
The Shape of Byzantine Art in the Index of Christian Art
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
Teaching Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century: Text and Image
Symposium106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Department of Philosophy, Department of History
Hauarra: A Trajanic Auxiliary Fort on the Arabian Frontier in Jordan
106 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
Visualizing Dunhuang
SymposiumMcCosh 50
Cosponsor: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Henry Luce Foundation, Dunhuang Foundation, Buddhist Studies Workshop, Program in East Asian Studies
The Problem(?) of Carolingian Gospel Narrative
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
Aphrodisias in Caria: Recent Work, New Finds
Problems of Painterliness in Early Medieval Art: The Case of Ottonian Cologne
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
106 McCormick Hall, 9:00 am–5:00 pm
Cosponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
The Agency of Models: Holy Sepulchres, Hagia Sophias, Jerusalems
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
Making Faces in Medieval Iberia
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
The Princeton Index's "Medium" and the Immaterial Nature of Digital Work: Manuscripts Reassessed
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
Images and Codes: The Problem of Reading Art
Graduate Student Symposium in East Asian Art101 McCormick Hall, 9:30 am–5:30 pm
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art
Black-Figure on the Black Sea: Athenian Pottery from Berezan
106 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
East Meets West? Cosmas Indicopleustes’ Christian Topography and the Codex Amiatinus
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
Actuality, Potentiality, and Renaissance Classicism
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
The Meaning of Early Greek Images (11th-7th Centuries BC)
106 McCormick Hall, 4:30 pm
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
Inventing Lutheran Iconography: Ornament, Style and the Passion
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
106 McCormick Hall, 9:30 am - 5:30pm
Cosponsor: Department of Art & Archaeology, the Society of Fellows, and the Council of Humanities
Reading Mile High: Frank Lloyd Wright Takes on Chicago 1956
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
Plus Ça Change. . . ? The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography
Index of Christian Art ConferenceBetts Auditorium, Architecture Building
Cosponsor: Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Program in Medieval Studies, Department of Art and Archaeology, and Steward Fund in the Council of the Humanities
Eternal Obelisk: Egyptian, Christian, Modern
11:00 AM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
2014-15
The Art of Conversion: Kongo Christian Visual Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic World
106 McCormick Hall, 4:30 pm
Cosponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Center for African American StudiesMore Info
Discussion
105 Chancellor Green, 4:45 pm
Ma kisi nsi: Kongo a Sansala Art
106 McCormick Hall, 4:30 pm
Cosponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Center for African American StudiesMore Info
Kongo or Congo? Violence, Modernism, and the Visual Unconscious of Belgian Colonialism, 1897-2013
101 McCormick Hall, 5:30 pm
Cosponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Center for African American StudiesMore Info
Four Moments Revisited: Kongo in the American Imaginary
106 McCormick Hall, 4:30 pm
Cosponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Center for African American StudiesMore Info
Reconstructing Excavated Manuscripts
104 McCormick Hall, 10:00 am
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art and Program in East Asian StudiesMore Info
Discussion
105 Chancellor Green, 4:45 pm
Cosponsor: Princeton University Art Museum and Tang Center for East Asian Art
Raised to Glory, Crowned with Gold: German Nuns and Their Statues in the Late Middle Ages
McCormick 101, 5:00 pm
More than Dirt: Princeton and Archaeology
103 Scheide Caldwell House, 1:30-4:00 pm
Cosponsor: Seeger Center for Hellenic StudiesMore Info
Palaeography, Phonology, and Methodological Reflections
104 McCormick Hall, 10:00 am
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art and Program in East Asian StudiesMore Info
Secondary Literature in the Reading of Bronze Inscriptions
104 McCormick Hall, 10:00 am
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art and Program in East Asian StudiesMore Info
Discovering Icons at Sinai: From Uspenskij to Weitzmann
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
A New Look: Sinai and Its Icons in Light of the Digitization of the Weitzmann Archive
Conference
Discussion
111 East Pyne Hall, 4:45 pm
A Short History of Rome's Pantheon
Rebuilt in Antiquity, Reused in the Middle Ages, Rediscovered in the Renaissance
106 McCormick Hall, 11:00 am
2013-14
Pictorial Citation in Song China: Theory and Practice
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art
Obsolescence, History, and the Contradictions of Sustainability
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Contemporary Islamic Art after September 11
Orientations of Renaissance Art
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
Malevich's Nervous System
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
Discussion
Princeton University Art Museum, 5:00 pm
Paul Klee, Wilhelm Hausenstein, and the 'Problem of Style'
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
Discussion
Chancellor Green 105, 4:30 pm
Neither Breakthrough nor Breakdown: Episodes From a History of Medieval Abstraction
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
Discussion
Chancellor Green 105, 4:45 pm
Constructions of Difference in the Spanish Painting of Siglo de Oro: Joseph's Coat and Vulcan's Forge by Velázquez
106 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
Ancient Egyptian Pictorial Representation
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
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2012-13
Recognition: Theme and Meta-Theme in Northern Renaissance Art
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam, and Beyond
Impossible Design: Porsena's Tomb and French Visionary Architecture
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Up Close and Far Away: Artists, Memorialization and Uganda's Troubled Past
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
The Aesthetic Turn: A New Concept of 'Theory of Art'
4:30 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Program in European Cultural Studies, Department of French and Italian
Family Matters--The Strange Case of the 'Poetic Ideas' Scroll Attributed to Mi Youren and Sima Huai
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art
How to Occupy an Image
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
Why Art History Matters: Politics, Ethics and Objects
Friday 8 March, 5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Saturday 9 March, 9:30 am, 106 McCormick Hall
Caravaggio: A Case Study in Art Historical Methodology
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
The Ubiquitous Exhibition: Magazines, Museums and the Reproducible Exhibition after World War II
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
It Doesn't Look Like Leonardo: Science, Connoisseurship, and Circumstance in the Attribution of Works of Art
2011-12
Vantage Points: Andeans, Europeans, and the Arts of Construction in Colonial Quito
6:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
First under Heaven: Korean Ceramics of the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392)
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art
Postcolonial Urbanisms and the Uncertain Majority
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Figuring the Renaissance: Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo, and Their Critics
The Court of Saint Peter's: An Early Christian Church Atrium as a Place of Memory
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
Model Soviets
5:00 pm, 101 McCormick Hall
At Death's Door
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
In Art, More Alive than in Reality: Imagining Objects in Ancient Greece
5:00 pm, 101 McCormick Hall
Preaching, Burying and Building in the Italian Medieval City
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
March 30, 5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
March 31, 9:30 am, 106 McCormick Hall
Crowded Walls: 20th-Century Nostalgia for 19th-Century Installation
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Art and Science in America: Intersections and Collisions
3:00 pm, 101 McCormick Hall
2010-11
Paradise Lost-Paradise Regained, Tomatso Shomei's Photographic Engagement with Okinawa
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Paul Strand and the Cold War
4:30 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Alassa: A Late Bronze Age Town on the Mountains of Alasiya, Cyprus
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
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Being There: Photography as Habitation in Photo-texts by Wright Morris
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
King and Clown: Mimesis in Pre-Columbian Maya Art
4:30 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University Art Museum
The Practical Logic of Style and Memory in Early First Millennium Levantine Ivories
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
6:00 pm Friday, 101 McCormick Hall
10 am Saturday, 101 McCormick Hall
New Faces of Nature: Colossal Buddhas of Sichuan
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
