Lecture Series from Previous Academic Years
2018–19
Index of Medieval Art ∙ Open House
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
McCormick Hall, A Level

Painting Etruscan Tombs and Temples
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
Electric Design: Light, Labor and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising
5:00 pm ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Mindmapping: The Diagram Paradigm in the Middle Ages – and Beyond
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

The Arid Negev Highlands (Southern Israel) in the Iron Age: The Impact of the Exact and Life Sciences
12:00 pm ∙ 103 McCormick Hall
Please RSVP to same@princeton.edu
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
Delacroix's Lyric Form
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

Jerusalem in Biblical Times: Comments on the Archaeology and History of Jerusalem, ca. 1350-100 BCE
5:30 pm ∙ Institute for Advanced Study
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
The Princeton Battlefield: Public Archaeology Day
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Princeton Battlefield State Park


Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) methods to map and evaluate buried and architectural remains: examples from around the world
4:30 pm ∙ Bowen Hall 222

Location TBD ∙ 9:00 am - 7:00 pm

Architecture, Ornament and the Qur'an Fragments from the Mosque of San'a' in Yemen
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
How German Communists Invented French Radical Photography: Regards and Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (1928-1936)
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces
Monica Manolescu (University of Strasbourg)
Joshua Kotin (Department of English)
Aaron Shkuda (Princeton-Mellon Initiative)

The Princeton Garrett 6 Evangelists Revisited
5:00 pm ∙ 101 McCormick Hall

Subjects Put to the Test. Learning Exercises in Contemporary Art
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

Excavations at a Forgotten Female Pharaoh's "Temple of Millions of Years"
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
Albums of Ordinary Faces: Small-size Portraits from Painters' Studios in Late Imperial China
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: East Asian Studies Program
Careers in Arts
An alumni panel discussion for students only.
6:00 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

Art and Global Psychological Modernity
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (c.1300-c.1550)
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: PIIRS, SHERA, The Department of Art & Archaeology, the International Center of Medieval Art, The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
The Black Sphinxes of Tanis
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

Piranesi's Colossal Candelabra, Totem Poles and Other Varieties of Zoomorphism in the Age of Neoclassicism
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

Art and its Institutions: A View from London's Somerset House
5:00 pm ∙ 101 McCormick Hall

Illuminating Genji: A Lecture on The Tale of Genji Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: East Asian Studies Program
The Building Industry of Imperial Rome
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

"No Woman's Land": A 1929 Expedition to Mount Athos and Meteora
4:30pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

"No Woman's Land": A 1929 Expedition to Mount Athos and Meteora
1:00pm ∙ 106 Mccormick Hall

The Meanings of Museum Display
10:00am–11:15am
101 McCormick Hall
Reception to follow

Tabella Picta: Dedicatory Paintings in Greek and Roman Religion
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

Building Process and Regola D'arte: A Customized Approach to the Restoration of Historic Masonry
4:30 pm ∙ 222 Bowen Hall
Cosponsor: Heritage Structures Lab
The Auctioneer's Genre: Digital Approaches to Category Construction and the Rhetoric of the 18th Century Art Market
4:30 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Visual Resources and The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton

Critical Art Historical Data Visualization
10:00 am–1:30 pm 104 McCormick Hall
This workshop will introduce the use of mapping, network analysis, and other data visualization methods in art historical research. Using provenance data from the Getty Research Institute, attendees will learn how to use the freely-available Palladio platform, and will also learn how to critically assess the decisions behind a dataset generated from archival sources.
Lunch Included
Cosponsor: Visual Resources and The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton
The Art of Assemblage: Decorating for Seasons and Status
4:30 pm ∙ 101 McCormick Hall

The Art of Assemblage: Auspicious Elegance and Erudition on Display
106 McCormick Hall

Present Tense: The Iconology of Time
4:30 pm ∙ 101 McCormick Hall

9:00 am to 5:15 pm ∙ 101 McCormick Hall

2017-18
The Lost Lives of Greek Vases
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
Archaeology and the Early Japanese State
“State Formation and the Introduction of Buddhism to Japan: An Archaeological Perspective”
Tetsuro Hishida ∙ Kyoto Prefectural University
“Center and Periphery in Early State Formation in Japan”
Ken’ichi Sasaki ∙ Meiji University
RSVP required. RSVP to govantes@princeton.edu
12:00 PM - 1:20 PM ∙ 103 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: East Asian Studies
The Index at 100:
Iconography In A New Century
101 McCormick Hall

Cultural Histories of “Orientalizing” Crete
1:30-4:20 PM ∙ McCormick 104
Open to Princeton faculty and graduate students only
RSVP required. RSVP to nta@princeton.edu

Rethinking “Pictorialism”: American Art and Photography from 1895 to 1925
101 McCormick Hall

Unraveling the Mysteries of Jan van Eyck’s Late Paintings
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall

Imperial Visual Propaganda: Claims of Legitimacy in the Byzantine Paris Psalter
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall

December 2, 2017
After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the 10-11th Centuries

Courting Failure in the Arab Hall
12:00 PM-1:30 PM ∙ Green Hall, 2N10

1973; or the Arche of Neoliberalism
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

A Short History of “Black Painting”
(Hei hua): A Counter Tradition in Chinese Art
4:30 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art
Postclassicisms: Archaeology
Participants Include: Brooke Holmes, Joshua Billings, Dan-el Padilla Peralta
RSVP required. RSVP to eileenrobinson@princeton.edu

The Heart's Double
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

Urban Gardening in Early Medieval Italy
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America and the Program in Medieval Studies
Subverting the Façade: Paris Architecture between Haussmann and Radical Modernism
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall

On the magnitude of the gods in materialist theology, epic poetry, and Greek art
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

Velazquez, Aesop, and War
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
“The bullets flew about our ears like handfuls of gravel stones”
Archaeology and the Preservation of Battlefields of the American War of Independence
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
Mecca’s Perspective as Symbolic Form
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

Crowd Wisdom: Three Scholars Take on the Multitudes
Bonnie Bassler ∙ Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair Department of Molecular Biology
Bridget Alsdorf ∙ associate professor of Art and Archaeology
Göran Blix ∙ associate professor of French and Italian
4:30 PM ∙ Princeton University Art Museum
Cosponsor: Humanities Council and PUAM
Readings Lectures Performances
accompanying the exhibition
Hanne Darboven's Address — Place and Time
1:30 – 7:30 PM
207 East Pyne Building, 106 McCormick Hall, Princeton University Art Museum
Event Poster and Schedule (pdf)
Exhibition Information (pdf)
Cosponsor: Department of Art & Archaeology, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Department of German, and the Program in European Cultural Studies
Islamic Art, Armenian Art: Connections across Religions
4:30 PM ∙ Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
The Origins of Art, or Going Back to Old Lascaux
11:00AM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall

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

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
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
More Info
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


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
