Events

Special Considerations

For questions regarding any event contact Mo Chen. To request accommodations for a disability, please contact Mo Chen 5 days prior to the event. Events are open to the public unless otherwise indicated. This page has the most up-to-date information so please check regularly.

Contributions to and/or sponsorship of any event do not constitute a departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program, speakers, or views presented.

All Upcoming Events

Troy and Gordion: An Excavator’s Perspective on Two Legendary Sites in Anatolia
Lunch talk ∙ RSVP requested by December 4
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 12:00 pm
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building 144
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of Classics
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
The Intelligent Hand: From Hellenistic Epigram to the Hoby Cups
A&A Lecture Series
Thursday, February 27, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
A&A Featured Event
Architecture According to Artists ∙The Intersection of Art and Architectural Practice in Renaissance Italy
Lecture
Monday, March 24, 2025, 12:00 pm
Location
TBA
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Program in Italian Studies
Fictions of Capital: Extracting, Liquidating, and Fabricating Islamic Ceramics for a Global Market
A&A Lecture Series
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
A&A Featured Event
From Science to Narrative: Pottery Production and Social Dynamics in Archaic Rome
Lecture - RSVP requested
Friday, March 28, 2025, 12:00 pm
Location
Scheide Caldwell House 209
Speaker
Sponsor
Program in the Ancient World
Writing & Women Calligraphers in East Asia
Workshop convened by Hui-Wen Lu *03 and Cheng-hua Wang
Friday, April 4, 2025
Location
TBA
Speakers
Sponsors
  • East Asian Studies Program
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Tang Center for East Asian Art
A&A Featured Event
Archive Archaeology: The Invisible Hands of Colonial-Era Excavations in the Middle East
AIA Ettinghausen Lecture
Monday, April 7, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
A&A Featured Event
The world in between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa ∙Telling the story through museum artifacts
AIA Thompson Lecture
Monday, April 14, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
A&A Featured Event
The Eco-History of Print: Dürer’s Woodblocks
Robert Janson-La Palme *76 Lecture
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 5:00 pm
Location
TBA
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
A&A Featured Event
Decolonizing May ’68: The Art of Protest in Post-Imperial London and Paris
A&A Lecture Series
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
A&A Featured Event
Workshop ∙ Connecting Histories: the Princeton and Mount Athos Legacy
Invitation only; Not a public event
Monday, April 28, 2025
Location
TBA
Speakers
Sponsor
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
Early Modern Ms. Fortune
James F. Haley '50 Memorial Lecture
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 5:00 pm
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
A&A Featured Event
A&A Reunions Lecture
Friday, May 23, 2025, 11:00 am
Location
TBA
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
A&A Featured Event

A&A Lecture Series

The Intelligent Hand: From Hellenistic Epigram to the Hoby Cups
Feb 27, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Fictions of Capital: Extracting, Liquidating, and Fabricating Islamic Ceramics for a Global Market
Mar 27, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speaker
Decolonizing May ’68: The Art of Protest in Post-Imperial London and Paris
Apr 24, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker

Haley ’50 Memorial Lectures

The Haley Lecture Series was endowed in 1989 by William R. Haley, Class of 1945, in honor and memory of his late brother, James F. Haley, Class of 1950.

Will Haley was a philosophy major at Princeton, and his brother was a history major. Both brothers earned law degrees from Harvard. Will served for many years as legislative counsel to the late Senator John S. Cooper (Kentucky) and was a National Transportation Safety Board member.

Neither brother majored in art history, but both took several courses in the department. Will Haley credits these courses with giving him “in later years of travel a layman’s interest in art and architecture which (he) would never have had without the exposure of McCormick Hall.”

Early Modern Ms. Fortune
Apr 29, 2025, 5:00 pm
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speaker
The Pastel from Mars
May 1, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speaker
Decolonial Abstraction: Frank Bowling’s Atlantic Errantry
Sep 30, 2021, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Were They Enslaved? A New Look at Maya Figurines
Dec 4, 2019, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Art and its Institutions: A View from London's Somerset House
Apr 15, 2019, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Pathos, Symptom, Expression: Laocoon in Europe, 16th to 20th Centuries
Apr 11, 2017, 5:00 pm
Location
McCormick Hall
Speaker
Reading Mile High: Frank Lloyd Wright Takes on Chicago 1956
Apr 27, 2016, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Contemporary Islamic Art after September 11
Nov 20, 2013
Speaker
At Death's Door
Dec 14, 2011, 5:00 pm
Speaker

Janson-La Palme Lectures

The Robert Janson-La Palme *76 Visiting Professorship and Conference was endowed in 2002 in honor of Robert Janson-La Palme by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lillian Marks.

Robert Janson-La Palme, professor emeritus of art history at Washington College in Maryland, received his B.A. from Brown University in 1952 and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1976, studying under Professors Millard Meiss and John Rupert Martin.

This endowment was established to bring a visiting scholar and teacher of national and international stature to Princeton to teach and conduct other scholarly activities, primarily at the graduate level, in European art of the period 1200–1800 A.D.

Janson-La Palme *76 Workshop: Rubens in 21st-Century Perspectives
May 3, 2024, 8:30 am
Location
Green Hall
Speakers
Metamorphic Matter: Elemental Imagery in Early Modern Art
Apr 5, 2024, 9:15 am
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speakers
Janson-La Palme Conference ∙ The Lure of the Machine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, April 14–15
Apr 14, 2023, 9:30 am
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speakers
Veracity and Artifice in Baroque Spain: Rubens, Velázquez, and the place of armor in the visual celebration of Philip IV of Spain's kingship
Apr 20, 2022, 5:00 pm
Location
Hybrid | Aaron Burr 219 for PU ID holders only
Speaker
Francisco Goya and the Problem of Political Art
Feb 19, 2020, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Unraveling the Mysteries of Jan van Eyck’s Late Paintings
Oct 24, 2017, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Once again, Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I
Dec 7, 2016, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Actuality, Potentiality, and Renaissance Classicism
Mar 23, 2016, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Raised to Glory, Crowned with Gold: German Nuns and Their Statues in the Late Middle Ages
Mar 25, 2015, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
It Doesn't Look Like Leonardo: Science, Connoisseurship, and Circumstance in the Attribution of Works of Art
Apr 15, 2013
Speaker
Figuring the Renaissance: Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo, and Their Critics
Nov 16, 2011, 5:00 pm
Speaker

Weitzmann Memorial Lectures

The Kurt Weitzmann Memorial Lecture Series in Late Antique, Early Christian, Byzantine, and Early Medieval Art was endowed by a bequest from the estate of Professor Kurt Weitzmann and Josepha Weitzmann-Fiedler.

Kurt Weitzmann joined Princeton University’s Department of Art and Archaeology in 1935 and spent the remainder of his scholarly career there and at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he was a permanent member of the School of Historical Studies. In 1938, he began his long association with Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University’s research center for Byzantine studies, where he presented the paper “Principals of Byzantine Book Illumination” even before the center was fully established. Always interested in the relationship between text and images, Weitzmann’s first major project at Princeton was preparing a corpus of illustrated manuscripts of the Septuagint, in collaboration with his Princeton colleagues Charles Rufus Morey and Albert M. Friend, Jr. His magnum opus in this series, The Byzantine Octateuchs, coauthored with Massimo Bernabò, was published posthumously in 1999. Among his other influential books is Illustrations in Roll and Codex, a distillation of his principles of manuscript interpretation, which appeared in 1947 and was later revised and reissued in 1970.

In 1956, he began his long association with the ancient Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai, where he co-directed a research expedition with George H. Forsyth, Jr., of the University of Michigan. This led to Weitzmann’s seminal publication of the monastery’s unparalleled collection of early Byzantine icons in 1976, followed by a volume on the manuscripts, The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, volume 1, From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century, coauthored with George Galavaris, which appeared in 1990.

Weitzmann was responsible for training many of the leading medievalists of the next generation, including Robert P. Bergman, Lorenz Eitner, George Galavaris, Oleg Grabar, Thomas Hoving, Herbert Kessler, W. Eugene Kleinbauer, Robert Koch, John Rupert Martin, James Snyder, Paul Underwood, and Gary Vikan.

Kurt Weitzmann was conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Princeton University at his bedside shortly before his death in June of 1993.

“To put back all the things people cluttered up...
Nov 10, 2023, 4:30 pm
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Index of Medieval Art
A Glass Dream. Byzantine Wall Mosaics and the Alchemy of Making
May 12, 2022, 5:00 pm
Location
A71 Louis A Simpson and Zoom
Speaker
Talking to a Wall: Social Change and Public Communication in Late Antiquity
Mar 9, 2020, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
The Princeton Garrett 6 Evangelists Revisited
Mar 11, 2019, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Imperial Visual Propaganda: Claims of Legitimacy in the Byzantine Paris Psalter
Nov 14, 2017, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons
Oct 11, 2016, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Agency of Models: Holy Sepulchres, Hagia Sophias, Jerusalems
Feb 18, 2016, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Discovering Icons at Sinai: From Uspenskij to Weitzmann
Apr 17, 2015, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam, and Beyond
Nov 14, 2012
Speaker
The Court of Saint Peter's: An Early Christian Church Atrium as a Place of Memory
Nov 21, 2011, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker

Index of Medieval Art Events

Architecture According to Artists ∙The Intersection of Art and Architectural Practice in Renaissance Italy
Mar 24, 2025, 12:00 pm
Location
TBA
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Program in Italian Studies
Unruly Iconography? Examining the Unexpected in Medieval Art
Nov 9, 2024
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Sponsors
  • Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Online Workshop: Beginner’s Guide to the Index of Medieval Art Database
Mar 19, 2024, 10:00 am
Speakers
Sponsor
Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology
Online Workshop: Beginner’s Guide to the Index of Medieval Art Database
Nov 14, 2023, 10:00 am
Sponsor
Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology
Whose East? Defining, Challenging, and Exploring Eastern Christian Art
Nov 11, 2023, 9:00 am
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building A17
Sponsors
  • Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
  • The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, with the support of The Erric B. Kertsikoff Fund for Hellenic Studies
Looking at Language
Nov 12, 2022
Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building A17
Sponsor
Index of Medieval Art
Looking at (Index) Language: A Dive into Taxonomy at the Index of Medieval Art
Nov 8, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speakers
Sponsor
Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology
Fragments, Art, and Meaning in the Middle Ages
Nov 6, 2021
Speakers
Sponsor
The Index of Medieval Art
Art, Power, and Resistance in the Middle Ages
Nov 16, 2019
Location
101 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)
Apr 5, 2019
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Open House
Sep 20, 2018, 4:00 pm
Location
McCormick Hall, A Level
The Index at 100: Iconography In A New Century
Oct 14, 2017
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Inventing Lutheran Iconography: Ornament, Style and the Passion
Apr 14, 2016, 4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
East Meets West? Cosmas Indicopleustes’ Christian Topography and the Codex Amiatinus
Mar 21, 2016, 4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Making Faces in Medieval Iberia
Feb 22, 2016, 4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Princeton Index's "Medium" and the Immaterial Nature of Digital Work: Manuscripts Reassessed
Feb 22, 2016, 4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Problems of Painterliness in Early Medieval Art: The Case of Ottonian Cologne
Dec 10, 2015, 4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Problem(?) of Carolingian Gospel Narrative
Nov 19, 2015, 4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Shared Romanitas: Roman Imperial Cameos in the Byzantine East and Latin West
Oct 12, 2015, 4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Shape of Byzantine Art in the Index of Christian Art
Oct 12, 2015, 4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker

Program in Archaeology Events

The world in between: Egypt and Nubia in Africa ∙Telling the story through museum artifacts
Apr 14, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
Archive Archaeology: The Invisible Hands of Colonial-Era Excavations in the Middle East
Apr 7, 2025, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
More Love for the Common Body Sherd: Implications and Challenges of 3D Scanning All Your Pottery
Nov 19, 2024, 3:00 pm
Location
Green Hall 1-C-4C
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America
Reconstruction as a research tool ∙ The Frankfurt Liebieghaus Polychromy research project
Nov 12, 2024, 3:00 pm
Location
Friend Center 113 Convocation room
Speakers
Sponsor
Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
The Early ‘Biography’ of the Temenos on the Island of Despotiko ∙ Paving the Route to the Consolidation of Cult in the Cyclades
Sep 30, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
Scheide Caldwell House 103
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Kevin Andrews and the Castles of the Morea
Mar 25, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
Green Hall 3-S-15
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
The First Kings of Europe: An International Exhibition about the Prehistoric Balkans
Oct 23, 2023, 4:30 pm
Location
Green Hall 3-S-15
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
Trading with the Enemy: Greek Pottery in the Persian World
Apr 6, 2023, 4:30 pm
Location
Green Hall 3-S-15
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
AIA Lecture | Archaeological Research at the Ancient Ionian City of Notion
Mar 20, 2023, 4:30 pm
Location
Green Hall 3-S-15
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
Paying Attention: Images of Monuments on Roman Imperial Coins
Nov 4, 2022, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Thompson Lecture
Life at Berkou: a newly-discovered Roman fortress in Egypt
Sep 26, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
Green Hall 3-S-15
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
Charismatic Rulers and Spatial Void in a Material World: Art from the Akkadian Empire, c. 2350-2150 BCE
Mar 21, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
Green Hall 3-S-15 - limited seating pre-registration required
Speaker
POSTPONED TILL FALL '22 Between Rich and Poor in the Roman City: A new look at the socio- economic texture of a Pompeian sub-elite neighborhood
Feb 7, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
Postponed till Fall '22
Speakers
Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome
Apr 15, 2021, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsor
Program in Archaeology and Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
Living with the Dead: Urbanism in the Roman Suburbs
Mar 19, 2021, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsor
Clayburgh Lecture
More than Just Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's Galilee
Feb 5, 2021, 4:30 pm
Speaker
The Minoan House of the Frescoes at Knossos: The Life and Afterlife of an Excavation
Apr 24, 2020, 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Minoan House of the Frescoes at Knossos: The Life and Afterlife of an Excavation
Apr 24, 2020, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsor
Program in Archaeology
Encounters of the third kind: Christians, Muslims, traditional-religious communities, and their interactions in medieval Ethiopia
Mar 24, 2020, 12:00 pm
Location
104 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Urban Renewal and Recovery: The Case of Antioch on the Orontes
Mar 2, 2020, 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Pet Animals in Roman Antiquity: Reconstructions from Archaeological Evidence
Feb 20, 2020, 5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Tabella Picta: Dedicatory Paintings in Greek and Roman Religion
Sep 20, 2019, 4:30 pm
Speaker
The Black Sphinxes of Tanis
Apr 10, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Excavations at a Forgotten Female Pharaoh's "Temple of Millions of Years"
Mar 15, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker

Tang Center Events

Writing & Women Calligraphers in East Asia
Apr 4, 2025
Location
TBA
Speakers
Sponsors
  • East Asian Studies Program
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Tang Center for East Asian Art
Sardonic Dissonance in Xu Wei's Parapaintings ca. 1573-1593
Oct 24, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
Friend Center 101
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Tang Center for East Asian Art
Rethinking Landscape Painting
Apr 25, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
McCosh Hall 50
Speakers
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Department of Art& Archaeology
Rethinking Figure Painting
Apr 23, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
McCosh Hall 50
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Department of Art& Archaeology
Rethinking Historical Evidence and Methodology
Apr 19, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
McCosh Hall 50
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Department of Art& Archaeology
Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence Talk: Liu Xiaodong
Feb 22, 2024, 5:30 pm
Location
Robertson Hall 016
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Tang Center for East Asian Art
Technocracy and Porcelain Manufacture at the Early to Mid-Qing Court (1720s–1750s)
Feb 14, 2024, 4:30 pm
Location
Jones Hall 202
Speaker
Sponsors
  • East Asian Studies Program
  • Tang Center for East Asian Art
Artist Conversation: Peng Wei
Nov 30, 2023, 5:30 pm
Location
Art on Hulfish (11 Hulfish Street)
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • Princeton University Art Museum
Coming into Color: The Cloth Classic, Jiangnan Dyeworks, and the Expansion of Cotton Dyes in Qing China
Sep 13, 2023, 4:30 pm
Location
Burr Hall 219
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • East Asian Studies Program
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Maritime Buddhist Art of the East Asian “Mediterranean,” ca. 900–1200
Apr 27, 2023, 4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Tang Center for East Asian Art
The Matter of Inscription in Early Modern China
Nov 16, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
Jones Hall 202
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • East Asian Studies Program
Water Transformation: Buddhist Meditation and Pure Land Art in Tang China
Nov 15, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
McCosh Hall 50 and Zoom webinar option
Speaker
Sponsor
P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Tang Center Lecture Series | Meibutsu and the Formation of Japan’s Artistic Canon
Nov 9, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
McCosh Hall 50 and Zoom webinar option
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • Princeton University Art Museum
Tang Center Lecture Series | Meibutsu and the Formation of Japan’s Artistic Canon
Nov 7, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
McCosh Hall 50 and Zoom webinar option
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • Princeton University Art Museum
Tang Center Lecture Series | Meibutsu and the Formation of Japan’s Artistic Canon
Nov 2, 2022, 4:30 pm
Location
McCosh Hall 50 and Zoom webinar option
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • Princeton University Art Museum
Connecting Dunhuang Sites, Art, and Ideas along the Silk Road(s)
Apr 22, 2022
Location
50 McCosh and Zoom - Open to all ∙ registration required
Speaker
Visualizing Dunhuang Book Launch
May 26, 2021, 12:00 pm
Art Work: Classifying Artifacts as Official Business in Late Imperial China
Mar 31, 2021, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsor
East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center
Turnips, Peppers, and Mangoes: Food Symbolism in the People's Republic of China
Feb 6, 2020, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Sponsor
East Asian Studies Program
Turnips, Peppers, and Mangoes: Food Symbolism in the People's Republic of China
Feb 6, 2020, 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Sponsor
East Asian Studies Program
The Art of Assemblage: Auspicious Elegance and Erudition on Display
Nov 7, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Art of Assemblage: Decorating for Seasons and Status
Nov 5, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Illuminating Genji: A Lecture on The Tale of Genji Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Apr 16, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Albums of Ordinary Faces: Small-size Portraits from Painters' Studios in Late Imperial China
Mar 27, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Secondary Literature in the Reading of Bronze Inscriptions
Apr 3, 2015, 10:00 am
Location
104 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Sponsor
Tang Center for East Asian Art and Program in East Asian Studies
Palaeography, Phonology, and Methodological Reflections
Mar 27, 2015, 10:00 am
Location
104 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Sponsor
Tang Center for East Asian Art and Program in East Asian Studies
Reconstructing Excavated Manuscripts
Feb 20, 2015, 10:00 am
Location
104 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Sponsor
Tang Center for East Asian Art and Program in East Asian Studies

Reunions Lectures

A&A Reunions Lecture
May 23, 2025, 11:00 am
Location
TBA
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Mineral Analogs: Carleton Watkins's Photographs and the Gold Standard
May 24, 2024, 11:00 am
Location
Aaron Burr Hall 219
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Reunions Lecture | Siegelands: Art and Warfare in Early Modern Europe
May 26, 2023, 11:00 am
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
New Archaeological Discoveries on Samothrace
May 20, 2022, 11:00 am
Location
219 Aaron Burr Hall and Zoom
Speaker
Archaeology at North Abydos 2018-2020: Burials and Breweries
May 20, 2021, 2:00 pm
Speaker
The Meanings of Museum Display
May 31, 2019, 10:00 am
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Origins of Art, or Going Back to Old Lascaux
Jun 1, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Eternal Obelisk: Egyptian, Christian, Modern
May 27, 2016, 11:00 am
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
A Short History of Rome's Pantheon: Rebuilt in Antiquity, Reused in the Middle Ages, Rediscovered in the Renaissance
May 29, 2015, 11:00 am
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Art and Science in America: Intersections and Collisions
Jun 1, 2012, 3:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker

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Fall 2024 VIS Open Studios
Nov 20, 2024, 5:30 pm
Sponsors
  • Program in Visual Arts
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Fall 2024 LAMB Workshop Series
Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Workshop (LAMB)
Nov 19, 2024, 6:00 pm
Sponsors
  • Program in Medieval Studies
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of English
  • Department of Religion
  • Department of Classics
Irene Small: "The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism" [res. Anne A. Cheng]
Program in Media and Modernity
Nov 19, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
More Love for the Common Body Sherd: Implications and Challenges of 3D Scanning All Your Pottery
Art407 Public Lecture - free but registration required
Nov 19, 2024, 3:00 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America
Sven Spieker: "Art as Demonstration" [res. Devin Fore]
Program in Media and Modernity
Nov 12, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Belle da Costa Greene at Princeton, 1901–1905: A Roundtable and Exhibition
Roundtable in Chancellor Green rotunda, followed by a reception in Firestone Library’s Emeritus Reading Room
Nov 12, 2024, 4:30 pm
Sponsors
  • Princeton Histories Fund
  • Organized by staff in Princeton University libraries and the Index of Medieval Art
Reconstruction as a research tool ∙ The Frankfurt Liebieghaus Polychromy research project
Art407 Public Lecture - Free but registration required
Nov 12, 2024, 3:00 pm
Speakers
Sponsor
Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
Unruly Iconography? Examining the Unexpected in Medieval Art
Index of Medieval Art Conference
Nov 9, 2024
Sponsors
  • Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Fall 2024 LAMB Workshop Series
Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Workshop (LAMB)
Nov 4, 2024, 6:00 pm
Sponsors
  • Program in Medieval Studies
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of English
  • Department of Religion
  • Department of Classics
Bandung to Berlin: Art, Decolonization, and the Cold War
A&A Graduate Student Conference
Oct 31, 2024
Cancelled ∙ Ingo Niermann: "The Monadic Age" [res. Beatriz Colomina]
Program in Media and Modernity
Oct 29, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Princeton Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
A Celebration of the Deceased
Oct 29, 2024, 4:30 pm
Sponsors
  • Effron Center for the Study of America
  • Program in Latino Studies
  • Department of African American Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Lewis Center for the Arts
  • Program in Latin American Studies,
  • Department of Religion
  • Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Ordinary People, Everyday Lives ∙ Exploring the Mundane in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
2024 Medieval Studies Graduate Conference
Oct 26, 2024
Sponsors
  • Program in Medieval Studies
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity
  • Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
  • Program in the Ancient World
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of Religion
Indelible Footprints in Spain and Beyond
Colloquium
Oct 26, 2024
Sponsors
  • The Department of Spanish and Portuguese
  • The Humanities Council
  • The Center for Collaborative History
  • The Department of Art & Archeology
  • The Department of Comparative Literature
  • The Rennaissance and Early Modern Studies
  • The University Center for Human Values
  • The Department of Religion
Sardonic Dissonance in Xu Wei's Parapaintings ca. 1573-1593
A&A Lecture Series
Oct 24, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Tang Center for East Asian Art
Photo History’s Futures: Mark Sealy (CANCELED)
Oct 23, 2024, 5:00 pmCanceled
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi: "Architecture of Migration: Archival Ephemera" [res. S.E. Eisterer]
Program in Media and Modernity
Oct 22, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Fall 2024 LAMB Workshop Series
Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Workshop (LAMB)
Oct 22, 2024, 12:00 pm
Sponsors
  • Program in Medieval Studies
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of English
  • Department of Religion
  • Department of Classics
Fall 2024 LAMB Workshop Series
Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Workshop (LAMB)
Oct 10, 2024, 6:00 pm
Sponsors
  • Program in Medieval Studies
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of English
  • Department of Religion
  • Department of Classics
Poetic Record: Photography in a Transformed World
A two-day symposium and concurrent photographic exhibition in the Lewis Center for the Arts
Oct 10, 2024
Sponsors
  • Lewis Center for the Arts
  • Council on Science and Technology
  • The Collaboratorium
  • Program in Visual Arts
Marcel Broodthaers and America: A Symposium
A two-day conference presented on the occasion of the Marcel Broodthaers’ Centenary. Organized by Professor of Visual Arts Joe Scanlan. In-person and livestream
Oct 9, 2024
Sponsors
  • Lewis Center for the Arts
  • Department of Art and Archaeology
  • Humanities Council
  • Program in Visual Arts
Being at Home in Princeton
Multimedia exhibition that centers on Princeton’s African American history
Oct 3, 2024
Sponsors
  • Inclusive Princeton
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Princeton University Humanities Council
  • Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES)
  • Carl A. Fields Center
  • Center for Digital Humanities
  • University Center for Human Values
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • Princeton Graduate Student Government
  • Lewis Center for the Arts
Alfredo Thiermann: "Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin" [res. Rubén Gallo]
Program in Media and Modernity
Oct 1, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Refounding Sikyon: the creation of a monumental landscape
Program in the Ancient World (PAW) talk -RSVP required
Oct 1, 2024, 12:00 pm
Speaker
Sponsor
Program in the Ancient World
The Early ‘Biography’ of the Temenos on the Island of Despotiko ∙ Paving the Route to the Consolidation of Cult in the Cyclades
Lecture
Sep 30, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
PITHOS - Graduate Exchange Program
Sep 30, 2024
Sponsors
  • Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Vertical Perspective
A&A Lecture Series
Sep 26, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Fall 2024 LAMB Workshop Series
Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Workshop (LAMB)
Sep 24, 2024, 6:00 pm
Sponsors
  • Program in Medieval Studies
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of English
  • Department of Religion
  • Department of Classics
Kevin Jerome Everson: "Double Feature at the Sunset Drive"
Program in Media and Modernity
Sep 24, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Sick
Art Hx Zoom
Sep 16, 2024, 12:00 pm
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Art Hx
  • Department of African American Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Humanities Council
Fall 2024 LAMB Workshop Series
Late Antique, Medieval, and Byzantine Workshop (LAMB)
Sep 4, 2024, 6:00 pm
Sponsors
  • Program in Medieval Studies
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of English
  • Department of Religion
  • Department of Classics
Academic Expo 2024
Welcome Class of 2028!
Aug 26, 2024, 1:00 pm
Mineral Analogs: Carleton Watkins's Photographs and the Gold Standard
A&A Reunions Lecture
May 24, 2024, 11:00 am
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Janson-La Palme *76 Workshop: Rubens in 21st-Century Perspectives
Invited speakers and participants only
May 3, 2024, 8:30 am
Speakers
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
The Pastel from Mars
James F. Haley '50 Memorial Lecture
May 1, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
From Solidus to Stavraton: Coinage and Money in the Byzantine World
Conference April 26-28, 2024 | In person and Remote
Apr 26, 2024
Sponsors
  • Friends of Princeton University Library
  • The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
  • Princeton University Library
  • Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity
  • Department of Art and Archaeology
  • Princeton Humanities Council
  • Program in the Ancient World
  • Department of Classics
  • Center for Digital Humanities
Rethinking Landscape Painting
Tang Center Lecture Series #3 of 3 ∙ Registration required
Apr 25, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speakers
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Department of Art& Archaeology
Lydia Kallipoliti: "An Unfinished Cyclopedia; Histories of Ecological Design" [res. Sylvia Lavin]
Graduate Program in Media + Modernity
Apr 23, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Rethinking Figure Painting
Tang Center Lecture Series #2 of 3 ∙ Registration required
Apr 23, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Department of Art& Archaeology
On Albrecht Dürer: A Public Conversation
Panel
Apr 22, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Rethinking Historical Evidence and Methodology
Tang Center Lecture Series #1 of 3 ∙ Registration required
Apr 19, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Department of Art& Archaeology
Princeton Islamic Studies Conference
Muslim Debates and Contestations
Apr 19, 2024
Reading the Future in the Paintings of the Past: Bark, Beetles, and Arboreal Art
Art 502 Lecture Series
Apr 18, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Photo History’s Futures: Emilie Boone
Rescheduled ∙ Wednesday, April 17 (was February 13)
Apr 17, 2024, 5:00 pm
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Princeton University Art Museum
Still We Rise Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion with Director John Harvey and BlackStar Projects moderated by Dr. Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Apr 15, 2024, 5:30 pm
Sponsors
  • Art Hx in partnership with BlackStar Projects
  • Department of African American Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • Princeton Humanities Council
  • Land, Language, and Art: a Humanities Council Global Initiative
  • Lewis Center for the Arts.
Art@Bainbridge | Denilson Baniwa: Under the Skin of History
Exhibition ∙ Saturday, April 13, 2024 - Sunday, September 1, 2024
Apr 13, 2024
Sponsors
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • The Brazil Lab
  • Department of Anthropology
  • Humanities Council
  • High Meadows Environmental Institute
  • University Center for Human Values
  • Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
  • Program in Latin American Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of Spanish and Portuguese
  • Lewis Center for the Arts
  • Effron Center for the Study of America
Princeton French Film Festival
April 12-26, 2024
Apr 12, 2024
Sponsor
Numerous sponsors, including Department of Art & Archaeology
The Radical Practice of Black Curation: A Symposium
April 11 at Princeton University | April 12 at Park Avenue Armory, NYC
Apr 11, 2024
Sponsors
  • The Collaboratorium
  • Program in Visual Arts
KNOW HOW Workshops on the Histories of Art and Craft
Towards Textile Specificity
Apr 10, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Benjamin Buchloh: "The Ends of a Critic" [res. Hal Foster]
Graduate Program in Media + Modernity
Apr 9, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsors
  • Program in Media and Modernity
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Metamorphic Matter: Elemental Imagery in Early Modern Art
Robert Janson-La Palme *76 Conference and Keynote
Apr 5, 2024, 9:15 am
Speakers
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Cancelled ∙ Paul B. Preciado: "An Evening with Orlando" [res. S.E. Eisterer] (CANCELED)
Graduate Program in Media + Modernity
Apr 4, 2024, 6:30 pmCanceled
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Rachel Haidu & Irene Small ∙ Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art
Labyrinth Books
Apr 4, 2024, 6:00 pm
Sponsors
  • Labyrinth Books
  • Humanities Council
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
KNOW HOW Workshops on the Histories of Art and Craft
Apr 3, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Shanon Mattern and Olga Touloumi; inaugural Branden Hookway Interface
Graduate Program in Media + Modernity
Apr 2, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
“What is, it already was, and what will be, it already is”…Time and Text as a Creative Lens
Ghiora Aharoni, Spring 2024 Belknap Visitor in the Humanities
Mar 28, 2024, 4:30 pm
Sponsors
  • Humanities Council
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of Religion
  • Department of Near Eastern Studies
  • Program in Judaic Studies
Samia Henni: "Colonial Toxicity”
Graduate Program in Media + Modernity
Mar 26, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Kevin Andrews and the Castles of the Morea
AIA Ettinghausen Lecture
Mar 25, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
Ekow Eshun: "In the Black Fantastic"
Graduate Program in Media + Modernity
Mar 19, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsors
  • Program in Media and Modernity
  • Princeton Collaboratorium for Radical Aesthetics
Online Workshop: Beginner’s Guide to the Index of Medieval Art Database
Zoom - please register for link
Mar 19, 2024, 10:00 am
Speakers
Sponsor
Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology
A Tale of Two Experts: Johann Neudörffer, Georg Römer and the Origins of German Art Historiography
Workshop
Mar 18, 2024, 12:00 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Americans Abroad in the Seventeenth Century: People, Buildings, and the Space of Empire
Art 502 Lecture Series
Mar 7, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Dennis Yi Tenen: "Literary Theory for Robots" [res. Grant Wythoff]
Graduate Program in Media + Modernity
Mar 5, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsors
  • Program in Media and Modernity
  • Center for Digital Humanities
Empires of Galanterie: The Transformations of the Imperial Imagination in Eighteenth-Century France
Art 502 Lecture Series
Feb 29, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speakers
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Paul Chan: "Ars::longa"
Graduate Program in Media + Modernity
Feb 27, 2024, 5:00 pm
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence Talk: Liu Xiaodong
Feb 22, 2024, 5:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Tang Center for East Asian Art
Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond
Princeton University Library (PUL) Exhibition ∙ February 21, 2024 through June 13, 2024
Feb 21, 2024
Sponsor
Princeton University Library
Technocracy and Porcelain Manufacture at the Early to Mid-Qing Court (1720s–1750s)
Feb 14, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • East Asian Studies Program
  • Tang Center for East Asian Art
KNOW HOW Workshops on the Histories of Art and Craft
Displaced Decoration: Ethnographic Photography, Indigenous Portraiture, and the Rookwood Pottery Company
Feb 7, 2024, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Scenario for a Past Future: Exhibition by Josephine Meckseper
January 31–February 22, 2024
Jan 31, 2024
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Visual Arts
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Humanities Council
  • Center for Digital Humanities
Medieval Multiple Conference Hosted at the Index on January 27, 2024
In-person and Via Livestream
Jan 27, 2024, 9:00 am
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Samuel H. Kress Foundation
  • International Center of Medieval Art
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts
  • Professor James Marrow and Dr. Emily Rose
  • The Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University
  • Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
Africa & Byzantium at The Met
Art 502 Lecture Series
Dec 7, 2023, 4:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Index of Medieval Art
Photo History’s Futures: Aglaya Glebova
Dec 4, 2023, 5:00 pm
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Princeton University Art Museum
Artist Conversation: Peng Wei
Nov 30, 2023, 5:30 pm
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • Princeton University Art Museum

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