Imagine a portrait of a couple in which each paints the other within the same frame. Reciprocal double portraits are extremely unusual in the history of art, and virtually unheard of in the context of marriage, but a remarkable group of them were made in late nineteenth-century Denmark. These paintings were part of a broader culture…

Please join us for our second training session to learn more about the Index database! It will take place via Zoom on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 from 10:00 – 11:00 am EST.

Have you been wondering if you are getting the best results for your searches? Are you unsure about how to use…

This conference asks how the concept of “the East” has shaped perceptions of Eastern Christianity generally and Eastern Christian Art more specifically, in Euro-American scholarship as well as in the popular view. Building on or dismantling such historical divisions as Western/Eastern Roman Empire, Latin/Orthodox, or simply East/West, speakers…

This lecture explores Roman failure and its counterpart, resilience, in ancient Roman architecture and urbanism. Focusing on the years before the great fire of 64, it argues, perhaps surprisingly, that Romans faced constant architectural failure, which authorities carefully managed; and that even before the fire, failure analysis and resilience…

“Imperfection” and “Renaissance” are antonyms. At least that is what Giorgio Vasari’s history of Italian artistic evolution (as with other early modern European writings on art, poetry, literature, music, and theatre) tries to convince us. His construction of perfection – in the sense of completeness and as an aesthetic ideal – as a defining…

Caravaggio and the Echos of Figuration

The modern world is plagued with unprecedented levels of social, economic, and political inequalities. But these inequities did not happen overnight; in places like southeastern Europe they emerged over the course of thousands of years as the small egalitarian farming villages of the Neolithic gave way to some of the earliest hierarchical…

This talk commences by introducing the audience to the sacred bronzes created by a master sculptor around the year 1000, and suggests that his inspiration may well have been child-saint Sambandar’s opening hymn that hails god Shiva as “the thief who stole my heart.” Vidya Dehejia then moves beyond this sensuous imagery to ask questions of this…

Papers delivered by graduate students from Princeton University, the University of Ioannina, and the University of Thessaly

Respondents: Marc Domingo Gygax, Carolyn Laferrière, Leigh Lieberman

PITHOS website

For PUID holders

Papers delivered by graduate students from Princeton University, the University of Ioannina, and the University of Thessaly

Respondents: Marc Domingo Gygax, Carolyn Laferrière, Leigh Lieberman

PITHOS website

For PUID holders

Papers delivered by graduate students from Princeton University, the University of Ioannina, and the University of Thessaly

Respondents: Marc Domingo Gygax, Carolyn Laferrière, Leigh Lieberman

PITHOS website

For PUID holders

The subject of textile colors in Chinese history evokes notions of elite luxury and power: imperial yellow over commoner blue. But observers and gazetteers suggest a wider color palette began to be offered to a range of consumers in the early Qing, with new dyeing techniques being applied to both silk and cotton. An expansion of clothing…

Rachael Z. DeLue, the art historian and professor, will deliver this year’s annual Keating lecture, entitled “Against the Grain, or What We Can Learn from Early American Museums that Got it Wrong.”  

DeLue will discuss early museums in the United States, including Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum and Princeton’s…

Dinner and Celebration, Palmer House 6pm

Free and Open to the Public

In this conversation, Dionne Brand, Francoise Vergès, Christina Sharpe, and Tina Campt will discuss the work of The Practicing Refusal Collective and the Sojourner Project on their collaborative publication: Think/ing from Black: A Lexicon, a book that imagines a set of words, terms and practices from some of the manifold…

How did maritime connectivity reconfigure the cultural boundaries of Buddhist East Asia during the medieval period? What is the role of seafaring ports in object mobility and in forming a Buddhist art different from that derived from the land routes of transmission? This lecture examines how the interwoven networks of ports and intermediaries…

Buck Ellison is an American visual artist, known for his photography. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Through collages, films and photographs, Ellison produces a deep network of inquiry into how whiteness and privilege are sustained and broadcast.

He has been profiled in Aperture, ArtForum,…

Abstract: The paper will further develop themes I’ve explored in works dedicated to the institution of royal sovereignty but will do so here in dialogue with Alenka Zupancic’s remarkable new book on Antigone, Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax. The struggle over the rotting remains of the…

Register to access abstracts, papers, and participant bios.

Symposium open to the public.

Aphrodisias has vital new archaeological evidence for urban life under the Roman empire, from the booming culture of carved marble in the first and second centuries to the catastrophic end of monumental city life in the seventh century. Papers present the latest research and discoveries at the site, focusing on major transformations from…

The Princeton Collaboratorium hosts a conversation between longtime collaborators artist Torkwase Dyson and poet Canisia Lubrin and 2023 Collaborators-in-Residence Dionne Brand and Christina Sharpe. Reflecting on their ongoing projects, the discussion will be a wide-ranging meditation on the poetics of relation, questions of influence and…

In the spring of 1939, Jews living throughout lands under Nazi government were compelled to bring all their households’ precious metal and jewelry to sixty-six designated pawnshops. The pawnbrokers sold the silver to silversmiths, dealers, refineries, individuals, and, not least, to museums. Many museums restituted part of these sinister…

Keynote by Pamela O. Long on Friday April 14 at 4:30pm

Machines between Learning and Practice in Early Modern Europe

In this talk I focus on images of machines and the texts that accompanied them from the 1470s through the mid-sixteenth century. I compare the machine drawings of two contemporaries, the painter/architect…

Description: How can storytelling help us mend the social and material fissures that governmental policies often create between individual and collective care? Community integration is central to mental and physical wellbeing, but the healthcare needs of individuals frequently clash with policies crafted for the collective…

Gordion, in central Turkey, was the capital of the Phrygian empire in Anatolia until about 600 B.C. By the mid 6th century, it came under Persian control as the Medes expanded their territory westward from their Iranian heartland. During the over 200 years of Persian control, the residents of Gordion imported a surprising amount of high quality…

Violence might involve the fixation of our memorized images in words, because, as Italo Calvino says in his book Invisible Cities, “memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased”. Yet, the continuing defamation of the imagined image of the prophet Muhammad in the West, and the imagined descriptions of holy spaces strongly associated…

Notion was a Greek city on the western coast of Ionia, 50 km south of Smyrna. It was closely associated with the inland town of Colophon, 15 km to the north; from the 2nd century BC onward, it was known as New Colophon, or Colophon-by-the-Sea. Prior research has shown that Notion was only intensively occupied from the 3rd century BC to the 1st…

This presentation takes up some of the more recent academic explorations of the concept of “worlding” to think about possible futures of the so-called ethnographic or world cultures museum. For more than three decades now, ethnographic museums – at least those in Europe – have received sustained critique. In its most recent iteration, this…

During this conversation, artist Nate Lewis, the 2022-23…

A Symposium with Jane O. Newman and Ron Sadan at Princeton University

Giambattista Vico’s historical epistemology was a matter of enduring interest for the German-Jewish literary critic, Erich Auerbach (1892-1957). Best known today as the author of Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946),…

As part of the current Washitales exhibition, renowned visual artist Kyoko Ibe joins in conversation with Lecturer in Visual Arts Daniel Heyman about her work along with the celebratory launch of a new book, The Way of…

Museumverse engages with emerging virtual reality and digital technologies to facilitate curatorial, research, and pedagogical strategies in art history. Funded by a Flash Grant from the Humanities Council in 2022,…

In this talk, award-winning Brazilian curator Thyago Nogueira explores the makings and remakings of The Yanomami Struggle, an exhibition on the life and work of Claudia Andujar. A Touring Art Exhibition as Work-in-Progress details how the research in Andujar’s photographic archive has been transformed into a platform to showcase the cultures of…

The world-renowned shaman and Indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa will visit Princeton on Tuesday, January 31. He will speak at Chancellor Green’s Rotunda at 4:30 pm. Kopenawa is the author of the classic The Falling Sky and is at the forefront of struggles to guarantee Indigenous rights and to safeguard the Amazon…

Washitales presents the work of renowned visual artist Kyoko Ibe in conjunction with the Lewis Center’s theatrical presentation of Felon: An American Washi Tale by Reginald Dwayne Betts. The set for Felon…

Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class, University of Johannesburg (RGC) is hosting a unique three-day convening in Johannesburg from the 26th-28th January, in collaboration with the Practicing Refusal Collective and co-sponsored by the Princeton Collaboratorium and the…

The Nigerian-Cameroonian artist Samuel Fosso is arguably one of the most compelling photographers working in the genre of self-portraiture today. Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts is the first museum survey of his work in the United States. Samuel Fosso and…

Jeffrey Yoo Warren—an artist, community scientist, illustrator, and researcher—presents his project, Seeing Providence Chinatown, a virtual reconstruction of the since-disappeared Chinatown in Providence. To recreate this space, Yoo Warren examined archival photographs, built 3D architectural models of the streetscape, and designed a…

The University community is invited to attend the last class of Art 233 Renaissance Art and Architecture to hear guest speaker Prof. Cammy Brothers present Giuliano da Sangallo, Michelangelo, and the Anti-Canon.

Abstract: 

Much of the history of fifteenth and sixteenth century Italian…

Containers for liquids and other substances are among the oldest known artifacts of human ingenuity; in early modern Antwerp, the focus of my research, artists and craftsmen seized on the arrival of new technologies and new materials to increase the diversity of the shapes and kinds of vessels used at table. However, in the research literature…

Audience: Campus Community

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The Nigerian-Cameroonian artist Samuel Fosso (b. 1962) is arguably one of the most compelling photographers working in the genre of self-portraiture today. Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts is the first museum survey of the artist’s work in the United States. The exhibition showcases Fosso’s self-portraits, in which the artist…

Audience: Campus Community

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Assuming no major changes in university or government pandemic protocols, the conference will be hosted in person as well as live-streamed. It will feature eight medievalist scholars, in a wide range of specializations, who will address the many relationships between language and works of art, including the literal use and/or representation of…

Lecture I: Against Artfulness

Nov 2 Of Meibutsu and Masterpieces

Nov 7 Marketing Meibutsu

Nov 9 From Meibutsu to National Treasures

Audience: Campus Community

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Did you know that the Index of Medieval Art database offers fifteen browse lists, including terms for medieval patrons, creators, languages, and types of objects? Or that the Index database uses around 25,000 subject headings for iconography in medieval art, including scene titles, names of figures, and representations of objects, and that all…

Nov 2 Of Meibutsu and Masterpieces

Nov 7 Marketing Meibutsu

Nov 9 From Meibutsu to National Treasures

Join the LUDUS working group of the Program in Medieval Studies on Saturday, Nov. 5 to hear the vocal ensemble ModernMedieval Voices perform The Living Word, their much-celebrated program presenting chant by Hildegard of Bingen alongside new works by acclaimed contemporary composers:

Representations of architecture on Roman coins have long been studied by scholars interested in retrieving information about ancient monuments, especially those ones that are partially or totally lost. Recent scholarship has shown that numismatic images cannot be treated as straightforward and objective sources about the appearance of these…

Nov 2 Of Meibutsu and Masterpieces

Nov 7 Marketing Meibutsu

Nov 9 From Meibutsu to National Treasures

Audience: PU ID only, RSVP required, Lunch provided

The workshop focuses a fundamental shift towards active matter, which will be presented as an invitation into a new field of media research. This approach combines critical historical conceptual analysis, experimental practice and designerly projecting for rethinking the relationship…

Audience: Campus Community

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Macedonian chryselephantine couches — exquisitely carved and gleaming with gold, glass, and ivory — constitute some of the most spectacular yet understudied monuments of the era of Alexander the Great.  Well-documented in archaeological remains and written texts, the couches offer a concrete material lens through which to analyze the…

As part of our series of talks commemorating 50 years of photography at Princeton University and highlighting exciting voices in the field, we welcome Monica Bravo to speak about her new publication, Greater American Camera: Making Modernism…

Audience: Campus Community

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Audience: Campus Community

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Marianne Nicolson is an artist and activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations. She will discuss her artistic practice, which incorporates light sculptures, installations, writing, graphic arts, and advocacy for Indigenous land rights.

Join us—in person or live via Zoom—for a conversation with the artist moderated by…

As part of our series of talks commemorating 50 years of photography at Princeton University and highlighting exciting voices in the field, we welcome Erina Duganne to speak about her new publication, 

Cosponsor(s): Organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University

In celebration of the publication of Visualizing Dunhuang (June), please join the Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University for a panel discussion of the Buddhist cave sites at Dunhuang and the Lo Archive of 1940s photographs. Dora Ching,…

Cosponsor(s): This event is funded by the Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council and co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Visual Arts.

The property relation of the enslaved included and exceeded that of chattel and real estate. Plantation…

Cosponsor(s): Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council, the Addressing Racism Funding Initiative, Princeton University

Cosponsor(s): PIIRS and The M.S. Chadha Center for Global India

Cosponsor(s):Program in Archaeology and Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)

Cosponsor(s): East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center

Cosponsor(s): Program in Latin American Studies,Center for Collaborative History, Program in Archaeology, Department of Anthropology and the Humanities Council

Cosponsor(s): East Asian Studies Program and the Tang Center
 

Cosponsor(s): Rapid Response Magic Project of the Princeton University Humanities Council and the Addressing Racism Funding Initiative, Princeton University

Cosponsor(s): Program in Latin American Studies

A Conversation with Marina Reyes Franco, Thomas Lax, Miguel López, and Thiago de Paula Souza

Cosponsor(s): Program in Archaeology and Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)

Princeton-Warsaw Symposium

Cosponsor: Program in Latin American Studies

Cosponsor: Program in Latin American Studies

Cosponsors: Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and Program in Archaeology

Cosponsor: Department of Art and Archaeology, University Center for Human Values, Council of Humanities and Program in American Studies

Cosponsor(s): Lewis Center for the Arts

**POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

**POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Cosponsor: The Index of Medieval Art

Cosponsor: Visual Resources and The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton

Cosponsor: Visual Resources and The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton

Cosponsor: Heritage Structures Lab

Special Reunions Film Screening

Art & Archaeology Reunions Lecture

Film Screening

Cosponsor: East Asian Studies Program

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

Cosponsor: East Asian Studies Program

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Cosponsor: The Index of Medieval Art

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Cosponsor: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

The Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen Lecture

Cosponsor: Department of Art & Archaeology, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Department of German, and the Program in European Cultural Studies

Panel Discussion

Cosponsor: Humanities Council and PUAM

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America battle

Cosponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Eberhard L. Faber Memorial Lecture

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America and the Program in Medieval Studies

The Clayburgh Lecture

Open to Princeton faculty and students only

Participants Include: Brooke Holmes, Joshua Billings, Dan-el Padilla Peralta. RSVP required.

Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art

Cosponsored by Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, the Humanities Council, the Center for the Study of Religion, and Medieval Studies

The meeting convenes contributors to an edited volume, and will be workshop-style. If interested in attending please contact Beatrice Kitzinger for pre-circulated material.

NOTE: Friday…

Open to Princeton faculty and graduate students only. RSVP required. RSVP to [email protected]

Cosponsor: East Asian Studies

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Cosponsor: Departments of History and Art & Archaeology, Princeton; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid

Cosponsor: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art

Cosponsor: Council of the Humanities

Cosponsor: Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Program in Medieval Studies, Department of Art and Archaeology, and Steward Fund in the Council of the Humanities

Cosponsor: Department of Art & Archaeology, the Society of Fellows, and the Council of Humanities

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Tang Center for East Asian Art

Cosponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies

Cosponsor: Program in the Ancient World

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

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Cosponsor: David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Department of Philosophy, Department of History

Cosponsor: Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Cosponsor: Princeton University Art Museum and Tang Center for East Asian Art

Cosponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Center for African American Studies

Cosponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Center for African American Studies

Cosponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Center for African American Studies

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study