Past Lectures

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WAI Think Tank: "Reparations" [res. V. Mitch McEwen]
Program in Media and Modernity
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Location
Architecture Building N107
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Jonathan Crary: "Tricks of the Light” [res. Hal Foster]
Program in Media and Modernity
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Location
Architecture Building N107
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Painting in Common: Works of Love from Denmark’s Modern Breakthrough
2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsor
Humanities Council
Online Workshop: Beginner’s Guide to the Index of Medieval Art Database
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 10:00 am11:00 am

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…

Sponsor
Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology
Whose East? Defining, Challenging, and Exploring Eastern Christian Art
Fall 2023 Index of Medieval Art Conference
Saturday, November 11, 2023, 9:00 am5:15 pm

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…

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
“To put back all the things people cluttered up...To Straighten, like a diligent Housekeeper of Reality...”: The Greek, Roman and Byzantine collections at MFA Boston re-imagined
Kurt Weitzmann Memorial Lecture
Friday, November 10, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Index of Medieval Art
Gerard & Kelly: "On Modern Living” [res. Beatriz Colomina]
Program in Media and Modernity
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Location
Architecture Building N107
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Ideologies of Resilience in Ancient Roman Architecture
Art 502 Lecture Series
Thursday, November 2, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building A17
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
David Joselit: "Art’s Properties” [res. Irene V. Small]
Program in Media and Modernity
Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Location
Architecture Building N107
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Finished? Early Modern Arts in the Imperfect Tense
Conference Oct 27-28
Friday, October 27, 2023Saturday, October 28, 2023

“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…

Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Council of the Humanities
  • Program in Italian Studies
  • Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS)
KNOW HOW Workshops on the Histories of Art and Craft
Wednesday, October 25, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm

Caravaggio and the Echos of Figuration

Location
3-s-15 Green Hall
Speaker
Seb Franklin: "Value and slavery, or the longue durée of the analog-digital distinction” [res. Paul Nadal]
Program in Media and Modernity
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Location
Architecture Building N107
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
The First Kings of Europe: An International Exhibition about the Prehistoric Balkans
AIA Thompson Lecture
Monday, October 23, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
Green Hall 3-S-15
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
Catherine Ingraham: "Architecture's Theory" [res. Spyros Papapetros]
Program in Media and Modernity
Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Location
Architecture Building N107
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Sylvia Lavin, Tom Levin, Maria Loh, Gavin Steingo: "Birdcalls: A roundtable"
Program in Media and Modernity
Tuesday, October 3, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Location
Architecture Building N107
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
The Thief Who Stole My Heart
Art 502 Lecture Series
Thursday, September 28, 2023, 4:30 pm5:30 pm

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…

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Regionalism in Ancient Greece ∙ Papers delivered by graduate students
Part of the PITHOS initiative ∙ Princeton-Ioannina-Thessaly On-Site Seminars
Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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

 

Location
Sept 25 103 Scheide Caldwell House, Sept 26 & 27 3-S-15 Green Hall
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Rania Ghosn: "Climate Inheritance” [res. Sylvia Lavin]
Program in Media and Modernity
Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Location
Architecture Building N107
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Regionalism in Ancient Greece ∙ Papers delivered by graduate students
Part of the PITHOS initiative ∙ Princeton-Ioannina-Thessaly On-Site Seminars
Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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

 

Location
Sept 25 103 Scheide Caldwell House, Sept 26 & 27 3-S-15 Green Hall
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Regionalism in Ancient Greece ∙ Papers delivered by graduate students
Part of the PITHOS initiative ∙ Princeton-Ioannina-Thessaly On-Site Seminars
Monday, September 25, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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

 

Location
Sept 25 103 Scheide Caldwell House, Sept 26 & 27 3-S-15 Green Hall
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Coming into Color: The Cloth Classic, Jiangnan Dyeworks, and the Expansion of Cotton Dyes in Qing China
Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

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
Mara Mills: "Disability as Method" [res. Viktoria Tkaczyk]
Program in Media and Modernity
Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Location
Architecture Building N107
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Reunions Lecture | Siegelands: Art and Warfare in Early Modern Europe
Friday, May 26, 2023, 11:00 am12:00 pm
Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Friends Annual Mary Pitcairn Keating Lecture | Rachael Z. DeLue
Against the Grain, or What We Can Learn from Early American Museums That Got It Wrong
Thursday, May 4, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm

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…

Location
Friend Center 101
Sponsor
Princeton University Art Museum
It Was The Best of Times
A Conference for Deborah Nord
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 8:30 am5:30 pm

Dinner and Celebration, Palmer House 6pm

Free and Open to the Public

Location
East Pyne Building 010
Sponsors
  • Department of English
  • Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Humanities Council
Thinking from Black Part II — The Practicing Refusal Collective
Thursday, April 27, 2023, 7:00 pm8:30 pm

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…

Location
Lewis Arts Complex CoLab
Sponsor
The Collaboratorium
Maritime Buddhist Art of the East Asian “Mediterranean,” ca. 900–1200
Thursday, April 27, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Tang Center for East Asian Art
Conversation: Shamus Khan and Buck Ellison
Empathy and Critique
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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 ApertureArtForum,…

Location
Morrison Hall 224
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Effron Center for the Study of America
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Lewis Center for the Arts
Negative Anthropology: Shakespeare, Sophocles, Freud
Monday, April 24, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm

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 AntigoneLet Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax. The struggle over the rotting remains of the…

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of Comparative Literature
  • Department of German
  • Humanities Council
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • Program in Media and Modernity
Symposium | Psychoanalysis and its Discontents: Reality, Media, and the Subject
Saturday, April 22, 2023, 9:00 am5:30 pm
Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Department of German
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Program in Media and Modernity
  • School of Architecture
Colloquium ∙ News from Aphrodisias: Greek urban culture under the Roman Empire, April 21-22
Friday, April 21, 2023, 1:30 pmSaturday, April 22, 2023, 5:00 pm

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…

Location
Burr Hall 219
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of Classics
  • Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
Ekphrasis: A Collaborative Experiment in Art, Writing and Thinking with Saidiya Hartman, Dionne Brand & Tina Campt
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:00 pm8:30 pm

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…

Location
Lewis Arts Complex CoLab
Sponsor
The Collaboratorium
Munich Museums and the 1939 Silver Plunder
Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm

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…

Location
Burr Hall 219
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Princeton University Art Museum
Janson-La Palme Conference ∙ The Lure of the Machine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, April 14–15
Friday, April 14, 2023, 9:30 amSaturday, April 15, 2023, 5:00 pm

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…

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speakers
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Art Hx Presents | Collectives in Crisis: Healing Through Storytelling with Neil Bardhan
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 12:30 pm1:30 pm

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…

Speakers
Sponsor
Humanities Council
Bridget Alsdorf: "Gawkers" [res. James Welling]
Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Location
Architecture Building N107
Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Trading with the Enemy: Greek Pottery in the Persian World
Thursday, April 6, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
Green Hall 3-S-15
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
Ut ekphrasis pictura: When Words Take Shape in Sir John Chardin’s Drawings of Muhammad’s Tomb in Mecca
Thursday, March 30, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
AIA Lecture | Archaeological Research at the Ancient Ionian City of Notion
Monday, March 20, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
Green Hall 3-S-15
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
Sovereignties of the Imagination: Worlding from the Ethnographic Museum
Thursday, March 2, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Art Hx Presents: A Conversation with Artist Nate Lewis
Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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

Location
185 Nassau Street, James Stewart Film Theater and Live Streamed
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Humanities Council
  • Lewis Center for the Arts
Auerbach's Vico in Translation
Friday, February 24, 2023, 9:30 am11:45 am

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),…

Location
East Pyne Building 011
Sponsors
  • Program in Translation & Intercultural Communiation
  • German Department
  • Princeton Center for Language Study
  • Center for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Program in Judaic Studies
  • Department of English
  • Department of French & Italian
  • Interdisciplinary Doctoral program in the Humanities
The Way of Washi Tales: Conversation + Book Launch
Thursday, February 23, 2023, 6:00 pm7:30 pm

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…

Location
Lewis Arts Complex, Hurley Gallery
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Lewis Arts Center | Program in Theater, Program in Visual Arts
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Active Demonstration with Reception | Museumverse: Incorporating Virtual Reality and Digital Technologies into Art History Research and Curatorial Strategies
Thursday, February 9, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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,…

Location
Green Hall 1-C-4C
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Humanities Council
  • Keller Center
Art Exhibition as Work-in-Progress
The Yanomami Struggle | A Collaboration Between Yanomami Artists and the Photographer Claudia Andujar
Thursday, February 9, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Brazil Lab
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Department of Anthropology
  • Department of Spanish and Portuguese
  • Program in Latin American Studies
  • Humanities Council
  • University Center for Human Values
  • Lewis Center for the Arts
The Falling Sky and The Yanomami Struggle
Tuesday, January 31, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
Chancellor Green Rotunda and Live Streamed
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Brazil Lab
  • Department of Anthropology
  • Department of Art& Archaeology
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Lewis Center for the Arts
  • Pace Center for Civic Engagement
  • High Meadows Environmental Institute
  • University Center for Human Values
  • Humanities Council
  • Program in Latin American Studies
  • Department of Spanish and Portuguese
  • School of Public and International Affairs
  • Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Exhibition | Washitales: An Exhibition by Visual Artist Kyoko Ibe, Jan 30-Mar 5
Monday, January 30, 2023Sunday, March 5, 2023

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

Location
Lewis Arts complex, Hurley Gallery
Sponsors
  • Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Theater
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Think from Black: a Lexicon | Jan 26-28
Thursday, January 26, 2023Saturday, January 28, 2023

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…

Location
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, S. Africa
Sponsors
  • Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class, University of Johannesburg
  • Princeton Collaboratorium
  • The Columbia University Institute for Research on Women and Gender Studies
  • The Columbia Global Centers
  • Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG)
  • National Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences (NIHSS)
  • South African BRICS Think Tank
  • LAPA
  • The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember
Artist Conversation: Samuel Fosso
Thursday, December 15, 2022, 5:30 pm6:30 pm

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…

Location
Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish St., Princeton, and Zoom option
Sponsor
Princeton University Art Museum
Museumverse | Seeing Providence Chinatown
Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 10:00 am11:00 am

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…

Speakers
Sponsor
Humanities Council, Princeton University
Giuliano da Sangallo, Michelangelo, and the Anti-Canon
Thursday, December 8, 2022, 10:00 am10:50 am

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…

Location
Burr Hall 219
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Ten Minutes Later
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
Location
Architecture Building, Betts Auditorium
Speaker
Sponsors
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Humanities Council
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Visual Arts Program, Lewis Center for the Arts
  • Program in Media + Modernity
Rubens’s Saltcellar: On the Generative Power of Nature and (Antwerp’s) Art
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Program in Media and Modernity | Shambhavi Kaul: "Swamp" [Response: Rachel Price]
Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 5:00 pm7:00 pm

Audience: Campus Community

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Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Exhibition Nov. 19–Jan. 29 | PUAM Art on Hulfish | Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts
Saturday, November 19, 2022, 10:00 amSunday, January 29, 2023, 5:00 pm

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…

Location
Art on Hulfish, 11 Hulfish St, Princeton, NJ
Sponsors
  • Princeton University Art Museum in collaboration with The Walther Collection.
  • Exhibition curated by Princeton University Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu with Silma Berrada, Lawrence Chamunorwa, Maia Julis, and Iheanyi Onwuegbucha.
The Matter of Inscription in Early Modern China
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
Jones Hall 202
Speaker
Sponsors
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
  • East Asian Studies Program
Program in Media and Modernity | Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen: "Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition” [Response: Bridget Alsdorf]
Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 5:00 pm7:00 pm

Audience: Campus Community

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Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Water Transformation: Buddhist Meditation and Pure Land Art in Tang China
Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
McCosh Hall 50 and Zoom webinar option
Speaker
Sponsor
P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Looking at Language
Saturday, November 12, 2022

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…

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building A17
Sponsor
Index of Medieval Art
Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Fintan O'Toole
Known and Strange Things: The Political Necessity of Art
Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 4:30 pm6:30 pm

Lecture I: Against Artfulness

Location
Friend Center 101
Sponsor
University Center for Human Values
Tang Center Lecture Series | Meibutsu and the Formation of Japan’s Artistic Canon
Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

Nov 2 Of Meibutsu and Masterpieces

Nov 7 Marketing Meibutsu

Nov 9 From Meibutsu to National Treasures

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
Program in Media and Modernity | Giuliana Bruno: "Atmospheres of Projection"[Response: Sylvia Lavin]
Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 5:00 pm7:00 pm

Audience: Campus Community

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Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Looking at (Index) Language: A Dive into Taxonomy at the Index of Medieval Art
Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

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…

Speakers
Sponsor
Index of Medieval Art, Department of Art & Archaeology
Tang Center Lecture Series | Meibutsu and the Formation of Japan’s Artistic Canon
Monday, November 7, 2022, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

Nov 2 Of Meibutsu and Masterpieces

Nov 7 Marketing Meibutsu

Nov 9 From Meibutsu to National Treasures

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
LUDUS event | Vocal ensemble performance by ModernMedieval Voices | Workshop preceding performance
Saturday, November 5, 2022, 7:00 pm8:30 pm

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:

Location
Seminary Chapel, Princeton Theological Seminary, 64 Mercer St, Princeton, NJ 08540
Speaker
Sponsors
  • LUDUS event sponsored by Humanities Council
  • The "Implications" Symposium is co-sponsored by the Departments of Art & Archaeology, Music, and an Alliance Grant by Columbia University.
Paying Attention: Images of Monuments on Roman Imperial Coins
Friday, November 4, 2022, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Speaker
Sponsors
  • Program in Archaeology, Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Thompson Lecture
Tang Center Lecture Series | Meibutsu and the Formation of Japan’s Artistic Canon
Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

Nov 2 Of Meibutsu and Masterpieces

Nov 7 Marketing Meibutsu

Nov 9 From Meibutsu to National Treasures

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
Workshop | Hardware, Everywhere. An Invitation to a New Field of Media Materialism
Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 12:00 pm1:30 pm

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…

Location
Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building 102 Conference Room C
Speaker
Sponsors
  • German Department
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
  • Center for Collaborative History
  • Program in Media + Modernity
  • Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
  • Program in European Cultural Studies
  • Program in Medieval Studies
Program in Media and Modernity | Wolfgang Schaeffner: "Analog Code" [Response: Joseph Vogl]
Tuesday, November 1, 2022, 5:00 pm7:00 pm

Audience: Campus Community

Please click related link for event updates.

Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
Chryselephantine Couches, Feasting, and Royal Opulence in Hellenistic Macedonia
Thursday, October 27, 2022, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
East Pyne Building 010
Speaker
Sponsor
Department of Art & Archaeology
Photo History's Futures: Monica Bravo
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 5:00 pm6:00 pm

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…

Location
Friend Center 101
Sponsors
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Department of Art & Archaeology
Program in Media and Modernity | Stephen Vider: "The Queerness of Home" [Response: S.E. Eisterer]
Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 5:00 pm7:00 pm

Audience: Campus Community

Please click related link for event updates.

Sponsor
Program in Media and Modernity
*CANCELED* Program in Media and Modernity | Eric Santner: "Untying Things Together" [Response: Brigid Doherty]
Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 5:00 pm7:00 pm

Audience: Campus Community

Please click related link for event updates.

Sponsors
  • Program in Media and Modernity
  • German Department
Artist Conversation: Marianne Nicolson
Friday, October 7, 2022, 2:00 pm3:30 pm

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…

Location
Architecture Building, Betts Auditorium and Zoom option
Speakers
Sponsors
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Institutional Equity and Diversity
  • Office of Religious Life
Photo History’s Futures: Erina Duganne
Thursday, October 6, 2022, 5:30 pm6:30 pm

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, 

Location
Friend Center 101
Sponsors
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Department of Art & Archaeology

Academic Year 2020–2021 Events

Visualizing Dunhuang Book Launch
Wed, May 26, 2021, 12:00 pm1:30 pm

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,…

Encumbrance
Thu, May 20, 2021, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

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.

Abstract

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

Speaker
Archaeology at North Abydos 2018-2020: Burials and Breweries
Thu, May 20, 2021, 2:00 pm3:30 pm
Speaker
Art Hx | Observing the Past: Archives, Interpretation and Practices of Care
Thu, May 6, 2021, 9:00 am10:30 am

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

Speaker
Visual Aesthetics and Shringara Moments in Indian Miniature
Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 11:00 am12:30 pm

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

Speaker
Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome
Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

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

Speaker
Shen Zhou's (1427–1509) Paintings from Life
Wed, Apr 14, 2021, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

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

Speaker
Black Artists and the Fetishization of the 1980s
Thu, Apr 8, 2021, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Speaker
Material Histories of Latin America
Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 12:00 pm2:30 pm

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

Speaker
Art Work: Classifying Artifacts as Official Business in Late Imperial China
Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

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

Speaker
Art Hx: Conversation with Artists Annalee Davis and Julie Gough
Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 8:00 pm8:00 pm

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

Speaker
Our Island Here: Strategies of Relation in Contemporary Art and Curating
Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 6:00 pm8:00 pm

Cosponsor(s): Program in Latin American Studies

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

Speaker
Living with the Dead: Urbanism in the Roman Suburbs
Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

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

Speaker
Proxy and Interstice: Mediating Spaces in Early Modern Central/Eastern Europe
Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 9:00 am3:00 pm

Princeton-Warsaw Symposium

Speaker
The Mercosul Bienal at the Crossroads of COVID-19
Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 5:00 pm6:30 pm

Cosponsor: Program in Latin American Studies

Speaker
The Insurgent Archive: A Conversation on Art and Institutional Practice with Mari Carmen Ramírez and Yasmin Ramirez
Tue, Feb 9, 2021, 5:00 pm6:30 pm

 

Cosponsor: Program in Latin American Studies

Speaker
More than Just Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's Galilee
Fri, Feb 5, 2021, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

 

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

Speaker
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 6:00 pm6:00 pm
Location
Virtual Lecture
Speakers
Political Values, Market Values, Art Values: The Ethics of American Art in the 1980s
Fri, Oct 30, 2020Sat, Oct 31, 2020

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

Location
101 McCormick Hall
Combahee Experimental: Black Women Filmmaking—The Black Surreal
Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 6:00 pm6:00 pm

Cosponsor(s): Lewis Center for the Arts

Location
Virtual Lecture
The Global Plantation Symposium
Thu, Oct 15, 2020Sat, Oct 17, 2020
Location
Online
Speakers
‘I AM A MAN'. and the Writing of Afrotropic Art Histories
Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
Online
Speaker
(A)Synchrony: Recurrence, Reversal, and Resistance
Sun, Aug 30, 2020Tue, Sep 1, 2020
Speaker

Academic Year 2019–2020 Events

Architecture as Art or Science at the End of the 18th Century: the Case of Jean-Jacques Lequeu's Graphic Work
Thu, May 28, 2020, 4:00 pm4:00 pm
Speaker
The Minoan House of the Frescoes at Knossos: The Life and Afterlife of an Excavation
Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

**POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Speaker
Surveying the Museum: Tom Lloyd, Black Study, and the Art Workers’ Coalition
Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

**POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Social Networks of Antiquities Collectors in Northern-Song China: An Experiment in Digital Humanities
Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Iconography Workshop
Fri, Apr 3, 2020Sat, Apr 4, 2020
Speaker
Turnips, Peppers, and Mangoes: Food Symbolism in the People's Republic of China
Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Were They Enslaved? A New Look at Maya Figurines
Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Urban Legends: Moses, Jews, and Africans in Illuminated World Chronicles
Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: The Index of Medieval Art

Speaker
Art, Power, and Resistance in the Middle Ages
Sat, Nov 16, 2019
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Present Tense: The Iconology of Time
Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Art of Assemblage: Auspicious Elegance and Erudition on Display
Thu, Nov 7, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Art of Assemblage: Decorating for Seasons and Status
Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Critical Art Historical Data Visualization
Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 10:00 am1:30 pm

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

Location
104 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Auctioneer's Genre: Digital Approaches to Category Construction and the Rhetoric of the 18th Century Art Market
Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

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

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Building Process and Regola D'arte: A Customized Approach to the Restoration of Historic Masonry
Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Heritage Structures Lab

Location
222 Bowen Hall
Speaker
Tabella Picta: Dedicatory Paintings in Greek and Roman Religion
Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Speaker

Academic Year 2018–2019 Events

"No Woman's Land": A 1929 Expedition to Mount Athos and Meteora
Fri, May 31, 2019, 1:00 pm1:00 pm

Special Reunions Film Screening

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Meanings of Museum Display
Fri, May 31, 2019, 10:00 am10:00 am

Art & Archaeology Reunions Lecture

Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
"No Woman's Land": A 1929 Expedition to Mount Athos and Meteora
Thu, May 2, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Film Screening

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Building Industry of Imperial Rome
Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Illuminating Genji: A Lecture on The Tale of Genji Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: East Asian Studies Program

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Art and its Institutions: A View from London's Somerset House
Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Piranesi's Colossal Candelabra, Totem Poles and Other Varieties of Zoomorphism in the Age of Neoclassicism
Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Black Sphinxes of Tanis
Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Eclecticism at the Edges: Medieval Art and Architecture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Cultural Spheres (c.1300-c.1550)
Fri, Apr 5, 2019Sat, Apr 6, 2019

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

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Art and Global Psychological Modernity
Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Careers in Arts
Wed, Apr 3, 2019, 6:00 pm6:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Albums of Ordinary Faces: Small-size Portraits from Painters' Studios in Late Imperial China
Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: East Asian Studies Program

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Excavations at a Forgotten Female Pharaoh's "Temple of Millions of Years"
Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Subjects Put to the Test. Learning Exercises in Contemporary Art
Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Princeton Garrett 6 Evangelists Revisited
Mon, Mar 11, 2019, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Cartographies of New York and Other Postwar American Cities: Art, Literature and Urban Spaces
Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 12:00 pm12:00 pm
Location
School of Architecture, South Lounge
Speakers
How German Communists Invented French Radical Photography: Regards and Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung (1928-1936)
Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Speaker
Architecture, Ornament and the Qur'an Fragments from the Mosque of San'a' in Yemen
Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Fake Friends: A Symposium on Art History and Comparison
Thu, Nov 29, 2018Fri, Nov 30, 2018
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) methods to map and evaluate buried and architectural remains: examples from around the world
Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
222 Bowen Hall
Speaker
Out of Bounds: Exploring the Limits of Medieval Art
Sat, Nov 17, 2018

Cosponsor: The Index of Medieval Art

The Princeton Battlefield: Public Archaeology Day
Sat, Nov 10, 2018, 9:20 am3:00 pm
Location
Princeton Battlefield State PArk
Speaker
Jerusalem in Biblical Times: Comments on the Archaeology and History of Jerusalem, ca. 1350-100 BCE
Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 5:30 pm5:30 pm

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Location
Institute for Advanced Study
Speaker
Delacroix's Lyric Form
Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Arid Negev Highlands (Southern Israel) in the Iron Age: The Impact of the Exact and Life Sciences
Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 12:00 pm12:00 pm

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Location
103 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Mindmapping: The Diagram Paradigm in the Middle Ages – and Beyond
Thu, Oct 18, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Electric Design: Light, Labor and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising
Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

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

Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Painting Etruscan Tombs and Temples
Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Open House
Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 4:00 pm6:00 pm
Location
McCormick Hall, A Level

Academic Year 2017–2018 Events

The Origins of Art, or Going Back to Old Lascaux
Fri, Jun 1, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Islamic Art, Armenian Art: Connections across Religions
Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

The Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen Lecture

Location
103 Scheide Caldwell House
Speaker
Readings Lectures Performances accompanying the exhibition Hanne Darboven's Address — Place and Time
Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 1:30 pm7:30 pm

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

Location
207 East Pyne
Speaker
Crowd Wisdom: Three Scholars Take on the Multitudes
Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Panel Discussion

Cosponsor: Humanities Council and PUAM

Location
Princeton University Art Museum
Speakers
Mecca’s Perspective as Symbolic Form
Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
“The bullets flew about our ears like handfuls of gravel stones” Archaeology and the Preservation of Battlefields of the American War of Independence
Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America battle

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Velazquez, Aesop, and War
Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Eberhard L. Faber Memorial Lecture

Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
On the magnitude of the gods in materialist theology, epic poetry, and Greek art
Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Subverting the Façade: Paris Architecture between Haussmann and Radical Modernism
Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Urban Gardening in Early Medieval Italy
Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

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

The Clayburgh Lecture

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Heart's Double
Thu, Mar 1, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Postclassicisms: Archaeology
Fri, Feb 23, 2018Sat, Feb 24, 2018

Open to Princeton faculty and students only

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

A Short History of “Black Painting” (Hei hua): A Counter Tradition in Chinese Art
Thu, Feb 15, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art

Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
1973; or the Arche of Neoliberalism
Thu, Feb 8, 2018, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Courting Failure in the Arab Hall
Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 12:00 pm12:00 pm
Location
2N10 Green Hall
Speaker
After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the 10-11th Centuries
Thu, Nov 30, 2017Sat, Dec 2, 2017

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…

Imperial Visual Propaganda: Claims of Legitimacy in the Byzantine Paris Psalter
Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Unraveling the Mysteries of Jan van Eyck’s Late Paintings
Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Cultural Histories of “Orientalizing” Crete
Fri, Oct 20, 2017, 1:30 pm1:30 pm

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

Speaker
Rethinking “Pictorialism”: American Art and Photography from 1895 to 1925
Fri, Oct 20, 2017Sat, Oct 21, 2017
Location
101 McCormick Hall
The Index at 100: Iconography In A New Century
Sat, Oct 14, 2017
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Roundtable Discussion
Thu, Oct 12, 2017, 12:00 pm1:20 pm

Cosponsor: East Asian Studies

Location
103 McCormick Hall
Speakers
The Lost Lives of Greek Vases
Thu, Oct 5, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker

Academic Year 2016–2017 Events

The Medieval Treasury across Frontiers and Generations: The Kingdom of León-Castilla in the Context of Muslim-Christian Interchange (c. 1050-1200)
Fri, May 19, 2017Sat, May 20, 2017

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

Nezu Ka’ichirō's Buddha Heads, Yamanaka Sadajirō, and Tianlongshan's Sculptural Diaspora
Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

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

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
From Ife to Ifranji: Materials in a World System, circa 1300
Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Pathos, Symptom, Expression: Laocoon in Europe, 16th to 20th Centuries
Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
McCormick Hall
Speaker
Christian Time in Early Modern Europe
Fri, Apr 7, 2017, 9:00 amSat, Apr 8, 2017, 5:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall
Speaker
Symposium: The Berlin Painter and his World
Sat, Apr 1, 2017, 9:00 am5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Agents of Changes in the Material Culture of the Empire: Technical and Aesthetical Innovations at the Abbasid Court
Wed, Mar 15, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
McCormick Hall
Speaker
Investigating a Minoan Coastal Town in East Crete: New Work at Palaikastro, 2012-16
Thu, Mar 2, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Michelangelo and paper as palimpsest: drawings, letters, records, and sonnets
Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Alberti's Eye - The Body of Vision
Fri, Dec 9, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Council of the Humanities

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Once again, Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I
Wed, Dec 7, 2016, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Oil, Amber, Fire, Smoke: Greek Art beyond Materials
Thu, Dec 1, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Abydos, Egypt: Landscape of Kings, Landscape of Myth
Mon, Nov 14, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
A History of Detail
Thu, Nov 10, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Africa and Europe: Rethinking Medieval and Early Modern Artistic Engagements and Cross-Currencies
Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Xenophon in a Pontic Landscape: Settlement Models for the Iron Age in the Kırkgeçit çayı Drainage, Sinop (Turkey)
Mon, Oct 17, 2016
Speaker
The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons
Tue, Oct 11, 2016, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Colloquium: The Modernity of Sculpture
Sat, Oct 8, 2016, 9:00 am5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Visualization of Political Rhetoric in the Reign of Nerva
Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker

Academic Year 2015–2016 Events

Eternal Obelisk: Egyptian, Christian, Modern
Fri, May 27, 2016, 11:00 am11:00 am
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Plus Ça Change. . . ? The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography
Fri, Apr 29, 2016

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

Location
Betts Auditorium
Reading Mile High: Frank Lloyd Wright Takes on Chicago 1956
Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
SCALE
Sat, Apr 16, 2016

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

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Inventing Lutheran Iconography: Ornament, Style and the Passion
Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Meaning of Early Greek Images (11th-7th Centuries BC)
Mon, Apr 11, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Actuality, Potentiality, and Renaissance Classicism
Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
East Meets West? Cosmas Indicopleustes’ Christian Topography and the Codex Amiatinus
Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Black-Figure on the Black Sea: Athenian Pottery from Berezan
Mon, Feb 29, 2016, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Images and Codes: The Problem of Reading Art
Sat, Feb 27, 2016

Tang Center for East Asian Art

Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Making Faces in Medieval Iberia
Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Princeton Index's "Medium" and the Immaterial Nature of Digital Work: Manuscripts Reassessed
Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Agency of Models: Holy Sepulchres, Hagia Sophias, Jerusalems
Thu, Feb 18, 2016, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
ISIS and the Cultural Heritage Crisis of Syria, Iraq, and Yemen
Fri, Feb 12, 2016

Cosponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Problems of Painterliness in Early Medieval Art: The Case of Ottonian Cologne
Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Aphrodisias in Caria: Recent Work, New Finds
Wed, Dec 9, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Program in the Ancient World

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Problem(?) of Carolingian Gospel Narrative
Thu, Nov 19, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Visualizing Dunhuang
Fri, Nov 13, 2015Sat, Nov 14, 2015

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

Location
McCosh 50
Speaker
Hauarra: A Trajanic Auxiliary Fort on the Arabian Frontier in Jordan
Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Teaching Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century: Text and Image
Fri, Oct 23, 2015Sat, Oct 24, 2015

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

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Shared Romanitas: Roman Imperial Cameos in the Byzantine East and Latin West
Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Shape of Byzantine Art in the Index of Christian Art
Mon, Oct 12, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
A6 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Cazzon da mulo - Wit and Irony in Michelangelo da Caravaggio’s “Boy Bitten by a Lizard”
Thu, Sep 24, 2015, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker

Academic Year 2014–2015 Events

A Short History of Rome's Pantheon: Rebuilt in Antiquity, Reused in the Middle Ages, Rediscovered in the Renaissance
Fri, May 29, 2015, 11:00 am11:00 am
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Discussion
Mon, May 4, 2015, 4:45 pm4:45 pm
Location
111 East Pyne
Speaker
Discovering Icons at Sinai: From Uspenskij to Weitzmann
Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
A New Look: Sinai and Its Icons in Light of the Digitization of the Weitzmann Archive
Fri, Apr 17, 2015Sat, Apr 18, 2015
Speaker
Secondary Literature in the Reading of Bronze Inscriptions
Fri, Apr 3, 2015, 10:00 am10:00 am
Location
104 McCormick Hall
Speaker
More than Dirt: Princeton and Archaeology
Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 1:30 pm4:00 pm

Cosponsor: Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Location
103 Scheide Caldwell House
Palaeography, Phonology, and Methodological Reflections
Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 10:00 am10:00 am
Location
104 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Raised to Glory, Crowned with Gold: German Nuns and Their Statues in the Late Middle Ages
Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Discussion
Fri, Feb 27, 2015, 4:45 pm4:45 pm

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

Location
105 Chancellor Green
Speaker
Reconstructing Excavated Manuscripts
Fri, Feb 20, 2015, 10:00 am10:00 am
Location
104 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Four Moments Revisited: Kongo in the American Imaginary
Mon, Nov 17, 2014, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

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

Location
101 McCormick Hall
Kongo or Congo? Violence, Modernism, and the Visual Unconscious of Belgian Colonialism, 1897-2013
Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 5:30 pm5:30 pm

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

Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Ma kisi nsi: Kongo a Sansala Art
Mon, Oct 13, 2014, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

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

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Discussion
Fri, Oct 3, 2014, 4:45 pm4:45 pm
Location
105 Chancellor Green
Speaker

Academic Year 2013–2014 Events

Ancient Egyptian Pictorial Representation
Tue, May 6, 2014, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Speaker
Constructions of Difference in the Spanish Painting of Siglo de Oro: Joseph's Coat and Vulcan's Forge by Velázquez
Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Neither Breakthrough nor Breakdown: Episodes From a History of Medieval Abstraction
Tue, Apr 15, 2014, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Location
Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Speaker
The Matter of Writing
Fri, Mar 7, 2014, 1:00 pm6:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Discussion
Thu, Mar 6, 2014, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
105 Chancellor Green
Speaker
Paul Klee, Wilhelm Hausenstein, and the 'Problem of Style'
Tue, Feb 25, 2014, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Location
Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Speaker
Orientations of Renaissance Art
Mon, Dec 9, 2013, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Location
Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Speaker
Contemporary Islamic Art after September 11
Wed, Nov 20, 2013
Speaker
Obsolescence, History, and the Contradictions of Sustainability
Tue, Oct 15, 2013, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Pictorial Citation in Song China: Theory and Practice
Mon, Oct 7, 2013, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art and Program in East Asian Studies

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Discussion
Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 4:45 pm4:45 pm
Location
105 Chancellor Green
Speaker
Discussion
Wed, Feb 6, 2013, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
Princeton University Art Museum
Speaker
Malevich's Nervous System
Mon, Feb 4, 2013, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Location
Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Speaker

Academic Year 2012–2013 Events

It Doesn't Look Like Leonardo: Science, Connoisseurship, and Circumstance in the Attribution of Works of Art
Mon, Apr 15, 2013
Speaker
The Ubiquitous Exhibition: Magazines, Museums and the Reproducible Exhibition after World War II
Tue, Apr 9, 2013, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Speaker
Caravaggio: A Case Study in Art Historical Methodology
Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Why Art History Matters: Politics, Ethics and Objects
Fri, Mar 8, 2013, 5:00 pmSat, Mar 9, 2013, 9:30 am
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
How to Occupy an Image
Tue, Mar 5, 2013, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Location
Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Speaker
Family Matters--The Strange Case of the 'Poetic Ideas' Scroll Attributed to Mi Youren and Sima Huai
Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Aesthetic Turn: A New Concept of 'Theory of Art'
Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Program in European Cultural Studies, Department of French and Italian

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Up Close and Far Away: Artists, Memorialization and Uganda's Troubled Past
Mon, Dec 10, 2012, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Location
Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Speaker
Impossible Design: Porsena's Tomb and French Visionary Architecture
Tue, Dec 4, 2012, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam, and Beyond
Wed, Nov 14, 2012
Speaker
Recognition: Theme and Meta-Theme in Northern Renaissance Art
Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study

Speaker

Academic Year 2011–2012 Events

Art and Science in America: Intersections and Collisions
Fri, Jun 1, 2012, 3:00 pm3:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Crowded Walls: 20th-Century Nostalgia for 19th-Century Installation
Tue, Apr 3, 2012, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Speaker
The End of the -ist and the Future of Art History
Fri, Mar 30, 2012Sat, Mar 31, 2012
Preaching, Burying and Building in the Italian Medieval City
Tue, Mar 6, 2012, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
In Art, More Alive than in Reality: Imagining Objects in Ancient Greece
Wed, Feb 29, 2012, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Tue, Jan 24, 2012, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

University of California, Berkeley

Location
Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Speaker
At Death's Door
Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Speaker
Model Soviets
Mon, Dec 5, 2011, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
The Court of Saint Peter's: An Early Christian Church Atrium as a Place of Memory
Mon, Nov 21, 2011, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Figuring the Renaissance: Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo, and Their Critics
Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Speaker
Postcolonial Urbanisms and the Uncertain Majority
Fri, Nov 4, 2011, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Vantage Points: Andeans, Europeans, and the Arts of Construction in Colonial Quito
Thu, Oct 6, 2011, 5:00 pm5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Vantage Points: Andeans, Europeans, and the Arts of Construction in Colonial Quito
Mon, Sep 26, 2011, 6:00 pm6:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker

Academic Year 2010–2011 Events

New Faces of Nature: Colossal Buddhas of Sichuan
Wed, Apr 13, 2011, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Drawing a Blank: Past and Present
Fri, Apr 8, 2011Sat, Apr 9, 2011
The Practical Logic of Style and Memory in Early First Millennium Levantine Ivories
Tue, Apr 5, 2011, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
King and Clown: Mimesis in Pre-Columbian Maya Art
Thu, Mar 24, 2011, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University Art Museum

Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Being There: Photography as Habitation in Photo-texts by Wright Morris
Tue, Feb 8, 2011, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Giorgione and His Times: Confronting Alternate Realities
Sat, Dec 11, 2010, 9:00 am9:00 am
Location
101 McCormick Hall
Alassa: A Late Bronze Age Town on the Mountains of Alasiya, Cyprus
Mon, Nov 8, 2010, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Paul Strand and the Cold War
Wed, Oct 20, 2010, 4:00 pm4:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker
Paradise Lost-Paradise Regained, Tomatso Shomei's Photographic Engagement with Okinawa
Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall
Speaker