Academic Year 2017–2018

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.

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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