Academic Year 2017–2018

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The Origins of Art, or Going Back to Old Lascaux
Fri, Jun 1, 2018, 4:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Hal Foster
Princeton University
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Islamic Art, Armenian Art: Connections across Religions
Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 4:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

The Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen Lecture

Location
103 Scheide Caldwell House

Speaker

Helen J. Evans
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Readings Lectures Performances accompanying the exhibition Hanne Darboven's Address — Place and Time
Fri, Apr 27, 2018, 1:30 pm – 7:30 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

Seth Cluett, Nick Mauss, Ken Okiishi
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Crowd Wisdom: Three Scholars Take on the Multitudes
Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 4:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Panel Discussion

Cosponsor: Humanities Council and PUAM

Location
Princeton University Art Museum

Speakers

  • Bonnie Bassler
    Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair Department of Molecular Biology
  • Bridget Alsdorf
    Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology
  • Göran Blix
    ssociate professor of French and Italian
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Mecca’s Perspective as Symbolic Form
Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 4:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Avinoam Shalem
Columbia University
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“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 pm – 4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America battle

Location
106 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Wade Catts
Principal, South River Heritage Consulting, LLC
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Velazquez, Aesop, and War
Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 5:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Cosponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Eberhard L. Faber Memorial Lecture

Location
101 McCormick Hall

Speaker

T. J. Clark
University of California, Berkeley
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On the magnitude of the gods in materialist theology, epic poetry, and Greek art
Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 4:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Guy Hedreen
Williams College
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Subverting the Façade: Paris Architecture between Haussmann and Radical Modernism
Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 5:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Jean-Louis Cohen
Institute of Fine Arts NYU
Goodson Lecture
Urban Gardening in Early Medieval Italy
Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 4:30 pm – 4:30 pm

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

The Clayburgh Lecture

Location
106 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Caroline Goodson
University of Cambridge
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The Heart's Double
Thu, Mar 1, 2018, 4:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Ivan Drpić
University of Pennsylvania
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Postclassicisms: Archaeology
Fri, Feb 23, 2018 – Sat, Feb 24, 2018

Open to Princeton faculty and students only

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

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

Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art

Location
101 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Wu Hung
University of Chicago
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1973; or the Arche of Neoliberalism
Thu, Feb 8, 2018, 4:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Location
106 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Pamela Lee
Stanford University
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Courting Failure in the Arab Hall
Mon, Dec 11, 2017, 12:00 pm – 12:00 pm
Location
2N10 Green Hall

Speaker

Mary Roberts
University of Sydney
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After the Carolingians: Manuscript Illumination in the 10-11th Centuries
Thu, Nov 30, 2017 – Sat, 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…

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Imperial Visual Propaganda: Claims of Legitimacy in the Byzantine Paris Psalter
Tue, Nov 14, 2017, 5:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Ioli Kalavrezou
Harvard University
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Unraveling the Mysteries of Jan van Eyck’s Late Paintings
Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 5:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Maryan Ainsworth
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Cultural Histories of “Orientalizing” Crete
Fri, Oct 20, 2017, 1:30 pm – 1:30 pm

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

Speaker

Antonis Kotsonas
University of Cincinnati
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Rethinking “Pictorialism”: American Art and Photography from 1895 to 1925
Fri, Oct 20, 2017 – Sat, Oct 21, 2017
Location
101 McCormick Hall
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The Index at 100: Iconography In A New Century
Sat, Oct 14, 2017
Location
101 McCormick Hall
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Roundtable Discussion
Thu, Oct 12, 2017, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm

Cosponsor: East Asian Studies

Location
103 McCormick Hall

Speakers

  • Tetsuro Hishida
    Kyoto Prefectural University
    Archaeology and the Early Japanese State “State Formation and the Introduction of Buddhism to Japan: An Archaeological Perspective”
  • Ken’ichi Sasaki
    Meiji University
    “Center and Periphery in Early State Formation in Japan”
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The Lost Lives of Greek Vases
Thu, Oct 5, 2017, 4:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America

Location
106 McCormick Hall

Speaker

Sheramy Bundrick
University of South Florida St. Petersburg