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2019-2020 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize

Princeton

Are you a collector of books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, recordings, coins, or other materials collected by libraries? Submit an essay about your collection for a chance to win the 2019-2020 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize, which is awarded annually to an undergraduate student who shows the most thought and ingenuity in assembling a thematically […]

Urban Legends: Moses, Jews, and Africans in Illuminated World Chronicles

106 McCormick NJ

Moses gives a magical ring to his wife, the Ethiopian princess Tharbis. The patriarch is smitten with this lady, who is depicted wearing the most fashionable accoutrements of the late Middle Ages. Earlier in the same story, Moses is welcomed and protected at the Egyptian royal court, despite full knowledge of – and preoccupation with […]

States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing

Princeton University Art Museum Princeton

The Being Human Festival 2019 of the Humanities Council will support three Princeton University Art Museum activities surrounding a new exhibition, States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing. The exhibition features over 80 globe-spanning works of art, from antiquity to the present—including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, and works in mixed media—that collectively illuminate the role […]

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