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Princeton French Film Festival

Various Princeton

The French and Francophone Society, along with its generous partners at Princeton University and beyond, are thrilled to invite you all to the first-ever Princeton French Film Festival, happening from April 16th to 28th at various venues across our campus. A unique opportunity to discover the richness and diversity of Francophone cultures through the magic […]

Roman Citizenship and its Value in the Roman Empire until and after the Constitutio Antoniniana

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Civitas Romana (Roman citizenship) was a key instrument of Roman imperial policy of expansion in the Mediterranean area and beyond it. From Augustus to the age of the Severans (roughly 1st-beginning 3rd cent. AD) it has been acquired by many provincial non-Romans (peregrini), who have been thus gradually integrated into the mechanism of Roman rule […]

Munich Museums and the 1939 Silver Plunder

219 Aaron Burr Hall

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 accessions in the 1950s and 1960s, […]

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