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Past Conference Events

December 3, 2022 · 9:00 am6:00 pm · A71 Louis A. Simpson Building

How did they learn? How did they teach?: Exploring Knowledge Transmission from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern

Program in Medieval Studies; Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

View Grand Gallery of the Louvre in Ruins

November 11, 2021November 12, 2021 · Zoom

Dante’s Lasting Presence in Popular Culture

Department of French and Italian

November 6, 2021 · 10:00 am6:00 pm · A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building

Fragments, Art, and Meaning in the Middle Ages

Various speakers

Index of Medieval Art

October 9, 2021 · 8:30 am3:00 pm · Zoom

Idyll and Utopia: A Virtual Zoom Conference—Day 2

Department of German; Program in European Cultural Studies; Department of Classics; Department of Art and Archaeology; Department of Comparative Literature; Program in Media and Modernity

October 8, 2021 · 9:00 am3:00 pm · Zoom

Idyll and Utopia: A Virtual Zoom Conference—Day 1

Department of German; Program in European Cultural Studies; Department of Classics; Department of Art and Archaeology; Department of Comparative Literature; Program in Media and Modernity

September 17, 2021 · 12:00 pmSeptember 18, 2021 · 3:30 pm · Virtual (Zoom link to be sent to those who register)

Amassing Perspectives: Recent Trends in Syriac Iconography

Department of Art and Archaeology; Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity; Center for Collaborative History

June 4, 2021June 6, 2021 · Virtual

Conference | Global Publishing and the Making of Literary Worlds: Translation, Media, and Mobility

Fung Global Fellows Program, PIIRS; Princeton University Press; International Comparative Literature Association

April 15, 2021 · 9:15 am · Zoom

Conference: Writing the Region: Knowledge, Practice and Power in South Asia

Keynote: Lisa Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania

Program in South Asian Studies (PIIRS); M.S. Chadha Center for Global India; Humanities Council;

April 9, 2021April 10, 2021 · TBD

POSTPONED: It was the Best of Times: A Conference for Deborah Nord

Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies


March 4, 2021March 5, 2021 · Livestream

Minnette De Silva: Constructive Dialogues

School of Architecture

February 20, 2021 · 9:30 am12:00 pm · Zoom

One Begins Again: Organizing & the Historical Imagination

Department of African American Studies; Rutgers University

November 13, 2020 · 2:00 pm4:00 pm · via YouTube

Clarice Lispector, 100 Years: A Tribute to Her Life and Work

Brazil LAB; Program in Creative Writing; Humanities Council

October 30, 2020October 31, 2020 · via Zoom

Political Values, Market Values, Art Values: The Ethics of American Art in the 1980s

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

October 22, 2020 · 9:00 amOctober 23, 2020 · 2:00 pm · Zoom and Facebook

Rethinking Concrete: Material Conventions in the Anthropocene

School of Architecture, Council on Science and Technology, Metropolis Project

May 8, 2020May 9, 2020 · via Zoom

Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health

Organizer: Keith Wailoo, History

Department of History; American Association for the History of Medicine

May 7, 2020May 9, 2020 ·

Conference: Language and Migration: Experience and Memory

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; Humanities Council; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of English; Lewis Center for the Arts; University Center for Human Values

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