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SoA Spring Lecture "Plants as Inventors"

Catherine Seavitt is Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design. She is also the Martin and Margy…

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3.31.22 Embodying the Virgin Mary, Christ, and the Nation: A Contemporary Lebanese Female Mystic

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Engage 2021 - Celebrate Princeton Innovation (Part 1)

Part 1 of 3 - Dean for Research Pablo Debenedetti, Provost Deborah Prentice, and Vice Dean for Innovation Rodney Priestley lead the opening remarks for keynote speaker Ed Felten. Anne-Marie Maman,…

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2020-21 ODP Series with Susan J. Wolfson - Pride and Prejudice: not altogether ‘light & bright & sparkling’

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Power and Paint: The Patronage of Women Artists at the Court of Catherine II

Catherine the Great’s passion for the arts served a vital role in her efforts to position herself as a paragon of the Enlightenment. With avaricious focus she snaffled celebrated art…

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The Hermitage or a “museum” in 1770 according to Catherine the Great

Why did Catherine the Great build the entire complex of the Hermitage ? This question could constitute the main thread in our presentation. Behind the origins of the Hermitage was the initial idea of…

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How to be a European: Collecting Drawings in Imperial Russia

Catherine the Great founded the now internationally-renowned drawings collection of the Hermitage Museum with the purchase in 1768 of the cabinet of Count Charles Cobenzl (Brussels). At a time when…

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Sexuality and Human Flourishing

Sexuality and Human Flourishing

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