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July 30, 2020 • 74 mins
Content Warning: This recording contains mentions of racial trauma, violence against Black and Brown people and racial slurs that can be disturbing or triggering.
The second event of the BSR Fine Arts Talks | Talk Justice series will be a conversation between artist Phoebe Boswell (Bridget Riley Fellow 2019) and Dr Angelica Pesarini (NYU Florence). Pesarini, whose research is dedicated to the analysis of the intersections of race, g...
The second event of the BSR Fine Arts Talks | Talk Justice series will be a conversation between artist Phoebe Boswell (Bridget Riley Fellow 2019) and Dr Angelica Pesarini (NYU Florence). Pesarini, whose research is dedicated to the analysis of the intersections of race, g...
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A lecture by Nikolaos Karydis (Kent; BSR).
This lecture explores the development of the Ripa Grande, the main river port of Rome during the Early Modern period. This port was destroyed in the 19th century. The lecture, offers an opportunity to visualise its lost phases on the basis of vedutte drawn from the 15th to the 18th century. Comparative analysis of an unprecedented number of engravings, drawings and paintings and their int...
This lecture explores the development of the Ripa Grande, the main river port of Rome during the Early Modern period. This port was destroyed in the 19th century. The lecture, offers an opportunity to visualise its lost phases on the basis of vedutte drawn from the 15th to the 18th century. Comparative analysis of an unprecedented number of engravings, drawings and paintings and their int...
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July 21, 2020 • 52 mins
Keynote by Edward Corp (Toulouse) for the conference Alla Corte della Cancelleria: Pietro Ottoboni e la politica delle arti nella Roma del Settecento
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July 21, 2020 • 60 mins
Molly Cotton Lecture by Francesco Sirano (Herculaneum)
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July 21, 2020 • 57 mins
A lecture by Spencer de Grey (Foster + Partners).
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July 21, 2020 • 82 mins
A lecture by Gabriele Cifani (École normale supérieure, Paris). Part of the City of Rome Lecture Series.
L’economia romana tra l’VIII e il IV secolo a.C. è generalmente ricostruita in termini marcatamente primitivisti, con un ruolo preponderante attribuito all’agricoltura e con ridotte attività di produzione e di scambi commerciali. Tale vulgata, tuttora presente in particolare nella manualistica anglosassone, mal si concilia con ...
L’economia romana tra l’VIII e il IV secolo a.C. è generalmente ricostruita in termini marcatamente primitivisti, con un ruolo preponderante attribuito all’agricoltura e con ridotte attività di produzione e di scambi commerciali. Tale vulgata, tuttora presente in particolare nella manualistica anglosassone, mal si concilia con ...
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July 21, 2020 • 52 mins
A lecture by Ginette Vagenheim (Rouen-Normandie) as part of the City of Rome lecture series.
After the catastrophic Tiber flood of 1557, control over the river and repairs to the aqueducts represented the major urban issues that needed to be resolved in the context of Rome’s renovation. Massive public works were commissioned, namely around Castel Sant’Angelo and for the reconstruction of the aqueduct named “Acqua Vergine”. These pr...
After the catastrophic Tiber flood of 1557, control over the river and repairs to the aqueducts represented the major urban issues that needed to be resolved in the context of Rome’s renovation. Massive public works were commissioned, namely around Castel Sant’Angelo and for the reconstruction of the aqueduct named “Acqua Vergine”. These pr...
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A lecture by Ania Kotarba-Morley.
The Red Sea region is hostile to long-shore nautical activity as it lacks natural topographic features that could be used as harbours; only a few suitable bays for landing, where the wadi mouths allow the break in the reef, are located on its coasts. However, experiencing seasonally variable winds and currents parts of the Red Sea constituted favourable ground for maritime voyaging, contact and tr...
The Red Sea region is hostile to long-shore nautical activity as it lacks natural topographic features that could be used as harbours; only a few suitable bays for landing, where the wadi mouths allow the break in the reef, are located on its coasts. However, experiencing seasonally variable winds and currents parts of the Red Sea constituted favourable ground for maritime voyaging, contact and tr...
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July 21, 2020 • 65 mins
A lecture by Nicholas Purcell (Oxford). Part
of the City of Rome Lecture Series
of the City of Rome Lecture Series
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July 21, 2020 • 67 mins
A lecture by Paolo Liverani (Firenze). Part of the City of Rome lecture series.
Il progetto di ricerca sul Laterano antico fino alle soglie del medioevo vede insieme le università di Newcastle e Firenze con il determinante sostegno della British School di Roma, dei Musei Vaticani e la collaborazione dell’Istituto per le Tecnologie Applicate ai Beni Culturali del CNR italiano. I rilievi dell’area lateranense strettamente intesa son...
Il progetto di ricerca sul Laterano antico fino alle soglie del medioevo vede insieme le università di Newcastle e Firenze con il determinante sostegno della British School di Roma, dei Musei Vaticani e la collaborazione dell’Istituto per le Tecnologie Applicate ai Beni Culturali del CNR italiano. I rilievi dell’area lateranense strettamente intesa son...
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A lecture by Stefano Camporeale (Siena) part of the City of Rome Lecture Series.
With the co-ordination of the Soprintendenza of Rome, a research team carried out in 2013-17 an archaeological study and restoration programme of the northern substructures of the Domus Tiberiana. Through stratigraphic, technical and structural analyses of this complex, new data has emerged on the function and different phases of the various rooms and...
With the co-ordination of the Soprintendenza of Rome, a research team carried out in 2013-17 an archaeological study and restoration programme of the northern substructures of the Domus Tiberiana. Through stratigraphic, technical and structural analyses of this complex, new data has emerged on the function and different phases of the various rooms and...
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July 21, 2020 • 62 mins
A lecture by Eloisa Dodero (Musei Capitolini) as part of the City of Rome lecture series.
L’istituzione del Museo Capitolino con i due chirografi di papa Clemente XII del dicembre 1733 rappresenta un episodio di grande importanza nel panorama culturale dell’Europa del Settecento. Prototipo del museo moderno, per la razionalizzazione degli spazi espositivi, l’apertura al pubblico dei giovani artisti, la creazione di nuove figure pr...
L’istituzione del Museo Capitolino con i due chirografi di papa Clemente XII del dicembre 1733 rappresenta un episodio di grande importanza nel panorama culturale dell’Europa del Settecento. Prototipo del museo moderno, per la razionalizzazione degli spazi espositivi, l’apertura al pubblico dei giovani artisti, la creazione di nuove figure pr...
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July 21, 2020 • 52 mins
Tomaso Binga in conversation with Raffaella Perna (Sapienza) followed by a performance. Part of the BSR Fine Arts Talk Gender Series
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July 21, 2020 • 68 mins
A talk by John Walter as part of the BSR Fine Arts Talk Gender Series
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July 20, 2020 • 49 mins
BSR-Institute of Classical Studies Rome-London Lecture by Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck).
Volney’s hugely influential work Les Ruines (1791) had a profound effect on responses to ruins, not just those of exotic Palmyra (with which Volney’s treatise opens) but also the more familiar ruins of Rome. Les Ruines plays a small but crucial role in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Her later writing, especially works composed in or about Rome (...
Volney’s hugely influential work Les Ruines (1791) had a profound effect on responses to ruins, not just those of exotic Palmyra (with which Volney’s treatise opens) but also the more familiar ruins of Rome. Les Ruines plays a small but crucial role in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Her later writing, especially works composed in or about Rome (...
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July 20, 2020 • 93 mins
Round table with Alan Williams (National Collection of Aerial Photography), Elizabeth J. Shepherd (Aerofototeca Nazionale-ICCD) and Alessandra Giovenco (BSR).
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July 20, 2020 • 49 mins
A lecture by Ian Campbell (QUB)
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July 20, 2020 • 41 mins
Society for Renaissance Studies Lecture by Jane Grogan (UCD).
This paper introduces a long-forgotten Tudor figure, William Barker, and argues for his significance to our understanding of post-Reformation English Renaissance culture. Sometime Cambridge scholar, traveller to Italy, and accomplished translator from ancient Greek, Barker became a key figure in the ill-fated Ridolfi plot (which sought to put Mary Queen of Scots on Eliz...
This paper introduces a long-forgotten Tudor figure, William Barker, and argues for his significance to our understanding of post-Reformation English Renaissance culture. Sometime Cambridge scholar, traveller to Italy, and accomplished translator from ancient Greek, Barker became a key figure in the ill-fated Ridolfi plot (which sought to put Mary Queen of Scots on Eliz...
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July 20, 2020 • 68 mins
A lecture by Andrew Hopkins (Università degli Studi Dell’Aquila)
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July 20, 2020 • 71 mins
A lecture by Robin Lane Fox (Oxford), co-organised with the American Academy in Rome as part of the 2018 Jerome Lecture Series.
The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. They are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. In 2018, the forty-fifth year of the lecture series, Robin ...
The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. They are presented at both the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. In 2018, the forty-fifth year of the lecture series, Robin ...
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