Please find below details of events to be held at the British School at Rome over the next three months. Please note that this programme of events is subject to change. Visit our website www.bsr.ac.uk for updated information.

 

 

Wednesday 14 October 18.00–19.30

Il Grande Progetto Pompei: lavori in corso e prospettive

Massimo Osanna (Soprintendenza Speciale Beni Archaeologici Pompei Ercolano Stabia)

 

Thursday 15 October 18.00–19.30 

Climate change and sustainability: the UK and Expo Milano 2015

Wolfgang Buttress: a presentation on his award-winning design for the UK pavilion at Expo Milano, the Hive

followed by a lecture by  Professor Lord Stern of Brentford: A world economy in profound structural change and the logic, urgency and promise of tackling climate change

 

Wednesday 21 October 18.00–19.30 

Elite art in the age of populism

Julian Stallabrass (Courtauld)

 

Wednesday 28 October 18.00–19.30 

BSR–Corning Museum of Glass David Whitehouse Memorial Lecture:

The secrets of Venetian Renaissance glass as disclosed by analytical investigations

Marco Verità (Ca’ Foscari)

 

Wednesday 4 November 18.00–19.30

Roman noses: smell and the senses in ancient Rome

Mark Bradley (Nottingham; BSR)

 

Wednesday 11 November 18.00–19.30

An American artist on the Grand Tour: Benjamin West in Italy 1760–3

Loyd Grossman (BSR)

 

Tuesday 17 November 18.00–19.30

Imagining Portus. Computer graphic reconstruction of the Palazzo Imperiale and shipyard excavated by the Portus Project 2007–2014

Simon Keay (BSR; Southampton), Grant Cox (Southampton), Christina Triantafillou (Southampton), Janet DeLaine (Oxford) and Graeme Earl (Southampton)

 

Wednesday 18 November 14.00–19.30

Diplomatici e Letterati nel XVIII Secolo

A colloquium on literature and diplomacy in the eighteenth century, held in Italian. The keynote lecture ‘Italian books in Eighteenth-Century Britain: readers, collectors, publishers’ will be presented in English by Carlo Caruso. Colloquium organised by Carlo Caruso (Durham; BSR), Beatrice Alfonzetti (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Francesca Fedi (Pisa), Silvia Tatti (Sapienza, Università di Roma) and Duccio Tongiorgi (Modena e Emilia Reggio).

 

Monday 23 November 16.00–18.00

The archaeology of the Lateran Basilica: a view from below

Ian Haynes (Newcastle)

Chaired by Paolo Liverani (Firenze). Plenary lecture at the conference

Concilium Lateranense IV.

Commemorating the Octocentenary of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.

For full programme see

http://lateraniv.com

 

Wednesday 25 November 18.00–19.30

‘Italia illustrata’. The interaction of topographical descriptions and cartography in the works of Flavio Biondo and Leandro Alberti

Tanja Michalsky (Bibliotheca Hertziana)

 

Wednesday 9 December 18.00–19.30

In the shadow of the dome: Richard Rogers and the urban Renaissance

Caspar Pearson (BSR; Essex)

 

Thursday 10 December 18.00–19.30

Culture and genocide

Robert Bevan

This lecture is the first event in the new programme of architecture lectures and exhibitions, Meeting Architecure III — Fragments

 

Friday 11 December 18.30–21.00

December Mostra

Opening of exhibition of works by current Fine Arts award-holders at the BSR.

Studio visits the following week are by appointment only. Please contact [log in to unmask]

 

Wednesday 16 December 18.00–19.30

Whores and the House of Caesar

Tom Holland

A talk by the author of the acclaimed bestseller Rubicon, following the highly anticipated publication of Dynasty: the Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar.