April 2009

Thursday 2nd
18.00

City of Rome lecture series
In Italian

Andrea Carandini and Daniela Bruno (Università di Roma, ‘La Sapienza’)
La Casa di Augusto. Procedura di ricostruzione e novità

Wednesday 8th
18.00

City of Rome lecture series

Marden Nichols (University of Cambridge/BSR Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar)
The Odyssey frieze: on Roman time

Wednesday 15th
18.00

City of Rome lecture series
In Italian

Filippo Coarelli (Università di Perugia)
Equus Domitiani

Wednesday 22nd
18.00

City of Rome lecture series
In Italian

Eugenio La Rocca (Università di Roma, ‘La Sapienza’)
Templum Gentis Flaviae

Wednesday 22nd – Friday 24th

Archaeology conference

Urban Landscape Survey/L’indagine del paesaggio urbano. Second Valle Giulia meeting. A collaboration between the Academia Belgica, the Reale Istituto Neerlandese a Roma and The British School at Rome.
Day 1 & Day 2 (22nd and 23rd April): Academia Belgica
Day 3 (24th April): Reale Istituto Neerlandese a Roma and The British School at Rome. For details

Monday 27th
18.00

City of Rome lecture series

Christopher Smith (University of St Andrews)
Mid-Republican views of Roman expansion and Roman territory: some thoughts

May 2009

Wednesday 6th
18.00

City of Rome lecture series

In Italian

Rosella Rea (Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma)
Metropolitana di Roma Linea C, indagini archeologiche preventive. Da via Casilina Vecchia al Colosseo. Risultati 2006-2009

Thursday 7th
18.00

Modern Studies lecture

David Forgacs (University College London/BSR Research Professor in Modern Studies)
Fortress Italy? ‘Clandestini’ and ‘rom’ in contemporary political and media discourse

Tuesday 12th
18.00

City of Rome lecture series

Mario Torelli (Università di Perugia)
Haruspices of the emperors. Tarquitius Priscus and Sejanus’ conspiracy

Friday 15th 18.30-20.30

Fine Arts
photography exhibition

David Spero (BSR Photoworks Fellow)
 ‘Churches’
15th May - 6th June 2009; Wed. - Sat., 16.30-19.00
Part of the FotoGrafia 2009 Festival

Tuesday 19th
18.00

Architecture lecture and exhibition
In Italian and English

‘Inside Out’
Lecture and exhibition of the Roman architect Andrea Stipa in the series London-Rome: Work in Process, introduced by Gabriele Mastrigli
Lecture: 18.00; Exhibition opening: 19.30
19th May - 9th June, Mon. - Fri., 17.00-19.30

Wednesday 20th
18.00

City of Rome lecture series

Meaghan McEvoy (University of Oxford/BSR Rome Scholar)
Rome and the transformation of the imperial office in the late fourth–mid-fifth centuries AD

Wednesday 27th
18.00

Modern Studies lecture

Emiliano Perra (University of Bristol/BSR Rome Fellow)
The banality of goodness: the reinvention of the ‘Rescuer’ in RAI programmes on the Holocaust

June 2009

Wednesday 3rd
18.00

Modern Studies lecture

Lucy Turner Voakes (EUI, Florence/BSR Rome Scholar)
History, poetry and public moralism: George Macaulay Trevelyan and the Garibaldi ?trilogy

Friday12th
18.30-21.30

Fine Arts exhibition

Private view of exhibition of works by BSR Fine Arts Scholars:
Joseph Bedford, Katie Cuddon, Graham Durward, Pierre Gendron, Celia Hempton, Linda Marrinon, Eddie Peake, David Spero, Amikam Toren. Until Saturday 20 June, Mon-Sat, 16.30-19.00

Wednesday 17th
18.00

Musicology
lecture

Carrie Churnside (University of Birmingham/BSR Rome Fellow)
‘Che Roma viva di sensi priva è van pensier': the seventeenth-century sacred cantata in the Papal States

Wednesday 24th
18.00

Classics lecture

Stephen Heyworth (University of Oxford/BSR Hugh Last Fellow)
A commentary on Ovid, Fasti 3

Thursday 25th
18.00

Archaeology lecture
In Italian

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (BSR)
Ercolano: un futuro per il passato?
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