April 2008

Wednesday 2nd
18.00

Ancient History
lecture

Penelope Davies (BSR Hugh Last Fellow/University of Texas at Austin)
The individual, the state and architecture in republican Rome

Wednesday 9th
18.00

Ancient History lecture

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (British School at Rome)
Building identities in late republican Italy

Wednesday 16th
18.00

Archaeology Lecture

Filippo Coarelli (University of Perugia)
Substructio et Tabularium

Tuesday
22nd
18.00
Until 23rd May

Library/Archive Exhibition

Immagini e memoria
Itinerari abruzzesi: archeologia, arte e folklore nelle
fotografie di Thomas Ashby (1901-1923)
23 aprile - 23 maggio lunedì-venerdì, ore 10.00-13.00 e 14.00-17.00;domenica, ore 11.00-18.00

Wednesday 23rd
18.00

Archaeology Lecture

Pieter Broucke (Middlebury College)
The five Pantheons

Wednesday 30th
18.00

Archaeology Lecture

John Clarke (University of Texas)
Viewer-based models for reading imperial monuments

May 2008

Wednesday 7th
18.00

Archaeology Lecture

Lynne Lancaster (University of Ohio)
Technological innovation in imperial Rome: what can ancient concrete tell us about Roman society?

Thursday 15th
18.30

Archaeology Lecture

Fabio Barry (University of St Andrews)
The Mouth of Truth and the Forum Boarium

Thursday 22nd
18.00

Archaeology Lecture

Michele Salzmann (University of California)
Apocalypse Then? Jerome and the Fall of Rome in 410

Monday 26th
18.00

Humanities Lecture

Sarah Morgan (BSR Rome Fellow)
Ines Donati, ‘La Capitana’: the making of a female fascist martyr

Tuesday 27th
18.00

Note - change of time and moved from 29th May

Contemporary Arts Programme

Martin Creed - Words
To coincide with the opening of his solo show at Lorcan O’Neill gallery in Rome, Martin Creed  presents, as a one night event in the Sainsbury Lecture Theatre, his “variety performance” Words.

Wednesday 28th
18.00

Humanities lecture

Rachel King (BSR Rome Scholar/University of Manchester)
Whale's sperm, maiden's tears and lynx's urine - Baltic amber and the fascination for it in early modern Italy

June 2008

Wednesday 4th
18.00

Humanities Lecture

Annelies Cazemier (BSR Rome Scholar/University of Oxford)
Networking with gods: the spread of Roman hegemony seen from sanctuaries in southern Italy and Greece

Wednesday11th
18.00

Humanities Lecture

Lucy Davis (BSR Rome Fellow)
‘Pittori Fiamminghi’ at the Accademia di San Luca, c. 1590-1630

Friday 13th
18.30-21.30

Fine Arts Exhibition

Fine Arts Exhibition: ‘Tutti Frutti’
Exhibition of work by BSR Fine Arts Scholars including James and Eleanor Avery, Cian Donnelly, Anthony Faroux, Aisling Hedgecock, Catrin Huber, Marta Marcé, Prisca Thielmann, John Walter

Until 21 June, Mon-Sat, 16.30-19.00, closed Sunday

Wednesday18th
18.00

Humanities Lecture

Paul Johnson (Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar)
Urban trajectories: Rome, Milan and the transformation of Italian cities in Late Antiquity

Wednesday 25th
18.00

Lecture cancelled until further notice

Archaeology Lecture

Maureen Carroll (BSR Balsdon Fellow/University of Sheffield)
Burial and commemoration of babies and neonates in Roman Italy, Gaul and the Celtic North

Thursday 26th
18.00

18.00: lecture
19.30: exhibition

note change of date, from 24th June

Architecture Lecture and Exhibition
Consecutive translation

MaO, presented by Gabriele Mastrigli
The lecture and exhibition of the work of the Roman practice MaO will launch a new cycle of lectures and exhibitions on the theme London-Rome: work in process (eight architecture practices) from June 2008 to June 2010. In collaboration with the DARC in Rome and the Architecture Foundation in London.