herculaneum: a future for the past?

a valedictory lecture by
Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Director of  the British School at Rome

 on Monday 22 June 2009, at 6.00 p.m.

at the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace,
London, SW1Y 5AH

RSVP in case of acceptance to:
The British School at Rome, at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH; Tel. 020–7969 5202; E bsr@britac.ac.uk

Herculaneum: a future for the past?

Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

This is a lecture that will look both back and forwards. It will look back at the crisis of conservation threatening Herculaneum, like its sister site Pompeii, and review what it has been possible to achieve over the last eight years for which the Herculaneum Conservation Project has been in the field, including the current year’s explorations and discoveries in the areas of the ancient shoreline and the Basilica of Nonius Balbus. But it will also look forward and ask what contribution a research institution like BSR can make towards preserving, interpreting and improving knowledge and appreciation of our archaeological heritage. This will be the Director’s farewell lecture to Subscribers.