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).…

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 ana…

Keynote by Edward Corp (Toulouse) for the conference Alla Corte della Cancelleria: Pietro Ottoboni e la politica delle arti nella Roma del SettecentoThe British School at Rome

Molly Cotton Lecture by Francesco Sirano (Herculaneum)The British School at Rome

A lecture by Spencer de Grey (Foster + Partners).The British School at Rome

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, t…

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 S…

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 part…

A lecture by Nicholas Purcell (Oxford). Part of the City of Rome Lecture SeriesThe British School at Rome

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…

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…

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 esp…

Tomaso Binga in conversation with Raffaella Perna (Sapienza) followed by a performance. Part of the BSR Fine Arts Talk Gender SeriesThe British School at Rome

A talk by John Walter as part of the BSR Fine Arts Talk Gender SeriesThe British School at Rome

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 Shel…

Round table with Alan Williams (National Collection of Aerial Photography), Elizabeth J. Shepherd (Aerofototeca Nazionale-ICCD) and Alessandra Giovenco (BSR).The British School at Rome

A lecture by Ian Campbell (QUB)The British School at Rome

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 f…

A lecture by Andrew Hopkins (Università degli Studi Dell’Aquila)The British School at Rome

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…

W.T.C. Walker Lecture in Architectural History by Wendy Pullan (Cambridge). Can we speak of spaces of justice? If so, how and where might this happen in contemporary cities? The abstract nature of legal systems makes it difficult to apply them to everyday life in cities, resulting in disjunctures between urban spatial practice and justice. This bec…

A lecture by Dinah Birch (Liverpool)The British School at Rome

A lecture by John Osborne (BSR; Carleton) as part of the City of Rome lecture series.The British School at Rome

A lecture by Barbara Borg (Exeter) as part of the City of Rome Lecture Series.The British School at Rome

A lecture by Filippo Coarelli (Perugia) as part of the City of Rome lecture seriesThe British School at Rome

A lecture by Hannah Cornwell (Birmingham) as part of the City of Rome lecture series.The British School at Rome

A lecture by Krešimir Vuković (BSR; Oxford) as part of the City of Rome lecture series.The British School at Rome

A lecture by Ursula Rothe (BSR; Open)The British School at Rome

A lecture by Renée Tobe (BSR; East London). British filmmaker Peter Greenaway came to Rome on a visit, suffered from indigestion and devised his plot for Belly of an Architect (1987) in which an American (in the style of Henry James) visits Rome in order to prepare an exhibition of the works of neoclassical architect Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728-179…

A lecture by Maurizio Ricci (Sapienza) and Tom True (BSR)The British School at Rome

A lecture by Lara Pucci (BSR; Nottingham).The British School at Rome

G.E. Rickman Lecture by Christer Bruun (Toronto). An Ostian inscription from the reign of the emperor Hadrian honors the emperor because the colonia had been conservata et aucta. This lecture explores ways in which the emperors’ concern with the economy of the empire and the provisioning of Rome impacted on the town of Ostia and its inhabitants. It…

A lecture by Peter Burke (Cambridge). A cultural history of polymaths from the Renaissance to the present (from Leonardo to Umberto Eco), investigating how the species has managed to survive despite increasing specializationThe British School at Rome

BSR-Corning Museum of Glass David Whitehouse Memorial Lecture by Susan Walker (Oxford). Archival research in Rome and Naples has shed light upon the formation of the third largest surviving collection of late Roman gold-glass. Charles Wilshere (1814-1906), a landowner with a passion for early Christianity, built his remarkable collection through a …

A lecture by Simon Ditchfield (York)The British School at Rome

A lecture by Ronald Ridley (Melbourne)The British School at Rome

A lecture by Emily Michelson (St Andrews). The 16th-century conversionary campaign against Jews took place largely in public, in the presence of many kinds of onlookers. Nowhere was conversion a greater spectacle than at forced sermons. This talk traces the journeys of the three main populations who converged at conversionary sermons in the early 1…

Molly Cotton Lecture by Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai (Tor Vergata). Ricerche di archeologia cristiana in Sabina ed Etruria Meridionale: le chiese di S. Giacinto (Cures Sabini) e dei SS. Gratiliano e Felicissima (Falerii Novi)The British School at Rome

A lecture by Derek Duncan (St Andrews)The British School at Rome

W.T.C. Walker Lecture in Architectural History by Helen Hills (York). Baroque Naples was tarnished in Protestant Europe with a reputation for excess — most especially an excess of silver in its churches and chapels, part of the mort main of the Spanish church, a prodigious resource that was gathering dust rather than fighting wars or generating int…

A lecture by John David Rhodes (BSR; Cambridge). Many of the spaces and thoroughfares that we take for granted in the centre of Rome are the results of brutal practices that reshaped the city only several decades ago. While every power that has ruled Rome sought–with varying degrees of intensity and success–to fashion the city in its own image, Fas…

A lecture by Mark Somos (BSR; Sussex; Harvard)The British School at Rome

G.E. Rickman Lecture by Nicholas Purcell (Oxford). In this lecture, Nicholas Purcell revisits the social, financial, and cultural environments of merchants engaged in overseas trade with the city of Rome. He looks at the changing role of those we readily classify as ‘merchants’ or ‘traders’ in new ways, asking whether our standard scholarly represe…

A lecture by Catherine Fletcher (Swansea). Rai Uno’s new show I Medici – known in English as Medici: Masters of Florence – has proved an extraordinary success on Italian television. In this talk, Catherine Fletcher explores its depiction of the Medici family and the debate it has prompted about the relationship between historical fact and fiction. …

A lecture by Amy Russell (BSR; Durham)The British School at Rome

BSR-Corning Museum of Glass David Whitehouse Memorial lecture by William Gudenrath (Corning Museum of Glass)The British School at Rome

A lecture by Annalisa Marzano (BSR; Reading)The British School at Rome

A lecture by Phil Perkins (BSR; Open)The British School at Rome

A lecture by Mary Jacobus. To launch her book Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press, 2016), Mary Jacobus explores the use of quotations in one of his major paintings. The American painter Cy Twombly (1928–2011), who lived in Rome from the 1950s onward, often spoke of himself as a ‘Mediterranean’ painter. His vast tripartit…

A discussion with UK and Italian think tanks ResPublica and Trinità dei Monti. Welcome and introduction by Christopher Smith (BSR), Pierluigi Testa (Trinità dei Monti), Jill Morris CMG and Daniele Frongia, Deputy Mayor of Rome. ‘The economics of beauty’ presented by Annalisa Cicerchia (Fondazione Symbola). ‘The community’s right to beauty’ by Dunca…