Past Events

Past Events

Entrance of the BSR, 2023
Níall McLaughlin giving a lecture at the BSR, 2023
Studio of Holly Graham, Summer Open Studios, June 2023
Studio of Hardeep Dhindsa, Winter Open Studios, March 2023
Screenings during the Winter Open Studios, March 2023
PAST EVENTS
4 July 2023
18:00 - 19:30
Courtyard Concert | The Choir of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
The Choir of St Catharine's College (Cambridge) presents an anthology of choral works from the Renaissance to the Contemporary. Opening with works by William Byrd and Heinrich Schutz - in
PAST EVENTS
30 June
15:00 - 16:00
Visit “Verve”, the first Bridget Riley painted ceiling at the BSR
Verve, the latest work by one of the UK’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Bridget Riley, a painted ceiling for the British School at Rome (BSR), can now be visited! Bridget
PAST EVENTS
31 May – 23 June 2023
Opening 31 May h. 18:00 - 20:30
On the meaning of ‘Gossip’ | Fine Arts Exhibition
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 3pm to 7pm Closed on 2 June. Fine Arts Exhibition with Maeve Brennan, Catriona Gallagher, Holly Graham, Helena Hladilová, Lulù Nuti and Marie-Agnès Nobecourt,
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 21 June 2023
18:00
Lecture | Gramsci’s Anthropocene; or, Planning for the Post-Apocalypse
The lecture is part of the wider symposium "Languages of the Anthropocene", organised by Florian Mussgnug (UCL). LANGUAGES OF THE ANTHROPOCENEInternational Multidisciplinary SymposiumThe British School at Rome | 20 June
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 21 June 2023
17:00
Falerii Novi: end of season public lecture
In questo mese di giugno si sta svolgendo la seconda campagna di scavi presso il sito di Falerii Novi (Fabrica di Roma, Viterbo), realizzati nell’ambito del “Falerii Novi Project”. Le
PAST EVENTS
From Friday 9 June (opening) to Saturday 10 June 2023
18:00 - 20:30 (Friday), 15 - 19 (Saturday)
BSR Summer Open Studios 2023
The British School at Rome is delighted to present Summer Open Studios 2023, an evening dedicated to studio visits of artists in residence at the BSR. Opening: Friday 9 June
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 7 June
18:00 – 19:30
BSR Food Event at Palazzo delle Esposizioni | Shaping food: from hand to mouth
Rebecca May Johnson is a writer whose work brings critical practices into everyday life through food and cooking. Rachel Roddy is a food writer and author based in Rome. Laura
PAST EVENTS
25 May
15:00 - 16:00
Visit “Verve”, the first Bridget Riley painted ceiling at the BSR
Verve, the latest work by one of the UK’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Bridget Riley, a painted ceiling for the British School at Rome (BSR), can now be visited! Bridget
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 24 May
18:00 - 19:30
City of Rome | Architecture and poetry: the ‘Casa dei Crescenzi’ and its inscriptions
Although a fraction of its original size, the “Casa dei Crescenzi” is the most imaginative recycling of ancient architecture to survive from medieval Rome. Three poems inscribed on its façades,
PAST EVENTS
Friday 19 May
18:00 – 19:30
Inconsci (anti)coloniali | Screening of “Della conoscenza”
An astonishing and rarely screened film on 1968, set in Rome (mostly just a few steps from the BSR) but interconnected to Vietnam and other internationalist causes of the era.
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 17 May
18:00 - 19:30
City of Rome | Topography and social change: the late antique Campus Martius and its environs
This lecture will explore the social history of the campus Martius in Late Antiquity, examining how different social groups helped to define this area through its use and appropriation. Besides
PAST EVENTS
Friday 12 May
18:00 – 19:30
Inconsci (anti)coloniali | Screening of “Notes Towards an African Orestes”
A cinematic notebook of Pasolini scouting locations, an essay-film, a film on jazz music, and on the presence of African students in Rome in the 1960s. As one of the
PAST EVENTS
Friday 28 April
18:00 – 19:30
Inconsci (anti)coloniali | Screening of “If only I were that warrior”
Following the 2012 construction of a mausoleum dedicated to Fascist general and colonial viceroy Rodolfo Graziani in Affile (Rome), this film chronicles the bloody Italian occupation of Ethiopia from 1935–1941
PAST EVENTS
12 – 14 June
15:00 – 19:00
Research Collections Exhibition | Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Prints from the Research Collections of the BSR
On 12, 13 and 14 June the British School at Rome is excited to present the exhibition “Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Prints from the Research Collections of the BSR”. As part
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 26 April
18:00 - 19:30
City of Rome | Il Vaso Portland e il Mausoleo di Monte del Grano: ricostruzione di un contesto
This event will be in Italian. CITY OF ROME LECTURE SERIES Filippo Coarelli è nato a Roma il 9 Giugno 1936. Ha insegnato nelle Università di Roma, Siena, Cosenza, Perugia. E’
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 19 April
18:00 - 19:30
City of Rome | Dispatching the dole: the seaborne transport of staples between Tunisia and Italy through literary and archaeological evidence
The supply of food staples to a specific segment of Rome’s population—whose income or property were below a certain amount—was a prime concern in the late-Republican and imperial period, as
PAST EVENTS
17 & 18 April 2023
09.00- 17.00
RACOM Project Conference | Rome & the Coinages of the Mediterranean, 200 BCE – 64 CE
Silver coinage formed the backbone of state finance in Classical antiquity. The fineness and quality of a coinage is often taken by historians to be a comment on the fiscal
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 12 April
18:00 - 19:30
City of Rome | Whatever happened to Republican Rome?
In two recent and authoritative companions to the City of Rome (Erdkamp 2013; Holleran & Claridge 2018), the republican period stands out by its near absence, at least in terms
PAST EVENTS
Friday 14 April
17.30 – 20.00
Inconsci (anti)coloniali | Screening of “Inconscio italiano”
A film-essay on the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, divided in two parts: one made of interviews with historians, philosopher and anthropologists, and another based on footage from the colonial era.
PAST EVENTS
Thursday 6 April
18:00 - 19:30
City of Rome | Reconsidering the Villanovan phenomenon of pre-Roman Italy through an isotope-based perspective: the Fermo and Tarquinia case-study
During the early first millennium BCE, central Italy experienced geopolitical changes characterized by the nucleation of populations recognized as early forms of urbanization. Human groups associated with the Villanovan material
PAST EVENTS
Friday 24 March
18:30
Catriona Gallagher in conversation with Léna Lewis-King and Luca Peretti at Fondazione Giuliani
On 24 March, the British School at Rome presents the event “Catriona Gallagher in conversation with Léna Lewis-King and Luca Peretti: a dialogue and screening on experimental analogue filmmaking and
PAST EVENTS
Thursday 23/03/2023 And Friday 24/03/2023
The Rome Transformed ‘Provocation’ Conference: Contesting Visualisations of the Eastern Caelian from the C1-C8 CE
Click here to register for online attendance for Day 1 Click here to register for online attendance for Day 2 Click here to see the programme The use of reconstruction
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 22/03/2023
18:00 - 19:30
Pensare la topografia in 3D: Dalla visualizzazione alla ‘provocazione’
L’incontro Pensare la topografia in 3D: Dalla visualizzazione alla ‘provocazione’ intende offrire uno spazio di dibattito sul ruolo della modellazione 3D nello studio della topografia urbana antica e medievale. Il team di
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 15/03/2023
18:00 - 19:30
L’industria edilizia a Roma nel ‘buio’ secolo X: nuovi appunti su tecniche murarie, organizzazione del cantiere e strutture amministrative
Italian Abstract Il X secolo è stato sempre visto come il più buio dei "secoli bui" dell’alto medioevo romano, e non del tutto a torto. In termini archeologici e soprattutto
PAST EVENTS
From Thursday 09/03/2023 to Saturday 11/03/2023
18:00 - 20:30 (Thursday), 15 - 19 (Friday & Saturday)
BSR Winter Open Studios
WINTER OPEN STUDIOS 2023 with Maeve Brennan, Luke Burton, Hardeep Dhindsa, Catriona Gallagher, Holly Graham, Sharon Kelly, Lucy Tarquinio, Laura White Opening: Thursday 9th March 6 - 8:30pm Friday 10th
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 08/03/2023
18:00 - 19:30
Cornelia Parker at the BSR for International Women’s Day
The next instalment in the BSR’s Talk Materialities series will feature the artist, Cornelia Parker. A Rome Award Fine Arts holder in 1989 and shortlisted for the Turner Prize in
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 01/03/2023
18:00 - 19:30
Archipelago
This lecture by Níall McLaughlin, the winner of the 2022 Stirling Prize in Architecture and member of the BSR’s Faculty of Architecture, will explore buildings designed by his practice in
PAST EVENTS
Tuesday 21/02/2023
15:00 GMT
BSR Virtual ‘Open Day’ for Creative Wales 2023
Do you live in Wales? Are you interested in applying for a fine arts residency at the British School at Rome? Register for our virtual open day to meet alumni
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 15/02/2023
18:00 - 19:30
Beautiful is the vessel: a carnival of queer shorts
As part of the UK’s LGBTQ+ History Month, the BSR is holding in Rome an evening of international queer moving-image works. The LGBTQ+ History Month is celebrated in the UK
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 08/02/2023
18:00 - 19:30
The Jobean Apophatic and the symphonic unknowability of the world 
This paper will address the early modern understanding of the Book of Job as a text enmeshed in, indeed at the centre of how creation and the science of creation
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 18/01/2023
09:30 - 17:30
The Damned Despot. Rethinking Domitian and the Flavian World
Newcastle and Radboud Universities, in collaboration with the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, OIKOS – Anchoring Innovation and the Flavian Literature and Culture
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 25/01/2023
18:00 - 19:30
Foreigners in ancient Rome: epigraphic perspectives
Well before the Imperial age, the city of Rome had started to attract foreigners from various corners of the Mediterranean. Greeks, Iberians, Egyptians, Syrians, and Jews filled the city, both
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 18/01/2023
18:00 - 19:30
Rulers and renewals in Martial’s Domitianic Rome
Flavian efforts to rebuild Rome are a major subject of the era’s imperial panegyric, particularly under Domitian. A number of Martial’s epigrams contrast the present state of the city with
PAST EVENTS
Tuesday 13/12/2022
14:00
Actors in the Academies of Early Modern Italy
This workshop considers the role of actors within the academies that proliferated across Italy from c.1500-1650. These spaces were distinctive for their social hybridity and wide-ranging rhetorical and theatrical activities.
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 7/12/2022
18:00 - 20:30
BSR Autumn Open Studios 2022
Following the opening night, artists’ studios will be open by appointment only until Wednesday 14 December 15.00–19.00 (closed on Sunday). Contact Fine Arts Curator, Marta Pellerini (finearts@bsrome.it) for an appointment.
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 30/11/2022
17:00
The other side of Roman conquest: towns, sanctuaries and settlement in the middle Adriatic area
BSR/ICS Lecture Series
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 30/11/2022
18:00
Techniques of Etruscan and Roman earthen architecture
The Molly Cotton Lecture The study of Etruscan and Roman earthen architecture is traditionally limited to a few sites where traces of such perishable materials is preserved, especially after burning,
PAST EVENTS
Monday 31 October to Friday 25 November
Opening hours Monday–Friday, 15:00 –19:00
Renata, remember you are unconscious; you have no expression, no pain, you don’t yell, you are unconscious!
The exhibition will be open from Monday 31 October to Friday 25 November.Opening hours Monday–Friday, 15:00 –19:00 (closed on weekends and bank holidays, including Tuesday 1 November). Renata, remember you
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 23/11/2022
18:00
An evening at the opera
Live music performance from Soprano Stacey Alleaume (Youth Music Foundation of Australia Awardee) performing with accompanist Otello Visconti. A look at the programme (running time approx 40 minutes): GOUNOD Ah!
PAST EVENTS
Tuesday 22/11/2022
18:00
Stonebreakers | Film Screening
Stonebreakers chronicles the conflicts around monuments that arose in the United States during the George Floyd protests and the 2020 presidential election. As statues of Columbus, Confederates and Founding Fathers
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 16/11/2022
18:00
The monuments of Rome in some late eastern sources
The Gordon Rushforth Lecture on Medieval Rome Many accounts of the city of Rome written in the eastern Mediterranean during the middle ages dwell on the fantastic: Cosmas of Jerusalem
PAST EVENTS
Tuesday 8/11/2022 – Thursday 10/11/2022
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Prints from the BSR Ashby collection. Exhibition and Private View
As part of an ongoing project, launched in 2021, to create a catalogue for the prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the BSR collection, this event, the second in the
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 9/11/2022
18:00
Circuses and carceres: an investigation into the recently revealed “first state” of Piranesi’s Ichnographiam Campi Martii Antiquae Urbis
A lecture to coincide with the exhibition: Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Prints from the BSR Ashby collection. Piranesi’s vast print production has many highlights, amongst which the Campus Martius plan, as it
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 2/11/2022
18:00
The Roman empire as kaleidoscope: a view from storage
The G.E Rickman Lecture At once a farmer’s risk buffer and a state’s centralizing mechanism, storage played a central role in the Roman world, a world of farmers turned empire.
PAST EVENTS
Tuesday 25/10/2022
18:30
The Rome Scholarship in Architecture at the BSR
The Faculty of Architecture are pleased to invite Alumni and Guests to an evening talk and drinks reception to celebrate the relaunch of the Rome Scholarship in Architecture. We will hear from recent
PAST EVENTS
Tuesday 18/10/2022
09:00
Understanding Ancient Tripolitania: Research, Partnerships and Knowledge Sharing
A workshop organised by the BSR and the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies. This international workshop is organized jointly by the British School at Rome (BSR) and
PAST EVENTS
Thursday 13/10/2022
09:30
CONFERENCE: Post-colonial Heritage in the Present: Museums, Archives, Art and Activism
The BSR is hosting Day 2 of the Conference, which will take place 12–13 October 2022. A full programme can be found here.  Left: Fig. 1 Scudo in fibra policroma
PAST EVENTS
Tuesday 11/10/2022
18:30
Black History Month | Film Screening
A screening of the film They Call It Idlewild by artist Helen Cammock, followed by informal discussion over a drink. This event will be in English. Left: Film Still, They Call
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 05/10/2022
18:00
The social life of texts in Renaissance Italy
During twenty years of reading and researching Renaissance texts, I have become fascinated by questions of reception and readership. This lecture traces the journey on which my research has taken
PAST EVENTS
BSR events: our video archive
Our spring events programme has come to an end, but that doesn't mean that you can't watch BSR lectures over the summer months. The majority of our lectures are recorded
PAST EVENTS
Friday 10/06/2022
18:00
June Mostra
The British School at Rome is pleased to present the June Mostra 2022, featuring the new work of the current resident artists. The exhibition will host a selection of works,
PAST EVENTS
Monday 06/06/2022
18:00
Experiences of time and the social memory of the Italian workers’ movement in the late twentieth century
The Italian workers’ movement reached the peak of its powers in the early 1970s and the Communist Party achieved its highest ever vote in the 1976 election. By 1980 this
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 01/06/2022
18:00
Between artifice and nature: exploring materiality in 1960s Italian art
What happens when materiality is placed at the core of art historical discourse? What further layers of meaning does the artwork acquire when materials are interrogated, challenged, probed? By examining
PAST EVENTS
Thursday 26/05/2022 and Friday 27/05/2022
09:30
CONFERENCE: ‘Hard sciences’ and the history and archaeology of the Middle Ages: towards new paradigms?
In recent years, scientific discoveries and more affordable analyses have begun to contribute to the construction of new, and sometimes unexpected, sets of evidence about the human past. These need
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 25/05/2022
18:00
‘It depends upon your point of view’: narrative and empathy in the reliefs of Trajan’s Column
Trajan’s Column conveys a war-story; and truth is said to be war’s first casualty. With due awareness of current events, this lecture offers a fresh analysis of how the monument
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 18/05/2022
18:00
Opus listatum and other monsters: the things Vitruvius never said or even thought of
One question leads to another. First: What is the correct term for the late antique building technique which combines courses of bricks and tufa blocks, particularly common in Rome? Opus
PAST EVENTS
Thursday 05/05/2022
18:00
From Jacopo de’ Barbari and Albrecht Dürer to Wenceslaus Hollar: the emergence of city views
This lecture will address the development of architectural and urban representation from Jacopo de’ Barbari and Albrecht Dürer to Wenceslaus Hollar. It will trace the dissemination concerning the ideas of
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 04/05/2022
18:00
The gladiatorial graffiti of the Roman amphitheatre: long-lived memorials of imperial munera
Exceptional examples of gladiatorial graffiti have been found scratched onto the seating orders, stairs and marble slabs of the Flavian Amphitheatre. Spurred by the arena shows, spectators represented in the
PAST EVENTS
Tuesday 03/05/2022
14:45
Audio/Visual Romans: Women Speak Up
Often in modern media the women of the Roman world gain the centrality, agency and voice denied them in the distant past. Yet, when Roman women gain this opportunity, what
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 27/04/2022
18:00
Geophysical prospection of the eastern Caelian: large-scale urban research by the Rome Transformed project
Launched in 2019, the Rome Transformed Project is investigating the Eastern Caelian, from the period of the Principate of Augustus to the Pontificate of Leo III. Drawing upon a range
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 20/04/2022
18:00
Il Foro di Augusto. Cronologia e progetto
La realizzazione del Foro di Augusto viene attribuita, a partire da un articolo di Attilio Degrassi del 1945, a un momento molto avanzato del periodo augusteo: la data di inaugurazione
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 13/04/2022
18:00
The theatre of the Roman mime: texts and material culture
This presentation focusses on the overwhelmingly unfavourable reputation that the theatre of the Roman mime had in the literary sources of the Republic and the Empire. My argument is that
PAST EVENTS
Monday 11/04/2022
14:30
Languages and access to healthcare: communicating COVID-19 to multilingual communities in Italy
National and non-national residents have experienced very different forms of the COVID-19 pandemic, depending on their individual or geographical circumstances. Culturally and linguistically diverse communities, including migrant communities, often struggle
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 06/04/2022
18:00
Intorno alle Mura Serviane
Resti di murature in grandi blocchi di tufo giallo, costituiscono oggi la sola testimonianza della cinta muraria nota come Mura Serviane, che va in realtà assegnata alla ricostruzione effettuata agli
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 28/03/2022 - 01/04/2022
09:30
Conference: Image and Narrative in Romanesque Art
The British Archaeological Association will hold the seventh in its biennial International Romanesque conference series in conjunction with the British School at Rome on 28-30 March, 2022. The theme is
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 23/03/2022
18:00
Ottone II e Ottone III a Roma: forme, linguaggi e simboli della presenza imperiale nella Città eterna
Nonostante tra il 980 e il 983 Ottone II abbia soggiornato a lungo a Roma e gravitato attorno a essa nel contesto della campagna militare da lui intrapresa in Italia
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 16/03/2022
18:00
Rome at war: urban memories from the death of the regime to the birth of the first republic
Rome at War uses the fraught of Rome’s transition from capital of a Fascist Monarchy to Capital of a Democratic Republic as a case study to shed light on the
PAST EVENTS
Monday 14/03/2022
18:00
Public Renaissance
We increasingly order the world around us in geo-spatial terms, empowered by mobile devices and geo-location, toggling between 2D maps to 3D street views. The potential of these same technologies
PAST EVENTS
Friday 11/03/2022
18:00
March Mostra
The British School at Rome is pleased to present March Mostra 2022, featuring the new work of the current resident artists. The exhibition will host a selection of works, reflecting
PAST EVENTS
Monday 07/03/2022
18:00
Inventing the past: early modern antiquarian worldviews and networks between Malta and Italy
The exploration of archaeological monuments in the early modern period is often recounted as a necessary but rather erratic prelude to the more scientific achievements of archaeology since the mid-19th
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 02/03/2022
18:00
Of founders and foibles: Leon Battista Alberti, Greek historians and the origins of architecture
At the start of the fifteenth century, after a long absence, the manuscripts of Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus and other ancient Greek historians finally returned to Italy. Their arrival proved a
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 23/02/2022
21:00
Virtual Film Screening: ‘Lift Me Up I Am Dying’
Following the success of our virtual film screening of Pelé Cox's Lift Me Up I Am Dying in 2021, we are pleased to be hosting another screening of the film
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 23/02/2022
18:00
Themes and methodologies in new studies of Roman aqueducts
The recent publication of Aqua Traiana (Gangemi Editore, 2021) highlights the immense quantity of information that can be revealed by rigorous, multidisciplinary archaeological and scientific investigation into these wonders of ancient engineering
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 09/02/2022
18:00
Pre-Roman cities and religion between Etruria and Iberia
What do 1st-millennium-BC southern Tyrrhenian Etruscan and South Eastern Iberian cities have in common? And why are they good to think with comparatively?  Scholarship on pre-Roman cities across the Mediterranean
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 02/02/2022
18:00
TALK MATERIALITIES | Self Portrait
Material as metaphor is the foundation of my artistic practice. My work springs from ancestral connection and environment - natural and societal. As a descendant of American slavery I look
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday 14/12/2022
18:00
The changing face of the Eastern Caelian: Recent work by the ‘Rome Transformed’ Team
In 2019, colleagues from the British School at Rome, the University of Florence, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and Newcastle University launched the ERC-funded ‘Rome Transformed’ Project.  This five-year long
PAST EVENTS
06/05/2021
18.00
Horizontal Transmission
John Walter (Sainsbury Scholar 2006-8) in conversation with Marta Pellerini (BSR) about the transmission of culture. They will address a variety of subjects including lockdown, viruses of the mind (memes) and other issues relating
PAST EVENTS
Courtyard Concert | The Choir of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
The Choir of St Catharine's College (Cambridge) presents an anthology of choral works from the Renaissance to the Contemporary. Opening with works by William Byrd
4 July 2023
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Visit “Verve”, the first Bridget Riley painted ceiling at the BSR
Verve, the latest work by one of the UK’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Bridget Riley, a painted ceiling for the British School at Rome (BSR),
30 June
15:00 - 16:00
PAST EVENTS
On the meaning of ‘Gossip’ | Fine Arts Exhibition
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 3pm to 7pm Closed on 2 June. Fine Arts Exhibition with Maeve Brennan, Catriona Gallagher, Holly Graham, Helena Hladilová,
31 May – 23 June 2023
Opening 31 May h. 18:00 - 20:30
PAST EVENTS
Lecture | Gramsci’s Anthropocene; or, Planning for the Post-Apocalypse
The lecture is part of the wider symposium "Languages of the Anthropocene", organised by Florian Mussgnug (UCL). LANGUAGES OF THE ANTHROPOCENEInternational Multidisciplinary SymposiumThe British School
Wednesday 21 June 2023
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Falerii Novi: end of season public lecture
In questo mese di giugno si sta svolgendo la seconda campagna di scavi presso il sito di Falerii Novi (Fabrica di Roma, Viterbo), realizzati nell’ambito
Wednesday 21 June 2023
17:00
PAST EVENTS
BSR Summer Open Studios 2023
The British School at Rome is delighted to present Summer Open Studios 2023, an evening dedicated to studio visits of artists in residence at the
From Friday 9 June (opening) to Saturday 10 June 2023
18:00 - 20:30 (Friday), 15 - 19 (Saturday)
PAST EVENTS
BSR Food Event at Palazzo delle Esposizioni | Shaping food: from hand to mouth
Rebecca May Johnson is a writer whose work brings critical practices into everyday life through food and cooking. Rachel Roddy is a food writer and
Wednesday 7 June
18:00 – 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Visit “Verve”, the first Bridget Riley painted ceiling at the BSR
Verve, the latest work by one of the UK’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Bridget Riley, a painted ceiling for the British School at Rome (BSR),
25 May
15:00 - 16:00
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | Architecture and poetry: the ‘Casa dei Crescenzi’ and its inscriptions
Although a fraction of its original size, the “Casa dei Crescenzi” is the most imaginative recycling of ancient architecture to survive from medieval Rome. Three
Wednesday 24 May
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Inconsci (anti)coloniali | Screening of “Della conoscenza”
An astonishing and rarely screened film on 1968, set in Rome (mostly just a few steps from the BSR) but interconnected to Vietnam and other
Friday 19 May
18:00 – 19:30
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | Topography and social change: the late antique Campus Martius and its environs
This lecture will explore the social history of the campus Martius in Late Antiquity, examining how different social groups helped to define this area through
Wednesday 17 May
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Inconsci (anti)coloniali | Screening of “Notes Towards an African Orestes”
A cinematic notebook of Pasolini scouting locations, an essay-film, a film on jazz music, and on the presence of African students in Rome in the
Friday 12 May
18:00 – 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Inconsci (anti)coloniali | Screening of “If only I were that warrior”
Following the 2012 construction of a mausoleum dedicated to Fascist general and colonial viceroy Rodolfo Graziani in Affile (Rome), this film chronicles the bloody Italian
Friday 28 April
18:00 – 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Research Collections Exhibition | Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Prints from the Research Collections of the BSR
On 12, 13 and 14 June the British School at Rome is excited to present the exhibition “Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Prints from the Research Collections
12 – 14 June
15:00 – 19:00
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | Il Vaso Portland e il Mausoleo di Monte del Grano: ricostruzione di un contesto
This event will be in Italian. CITY OF ROME LECTURE SERIES Filippo Coarelli è nato a Roma il 9 Giugno 1936. Ha insegnato nelle Università di
Wednesday 26 April
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | Dispatching the dole: the seaborne transport of staples between Tunisia and Italy through literary and archaeological evidence
The supply of food staples to a specific segment of Rome’s population—whose income or property were below a certain amount—was a prime concern in the
Wednesday 19 April
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
RACOM Project Conference | Rome & the Coinages of the Mediterranean, 200 BCE – 64 CE
Silver coinage formed the backbone of state finance in Classical antiquity. The fineness and quality of a coinage is often taken by historians to be
17 & 18 April 2023
09.00- 17.00
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | Whatever happened to Republican Rome?
In two recent and authoritative companions to the City of Rome (Erdkamp 2013; Holleran & Claridge 2018), the republican period stands out by its near
Wednesday 12 April
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Inconsci (anti)coloniali | Screening of “Inconscio italiano”
A film-essay on the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, divided in two parts: one made of interviews with historians, philosopher and anthropologists, and another based on
Friday 14 April
17.30 – 20.00
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | Reconsidering the Villanovan phenomenon of pre-Roman Italy through an isotope-based perspective: the Fermo and Tarquinia case-study
During the early first millennium BCE, central Italy experienced geopolitical changes characterized by the nucleation of populations recognized as early forms of urbanization. Human groups
Thursday 6 April
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Catriona Gallagher in conversation with Léna Lewis-King and Luca Peretti at Fondazione Giuliani
On 24 March, the British School at Rome presents the event “Catriona Gallagher in conversation with Léna Lewis-King and Luca Peretti: a dialogue and screening
Friday 24 March
18:30
PAST EVENTS
The Rome Transformed ‘Provocation’ Conference: Contesting Visualisations of the Eastern Caelian from the C1-C8 CE
Click here to register for online attendance for Day 1 Click here to register for online attendance for Day 2 Click here to see the
Thursday 23/03/2023 And Friday 24/03/2023
PAST EVENTS
Pensare la topografia in 3D: Dalla visualizzazione alla ‘provocazione’
L’incontro Pensare la topografia in 3D: Dalla visualizzazione alla ‘provocazione’ intende offrire uno spazio di dibattito sul ruolo della modellazione 3D nello studio della topografia urbana antica
Wednesday 22/03/2023
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
L’industria edilizia a Roma nel ‘buio’ secolo X: nuovi appunti su tecniche murarie, organizzazione del cantiere e strutture amministrative
Italian Abstract Il X secolo è stato sempre visto come il più buio dei "secoli bui" dell’alto medioevo romano, e non del tutto a torto.
Wednesday 15/03/2023
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
BSR Winter Open Studios
WINTER OPEN STUDIOS 2023 with Maeve Brennan, Luke Burton, Hardeep Dhindsa, Catriona Gallagher, Holly Graham, Sharon Kelly, Lucy Tarquinio, Laura White Opening: Thursday 9th March
From Thursday 09/03/2023 to Saturday 11/03/2023
18:00 - 20:30 (Thursday), 15 - 19 (Friday & Saturday)
PAST EVENTS
Cornelia Parker at the BSR for International Women’s Day
The next instalment in the BSR’s Talk Materialities series will feature the artist, Cornelia Parker. A Rome Award Fine Arts holder in 1989 and shortlisted
Wednesday 08/03/2023
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Archipelago
This lecture by Níall McLaughlin, the winner of the 2022 Stirling Prize in Architecture and member of the BSR’s Faculty of Architecture, will explore buildings
Wednesday 01/03/2023
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
BSR Virtual ‘Open Day’ for Creative Wales 2023
Do you live in Wales? Are you interested in applying for a fine arts residency at the British School at Rome? Register for our virtual
Tuesday 21/02/2023
15:00 GMT
PAST EVENTS
Beautiful is the vessel: a carnival of queer shorts
As part of the UK’s LGBTQ+ History Month, the BSR is holding in Rome an evening of international queer moving-image works. The LGBTQ+ History Month
Wednesday 15/02/2023
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
The Jobean Apophatic and the symphonic unknowability of the world 
This paper will address the early modern understanding of the Book of Job as a text enmeshed in, indeed at the centre of how creation
Wednesday 08/02/2023
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
The Damned Despot. Rethinking Domitian and the Flavian World
Newcastle and Radboud Universities, in collaboration with the Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, OIKOS – Anchoring Innovation and
Wednesday 18/01/2023
09:30 - 17:30
PAST EVENTS
Foreigners in ancient Rome: epigraphic perspectives
Well before the Imperial age, the city of Rome had started to attract foreigners from various corners of the Mediterranean. Greeks, Iberians, Egyptians, Syrians, and
Wednesday 25/01/2023
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Rulers and renewals in Martial’s Domitianic Rome
Flavian efforts to rebuild Rome are a major subject of the era’s imperial panegyric, particularly under Domitian. A number of Martial’s epigrams contrast the present
Wednesday 18/01/2023
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Actors in the Academies of Early Modern Italy
This workshop considers the role of actors within the academies that proliferated across Italy from c.1500-1650. These spaces were distinctive for their social hybridity and
Tuesday 13/12/2022
14:00
PAST EVENTS
BSR Autumn Open Studios 2022
Following the opening night, artists’ studios will be open by appointment only until Wednesday 14 December 15.00–19.00 (closed on Sunday). Contact Fine Arts Curator, Marta
Wednesday 7/12/2022
18:00 - 20:30
PAST EVENTS
The other side of Roman conquest: towns, sanctuaries and settlement in the middle Adriatic area
BSR/ICS Lecture Series
Wednesday 30/11/2022
17:00
PAST EVENTS
Techniques of Etruscan and Roman earthen architecture
The Molly Cotton Lecture The study of Etruscan and Roman earthen architecture is traditionally limited to a few sites where traces of such perishable materials
Wednesday 30/11/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Renata, remember you are unconscious; you have no expression, no pain, you don’t yell, you are unconscious!
The exhibition will be open from Monday 31 October to Friday 25 November.Opening hours Monday–Friday, 15:00 –19:00 (closed on weekends and bank holidays, including Tuesday
Monday 31 October to Friday 25 November
Opening hours Monday–Friday, 15:00 –19:00
PAST EVENTS
An evening at the opera
Live music performance from Soprano Stacey Alleaume (Youth Music Foundation of Australia Awardee) performing with accompanist Otello Visconti. A look at the programme (running time
Wednesday 23/11/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Stonebreakers | Film Screening
Stonebreakers chronicles the conflicts around monuments that arose in the United States during the George Floyd protests and the 2020 presidential election. As statues of
Tuesday 22/11/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
The monuments of Rome in some late eastern sources
The Gordon Rushforth Lecture on Medieval Rome Many accounts of the city of Rome written in the eastern Mediterranean during the middle ages dwell on
Wednesday 16/11/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Prints from the BSR Ashby collection. Exhibition and Private View
As part of an ongoing project, launched in 2021, to create a catalogue for the prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in the BSR collection, this
Tuesday 8/11/2022 – Thursday 10/11/2022
PAST EVENTS
Circuses and carceres: an investigation into the recently revealed “first state” of Piranesi’s Ichnographiam Campi Martii Antiquae Urbis
A lecture to coincide with the exhibition: Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Prints from the BSR Ashby collection. Piranesi’s vast print production has many highlights, amongst which the
Wednesday 9/11/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
The Roman empire as kaleidoscope: a view from storage
The G.E Rickman Lecture At once a farmer’s risk buffer and a state’s centralizing mechanism, storage played a central role in the Roman world, a
Wednesday 2/11/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
The Rome Scholarship in Architecture at the BSR
The Faculty of Architecture are pleased to invite Alumni and Guests to an evening talk and drinks reception to celebrate the relaunch of the Rome Scholarship in Architecture.
Tuesday 25/10/2022
18:30
PAST EVENTS
Understanding Ancient Tripolitania: Research, Partnerships and Knowledge Sharing
A workshop organised by the BSR and the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies. This international workshop is organized jointly by the British
Tuesday 18/10/2022
09:00
PAST EVENTS
CONFERENCE: Post-colonial Heritage in the Present: Museums, Archives, Art and Activism
The BSR is hosting Day 2 of the Conference, which will take place 12–13 October 2022. A full programme can be found here.  Left: Fig.
Thursday 13/10/2022
09:30
PAST EVENTS
Black History Month | Film Screening
A screening of the film They Call It Idlewild by artist Helen Cammock, followed by informal discussion over a drink. This event will be in
Tuesday 11/10/2022
18:30
PAST EVENTS
The social life of texts in Renaissance Italy
During twenty years of reading and researching Renaissance texts, I have become fascinated by questions of reception and readership. This lecture traces the journey on
Wednesday 05/10/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
BSR events: our video archive
Our spring events programme has come to an end, but that doesn't mean that you can't watch BSR lectures over the summer months. The majority
PAST EVENTS
June Mostra
The British School at Rome is pleased to present the June Mostra 2022, featuring the new work of the current resident artists. The exhibition will
Friday 10/06/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Experiences of time and the social memory of the Italian workers’ movement in the late twentieth century
The Italian workers’ movement reached the peak of its powers in the early 1970s and the Communist Party achieved its highest ever vote in the
Monday 06/06/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Between artifice and nature: exploring materiality in 1960s Italian art
What happens when materiality is placed at the core of art historical discourse? What further layers of meaning does the artwork acquire when materials are
Wednesday 01/06/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
CONFERENCE: ‘Hard sciences’ and the history and archaeology of the Middle Ages: towards new paradigms?
In recent years, scientific discoveries and more affordable analyses have begun to contribute to the construction of new, and sometimes unexpected, sets of evidence about
Thursday 26/05/2022 and Friday 27/05/2022
09:30
PAST EVENTS
‘It depends upon your point of view’: narrative and empathy in the reliefs of Trajan’s Column
Trajan’s Column conveys a war-story; and truth is said to be war’s first casualty. With due awareness of current events, this lecture offers a fresh
Wednesday 25/05/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Opus listatum and other monsters: the things Vitruvius never said or even thought of
One question leads to another. First: What is the correct term for the late antique building technique which combines courses of bricks and tufa blocks,
Wednesday 18/05/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
From Jacopo de’ Barbari and Albrecht Dürer to Wenceslaus Hollar: the emergence of city views
This lecture will address the development of architectural and urban representation from Jacopo de’ Barbari and Albrecht Dürer to Wenceslaus Hollar. It will trace the
Thursday 05/05/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
The gladiatorial graffiti of the Roman amphitheatre: long-lived memorials of imperial munera
Exceptional examples of gladiatorial graffiti have been found scratched onto the seating orders, stairs and marble slabs of the Flavian Amphitheatre. Spurred by the arena
Wednesday 04/05/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Audio/Visual Romans: Women Speak Up
Often in modern media the women of the Roman world gain the centrality, agency and voice denied them in the distant past. Yet, when Roman
Tuesday 03/05/2022
14:45
PAST EVENTS
Geophysical prospection of the eastern Caelian: large-scale urban research by the Rome Transformed project
Launched in 2019, the Rome Transformed Project is investigating the Eastern Caelian, from the period of the Principate of Augustus to the Pontificate of Leo
Wednesday 27/04/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Il Foro di Augusto. Cronologia e progetto
La realizzazione del Foro di Augusto viene attribuita, a partire da un articolo di Attilio Degrassi del 1945, a un momento molto avanzato del periodo
Wednesday 20/04/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
The theatre of the Roman mime: texts and material culture
This presentation focusses on the overwhelmingly unfavourable reputation that the theatre of the Roman mime had in the literary sources of the Republic and the
Wednesday 13/04/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Languages and access to healthcare: communicating COVID-19 to multilingual communities in Italy
National and non-national residents have experienced very different forms of the COVID-19 pandemic, depending on their individual or geographical circumstances. Culturally and linguistically diverse communities,
Monday 11/04/2022
14:30
PAST EVENTS
Intorno alle Mura Serviane
Resti di murature in grandi blocchi di tufo giallo, costituiscono oggi la sola testimonianza della cinta muraria nota come Mura Serviane, che va in realtà
Wednesday 06/04/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Conference: Image and Narrative in Romanesque Art
The British Archaeological Association will hold the seventh in its biennial International Romanesque conference series in conjunction with the British School at Rome on 28-30
Wednesday 28/03/2022 - 01/04/2022
09:30
PAST EVENTS
Ottone II e Ottone III a Roma: forme, linguaggi e simboli della presenza imperiale nella Città eterna
Nonostante tra il 980 e il 983 Ottone II abbia soggiornato a lungo a Roma e gravitato attorno a essa nel contesto della campagna militare
Wednesday 23/03/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Rome at war: urban memories from the death of the regime to the birth of the first republic
Rome at War uses the fraught of Rome’s transition from capital of a Fascist Monarchy to Capital of a Democratic Republic as a case study
Wednesday 16/03/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Public Renaissance
We increasingly order the world around us in geo-spatial terms, empowered by mobile devices and geo-location, toggling between 2D maps to 3D street views. The
Monday 14/03/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
March Mostra
The British School at Rome is pleased to present March Mostra 2022, featuring the new work of the current resident artists. The exhibition will host
Friday 11/03/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Inventing the past: early modern antiquarian worldviews and networks between Malta and Italy
The exploration of archaeological monuments in the early modern period is often recounted as a necessary but rather erratic prelude to the more scientific achievements
Monday 07/03/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Of founders and foibles: Leon Battista Alberti, Greek historians and the origins of architecture
At the start of the fifteenth century, after a long absence, the manuscripts of Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus and other ancient Greek historians finally returned to
Wednesday 02/03/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Virtual Film Screening: ‘Lift Me Up I Am Dying’
Following the success of our virtual film screening of Pelé Cox's Lift Me Up I Am Dying in 2021, we are pleased to be hosting
Wednesday 23/02/2022
21:00
PAST EVENTS
Themes and methodologies in new studies of Roman aqueducts
The recent publication of Aqua Traiana (Gangemi Editore, 2021) highlights the immense quantity of information that can be revealed by rigorous, multidisciplinary archaeological and scientific investigation into
Wednesday 23/02/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Pre-Roman cities and religion between Etruria and Iberia
What do 1st-millennium-BC southern Tyrrhenian Etruscan and South Eastern Iberian cities have in common? And why are they good to think with comparatively?  Scholarship on
Wednesday 09/02/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
TALK MATERIALITIES | Self Portrait
Material as metaphor is the foundation of my artistic practice. My work springs from ancestral connection and environment - natural and societal. As a descendant
Wednesday 02/02/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
The changing face of the Eastern Caelian: Recent work by the ‘Rome Transformed’ Team
In 2019, colleagues from the British School at Rome, the University of Florence, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and Newcastle University launched the ERC-funded ‘Rome
Wednesday 14/12/2022
18:00
PAST EVENTS
Horizontal Transmission
John Walter (Sainsbury Scholar 2006-8) in conversation with Marta Pellerini (BSR) about the transmission of culture. They will address a variety of subjects including lockdown, viruses of the mind
06/05/2021
18.00

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