Events

Events

Library of the BSR, 2023
Studio of Laura White, 2023
Unveiling of Verve, the first ceiling mural by Bridget Riley, at the BSR, 2023
Screening of ‘Daphne was a torso ending in leaves’ by Catriona Gallagher, On the meaning of ‘Gossip’, 2023
Research Collections Exhibition ‘Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Prints from the Research Collections of the BSR’, June 2023
Cornelia Parker giving a lecture at the BSR, 2023
Public Programs:
ITALY
UK
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PAST EVENTS
10 December 2025
18:00 - 19:30
Material Environments | No More Water but the Fire Next Time: Excavating the Healing Landscape of San Casciano dei Bagni
This is the second in a series of lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic year 2025-2026. Through several evening
PAST EVENTS
19 November 2025
18:00 - 19:30
Rushforth Lecture | Plants, animals, and minerals in early medieval Rome
Early medieval Rome had a distinctive ecology, owing to the city’s transformation from imperial capital to medieval metropolis. This fundamentally altered the relationships between human communities and their natural resources.
PAST EVENTS
29 October 2025
18:00 - 19:30
‘I was determined to stay’: Suzanne Santoro – Art and 1970s Feminism in Rome | A conversation with Dr Alessia Zinnari
American artist Suzanne Santoro was in her early twenties when she first visited Rome, around 1969. At the time, she was a Fine Arts student at the School of Visual
ITALY
25 February 2026
18:00 - 19:30
Material Environments | Resilient Landscapes: Climate, Economy, and Human Adaptation in the Roman Sabina
This is the fourth in a series of lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic year 2025-2026. Through several evening
ITALY
14 January 2026
18:00 - 19:30
Lecture | In Search of the pontifex maximus in Quattrocento Rome
In the roughly 1000 years after its supposed rejection by the emperor Gratian as ‘unlawful for a Christian’, the pagan title pontifex maximus was only rarely used of the popes and never
ITALY
21 January 2026
18:00 - 19:30
Lecture | Urban regeneration in the 21st Century: from idea to reality
London, like many European cities, underwent major changes after the second world war, including large-scale construction of new housing using modernist ideals, the decline of industry, and social and demographic
PAST EVENTS
14 May 2025
18:00 - 19:30
City of Rome | Simulacrum Molis Hadriani. Interpreting the Mausoleum of Hadrian in High Renaissance
This lecture is part of the City of Rome programme, an intensive eight-week residential course coordinated by Dr. Christopher Stephen Siwicki, designed for postgraduates from selected British partner universities. The
PAST EVENTS
15 April 2025
18 - 19.30
Rediscovering Byzantium | Potere e burocrazia a Ravenna durante la tarda antichità. Il destino di una capitale imperiale
La British School at Rome offre un ciclo di seminari di ricerca dedicati alle testimonianze culturali e storico-artistiche dell’eredità bizantina in Italia. Le conferenze sono rivolte a un pubblico con
PAST EVENTS
16 April 2025
18 - 19.30
City of Rome | The Roman tuffs revisited: local stone for the Eternal City
This lecture is part of the City of Rome programme, an intensive eight-week residential course coordinated by Dr. Christopher Stephen Siwicki, designed for postgraduates from selected British partner universities. The
PAST EVENTS
9 April 2025
18 - 19.30
City of Rome | Hostile design: Reassessing Roman architecture and urbanism
This lecture is part of the City of Rome programme, an intensive eight-week residential course coordinated by Dr. Christopher Stephen Siwicki, designed for postgraduates from selected British partner universities. The
PAST EVENTS
2 April 2025
10.30 - 19.30
Workshop | So Close and Yet So Far: A Critical Approach to Mobility in the Past
See the full programme here. This two-part workshop series hosted by the British School at Rome (BSR) and Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) aims to create a platform for sustained and
PAST EVENTS
18 March 2025
18 - 19.30
Rediscovering Byzantium | Spazio sacro e immagine nella Roma di età bizantina
La British School at Rome offre un ciclo di seminari di ricerca dedicati alle testimonianze culturali e storico-artistiche dell’eredità bizantina in Italia. Le conferenze sono rivolte a un pubblico con
PAST EVENTS
12 March 2025
18 - 19.30
Lecture | Beyond the colonies. The Roman sanctuary of Monte Rinaldo and the Roman conquest of the middle Adriatic area
The foundation of colonies usually occurred with the Roman conquest of territory, and brought about a new landscape dominated by towns. A view of the distribution of Roman towns in
PAST EVENTS
22 January 2025
18:00 - 19:30
Lecture | The transformations of Roman Italy: the view from Interamna Lirenas
Established as a (Latin) colony in 312 BC, Interamna Lirenas existed for nearly nine centuries as a middle-tier community, witness to the rise of Rome’s empire and Italy’s progressive loss
PAST EVENTS
21 January 2025
18 - 19.30
Rediscovering Byzantium | Monks Between the Seas: Shaping Greek Churches in Norman Sicily
La British School at Rome offre un ciclo di seminari di ricerca dedicati alle testimonianze culturali e storico-artistiche dell’eredità bizantina in Italia. Le conferenze sono rivolte a un pubblico con
PAST EVENTS
11 December 2024
9 - 19.30
Crossing Over: Women Artists, Abstraction, and Travel in Postwar Rome (1950s-1970s)
This one-day international symposium considers Rome as a transnational contact zone for abstract women artists in the decades following the Second World War, from the 1950s through the 1970s. These
PAST EVENTS
27 November 2024
18:00 - 19:30
Greek Heritage in European Culture: Books, Language and Identity
This paper introduces the Horizon funded Twinning Project “Greek Heritage in European Culture and Identity” (GrECI; Project no. 101079379). In addition to outlining the consortium’s academic goals, the speakers explain GrECI’s
PAST EVENTS
19 November
18:00 - 19:30
Rediscovering Byzantium | Italograeca: produzione libraria ed esperienze grafiche tra IX e X secolo
La British School at Rome offre un ciclo di seminari di ricerca dedicati alle testimonianze culturali e storico-artistiche dell’eredità bizantina in Italia. Le conferenze sono rivolte a un pubblico con
PAST EVENTS
14 - 15 November 2024
ERC Conference | (Re)uniting City and Country: New Research on Urban and Suburban Socio-topographical Structures
This conference explores the relationship between cities and their peri-urban and rural surroundings and wants to reflect on the methodological challenges involved in understanding topographical patterns and material evidence in
PAST EVENTS
13 November 2024
18:00 - 19:30
Inaugural Lecture | The Humanist, the Printer and the Prince: Books in Renaissance in Italy
My early interest in Greek philology led me to the world of humanists, of books, printing and libraries in the early modern period. This lecture traces the academic journey I
PAST EVENTS
22 May 2024
18:00 - 19:30
City of Rome | WALKER LECTURE IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: Memory, Monuments and Mutation
‘Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things’, Marcus Tullius Cicero. There is only the present. The past is a memory and the future is unknown. Everything is memory.
PAST EVENTS
15 May 2024
18.00 - 19.30
City of Rome | Peter and Paul on the via Appia: early Christians in their non-Christian surroundings
The third-century AD cult site of the apostle martyrs Peter and Paul underneath the present church of San Sebastiano at the third mile of the Via Appia has been discussed
PAST EVENTS
8 May 2024
18:00 - 19:30
City of Rome | ‘Let them eat cake!’ Surviving poverty in late antique Rome
Poverty was a ubiquitous phenomenon in ancient Rome, a constant feature in the city-scape. The threat of poverty haunted the vast majority of the population of the Urbs, shaping their
PAST EVENTS
Material Environments | No More Water but the Fire Next Time: Excavating the Healing Landscape of San Casciano dei Bagni
This is the second in a series of lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic
10 December 2025
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Rushforth Lecture | Plants, animals, and minerals in early medieval Rome
Early medieval Rome had a distinctive ecology, owing to the city’s transformation from imperial capital to medieval metropolis. This fundamentally altered the relationships between human
19 November 2025
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
‘I was determined to stay’: Suzanne Santoro – Art and 1970s Feminism in Rome | A conversation with Dr Alessia Zinnari
American artist Suzanne Santoro was in her early twenties when she first visited Rome, around 1969. At the time, she was a Fine Arts student
29 October 2025
18:00 - 19:30
ITALY
Material Environments | Resilient Landscapes: Climate, Economy, and Human Adaptation in the Roman Sabina
This is the fourth in a series of lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic
25 February 2026
18:00 - 19:30
ITALY
Lecture | In Search of the pontifex maximus in Quattrocento Rome
In the roughly 1000 years after its supposed rejection by the emperor Gratian as ‘unlawful for a Christian’, the pagan title pontifex maximus was only rarely used
14 January 2026
18:00 - 19:30
ITALY
Lecture | Urban regeneration in the 21st Century: from idea to reality
London, like many European cities, underwent major changes after the second world war, including large-scale construction of new housing using modernist ideals, the decline of
21 January 2026
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | Simulacrum Molis Hadriani. Interpreting the Mausoleum of Hadrian in High Renaissance
This lecture is part of the City of Rome programme, an intensive eight-week residential course coordinated by Dr. Christopher Stephen Siwicki, designed for postgraduates from
14 May 2025
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Rediscovering Byzantium | Potere e burocrazia a Ravenna durante la tarda antichità. Il destino di una capitale imperiale
La British School at Rome offre un ciclo di seminari di ricerca dedicati alle testimonianze culturali e storico-artistiche dell’eredità bizantina in Italia. Le conferenze sono
15 April 2025
18 - 19.30
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | The Roman tuffs revisited: local stone for the Eternal City
This lecture is part of the City of Rome programme, an intensive eight-week residential course coordinated by Dr. Christopher Stephen Siwicki, designed for postgraduates from
16 April 2025
18 - 19.30
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | Hostile design: Reassessing Roman architecture and urbanism
This lecture is part of the City of Rome programme, an intensive eight-week residential course coordinated by Dr. Christopher Stephen Siwicki, designed for postgraduates from
9 April 2025
18 - 19.30
PAST EVENTS
Workshop | So Close and Yet So Far: A Critical Approach to Mobility in the Past
See the full programme here. This two-part workshop series hosted by the British School at Rome (BSR) and Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) aims to create
2 April 2025
10.30 - 19.30
PAST EVENTS
Rediscovering Byzantium | Spazio sacro e immagine nella Roma di età bizantina
La British School at Rome offre un ciclo di seminari di ricerca dedicati alle testimonianze culturali e storico-artistiche dell’eredità bizantina in Italia. Le conferenze sono
18 March 2025
18 - 19.30
PAST EVENTS
Lecture | Beyond the colonies. The Roman sanctuary of Monte Rinaldo and the Roman conquest of the middle Adriatic area
The foundation of colonies usually occurred with the Roman conquest of territory, and brought about a new landscape dominated by towns. A view of the
12 March 2025
18 - 19.30
PAST EVENTS
Lecture | The transformations of Roman Italy: the view from Interamna Lirenas
Established as a (Latin) colony in 312 BC, Interamna Lirenas existed for nearly nine centuries as a middle-tier community, witness to the rise of Rome’s
22 January 2025
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Rediscovering Byzantium | Monks Between the Seas: Shaping Greek Churches in Norman Sicily
La British School at Rome offre un ciclo di seminari di ricerca dedicati alle testimonianze culturali e storico-artistiche dell’eredità bizantina in Italia. Le conferenze sono
21 January 2025
18 - 19.30
PAST EVENTS
Crossing Over: Women Artists, Abstraction, and Travel in Postwar Rome (1950s-1970s)
This one-day international symposium considers Rome as a transnational contact zone for abstract women artists in the decades following the Second World War, from the
11 December 2024
9 - 19.30
PAST EVENTS
Greek Heritage in European Culture: Books, Language and Identity
This paper introduces the Horizon funded Twinning Project “Greek Heritage in European Culture and Identity” (GrECI; Project no. 101079379). In addition to outlining the consortium’s academic
27 November 2024
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
Rediscovering Byzantium | Italograeca: produzione libraria ed esperienze grafiche tra IX e X secolo
La British School at Rome offre un ciclo di seminari di ricerca dedicati alle testimonianze culturali e storico-artistiche dell’eredità bizantina in Italia. Le conferenze sono
19 November
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
ERC Conference | (Re)uniting City and Country: New Research on Urban and Suburban Socio-topographical Structures
This conference explores the relationship between cities and their peri-urban and rural surroundings and wants to reflect on the methodological challenges involved in understanding topographical
14 - 15 November 2024
PAST EVENTS
Inaugural Lecture | The Humanist, the Printer and the Prince: Books in Renaissance in Italy
My early interest in Greek philology led me to the world of humanists, of books, printing and libraries in the early modern period. This lecture
13 November 2024
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | WALKER LECTURE IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: Memory, Monuments and Mutation
‘Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things’, Marcus Tullius Cicero. There is only the present. The past is a memory and the future
22 May 2024
18:00 - 19:30
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | Peter and Paul on the via Appia: early Christians in their non-Christian surroundings
The third-century AD cult site of the apostle martyrs Peter and Paul underneath the present church of San Sebastiano at the third mile of the
15 May 2024
18.00 - 19.30
PAST EVENTS
City of Rome | ‘Let them eat cake!’ Surviving poverty in late antique Rome
Poverty was a ubiquitous phenomenon in ancient Rome, a constant feature in the city-scape. The threat of poverty haunted the vast majority of the population
8 May 2024
18:00 - 19:30

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