April 2010

Tuesday 6th
18.00

City of Rome
lecture series

Christopher Smith (Director, British School at Rome)
‘The historiography of early Rome’

Wednesday 7th  18.15

Concert

University of St Andrews, St Salvator’s Chapel Choir. Programme will include works by Byrd, Macmillan, Purcell, Allegri, Pitoni, Monteverdi and traditional Scottish songs

Thursday 8th
11.00

Book presentation

‘Digging and dealing in eighteenth-century Rome’ by Ilaria Bignamini and Clare Hornsby, (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art/Yale University Press, 2010). Presented by Paolo Liverani (Università degli studi di Firenze), with Clare Hornsby (BSR Research Fellow)

Wednesday 14th     18.00

City of Rome lecture series

Gabriele Cifani (Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’)
‘Roman archaic architecture and its social significance’

Wednesday 21st   18.00

City of Rome
lecture series

Amy Russell (BSR/California at Berkeley)
‘The road not taken. Experiments in late Republican public space’

Wednesday 28th   18.00

City of Rome lecture series

Eric Varner (Emory University)
‘Grotesque aesthetics: transgression and transcendence in Neronian Rome’

May 2010

Wednesday 5th     18.00

City of Rome lecture series

Lisa Fentress (BSR Research Fellow/AIAC)
‘Treading the grapes at Villa Magna. An Imperial villa between sacred and profane’

Wednesday 12th   18.00

City of Rome lecture series      in Italian

Filippo Coarelli (Università di Perugia)
‘Fagutal’

Friday 14th
Salon 15.00- 17.30
Exhibition
18.30-20.00

Salon and photography
exhibition
opening

Fascism in Ruins/Fascismo Abbandonato by Dan Dubowitz and Patrick Duerden
Opening preceded at 15.00 by a discussion with the photographer and guest speakers. Exhibition opening hours: Monday-Saturday 16.30-19.00, until Saturday 29th May

Wednesday 19th   18.00

City of Rome lecture series

Clare Rowan (BSR/Macquarie University)
‘Building ideology in Severan Rome’

Thursday 20th 18.00

Literary event

The International Writer’s Stage – Silvana Colella (Università di Macerata) interviews Simon Mawer, author of ‘The Glass Room’, which was nominated for The Man Booker Prize, 2009.

Wednesday 26th 18.00

City of Rome lecture series

Robert Coates-Stephens (BSR Cary Fellow)
‘The Forum Romanum in the Byzantine period’

June 2010

Thursday 3rd
18.00

Art History lecture

Tom True (BSR/University of Cambridge)
‘Sixtus V: making his Marche. The patronage of Sixtus' Marchigian cardinals in Rome and the Marche’

Friday 4th
16.30

Contemporary gardening lecture

Dan Pearson
'Spirit: Garden Inspiration'

Wednesday 9th
18.00

History lecture

Richard Pollard (BSR/University of Cambridge)
‘”I am the very model of a Papal consiliarius”: Boniface and church administration in seventh-century Rome’

Friday 11th
18.30-21.30

Fine Arts Exhibition

Private view of exhibition of works by BSR Fine Arts Scholars
Joanna Bryniarska, William Gharraie, Lothar Götz, Celia Hempton, Darren Murray, Helen Sturgess, Victoria Watson
Exhibition opening hours: Monday–Saturday 16.30–19.00, until Saturday 19th June

Wednesday 16th
18.00

History lecture

Catherine Fletcher (BSR/Open University)
‘How to be a Renaissance diplomat’

Wednesday 23rd
18.00

Art History lecture
In Italian

Ana Maria Suàrez Huerta (BSR Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow)
‘ 'Una collezione del Grand Tour britannico in Spagna ’

Conference
Thursday 24th
8.45-18.30
Friday 25th
9.00-18.15

Modern Studies conference

Language, Space and Otherness in Italy since 1861 – Two-day conference organized by David Forgacs (University College London)

Exhibition:
Friday 25th
18.30-20.00

Modern Studies exhibition

Italy’s margins: social exclusion photographed and filmed 1878-2010/Margini dell’Italia: l’esclusione sociale fotografata e filmata 1878-2010 curated by David Forgacs (University College London)
Exhibition opening hours: Monday-Saturday 16.30-19.00 until Friday 9th July

July 2010

Friday 9th
18.00

Sidney Sussex College Cambridge Choir
Programme will include works by Elgar, Gabrieli, Purcell, Walton and Whitacre

Monday 12th
09.00-18.30

Archaeology Workshop

Wednesday 14th
17:30-19.00

Book Presentation