Tuesday 12th
21.00

Contemporary Arts Programme concert

Little Annie
Part of the ongoing project TRACKS curated by Daniela Cascella.
Little Annie, adventuress, chanteuse/lyricist, self-taught painter, multi-media artist and post-modern cabaret queen with a long, illustrious and eclectic recording career has defied categorization, limitation, restrictions

Wednesday 13th
18.00

Architecture lecture
Consecutive translation

David Adjaye
‘Art and Architecture’
Introduced by Stefano Boeri and Francesco Garofalo, in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Horizon’ at the Casa dell’Architettura, Rome, 13th February-11th March. The two events are a collaboration between the BSR and the Casa dell’Architettura, Rome and Albion, London, sponsored by the John S. Cohen Foundation, Bryan Guinness Charitable Trust, the British Council and Buro Happold

Thursday 14th
18.00

Humanities lecture

Dana Arnold (University of Southampton)
‘“He saw places as they were, not as they are”: remembering and experiencing Rome in the eighteenth century’

Wednesday
20th
18.00

Humanities lecture and exhibition opening

Mark Wilson Jones (University of Bath)
‘The Pantheon and the idea of Rome from Palladio to today’
A lecture and exhibition to mark the 500th Anniversary of the birth of Andrea Palladio (1508-80). The exhibition, Palladio’s Rome,is organized by Vaughan Hart (University of Bath) and Peter Hicks (Fondation Napoléon), authors of Palladio’s Rome (Yale, 2006)

Thursday 21st
9.45-18.00

Humanities conference

Before and after Palladio’s Rome: antiquarianism from antiquity to the nineteenth century
One-day conference in conjunction with the exhibition Palladio’s Rome. Speakers include Christopher Smith, Robert Coates-Stephens, Robert Gaston, Clare Lapraik Guest, Ginette Vagenheim, Ingo Herklotz, Susan Russell, Lisa Beaven, David Marshall, Rosemary Sweet, Frank Salmon.
For programme see BSR website

Wednesday 27th
18.00

Society for Renaissance Studies Lecture 2008

Piers Baker-Bates (Rubinstein Fellow, Society of Renaissance Studies)
'Beyond Michelangelo; new perspectives on Sebastiano del Piombo's career at Rome'

March 2008

Wednesday 5th
9.00-18.00

Archaeology conference

Portus workshop
One-day workshop on Rome’s ancient port.
For programme see BSR website

Friday 7th-
Saturday 8th

Archeology conference

Port Networks in the Roman Mediterranean
Two-day workshop focussing on archaeological methods used to characterize connectivity and networks between ports in Italy, Iberia and Africa.
For programme see BSR website

Wednesday 12th
18.00

Archaeology lecture

Bryan Ward-Perkins (University of Oxford)
'Sorpasso. Constantinople and the overtaking of Rome’

Thursday 13th
18.30

Fine Arts Exhibition opening

Exhibition of work by BSR Fine Arts Scholars including Jonathan Allen, Gordon Burn, Nadia Hebson, Jennifer Marshall

Tuesday 18th
18.00

Modern Studies screening

Screening of extracts from the documentary film ‘Matti da slegare’ by Silvano Agosti, Marco Bellocchio, Stefano Rulli and Sandro Petraglia. Introduced by David Forgacs, BSR Research Professor in Modern Studies

Wednesday 19th
18.00

Modern Studies
event

Silvano Agosti and Marco Bellocchio discuss ‘Matti da slegare’ (screened Tuesday 18th March) with David Forgacs, BSR Research Professor in Modern Studies

Wednesday 26th
18.00

Clare Hornsby (British School at Rome/Paul Mellon Special Projects Fellow)
‘Digging and dealing in eighteenth-century Rome: writing Ilaria’s book’
Clare Hornsby talks about completing the book Ilaria Bignamini left unfinished at her untimely death.

Friday 28th
9.00

Archaeology conference

Building Roma Aeterna
First day of a two-day conference, March 27-29, on Roman mortar and concrete hosted by the American Academy in Rome, The British School at Rome and the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae. Plenary lecture by Professor John P. Oleson at The American Academy, 27th March at 6pm. For programme details see the BSR website