January 2010

Friday 8th
15.00

Book presentations
In English and Italian

Presentation of two books on Prehistoric megalithic architecture in the Mediterranean:
1. Mortuary Customs in Prehistoric Malta, edited byCaroline Malone, Simon Stoddart, Anthony Bonanno, David Trump, Tancred Gouder and Anthony Pace
2. Le Orme dei Giganti,redazione Sebastiano Tusa e Cecilia Buccelato
Speakers include Caroline Malone, Simon Stoddart, Sebastiano Tusa and Cecilia Buccelato

Wednesday 20th
18.00

Art History lecture
In Italian

Tommaso Manfredi (Università di Calabria)
‘"Palladio's shade". Giacomo Quarenghi e gli architetti britannici a Roma’

Wednesday 27th
18.00

Molly Cotton lecture

Paul Roberts (The British Museum)
‘More than just Portland or blue; Roman cameo glass’

Thursday 28th 18.00

Library/ Archive
event

Presentation of the new BSR Library and Archive digital collections websitefollowed by a sale of discounted BSR publications and duplicate volumes, offprints and IGM maps from the Library. All welcome.

February 2010

Wednesday 3rd
18.00

Society of Renaissance Studies

lecture

Carol Richardson (The Open University)
‘St Joseph as Alter Petrus in the work of Pinturicchio, Perugino and Raphael (among others)’

Wednesday 10th
18.00

Architecture

lecture and exhibition

opening
In English and Italian

IaN+
‘Architettura a Roma –work in process’
Introduced by Gabriele Mastrigli
Final in the series ‘London-Rome: Work in Process’
Exhibition opening hours: Monday-Saturday 17.00-19.30, until Wednesday 3rd March

Wednesday 24th
18.00

Book presentation
In Italian

Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai (Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’/Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana)
I cimiteri paleocristiani del Lazio II. Sabina, Città del Vaticano: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 2009
Speakers will include Paolo Delogu (Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’), Maria Pia Muzzioli (Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’) and Helen Patterson (BSR Molly Cotton Fellow)

Friday 26th
Saturday 27th
Sunday 28th   

Exhibition/ Open Doors at the BSR

The British School at Rome is proud to participate in "Le Accademie Svelate", an initiative supported by the Regione Lazio and involving the foreign academies in Rome. Our doors will be open to visitors between 26 and 28 February, 17.00-19.30, to showcase the breadth of our activities - Architecture, Art, Archaeology, Humanities, Library and Archive 

March 2010

Wednesday 3rd 18.00

Architecture lecture

Nicholas Champkins (BSR/Allies and Morrison)
‘Walls Matter: a question for contemporary architecture’

Monday 8th
17.00

Archaeology seminar
In English & Italian

Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC) meeting
Speakers include Valentina Porretta (Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’), Cecilia Cobianchi (Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’) and Clare Rowan (BSR/ Macquarie University)

Friday 12th
18.30-21.30

Fine Arts exhibition

Private view of exhibition of works by BSR Fine Arts Scholars
Phillip Allen, Joanna Bryniarska, Nicholas Champkins, William Gharraie, Celia Hempton, Darren Murray, Janette Murray, Tom Price, Darrel Ronald
Exhibition opening hours: Monday–Saturday 16.30–19.00, until Saturday 20th March
 

Wednesday 17th
18.00

Ancient History lecture

Caroline Vout (BSR/University of Cambridge)
‘The seven hills of Rome’

Monday 22nd
18.00

Keynote lecture
‘Old St Peter’s, Rome’ conference

Paolo Liverani (Università degli studi di Firenze)
‘St Peter’s and the city of Rome between Late Antique and early Middle Ages’

Tuesday 23rd–Thursday 25th

History/Art History conference

‘Old St Peter’s, Rome’
Organized by the universities of Cambridge, Leicester, Carleton and the Open University
For programme see BSR and Open University websites: www.bsr.ac.uk
www.open.ac.uk/arts/oldstpeters