An international conference organised by Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture (NIRVC), Department of Art History, University of Nottingham

• JACOPO BENCI* `Michelangelo's Rome: Towards an Iconology of L'Eclisse’
• LESLEY CALDWELL `Inside and Outside the City Walls: Cinematic Explorations of Inner Rome in the Work of Ferlan Ozpetek’
• BERTRAND FICAMOS `Glauber Rocha’s Claro, or the Tragic Legibility of Chaos’
• OLIVIER MAILLART `A Comforting Epic: the Fascist Adventure Film’
• ANNE MOREY `Home or Away? Rome in the Pre- and Postwar American Religious Blockbuster'
• JEAN MOTTET `Against the Monument: Pasolini in the borgate’
• ROBERT R. SHANDLEY `Roman Holiday: Industrial Salvation in the Eternal City’
• MARK SHIEL `Imagined and Built Spaces in the Rome of Neorealism’
• MICHAEL SIEGEL `Neorealism and the Fascist Construction of Space’
• PIERRE SORLIN `Children in Cinematic Rome’
• MARIA WYKE* `Classics, Cinema, and Cultural Identity: Julius Caesar in Italy and the USA (1914-1922)’

  *Plenary speaker
  

For further details and booking form visit the NIRVC website at:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nirv

or contact:
Liz Jennings, Conference Secretary, Department of Art History, Lakeside Arts Centre,
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
Tel: +44 (0)115 846 7779 Fax +44 (0)115 846 7778
email: elizabeth.jennings@nottingham.ac.uk

Conference Organiser:
Richard Wrigley
Tel: + 44 (0)115 951 3318 Fax: + 44 (0)115 846 7778
email: richard.wrigley@nottingham.ac.uk