May 2004

Tuesday 4 th
18.00

Archaeology lecture

Robert Harris

'Imagining Pompeii'
The British author will talk about his best-selling novel, Pompeii .

Wednesday 5 th
17.00

Book presentation

'Raphael in Early Modern Sources (1483-1602)'

Presented by the BSR in conjunction with the Bibliotheca Hertziana, in memory of the author, John Shearman. Presented by: Caroline Elam, Alessandro Nova, Salvatore Settis, Matthias Winner.

Wednesday 12 th
18.00

Archaeology lecture

Paolo Liverani (Musei Vaticani)

'The Arch of Honorius and the Arco di Portogallo '

Friday 14 th
18.00

Humanities lecture

Julie-Ann Vickers (Rome Scholar, BSR; Cambridge University)

'Text, authenticity and power at the medieval monastery of Santa Sophia at Benevento'

Wednesday 19 th
18.00

Humanities lecture

Jane Dunnett (Rome Scholar, BSR; Royal Holloway)

'Controlling culture: the censorship of foreign fiction in Fascist Italy'

Saturday 22 nd
9.00-18.00

Classical architecture

conference

'Imaging Ancient Rome'

Day three of the Third Williams Symposium on Classical Architecture at the American Academy, the BSR and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom.

Wednesday 26 th
18.00

Humanities lecture

Roberto Cobianchi (Rome Scholar, BSR; University of Warwick)

'Gabriele Rangone (1410-1486): the first observant Franciscan cardinal and his patronage in Rome and Bagnoregio'

Friday 28 th
18.00

Archaeology lecture

Fabio Barry (Columbia University)

'Walking on water. Cosmic pavements in Antiquity, Byzantium and Christendom'