October 2008

Wednesday 15th
18.00

Modern Studies lecture

David Forgacs (University College London/BSR Research Professor in Modern Studies)
Mad world: photographs and oral testimonies of patients in Italian psychiatric hospitals 1967–77

Monday 20th
17.00

Archaeology
event

AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica) meeting. Part of the AIAC Incontri series, the papers in this session, chaired by Massimiliano Papini, will address the theme ‘Uso e riuso della materia decorata’

Wednesday 22nd
18.00

Art History lecture

Pamela M. Jones (University of Massachusetts, Boston)  Bare feet, humility and the Passion of Christ in the cults of Carlo Borromeo and Mary Magdalene in Seicento Rome

November 2008

Thursday 6th
9.00-18.00 Friday 7th
9.00-18.00

Archaeology conference

Identifying the Punic Mediterranean
A conference sponsored by the British School at Rome and the Society for Libyan Studies. For programme, see BSR website www.bsr.ac.uk

Wednesday 12th
18.00

Archaeology lecture

Maureen Carroll (University of Sheffield/BSR Balsdon Fellow)
‘Too young for the funeral pyre’. The death, burial and commemoration of newborn children and infants in Roman Italy

Tuesday 18th
Lecture: 18.00
Exhibition opening: 19.30

Architecture lecture and exhibition

Lecture and Exhibition of AOC
Second in the series ‘London–Rome Work in Process: Eight Architecture Practices’
Lecture introduced by Luigi Prestinenza

Wednesday 19th
18.00

Architectural History lecture

Inaugural W.T.C. Walker Lecture
Caspar Pearson (University of Essex)
‘What goes up …’: Leon Battista Alberti on building and destruction

Tuesday 25th
18.00

Fine Arts and Architecture event
In Italian

Book Presentation: ‘Cucchi/Sottsas’
Round table discussion with the artist Enzo Cucchi and other Roman artists and architects

December 2008

Wednesday 3rd
18.00

Architectural History lecture

Gavin Stamp (Independent Scholar, London):
Lutyens and Spence
Keynote address of one-day conference ‘Architecture, diplomacy, and national identity: Sir Basil Spence and mid-century Modernism’ (see below)

Thursday 4th
9.45–18.00

Architectural History conference

Architecture, diplomacy, and national identity: Sir Basil Spence and mid-century Modernism
A conference organized by the University of Warwick in conjunction with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. For programme see BSR website www.bsr.ac.uk

Wednesday 10th
18.00

Art History lecture

William Eisler (Musée monetaire cantonal, Lausanne/BSR Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow)
The construction of the image of Martin Folkes (1690–1754): art, science and freemasonry in the age of the Grand Tour

Friday 12th December
18.30-21.30

Fine Arts exhibition

"Figure of 8"

Private view of exhibition of works by BSR Fine Arts Scholars:
Joseph Bedford, Penelope Cain, Dragica Carlin, Katie Cuddon, Celia Hempton, Amanda Marburg, Ruth Murray, Edward Peake, Liz Rideal

Supported by Dalla Vedova Studio Legale.

Exhibition opening hours: Mon–Sat, 16.30–19.00
Until Sat 20th December 2008