City of Rome | House Museums in ancient Rome and the memoria of Clement
Romans were extremely interested in the genealogy of their houses. Changes of ownership were remembered, documented, and occasionally misrepresented. Certain houses were treated with something akin to...
View ArticleCity of Rome | Servicing Ostia: transport logistics and deliveries in Rome’s...
This lecture is inspired by two key aspects of Geoffrey Rickman’s interest in Roman antiquity: a fundamental desire to understand how the ancient world really worked, however banal the subject matter...
View ArticleRediscovering Byzantium | Le biblioteche della riscoperta: un caso di studio...
I protagonisti della riscoperta di Bisanzio stabiliscono un rapporto privilegiato con il libro, strumento essenziale nel lavoro e nella vita privata di ogni erudito. Le biblioteche degli umanisti,...
View Article2024 Ashby Patrons’ Visita Annuale di Roma
Further itinerary details in the coming months. If you are an Ashby Patron please add these dates to your diary and stay tuned! If you are not an Ashby Patron please contact development@bsrome.it or...
View ArticleCity of Rome | Programmi e progetti in corso nel Parco Archeologico...
This lecture will be in English. The contribution illustrates the projects and new challenges of the Appia Antica Archaeological Park, an independent Institute of the Italian Ministry of Culture,...
View ArticleCity of Rome | Il Tempio di Minerva di Pompeo in Campo Marzio
This lecture will be in Italian. Filippo Coarelli è nato a Roma il 9 Giugno 1936. Ha insegnato nelle Università di Roma, Siena, Cosenza, Perugia. E’ attualmente Professore emerito dell’Università di...
View ArticleCity of Rome |‘Let them eat cake!’ Surviving poverty in late antique Rome
Poverty was a ubiquitous phenomenon in ancient Rome, a constant feature in the city-scape. The threat of poverty haunted the vast majority of the population of the Urbs, shaping their social lives,...
View ArticleCity of Rome | Peter and Paul on the via Appia: early Christians in their...
The third-century AD cult site of the apostle martyrs Peter and Paul underneath the present church of San Sebastiano at the third mile of the Via Appia has been discussed in literally hundreds of...
View ArticleCity of Rome | WALKER LECTURE IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: Memory, Monuments and...
‘Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things’, Marcus Tullius Cicero. There is only the present. The past is a memory and the future is unknown. Everything is memory. We know who we are by what...
View ArticleGiovanni Battista Piranesi: Final exhibition of Prints from the BSR Ashby...
The British School at Rome is delighted to present the final exhibition of prints from the BSR Ashby collection of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. This exhibition is the last of the four annual...
View ArticleBSR Summer Open Studios 2024
The British School at Rome is delighted to present Summer Open Studios 2024, an evening dedicated to studio visits of artists in residence at the BSR: Pierre-Olivier Demeule – Conseil des Arts et des...
View ArticleLanguages of the Anthropocene | Conference 2024
This year’s Languages of the Anthropocene conference will be jointly hosted by the British School at Rome, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, and Sapienza Università di Roma. Programme: 18 June 2024 –...
View ArticleExhibition | You were kept awake all through the night
The group exhibition You were kept awake all through the night with artists Dario Carratta, Ginevra Collini, Aaron Ford, Eloise Fornieles, Kerstin Kartscher, Tura Oliveira and curated by Marta...
View ArticleWorkshop | Two study days in memory of Amanda Claridge
25 June, 14 – 18, The Cassiano dal Pozzo project: a monument to art history and antiquarianism 26 June, 9.30 – 15.30, Studi e ricerche sul territorio Laurentino The British School at Rome is happy to...
View ArticleTEN YEARS: BSR People 14 – 24
5 – 15 July 2024Opening 5 July 2024, from 6 to 8.30 pm.Open from Monday to Friday, from 2 to 7 pm. The British School at Rome is happy to present TEN YEARS: BSR People 14 – 24, a solo show by Antonio...
View ArticleBlack History Month | Un altro patrimonio è possibile: Hardeep Dhindsa &...
In occasione del Black History Month, che dal 1987 nel Regno Unito ad ottobre celebra i contributi delle persone Nere alla storia, si terrà il 9 ottobre 2024 dalle ore 18 un incontro con Hardeep...
View ArticleFalerii Veteres e Falerii Novi: il fenomeno urbano nella media valle del...
On 14 and 15 October we will celebrate archaeological research in the area of Falerii Novi and Falerii Veteres.On 14 October, from 6.00 to 7.30 pm, a keynote lecture by Prof. Christopher J. Smith...
View ArticleRediscovering Byzantium | Bisanzio in mostra
La British School at Rome offre un ciclo di seminari di ricerca dedicati alle testimonianze culturali e storico-artistiche dell’eredità bizantina in Italia. Le conferenze sono rivolte a un pubblico...
View ArticleRushforth Lecture | How did peasants react to city government? Rome and...
Exactly how cities extended their power over the countryside in the late twelfth century and later has often been studied, but above all from the standpoint of the cities themselves. How people in the...
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