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The L'Orange annual lecture

An annual lecture is held in memory of Hans Peter L'Orange, the founder of the Institute of Rome. A renowned international researcher is invited to lecture in Rome. The lecture is open to everyone.

2023

31.10.2023 Dr. Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute, University of London)
“Sex and the Church. Early Modern Views on Sexuality and the Body in Eden”

2022

05.12.2022 Prof. Lynn Meskell (University of Pennsylvania)
"Saving the World? Reflections on UNESCO's Mid Century Mission in Conflict"

2021

05.09.2021 Dr. Nino Zchomelidse (John Hopkins University, Baltimore)
"Rome and the aesthetics of illusion:the& Privilegium Ottonianum;and the Marriage Charter of Empress Theophanu"

2020

23.06.21 Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfisterer. (Director Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte München)"Raphael and the Cornucopia of Antiquity".
The lecture was postponed from 18.11.20 to June 2021 due to the COVID epidemic.

2019

Prof.Kristian Kristiansen (University of Gothenburg):
"Towards a New European prehistory: genes, archaeology and language".


2018

Prof. Rubina Raja (University of Århus):
"From Palmyra to Rome and back again: Palmyrene portraiture and their narrative"

2017

Prof. Jonathan M. Hall (University of Chicago):
"The archaeology of the individual in the ancient Mediterranean world"

2016

Prof. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (University of Cambridge):
"Imperial Rome - a city of immigrants? (journals.uio.no)"

2015

Prof. Jane Tylus (New York University):
"Caterina Pellegrina"

2014

Prof. Kimberley Bowes (University of Pennsylvania):
"How poor were the Roman poor? An examination of rural poverty."

2013

Prof. Eve D'Ambra (Vassar College, New York):
"The elite and mass appeal of Roman imperial female portraiture - the case of Vibia Sabina"

2012

Prof. James E. Packer (Northwestern University):
"The Theater of Pompey in Rome - the archeological evidence, the architecture, the decline and destruction"

2011

Prof. Jas' Elsner (Corpus Cristi College, Oxford):
"Closure and Penetration: Reflections on the Pola Casket"

2010

Prof. Paul Zanker (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa):
"L’Arco di Costantino: Un Monumento del Senato Romano"

2009

Prof. Richard Brilliant:
"Late Antiquity - a protean term"

2008

Prof. Christine Kondoleon (Museum of Fine Arts Boston):
"New mosaics from Boston - the gathering of roses and the celebration of wealth and pleasure"

2007

Prof. Barbro Santillo Frizell (Det svenske institutt i Roma):
"Via Tiburtina, landscape and memory

2006

Prof. Rasmus Brandt (Det norske institutt I Roma):
"Private and public in the sphere of the ancient city"

2005

Prof. Emilio Marin:
"Il Museo Archeologico di Split"

2004

No lecture was held.

2003

Prof. Patrizio Pensabene (Universitá La Sapienza Roma):
"L'Arco di Costantino: tra continuità e rottura"

2002

Xenia Muratova (Université de Rennes II):
"Il tema della creazione nell'arte e nel pensiero del XII secolo"

2001

Carlo Bertelli (Universitá di Milano):
"Roma dopo Costantino"

2000

Valentino Pace (Universitá degli studi di Udine):
"Tradizione e rivalitá. Aspetti dell'arte romana alle soglie del primo giubileo"

1999

Eric Hostetter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Chanpaign):
"Betwixt and between - a search for identity on the NE slope of the Palatine"

1998

Giorgos e Theodoros Spyropoulos (Riksantikvaren i Tripolis, Hellas):
"The villa of Herodes Atticus at Eva in Arcadia"

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