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The project Before Copyright led by Alberto José Campillo Pardo at IAKH/University of Oslo, will organise a conference called "Circulation of Written Heritage" at The Norwegian Institute in Rome in December 2024. Please find below a call for paper.
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The Norwegian institute in Rome invites to the annual P.A. Munch lecture and to the presentation of the first H.R. Astrup Rome-award to students.
St. Birgitta of Sweden in Medieval Rome: On the Trail of Two English Superfans, Cardinal Adam Easton and Margery Kempe
Circolo Gianicolense: Christopher S. Siwicki
Exploration and Authority: Olaus Magnus between Learned Knowledge and Personal Experience
Francesco D'Angelo parlerà di Sigurd Jórsalafari e del suo avventuroso viaggio nel Mediterraneo 1107-1111 .
L'evento è aperto per tutti tramite registrazione e fa parte del Novembre Nordico a Roma.
The Norwegian Sculptor Gustav Vigeland's Travels and Studies in Italy in 1895 and 1896: An Encounter with the Early Italian Renaissance
Ibsen scrisse le sue opere piu famose in Italia. Nella sua relazione Giuliano D'Amico approfondirà luci ed ombre del soggiorno romano di Ibsen, soffermandosi sulle sue ispirazioni artistiche e sul suo isolamento dal contesto culturale italiano, mentre Maria Cristina Lombardi discuterà l'opera di mediazione culturale riguardante l'opera di Ibsen che Anne Charlotte Leffler, sua amica e ammiratrice, condusse a Napoli coinvolgendo il filosofo Benedetto Croce. L’attrice Anna Chiara Senatore leggerà da una delle opere di Ibsen.
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Alessandro Scafi of Warburg Institute, University of London, to give this year's L'Orange Lecture. As an expert on medieval and early modern culture, Dr. Scafi will present and discuss a decisive phase in the history of sexuality. Were Adam and Eve meant to have sex in the Garden Eden? The various answers to this question had wide-ranging religious, cultural, and political consequences.
Blame it on the Pope. A Norwegian Revivalist on the History of God and the Errors of the Roman Church
In the Presence of Stone
Relics and reliquaries have been at the core of European devotional cultures during many centuries. Recent decades have seen a wide scholarly interest in the subject, expressed through several exhibitions and book publications. The European Network on the Instruments of Devotion (ENID) has chosen this dynamic research topic for this conference, celebrating the network's 20th anniversary. The conference, co-organized with the Norwegian Institute in Rome, presents papers on relics, reliquaries, and their connected devotional practices from medieval to contemporary times.
On the occasion of her 80th birthday, our former Director Professor Siri Sande will give an open lecture on a controversial topic: Is the celebrated Piccolo Ludovisi Sarcophagus really a seventeenth century forgery? The Institute is delighted to host a reception in her honour immediately after the lecture. Please join us in celebrating an extraordinary woman and great scholar!
Augmented Reality Storytelling and Reconstructions of Ancient Events in situ
Were Mesopotamian city states precursors of the political system of ancient Greece? Prof. Iver B. Neumann, anthropologist and political scientist, aims to answer this question in a guest lecture at the DNIR. We are delighted to host this event, which is open to all.
From Markland to Milan. Galvaneus Flamma and the Circulation of News between Northern Europe and Italy in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
Death in Transition: Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change
This interdisciplinary symposium will explore the ways in which the Virgin Mary was represented in texts written by, for or about women between the 15th and 17th centuries.
International workshop organized by Mattia Biffis, Honorary Fellow at the Norwegian Institute in Rome.
An international conference at the Norwegian Institute in Rome 24 - 26 May 2023, organized by Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck and Kaja Merete Hagen.
The Norwegian Institute in Rome is honored to welcome Dr. Michele Camaioni, University of Roma Tre, as this year's P. A. Munch Lecturer. Dr. Camaioni will be introduced by our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Marianne Ritsema van Eck.
The P. A. Munch Lecture Series was introduced in 2022 to commemorate the Norwegian historian Peter Andreas Munch (1810—1863), a prominent and highly productive scholar who spent his last years working in Roman archives.
Egypt was part of the Roman world for seven centuries, from the Roman conquest of Egypt in 31 BC to the annexation of Egypt by the Rashidun caliphate in AD 646. The period saw the exchange of languages, cultural and religious ideas and concepts across borders, including the spread the Egyptian Isis cult into the Roman West and the emergence of Christian monastic culture in Egypt’s deserts.
Images of old age and aging determine how we handle demographic change. This conference will explore how the stages of the life cycle have been construed throughout history in order to consciously recognise the stereotypes that emanate from these age categories.
Jake Tippett on Niccolo Machiavelli: The Norwegian Institute in Rome is delighted to host this term's first gathering of the Circolo Gianicolense!
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78), printmaker, architect, and antiquarian, has long mesmerized viewers with his panoramas of ancient Rome. But he has also been considered an interpreter of the genuinely modern, DNIR Honorary Fellow, Professor Victor Plahte Tschudi argues in his new book.