We have started wrapping up our library in view of the extensive renovation works planned to start in January 2023. The library, reading room, offices and meeting rooms will not be accessible for students, researchers and the public before late Spring.
The Nordic academic institutes and the Nordic embassies in Rome collaborate with Circolo Scandinavo to give a bit of nordic colour and culture to the month of November in Caput Mundi
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Vigdis Evang is a Scholar in Residence this term. She research early modern book history, and in addition she does editorial work for our periodical ACTA.
The Norwegian Institute in Rome has received the news of the passing of our former director Professor Hjalmar Torp on 10 September 2023 with deep regret and sorrow.
Our former Director, Professor emeritus Siri Sande, soon turns 80. We congratulate her on his anniversary and thank her for everything she has meant to the Institute and to Norwegian research activity in Rome!
We are pleased to have Francesco D' Angelo as Visiting Scholar here at the Institute this autumn term. Francesco is one of few Italian historians who has chosen to specialize in Scandinavian medieval history. He explores the historical relations between Italy and Scandinavia during the Middle Ages.
The vol. XXXIII no. 19 N.S. (2023) of DNIR's Journal, ACTA ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia is online now. View the table of contents and download the articles. You can buy a printed version of the Journal at Scienze e Lettere
The Director’s seminars take place in the lecture hall downstairs on Tuesday afternoons at 4 pm or 6 pm. DNIR’s visiting fellows, guest researchers, and invited lecturers present current their research. Presentations are usually in English and take the format of 20 minute-papers, followed by a Q&A session and an informal reception in the garden or in the common room upstairs.
To attend, please register at events@roma.uio.no
The Norwegian Institute in Rome invites applicants to express their interest in the upcoming postdoctoral fellowship in ancient studies in Rome. Application deadline 15 August 2023.
Our former Director, Professor emeritus Rasmus Brandt, recently turned 80. We congratulate him on his anniversary and thank him for everything he has meant to the Institute and to Norwegian research activity in Rome!
Emanuela Longo started working for the University of Oslo this month, and will facilitate events and ensure the smooth day-to-day operations at the Institute in Rome.
The Director’s seminars take place in the lecture hall downstairs on Tuesday afternoons at 4 pm or 6 pm. DNIR’s visiting fellows, guest researchers, and invited lecturers present current their research. Presentations are usually in English and take the format of 20 minute-papers, followed by a Q&A session and an informal reception in the garden or in the common room upstairs.
To attend, please register at events@roma.uio.no
An interdisciplinary symposium will be held in Rome 21 - 23 June to explore the ways in which the Virgin Mary was represented in texts written by, for or about women between the 15th and 17th centuries.
Dal 2 al 30 november ci saranno iniziative per valorizzare il legame storico dei Paesi Nordici con la città di Roma, e per creare nuovi momenti di scambio attraverso mostre, talk, concerti e film.
Workshop at The Norwegian Institute in Rome 31 May - 1 June 2023
Researchers and students present their projects every Tuesday at the Institute seminars.
How mobility and materiality shaped pre-modern geographies of devotion (400-1700)- an international conference at the Norwegian Institute in Rome 24 - 26 May 2023, organized by Marianne P. Ritsema van Eck and Kaja Merete Hagen.
In 2022, the Norwegian Institute in Rome (DNIR) proudly introduced a new lecture series, the P. A. Munch Annual Lecture, in commemoration of the Norwegian historian Peter Andreas Munch (1810—1863), a prominent and highly productive scholar who spent his last years working in Roman archives.
A colloquium on Access, Approach and the Archival Turn.
30 - 31 May 2022 at the Norwegian Institute in Rome
Open invitation to participate at workshop in Rome
29 - 31 August 2022
The Norwegian institute in Rome welcomes Marianne Ritsema van Eck as our new post-doctoral fellow. Marianne will develop for the next three and a half years her research project under the title St Helena and the city of Rome: re-inventing the late antique Christian past in early modernity (ca. 1450-1650).
The vol. XXXII no. 18 N.S. (2020) of DniR Journal, ACTA ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia is online now. View the table of contents and download the articles. You can buy a printed version of the Journal at Scienze e Lettere
A Green Pass (certificazione verde) is required to access many public spaces such as Universities (including the Norwegian Institute in Rome), libraries, museums, exhibitions and indoor seating in bars and restaurants and more.
The symposium will take place in Rome on 18 - 19 October 2021. Deadline for abstracts: 5 July.
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