Program Autumn Term 2023
Changes may occur
Tuesday 12 September, 4 pm. Manuela Michelloni, DNIR with Barbara Mancini and Eleonora Brignola, Emme.Bi.Soft: Visualizing Archival Materials. DNIR and URBIS’ new digital humanities project (in-house seminar, not open to the public)
Tuesday 19 September, 4pm. Visiting researchers Irene Selsvold, University of Gothenburg, and Frida Espolin Norstein, University of Stockholm: Death in Transition: Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change
Tuesday 26 September, 6 pm. Visiting researcher Francesco D’Angelo, La Sapienza: From Markland to Milan. Galvaneus Flamma and the Circulation of News between Northern Europe and Italy in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
Tuesday 3 October, 6 pm. Scholar in residence Prof. Gunnar Liestøl, University of Oslo: Augmented Reality Storytelling and Reconstructions of Ancient Events in situ
Tuesday 10 October, 6 pm. Celebration of Professor Siri Sande’s 80th birthday. Lecture: Prof. em. Siri Sande, DNIR: The Piccolo Sarcofago Ludovisi – an Eighteenth-Century Forgery? Festive reception afterwards!
Tuesday 17 October, 6 pm. Visiting Fellow Anna Dyankonova, Oslo School of Architecture and Design: In the Presence of Stone
Tuesday 24 October, 6 pm. Visiting researcher Jostein Garcia de Presno, MF School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo: Blame it on the Pope. A Norwegian Revivalist on the History of God and the Errors of the Roman Church
Tuesday 31 October, 6 pm. The Annual L’Orange Lecture. Alessandro Scafi, Warburg Institute, London: Sex and the Church. Early Modern Views on Sexuality and the Body in Eden
Tuesday 7 November, 6 pm. Ella & Eystein Magnus Fellow Sissel Grøndal, University of Oslo: The Norwegian Sculptor Gustav Vigeland's Travels and Studies in Italy in 1895 and 1896: An Encounter with the Early Italian Renaissance
Tuesday 14 November, 6 pm. Scholar in residence Vigdis Evang, University of Oslo: Exploration and Authority. Olaus Magnus between Learned Knowledge and Personal Experience
Tuesday 21 November, 6 pm. Scholar in residence Prof. Laura Saetveit Miles, University of Bergen: St. Birgitta of Sweden in Medieval Rome: On the Trail of Two English Superfans, Cardinal Adam Easton and Margery Kempe