Lecture on leather tanning in Greek antiquity

Wednesday 15 February 2023 at 6 pm Villa Lante al Gianicolo FROM SKINS TO LEATHER: TANNING IN ANCIENT GREECE Dr. Petra Pakkanen Finnish Institute of Athens The lecture is organized in collaboration with Amici di Villa Lante al Gianicolo Tanning and leather production in Roman antiquity has recently attracted increasingly scholarly attention. However, our knowledge on equivalent…

ArCHeoM 2023 Swiss Archaeology in the Western Mediterranean

16/02/2023 - h09:30/20:30 entrance Via Liguria, 20 Each year, Istituto Svizzero hosts the archaeology departments of Swiss universities, providing a platform for work and discussion to raise the profile of Swiss archaeological research in the Mediterranean region. During this year’s conference, Swiss postdoctoral students have the opportunity to present their research projects in the…

A letter to Giacinto Celsi

24/02/2023 - The concert will take place at H18:00 at Istituto Svizzero, via Liguria 20, Rome. Composer and musician Alvin Curran along with Sound Arts students from the Bern Academy of the Arts (HKB) will play the concert titled A letter to Giacinto Scelsi at Istituto Svizzero. This performance is part of a research project of the Sound Arts department at HKB together with the Fondazione…

Dr. Jan Bernard Gijsman has joined the team of the KNIR Bibliotheek

We are excited to announce that Dr. Jan Bernard Gijsman has joined the team of the KNIR Bibliotheek as a volunteer. He is working with Adrian Luijdjens' extensive photo collection. On our website you can read more about Jan Bernard's first findings: https://www.knir.it/.../fotoarchief-adriaan-luijdjens/