Relics and Reliquaries – Seeing Is Believing
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…
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…
Public Lecture: The Afterlives of Italy’s Fascist Party Headquarters from 1945 to Today
Since the end of the Second World War, Italians have faced the question of what to do with the physical traces of the Fascist regime, and whether to preserve, demolish, alter, or renovate buildings and monuments of that era. Fascist sites represent a difficult heritage that it is too important to be ignored, but which also elicits divisive and painful memories. The roughly 5000 headquarters of…
The 2023 L’Orange Lecture: Sex and the Church. Early Modern Views on Sexuality and the Body in Eden
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…
Art Beyond Placeness: Narratives of Movement in the Early Modern Period
International workshop organized by Mattia Biffis, Honorary Fellow at the Norwegian Institute in Rome.
May 31, 2023 2:30 PM–June 1, 2023 6:00 PM
The Norwegian Institute in Rome.
In recent years, the new importance attributed to the biographies of objects and their global circulation has drawn increasing attention to the phenomenon of their physical transportation – in other words, to the…
La restituzione dei beni coloniali
07.03/2023 h14:15 – 17:30 ingresso via Liguria, 20
Analisi comparativa tra Italia e Svizzera
La questione della restituzione dei beni culturali coloniali è diventata un tema importante per i musei europei. In effetti, le richieste – sia da parte degli Stati, sia delle comunità locali – stanno diventando sempre più pressanti, e gli Stati occidentali guardano con maggiore incisività al loro…
Director’s Seminar Series 2023
The Director’s seminars take place in the lecture hall downstairs on Tuesday afternoons. Some are in-house seminars starting at 4 pm, other are public events starting at 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…
Reek of past pitfalls. Caterina De Nicola
24.02.2023-16.04.2023
Opening: 23.02.2023 H18:00-20:00
Istituto Svizzero, Via del Vecchio Politecnico 3, Milano, Ingresso gratuito
Reek of past pitfalls is the first solo exhibition in Milan by Caterina De Nicola, who presents a large site-specific installation within the space of Istituto Svizzero. In her artistic practice, Caterina De Nicola works through writing, painting, sculpture,…
Contacts & info
Headquarters:
c/o Institutum Romanum Finlandiae
Passeggiata del Gianicolo, 10
00165 Rome
info@reteurbs.org For opening hours and admission procedures, please visit the pages of the individual institutes
Institutum Romanum Finlandiae
Reale Istituto Nederlandese Di Roma
Istituto Di Norvegia In Roma
Istituto Svizzero
Real Academia De España En Roma…
Collections
The collective catalog of the URBS network currently consists of about 111,000 bibliographic records.
In addition to ancient and modern printed publications - monographic and periodical - it also includes graphic materials, prints, maps, musical recordings and scores, analytical descriptions, and electronic resources.
It is based on a multilingual authority file and is enriched with…
Reale Istituto Nederlandese di Roma
URBS NETWORK INSTITUTES Koninklijk
Nederlands
Instituut te Rome The KNIR library is specialized in archaeology, art history and history of Rome and of Italy.
There are also sections devoted to papal history, and the relations between the Vatican and the Netherlands.Our collection also include works on cultural heritage and on areas which have been excavated by Dutch archaeologist…
Real Academia de España en Roma
URBS NETWORK INSTITUTES Real Academia
de España
en Roma The aim of The Academia de España en Roma is to promote training in the arts and the humanities for creators and researchers to spread Spanish culture in Italy and foster cultural interaction between the two countries and the international community.
The library is an essential resource for Academia's activity. It includes…