The Director’s seminar series takes place in the lecture hall downstairs on Tuesday afternoons. Some are internal 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 reception in the garden or in the common room upstairs.
Circolo Gianicolense seminars take place 2-4 times per term, alternating between the institutions involved (DNIR, IRF, AUR, AAR). These seminars entail 30 min presentations, respondent’s comments, and ensuing discussion.
Participation is open to the public, but registration is mandatory. Kindly send an email to events@roma.uio.no if you wish to participate.
Tentative programme for the autumn:
Tuesday 6 September, 5 pm: Director's seminar
Visiting Fellow Christian Tømmeraas Berg, MA student, Oslo School of Architecture: Use and reuse of constructive stone elements in contemporary architecture
Tuesday 13 September, 6 pm: Director’s seminar *
Visiting Fellow Moa Airijoki, PhD candidate, University of Bergen:
Tending the Garden of the Monks: A study of a late medieval Copto-Arabic Apophthegmata Patrum Recension
Tuesday 20 September, 6 pm: Director’s seminar*
Guest Researcher Dr. Jesse Harrington, University College Cork:
S. Stefano al Monte Celio and Papal Legates in Twelfth Century Ireland
Tuesday 27 September, 6 pm: Director’s seminar*
Visiting Professor Simon Malmberg, University of Bergen:
The Port of Testaccio in Rome: A New Interpretation
Tuesday 4 October, 4 pm: Director’s seminar
Visiting Fellow Marius Stangeland, MA student, NTNU (Trondheim):
Plague, War, and Climate Change in 6th Century Italy
Visiting Fellow Cathrine Tønseth Sundem, MA student, Oslo School of Architecture: Terme di Caracalla
Tuesday 11 October, 6 pm: Circolo Gianicolense (venue: DNIR) *
Visiting Fellow Tuomo Salokas, PhD Candidate, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae:
John of Salisbury's (c. 1115-1180) Political Theory and Roman Rhetoric
Tuesday 18 October, 6 pm: Director’s seminar*
DNIR Honorary Fellow, Dr. Mattia Biffis:
Images broken apart: fortunes and misfortunes of Raphael’s logistics
Guest Researcher Ass. Prof. Eleonora Pistis, Columbia University:
The mobility of Ancient Architecture in the Eighteenth Century
Tuesday 25 October, 6 pm: Director’s seminar *
Guest Lecturer Dr. John Landsowne, Villa I Tatti: TBA
Tuesday 1 November: Holiday (Ognissanti), no seminar
Tuesday 8 November, 6 pm: Director’s seminar*
DNIR Honorary Fellow Dr. Sam Hardy: "We, who were in the self-defence [attack], were given these [medals]." Cultural property war crimes, and wartime collaboration by cultural property criminals, in Russia’s war on Ukraine
Tuesday 15 November, 4 pm: Director’s seminar
Visiting fellow Ane Katrine Øverseth Olsen, MA student, University of Oslo:
Female portraits in 16th-century monumental painting
Visiting fellow Ingrid Kibsgård, MA student, University of Bergen:
Letters from Spain: an analysis of original supplications sent to the Apostolic Penitentiary regarding Jewish Heresy during the Spanish Inquisition
Tuesday 22 November 4 pm: Circolo Gianicolense (venue Villa Lante)*
DNIR Postdoctoral Fellow Marianne Ritsema van Eck:
Into city and beyond, to Jerusalem: Building, Mapping and Memorializing Observant Franciscan Community in Brescia, 1422–1610
Tuesday 29 November: No seminar.
Conference on Erik Valkendorf (1465-1522): From Nidaros to Rome in the Early Sixteenth Century. See DNIR’s website for further information
Tuesday 6 December: No seminar.
Conference Longue Durée of Heritage: Curatio of the Past from Antiquity to the Present Day. See DNIR’s website for further information
Tuesday 13 December, 6 pm: Director’s seminar*
Visiting fellow Gunnar Gjermundsen, University of Oslo: TBA