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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. 

This workshop explores how modern notions of ‘heritage’ can be applied to the study of premodern societies and their views on cultural preservation and transmission.

The course will be given in Rome 20 September - 29 October 2021. Students from all the Norwegian universities are welcome to apply. 

The library has reopened for the public, Monday-Friday from 09.00-16.00 Please contact our librarian, Manuela Michelloni to make an appointment: manuela.michelloni@roma.uio.no

The position is available for a period of 3,5 years at the Norwegian Institute in Rome. Application deadline 15 March 2021. 

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ACTA volume XXXII is on its way! 

Few people would dismiss the beauty of Rome, but what sacrifices were made during the construction of ancient monuments, churches, and temples? “When urban development happens, there are winners and losers,” says Christopher Siwicki.

The library is closed from 5 November until further notice, in accordance with the Government decree of 3 November 2020.

Kindly contact the librarian by email for electronic document delivery and information about services available: biblioteket@roma.uio.no

Postdoctoral fellow Chris Siwick has prepared a letter with news about recent excavations and exhibitions in Rome. His report includes archaeological discoveries at the Forum Romanum, Piazza della Rotonda and the Tiber, and exhibitions on Raphael, Roman architecture and Etruscan art in the context of illegal trade. Read the Roman Letter 2020.