Program Spring Term 2023
Changes may occur
Tuesday 24 January, 4 pm: Christopher Siwicki (DNIR), Stephen Kay (BSR), Elena Pomar (BSR), Veronica Castignani (BSR), and Francesca Paola di Casola (BSR): The First Mile of the Via Latina Project: The Residence of the Norwegian Ambassador
Tuesday 31 January, 6 pm: Visiting Fellow Francesco Maniglia, University of Oslo: Reshaping Greek Italy in Roman Times – the Geography of Myth
Tuesday 7 February, 4 pm: Double seminar
Visiting Fellow Knut Harald Gjellestad, University of Oslo: Augustean Reception of Greek Sculpture as a Model for 21st Century Aesthetics
Visiting Fellow Thorbjørn Nordbø, University of Oslo: Machiavelli on Index – Ten Strategies for Publishing Forbidden Books
Tuesday 14 February, 6 pm: BOOK LAUNCH: Book launch with DNIR Honorary Fellow, Prof. Victor Plahte Tschudi, Oslo School of Architecture: Piranesi and the Modern Age. Comments from Prof. Mario Bevilacqua, La Sapienza and Dr. Clare Hornby, British School at Rome
Tuesday 21 February, 6 pm: Scholar in Residence Dr. Mary Jane Cuyler, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo: In the Eye of the Beholder: Reconsidering the Torlonia Harbor Relief
Tuesday 28 February: Seminar cancelled due to illness
Tuesday 7 March, 4 pm: Visiting Fellow Tara Palmstrøm Fenn, University of Oslo: Between “inundatio” and “diluvium”: Environmental imagination in a medieval flood sermon
Tuesday 14 March, 4 pm: Double seminar
Visiting Fellow Eva Rem Hansen, NTNU (Trondheim): Entering the Work. Artists’ Appearances and Authority in Arte Povera, 1965-1972
Eystein & Ella Magnus Fellow Sarita Øygard, University of Bergen: Classical Materiality in Italian Contemporary Sculpture
Tuesday 21 March, 6 pm: Scholar in Residence Prof. Henning Laugerud, University of Bergen: Historical truth, truth in history: A post-colonial perspective on the Middle Ages
Tuesday 28 March: No seminar. Conference Perceptions of aging and old age: thresholds and life cycles, in collaboration with Biblioteca Herziana
Tuesday 4 April: No seminar. Easter week (Settimana santa)
Tuesday 11 April, 6 pm: Scholar in Residence Prof. Knut Ødegård, University of Oslo: Greek urban foundations in the Late Archaic period: The connections between the colonies in Magna Graecia and the Greek motherland
Tuesday 18 April, 4 pm: Visiting Fellow Maria Myrtveit, University of Bergen: Ragazzi di Vita: To recreate the Rome of Pier Paolo Pasolini in Norwegian (please note that this presentation will be given in Norwegian)
Tuesday 25 April: No seminar (Festa della Liberazione)
Tuesday 2 May, 6 pm: Visiting Researcher Richard Wittman, University of California, University of California, The Pontifical Expedition to Egypt of 1840-41: A Forgotten Episode in the Nineteenth-Century European-Egyptian Encounter
Tuesday 9 May, 4 pm: Scholar in Residence Prof. Gard Granerød, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo: How Tall is the Yahweh of Solomon’s Temple? Computing Yahweh’s Stature
Tuesday 16 May, 6 pm: Visiting Researcher Prof. Patrick Bernhard, UiO: A Chivalrous War? The North African Campaign, Rommel and the Uses of the Medieval Past
Tuesday 23 May: No seminar
Tuesday 30 May, 6 pm: Visiting Researcher Associate Prof. Daniele Miano, The Roots of Universal History: The Empire, the World, and the Historian (c. 200 BCE - 1681 CE)
Tuesday 6 June: No seminar
Tuesday 13 June, 4 pm: Visiting Researcher Dr. Frederic Clark, Historia Universalis and the Novus Orbis: Antiquity, the Americas, and the Writing of Universal History in Early Modern Europe