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…

Istituto Svizzero

URBS NETWORK INSTITUTES Istituto Svizzero With over. 48,000 titles of monographs and publications, the library of the Swiss Institute provides researchers with an important collection related to the antiquity, and classical archaeology, with particular reference to the territory of Rome and Lazio, history, art history, musicology, architecture, philology. The library has an important…

Istituto di Norvegia in Roma

URBS NETWORK INSTITUTES Istituto di Norvegia in Roma (Univesità di Oslo) The Norway Institute in Rome is an international meeting place for the humanities and an important theater for collaborations among international researchers. The library contains around 25 000 academic books and journals and is a principal hub in the research activities, studies, and knowledge exchange that…

Institutum Romanum Finlandiae

URBS NETWORK INSTITUTES Institutum Romanum Finlandiae The library consists of circa 21,000 volumes. The library specializes in classical studies, in particular in Roman topography. To support researchers, the library acquires key reference works in the fields of classical philology, ancient history, classical archaeology, and art history. The collection also includes as many works…

Passage to the Underworld — the Etruscan Way

Lecture given by our former Director, Professor em. Rasmus Brandt on the occasion of his 80th birthday Thursday 9th February at 18:00. Join us in celebrating an extraordinary man and great scholar! If you are not in Rome, follow the event online: https://uio.zoom.us/j/64118729567  

FUTURO PERFECTO DE MEMORIA

CICLO DI CONFERENZE | gennaio – maggio 2023 Residencia de Estudiantes (C/ Pinar, 21, 28006 Madrid). Ingresso libero fino a esaurimento posti È possibile seguirlo in diretta su www.edaddeplata.org La prima conferenza del ciclo si svolgerà il 25 gennaio e aprirà le attività del progetto Vivir varios tiempos a la vez. La memoria compartida de la Academia de España Roma curata dal gestore…

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…

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…

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/  

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…