Events

Conferenza XXXVIII The Illicit Trade in Antiquities as a Challenge for Research: Social Sciences and Humanities Facing a Contemporary Issue. 13 novembre 2025 Ore 18.00 École française de Rome Piazza Navona 62 The looting and trafficking of antiquities is a long-standing phenomenon that separates objects from their context and robs societies of their history. Today, […]

“Educare alla bellezza: due case museo tra passato e presente. Casa Strand di Ellen Key e Villa Helene di Hendrick Christian Andersen” Giovedì 13 novembre, 18:00Istituto Svedese di Studi ClassiciVia Omero 14, 00197 Roma Prenotazione richiesta ad eventi@svroma.org  Le case museo non sono solo luoghi dove si conservano oggetti o ricordi del passato: sono spazi

OPEN LECTURE 11/11 at 18.00 Lovisa Brännstedt – The ominous city Omens and divine signs were closely linked to the topography of ancient Rome. There was a conspicuous physical presence of buildings, monuments, plants and objects associated with omens in the city. Several temples were consecrated to expiate prodigies while others were rebuilt. Statues were dedicated,

OPEN LECTURE 21/10 at 18.00 Sinclair Bell  – “In Search of Ancient Aethiopians: Roman “Portraits” of Black Africans within the Expanded Field of Art History” This paper reunites a corpus of material that has never been studied comprehensively together: marble heads identified as portraits of Aethiopians (“Black” Africans) who lived in the Roman empire. The

Ascoltare con gli occhi: Oggetti e spazi parlanti nel mondo antico 13-14 october 2025 At Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici – Via Omero 14, Roma And on ZOOM → link Shared stories play an essential role in the creation of cultural memory within human societies. Yet storytelling is not limited to language: images, objects, and

The Blera Archaeological Project: lo studio dell’urbanizzazione etrusca attraverso indagini multi-risoluzione CAMPAGNA 2025 MERCOLEDI 1 OTTOBRE ORE 18.00 PRESSO LA SALA S. NICOLA BLERA (VT) Dr. Hampus Olsson, Doc. Giacomo Landeschi, Dr. Melda Küçükdemirci e DR. Salvatore Piro presentano il progetto: The Blera Archaeological Project: lo studio dell’ urbanizzazione etrusca attraverso indagini multi-risoluzione. In collaborazione

Mario Segre (1904-1944) – Nuovi studi e ricerche 25 settembre – ore 17.30 La figura di Mario Segre è stata negli ultimi anni al centro di studi e ricerche che ne hanno finalmente ricostruito la vita e l’attività di promettente studioso di epigrafia e storia greca. L’Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma, che nei

Mapping Dissonant Objects Workshop 1 Engaging with Dissonant Objects: Religiuos Material Agencies Across Space and Time Conveners: Sabina Brevaglieri, Massimo Carlo Giannini, Lina Scalisi 2.00 PM   Get-together Opening Session 2.30 PM Ulf R. Hansson – Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma. Welcome Address 2.45 – 3.15 PM Sabina Brevaglieri – Humboldt Universität zu Berlin,

BEYOND MATERIALITY Reframing archaeology through sensoriality, digital methods and neurosciences International symposium 5-7 June THURSDAY 5 JUNE 2025 10:00 Coffee and Mingling 10.30 Opening and welcome: – Ulf R. Hansson, Director of the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome – Giacomo Landeschi (Lund University) SESSION 1– Sensory Archaeologies. Chair: Eleanor Betts (Open University) 11.00

OPEN LECTURE 22/05 at 18.00 Meghan Quinlan “Dreams, Time, and History:  A dialogue between psychoanalysis and 12th-century dream theory via Michel de Certeau” This lecture performs a dialogue between psychoanalysis and historiography by reading premodern and Freudian theories of dreaming as historiographical paradigms. Foregrounding the notion of time travel in these dream theories, it argues,