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Research Seminar 9 June 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on Zoom Vincenza Ferrara The Biocultural Heritage of Sicilian Olive Trees Mediterranean perennial agrosystems are the results of long-term entanglements between humans and nature, playing a crucial role for local livelihood but today critically under pressure due to global […]

Research Seminar 12 May 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on Zoom Yannick de Raaff Early Mycenaean Settlement Architecture: Differentiation and Monumentality The Mycenaean culture of the Late Bronze Age Greek mainland is well-known amongst archaeologists and has received much wonderment from scholars and general public alike. Less well-understood

Research Seminar 5 May 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on Zoom Ignazio Tantillo Velum: The Use of Curtains in the Palace of Late Roman Emperors Curtains are a characteristic element of Byzantine court ceremonial. In particular, they serve to ‘reveal’ the sovereign during an audience ritual. The origin

Research Seminar 7 April 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on Zoom Svante Fischer The Rome Solidus Mint of Valentinian III (425-455) This paper seeks to offer a more comprehensive understanding of the reign of the western emperor Valentinian III (425—455) by analyzing numismatic evidence from Scandinavia and Italy.

Seminar 17 March 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on Zoom Adnan Gacanin The City as Theatre: Images of Architecture on the Italian Renaissance Stage The stage designs of Italian renaissance theatre, for example those in the Teatro Olimpico or in Sebastiano Serlio’s illustrations, contain a specific form of

Research Seminar 3 March 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on Zoom Stefano Fogelberg Rota Swedish Images of Italy: Travel Literature in the Age of Liberty (1719-72) Swedish travel literature from the Italian peninsula during the Age of Liberty (Frihetstiden, 1719-72) engages in several of the main cultural and

Research Seminar 17 February 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on Zoom Mads Ortving Lindholmer Ideal Rulers and Persian Despots: Alexander Severus’ Admission Ritual in the Historia Augusta The admission, often called the salutatio when occurring in the Principate and the adoratio when occurring in Late Antiquity, was a

Research Seminar 3 February 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on Zoom Emelie Byström Nymphs on Sicily: Space, Politics, and Narrative Numerous Greek settlements on Sicily connect the name of the city to the name of a nymph. Likewise, the earliest and most accurately datable objects connected to Sicilian nymphs