The BSR Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Conversation with Phoebe Boswell and Angelica Pesarini
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Content Warning: This recording contains mentions of racial trauma, violence against Black and Brown people and racial slurs that can be disturbing or...
The lost gateway of early modern Rome: the development of the port of Ripa Grande from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Nikolaos Karydis (Kent; BSR). This lecture explores the development of the Ripa Grande, the main river port of Rome during the Early Mod...
The Stuarts in Rome: a royal court in the city of cardinals
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote by Edward Corp (Toulouse) for the conference Alla Corte della Cancelleria: Pietro Ottoboni e la politica delle arti nella Roma del Settecento
Il Parco Archeologico di Ercolano: per un Passato al Futuro
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Molly Cotton Lecture by Francesco Sirano (Herculaneum)
Working with history
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Spencer de Grey (Foster + Partners).
Le origini dell’economia romana
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Gabriele Cifani (École normale supérieure, Paris). Part of the City of Rome Lecture Series. L’economia romana tra l’VIII e il IV s...
Pirro Ligorio and the Roman aqueducts
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Ginette Vagenheim (Rouen-Normandie) as part of the City of Rome lecture series. After the catastrophic Tiber flood of 1557, control over ...
Ancient ports and seafaring traditions of the Egyptian Red Sea coast in the GrecoRoman period
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Ania Kotarba-Morley. The Red Sea region is hostile to long-shore nautical activity as it lacks natural topographic features that could b...
History and theory: the Romans debate their Forum
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Nicholas Purcell (Oxford). Partof the City of Rome Lecture Series
Nobili, militari e vescovi. Il Laterano in età imperiale
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Paolo Liverani (Firenze). Part of the City of Rome lecture series. Il progetto di ricerca sul Laterano antico fino alle soglie del medio...
Domus Tiberiana: urbanism, building processes and construction techniques on the Palatine’s northern slope
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Stefano Camporeale (Siena) part of the City of Rome Lecture Series. With the co-ordination of the Soprintendenza of Rome, a research tea...
Il Museo Capitolino: l’affermazione di un nuovo modello di museo nell’Europa del Settecento
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Eloisa Dodero (Musei Capitolini) as part of the City of Rome lecture series. L’istituzione del Museo Capitolino con i due chirografi d...
Atterraggi poetici e pericolosi
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tomaso Binga in conversation with Raffaella Perna (Sapienza) followed by a performance. Part of the BSR Fine Arts Talk Gender Series
Beyond queer minimalism
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A talk by John Walter as part of the BSR Fine Arts Talk Gender Series
Visions of ruin: Volney’s ‘Les Ruines’ and Mary Shelley’s Rome
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
BSR-Institute of Classical Studies Rome-London Lecture by Catharine Edwards (Birkbeck). Volney’s hugely influential work Les Ruines (1791) had a pr...
Second World War military intelligence: aerial photography in the Mediterranean Theatre
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Round table with Alan Williams (National Collection of Aerial Photography), Elizabeth J. Shepherd (Aerofototeca Nazionale-ICCD) and Alessandra Giovenc...
Franciscan political thought in Baroque Rome
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Ian Campbell (QUB)
Translation, travel and treason: William Barker in Early Modern Italy
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Society for Renaissance Studies Lecture by Jane Grogan (UCD). This paper introduces a long-forgotten Tudor figure, William Barker, and argues for his...
Neither perfect nor ideal: Palladio’s Villa Rotonda
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Andrew Hopkins (Università degli Studi Dell’Aquila)
The natural world: pagans and Christians - animal and vegetable
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Robin Lane Fox (Oxford), co-organised with the American Academy in Rome as part of the 2018 Jerome Lecture Series. The Thomas Spencer Je...
Justice as everyday life: urban conflict and civic space
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
W.T.C. Walker Lecture in Architectural History by Wendy Pullan (Cambridge). Can we speak of spaces of justice? If so, how and where might this happen...
Learning to imagine: the Brontës and nineteenth-century ideals of education
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Dinah Birch (Liverpool)
Theodotus and his chapel in the church of Santa Maria Antiqua
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by John Osborne (BSR; Carleton) as part of the City of Rome lecture series.
Reviving tradition in Hadrianic Rome: from incineration to inhumation
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Barbara Borg (Exeter) as part of the City of Rome Lecture Series.
La prevenzione dagli incendi nella Roma repubblicana e imperiale
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Filippo Coarelli (Perugia) as part of the City of Rome lecture series
The topography of peace and diplomacy in Ancient Rome
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Hannah Cornwell (Birmingham) as part of the City of Rome lecture series.
Early Rome: myth, history and the environment
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Krešimir Vuković (BSR; Oxford) as part of the City of Rome lecture series.
Why Roman dress matters
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Ursula Rothe (BSR; Open)
The postcard Grand Tour of Rome: creating an urban pattern out of monuments
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Renée Tobe (BSR; East London). British filmmaker Peter Greenaway came to Rome on a visit, suffered from indigestion and devised his plo...
Palazzi rinascimentali nelle Marche: nuove ipotesi su Palazzo Ferretti ad Ancona e Palazzo Gallo ad Osimo
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Maurizio Ricci (Sapienza) and Tom True (BSR)
Fascist fountains: sculptural narratives of reclamation
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Lara Pucci (BSR; Nottingham).
What did Rome’s emperors do for Ostia, its economy and its enterprises?
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
G.E. Rickman Lecture by Christer Bruun (Toronto). An Ostian inscription from the reign of the emperor Hadrian honors the emperor because the colonia ...
An endangered species: the polymath in an age of specialisation
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Peter Burke (Cambridge). A cultural history of polymaths from the Renaissance to the present (from Leonardo to Umberto Eco), investigati...
An English collector in Italy: the Wilshere Collection of late Roman gold-glass
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
BSR-Corning Museum of Glass David Whitehouse Memorial Lecture by Susan Walker (Oxford). Archival research in Rome and Naples has shed light upon the ...
The papacy in the making of Roman Catholicism as a world religion 1500-1700
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Simon Ditchfield (York)
The unessayable essay: a life of Titus Livius
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Ronald Ridley (Melbourne)
Walking Conversionary Rome
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Emily Michelson (St Andrews). The 16th-century conversionary campaign against Jews took place largely in public, in the presence of many ...
Ricerche di archeologia cristiana in Sabina ed Etruria Meridionale: le chiese di S. Giacinto e dei SS. Gratiliano e Felicissima
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Molly Cotton Lecture by Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai (Tor Vergata). Ricerche di archeologia cristiana in Sabina ed Etruria Meridionale: le chiese di S. G...
Eduardo Paolozzi: transnational belongings
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Derek Duncan (St Andrews)
Architecture and trauma: silver and salvation in baroque Naples
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
W.T.C. Walker Lecture in Architectural History by Helen Hills (York). Baroque Naples was tarnished in Protestant Europe with a reputation for excess...
Disemboweled vision: Fascism, Rome and cinema
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by John David Rhodes (BSR; Cambridge). Many of the spaces and thoroughfares that we take for granted in the centre of Rome are the results o...
Gender and power in the reception of Andreas Vesalius’s ‘Fabrica’: results from the census
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Mark Somos (BSR; Sussex; Harvard)
The tithe of Hercules: Roman merchants, finance and the community
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
G.E. Rickman Lecture by Nicholas Purcell (Oxford). In this lecture, Nicholas Purcell revisits the social, financial, and cultural environments of merc...
Rewriting the Renaissance: the Medici on page and screen
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Catherine Fletcher (Swansea). Rai Uno’s new show I Medici – known in English as Medici: Masters of Florence – has proved an extraor...
The imperial senate and the city of Rome
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Amy Russell (BSR; Durham)
The skill of the glassblower: its Roman-world ascent and Renaissance Venice zenith
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
BSR-Corning Museum of Glass David Whitehouse Memorial lecture by William Gudenrath (Corning Museum of Glass)
Horticulture, elite self-representation and botanical imperialism in Ancient Rome
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Annalisa Marzano (BSR; Reading)
Etruscans in the Apennines: recent discoveries at Poggio Colla
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Phil Perkins (BSR; Open)
Cy Twombly’s Mediterranean Passages
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Mary Jacobus. To launch her book Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint (Princeton University Press, 2016), Mary Jacobus explores the use of...
The Social Value of Beauty - the economics of beauty and British case histories
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion with UK and Italian think tanks ResPublica and Trinità dei Monti. Welcome and introduction by Christopher Smith (BSR), Pierluigi Testa (...
Arredi di lusso da Ercolano: i più recenti rinvenimenti dalla città e dalla Villa dei Papiri
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Molly Cotton Lecture given by Maria Paola Guidobaldi
The fate of the column of Antoninus Pius
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Ronald Ridley (Melbourne). The column of Antoninus was never completely buried, but was rather hidden (in the garden of the Fathers of th...
Emptyscapes: Filling ‘empty’ Mediterranean Landscapes, Mapping the Archaeological continuum: Rusealle case study
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Presentation by Stefano Campana (Università di Siena) as part of the workshop, Tracce dalla terra: progetti di prospezione geofisica in Italia centra...
A multi-method geophysical survey of the archaic sanctuary and Roman colony of Lucus Feroniae
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Presentation by Stephen Kay, Matthew Berry, Sophie Hay, Simon Keay, Eleanor Maw and Christopher Smith (BSR) as part of the workshop, Tracce dalla terr...
Progetto Cerveteri
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Presentation by Salvatore Piro (ITABC - CNR) and Vincenzo Bellelli (ISMA CNR) as part of the workshop, Tracce dalla terra: progetti di prospezione geo...
Tarquinia
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Presentation by Matilde Marzullo and Andrea Garzulino (Università di Milano) at the workshop, Tracce della terra: progetti di prospezione geofisica i...
Progetto Vulci: ricognizione geofisica dei porti della città
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A presentation by Corinna Riva and Kris Lockyear (University College London) as part of the workshop, Tracce dalla Terra: progetti di prospezione geof...
From east to west and beyond
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote lecture by Alessandro Naso (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) for the international workshop and symposium, Material Connections and Artisti...
L’aula monumentale di ‘Minerva Medica’: le fasi e il contesto alla luce degli ultimi scavi
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Mariarosaria Barbera, Marina Magnani Cianetti, Salvo Barrano (MiBACT/SSCol) as part of the City of Rome Lecture Series
Roma in età moderna: un mosaico di ‘nationes’
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote lecture by Irene Fosi (Università degli Studi ‘G. d’Annunzio’, Chieti-Pescara) for the conference, Becoming Roman: Artistic Immigration...
Pious generals? Military investment in churches at Rome in the fifth century AD
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Meaghan McEvoy (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) as part of the City of Rome Lecture Series
Mater Matuta and the votive phenomenon: guaranteeing fertility in Italic and Roman Italy
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Maureen Carroll (BSR; Sheffield) as part of the City of Rome Lecture Series
Looking like Caesar: a case-study of personal likeness and group assimilation in Roman portraiture
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Nigel Spivey (Cambridge). Part of the City of Rome Lecture Series.
Rome and England in the Gothic Age: thoughts on the Heroic mode
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
W.T.C. Walker Lecture in Architectural History by Paul Binski (Cambridge)
The Roman plays and the material culture in Shakespeare’s London
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Roy Stephenson (Museum of London),Part of the conference ‘Shakespeare and the memory of Rome’
Book Launch | Rome 1600: the City and the Visual Arts under Clement VIII
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Book launch by Clare Robertson (Reading)
The naturalness of ancient urbanism
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
BSR-Institute of Classical Studies Rome-London Lecture by Greg Woolf (Institute of Classical Studies)
Purging the peninsula: Jesuits, inquisitors and the secret absolution of heretics in post-Reformation Italy
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Jessica Dalton (BSR; St Andrews)
Dancing backwards through time: subverting Baroque and Roman architecture
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Liz Rideal (UCL, The Slade School of Fine Art). This lecture focuses on artwork made in Rome and elsewhere, touching on ideas about appro...
Artist’s talk by Andrew Stahl: ‘Observe what’s vivid’
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A talk by visual artist Andrew Stahl (Slade School of Fine Art). Sponsored by the Abbey Council.
Royal flush: Domitian’s high colour and its significance
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Llewelyn Morgan (Oxford)
Thomas Ashby, G.M. Trevelyan and the British Red Cross: humanities activists in Italy’s Great War
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Marcella Sutcliffe ( Cambridge)
Italy, Islam and the Islamic world: representations and reflections from 9/11 to the Arab uprisings
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Charles Burdett (Bristol)
Painting blindness in Enlightenment Britain
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Georgina Cole (National Art School, Sydney). This lecture is focused on portraits of the blind in addition to Romney’s historical portr...
Whores and the House of Caesar
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Following the highly anticipated publication of Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Little, Brown 2015), Tom Holland, author of the acc...
‘Italia illustrata’
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The interaction of topographical descriptions and cartography in the works of Flavio Biondo and Leandro Alberti. Lecture by Tanja Michalsky (Bibliothe...
Henry Moore: Sculpting Modernity
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Chris Stephens (Tate). The finissage of the Henry Moore exhibition (24 September 2015–10 January 2016, Baths of Diocletian), curated by...
The Archaeology of the Lateran Basilica: a view from below
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Ian Haynes (Newcastle). Part of Concilium Lateranense IV. Commemorating the Octocentenary of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Session ...
Italian books in Eighteenth-Century Britain: readers, collectors, publishers
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote lecture by Carlo Caruso (Durham; BSR) for the Colloquium Diplomatici e letterati nel XVIII secolo
An American artist on the Grand Tour: Benjamin West in Italy 1760-63
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Loyd Grossman
Elite art in the age of populism
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Julian Stallabrass (Courtauld)
Roman noses: smell and the senses in Ancient Rome
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Mark Bradley (Nottingham)
G.E. Street in Rome. A Victorian architect and his churches
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Alex Bremner (Edinburgh / BSR Paul Mellon Centre Rome Fellow). This lecture examines the two Roman churches of the great English archite...
Cupid punished: reflections on a Roman genre scene
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A lecture by Michele George (BSR Hugh Last Fellow / McMaster University). This lecture was part of the City of Rome Lecture Series.
Early Roman blown glass - a half century of innovation
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
BSR – Corning Museum David Whitehouse Memorial Lecture by Karol Wight (Corning Museum of Glass)
Re-reading Trajan's Forum after the new excavations
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Amanda Claridge (Royal Holloway, University of London). This lecture was part of the City of Rome Lecture Series.
W.T.C. Walker Lecture | The Globalisation of Modern Architecture: the impact of politics, economics and social change on architecture
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Robert Adam (ADAM Architecture). The globalisation of modern architecture: The impact of politics, economics and social change on architect...
Academy / Studio / Museum
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Cullinan, BSR Rome Scholar 2004-05, and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, talks about his time at the...
‘Hatred’ or ‘praise’ of the English name? Catholics representing England in Italy, c. 1558-1660
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Lucy Underwood (BSR Rome Fellow)
Italy and Renaissance globalisation - The circulation of goods, skills and technology
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Luca Molà (European University Institute)
Society of Renaissance Studies Lecture | Space and time: another look at Jacopo de’ Barbari’s view of Venice c. 1500
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Gabriele Neher (Nottingham)
The Cardinals' music visual evidence of the musical interests of the Curia c.1200 – 1350
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Julian Gardner (Warwick).
G.E. Rickman Lecture | Thalassocracy: Sea Power in the Mediterranean and beyond
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Prof. David Abulafia (Cambridge). How is power over the open sea exercised? What do we mean when we talk of ‘maritime empires’ in the ...
Sepolcro degli Scipioni: il monumento, la storia, il contesto
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture in Italian by Rita Volpe (Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali di Roma Capitale). Fin dalla sua riscoperta nel 1780 il Sepolcro degli Scipioni h...
Da Giustiniano a Bologna
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Michael Crawford (University College London). The transmission of a knowledge of Roman law in Italy in the Middle Ages has traditionally ...
Aurelian’s wall and the infrastructure of Rome in late antiquity
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Hendrik Dey (Hunter College CUNY).
Opening up matter: exploring global material connections in the Renaissance
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Marta Ajmar (Victoria and Albert Museum/Royal College of Art). This talk focuses on ostensibly disparate cross-cultural artefacts – lacq...
Titian at the BSR
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
LADY SHEILA HALE, author of the acclaimed biography Titian: His Life, gives a talk to coincide with the 2013 exhibition Tiziano at the Scuderie del Qu...
Function, message or status symbol? The mixed reasons behind the form of Early Christian baptisteries
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Olof Brandt (Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana). The Early Christian baptisteries, built between the fourth and the sixth centu...
The Theodosian Harbour and Yenikapı Byzantine Shipwrecks Excavation, Istanbul-Turkey
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lecture by Ufuk Kocabaş (Istanbul University). Thirty-six shipwrecks dated to the fifth to tenth centuries AD have been discovered in the Theodosian...