Apppointment of three Assistant Directors
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We are pleased to announce the appointment of three Assistant Directors to play vital roles in the delivery of the BSR’s Research Strategy and Strategic Plan.
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Dr Peter Campbell (Assistant Director for Archaeology and Archaeological Science) received his PhD from the University of Southampton. His research broadly examines maritime connectivity, examining sites such as Portus and waterbodies including the Tiber. He has also contributed to policy papers on the illicit antiquities trade, as well as being active in the public engagement of archaeology.
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Dr Martina Caruso (Assistant Director for Art, Architecture and the Creative Industries) is a graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art and her research interests include photography and modern and contemporary art practices with a focus on gender, postcolonialism and post-humanism. She serves on the board of members of the Archivio Giulio Turcato in Rome, and her book
Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War was published by Bloomsbury in 2016.
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Dr Harriet O'Neill (Assistant Director for the Humanities and Social Sciences) has held curatorial positions at the National Gallery and Royal Holloway and previously worked as specialist in frames and nineteenth and twentieth-century art at Christie’s and Bonhams auctioneers. She is an Honorary Research Associate of the School of Modern Languages at Royal Holloway, University of London
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Welcome to our 2018-19 award-holders
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Soheila Sokhanvari in LDN WMN public art campaign
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Curated by Tate Collective, the event is free and runs until 30 October.
Her tribute to Marion Dorn is a six-metre long carpet inspired by the original colours used in the Suffrage movements in the US and UK, where Dorn lived.
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Holly Hendry
Gum Souls
at Frutta Gallery
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Rome Fellow in Contemporary Art Holly Hendry had her first solo show in Rome last week when
Gum Souls
opened at Frutta Gallery in Rome's Trastevere district. The show runs until 21 December.
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UK-Italy: Partners for Culture 2018
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In 2017, following an invitation by the former Minister of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Dario Franceschini to then Secretary of State Karen Bradley and British Council CEO Sir Ciarán Devane to keep the dialogue open on cultural and education in a post-Brexit world, the British Council, the British Embassy, the British Institute of Florence and the BSR launched a cultural programme
UK-Italy: Partners for Culture with the aim of strengthening bilateral cooperation across key areas in the arts, science, culture, education and the creative industries.
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UK-Italy Dialogues on the Protection of Cultural Heritage
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On 11 October, the BSR partnered with the British Embassy to Italy, the British Council, the Carabinieri Tutela Patrimonio Culturale and the Metropolitan Police Arts and Antiques Unit for a panel event and exhibition on the protection of cultural heritage, and for the official repatriation ceremony of two Etruscan artefacts recovered by the Metropolitan Police.
As part of the event the BSR curated an exhibition featuring images of the destruction of cultural heritage, as well as a selection of the BSR’s archival photographs from the John Ward-Perkins collection documenting the destruction of cultural sites during World War II. The exhibition also featured work by contemporary artists Ian Kirkpatrick, John Rainey (BSR Arts Council of Northern Ireland Fellow 2018), and Joseph Redpath (BSR Scholars’ Prizewinner in Architecture 2018).
The event received lots of press coverage from UK and Italian media including
The Telegraph
and
RAI News.
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Opening of the nymphaeum of Q. Mutius and new archaeological area to the public at Segni
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Since 2013 the BSR has worked in partnership with the Comune di Segni on the excavation and conservation of the
nymphaeum of Q.Mutius in the town of Segni. Last Saturday we were delighted to celebrate the opening of this monument to the public. It will now form part of the archaeological visit to Segni, together with the Porta Saracena and the impressive polygonal walls, the well-preserved Temple of Juno Moneta and the archaeological museum of Segni.
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Being Human
Festival of the Humanities goes international at the BSR
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For the second year running we were pleased to contribute to the international programme of the
Being Human Festival of the Humanities with Journeys Without End, a workshop bringing together writers, historians, archaeologists, artists, practitioners, politicians and those who work directly on the borders cross-cutting the routeways.
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RIBA photographic exhibition curated by BSR Faculty member
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The exhibition
Eternal City. Roma nella collezione fotografica del Royal Institute of British Architects
– curated by BSR Faculty
member Marco Iuliano with Gabriella Musto and Valeria Carullo – opened at the Vittoriano in Rome this summer.
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Digital dialogues at the BSR: accessing Italian cultural heritage
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The BSR took part in the biennial
Digital Humanities Congress (Sheffield, 6-8 September 2018) showcasing a selection of our current projects including the development of a digital portal for our Library and Archive collections, the Portus MOOC, and research using eye-tracking technology to investigate how architecture is viewed.
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New publication on protective shelters for archaeological sites
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Protected Shelters for Archaeological Sites edited by Zaki Aslan, Sarah Court, Jeanne Marie Teutonico and Jane Thompson was published earlier this summer. Following on from a symposium held at the BSR in 2013, this volume is an important contribution to the field of archaeological conservation.
Many thanks go to all of the project partners: Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and the International Committee for the Conservation of Mosaics (ICCM).
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Rome Art History Network launches
Roma e gli artisti stranieri
co-edited by former Assistant Director Thomas-Leo True
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The BSR’s relationship with RAHN (Rome Art History Network) continues. At the beginning of the month we received copies of the volume
Roma e gli artisti stranieri, co-edited by Ariane Varela Braga (University of Zurich) and Thomas-Leo True (former Assistant Director for the Humanities at the BSR). The essays examine artistic travel, migration and the dynamics of settlement specifically in relation to Rome and mark the first in a new study series
Pensieri ad Arte published by Artemide which will provide a showcase for emerging scholars. The international conference entitled
Tradizione, innovazione e modernità: il disegno a Roma tra Cinque e Seicento held at the BSR on the 22nd October was further testament to our continuing collaboration with RAHN.
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AHRC funding boost for Northern Bridge Consortium
We were delighted to hear the news from our partners at the Northern Bridge Consortium that the Arts and Humanities Research Council has given a boost to postgraduate studies in North East England and Northern Ireland, announcing places for 335 postgraduate students studying 28 different disciplines.
The BSR partnered with the Northern Bridge Consortium
for the first time earlier this year on a doctoral training programme, and we look forward to ongoing collaboration over the coming years.
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Image credits
Assistant Directors: Antonio Palmieri. Holly Hendry,
Gum Souls
: courtesy of the artist. HMA Jill Morris CMG with Assistant Director Peter Campbell and Director Stephen Milner: Luca Marinelli. Unidentified photographer, Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele II, 1958 (RIBA Collections). Motion-capture technology with Kung Fu masters: courtesy of Sarah Kenderdine.
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