Public Lecture: The Virgin’s Home in the Viceroyalty of Peru
The Santa Casa di Loreto, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, is a peculiar relic of Catholic devotion. Famed… Read moreCall for Applications: NWIB Visiting Professors Programme 2025/2026
The NWIB Visiting Professors Program offers assistant professors, associate professors and full professors at participating universities (see below) a unique opportunity to work undisturbed in an inspiring and stimulating environment. This program enables you to stay at one of the five Netherlands Scientific Institutes Abroad (NWIBs) for a period of three months to conduct research, give lectures and...
Deadline: 15 March 2025
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Practicum: Tombs from Excavation to Digital Publication
In this practicum students will learn how to publish the architecture, human remains and artefacts…
Public Lecture: The Virgin’s Home in the Viceroyalty of Peru
The Santa Casa di Loreto, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, is a peculiar…
Course: Symbols of Power
Rome is the birthplace of European ideas on law and state. Roman jurists like Cicero…
The Making and Unmaking of Heritage. Between Contestation, Collaboration, and Reappropriation
This KNIR Colloquium is organized by Dr. Mayada Madbouly and Dr. Shanade Barnabas. Aim of…
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The Royal Netherlands Institute Rome is the centre of an active, inspiring and challenging academic community. The academic staff, students and researchers in Rome are associated with a large group of fellow academics and alumni in the Netherlands, Italy and worldwide. What binds them is the common scientific interest in the wealth and diversity of the Mediterranean world, in particular Rome and Italy, from the Bronze Age to the present.
