December 2024
Course: Mining Library Treasures
November 2024
Public Lecture: The Education of Aztec Princes. Renaissance learning and the native elite in post-conquest Mexico
Please note that the date and time have been updated. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, 26 November 2024, at 6 PM.
Roman Museum Legacies: Dialogue with dott.ssa Francesca Cappelletti, director of the Galleria Borghese
Conference: The Biferno Valley Survey – 50 years later
October 2024
Public Lecture: ‘In tears and ashes, I am undone’. The Punic Wars and Epics of Empire
September 2024
Roman Museum Legacies: Dialogue with Francesco Stocchi, Artistic Director of MAXXI
August 2024
July 2024
NWIB Summer School: Urban Heritage
June 2024
Archaeological Field School: Exploring Ancient Mountain Society in Guarda (Portugal) with the GAP project
Summer School: SuRe – Sustainable and Resilient societies
Invisible Cities: Postcolonial Rome in dialogue with Venice and Palermo
Course: Imagining Africa
CANCELLED
May 2024
Occupied. Towards a Comparative and Entangled History of Occupation in the Age of Total War
Roman Museum Legacies: Dialogue with Andrea Viliani, Director of the Museo delle Civiltà
Practicum: Remote Sensing in ancient Samnium
April 2024
Course: The Art of Making
CANCELLED
Public Lecture: Anatomy of a (Rise and) Fall. Ravenna and its territory, 400-900 CE
Colloquium: Where did they get this? Distinguishing written and non-written sources of knowledge
Public Lecture: Between Street Knowledge and Book Knowledge: Tracing the Mandragore Lore in Medieval Arabic and Persian Texts
March 2024
Course: Excavating National Pasts
Public Lectures: Food, Archaeology, and Art
February 2024
Workshop: Missionary Material Assemblages and the Mission of Museums
Workshop: ‘A Great Miracle is Man’
Public Lecture: De Toekomst van het verleden: Erfgoed en klimaat
Course: Narrazioni e Memorie di un’Italia divisa
Course: Interdisciplinaire Romereis
Workshop: Roman landscapes across the Western Mediterranean
December 2023
Course: Mining Library Treasures
November 2023
CLEVERINGA MEETING ROME 2023: From Professor Cleveringa to the Palazzo Barberini and beyond – prospects for the rule of law in Europe
Public Lecture: The Renaissance Confusion of Africa
Conference: Beyond the Alps. Artistic Exchanges between the Low Countries and Italy in Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture
October 2023
Public Lecture: Recovering the Women of the Trojan War: Why now?
Book Presentation: The Central Baths at Pompeii
Archaeological Field Work: Exploring Ancient Mountain Society in Beira Alta (Portugal)
Public Lecture: ‘Taking it like candy’: Medicinal Chocolate and the Society of Jesus
September 2023
Workshop: Staging “italianità” between Race, Science and the Arts. Organized by Dr. Beatrice Falcucci
Public Lecture: Museums as Archives. Cultural Emergence, Disappearance, and Reemergence through Museum Collections
Convegno: Il papato breve di Adriano VI. Storia, religione, arte, cultura
Convegno internazionale nel cinquecentenario della morte del pontefice.
Course: Byzantine Rome
August 2023
July 2023
NWIB Summer School: Urban Heritage
De Nacht van Rome
Archaeological Field School: Unearthing a Roman Villa in Satricum (Italy)
June 2023
Public Lecture: Africa’s Shifting Landscapes. Rome’s Imagined Geographies of Empire
May 2023
Seminar: The World of the Greek Epigram. Inscribing Funerary Poetry in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
This seminar explores both the phenomenon of epigram production itself and discusses the worldview that was inscribed in the epigrams. You are all welcome to join at KNIR on 26 May, starting from 13.00 CET. RSVP: secretary@knir.it
Practicum: Drones over ancient Samnium
Workshop: Handling Devotional Objects in Late Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. Materiality, Mobility, Anxiety
Public Lecture: Why Postcolonial Classics Matter
Course: Challenging Eternity
April 2023
Crustumerium, open house!
Wednesday, April 26th, from 16.00 to 17.30, staff and students of the course “Tombs from Excavation to Digital Publication, The Crustumerium Publication Project” will organise in the Auditorium of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome an open house for all interested in what is going on in the Institute´s laboratorium!
Public Lecture: The Ecologies of Italian Colonialism: Fascist Enterprises in North and East Africa
Practicum: Tombs from Excavation to Digital Publication
March 2023
Public Lecture: Myths of the Voiceless. Heroes, Ancestors, and the Management of Power in pre-Roman Italy
February 2023
Public Lecture: The Afterlives of Italy’s Fascist Party Headquarters from 1945 to Today
Course: Narrazioni e Memorie di un’Italia divisa
Conference: Pius XII and the Low Countries (1939-1958)
January 2023
The Assimilation of Mesoamerican Gods in a Visual Theory of Religion. From the Codex Vat. Lat. 3738 to the Work of Lorenzo Pignoria
Conference: The Damned Despot
In this conference, we aim to build on recent studies of Domitian and his reign, shedding light on this elusive emperor, whose memory has been largely forgotten, but whose impact on Rome’s cityscape is still visible to this day and whose influence on the later development of the Roman Empire cannot be ignored.
Call for Papers: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages
December 2022
Practicum: Mining Library Treasures
Workshop: An Archaeology of the “Etruscan Revival”
The workshop investigates from an interdisciplinary perspective the debates raised during the 19th and the 20th century about the legacy of Etruscan civilization in Italian art and culture.
Presentazione dei libri “Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal” (2020) e “Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal” (2021)
November 2022
Hybrid Seminar: Dutch Brazil in Print and Poetry
Seminar: Collecting the World in Rome
Rome is home to almost one hundred museums and countless collections from the four corners of the worlds. How did these collections of ethnographical, natural and archaeological objects come about and what do they reveal about Rome’s and Italy’s engagement with the expanding world, its colonies in Africa, and the ‘New’ World after 1492?
Research Seminar: Il fascismo visto dagli altri
Public Lecture: Rome in the 10th Century AD
This event highlights ongoing research into the town of Rome a thousand years ago, in the middle of the Middle Ages.
October 2022
The Three Narratives of the Florentine Codex: Discrepancies and Complementarity between Texts and Images
On Observing Plants and Exploring Imagination in Art and Science: De Onkruidenier and Marjo Postma on their work in Rome
Public Lectures: Dutch Diplomacy and Venice
International Workshop on the Importance of Salt-production in Antiquity
International experts from various disciplinary backgrounds are brought together to present and discuss the current state of research related to a diverse set of research topics concerning salt.
September 2022
Beyond ‘The Battle of Algiers’. Fiction, Non-fiction, and Militant Cinema
Public Lecture: Early Modern Scientific Institutions and Their Images
Workshop “Images and Institutions”
Images and Institutions brings together an international team of historians of art and science for a three-day symposium in Rome to gain a larger picture of the relationships between visual culture and the developing practices of collaborative science.
International Summer School: Shakespeare’s Rome (SRISS)
The SRISS is held in English and opens for the first time a double track: one for undergraduate students (BA) and one for post-graduate students (MA, PhDs, Postdocs, ESL teachers). Participants will be provided with appropriate methodological tools which will help them to develop a specific competence on Shakespeare’s Rome within an intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective.
August 2022
Minor Program Rome-Florence
What distinguishes this Minor is the on-site teaching, where Bachelor students are invited to always take into account the first-hand observation of objects, locations, urbanistics and social contexts. In all its courses, students are trained in documenting and analysing visual materials and performative practices in the Roman and Florentine contexts.
July 2022
Public Lecture: Ethnic Diversity and Prosocial Behavior
June 2022
Workshop: Centuriated Landscapes in Italy and the Iberian Peninsula
Opening Exhibition Menno Balm
From 16 June till 29 July, the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome will host the exhibition Linea e Luce, Firenze e Roma nei disegni di Menno Balm. The opening of the exhibition is 16 June 2022 at 17:00 CET.
A selection of Menno’s drawings of Florence and Rome will be on display at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. You are welcome to visit the exhibition during office hours on Monday to Friday from 9 am till 17.30.
L’Italia brandisce la spada dell’Antica Roma. Classical Archaeology, Ancient History, and Modern Myths in Early 20th Century Italy
Conference: The Responsible Society in Early Modern Christianity
Social responsibility as the moral obligation individuals or organizations have towards the wellbeing of society, is a key topic in 21st century public debate. The conference centers on the question how this topic was dealt with in Early Modern Christianity (ca.1400-ca.1700) as a period that brought about fundamental and long-lasting changes and brought forth inspiring individuals with innovative ideas. The conference seeks to shed historic light on the relevant issue of social responsibility in the expectation that academic research comes up with inspirational results. The conference is interdisciplinary and comparative regarding various geographical and confessional positions.
Excavating National Pasts
May 2022
Seminar: Heritage and Memory Theory
This seminar will explore the complexity of heritage and memory theory departing from an exceptional case study: the city of Rome.
Workshop: Building the Exotic through Transmedial Practices
This research seminar aims to investigate the ways in which Fascist colonialism endeavored to construct a coordinated public image of its colonies and occupied territories through a “media convergence”.
Mapping Uncertainty. Early Modern Global Cartography, 21st Century Discussions
Workshop: Cultural Exchange, Interaction and Innovation in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice
April 2022
Transnational Perspectives on Post-Secular Italy: Arts, Media and Religion
Masterclass “Humanist and Scholastic Roots of Early Modern Philosophy”
After a successful first edition in 2018, Professor Lodi Nauta and colleagues offer the opportunity to (R)MA/PhD students to participate in an unique masterclass which will examine the legacy of what we term late-medieval and Renaissance thought in early-modern philosophy.
American Things Reduced into Art: Epistemologies and Politics of Knowledge Appropriation in the 16th Century
Research Seminar: WW2, Trauma, and the Effects for the Next Generation
Seminario ibrido: Storie Materiali – Storie Globali
March 2022
International Mediterranean Survey Workshop
Hybrid Conference: A Hellenistic Revolution? Objects and Change in Afro-Eurasia from the 3rd to 1st centuries BC
Early Roman Imperialism in the Making
The course adopts a diachronic and systemic perspective with a focus on archaeology, in order to better understand Rome’s initial expansion between the late Regal and mid-Republican period (mid 6th to 3th century BC). Through a critical reading of Rome’s material record and that of Rome’s competitors in contemporary central Tyrrhenian Italy, you will explore the characteristics and socio-economic impact of early Roman expansion and colonisation, and evaluate different theories regarding the nature of early Roman imperialism.
Webinar: Rotte globali
Webinar: Rotte globali
Webinar: Rotte globali
Webinar: Rotte globali
Lecture: Making Money in Republican Rome
Numismatics: Faces of Power
February 2022
December 2021
Public Lecture: Federico Finchelstein, On Why the History from the Margins is Central to Fascism and Populism
Tavola rotonda: Resistere alla violenza: memorie, narrazioni e pratiche culturali
Tavola rotonda: Testimonianze e narrazioni fra l’Italia e l’America Latina
KNIR Colloquium: “Us versus Them”
This KNIR Colloquium is a joint initiative of dr. Maria Bonaria Urban (KNIR), dr. Monica Jansen and dr. Reindert Dhondt (Utrecht University), and explores the role of Europe’s fascist and far-right legacies in shaping models of authoritarian government and dictatorship in a global world where populism is on the rise.
Practicum: Mining Library Treasures
Italian colonialism and the building of national belonging from XIX Century to the Republic
November 2021
We Are the People
Public Lecture: Decolonizing the Roman Frontiers
This lecture focuses upon heritage interpretation aimed at the public on the sections of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site within the UK (The Antonine Wall and Hadrian’s Wall) and can be followed live or online.
Italian Colonial Museums and Collections. Between History, Memory and Today’s Challenges
Seminar: Raphael’s Antiquity
Raphael was a prominent member of a network that would have a dramatic impact on cultural history, including the most prominent humanists and antiquarians of the period. During this course we will look at the way Antiquity was interpreted by Raphael and his peers, and at the reception of Raphael’s antiquity by subsequent generations. Most of all we will discuss and visit the Roman works of the master himself, in painting, drawing, architecture and antiquarian scholarship.
October 2021
Vine-growing and winemaking in the Roman world
A 3-day hybrid event in honor of Jean-Pierre Brun to discuss new data, trends and approaches to Roman viticulture and wine production.
Indigenous Epistemology and Early Modern Science. Nahua Scholars and the Making of “De historia animalium Novae Hispaniae” (1571-1577)
KNIR Colloquium: Plaster face casts and the heritage of colonialism and racial science
We are happy to announce that after a year of lockdown due to the pandemic, we are able to relaunch the KNIR Colloquium programme. This year’s first colloquium has been organized by Fenneke Sysling (Leiden University) and will be held from 18 till 20 October. Sysling’s colloquium focuses on collections of plaster face casts, found in anthropological museums all over Europe. You are welcome to attend the public lecture Densità e opacità degli oggetti sensibili. Prospettive nella curatela delle collezioni coloniali by Rosa Anna Di Lella (Museo delle Civilità di Roma) on Tuesday 19 October at 17.00 CET at the institute.
Byzantine Rome
September 2021
Zoomsessie: Van ‘zona rossa’ tot ‘Green Pass’. Tips voor een Romereis in 2021/2022
July 2021
Keynote Lecture: The Theology of a Pagan Philosopher
Monday 12 July at 17.00h our visiting professor Rainer Hirsch-Luipold will present his current research on the fascinating pagan-religious thinker Plutarch of Chaeronea, who inspired creative minds such as Shakespeare, Montaigne, Schiller and even Beethoven. Please join us live (RSVP: secretary@knir.it) or on Zoom.
Ongoing Research Projects on the Mid-Republican Colonies of Rome in Southern Lazio and Sabina: Fregellae, Terracina and Cascia, Villa San Silvestro
June 2021
Dynamics of the Durable. A History of Making Things Last in the Arts
May 2021
Memory of the Risorgimento in the South: New Challenges
From Mexico to 16th-Century Italy: The Transatlantic Lives of Mesoamerican Artifacts
April 2021
March 2021
Imagining Institutions Otherwise: Art, Politics, and State Transformation
Seminar: Excavating National Pasts
CANCELLED
Seminar: Excavating National Pasts
CANCELLED
About the Nuraghe: Colonialism and Rural Exploitation at S’Urachi, Sardinia
February 2021
January 2021
Winter School: Roma Caput Mundi
CANCELLED
September 2020
Practicum: Exploring Mountain Society in Ancient Samnium
In this field school, you explore the archaeology of mountain society with a small, international team in mountain sites in the Apennines.