Annual Report 2007-8 - The British School at Rome

H U M A N I T I E S A C T I V I T I E Sof antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome, and ClareHornsby (Paul Mellon Centre Special Projects Fellow) onfinishing the late Ilaria Bignamini’s book, Digging andDealing in Eighteenth-century Rome. BSR Modern StudiesProfessor David Forgacs spoke on ‘Ethnographies of theItalian South from Giuseppe Pitrè to Ernesto DeMartino’, part of his ongoing research project ‘Language,space and power in Italy since 1800’. With his guest, LuigiGoglia (Roma Tre), he gave a presentation on ‘Fascism,racism and colonial representations in photographs andpostcards of the 1930s’. David also screened thedocumentary Matti da slegare (1975) and discussed the filmwith Maria Grazia Giannichedda (Fondazione FrancoBasaglia) and planned a series of informal film screeningswith Jacopo Benci.The Architecture programme, curated by Marina Engel,is now well established and, as usual, attracted bigaudiences. British architects Amanda Levete of FutureSystems and David Adjaye showcased their work inautumn and winter, completing the series ‘Spaces for Art’.Ma0, the Roman architectural practice, commenced a newcycle in spring on the theme ‘London-Rome: Work inProcess (eight architecture practices)’ which will be acollaboration with PARC (Direzione Generale per laQualità e la Tutela del Paesaggio, l’Architettura e l’ArteContemporanee) in Rome and the ArchitectureFoundation in London.Site visits included trips to Pompeii and Herculaneum;the Castello Ruspoli at Vignanello and Castello Orsini atValanello (courtesy of the Approdo Romano); the PalazzoChigi at Ariccia and the Museo delle Navi at Lake Nemi;the Abbey of Farfa; the Palazzo Farnese; the PalazzoFarnese at Caprarola; the Villa Pamphilj; the Abbey of SanNilo at Grottaferrata and Frascati; the Tower of theWinds in the Vatican and the Archivio Segreto Vaticano;Santa Maria del Priorato; the Palazzo Pamphilj and VillaMadama.Susan RussellAssistant DirectorCity of Rome students exploring the maritime theatre in Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli17