Annual Report 2007-8 - The British School at Rome

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Above: Professor Peter Wiseman gives a lecture at the BSRBelow: Visitors to the estate of the Sforza Cesarini family at Portuscommittee responsible for these grants, chaired byProfessor Michael Fulford, has long shown itself to beresponsive to our needs, and under its President, BaronessO’Neill, and its new CEO, Dr Robin Jackson, theAcademy has embraced a welcome policy of raising thepublic profile of the work of the institutes it supports.Last November, thanks to the hard work of the dynamicMargot Jackson, responsible for Academy-sponsoredInstitutes and Societies, it arranged a major event at theBarbican Centre in London, under the title EvolvingSocieties to showcase the work of the institutes, at whichno less than three BSR representatives spoke — DavidForgacs on ‘Migration to contemporary Rome: work,settlement and social exclusion’ , Simon Keay on ‘Thepast at risk: the contribution of British archaeology tosafeguarding Italian heritage’, and Cristiana Perrellascreening a sample of videos on the theme ‘Viva Roma!’.We are delighted that the Academy is taking this upbeatline, and share the enthusiasm of BASIS for a widening ofthe disciplinary and geographical range of its institutes,which has enabled us to make a first, tentative, move intothe Western Mediterranean at large and into Punic studies(see above). The irony is that as the spending power ofsterling has dropped, we have been attempting to broadenour coverage, and hard thinking will be needed in futureon what can be sustained on limited resources withoutreducing quality.The Academy’s core grant only supports about half ourspending (this year, excluding the Herculaneum project,48%), and it is in the added value made possible byadditional funding sources, on the back, so to speak, ofthe Academy grant, that our range and quality depends.Arts scholarships are almost entirely supported by outsidebodies, in addition to the income of the F.W. Sargantfund: we reiterate our gratitude to the many bodies thatfinance these residencies, the Abbey Council, theAustralia Council for the Arts, the Linbury Trust (for theSainsbury Scholarships), the Harold Hyam Wingate8
D I R E C T O R ’ S R E P O R TFoundation, the Derek Hill Foundation, and thecollaboration of Arts Council England, the Ruskin Schoolof Drawing and Fine Art, and St Peter’s College, Oxford,together responsible for the Helen Chadwick Fellowship.In the Humanities, we have a particular debt to the PaulMellon Centre for the Study of British Art, which has sentus a series of outstanding Mellon Fellows, as well assupporting various conferences and projects. Bob andElizabeth Boas continue to support an impressive clusterof young architects for special summer awards. This seriesof partnerships much enriches the institution, and it hasbeen an especial pleasure this year to welcome thecreation of the Giles Worsley Travel Fellowship inarchitecture and architectural history, thanks to JoannaWorsley’s formidable fundraising efforts in memory ofher late husband. In addition, new partnerships have beenset up with Photoworks, which is funding a new threemonthfellowship in photography, and, thanks to thetireless efforts of Marina Engel, with the Conseil des Artset des Lettres du Québec for a new three-month awardfor an architect from Quebec. Many other sponsors arethanked in the detailed reports that follow.Individual projects are made possible by specific grants.It is a major achievement on behalf of the Library to havesecured a second three-year grant from the GettyFoundation, to support the cataloguing and digitisation ofthe extraordinary photographic archive. The first grantcovered the work of a group of outstandingphotographers of the late nineteenth and early twentiethcenturies, Father P.P. Mackey, the Bulwer sisters andThomas Ashby himself. The new project is targeted onthe more recent archive of the photographs of JohnWard-Perkins, whose records both of Italian sites and ofNorth Africa have within half a century become animportant historical document in themselves. Thecombined energies of the Librarian, Valerie Scott, and ofher team, led by the Archivist, Alessandra Giovenco, aresuch that these ambitious projects are delivered on time,Top: HRH Princess Alexandra visits the exhibition of Ashby photographs,I giganti dell’acqua, accompanied by Valerie Scott and Rita TurchettiAbove: Honorary Fellows Michael Stillwell, Professor Silvio Pancieraand Peter Brown9
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