Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma

Vi på Svenska Institutet i Rom önskar er alla Glad Midsommar ☀️🍓🍰

📸 from last week:

”Bengt E. Thomasson (1926-2025): A Life for Ancient Rome and Modern Sweden”

Thanks to the organizers, to all the speakers and to everyone who attended to this 2-days conference💐

The Swedish Institute in Rom Annual Fellowship, Art History: Viola Bao 🗣️
“I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature at Northwestern University and the recipient of the institute’s 2026 major fellowship in Art History. During the spring, I have conducted archival research on the transnational exchange of social theory, aesthetic practices, and forms of worker militancy between the autoworker cities of Northern Italy, in particular Cremona and Turin, and the American Midwest during the 1950s–70s. This research explores how struggles over industrial labor, technology, and the Fordist factory generated new forms of cultural production that linked Italian operaismo, Black radicalism, and rank-and-file worker organizing in the postwar decades. Among other subjects, my work has focused on the Italian writer, translator, and art critic Danilo Montaldi (1929–1975), an early link between the Midwest and Italy, and the American filmmaker John Watson’s two Italian tours in connection with the release of the experimental documentary Finally Got the News (1968 and 1970).”

Ora online anche il video dell'ultimo SALOTTO ETRUSCO della stagione. 🎥
Vi aspettiamo numerosi alla ripresa delle attività in autunno!

https://youtu.be/31loZCRcRRM

Buona visione

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
11-12 June
at the Swedish Institute in Rome
Via Omero 14, Rome

The conference Bengt E. Thomasson (1926–2025): A Life for Ancient Rome and Modern Sweden commemorates the life and work of Bengt E. Thomasson, Director of the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome 1961–64, whose scholarship contributed significantly to the study of Roman epigraphy and provincial administration. Bringing together scholars from across Europe, the conference focuses on two central areas of his research: the Carmina Epigraphica Romana and the Laterculi Praesidum. The programme opens with an afternoon devoted to Thomasson’s scholarly legacy, Swedish epigraphic studies, and his work on the Carmina Epigraphica Romana, while the following morning examines Roman governors, provincial administration, and military command structures across the Empire. Together, the papers highlight Thomasson’s lasting importance for both Swedish and international Roman studies.

https://isvroma.org/2026/06/03/11-12-06-bengt-e-thomasson-1926-2025-a-life-for-ancient-rome-and-modern-sweden/

Vi vill påminner om att sista ansökningsdagen är den 31 maj!

The Fondazione Famiglia Rausing announces grants for advanced research in Italy within the Humanities

https://isvroma.org/2025/04/29/the-fondazione-famiglia-rausing-announces-grants-for-advanced-research-in-italy-within-the-humanities-3/

Sista dagarna för att ansöka om rum ⚠️⚠️⚠️
https://isvroma.org/sv/bo-pa-institutet/

Vi påminner om att ansöka om boende på institutet under hösten och vintern innan den 1a juni 🗓️
Vid rumsfördelningen tas hänsyn till projektets relevans och Romvistelsens betydelse för dess genomförande. Även förfrågningar som inkommer vid ett senare tillfälle kommer att behandlas och bokas in i mån av plats.

För att ansöka om boende på institutet fyll i formuläret som finns på vår hemsida. 📨

https://isvroma.org/2026/05/15/paminnelse-ansok-om-boende-pa-institutet-11/

Sì è tenuto questa settimana l’ultimo SALOTTO ETRUSCO di questo ciclo primaverile. Ringraziamo la relatrice Annette Rathje e tutti i presenti augurandoci di ritrovarci nuovamente in autunno.
Il video della conferenza sarà presto disponibile sul nostro canale YouTube come tutto il resto della serie.
A presto!

Ancora qualche scatto dalla serata del 7 maggio ✨
Erano presenti contatti istituzionali, colleghi e amici dell’Istituto.
Ci avete riempito il cuore di gioia: un ricordo che porteremo sempre con noi, indelebile 💙💛

📸 Andrea Panzironi