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CfA: KNIR Colloquia 2025-2026

We are happy to draw your attention to the Call for Applications for a new Series of KNIR Colloquia. KNIR Colloquia are small, exclusive expert meetings, hosted and funded by the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. The KNIR Colloquia programme targets early and mid-career academics with a position as lecturer or assistant professor at one of our partner universities in the Netherlands. It aims to offer opportunities to those academics who do not profit from other research funding to boost their research profile. We warmly welcome new applications for a colloquium to be held in the academic year 2025-2026. Read more

Archaeological Fieldwork: Exploring Mountain Society in Guarda (Portugal) with the GAP project
This field survey campaign is part of the Guarda Archaeological Project (GAP), a collaboration between the University of Groningen, KNIR, NOVA University of Lisbon, and the Municipality of Guarda. Guarda, located in the Serra da Estrela mountains, is the highest municipality in Portugal, situated between the Mondego, Zêzere, and Côa valleys. The region is known for...

Deadline: 15 April 2025

Date: 15 June - 6 July 2025

Minor Program Florence-Rome: Italian Art & History
Florence and Rome are of fundamental importance to those working in the humanities, since most of its disciplines originate in late medieval or early modern Italy, and even postmodernism has some of its most significant roots in Italy’s intellectual debates. Therefore, Florence and Rome are ideal sites to explore the historiography of art history, history,...

Deadline: 1 May 2025

Date: 22 August - 19 December 2025

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Writing Rome
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Course: Writing Rome

The city of Rome is built not only of bricks and marble but also of…
Date: 5 May - 19 May 2025
Deadline: 5 March 2025
Teaching staff: Dr. Susanna de Beer
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Practicum: Remote Sensing in ancient Samnium

In this research-oriented field work campaign, you explore the possibilities of aerial archaeology, especially drone…
Date: 18 May - 8 June 2025
Deadline: 4 May 2025
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Course: Imagining Africa

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Date: 19 May - 2 June 2025
Teaching staff: Dr. Maria Bonaria Urban, Dr. Flaminia Bartolini
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Public Lecture: Simulating Empire. Carlo Enrico Rava and the Immersive Experience of Colonialism, 1938-1940

This KNIR Research Dialogue takes as its point of departure a series of ephemeral displays…
Date: 21 May 2025
Time: 17:00
Speakers: Prof. Laura Moure Cecchini

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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.