23 mei 2022
Our cultural heritage comprises many art objects that are hundreds, some thousands of years old. How did they survive this long? While many factors determine if and how art can be preserved, one has fundamentally impacted its long-term survival: the desire to make and...
23 mei 2022
On 14 June 2011 Teatro Valle (Rome) was occupied by a group of artists, entertainment workers, activists and citizens aiming to trigger a cultural revolution. Teatro Valle became an ideal space in which to imagine new forms of social commitment and participatory...
23 mei 2022
Nuraghi, the famous dry-stone walled towers of Sardinia, are usually regarded as prehistoric monuments, because they were first built in the Bronze Age. They continued to be inhabited long after, however, and survived as often substantial settlements into later...
19 april 2022
The Florentine Codex is an encyclopedic manuscript produced collaboratively by the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of indigenous writers and artists. It was completed at the Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco in Mexico City in 1577. Renowned for its...
5 april 2022
In this presentation, Samir Boumediene will discuss past research devoted to the history of medicinal plants in Spanish America as well as a project he is currently conducting on the concept of discovery in early modern Europe. By addressing these two themes together,...
