Rome: The Growth of the City from the Return of the Popes to the Present

An Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series

Ancient Rome

Seminar Seven: From Pilgrims to Tourists

22 June 2007, Birkbeck College

10.30 Coffee and welcome
11.00 Dr Claudia Bolgia, University of Cambridge
Ubi papa, ibi Roma: Pope, pilgrims and art in late-Trecento Rome
12.00 Professor Rosemary Sweet, University of Leicester
The end of the Grand Tour? British visitors in Rome c.1800-1840
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Elizabeth Speller, University of Cambridge
Into battle with a Baedeker. Fighting for Rome, 1944
3.00 Frederick Gustav Whitling, European University Institute, Florence
Servio Tullio prende il treno. Assessing and evaluating Ancient remains at Stazione Termini
4.00 Tea
5.00 Special Film Screening, introduced by Professor Mary Wood, Faculty of Continuing Education, Birkbeck College. Shown at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, Agostino Ferrente's critically-acclaimed L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio
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6.30 Drinks

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