On the 11th of March we welcome Professor Diego Zancani, Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, author of How we fell in love with Italian Food (https://amzn.eu/d/fgzSZvd). He will speak on la cucina bolognese. It will be a fascinating evening to whet the appetite for all things [...]
On Tuesday 11th November, we are delighted to welcome Dr Luciana da Costa Carvalho (Linacre College, University of Oxford), her talk entitled ‘From Paestum and Pompeii to Oxford: Biomolecular Discoveries from the Ashmolean’s Last Supper in Pompeii Exhibition’. Dr Carvalho recently co-led a project that solved a decades-old puzzle by re-investigating residues in bronze jars from a 6th-century BCE Greek shrine at [...]
After Catastrophe: Urban renewal lessons from Italy, France and Ukraine Matthew Bell, FAIA FCNU Professor of Architecture at the University of Maryland Principal at Perkins Eastman in Washington, DC Catastrophic events have long impacted and disrupted the form of cities and buildings typically via floods, fires, earthquakes, and wars. Subsequent “rebuildings” have often addressed scales [...]
