Study Day “The Salinas remembers SALINAS”
Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonino Salinas”
Piazza Olivella / Palermo /January, 23, 9.30

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Organized by the Department of Humanities, University of Naples “Federico II”, and by National Society of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Naples, 22 to 23 January 2015. The conference follows a 2012 FIRB – Future in Research Project:  “The perception of space and time in the transmission of collective identities. Polarizations and / or religious cohabitation in the ancient world (1^st-6^th cent. CE)”.

January 22 – University of Naples “Federico II”, Piovani Hall, Via Porta di Massa 1, Naples

January 23 – National Society of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Naples, Via Mezzocannone 8, Naples

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by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

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Thursday, January 15, at 17.30, at the Aula Magna Domus Sapientiae of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the Polytechnic of Bari, the author will present his latest book, dedicated to the wonders of the ancient world..

The prof. Antonella Prenner, University of Naples “Federico II”, will introduce the topic.

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Period: 05/08/2015 – 09/05/2015

Faculty of Humanities – Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5

Odeion Hall, Museum of Classical Art

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The Archaeological Museum “Antonino Salinas” in Palermo announced that the exhibition “Etruscans in Palermo” has been extended until 31 January 2015. The exhibition is housed in the picturesque setting of the eighteenth-century ” Real Albergo dei Poveri ” in C.so Calatafimi, 207 (Tel. 091/422314). This temporary arrangement allows the visitor to admire – reconstructed for the first time – one of the most important collections of Etruscan material existing in Italy, the Casuccini Collection; it includes about 10,000 artifacts and offers a complete and homogeneous testimony of the artistic production of the ancient Clusium. The exhibition ends with a section dedicated to the Archaeological Museum of Palermo, the history of its formation, the figure of Antonino Salinas and restoration work currently affecting the building.

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Stolen and illegally transferred abroad, the crater remained in the United States from the seventies until 1999 when, after long negotiations International, the find was returned to Italy and exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome. Since December 18, 2014 to January 20, 2015, the crater, which will return in Cerveteri after an absence of 40 years, will be exhibited at the National Museum Cerite, thanks to the collaboration of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, the Superintendency for Southern Etruria and the Region of Lazio, on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Banditaccia Necropolis inclusion in the list of UNESCO World Heritage.

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Thursday, December 18, 2014, at 11.00, in Cerveteri (Rome), at the Sala Giovanni Ruspoli, P.za Santa Maria, a press conference will announce to the public the initiative.

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Will participate:

– Dario Franceschini, Minister of Heritage and Culture and Tourism

– Alfonsina Tagliente Russo, Superintendent for Southern Etruria

– Nicola Zingaretti, President of the Latium Region

– Ilaria Borletti Buitoni, Secretary of Heritage and Culture and Tourism

– Lidia Ravera, Regional Councillor for Culture and Youth

– Giovanni Bastianelli, Director of the Regional Agency for Tourism

– Giacomo Bassi, President of the Association for Italian Heritage in the Unesco World Heritage

– Rita Cosentino, Director of the Banditaccia Necropolis and the Ceritis National Museum

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Minister Franceschini in Cerveteri, after the press conference: “The cultural heritage must be deployed in the country. I believe that the exhibition of Cerveteri on Crater Euphronios should be prolonged even in the period of the Expo, which runs from May to October. And then, who knows … “

15 to 17 December 2014, at the Faculty of Humanities in Ro

15 to 17 December 2014, at the Faculty of Humanities in Rome, , piazzale Aldo Moro

Classroom I, Odeion Hall

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Classroom I, Odeion Hall

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On 9 December 2014, at 11:00 am, at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale Romano “Crypta Balbi” in Botteghe Oscure street, no. 31, in Rome, the second edition of the “Riccardo Francovich” award will be held. The prize, established by the Society of Italian Medieval Archaeologists (SAMI), is conferred to the best medieval  museum or archaeological park. This year, the award will reward the archaeological museum of the Crypta Balbi in Rome. The Minister of Heritage and Culture, Dario Franceschini, shall participate to the ceremony.

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Further information: http://archeoroma.beniculturali.it/musei/museo-nazionale-romano-crypta-balbi

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Meeting organized by the Department of Humanities and Architecture, University of Roma Tre, together with the PhD consortium Roma Tre – Polytechnic of Bari “Architecture: Innovation and cultural heritage” and the Interdepartmental PhD “Landscapes of the contemporary city: policies, techniques and visual studies “.

Speakers: Daniele Manacorda, Francesco Cellini, Paolo Desideri, Elisabetta Pallottino

Wednesday, December 17, at 16 .00, – Via Ostiense 234

Department of Humanities – Council Hall

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For more information: Agenzia per la Ricerca e Dottorati, Dipartimento di Architettura

Università degli Studi Roma Tre, via Madonna dei Monti, 40 – Roma, 00184, tel +390657339608.

Organized by Antrocom Onlus and by Museum of Religions “Raffaele Pettazzoni”, Velletri (Rome), in the period July, 7 to 11, 2015.

The conference aims to investigate in an interdisciplinary point of view the mechanisms underlying the functionality that food and nutrition can play in religious contexts and traditional beliefs. Cultural areas of interest are the civilizations of the Ancient, Medieval, Modern and Contemporary World, as well as the folkloric or ethnographic contexts.

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