Highlights from the cultural world of Rome
RACTA III - the 3rd Doctoral Colloquium on Christian Archaeology - a student initiative - will take place in Rome from 5 to 7 February 2024. Those who would like to give a lecture must register by 10 September.
Dr Marco Aimone (Vercelli/Swindon) and prof. Stefan Heid (Rome) are offering a 10-hour course on liturgical devices in early church times. The course will take place on 4, 5, 6 and 18 December at the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology.
Gabriele Castiglia, a member of the RIGG, was appointed as the new Associate Professor of Topography of the Christian Orbis at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology on 24 August. He succeeds Philippe Pergola, who retired in June.
Daniel Zucker, a member of the RIGG, will make his simple profession of vows to the Dominicans in S. Maria sopra Minerva on 8 September, the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, at 6 pm. Zucker is a distant relative of Stephan Ehses, director of the RIGG from 1895 to 1926. Zucker studied philosophy and theology in Rome and Vienna.
After endless years of vagabonding, this summer the DAI in Rome returns to its original location in the Via Sardegna. This also pleases all Christian archaeologists for whom the Institute is a second home.
Information about the renovation
Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, a connoisseur and researcher of Vatican II whom he even considers the "più grande ermeneuta del Concilio", as a cardinal. He represents a hermeneutic that Pope Benedict XVI summed up in his address to the Curia on 22 December 2005 as "hermeneutics of reform instead of hermeneutics of rupture".
Stefan Heid was confirmed as rector of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology for another three years by the Vatican's dicastery of culture and studies on 7 June. On 22 June he was elected to the class of corresponding members of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia.
Thematically in memory of Pope Benedict XVI, the two circles of students will hold his meeting this year in Rome on 23 September, for which a live link will also be installed. Among the speakers will be RIGG members Cardinal Kurt Koch, Archbishop Georg Gänswein and Ralph Weimann. Benedict XVI was a member of the RIGG for 40 years and arranged for the foundation of a Study library at the Campo Santo Teutonico.
The 10th century, which is "dark" for ignoramuses but fascinating for medievalists, has its own fascinations in Rome, to which 63 speakers will devote themselves in a crowded five-day session, including three members of the RIGG: Andrea A. Verardi (Rome), Stefano Manganaro (Pisa) and Simone Piazza (Venice). Originally planned for 2020 and conceived by Xavier Barral i Altet and Manuela Gianandrea, the conference brings together the Sapienza, Ecole Francaise de Rome, Hertziana and Federico II University.
Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, and Mahler, Symphony No. 5 will be performed at the Church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli on the Capitol on 15 June at 8.30pm.
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