Calendar
Colloquia 2025-26
Imagines
Visual Culture in the Ancient World: History and Reception
At the heart of this seminar series is an updated reflection both on the different ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity developed its visual culture in different eras, and on the influence that classical iconographic paradigms have exerted at numerous moments in European political and cultural history, right up to the present day.
(Photo: Laocoonte, Musei Vaticani)
Tuesday 30 September 2025, 16:30
Matthew Nicholls (University of Oxford), Public Libraries in Ancient Rome, with 3D Reconstructions
Tuesday 14 October 2025, 16:30
Christian A. Thomsen (National Museum of Denmark), The City Made Manifest: Women and the Visualisation of Community in Hellenistic Lindos
Thursday 30 October 2025, 16:30
Costanza D’Elia (Università degli Studi di Cassino), Warburg e l’antico: sublime cena vs pasto feroce
Friday 14 novembre 2025, 8:30
Vittoria Camelliti (Università degli Studi di Udine), Immagini e memoria dell’antico nei manoscritti miniati medievali
Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:30
Marietta Horster (Universität Mainz), Remembering a Roman Life
Wednesday 18 March 2026, 16:30
Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Universität Potsdam), Iconografie monetali, comunicazione politica e legittimazione imperiale tra il III e il IV secolo d.C. ovvero, dell’assenza di grandi discontinuità
Friday 17 April 2026, 14:30
Evanghelia Stead (Université Paris-Saclay), Iconography of a Daughter of the Sun: Circe from Dawn to Dusk
Wednesday 22 April 2026, 16:30
Lucia Travaini (Università degli Studi di Milano), Bellissime e misteriose: monete greche ‘trasformate’ in reliquie nell’Europa medievale e moderna
Tuesday, 5 May 2026, 10:30
Maria Carmen De Vita (Università degli Studi di Siena), Symbola theon: ritratti imperiali e icone divine nella propaganda ellenica di Flavio Claudio Giuliano
Events archive
Colloquia 2024-2025
Imagines
The Representation of Institutions in Europe from Antiquity to Today
Cycle of conferences aimed at reflecting on the modes and dynamics of the processes of use and reuse of images in different historical and communication contexts, from the moment of their production to that of their mediation and circulation.
Wednesday 25 September 2024
Tuesday 29 October 2024
Tuesday 19 November 2024
Tuesday 25 March 2025
Tuesday 8 April 2025
Fernando Venturini (Camera dei deputati), Immagini e rappresentazioni del Parlamento italiano
Thursday 8 May 2025
Colloquia 2023-2024
Imagines
Uses and reuses of visual material in Europe from antiquity to the present day
As part of the excellence project of the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Milan IMAGINeS: Images and History, the Centre for visuaL hIstOry is organizing a series of colloquia to reflect on the patterns and dynamics of the processes of use and reuse of images in different historical and communicative contexts, with particular attention not only to the moment of their production, but also to that of their mediation and circulation.
Tuesday 28 November 2023 ore 16:30
Claudio Fogu (University of Santa Barbara, CA), Immagini e immaginari mediterranei nella storia d’Italia
Wednesday 24 January 2024 ore 16:30
Hannah Malone (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), Immagini della Grande Guerra: usi e riusi dei sacrari militari italiani dal Fascismo alla Repubblica
Monday 26 February 2024 ore 14:30
Sietske Fransen (Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Roma), The re-use and copying of images in seventeenth-century microscopy
Monday 11 March 2024 ore 14:30
Maria Alessandra Panzanelli (Università degli Studi di Torino), Illustrazione e decorazione libraria tra Quattro e Cinquecento. Produzione originale, imitazione e riuso nelle edizioni perugine del primo periodo
Tuesday 9 April 2024 ore 16:30
Fabio Guidetti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II), “Far vedere” il principe: Tessere iconografiche del ritratto imperiale (I secolo a.C.-IV secolo d.C.)
Thursday 16 May 2024 ore 14:30
Elisabetta Fusar Poli (Università degli Studi di Brescia) Stefano Gardini (Università degli Studi di Genova), Identità, immagine, riuso. Percorsi di ricerca tra diritto e memoria