School 1: Greek and Roman Canons Beyond Europe

Jun 9, 2025 – Jun 14, 2025

Rome, Italy


Day 0: Monday, June 9, 2025

  • ca. 20:00: Informal dinner

Day 1: Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Academia Belgica

  • 09:30 : Heba Abd el Gawad (Horniman Museum and Gardens and UCL): ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: views from Egypt’

  • 11:00 : Break

  • 11:20 : Roberta Mazza (Bologna): Working with textual objects: the importance of provenance

  • 13:00: Lunch

  • 14:00: Cultural visit

  • 16:00: Discussion: Canons and conflict

  • 18:00: Free time

Day 2: Wednesday, 11 June 2025

KNIR

  • 09:15: MECANO Supervisory Board meeting

  • 10:45: Break

  • 11:00: MECANON bibliography edit-a-thon

  • 12:00: Lunch & Visit to KNIR

  • 13:00: “Alternative city tour”: Rome through different lenses

  • 17:30: KNIR Research Dialogues: Han Lamers, DVX: A Latin Word in Fascist Propaganda—Semantic and Semiotic Multiplicity as Instruments of Power

  • 19:00: Free time

Day 3: Thursday, 12 June 2025

KNIR

  • 09:30: Elena Giusti (Cambridge): The Early Modern Reinvention of Rome’s Imagined Africa

  • 11:00: Break

  • 11:30: Elisa Coda (Pisa): Readers of Aristotle’s De Anima in the “Golden Age“ of Arabic Philosophy

  • 13:00: Lunch & visit to KNIR

  • 14:00 Free time

  • 16:00: Visit to the Vatican Libraries

  • 19:30: Dinner: Ambasciata d’Abruzzo

Day 4: Friday, 13 June 2025, MECANO mid-term meeting

Academia Belgica / hybrid

Agenda

  • 09:00: Introduction of the meeting

    Teresa Cuartero Lausín, European Research Executive Agency (REA)

    Pieter d’Hoine, KU Leuven | MECANO

  • 09:05: Introduction round

  • 09:35: REA Project Officer presentation

    Teresa Cuartero Lausín (REA)

  • 10:35: Break

  • 10:50: Coordinator’s report

    Pieter d’Hoine, KU Leuven | MECANO

  • 12:00: Lunch

  • 13:00: Doctoral Candidates’ presentations

  • 14:30: Break

  • 14:45 – 16:15 Parallel tracks

TimePhDsSupervisorsAssociated Partners
14:45Restricted session: Project Officer and DCsResearch Committee meetingFree time
15:45Free timeRestricted session: Project Officer and MECANO supervisorsFree time

  • 16:15: Feedback and discussion

  • ca. 16:30: End of the meeting


MECANO School ‘Greco-Roman Canons Beyond Europe’ and MECANO mid-term meeting are organized in collaboration with L’Academia Belgica – Centro per la Storia, le Arti e le Scienze a Roma and Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome

Programme PDF: click here


Creator: Gilberto Maltinti. Copyright: Parioli Fotografia.