View Article: 2004 Program Calendar

	2004 Program Calendar
	written by lmschultz / 07.23.2004

Week One

1 of 5

Monday, August 23

Morning:

10:00am: Students arrive at UW Rome Center and check into apartments

Late Afternoon

3:00pm: Orientation to UWRC and other logistics for living in Rome; walking tour of Campo de’ Fiori environs

Evening Event

4:00pm Introduction to sociology

Tuesday, August 24

Art History

Roman Forum; Arch of Titus; sack lunch on the Palatine Hill; Column, Forum, and markets of Trajan

*Discussion topics: imperial ideology; the Roman basilica; the role of the Roman triumph and its pervading imagery (the arch), political propaganda and emmulation

Presentations: JE, MW, ZX, (JM)

Sociology

Guest speaker: Pierpaolo Mudu, Researcher, Interdepartmental Centre for Studies on the Population and Society of Rome. Lecture: “Foreign Immigrants in Contemporary Rome: An Exploration of Their Social Geography”

Wednesday, August 25

Art History

Museo Nazionale Romano at Palazzo Massimo

*Discussion topics: ancient sculpture, styles and patterns; portraiture; Augustinian agenda. Possible group exercise on site.

Presentations: MB, (SF)

Sociology

Social stratification: social class and regionalism

Evening Events

Group Dinner in apartment 422!!

Thursday, August 26

Art History

Field Trip to Herculaneum / Pompeii with tour guide, Valerie Higgins

*Discussion topics: domestic life – insula and the Roman atrium house; public and private space - bathing, theatre, and games in ancient Roman society;strategies for interior decoration, intro to ancient Roman painting.

Presentations: KW, LD, (AS, CF)

Evening Events

Overnight in Pompeii at the Hotel Villa of the Mysteries

Friday, August 27

Morning:

Depart for Naples

Sociology

The visible social order of Naples; Group lunch

Afternoon: Resume sociological exploration of Naples

Evening Events

Overnight in Naples at the Hotel Sansevero

Saturday, August 28

Art History

Naples Archaeological Museum

*Discussion topics: Role of women in ancient Rome

Presentations: ACB

Evening Events

Return to Rome

Option for students to return on own

Sunday, August 29

Week Two

2 of 5

Monday, August 30

Italian Language and Culture

Language studies

Sociology

Institutions and social order: the family

Tuesday, August 31

Art History

Pantheon; Colosseum; Arch of Constantine; Group lunch at Isadoro.

*Discussion topics: Hadrian’s Building Program; Roman architectural forms and function; Constantine and the beginnings of Christianity in Rome.

Presentations: AC, JK, (HC)

Sociology

Institutions and social order: the state

Evening Events

View film, Gladiator

Wednesday, September 1

Art History

mini bus to Catacombs of Priscilla; S. Costanza.

*Discussion topics: Early Christian imagery; Roman burial practices

Presentations: CF, (KH)

Sociology

Institutions and social order: the Church

Evening Events

Group Dinner in apartment 422!!

Thursday, September 2

Art History

S. Maria Maggiore; S. Prassede; S. Pudenziana.

*Discussion topics: function of early christian church; cult of relics.

Presentations: (KD, KW, LD, SR, ZX)

Italian Language and Culture

Language studies

Friday, September 3

Art History

S. Maria in Trastevere; Bramante’s Tempietto

*Discussion topics: spolia, martyrs, mosaics; beginnings of Renaissance architectural forms. Possible group exercise on-site.

Presentations: AS, (AZ, AC)

Sociology

First assignment due: the social geography of Rome. Group presentations.

Saturday, September 4

Sunday, September 5

Week Three

3 of 5

Monday, September 6

Italian Language and Culture

Language studies

Sociology

Institutions and social order: education

Tuesday, September 7

Art History

Vatican Museums: Pinacoteca, Bellvedere court yard, Raphael’s Stanze, Sistine Chapel

*Discussion topics: Renaissance ideals; Raphael’s work at the Vatican; Julius II and Michelangelo; antiquities and their role in the Renaissance

Presentations: JH, SR, (NS)

Sociology

Threats to social order: political instability

Wednesday, September 8

Art History

Villa Farnesina, Piazza Farnese

*Discussion Topics: Raphael’s Loggia di Psyche; palace function and decoration; Palazzo Pio; Giordano Bruno

Presentations: KD, (JE, HW, MB)

Sociology

Threats to social order: economic instability

Evening Events

Group Dinner in apartment 422!!

Thursday, September 9

Art History

The Baroque:
Il Gesu, St. Ignazio

*Discussion topics: The Jesuits; Counter Reformation, church triumphant; Baroque architectural forms.

Presentations: HC, (AC)

Italian Language and Culture

Language studies

Friday, September 10

Art History

Museo di Villa Borghese; Group lunch at Piazza Re; Piazza Navona: Four Rivers Fountain and elephant obelisk at S. Maria Sopra Minerva.

*Discussion topics: Bernini; Caravaggio’s private commissions

Presentations: AZ

Sociology

Guest speaker: Federico Varese, University Lecturer in Criminology, Centre for Criminological Research, Law Faculty, University of Oxford.

Lecture: “Corruption and the Mafias in Italy”

Saturday, September 11

Sunday, September 12

Week Four

4 of 5

Monday, September 13

Italian Language and Culture

Language studies

Sociology

Student presentations

Tuesday, September 14

Art History

S. Luigi dei Francesi (Contarelli chapel); S. Maria del Popolo(Cerasi Chapel)

*Discussion topics: Caravaggio’s public commissions

Presentations: KH, (JK, JH)

Sociology

Student presentations

Wednesday, September 15

Art History

St. Peter’s: scavi, basilica, and piazza

*Discussion topics: Bernini’s and Michelangelo’s contributions

Presentations: JM, HW, (ACB)

Sociology

Student presentations

Thursday, September 16

Art History

Day Trip to Hadrian’s Villa; sack lunch on Villa grounds; Villa d’Este.

*Discussion topics: ideal city plan, villa as rhetorical, mnemonic tool

Presentations: NS, (MW)

Italian Language and Culture

Language studies

Friday, September 17

Art History

Palazzo Barberini; Trevi Fountain

*Discussion topics: papal nepotism, family propaganda; fountains and aqueducts-history of water as a political/propagandistic tool.

Presentations: SF

Sociology

Closing lecture

Final papers due

Evening Events

Final Group Dinner

Saturday, September 18

Sunday, September 19

Week Five

5 of 5

Monday, September 20

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