01. October 2025 - 31. October 2025

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
29. September 2025 - 10. October 2025
Napoli 1938–1943. L'alleanza nazifascista, la guerra, le quattro giornate

Photographic-documentary exhibition.
A collaboration of: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici), Goethe-Institut Napoli, German Historical Institute in Rome, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, financed by the German-Italian Future Fund of the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Naples, Chiesa di San Severo al Pendino (Via Duomo, 286)

Event flyer



CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
30. September 2025 - 01. October 2025
Ricerche in corso di storia italo-germanica e italo-austriaca dall'Ottocento ai giorni nostri

Seminar for doctoral students and postdocs, organised by the SISCALT (Società Italiana per la Storia Contemporanea dell'Area di Lingua Tedesca) in collaboration with the Istituto Storico Austriaco, the Villa Vigoni and the German Historical Institute in Rome.

Rome, Istituto Storico Austriaco (Viale Bruno Buozzi 113)

Programme (PDF). The seminar will be held in Italian and German..

Registration by 23 September at: iannuzzi[at]oehirom[dot]it

Secretariat: Antonella Fiorio, Università Bari, 94[dot]antonella[dot]fiorio[at]gmail.com



CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
01. October 2025
La Terra Santa contesa. La Santa Sede e lo Stato d'Israele (1947–1957)

Angela Cimino

German Historical Institute in Rome

17.30–19.00

Please register for in-person or online attendance

For any issues with registration please contact: info-event[at]dhi-roma[dot]it.



MIDDLE AGES, MODERN AGE, CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
06. October 2025 - 11. October 2025
Roman Studies Course

Studies Course of the DHI Rome for advanced students and doctoral candidates in history.

German Historical Institute in Rome

Further information



MIDDLE AGES
10. October 2025
Die Leichensynode gegen Papst Formosus. Ein toter Papst auf der Anklagebank und die Folgen

Sebastian Scholz (University of Zurich)

An event (in German language) of the Friends of the DHI Association in cooperation with the Institute.

German Historical Institute in Rome

6.00–7.30 PM

Event flyer (PDF, 715 KB)

Please register for in-person or online attendance

For any issues with registration please contact: info-event[at]dhi-roma[dot]it.



MUSIC HISTORY
13. October 2025 - 15. October 2025
Symposion of the Working Group "Sociology and Social history of music" in the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung

German Historical Institute in Rome

Contact: Vera Grund

Programme (PDF), Abstracts (PDF)

For any issues with registration please contact: info-event[at]dhi-roma[dot]it.



CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, MUSIC HISTORY
13. October 2025
Sociologia della musica. La costruzione sociale del suono dalle tribù al digitale

Lello Savonardo

Event as part of the lecture series "Musica/Cultura/Sociologia". Further information and upcoming dates

German Historical Institute in Rome

18.30–20.00

Simultaneous translation Italian-German

Please register for in-person or online attendance

For any issues with registration please contact: info-event[at]dhi-roma[dot]it.



MIDDLE AGES, MUSIC HISTORY, MODERN AGE
17. October 2025
Salute e salvezza al limine dell'urbe: l'Isola Tiberina

David Merlin

Meeting point: 15.30, Chiosco "Sora Mirella – La Grattachecca dal 1915", Lungotevere degli Anguillara, at the head of the Ponte Cestio.

Fee: none

Limited number of participants: 20

Further information in German or Italian

Registration is no longer possible; the maximum number of participants has already been reached.

Guided tour in Italian language



CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, MUSIC HISTORY
20. October 2025 - 21. October 2025
Beethoven and his Music in Nazi-Occupied European Countries

Internal event

German Historical Institute in Rome



CONTEMPORARY HISTORY, MUSIC HISTORY
20. October 2025
Beethoven and Italy

Opening Night of the International Conference "Beethoven and his Music in Nazi-Occupied European Countries".

Concert
Ludwig van Beethoven "Sieben Variationen über Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen aus Mozarts Oper Die Zauberflöte" (WoO46)
Alessio Pianelli (Violoncello), Eugenio Catone (piano)

Panel Discussion 
Beethoven and Italy

Concert
Ludwig van Beethoven "Sonata for Piano and Violoncello in F-major" (Op. 5.1)
Alessio Pianelli (Violoncello), Eugenio Catone (piano)

18.00

Goethe-Institut Roma (Via Savoia 12)

Event flyer (PDF)



CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
23. October 2025 - 24. October 2025
Refugees in the Mediterranean. Flight, Migration, and Relief during the Twentieth Century

International conference organised by the Research Centre Global Dynamics at Leipzig University, in collaboration with the German Historical Institute in Rome and the Fondazione della Shoah.

Casina dei Vallati (Via del Portico d'Ottavia 29, Rome)

Contact: Ruth Nattermann

In-house

Programme

For security reasons, registration is required by 20 October 2025. Please use this form for this purpose.



MIDDLE AGES
24. October 2025
André Rodrigues

I cardinali del Portogallo alla Curia Romana tra lo Scisma d'Occidente e il regno di Manuele I (1378–1521).
Chair and introduction: Enrico Veneziani

17.00–18.30

Pontificia Università Gregoriana (Piazza della Pilotta, 4, Aula C008)

Live Streaming



MIDDLE AGES
28. October 2025
Judeo-Arabic Wisdom Works. A Neglected Genre?

Speaker: David Torollo (Madrid, Spain)
Discussant: Miriam Goldstein (Jerusalem, Israel)

Event within the framework of the seminar series "Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History", organised by the German Historical Institutes in Paris and Rome.

Livestream

17.00–18.00

Flyer and complete programme of the seminar series

Contact: Kordula Wolf

Registration