05. December 2025 - 05. December 2035

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
04. December 2025 - 05. December 2025
Colonial Objects. The Material Culture of Italian Colonialism

International conference organised by Bibliotheca Hertziana in collaboration with the German Historical Institute in Rome.

Programme (PDF)

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institute for Art History (Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, Rome)

Public event without registration, in-person and online. 
The link for a online-participation will be published soon.

A joint event will take place on March 26th 2026 at the Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York with the generous support of the Ragusa Foundation for the Humanities.



MIDDLE AGES, MODERN AGE, CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
05. December 2025
Basilica di San Clemente

The tour has been cancelled!

Caterina Cappuccio 

Meeting point: 16.30, in front of San Clemente (Piazza di San Clemente)

Fee: Entrance ticket to the basilica 10 €

Limited number of participants: 15

Please register by 3 December 2025 at 
info-event[at]dhi-roma[dot]it. Questions about the tour can also be sent to the email address provided.

Guided tour in Italian language



MIDDLE AGES
09. December 2025
Andrea Raffaele Aquino, Simone Lombardo

Trattare, resistere, collaborare col Turco. Genova e Firenze nel Mediterraneo della seconda metà del Quattrocento.
Chair and introduction: Antonio Musarra

16.00–17.30

Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo (Piazza dell'Orologio, 4)



MODERN AGE
10. December 2025
Basilica SS. Nereo e Achilleo

Claudia Gerken

Meeting point: 15.30, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 28 (in front of the church)

Fee: 8 Euro for exclusive opening of the church

Limited number of participants: 15

Please register by 5 December 2025 at
  info-event[at]dhi-roma[dot]it. Questions about the tour can also be sent to the email address provided.

Guided tour in German language



CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
11. December 2025 - 13. December 2025
Anatomy of the Nation. Italy and the German-speaking world in comparison

International conference of Siscalt (Società Italiana per la Storia Contemporanea dell'Area di Lingua Tedesca) and the University of Bologna (Department of the Arts), in collaboration with the German Historical Institute in Rome, the Bruno Kessler Foundation – Istituto storico italo-germanico, Villa Vigoni – German-Italian Centre for the European Dialogue, Swiss Confederation – Swiss Consulate General Milan.
 

Università di Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti - Damslab/Teatro (Piazzetta P. P. Pasolini 5/b, Bologna)



CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
15. December 2025
Steuerung und Städtewandel. 70 Jahre Migration zwischen Italien und Deutschland

International conference of the Universities of Salzburg, Vienna, Potsdam, in collaboration with the German Historical Institute in Rome, Stadtarchiv München, Italian Consulate General Munich, Kulturreferat München - Public History Munich.
 

Stadtarchiv München (Winzererstraße 68, Munich)

14.00–18.30



CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
17. December 2025 - 18. December 2025
Between Democracy and Dictatorship. Interdependencies and Political Transfers between Latin America, Europe and the USA in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Internal workshop

German Historical Institute in Rome



CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
17. December 2025
The Birth of Democracy in South America

Raúl L. Madrid (The University of Texas at Austin)

Public evening lecture

 

German Historical Institute in Rome

17.00–18.30

Please register for in-person or online attendance

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



MIDDLE AGES
20. January 2026
From the Holy Land to Denmark, via Flanders. Entanglements Reflected in a Twelfth-Century Cistercian Manuscript

Speaker: Synnøve Midtbø Myking (Rome, Italy)
Discussant: Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt (Aalborg, Denmark)

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



MIDDLE AGES
31. March 2026
Gilded Entanglements. Adriatic Networks of the Precious Metal Industries

Speaker: Katalin Prajda (Vienna, Austria)
Discussant: Andrea Fara (Rome, Italy)

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



MIDDLE AGES
26. May 2026
Healing and Learning in the Fondaco. A Forgotten Network of Knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Mamluk and Ottoman Levant 1400–1700

Speaker: Valentina Pugliano (Venice, Italy)
Discussant: Natividad Planas (Clermont-Ferrand, France)

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