The Italian Cultural Institute of Montréal and the Département d’Anthropologie of the Université de Montréal are pleased to present the conference by Prof. Massimo Osanna, Director General of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, entitled “The recent archaeological research in Pompeii“.
Tuesday, November 27 2018, 4pm
Université de Montréal
3150 rue Jean Brillant, Pavillon Lionel Groulx
Carrefour des arts et des sciences, Salle C-2059
The conference is in English
In the most famous archaeological site in the world the conservation, research and investigation activities still continue under the direction of Prof. Massimo Osanna and conducted in close collaboration with Italian and foreign universities. Investigations are also added in the new excavation area of the Regio V. This is to refine our knowledge of the earliest phases of the city and especially the history of urban spaces, especially considering their daily use and influence on the socio-economic dynamics of urban life. Such knowledge is essential and vital to a more systematic protection and preservation of the site. From the Triangular Forum to the Temple of Aesculapius, from the workshops, where they washed, stained and set clothes – the so-called fullonic – (Regio VI) to the Necropolis of Porta Sarno, from the shops of Via dell’Abbondanza (Insula VII) to the Casa del Leone (Insula occidentalis), Pompeii every day gives extraordinary findings and indescribable emotions, that the conference will reveal only partially.
Massimo Osanna has been Superintendent since 2014 and the new Director General since 2016 of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, which also includes the archaeological sites of Oplontis, Stabiae and Boscoreale. Previously, he was Professor of Classical Archaeology and then Director of the School of Specialisation in Archaeological Heritage at the University of Basilicata, Matera, and since 2015 is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”. He is particularly distinguished in the field of archaeological research in Southern Italy. Between 2007 and 2008 he was Superintendent for the Archaeological Heritage of Basilicata. Over the course of his career, he has also been Visiting Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg and at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, as well as winner of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stipendium scholarship at the Humboldt-Universität of Berlin.