Ila Bêka
“Bêka & Lemoine”

Ila Bêka will discuss making films about the relationship between people and space. He will show extracts from among the twenty films that he and his partner, Louise Lemoine, have produced. Bêka summarizes his work in the following quote by Winston Churchill: “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.”

Bêka is the Enel Foundation Italian Fellow in Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture and founder of BÊKA & LEMOINE in Rome and Paris.

Eric Kondratieff
“‘One man’s villain is another man’s hero’: The Ancient Traveler’s Experience of Augustan Monuments on the Via Flaminia”

This presentation will attempt to use numismatic, topographic, and archaeological evidence to recover, reconstruct, and contextualize the Augustan monumental program on the Via Flaminia in historical, iconographic, and ideological terms. It will then offer a brief hypothesis for its possible relation to Augustus’s colonization efforts in central Italy, and its potential impact on those inhabiting the landscape as well as on travelers absorbing the evolving image of Augustus himself.

Eric Kondratieff is the Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies and associate professor in the Department of History at Western Kentucky University.

The shoptalks will be held in English. Watch this event live at https://livestream.com/aarome.