Pompeii Sites

Conference: Human Remains. Ethics, Conservation, Display
2019-09-30 08:00 - 2019-10-01 17:00 (Europe/Rome) | Museo Egizio di Torino, Via Accademia delle Scienze 6, Torino
On 30 September and 1 October 2019 the Museo Egizio will organize the conference “Human Remains. Ethics, Conservation, Display”.
This event is a follow-up of like-themed conference organised in Pompeii and Naples in May 2019, at which many questions were raised regarding the study, conservation and display of human remains (http://www.humanremains.org).
Like the previous event, the Turin conference intends to address these issues, but with a particular focus on mummies, given the nature of the Egyptian Museum’s collection.

In full awareness of the fact that there is no single answer to the question about the acceptability or otherwise of the display of human remains, and that a variety of exhibition strategies have been adopted by different institutions on the international scene, these study days are intended to give voice to the broad range of approaches to such a delicate issue.
An openness to disciplines outside Egyptology is an indispensable prerequisite for the debate about the display of human remains. Hence the desire to involve physical and cultural anthropologists, biologists, restorers, sociologists, museum curators and operators, forensic doctors and paleopathologists.
The conference will be divided into three sections:
– The living and the dead.
– Preserving the body, preserving the mummy.
– Museums and exhibitions: case studies.
Ethical issues and points for discussion. At the end of the conference, the most pressing issues and the main points for reflection that will have emerged during the past two days will be reviewed and discussed among all participants.
To view the full program, please click here.
The scientific and organizational committee consists of:
Massimo Osanna, Università Federico II, Naples
Christian Greco, Museo Egizio, Turin
Valeria Amoretti, Parco Archeologico di Pompei, Pompeii
Caterina Ciccopiedi Museo Egizio, Turin
Paolo Del Vesco, Museo Egizio, Turin
Federica Facchetti. Museo Egizio, Turin
Susanne Töpfer, Museo Egizio, Turin

Exhibition: Kenro Izu "Requiem for Pompei". From 6 December 2019 to 13 April 2020 Modena
2019-12-06 - 2020-04-13
MODENA
FMAV MATA – EX MANIFATTURA TABACCHI
FROM 6 DECEMBER 2019 TO 13 APRIL 2020
THE EXHIBITION OF
KENRO IZU
REQUIEM FOR POMPEI
Curated by Chiara Dall’Olio and Daniele De Luigi

The exhibition presents 55 previously unseen photographs donated by the Japanese artist to the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, in a lyrical vision of what was left behind in Pompeii the day after the eruption in 79 AD.
Modena is continuing to forge a special relationship with photography. Now one of the top locations in Italy for this particular form of expression, it is capable of influencing the city’s whole cultural scene thanks to the contribution of institutions such as the Galleria Civica and Fondazione Fotografia Modena, which merged in 2017 to become Fondazione Modena Arti Visive.
From 6 December 2019 to 13 April 2020, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive is hosting a captivating exhibition dedicated to Pompeii, curated by Chiara Dall’Olio and Daniele De Luigi, at one of its venues: FMAV MATA – Ex Manifattura Tabacchi. The exhibition is co-promoted by Pompeii Archaeological Park which is lending some reproductions of the famous plaster casts of the victims of the eruption for the occasion and will then host the exhibition on site in Pompeii.
Headlining the exhibition is Japanese photographer Kenro Izu (Osaka, 1949), whose lasting fascination with the remnants of ancient civilizations has led to the creation of a series of images captured at the most important and best-known archaeological sites in the world, from Egypt to Cambodia, Indonesia to India, Tibet to Syria.
