This symposium brings together friends and colleagues to celebrate Professor Ingrid D. Rowland on the occasion of her retirement.
Program:
Monday, March 9, 2026
Introduction (2:30 pm)
Sinclair Bell & Heather Hyde Minor: “Ingrid D. Rowland”
Session 1 (2:40-3:40 pm)
Margaret Miles, “Trojans and Greeks in Western Sicily”
Eugenio Lo Sardo, “Ingrid Rowland and Athanasius Kircher”
Dana Prescott, “What Cats Teach Us about Ingrid Rowland”
Coffee Break (3:40-4:20 pm)
Session 2 (4:20-5:20 pm)
Bram Kempers, “Raphael’s Stanza della Segnatura and Comte’s Law of the Three Stages”
Jack Freiberg, “Michelangelo’s Apocalyptic Vision at Porta Pia”
David Quint, “Literary Imitation in Poggio Bracciolini’s De Avaritia”
John McGreevy (5:30pm)
Aperitivo
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Tuesday, March 10
Session 3 (10:30 am-12pm)
Eugenio Canone, “Ingrid Rowland e Giordano Bruno”
Thomas Howe, “The Invention of Doric Order and the Prototype of the Vitruvian ‘Architect’”
Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro, “Fabio Calvo’s Vitruvian translation for Raphael”
Peter N. Miller (12pm) [via Zoom]
Session 4 (12pm-1pm)
Ginette Vagenheim, “Invitation for dinner. From: Varro To: the Ducks” [via Zoom]
Brian Copenhaver, “L’Arithmétique mène à la philologie, et la philologie mène au pire”
Livio Pestili, “Ingrid Rowland: Un’amica per l’Apelle”
Lunch (1:00-2:30 pm)
Session 5 (2:30-3:30 pm)
David Mayernik, “Vitruvian Woman” [via Zoom]
Ulf R. Hansson, “’Ramassé avec une Fatigue incroyable’ Philipp von Stosch’s museo in Rome
and Florence”
Victor Tschudi, “Serlio and St. Peter’s”
Coffee Break (3:30-4:00 pm)
Session 6 (4:00-6:00 pm)
Nancy Winter with Mary Heebner, “Resurrections from the Ruins” [via Zoom]
Ann H. Ashmead†, Theodora W. Ashmead, and Ingrid Edlund-Berry (presenter), “The Force of
the Feline” [via Zoom]
Jed Perl & Deborah Rosenthal, “About Borromini” project
Michael Shae (6:00pm)
Closing Remarks
Brindisi to follow
