SPQR Fellowship

Hello to all donors, sponsors, bloggers, and followers of the SPQR Fellowship! I hope you’ve all survived this wicked winter and are thawing out nicely.

In order to get the most out of my time in Rome, I kept a regular blog to record my experiences, opinions, griefs (perhaps not so much) and surprises. In a world without deadlines I would have submitted each on a regular basis, like a good blogger ought, but most bloggers aren’t in The Eternal City. Having scrawled each in my sketchbook during the quick breathers we enjoyed between tours and travels, I could never quite bring myself to take the time to type them out while I could be out taking in the transformation Rome undergoes after sunset. Instead, I’ve included them all in a big bundle of Roman tourism and the jabber of an architecture student, and posted them on a neutral blog, able to be accessed by all of you fine fellows as well as my comrades from umnistanbulstudyabroad.com. 

So, here it is!

My Roman Holiday was Easter

Stay warm!

Ben Dose

SPQR 2014

This year the SPQR Fellowship is supporting third year architecture undergrad Ben Dose with his studies in Rome. Ben will be in Rome for the month of February and then travel to Istanbul for two months. He is part of the University of Minnesota and College of Design’s Study Abroad in Rome and Istanbul. This is the second year that Professor Ozayr Saloojee is leading the program, this time with twenty students. You can follow their blog post at University of Minnesota Rome -Istanbul Study Abroad Spring 2014. Subscribe to their newsletter and follow Ben and his colleagues in Rome from your mailbox.