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January 2019
Cultural Patrimony
- Thursday, 3 January 2019 - 6:30pm
Cultural Patrimony
January 3, 2019, 6:30 PM
San Diego Central Library
Neil Morgan Auditorium
330 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA
Please join us in San Diego for a Conversations | Conversazioni event featuring leading members of the academic, preservation, and museum communities in a discussion of the global responsibility for the protection of cultural and intellectual heritage.
The panel of speakers will include: James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust; C. Brian Rose, James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania (1992 Fellow, 2012 Resident); and Laurie Rush, cultural resources manager and US Army archaeologist for the Department of Defense (2011 Fellow).
The program will be moderated by Lynne C. Lancaster, Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the Humanities at the American Academy in Rome (2002 Fellow).
This event is free and open to the public; an RSVP, however is required.
For additional information, please contact Shawn Miller at s.miller@aarome.org or 212-751-7200, ext. 344.
Shoptalks – Talia Di Manno and Kirstin Valdez Quade
- Monday, 14 January 2019 - 6:00pm
Talia Di Manno
Holy Bodies and the Invention of History in Baroque Rome
Discoveries of holy bodies, or “invenzioni,” under the altars of several of Rome’s churches between 1599 and 1634 provided the foundation for spectacular building and decorative cycles. This talk discusses how the archaeology of bodies, poised between artifice and science, animated history writing and definitions of authenticity in the post-Reformation era.
Di Manno is the Anthony M. Clark/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Kirstin Valdez Quade
Ordinary Sins
Kirstin Valdez Quade will read from an essay and a short story. “Ordinary Sins” first appeared in the New Yorker and is included in her collection, Night at the Fiestas.
Valdez Quade is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize in Literature, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman. She is assistant professor for the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts.
The event will be held in English. Watch this event live at https://livestream.com/aarome.
Please note: a valid photo ID is required for entry into the American Academy in Rome. Backpacks and luggage with dimensions larger than 40 x 35 x 15 cm (16 x 14 x 6 in.) are not permitted on the property. There are no locker facilities available.
Incontri AIAC - Gestione dell’acqua e topografia suburbana
- Monday, 21 January 2019 - 4:00pm
The American Academy in Rome will host a panel presentation of AIAC, the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica/International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC), in that organization’s long-standing Incontri series.
Founded in Rome in 1945, AIAC aims to facilitate international collaboration among classical archaeologists through coordinating conferences and congresses of classical archeology. It also serves in Rome as the principal clearinghouse for information on archaeology-related scholarly events. AIAC publishes Fasti Online, the premier international database for archaeological excavations in thirteen countries in the territory of the former Roman Empire (including of course Italy), which in turn continues its print Fasti Archaeologici (published 1948–87). Since 2000, AIAC also has organized a series of monthly Incontri in Rome, where young scholars from Italian universities and the many foreign institutes in the city can present their research.
The theme for this evening at the American Academy in Rome will be Gestione dell’acqua e topografia suburbana moderated by Lynne Lancaster (American Academy in Rome). Presenting on the AIAC program will be:
Ann GLENNIE (Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome - ICCS), Coping with Absence: Rainwater Harvesting at Roman Cosa
Giuseppe RESTAINO (Università degli Studi di Pavia), Il tempio “ἐν τῷ προαστείῳ” di Eliogabalo. Problemi storici e topografici
The presentations will be held in Italian and English. You can watch the event livestreamed at https://livestream.com/aarome.
Please note: valid photo ID is required for entry into the American Academy in Rome. Backpacks and luggage with dimensions larger than cm 40 x 35 x 15 (inches 16 x 14 x 6) are not permitted on the property. There are no locker facilities available.
Shoptalks – Zaneta Hong and Sean Tandy
- Monday, 28 January 2019 - 6:00pm
Zaneta Hong
Materiality of Disturbance
Architects and designers actively participate in the expansive reorganization of Earth’s matter and form. While the output of these spatial and material interventions tend to manifest as isolated artifacts, their formation is generated from an entanglement of complex ecologies, geologies, and technologies. This talk presents how through the act of material specification, humans have transformed distant and remote landscapes, as decisively as their immediate surroundings.
Zaneta Hong is the Garden Club of America Rome Prize Fellow in Landscape Architecture and assistant professor at the University of Virginia.
Sean Tandy
Poetry and the Policing of Elite Roman Identity in Ostrogothic Italy
During the Ostrogothic period the Roman civic elite attempted to solidify the often-permeable boundaries of ethnic and class identity in order to distinguish itself from both the Gothic military elite and nonelite Romans. This talk examines the important role that poetry played in the formation and regulation of elite Roman identity through an examination of two ubiquitous poetic forms: satiric epigrams and honorary epitaphs. The former polices elite Roman identity by castigating vices, dress, and mannerisms considered “un-Roman” while the later presents an idealized model of elite Roman identity.
Sean Tandy is the Arthur Ross Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University.
The event will be held in English. Watch Sean Tandy’s shoptalk live at https://livestream.com/aarome.
Please note: a valid photo ID is required for entry into the American Academy in Rome. Backpacks and luggage with dimensions larger than 40 x 35 x 15 cm (16 x 14 x 6 in.) are not permitted on the property. There are no locker facilities available.