Past Events

January 20, 2025
Rome
Incontri

Incontri AIAC – Building Communities: Architecture and Society in the City and Beyond

AAR will host an AIAC panel on Building Communities: Architecture and Society in the City and Beyond in that organization’s long-standing Incontri series.

January 9–13, 2025
Rome
Conference/Symposium

60 Years: Fascism Seminar Revisited

The American Academy in Rome and La Sapienza are hosting a conference that will reassess fascism in the context of contemporary European movements.

January 8, 2025
Rome
Film Screening
Lecture/Conversation

War Game

The American Academy in Rome will host a screening of Tony Gerber’s film War Game (2024), which critically examines the complexities of conflict, strategy, and the human experience.

December 11, 2024
Rome
Exhibition

Winter Open Studios

Winter Open Studios showcases the work in progress of fall Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows at the American Academy in Rome.

December 9, 2024
Rome
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series

Rubina Raja – The Long Late Antiquity: From Cities to Villages and Back Again

Rubina Raja will lecture on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and late antique Near East but also making excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and early Islamic times.

December 4, 2024
Rome
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series

Rubina Raja – A World of Local Cultures in a Roman Sea: The Rise of Urban Landscapes in the Near East

Rubina Raja will lecture on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and late antique Near East but also making excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and early Islamic times.

December 4, 2024
New York
Film Screening
Lecture/Conversation

“Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities” at Cooper Union

A dozen fellows of the MacArthur Foundation and the American Academy in Rome discuss their approaches to intellectual inquiry in a new documentary film, Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities.

December 2, 2024
Rome
Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series

Rubina Raja – Greek and Local Heritages in Urban Landscapes of the Near East: Cultural Amnesia versus the Longue Durée

Rubina Raja will lecture on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and late antique Near East but also making excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and early Islamic times.

November 26, 2024
Rome
Talking Architecture

Talking Architecture No. 4: Rick Lowe

Talking Architecture is a series of talks in collaboration with La Sapienza and Casa dell’Architettura dedicated to new orientations and outstanding achievements in contemporary American architecture.

November 25, 2024
Rome
Lecture/Conversation

At the Edge of Empire: The Fate of Foreign Affairs; an evening with Edward Wong of the New York Times

Edward Wong is diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times and author of the acclaimed memoir, At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China.