Past Events

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.

November 25, 2024
Fellow Shoptalks

Giancarlo Tursi & Daria Scia

White letters on a blue background that read 2024-25 Fellow Shoptalks

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows present their work to each other and to the public. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

November 22, 2024
Rome
Performance

Langston Hughes – On Borders

This performance combines poetry and letters to show how Langston Hughes’s encounters with borders both abroad and at home in the 1920s created the artist who would speak to Americans about race for over forty years.

November 21, 2024
New York
Lecture/Conversation

Caroline Cheung, Jorge Otero-Pailos & Karyn Olivier – Material Afterlives

Color photo of a detail of an artwork consisting of a latex mold of a ancient Roman epigraphic stone, with backward Latin letters on stone

Bringing together visual arts, historic preservation, and archaeology, this panel will shed light on the constantly changing nature of what surrounds us.