Past Events

February 18, 2025
Rome
Circolo Gianicolense Lecture

Synnøve Midtbø Myking & Hanna-Mari Kupari – Circolo Gianicolense Seminar

Circolo Gianicolense is a joint seminar series for fellows at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, American Academy in Rome, and Institutum Romanum Finlandiae.

February 17, 2025
Fellow Shoptalks

Lucas R. Ramos & Selby Wynn Schwartz – Una terra per tutt3: Queer Resistance in the Italian South

White letters on a purple 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. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

February 13, 2025
Rome
Film Screening
Lecture/Conversation

The Black Italian Renaissance

In celebration of Black History Month 2025, AAR hosts a screening of The Black Italian Renaissance: African Presence in Art, an award-winning documentary written by journalist and screenwriter Francesca Priori and directed by Cristian Di Mattia.

February 10, 2025
Fellow Shoptalks

Emily C. Mitchell & Lex Brown – Voice in Verse

White letters on a green 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. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

January 27, 2025
Rome
Film Screening
Lecture/Conversation

“Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities” at the American Academy

A new documentary film, Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities, offers numerous directions based on interviews with Stanford University–based MacArthur Fellows and MacArthur Fellows who have also been fellows or residents at the American Academy in Rome.

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.