Past Events

In celebration of Black History Month 2025, the American Academy in Rome hosts the interactive workshop The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist: Ritual Project.

In celebration of Black History Month 2025, the American Academy in Rome hosts a screening of The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist (2022).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.