Past Events

On 28 April, the American Academy in Rome will host an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine how riverscapes changed in the centuries of the Roman empire and afterwards and what those changes meant for human societies and their economies. The conference, River Ecologies and Exchange, draws on geology, archaeology, and history to reconstruct major river systems and trace their evolving relationships with the communities that lived alongside them.

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

Please join us as we celebrate the Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows at the Janet and Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony.

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

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

The Swedish Institute for Classical Studies in Rome and the American Academy in Rome will host a three-day conference on archaeological study collections and their role in our understanding of the past. The conference is organized by scholars from the University of Texas, Austin and the Swedish Institute for Classical Studies in Rome and will take place in Rome among a concentration of historic collections of archaeological material housed in academies and research institutes. Participants will explore collections in the context of the broader intellectual history of the period between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and the epistemological and classificatory transformations it witnessed. 

The talk will explore the relationship between birds and cities through different perspectives: urbanistic, scientific, and naturalistic. The three speakers, scientist and microbiologist Andrea Crisanti, architect Jeanne Gang, and ornithologist Francesca Manzia, will come together for a wide-ranging conversation on birds. Together with curator Ilaria Puri Purini, they will explore their complex presence in cities, landscapes, and human imagination. Crossing science, design, and cultural observation, the discussion explores what birds can teach us about adaptation, coexistence, and the future of shared environments.