Past Events

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.

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.

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.

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

The artists Tricia Treacy (2018 Fellow) and Francis Offman explore the materiality and physicality of their books.

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.

AAR will hold its next New York Gala on Thursday, November 14, 2024 at the New York Public Library’s Bartos Forum.

Carlo Ginzburg, a widely admired and influential historian, will reflect on his life’s work and his contributions to the field of history, including his pioneering work in microhistory and the history of mentalities.

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander, a conversation between author Maria Anna Mariani and Franco Baldasso, 2019 Fellow in Modern Italian Studies.

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.