Past Events

May 4, 2023
Rome
Christina Huemer Lecture

“Someone other than oneself…”: Translation, Transubstantiation, and Talking through Text

Color photograph of a street book stall in Milan, with dozens of books lining a wooden open topped shelf

Join us for an intimate conversation between three friends—Andrea Bajani, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Michael F. Moore—about what it means to translate books, beings, and existences.

April 26, 2023
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Katherine Jenkins, Parker Sutton & Stephanie Leitzel

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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.

April 24, 2023
New York
Conversations/Conversazioni
Rome Prize Ceremony

2023 Arthur & Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony

Graphic element promoting the Rome Prize competiton: against a bright orange field are horizontal, parallel strips of letters, numbers, and other symbols related to music, architecture, design, and other disciplines

Please join us on Monday, April 24 as we celebrate the 2023–24 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows at the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony, taking place in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York.

April 20, 2023
Rome
Conversations/Conversazioni

June Jordan and Building Justice in Design

Black and white reproduction of a bird's eye view of upper Manhattan, with large towers interspersed among the lower-rise buildings

 

AAR’s spring exhibition, June Jordan, The Poetry of Design, will open with a Conversations/Conversazioni on equity and justice in design, which Jordan helped catalyze by foregrounding the rights and voices of disenfranchised communities.

April 20–June 11, 2023
Rome
Exhibition

June Jordan, The Poetry of Design

Two adjacent images: on the left is a photograph of the head and torso of a dark skinned woman in profile, with a red filter covering the image; on the left is a black and white photograph of the same woman shown seated on stairs on a concrete embankment on the Tiber River

This exhibition highlights for the first time how the poet and June Jordan (1971 Fellow) foregrounded the impact of urban space on lived experience in her work to advocate improved affordable housing, gender equality, and racial justice.

April 19, 2023
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Alex Da Corte & Melanie Masterton Sherazi

Simple graphic design image with white text reading 2022-23 fellow shoptalks on a rich medium dark orange background

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.

April 17, 2023
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Robyn Schiff & Arianna Brunori

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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.

April 3, 2023
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Todd Gray & Anna Arabindan-Kesson – From Gallery to Studio, From London to Rome

Simple graphic design image with white text reading 2022-23 fellow shoptalks on a rich medium dark red background

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.

March 27, 2023
Rome
Incontri

Incontri AIAC – Immagini e società

Graphically designed image with the words: Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia ClassicaI ncontri AIAC Marzo 2023; a small monochromatic photograph depicts three small human figurines made of stone

AAR will host a panel of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC), in that organization’s long-standing Incontri series. The theme for this evening is Immagini e società.

March 20, 2023
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Evan Jewell & Elle Pérez

Simple graphic design image with white text reading 2022-23 fellow shoptalks on a rich medium dark green background

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.