Past Events

February 16, 2021
Florence
Lecture/Conversation

Melanie Masterton Sherazi – William Demby’s Work across Postwar Rome’s Culture Industries

February 15, 2021
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Jean Dommermuth

Palazzo Ricasoli in Florence with the design for the Medici wedding of 1565

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.

February 9, 2021
Rome
Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture

Andrew Robison – Piranesi Connoisseurship: The AAR’s Special Copy of the “Antichità d’Albano” (1764)

Andrew Robison - Piranesi Castel Gandolfo

The Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture is named in honor of Patricia H. Labalme (1924–2002), a noted scholar of Renaissance history and a specialist on Venice, who served on the Academy’s Board of Trustees from 1979 to 1999. The Friends of the Library supports the AAR Library through annual dues and special initiatives, also raising awareness of the library’s resources through regular programs.

February 8, 2021
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Giuliana Mosca & Robert Gerard Pietrusko

Shoptalk - Robert Pietrusko - Montalcino

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.

February 2, 2021
Rome
Conversations/Conversazioni
The City

David Nirenberg & Avinoam Shalem – On Ghettoes: Medieval, Modern, and Metaphorical

Color photograph of Campo di Ghetto Nuovo in Venice, featuring an open plaza with people and dogwalkers in the foreground, and six and seven story residential buildings in the background, each painted in shades of red, tan, and yellow

The Academy’s signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, convenes leading artists, scholars, designers, historians, and museum leaders for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.

February 1, 2021
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Rebecca Messbarger & Francesca Berni

Color photograph of a portion of a nine-panel painting that depict a man hanging by the neck from the pillar of a building, with various human, angelic, and demonic figures

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.

January 25, 2021
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Carla Keyvanian & David Serlin

Color photograph of the facade of an abandoned, crumbling early-twentieth-century hospital administration building, with an overcast sky

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.

November 30, 2020
Rome
The City

Lynne Lancaster – Rome “Urbs Pensilis”: A Hanging City and Its Hanging Gardens

November 23, 2020
Conversations/Conversazioni

A.O. Scott & Garrett Bradley

Black and white film still of a closeup of Fox Rich looking into a mirror

The Academy’s signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, convenes leading artists, scholars, designers, historians, and museum leaders for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.

November 9, 2020
Rome
The City

Giovanna Silva – Narratives/Relazioni