Past Events

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

November 2, 2020
Rome
Conversations/Conversazioni
The City

Andreas Scholl & Lynne Lancaster – The Pergamon Panorama in Berlin: Where Tradition and Innovation Converge

2020 Conversations - Pergamon Panorama

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.

October 27, 2020
Benefit

2020 Virtual Benefit: One Moment/Infinite Ideas

October 19, 2020
Rome
Lecture/Conversation

Elizabeth Rodini – In and Out of Istanbul: The Cosmopolitan Life of a Peripatetic Portrait