Past Events

April 7, 2024
Rome
Tour

Open House Roma 2024

The American Academy in Rome will participate in the twelfth edition of Open House Roma, offering guided tours of our campus.

April 4, 2024
Rome
Seminar

Anthony Morris Clark: An American Way to Late Baroque

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This seminar focuses on Anthony M. Clark, an American scholar, curator, and museum director who made significant contributions to the study of Italian late Baroque art.

March 26, 2024
Rome
Talking Architecture

Talking Architecture No. 2: Ajay Manthripragada & Supervoid – TRANSATLANTICA

Talking Architecture 2

Talking Architecture is a series of talks in collaboration with La Sapienza and Casa dell’Architettura dedicated to new orientations and outstanding achievements in contemporary American architecture.

March 25, 2024
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Erica Hunt & Mike Cloud

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 19, 2024
Rome
Incontri

Incontri AIAC – Contacts and Connectivity in Imperial Italy

AAR will host a panel of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC), in that organization’s long-standing Incontri series. 

March 18, 2024
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Nao Bustamante & Jessica L. Harris – Corpo estraneo/Foreign Body

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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.

March 11, 2024
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Jeanine Oleson & Lan Tuazon – EMBODIED LOGICS

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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.

March 5–7, 2024
Rome
Conference/Symposium

Reception across the Disciplines: Theory & Praxis, Past & Present, Form & Content

Two adjacent color photographs showing ancient Roman figurative sculptures wearing colorful saris

Reception and tradition are two sides of the same coin: the way culture lives over time. In this conference, itself built around a four-day residency of scholars at the American Academy in Rome, we will explore different aspects of this activity.

March 4, 2024
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Elif Batuman & John Delury – Just a Historian and a Novelist Rethinking Empire, in Rome

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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.

February 29, 2024
Rome
Conversations/Conversazioni

Erica Hunt & Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfau’ – The Sounding Reticence

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In celebration of Black History Month, Erica Hunt and Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfau’ will discuss the poetry of Fred Moten, and the ways it resonates with their practices and lives.