Past Events

Monday, October 13, 2025
2:30 PM
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

On Metaphor, Memory, and Material Culture

2025-26 Fellow Shoptalks

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows present their work to each other. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

Thursday, October 9, 2025
6:00 PM
Rome
Film Screening
Lecture/Conversation
Performance

Weeds Against Stones: Resistances

This participative workshop explores the hybrid formations of the vegetal world, from trees in walls to caves with layered accumulations and the many anomalous plants and minerals that sprung in crevices of buildings.

Tuesday, October 7, 2025
5:00 PM
Information Session

Rome Prize Information Session: Online

2025 Rome Prize Information Session

Please join us on Tuesday, October 7 for an online Rome Prize Information Session, taking place on Zoom. All prospective Rome Prize applicants are welcome.

Monday, October 6, 2025
2:30 PM
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Design as a Process

2025-26 Fellow Shoptalks

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows present their work to each other. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

Friday, October 3, 2025
6:00 PM
Milan
Lecture/Conversation

Book Launch – Women & Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape

In occasion of the launch of the book Women and Ruins, curators Caroline Goodson and Ilaria Puri Purini will be in conversation at the Fondazione Rovati in Milan.

Wednesday, September 17, 2025
6:00 PM
Rome
Lecture/Conversation

Jen Baird & Sophie Hay – Archaeology and Photography

Two archaeologists who have examined the use of photography in early archaeology will discuss how the technology prompted new ways of thinking about evidence in the study of the human past.

Tuesday, September 9, 2025
6:30 PM
Presidential Lecture

Peter N. Miller – What Does it Mean to Think about ‘Conservation’ in Rome?

At a time when climate change threatens to damage more and more of what we all hold dear, conservation becomes more important than ever.

Thursday, June 26–Friday, June 27, 2025
Rome
Conference/Symposium

New Insights on Roman Economy and Society

This two-day conference will focus on innovative research emerging from the study of Roman-period economies and societies.


 

Wednesday, June 25, 2025
2:30 PM
Rome
Seminar/Workshop

The Queer Jubilee: 25 Years of Resistance

World Pride Rome 2000 marked a turning point for queer and trans rights, challenging the Vatican’s Jubilee through public resistance and visibility, and shaping new forms of activism commemorated through this giornata di studio and its critical reflections.

Tuesday, June 24, 2025
8:00 PM
Rome
Performance

Theoretical Gore

In this performance, Lex Brown explores this symbolism and the metaphorical “off-ramp” we find ourselves on with regard to emergent politics.