Past Events

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.

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.

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.

In celebration of Black History Month, Jessica L. Harris (2024 Fellow) will deliver a lecture/installation of her current research project, which examines the positionality of African American female entertainers in Italian cultural products in the second half of the twentieth century.

Two renowned scholars of ancient Rome, Joy Connolly and Alessandro Schiesaro, discuss how the study of ancient world is evolving in the US and Italy.

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.

In celebration of Black History Month, the American Academy is screening Il Moro (2021) by Afro-Italian director, producer, and actor Daphne Di Cinto, followed by a conversation with Olivette Otele.

At a critical time when climate change is producing indelible effects to our agricultural systems, immigration patterns, food security, and safety and security, the American Academy in Rome presents two conversations that center climate change as a humanitarian crisis.

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.

Performing a program that includes movements from two Rome Prize Fellows in Musical Composition, Samuel Barber (1935–37 Fellow), and Aaron Copland (1951 Fellow), the Manhattan String Quartet will also be interpreting pieces by Mozart, Wolf, Palestrina, and Gesualdo.