15 dicembre 2025
Roma
Fellow Shoptalks

Fellow Shoptalks: Machine Music – Speculative Circuits & Oracular Sound

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.

10 dicembre 2025
Rome
Ambienti materiali

Jacopo Tabolli – No More Water But the Fire Next Time: Excavating the Healing Landscape of San Casciano dei Bagni

This is the second in a series of five lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic year 2025–26. Through five evening lectures, speakers will present new research on environments of ancient and post-Classical Rome and Italy. Changing technologies of research provide new answers to questions about the experience and effect of landscape and climate. These lectures showcase the ways in which environmental considerations recast our study of the past.

5 dicembre 2025
Brooklyn
Prestazione

Scenes from the Post-Diaspora

BlackBox Ensemble performs the US premiere of PIPA BOY: Three Scenes from the Post-Diaspora by Baldwin Giang (2024 Fellow).

3–4 dicembre 2025
Roma
Convegno

Food at the Nexus of Territory, Tradition, and Climate Change

A collaboration with Dartmouth, this gathering will immerse participants in the complexities and intersections of food systems, culture, and sustainability.

25 novembre 2025
Roma
Conversations/Conversazioni
Scienze umanistiche ambientali

Conversation: Approaches to Medieval Environments

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.

20 novembre 2025
Roma
Conversations/Conversazioni

Women in Motion: Gertrude Bell & Esther Van Deman

Women in Motion: Getrude Bell & Esther Van Deman

The event explores the travels and discoveries of women archaeologists featured in Women & Ruins: Archaeology, Landscape, and Photography—including Gertrude Bell, Esther Van Deman, the Bulwer Sisters, and Marion Blake—followed by a discussion of Olivier Guez’s Mesopotamia with Caroline Goodson, Ilaria Puri Purini, and moderator Raffaella Silvestri.