Renato Leotta
Infinite poetic space

How can the space dedicated to artistic process be described? In a landscape photograph, the coastline that divides the earth from the sea is imagined as an infinite poetic space. In this place full of temporality the theme of the Garden and of Adventure alternate, a story described in images and experiments.

The Turnin-based artist Renato Leotta is the Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts.

Mark Letteney
How Is Truth? The Christianization of Roman Knowledge

The rise of Christianity in Rome changed what people think. But it also changed how people think. This talk reexamines what it means for Rome to become a “Christian” society by tracing the movement of a peculiarly Christian structure of knowledge into the secular domain during the late fourth century, in the generations after Christians first came to hold significant political power.

Mark Letteney is the Paul Mellon/Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies and a PhD candidate in the Department of Religion at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

The shoptalks will be held in English. Watch Letteney’s presentation live at https://livestream.com/aarome.