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.

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).

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

SABAP-SI, Comune di San Casciano dei Bagni, Università per Stranieri di Siena

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.

29 gennaio 2026
Roma
Ambienti materiali

Andrew Wilson – The Water-mills on the Janiculum and the Gothic Siege of Rome

Andrew Wilson - The Water-mills on the Janiculum and the Gothic Siege of Rome

This is the third 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.

25 febbraio 2026
Rome
Ambienti materiali

Sabine Huebner – Resilient Landscapes: Climate, Economy, and Human Adaptation in the Roman Sabina

Sabine Huebner – Climate Variability and Rural Resilience in Central Italy during the Second and Third Centuries CE

This is the fourth 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.

13 maggio 2026
Roma
Ambienti materiali

Michael McCormick – New Evidence for Roman History and Archaeology from the Science of the Human Past

Michael McCormick – New Evidence for Roman History and Archaeology from the Science of the Human Past

This is the final 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.