The American Academy in Rome will host a panel presentation of AIAC, the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica/International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC), in that organization's longstanding Incontri series. The current president of the association is Elizabeth Fentress, former American Academy in Rome Mellon Professor-in-Charge (1996-1999).

Founded in Rome in 1945, AIAC aims to facilitate international collaboration among classical archaeologists through coordinating conferences and congresses of classical archeology. It also serves in Rome as the principal clearinghouse for information on archaeology-related scholarly events. AIAC publishes Fasti Online, the premier international database for archaeological excavations in thirteen countries in the territory of the former Roman Empire (including of course Italy), which in turn continues its print Fasti Archaeologici (published from 1948 to 1987). Since 2000, AIAC also has organized a series of monthly Incontri in Rome, where young scholars from Italian universities and the many foreign institutes in the city can present their research.

The theme for this evening at the American Academy will be Art and Society, moderated by Carlo Pavolini (Università della Tuscia di Viterbo). During a break in the presentations, audience members will also have a chance to explore an underground section of the Aqua Traiana (an aqueduct of the early second century AD) that—as chance would have it—runs directly beneath the Academy's ground level Lecture Room and extends well below the Academy Cortile.

Presenting at the American Academy in Rome on the AIAC program will be Angelo Amoroso (Sapienza Università di Roma), Il lato orientale del Foro Romano. Da Ottaviano ad Augusto; Alexandre Vincent (École française de Rome), I musicisti e la città (fine repubblica-III secolo d.C.); and Margaret Andrews (American Academy in Rome), Domitian's Forum: Urbanization and Social Reform.