Home from Rome is a lecture series based in New York which invites Fellows, Residents, and Affiliated Fellows to discuss the impact of their time in Rome. C. Brian Rose, FAAR’92, RAAR’12, will initiate the American Academy in Rome’s new program with "Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums, Repatriation, and Armed Conflict", a presentation on the importance of preserving cultural property in the midst of rising nationalism and international conflict.

Professor Rose is the James B. Pritchard Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology and Curator-in-Charge, Mediterranean Section, University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. A trustee of the American Academy in Rome since 2002, Rose is also the vice president of the American Research Institute in Turkey and the president of the Archaeological Institute of America.