Video

Black and white photos from the early 20th century of Thornton Wilder standing in a suit and Lauro de Bosis standing next to an airplane

Lecture/Conversation

Christina Huemer Lecture

Judith P. Hallett & Stephen Rojcewicz – Thornton Wilder, Lauro de Bosis: Life and Letters at the American Academy in Rome, 1920–21 (with Tappan Wilder and Alessandro Cortese De Bosis)

Color photograph, taken at an oblique angle, of a mosaic on the façade of Santa Maria Maggiore, showing a man with his eyes closed and another man with his eyes open

Lecture/Conversation

Fellow Shoptalks

Danny Smith & Alexandra Kleeman

Color photograph showing the installation of a fabric sculpture and two wall panels by Sara Enrico in a brightly lit museum room interior

Lecture/Conversation

Fellow Shoptalks

Anna Dumont & Sara Enrico

Installation view of Jorge Otero-Pailos’s "The Ethics of Dust" at Westminster Hall in 2016

Lecture/Conversation

Conversations/Conversazioni

Jorge Otero-Pailos & Sheena Wagstaff – Roots of the City

2021 Conversations - Rebecca Zorach and Nicole Marroquin

Lecture/Conversation

Conversations/Conversazioni

Rebecca Zorach & Nicole Marroquin – Toward Freedom: Chicago Muralists in the Struggle for Liberation

Black and white photograph of William Dougherty's arms and hands as he writes notation on a musical score sheet

Lecture/Conversation

Fellow Shoptalks

Dillon Gisch & William Dougherty

Black and white aerial photograph of the Italian city of Littoria, showing buildings, roads, and plazas

Lecture/Conversation

Conversations/Conversazioni

Mary T. Boatwright & Mia Fuller – Colonial Cities and Imperial Citizens

February 23, 2021

Color photograph of a painted limestone sculpture depicting the Catholic nativity

Lecture/Conversation

Fellow Shoptalks

Lindsay Sheedy & Kevin Benham

February 22, 2021

Black and white photograph of William Demby sitting in a chair at his desk in front of a typewriter, with framed art on the walls and a bookshelf visible behind him

Lecture/Conversation

Melanie Masterton Sherazi – William Demby’s Work across Postwar Rome’s Culture Industries

February 16, 2021

Palazzo Ricasoli in Florence with the design for the Medici wedding of 1565

Lecture/Conversation

Fellow Shoptalks

Jean Dommermuth

February 15, 2021

Andrew Robison - Piranesi Castel Gandolfo

Lecture/Conversation

Patricia H. Labalme Friends of the Library Lecture

Andrew Robison – Piranesi Connoisseurship: The AAR’s Special Copy of the “Antichità d’Albano” (1764)

February 9, 2021

Color photograph of Campo di Ghetto Nuovo in Venice, featuring an open plaza with people and dogwalkers in the foreground, and six and seven story residential buildings in the background, each painted in shades of red, tan, and yellow

Lecture/Conversation

Conversations/Conversazioni

David Nirenberg & Avinoam Shalem – On Ghettoes: Medieval, Modern, and Metaphorical

February 2, 2021

Color photograph of a portion of a nine-panel painting that depict a man hanging by the neck from the pillar of a building, with various human, angelic, and demonic figures

Lecture/Conversation

Fellow Shoptalks

Rebecca Messbarger & Francesca Berni

February 1, 2021

Color photograph of the facade of an abandoned, crumbling early-twentieth-century hospital administration building, with an overcast sky

Lecture/Conversation

Fellow Shoptalks

Carla Keyvanian & David Serlin

January 25, 2021

Color engraving of the hanging gardens of Semiramis at Babylon

Lecture/Conversation

Lynne Lancaster – Rome “Urbs Pensilis”: A Hanging City and Its Hanging Gardens

November 30, 2020

Black and white film still of a closeup of Fox Rich looking into a mirror

Lecture/Conversation

Conversations/Conversazioni

A.O. Scott & Garrett Bradley

November 23, 2020

Color photographs of three nuns taking a selfie in front of a Roman fountain

Lecture/Conversation

Giovanna Silva – Narratives/Relazioni

November 9, 2020

2020 Conversations - Pergamon Panorama

Lecture/Conversation

Conversations/Conversazioni

Andreas Scholl & Lynne Lancaster – The Pergamon Panorama in Berlin: Where Tradition and Innovation Converge

November 2, 2020

Detail of the cover of Elizabeth Rodini's new book on a Gentile Bellini portrait

Lecture/Conversation

Elizabeth Rodini – In and Out of Istanbul: The Cosmopolitan Life of a Peripatetic Portrait

October 19, 2020

Black and white photograph of a depopulated Wall Street in the early morning, looking west at Trinity Church from the steps of Federal Hall

Lecture/Conversation

Conversations/Conversazioni

Catherine Opie & Mark Robbins – Notes from America

October 5, 2020

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