Past Events

December 4, 2024
New York
Film Screening
Lecture/Conversation

Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities

A dozen fellows of the MacArthur Foundation and the American Academy in Rome discuss their approaches to intellectual inquiry in a new documentary film, Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities.

November 26, 2024
Rome
Talking Architecture

Talking Architecture No. 4: Rick Lowe

Talking Architecture is a series of talks in collaboration with La Sapienza and Casa dell’Architettura dedicated to new orientations and outstanding achievements in contemporary American architecture.

November 22, 2024
Rome
Performance

Langston Hughes – On Borders

This performance combines poetry and letters to show how Langston Hughes’s encounters with borders both abroad and at home in the 1920s created the artist who would speak to Americans about race for over forty years.

November 21, 2024
New York
Lecture/Conversation

Caroline Cheung, Jorge Otero-Pailos & Karyn Olivier – Material Afterlives

Color photo of a detail of an artwork consisting of a latex mold of a ancient Roman epigraphic stone, with backward Latin letters on stone

Bringing together visual arts, historic preservation, and archaeology, this panel will shed light on the constantly changing nature of what surrounds us.

November 21, 2024
Lecture/Conversation

Tricia Treacy & Francis Offman – The Crafts of Books

The artists Tricia Treacy (2018 Fellow) and Francis Offman explore the materiality and physicality of their books.

November 14, 2024
New York
Benefit

New York Gala 2024

AAR will hold its next New York Gala on Thursday, November 14, 2024 at the New York Public Library’s Bartos Forum.

November 13, 2024
New York
Lecture/Conversation

Carlo Ginzburg – Eugene Sheffer Distinguished Speaker

Carlo Ginzburg, a widely admired and influential historian, will reflect on his life’s work and his contributions to the field of history, including his pioneering work in microhistory and the history of mentalities.

October 22–24, 2024
Rome
Conference/Symposium

The Senate: From Antiquity to Modern Times

This international conference will analyze and debate the forces, peoples, and ideas that enabled Rome’s senators to use the Senate as a body that directed Rome’s political, social, and religious evolution while channeling resources and energies that enabled Rome to respond to crises.

October 18, 2024
Rome
Lecture/Conversation

Darby English & Cornelia Lauf – Pick a Book

Two art historians and curators will discuss books that have been—and are still—relevant to their thinking.

October 17, 2024
Washington
Information Session

Rome Prize Information Session: Howard University

Please join us on October 17 for an in-person Rome Prize Information Session in Washington, DC, hosted by Howard University.