Past Events

The event explores the travels and discoveries of women archaeologists featured in Women & Ruins: Archaeology, Landscape, and Photography—including Gertrude Bell, Esther Van Deman, the Bulwer Sisters, and Marion Blake—followed by a discussion of Olivier Guez’s Mesopotamia with Caroline Goodson, Ilaria Puri Purini, and moderator Raffaella Silvestri.

A writer, archaeologist, and historian will discuss how turn of the century Rome became a center of archaeological research, began a campaign for modernization, and fostered a nascent women’s movement in Italy.

This half-day workshop will consider approaches to the Roman environment and natural world from approximately 200 BCE to 600 CE. 

Zachary Fabri and Emily B. Frank (2024 Fellows) will discuss CONTINUITY MUTABILITY GENERATION, their collaborative exhibition that considers the generative interplay of art making and art conservation.

In celebration of Black History Month, Erica Hunt and Mackda Ghebremariam Tesfau’ will discuss the poetry of Fred Moten, and the ways it resonates with their practices and lives.

Two renowned scholars of ancient Rome, Joy Connolly and Alessandro Schiesaro, discuss how the study of ancient world is evolving in the US and Italy.

In celebration of Black History Month, the American Academy is screening Il Moro (2021) by Afro-Italian director, producer, and actor Daphne Di Cinto, followed by a conversation with Olivette Otele.

At a critical time when climate change is producing indelible effects to our agricultural systems, immigration patterns, food security, and safety and security, the American Academy in Rome presents two conversations that center climate change as a humanitarian crisis.

Please join us on Monday, April 24 as we celebrate the 2023–24 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows at the Arthur and Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony, taking place in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York.