Past Events

“What makes us live longer, better, and happier but is visible only to a few, and inexplicable even to those few?” This modern Sphinx’s riddle has but one answer: research.

The American Academy in Rome will showcase the work of its Rome Prize Fellows in the humanities with the second annual Open Stacks: Scholars’ Presentations. The event will feature a variety of short talks highlighting the research that the Fellows have undertaken during the year, providing insights into their evidence, research questions, and methodologies. Themes uniting the work they present are Knowledge Across Geographies and Race Across Time.

This is the second in a series of five lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic year 2025–26. Through five evening lectures, speakers will present new research on environments of ancient and post-Classical Rome and Italy. Changing technologies of research provide new answers to questions about the experience and effect of landscape and climate. These lectures showcase the ways in which environmental considerations recast our study of the past.

This is the first in a series of five lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic year 2025–26. Through five evening lectures, speakers will present new research on environments of ancient and post-Classical Rome and Italy. Changing technologies of research provide new answers to questions about the experience and effect of landscape and climate. These lectures showcase the ways in which environmental considerations recast our study of the past.

This participative workshop explores the hybrid formations of the vegetal world, from trees in walls to caves with layered accumulations and the many anomalous plants and minerals that sprung in crevices of buildings.

In occasion of the launch of the book Women and Ruins, curators Caroline Goodson and Ilaria Puri Purini will be in conversation at the Fondazione Rovati in Milan.

Two archaeologists who have examined the use of photography in early archaeology will discuss how the technology prompted new ways of thinking about evidence in the study of the human past.

At a time when climate change threatens to damage more and more of what we all hold dear, conservation becomes more important than ever.