Past Events

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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