Past Events

Event type
Event series
Year
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
6:00 PM
Rome

Pamela O. Long & Nicola Camerlenghi – The City of Rome: Urban Infrastructure and Urban Form from Medieval to Early Modern Times

2021 Conversations - Pamela O. Long and Nicola Camerlenghi

The Academy’s signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, convenes leading artists, scholars, designers, historians, and museum leaders for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.

Thursday, March 11, 2021
12:00 PM

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

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

The Academy’s signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, convenes leading artists, scholars, designers, historians, and museum leaders for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.

Tuesday, March 9, 2021
6:00 PM
Rome

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

2021 Conversations - Rebecca Zorach and Nicole Marroquin

The Academy’s signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, convenes leading artists, scholars, designers, historians, and museum leaders for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.

Tuesday, February 23, 2021
6:00 PM
Rome

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

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

The Academy’s signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, convenes leading artists, scholars, designers, historians, and museum leaders for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.

Tuesday, February 2, 2021
6:00 PM
Rome

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

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

The Academy’s signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, convenes leading artists, scholars, designers, historians, and museum leaders for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.

Monday, November 30, 2020
6:00 PM
Rome

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

Monday, November 2, 2020
6:00 PM
Rome

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

2020 Conversations - Pergamon Panorama

The Academy’s signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, convenes leading artists, scholars, designers, historians, and museum leaders for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.

Monday, October 5, 2020
6:00 PM

Catherine Opie & Mark Robbins – Notes from America

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

The Academy’s signature series of events, Conversations/Conversazioni: From the American Academy in Rome, convenes leading artists, scholars, designers, historians, and museum leaders for frank, wide-ranging discussions on a variety of topics in the arts and humanities.