Past Events

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Event series
Year
Monday, December 9, 2024
6:00 PM
Rome

Rubina Raja – The Long Late Antiquity: From Cities to Villages and Back Again

Rubina Raja will lecture on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and late antique Near East but also making excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and early Islamic times.

Wednesday, December 4, 2024
6:00 PM
Rome

Rubina Raja – A World of Local Cultures in a Roman Sea: The Rise of Urban Landscapes in the Near East

Rubina Raja will lecture on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and late antique Near East but also making excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and early Islamic times.

Monday, December 2, 2024
6:00 PM
Rome

Rubina Raja – Greek and Local Heritages in Urban Landscapes of the Near East: Cultural Amnesia versus the Longue Durée

Rubina Raja will lecture on the rich and complex urban cultures in the Roman and late antique Near East but also making excursions to earlier and later periods, including those of the Hellenistic and early Islamic times.

Monday, November 21, 2022
6:00 PM
Rome

Amy Richlin – Uranian Love Goes Underground

Monochromatic brown 19th-century photograph of the head of a young boy wearing a floral crown and staring off camera

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. Thomas Spencer Jerome (1864–1914) was an American lawyer and lover of Roman history who lived on Capri from 1899 until his death. In his will he endowed a series of lectures to be jointly delivered at the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. The revised lectures are typically published by the University of Michigan Press.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
6:00 PM
Rome

Amy Richlin – Billy Johnson of Eton: Classics, the Closet, and the Schools

19th century photograph of a light skinned man sitting in a chair in a 3/4 pose; his arms are raised with his hands touching the back of his head

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. Thomas Spencer Jerome (1864–1914) was an American lawyer and lover of Roman history who lived on Capri from 1899 until his death. In his will he endowed a series of lectures to be jointly delivered at the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. The revised lectures are typically published by the University of Michigan Press.

Monday, November 14, 2022
6:00 PM
Rome

Amy Richlin – Jerome’s Captive Slave Woman and the Latin Canon

detail of an illustrated manuscript showing a man wearing a long blue dress and kneeling in front of his fellow monks

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. Thomas Spencer Jerome (1864–1914) was an American lawyer and lover of Roman history who lived on Capri from 1899 until his death. In his will he endowed a series of lectures to be jointly delivered at the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. The revised lectures are typically published by the University of Michigan Press.

Tuesday, December 7, 2021
6:00 PM
Rome

Lynn Meskell – Engineering Internationalism: Colonialism, the Cold War, and UNESCO’s Victory in Nubia

Composite of three images: color portrait of a light skinned, brown haired woman wearing a dark blazer and white shirt in the center, flanked by two black and white photographs of a crane moving a large stone Egyptian monument of a seated figure

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. Thomas Spencer Jerome (1864–1914) was an American lawyer and lover of Roman history who lived on Capri from 1899 until his death. In his will he endowed a series of lectures to be jointly delivered at the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. The revised lectures are typically published by the University of Michigan Press.

Wednesday, December 1, 2021
6:00 PM
Rome

Lynn Meskell – A Tale of Two Cities: The Fate of Delhi as UNESCO World Heritage

Composite of three images: color portrait of a light skinned, brown haired woman wearing a dark blazer and white shirt in the center, flanked by two black and white photographs of a crane moving a large stone Egyptian monument of a seated figure

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. Thomas Spencer Jerome (1864–1914) was an American lawyer and lover of Roman history who lived on Capri from 1899 until his death. In his will he endowed a series of lectures to be jointly delivered at the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. The revised lectures are typically published by the University of Michigan Press.

Monday, November 29, 2021
6:00 PM
Rome

Lynn Meskell – Imperialism, Internationalism, and Archaeology in the Un/Making of the Middle East

Composite of three images: color portrait of a light skinned, brown haired woman wearing a dark blazer and white shirt in the center, flanked by two black and white photographs of a crane moving a large stone Egyptian monument of a seated figure

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. Thomas Spencer Jerome (1864–1914) was an American lawyer and lover of Roman history who lived on Capri from 1899 until his death. In his will he endowed a series of lectures to be jointly delivered at the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. The revised lectures are typically published by the University of Michigan Press.

Monday, November 12, 2018
6:00 PM
Rome

Robin Lane Fox – The Natural World: Pagans and Christians – Signs and Catastrophes

Robin Lane Fox – The Natural World: Pagans and Christians – Signs and Catastrophes

The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is among the most prestigious international platforms for the presentation of new work on Roman history and culture. Thomas Spencer Jerome (1864–1914) was an American lawyer and lover of Roman history who lived on Capri from 1899 until his death. In his will he endowed a series of lectures to be jointly delivered at the American Academy in Rome and the University of Michigan. The revised lectures are typically published by the University of Michigan Press.