Past Events

Event type
Event series
Year
Thursday, April 20, 2023
6:00 PM
Rome

June Jordan and Building Justice in Design

Black and white reproduction of a bird's eye view of upper Manhattan, with large towers interspersed among the lower-rise buildings

 

AAR’s spring exhibition, June Jordan, The Poetry of Design, will open with a Conversations/Conversazioni on equity and justice in design, which Jordan helped catalyze by foregrounding the rights and voices of disenfranchised communities.

Monday, March 13, 2023
6:30 PM
New York

Ethics in Public Art – Laurie Anderson, Firelei Báez, Walter Hood & Justin Garrett Moore

Graphic designed element that reads: Ethics in Public Art, Laurie Anderson, Firelei Baez, Walter Hood & Justin Garrett Moore, 13 March 2023

This conversation, the first collaboration between the New York Public Library and the American Academy in Rome, will consider the ethical, aesthetic, and social implications of public art and design.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022
6:30 PM
New York

Patronage: Who Owns Culture?

color photograph of a room inside the Uffizi Gallery with two profile painted portraits in a freestanding gold colored frame; surrounding the work is a crowd of people wearing facemasks and listening to audio guides

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, November 8, 2022
6:00 PM
Rome

The Language of Objects: Susan Sellers & Hérica Valladares

Composite image showing a color photograph of light skinned woman in ball gowns in an elegant room on the left and right, bisected by a color photo of a Greek or Roman statue of a young woman adjusting her sandal

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, October 6, 2022
6:00 PM
Rome

“Learning from Las Vegas” in the Twenty-First Century: Iwan Baan & Mark Robbins

Color photograph of an aerial view of Rome taken from a helicopter, showing a broad cityscape bathed in rose colored light

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, May 17, 2022
6:00 PM
Rome

Making the Past: Perspectives on Keeping and Letting Go

Color photograph of a bamboo or wooden scaffolding covering the Hatharas Kotuwa (tee cube) of a stupa; sculptures of three figures with their palms facing each other as if in prayer

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.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022
6:00 PM
Rome

When Things Fall Apart

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, November 11, 2021
6:00 PM
Rome

Sensorium Ex: Voice beyond Language

Four color photos in a horizontal row depicting five people, from left to right: a dark-skinned black man wearing all black staring straight on against a green backdrop; two men standing and looking down at a wheelchair lying on its side in front of them; headshot of woman with long brown hair and brown eyes, red lipstick, and a small smile, wearing black shirt; and headshot of woman with light brown hair and brown eyes in 3/4 profile, wearing a black top

Paola Prestini will be joined by Copenhagen’s Enactlab to discuss their interdisciplinary arts, research, and community project exploring fundamental questions of what it means to have voice, and voice beyond language.

Tuesday, September 28, 2021
6:00 PM
Rome
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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.

Friday, April 23, 2021
1:00 PM

2021 Arthur & Janet C. Ross Rome Prize Ceremony

Designed graphic element with five small pictures of the Academy and its Fellows, along with the words Rome Prize Ceremony April 23

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.