Past Events

Event type
Event series
Year
Monday, March 23, 2026
2:30 PM
Rome

Eva Del Soldato & Cory Henry – Belonging

2025-26 Fellow Shoptalks

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows present their work to each other. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

Wednesday, February 25, 2026
6:00 PM
Rome

Sabine Huebner – Resilient Landscapes: Climate, Economy, and Human Adaptation in the Roman Sabina

Sabine Huebner – Climate Variability and Rural Resilience in Central Italy during the Second and Third Centuries CE

This is the fourth 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.

Monday, February 16, 2026
2:30 PM
Rome

Fellow Shoptalks: Paula Gaither, Liz Glynn & Katherine Dennis – Labor, Luxuries, and Landscapes

2025-26 Fellow Shoptalks

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows present their work to each other. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

Monday, February 9, 2026
2:30 PM
Rome

Fellow Shoptalks: John Mulhall & Lembit Beecher – Translation as a Way of Life

2025-26 Fellow Shoptalks

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows present their work to each other. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.

Thursday, January 15–Saturday, January 17, 2026
Rome

The Making and Unmaking of States in the Muslim World, 600–1800

The Making and Unmaking of States in the Muslim World, 600–1800

The American Academy in Rome will host a Balzan Seminar “The Study of Formation, Maintenance, and Failure of States in Muslim Societies” run by Michael Cook, Antoine Borrut, and Marie Legendre.