Past Events

This half-day workshop will consider approaches to the Roman environment and natural world from approximately 200 BCE to 600 CE. 

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

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

In celebration of Black History Month 2025, the American Academy in Rome hosts a screening of The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist (2022).

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

In celebration of Black History Month 2025, AAR hosts a screening of The Black Italian Renaissance: African Presence in Art, an award-winning documentary written by journalist and screenwriter Francesca Priori and directed by Cristian Di Mattia.

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

A new documentary film, Questions as Tools in Art, Science and the Humanities, offers numerous directions based on interviews with Stanford University–based MacArthur Fellows and MacArthur Fellows who have also been fellows or residents at the American Academy in Rome.

The American Academy in Rome will host a screening of Tony Gerber’s film War Game (2024), which critically examines the complexities of conflict, strategy, and the human experience.

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.