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.
The event explores the travels and discoveries of women archaeologists featured in Women & Ruins: Archaeology, Landscape, and Photography—including Gertrude Bell, Esther Van Deman, the Bulwer Sisters, and Marion Blake—followed by a discussion of Olivier Guez’s Mesopotamia with Caroline Goodson, Ilaria Puri Purini, and moderator Raffaella Silvestri.
A writer, archaeologist, and historian will discuss how turn of the century Rome became a center of archaeological research, began a campaign for modernization, and fostered a nascent women’s movement in Italy.
Zachary Fabri and Emily B. Frank (2024 Fellows) will discuss CONTINUITY MUTABILITY GENERATION, their collaborative exhibition that considers the generative interplay of art making and art conservation.
Two renowned scholars of ancient Rome, Joy Connolly and Alessandro Schiesaro, discuss how the study of ancient world is evolving in the US and Italy.
In celebration of Black History Month, the American Academy is screening Il Moro (2021) by Afro-Italian director, producer, and actor Daphne Di Cinto, followed by a conversation with Olivette Otele.
At a critical time when climate change is producing indelible effects to our agricultural systems, immigration patterns, food security, and safety and security, the American Academy in Rome presents two conversations that center climate change as a humanitarian crisis.
Unisciti a noi lunedì 24 aprile mentre celebriamo i vincitori del Premio Roma 2023–24 e i borsisti italiani alla cerimonia del Premio Roma Arthur e Janet C. Ross, che si terrà nella Sala Grande della Cooper Union di New York.
La mostra primaverile di AAR, June Jordan, la poesia del design, si aprirà con Conversations/Conversazioni sull’equità e la giustizia nel design, che Jordan ha contribuito a catalizzare mettendo in primo piano i diritti e le voci delle comunità prive.
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.
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