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May 2012

Literary Event
Translating Poetry: Readings and Conversations
Thursday, 3 May 2012 - 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Friday, 4 May 2012 - 4:30pm - 9:30pm
Villa Aurelia and Casa delle Letterature
Rome
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Translating Poetry: Readings and Conversations

C'è più onore in tradire che in essere fedeli a metà.
(There is more honor in betrayal than in being half faithful.)

-from Una Sera Come Tante / An Evening Like So Many Others by Giovanni Guidici (1924-2011)

 

A two-day series of readings and conversations intended to explore current approaches to translating Polish and Italian poetry into English, and the translation of English-language poetry into Italian.

William B. Hart Poet-in-Residence Robert Hass, the leading American translator of Polish Nobel Laureate poet Czesław Miłosz, will be joined by Polish poets Julia Hartwig and Adam Zagajewski and American translator Clare Cavanagh in a bilingual reading and discussion (in English) of work by poets including Hartwig, Miłosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Wisława Szymborska, and Zagajewski.

The second day's events will be based on Geoffrey Brock's new anthology The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012). Italian poets including Edoardo Albinati, Antonella Anedda, Franco Buffoni, Patrizia Cavalli, Franco Loi, Valerio Magrelli, Lucio Mariani, Maria Luisa Spaziani, and AAR Italian Affiliated Fellows Massimo Gezzi and Guido Mazzoni will read from their own work, as well as from work by poets including D'Annunzio, Montale, Pavese, Pasolini, Saba, Ungaretti, and Zanzotto. English translations will be read by translators including Damiano Abeni, Sarah Arvio, FAAR '04, Geoffrey Brock, Moira Egan, Jamie McKendrick, Anthony Molino and Susan Stewart; Jennifer Scappettone, FAAR '11, will read from her translations of Amelia Rosselli. There will also be a bilingual reading of poems by Byron, Donne, Anne Carson, Seamus Heaney, Keats, Shakespeare and others as they have been translated by Italian poets, and public conversations, both about translating from Italian into English and about translating from English into Italian.

3 May 2012, 6pm-11pm
Villa Aurelia, American Academy in Rome
Largo di Porta San Pancrazio, 1

4 May 2012, 4:30pm-9:30pm
Casa delle Letterature
Piazza dell'Orologio, 3
www.casadelleletterature.it

Simultaneous translation will be available. Seating availability on a first-come, first-served basis.

This program is made possible through generous gifts by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Price and Mrs. Nancy M. O'Boyle and with the support of the Casa delle Letterature di Roma Capitale, Istituto Polacco di Roma, and the Polish Book Institute. Collaborating institutions include the Keats-Shelley House and the British Council.

Photo credit:
Giorgio Vasari, Uomo che legge alla finestra, affresco
Museo statale di Casa Vasari, sala del Trionfo della Virtù
Su concessione del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali – Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici, Paesaggistici, Storici, Artistici ed Etnoantropologici di Arezzo

Due giorni di letture e conversazioni pensate per esplorare gli attuali approcci alla traduzione della poesia polacca ed italiana in lingua inglese, e alla traduzione della poesia dall’inglese all’italiano.

Robert Hass, ospite dell’American Academy come poeta residente, il principale traduttore americano del poeta polacco Premio Nobel Czesław Miłosz, insieme ai poeti polacchi Julia Hartwig e Adam Zagajewski e alla traduttrice americana Clare Cavanagh si cimenteranno in una lettura bilingue e in una discussione (in inglese) sul lavoro dei poeti Hartwig, Miłosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Wisława Szymborska e Zagajewski.

La seconda giornata sarà basata sulla nuova antologia The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) di Geoffrey Brock. Poeti italiani come Edoardo Albinati, Antonella Anedda, Franco Buffoni, Patrizia Cavalli, Franco Loi, Valerio Magrelli, Lucio Mariani, Maria Luisa Spaziani, insieme a Massimo Gezzi e Guido Mazzoni, già borsiti italiani presso l’American Academy, leggeranno il loro stesso lavoro così come opere di poeti quali D'Annunzio, Montale, Pavese, Pasolini, Saba, Ungaretti, e Zanzotto. Le traduzioni in inglese saranno lette dai traduttori Damiano Abeni, Sarah Arvio, FAAR'04, Geoffrey Brock, Moira Egan, Jamie McKendrick, Anthony Molino e Susan Stewart; Jennifer Scappettone, FAAR'11 leggerà le sue traduzioni di Amelia Rosselli. E’ prevista anche una lettura bilingue delle poesie di Byron, Donne, Anne Carson, Seamus Heaney, Keats, Shakespeare e di altri tradotti da poeti italiani, e conversazioni aperte al pubblico circa la traduzione dall’italiano all’inglese e dall’inglese all’italiano.

3 maggio 2012, 18.00-23.00
Villa Aurelia, American Academy in Rome
Largo di Porta San Pancrazio, 1

4 maggio 2012, 16.30-21.30
Casa delle Letterature
Piazza dell'Orologio, 3
www.casadelleletterature.it

Sarà disponibile la traduzione simultanea. Ingresso libero fino ad esaurimento posti.

Questo programma è reso possibile grazie alla generosa donazione dei Sig.ri Price e della Sig.ra Nancy M. O'Boyle, e al supporto della Casa delle Letterature di Roma Capitale, dell'Istituto Polacco di Roma e del Polish Book Institute; in collaborazione con la Keats-Shelley House e il British Council.

Photo credit:
Giorgio Vasari, Uomo che legge alla finestra, affresco
Museo statale di Casa Vasari, sala del Trionfo della Virtù
Su concessione del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali – Soprintendenza per i Beni
Architettonici, Paesaggistici, Storici, Artistici ed Etnoantropologici di Arezzo

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AIA Lecture
Rebranding Rome: Archaeology and the 1960 Summer Olympics
Tuesday, 15 May 2012 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
AAR Lecture Room
Rome
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Rebranding Rome: Archaeology and the 1960 Summer Olympics

The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is one of the oldest and largest organizations devoted to the world of archaeology. It was founded in 1879 and chartered by the United States Congress in 1906. Today it has more than 200,000 members worldwide, belonging to 107 local societies.

Of those local chapters, until recently just two have been located outside North America. There is the Athens-Greece Society, chartered in 1997; and the Iberian Peninsula Society, chartered in 2007. But now a third is in formation, here in the Eternal City. On the evening of Tuesday, 15 May 2012 (starting at 6 PM) the new Rome Society of the AIA will hold its inaugural event—a lecture at the American Academy. Speaking will be current Andrew W. Mellon Professor T. Corey Brennan, FAAR’88, on the topic of “Rebranding Rome: Archaeology and the 1960 Summer Olympics”.

The AIA organization is unique because it counts among its members professional archaeologists and students, but also many others from all walks of life. All the members are united by a shared passion for archaeology, its role in furthering human knowledge, and for preserving the world's archaeological resources and cultural heritage.

For the Rome Society, organizers Crispin Corrado, Eric De Sena and Linda Nolan (John Cabot University) hope that it will serve a vital role among the many academic and cultural institutions in the city. “Our aim is to create a vibrant Society”, they write, “with a bimonthly lecture series and other special events, which will take advantage of the incredible wealth of scholars and material culture that this city and country have to offer.”

There is an email address for inquiries (romeaiasociety@gmail.com) and a Facebook group. The administrative seat of the AIA Society Rome is the University of California, Rome Study Center (Piazza dell' Orologio, 7).

Current AIA members interested in joining the organization’s newest chapter should contact Membership@aia.bu.edu (i.e., the AIA’s home office in Boston) and ask that one’s membership reflect an affiliation to the Rome Society. (The code for the Rome society is 570.)  New members may complete their membership applications online, specifying membership to the Rome Society (again, code 570) at www.archaeological.org/membership. New members receive a discount if they enter “society” in the promo code.

A word about Corey Brennan’s Tuesday, 15 May lecture for the AIA Rome Society, “Rebranding Rome: Archaeology and the 1960 Summer Olympics”. In staging the 1960 Summer Olympic Games, Brennan will argue in his lavishly illustrated lecture, the Rome organizers quite deliberately marshaled 2713 years of the city’s history against the 23 all-too-recent years of Mussolini’s dictatorship (1922-1945), all to emphasize contemporary Rome’s continuity with its antique past. In preparation for the Games, Rome significantly upgraded its archaeological zones. The Greek, Roman and even Etruscan past all found a prominent place in the official Olympic exhibition “Sport in History and Art” at the Palazzo delle Scienze in EUR. And over the course of five nights preceding the Games’ opening, the folkloric aspects of Medieval and Renaissance Italy were on display in the Circus Maximus.

But most striking and evocative was the notion to use Rome’s archaeological and historical monuments as the setting for some of the most important athletic events. The idea seems to have emerged—apparently of necessity—in the winter of 1955/1956 when the organizing committee made its evaluation of facilities needed for the Games. Wrestlers would compete in the Basilica of Maxentius, by far the largest standing structure in the old Roman Forum. Gymnasts were assigned to the similarly imposing Baths of Caracalla.  And for the first time in Olympic history, the marathon would neither start nor finish in the main stadium. Rather, the race would start at the foot of Michelangelo’s Campidoglio staircase, with a finish (at night!) hard by the Colosseum at the fourth century AD Arch of Constantine.

Rome’s broad-gauged historical and cultural approach to its Games, coupled with its effective use of Italy’s most brilliant and accomplished architects, effectively eclipsed the basic facts that it was the first ex-Axis power hosting an Olympics since the Allied victory in World War II, and that it was Mussolini’s regime which had created the two main centers for the competitions (Foro Italico and EUR). On the other hand, Brennan argues that it was precisely the Fascist penchant for exploiting Rome’s ancient monuments for political rallies and propagandistic displays that likely suggested to the Rome Olympic organizers the use of the Basilica of Maxentius and Baths of Caracalla as sports venues for 1960. That experience under Mussolini also will have offered the means of addressing the immensely difficult technical problems associated with these sites, which the organizers needed to solve in close cooperation with the Archaeological Superintendency for Rome.

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Benefit
2012 McKim Medal Gala
Monday, 28 May 2012 - 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Villa Aurelia
Rome
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2012 McKim Medal Gala

2012 McKim Medal Gala - Rome

The American Academy in Rome honors
Maestro Riccardo Muti 

Valentina Moncada Di Paternò, Dinner Chairman

Purchase Tickets

The McKim Medal Gala fosters as well as celebrates international creative and intellectual exchange in the arts and humanities.  Proceeds from the dinner support scholarships at the Academy for Italian artists and scholars, and make it possible for one Academy Fellow each year to attend the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. These fellowships provide both Italian and American winners with important opportunities to pursue their individual studies, to participate in and contribute to international discourse in their fields and disciplines, and to gain experience that will be invaluable throughout their careers.

The McKim Medal was established by the Trustees of the American Academy in Rome in 2005 to be an annual prize that honors an individual whose work internationally, most particularly in Italy and in the United States, has contributed significantly to the arts and humanities. Named for Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909), noted architect who established the Academy in 1894, the prize recognizes as well an individual whose work and life exemplify creative and intellectual exchange across the arts, scholarship, language, and culture. The medal awarded each year was designed for the Academy by Cy Twombly. 

For information please contact Inga Clausing at +39 06-5846-474, or write to i.clausing@aarome.org

McKim Medal Laureates are: 
2011   Luigi Ontani, artist
2010   Miuccia Prada, fashion designer
2009   Ennio Morricone, composer and music conductor
2008   Franco Zeffirelli, producer and director
2007   Umberto Eco, writer
2006   Cy Twombly, artist
2005   Renzo Piano, architect

For information regarding the Tribute Dinner in New York
click here

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Open Studios, Concert, Reading
Fellows' Annual Events
Tuesday, 29 May 2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Wednesday, 30 May 2012 - 9:00pm - 11:00pm
Thursday, 31 May 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
American Academy in Rome
Rome
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Fellows' Annual Events

Three days in late May—Tuesday the 29th, Wednesday the 30th, and Thursday the 31st—see one of the Academy’s oldest and most consistently rewarding traditions, the annual presentation of work by current Rome Prize Fellows in the American Academy’s School of Fine Arts.

On Tuesday 29 May (6-9pm) the Academy’s Open Studios in the McKim, Mead & White building offer the public an opportunity to see the studios of the current Rome Prize Fellows in the fields of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, and Visual Arts. On Wednesday 30 May (9pm), the Academy’s Villa Aurelia provides a spectacular setting for a Concert with music composed by the two Rome Prize Fellows in Musical Composition. And on Thursday 31 May (6pm) the Villa Aurelia is again the setting for a Reading by the two Rome Prize Fellows in Literature.

William B. Hart Poet-in-Residence Robert Hass will read from his work during Open Studios in the Cryptoporticus from 7pm to 7:30pm and AAR community members Claire Brazeau, Takae Ohnishi, and Kailan Rubinoff will present a concert entitled A Tour of Baroque Music from 7:45pm to 8:15pm. In addition, Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellow Dmitry Kaminker’s Rome Sustainable Tower Project will be on display in the American Academy Gallery.

Here is a list of events and participants of AAR School of Fine Arts events for 2012:

OPEN STUDIOS

Tuesday 29 May from 6pm to 9pm, McKim, Mead &White building, Via Angelo Masina, 5
Albert Paul Albano, Booth Family Rome Prize
Angela Co, Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize
Lonn Combs, Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize
Beatriz del Cueto, FAIA, National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
Carolina Fois, Elsa Peretti Italian Affiliated Fellow
Matteo Franceschini, Marcello Lotti Italian Affiliated Fellow
Colin Gee, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
Elliott Green, Jules Guerin Rome Prize
Jiminie Ha, Rolland Rome Prize
Mary Reid Kelley, Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
Sean Lally, Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize
Siobhan Liddell, Vera G. List/Edith Bloom Rome Prize
David A. Rubin, Garden Club of America Rome Prize
Marinella Senatore, Franco Zeffirelli Italian Affiliated Fellow
Jenny Snider, Harold M. English/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize

CONCERT

Wednesday 30 May at 9pm, Villa Aurelia, Largo di Porta San Pancrazio, 1
Sean Friar, Samuel Barber Rome Prize
Lei Liang, Elliott Carter Rome Prize

READING

Thursday 31 May at 6pm, Villa Aurelia, Largo di Porta San Pancrazio, 1
Matt Donovan, Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
Suzanne Rivecca, John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman

Tre giorni a fine maggio – martedì 29, mercoledì 30 e giovedì 31 – per partecipare ad una delle più antiche e di certo più gratificanti tradizioni dell’Accademia, l’annuale scenario spettacolare per un concerto con musica composta dai bosisti detentori del Rome Prize in composizione musicale. E giovedì 31 maggio (18.00) sarà di nuovo Villa Aurelia ad ospitare una serie di letture da parte dei due borsisti vincitori del Rome Prize per la letteratura.

Robert Hass, William B. Hart Poet-in-Residence, leggerà le sue poesie durante gli Open Studios nel criptoportico dalle 19.00 alle 19.30 e Claire Brazeau, Takae Ohnishi, e Kailan Rubinoff, membri della comunità dell’American Academy, presenteranno un concerto dal titolo A Tour of Baroque Music dalle 19.45 alle 20.15. Inoltre, l’opera Rome Sustainable Tower Project di Dmitry Kaminker, Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellow, sarà in mostra nella galleria dell’American Academy.

A seguire la lista delle iniziative e dei partecipanti dell’evento del 2012 presso la School of Fine Arts dell’American Academy in Rome.

OPEN STUDIOS

Martedì 29 maggio, dalle 18.00 alle 21.00, McKim, Mead &White, Via Angelo Masina, 5

Albert Paul Albano, Booth Family Rome Prize
Angela Co, Arnold W. Brunner Rome Prize
Lonn Combs, Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize
Beatriz del Cueto, FAIA, National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
Carolina Fois, Elsa Peretti Italian Affiliated Fellow
Matteo Franceschini, Marcello Lotti Italian Affiliated Fellow
Colin Gee, Cynthia Hazen Polsky e Leon Polsky Rome Prize
Elliott Green, Jules Guerin Rome Prize
Jiminie Ha, Rolland Rome Prize
Mary Reid Kelley, Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
Sean Lally, Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize
Siobhan Liddell, Vera G. List/Edith Bloom Rome Prize
David A. Rubin, Garden Club of America Rome Prize
Marinella Senatore, Franco Zeffirelli Italian Affiliated Fellow
Jenny Snider, Harold M. English/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize

CONCERTO

Mercoledì 30 maggio, ore 21.00, Villa Aurelia, Largo di Porta San Pancrazio, 1

Sean Friar, Samuel Barber Rome Prize
Lei Liang, Elliott Carter Rome Prize

LETTURE

Giovedì 31 maggio, ore 18.00, Villa Aurelia, Largo di Porta San Pancrazio, 1

Matt Donovan, Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, dono di Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters
Suzanne Rivecca, John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, dono di Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman

 

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