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Calendar of Events
2002 - 2003

The American Academy in Rome thanks The Ophelia Branca Synder Fund for the Arts and Humanities and The Lavinia and Brian Snyder Foundation for their generous support of these programs in the arts and humanities.

**All events were held in Rome, unless otherwise noted.

2002

October 2
October 16
November 6
November 13


NEW YORK, NY

CONCERT SERIES - Americans in Rome: Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
- Opening Concert
- Piano Recital
- Chamber Music
- Vocal and Chamber Music
Time: 8pm
Location:
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 154 West 57th St.
October 21 EXHIBITION - Mesopotamia: Art, material culture and the nearness of the East
Location: Gallery
October 22 LECTURE - Malaria Across Two Millennia: Science and Magic
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room
October 24 LECTURE - Hiroshi Takayama
Associate Professor of History, University of Tokyo and Department of Education Resident in Medieval Studies, American Academy in Rome presents The Norman Court of Sicily: A Crossroads of Greek, Arabic, and Latin Cultures
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room
October 29

LECTURE - Vija Celmins
Artist, New York, and Mary Miss Resident in the Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room

Vija Celmins, a painter living and working in New York City, will give a slide lecture and discuss her work.

November
November 4 LECTURE - Toshiko Mori
Chair, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston and William A Bernoudy Visiting Architect, American Academy in Rome
Time: 6pm
Location: Acquario Romano, Piazza Manfredo Fanti, 47

Toshiko Mori will discuss her recent work, including the jury of the World Trade Center competition. This event is co-sponsored by the Ordine degli Architetti, Roma, Lazio.

November 6 CONCERT - Madeleine Shapiro and Mikko Luoma
  (cello) (accordion)
Time: 9pm
Location: Cryptoporticus

The concert is part of a series of events sponsored by Nuovi Spazi Musicali. It will feature music by Wourinen, Lentini, Read Thomas, C. Serino, Bortolotti, Piacentini, and Tiensuu.

November 7-8

CONFERENCE - Deliciae Fictiles III
Times: November 7, 10am-6pm and November 8, 9am-6pm
Location:
Lecture Room

November 11

SEMINAR AIAC
Time: 5pm
Location: Lecture Room

Graduate students in archaeology from various institutions in Rome will discuss their dissertations.

November 14

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY LECTURE - Fausto Zevi
of Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" presents Le scoperte recenti di Pozzuoli
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room

Fausto Zevi will bring us the latest findings from Pozzuoli, in the Bay of Naples. This lecture honors the memory of John D'Arms, former Director of the American Academy in Rome.

November 24 CONCERT - Il Suono Sacro, 39th Nuova Consonanza Festival
Time: 6pm
Location: Villa Aurelia

November 26

Closes February 2

EXHIBITION - Art of Display: Toshiko Mori and Verde Visconti
Time: 6pm
Location: Gallery
December
December 5 LECTURE - David Quint
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University and Department of Education Resident in Renaissance Literature, American Academy in Rome presents The Vision of America in the Sixteenth Century
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room
December 12 CONFERENCE - Fabio Chigi: Pope Alexander VII 1599-1667
Time: 4-7pm
Location: Lecture Room
December 16 CONCERT - Robert McDuffie and Andrea Lucchesini
  (violin) (piano)
Time: 9:15pm
Location: Villa Aurelia
2003
January 16 BOOK PRESENTATION - Theatrum Orbis by Tiziana Provvidera, a translation of Francis Yates' The Theatre of the World
Time:
5:30pm
Location: Lecture Room
January 21 LECTURE - Pat Oleszko
Performance Artist, New York and Roy Lichtenstein Resident in the Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome presents The Pats to Suckcess
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room
January 22 BOOK PRESENTATION - Battery Park City, New York by Antonio Pietro Latini, Architect, Rome
Time: 5pm
Location: Lecture Room

January 22

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA

LECTURE - Art History at the American Academy in Rome: the First Fifty Years (1894-1944)
Presented by Christina Huemer, Drue Heinz Librarian, American Academy in Rome
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 225 South St
January 27 READING - Peter Orner and Tobias Wolff
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room

January 27

EXHIBITION - Keith Haring
Time: Daily dawn to dusk
Location: Triangle Garden and Main Entrance

February

February 4

Closes April 15

EXHIBITION - VERNISSAGE: Joan Jonas and Elisabetta Benassi
Time: 6pm
Location: Gallery
February 5 PERFORMANCE - DJ Spooky
Artist and Musician, New York
Time: 10:30pm
Location: Goa Club, Via Libetta 13
February 6 ROBERT S PIRIE LECTURE - James P. Sickinger
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies, American School of Classical Studies at Athens presents Inscriptions and Ancient Literacy
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room
March
March 4 READING - Contemporary Italian Writers
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room

March 10

Series continues
March 24
March 31
April 1
April 7

JEROME LECTURE SERIES - Copies without Models: Hellenization and Augustan Poetry - Alessandro Barchiesi
Professor of Latin Literature, University of Siena at Arezzo presents
Lecture I:
Rome, Alexandria: appropriation and alienation
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room

March 13 PIANO CONCERT - Peter Kairoff
Time: 9:15pm
Location: Villa Aurelia
March 17-19

CONFERENCE - Role Models: Identity and Assimilation in the Roman World and in Early Modern Italy
Time: 9am-6pm
Locations: Co-sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome

March 20 FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY LECTURE - Roberto Rusconi
Lecturer from Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome presents L'ultimo sermone: vita, morte e miracoli dell'Anticristo alla fine del medioevo
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room

March 24

Series continues
March 31
April 1
April 7

JEROME LECTURE SERIES - Copies without Models: Hellenization and Augustan Poetry - Alessandro Barchiesi
Professor of Latin Literature, University of Siena at Arezzo presents Lecture II: Il loro Apollo privato (in Italian)

Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room

March 25 READING - William Jay Smith
Poet and Resident in Literature, American Academy in Rome reads from his recent book of poems, The World below the Window, a selection of sixty years.
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room
March 27-29

CONFERENCE - The Maritime World of Ancient Rome
Time: Thursday 6pm-8pm, Friday and Saturday 9am-6pm
Location: Lecture Room

March 31

Series continues
April 1
April 7

JEROME LECTURE SERIES - Copies without Models: Hellenization and Augustan Poetry - Alessandro Barchiesi
Professor of Latin Literature, University of Siena at Arezzo presents Lecture III: Mapping and Plotting Hellenization in Epic

Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room

April

April 1

Series continues
April 7

JEROME LECTURE SERIES - Copies without Models: Hellenization and Augustan Poetry - Alessandro Barchiesi
Professor of Latin Literature, University of Siena at Arezzo presents
Lecture IV: Canti greci: imitazioni, limitazioni (in Italian)

Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room

April 3 LECTURE - Joan Jonas
Artist, New York
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room
April 7 JEROME LECTURE SERIES - Copies without Models: Hellenization and Augustan Poetry - Alessandro Barchiesi
Professor of Latin Literature, University of Siena at Arezzo presents
Lecture V: The Search for the Perfect Book

Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room
April 8 POETRY READING - Jennifer Clarvoe and Nick Flynn
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room
April 9 CONCERT - Ciompi Quartet
Time: 9:15pm
Location: Villa Aurelia

April 9

Closes May 2

NEW YORK, NY

EXHIBITION - FAAR OUT: Six Months in Rome
Time: Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm
Location: The ADC Gallery, 106 West 29th Street at 6th Avenue
April 10 PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILM PROJECTION
Time: 6pm
Location: Robert Smithson Gallery

April 29

Closes June 30

EXHIBITION - Georgina Masson: Author and Eye - Selections from the Photographic Archive of the American Academy in Rome
Time: Thursday, 4-7pm; Saturday, 3-7pm or by appointment
Location: Photographic Archives

May
May 5 LECTURE - Gareth Schmeling, FAAR'78
Professor of Classics, University of Florida presents Guardians of the Text: Editors and Critics
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room
May 6 LECTURE - Ned Rorem
Composer, New York, and Paul Fromm Composer-in-Residence, American Academy in Rome
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room
May 9-10

CONFERENCE - Alchimia degli estremi: Il laboratorio degli "Heroici furori" di Giordano Bruno
Time:
9am-5pm
Location: Lecture Room

May 14 HONORABLE LEON B. POLSKY LECTURE - Rita Levi-Montalcini
Professor Emerita, Italian National Council of Research and Washington University, St. Louis presents Time for Changes
Time: 6pm
Location: Villa Aurelia
May 22

LECTURE - John Henderson
Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge presents
"Filth is the mother of corruption". Plagues, Putrefaction and the Body of the Poor in Early Modern Florence
Time: 6pm
Location: Lecture Room

June - August
June 3 EXHIBITION - Fellows Annual Exhibition
Time: 6pm
Location: Open Studios
June 4 CONCERT - Fellows Annual Concert
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Villa Aurelia
June 19-21 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - 'Napoli è tutto il mondo': Neapolitan Art and European Culture from Humanism to the Enlightenment

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