Calendar of Events
2003 - 2004

October - November - December - January - February -
March - April - May - June

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

Also, the American Academy in Rome thanks the Kirby Family Foundation for its support of literary events and Mr. and Mrs. Sid R. Bass for their support of the MOMA/Roma Film Series.

2003
October 13	CONCERT- Duo Garda, in collaboration with Nuovi Spazi Musicali Time: 9pm Location:Villa Aurelia
October 22	LECTURE - Jenny Holzer Artist, New York, and Resident in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome presents Public Art Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
October 23	FILM SCREENING Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
October 28	READING - Anthony Hecht, FAAR'51, RAAR'69 Poet, Washington, DC Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
October 30	LECTURE - David Friedman, FAAR'89 Associate Professor of the History of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Department of Education Resident in Medieval Studies, American Academy in Rome presents Measure and Shape: Geometric Survey and Urban Design Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
November
November 5 open through Dec. 13	EXHIBITION - Designer's Eye: The Chair Time: 6pm to 8:30pm Location: Gallery
November 9	MUSICAL EVENT, in collaboration with Nuova Consonanza Time: 5pm to 10pm Location: Villa Aurelia
November 11	LECTURE - Kevin Walz , FAAR'94 Designer, Rome Time: 6:30pm Location: Gallery
November 18	READING - Michael Mewshaw Writer, Florida Time: 6:30pm Location: Lecture Room
November 22 open weekends only, until Dec. 7	EXHIBITION - Invito al Gianicolo e Monteverde/Welcome to the Janiculum and Monteverde Time: 6pm Location: Cryptoporticus
November 25	LECTURE - Adrian Lyttelton Professor of History, Johns Hopkins Bologna Center and Resident in Modern Italian Studies, American Academy in Rome presents The 1848 Revolutions and the Interpretation of the Risorgimento Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
December
December 1	ANNUAL LECTURE of the Unione Internazionale degli Istituti d'Archeologia, Storia, Storia dell'Arte in Roma - Joseph Connors, RAAR '87 and Director of Villa I Tatti, presents Giovanni Battista Piranesi e il caso del Corso scomparso: Topografia e antiquaria nel Settecento romano Time: 6pm Location: Villa Aurelia
December 4	FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY LECTURE - Dott. Gianni Ponti Archeologist presents Nuove Ricerche alla Villa di Massenzio sull'Appia Antica Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
December 9	LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION - William Bolcom Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor of Music, The University of Michigan and Paul Fromm Composer-in-Residence, American Academy in Rome Time: 6pm Location: Villa Aurelia
December 12-14	CONFERENCE - Politics and Society in Spanish Italy Time: 9am to 6pm, Friday and Saturday; 9am to 1pm, Sunday Location: Villa Aurelia View the final program at http://www.storia.unina.it/confere/Program.htm
2004
Sundays January 4, 11, 18, 25	CINEMA - MOMA/Roma Film Series The Hidden God: Film and Faith. This series explores these themes in eight feature films produced between the late 1930s and the present Time: 4pm Location: varies (see link for details)
Tuesday, January 20	JOURNAL PRESENTATION Presentation of the first number of the bi-annual periodical Archaeologiae, dedicated to archaeological research carried out in Italy by foreign institutions. In Italian. Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
Thursday, January 22	LECTURE - Miranda Marvin Professor of Art and Classics at Wellesley College and Lucy Shoe Meritt Resident in Classical Studies and Archeology at the American Academy in Rome presents The Myth of the 'Roman Copy': New Ideas about the Relationship between Roman and Greek Sculpture Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
Wednesday, January 28	BOOK PRESENTATION - Giordano Bruno, Philosopher of the Renaissance edited by Hilary Gatti, University of Rome "La Sapienza." Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
February
Tuesday, February 3 open through Feb. 26	EXHIBITION - Ketty La Rocca Time: 6-8pm Location: Gallery
Thursday, February 5	BOOK PRESENTATION - Companion Guide to Rome Time: 6:30pm Location: Lecture Room
Tuesday, February 10	GALLERY TALK - Elizabeth Janus presented by the curator of the Ketty La Rocca Exhibition. Time: 6:30pm Location: Gallery
Wednesday and Thursday, February 11-12	CONFERENCE - Reading Dance Images Time: 9am-6:30pm Location: Lecture Room
Wednesday, February 18	CONFERENCE - The Muse in the Marble: Plastic Arts and Aesthetic Theories in Seventeenth-Century Europe Time: 9am-6pm Location: Lecture Room
Tuesday, February 24	READING - Sarah Arvio and Antonella Anedda with Damiano Abeni in English and Italian. Time: 6:30pm Location: Lecture Room
Thursday, February 26	CONCERT - David J. Bursack Time: CANCELLED. To be rescheduled in the Spring. Location: Villa Aurelia
March
Thursday, March 4	LECTURE - Nancy Goslee Power Principal at Nancy Goslee Power & Associates in Santa Monica, California, and Mercedes T. and Sid R. Bass Resident in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome will speak on garden design and her own work. Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
Tuesday, March 16 open through April 17	EXHIBITION - Luce e Ombra/Light and Shadow curated by David Childs, Consulting Partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York and William A. Bernoudy Resident in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome. Time: 6-8pm Location: Gallery
Monday, March 22	LECTURE - David Childs Time: 7pm Location: Acquario Romano - piazza Manfredo Fanti
April
Tuesday, 6 April	READING - Susanna Moore winner of the Sue Kauman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the PEN Hemingway Prize. Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
Thursday, 8 April	LECTURE - Christopher M.S. Johns the Norman and Roselea Goldberg Professor of Art History at Vanderbilt University and Department of Education Resident in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the American Academy in Rome will present "Art and the Catholic Revival in Napoleonic Paris: Antonio Canova's 'Penitent Magdalene" Time: 6pm Location:Lecture Room
Tuesday, 20 April	READING - Gary Shteyngart & Joshua Weiner Poetry Time: 6pm Location:Lecture Room
Friday, 23 April	CONCERT - Bryce Dessner Classical and rock guitarist Time: 9pm Location:Villa Aurelia
Monday, 26 April	LECTURE - Brian Copenhaver the Professor of Philosophy and History at the University of California, Los Angeles will give a lecture titled: "Picturing a Way Out of Magic." Time: 6pm Location:Lecture Room
Tuesday, 27 April	MINI-CONFERENCE - Linguaggi e aspetti dell'astrologia nella prima età moderna Time: 4pm Location:Lecture Room
May
Tuesday, 4 May	LECTURE - Romeo De Maio the Professor of Modern History at the Università di Napoli "Federico II" will give a lecture titled La parresia come furore nella crisi del Rinascimento Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
Thursday 6 May	LECTURE - Anthony Grafton the Henry Putnam Professor of European History at Princeton University and currently Resident in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the American Academy in Rome will present the lecture Towards a Social History of Editing: Emendation and Proof-Correction in the Renaissance Time: 6pm Location: Lecture Room
Thursday, 20 May and Sunday, 23 May	SYMPOSIUM - Imaging Ancient Rome: Documentation - Visualization - Imagination the Third Williams Symposium on Classical Architecture Location: Villa Aurelia
Tuesday, 25 May	LECTURE - James L. McGaugh Athanasius Kircher Lecture. The Director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Research Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine will give a lecture titled: Mapping Memory in the Brain: Centuries of Exploration Time: CANCELLED Location: Lecture Room
Friday, 28 May	CONCERT - Arthur Schoonderwoerd Concert held as part of an international conference titled: La cultura del fortepiano in Europa 1770-1830 Reservations necessary Time: 9pm Location: Villa Aurelia
Saturday, 29 May	CONCERT - Fellows' Annual Concert Works of the 2003-2004 Rome Prize Fellows in Musical Composition Time: 6pm Location: Cryptoporticus
Sunday, 30 May	READING - Fellows' Annual Reading Readings by the 2003-2004 Rome Prize Fellows in Literature Time: 6pm Location: Cortile
Monday, 31 May	OPEN HOUSE Open House with the 2003-2004 Rome Prize Fellows in Humanities Time: 5pm-7pm Location: Casa Rustica Open Studios with the 2003-2004 Rome Prize Fellows in Arts Time: 7pm-9pm Location: Main Building
June
Friday, 11 June	CONCERT - Ebenezer Church Choir The Ebenezer Church Choir hails from the famous Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia performs Time: 9pm Location: Villa Aurelia
First week, 15-17 June Second week, 22-24	CONCERT - The first annual Rome Chamber Music Festival at Villa Aurelia will take place the second and third week ofJune, presenting masterworks performed by world-renowned musicians. For further information and to purchase tickets contact www.romechamberfestival.org.
Friday-Saturday, 18-19 June	CONFERENCE - Unità e frammenti di modernità. Arte e scienza nella roma di Gregorio XIII Boncompagni (1572-1585) Held at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza"at the American Academy in Rome Time: 9:30am-5pm Location: Lecture Room

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