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May 2012

May 16, 2012
AAR-ICCS Collaboration Enriches the Rome Experience for a Select Group of Undergrads

The American Academy in Rome doesn’t just nurture preeminent artists and established scholars – it also offers a select group of college students a unique pre-grad school experience. And one that ultimately helps them determine whether they want to continue working in their chosen field. 

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May 11, 2012
The Glimpse Series: Heidi Wendt Broadens Her Investigation of Religious Entrepreneurship in Ancient Rome

Heidi Wendt is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies and Classics at Brown University, and the Emeline Hill Richardson Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies.

 
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May 07, 2012
'More Honor in Betrayal': Two Days of Poetry in Translation

On Friday afternoon in the courtyard of the Casa delle Letterature, in Rome’s historic center, an audience sat under the orange trees listening to poetry being read aloud in Italian and in English. A fountain contributed its own quiet music, as falling water caused the maidenhair fern to tremble; from time to time, gulls from the nearby Tiber laughed overhead; and church bells loudly called people to evening prayer. But for those who were listening, nothing really broke the spell of a beautiful May afternoon, and of poetry itself.

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May 06, 2012
Sellars and Morrison Discuss Collaboration at Rome Prize Ceremony in New York

The American Academy in Rome’s Janet & Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony to announce the winners of the 2012-2013 Fellowships took place on 26 April at the Harmonie Club in New York City. After the Rome Prize winners’ names were announced by Chairman of the Board of Trustees William B. Hart, the audience enjoyed a memorable conversation with opera, theater, and festival director Peter Sellars and Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Toni Morrison about Desdemona, a play on which they collaborated that explores in detail the female protagonist of Shakespeare’s Othello.

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April 2012

April 26, 2012
2012-13 Rome Prize Winners Announced

The American Academy in Rome congratulates the winners of the 116th annual Rome Prize Competition. The winners’ names were announced at the Janet & Arthur Ross Rome Prize Ceremony held at the Harmonie Club in New York City on 26 April. Recipients of the 2012-2013 Rome Prizes are provided with a fellowship that includes a stipend, a study or studio, and room and board for a period of six months to two years in Rome, Italy.

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April 20, 2012
AAR Moderates Lively Discussion on Italy’s Current Political, Cultural, Economic Landscape

On Thursday 18 April 2012, a capacity crowd braved a rainy vernal evening to attend the latest installment of the American Academy in Rome’s Conversations That Matter on the topic of “Italy Today.”

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April 11, 2012
The Glimpse Series: Architect Lonn Combs Traces Nervi’s Steps to Refine His Future Practice

Lonn Combs is principal architect at EASTON + COMBS in New York City, Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture, and the Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture.

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April 07, 2012
RSFP Celebrates Fifth Year Anniversary and Introduces Second Cookbook 'Zuppe'

In New York City, the Academy hosted an event to launch Mona Talbott’s new book, Zuppe, and to celebrate the fifth year of the Rome Sustainable Food Project, (RSFP) a program that has stirred a delicious revolution in institutional cooking by providing organic, local, sustainable meals at the American Academy in Rome.

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April 02, 2012
Realms of Gold: Fellows’ Spring Trip to Turkey, 17-26 March, 2012

“Much have I traveled in the realms of gold/ And many goodly states and kingdoms seen,” begins the famous sonnet by Keats. But for ten days in March, Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge Corey Brennan, FAAR’88, led a record-sized group of twenty-eight members of the AAR community on an itinerary to Istanbul and the Aegean coast of Turkey that made those participating feel that they, too, were part of a golden itinerary—and not just in that Homeric world of which Keats spoke, but in real life.

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March 2012

March 13, 2012
Scharoun Ensemble Berlin AAR Concerts, 9-10 March, 2012

Every year, the American Academy community comprises a vivid cross-section of the best in contemporary art and scholarship, its exact texture determined by the particular interests and abilities of the Fellows, Residents, and Affiliated and Visiting Artists and Scholars who assemble on the Janiculum.

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