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- Visiting Artists and Scholars
- Rome Sustainable Food Project
Residential Programs
Call for Entries 2010
Each year, the Rome Prize is awarded to thirty emerging artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers who represent the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities. Click here to learn more about the Rome Prize.
Summer Programs
Throughout most of its history the American Academy in Rome has sponsored summer programs. Consistent with the Academy's mission, these programs are intended to provide American scholars, teachers and academically advanced students the opportunity to experience and draw upon the resources of Rome. Below are links to the Academy's current summer programs.Participants in Academy summer programs are invited to join the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome. For more information on the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome and CSAAR membership, please visit their website at www.csaarome.org.
Classical Summer School
June 21 - July 30, 2010
This six-week program is designed to provide qualified graduate students, mature undergraduates, and middle school, high school, and two-year college teachers with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary sources.
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National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar
"The 'Falls of Rome': The Transformations of Rome in late Antiquity"
June 28 - July 30, 2010
This five week program is designed for teachers of American undergraduate students. Qualified independent scholars and those employed by museums, libraries, historical societies and other organizations may be eligible. Participants work with leading scholars on a given topic in the humanities with the goal of furthering their teaching and scholarship.
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The Howard Comfort, FAAR'29, Summer Program in Roman Pottery
June 14 - July 11, 2010
The Summer Program in Roman Pottery Studies is a four-week program designed to present the basics of Roman pottery studies and thus to fill a gap in archaeological training. Pottery is the most common discovery on archaeological sites in the Mediterranean on land and in shallow waters and also in the deep sea, which is opening up to archaeological research. It usually offers the most important evidence for dating socio-economic matters, such as trade relations and consumption patterns of food.
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Summer Program in Archaeology
June 7 - July 26, 2010
**APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 15, 2010**
The Summer Program in Archaeology was conceived in 1991 to give graduate students in all areas of Classical studies an overview of current developments in archaeological method and theory, focusing on ancient Italy and the ancient Mediterranean world. The seven-week course teaches selected participants the objectives and methods of archaeology through instruction and hands-on experience in active archaeological research. The program is divided into two parts: three weeks in residence at the American Academy for lectures and the opportunity to study the monuments and sources offered by Rome itself, and four weeks on-site at an archaeological excavation.
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Scuola di Etruscologia e Archeologia dell'Italia Antica
The Academy has granted affiliation to the Scuola di Etruscologia e Archeologia dell'Italia Antica at Orvieto, which is intended to foster the development of young scholars about to embark on their careers. During two weeks in the summer the participants attend lectures and seminars on a specific theme chosen each year by the Advisory Committee. In the following months they elaborate papers under the direction of the teaching staff. Those that are considered worthy are published in the Scuola's dedicated series. The students and faculty in the first cycles have been largely Italian, but the Scuola's desire in seeking AAR affiliation is to broaden its international outreach. Although some knowledge of Italian is required, work may be presented in English.
Director
Prof. Giuseppe M. Della Fina
(Director of the Museo "Claudio Faina" at Orvieto)
Information
info@uniorvieto.it
fainaorv@tin.it
www.museofaina.it
Affiliated Fellowships
In addition to Rome Prize fellows, the Academy is host to recipients of other fellowships and awards offered by educational and cultural organizations around the world. These Affiliated Fellows reside at the Academy for periods from four‐weeks to eleven‐months and add to the diversity of the Academy artistic and scholarly community.
ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars
Thanks to the generous assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) offers a small number of new fellowships for recently tenured scholars engaged in long-term projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Fields of specialization include but are not limited to: anthropology, archaeology, art history, economics, geography, history, languages and literature, law, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, and sociology.
Proposals in the social sciences, concentrating predominantly on humanistic approaches (e.g. economic history, law and literature, political philosophy), are eligible. Also eligible are proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies, as well as proposals focused on any geographic region or any cultural or linguistic group.
Burhardt Fellowships support a nine month residency at any one of nine national research centers including the American Academy in Rome. The ACLS will award a small number of fellowships each year. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $65,000. For further information, please visit the ACLS website.
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Burnham Prize of the Chicago Architectural Club
The Chicago Archtiectural Club grants three-month residencies at the Academy for architects practicing in and around the Chicago metropolitan area. For additional information and application details, contact:
Alan Armbrust
c/o I-Space
230 West Superior
Chicago, IL 60611.
Samuel H. Kress Traveling Fellowship (Jerusalem and Amman, Athens, Nicosia, or Rome)
This fellowship, a doctoral dissertation research fellowship for student specializing in architecture, art history, archaeology, and classical studies, includes an award of $18,500 for a five month residency at the Albright in Jerusalem, with the remainder of the award to be spent on five months either at the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, the Cyprus American Archaeological Institute in Nicosia, the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, or six weeks at the American Academy in Rome.
Applicants must demonstrate the necessity of residing at the Albright and at one of the other four institutions to complete their research, and must be U.S. citizens or students studying at an American university. Contact www.aiar.org for more information.
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Berthe M. Marti Fellowship in Latin
The Marti Fellowship, established by Berthe M. Marti, FAAR'45, provides a stipend for nine months of study in Rome, plus research and travel funding, to advanced graduate students in Latin at Bryn Mawr College or the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, or those who have received doctorate degrees from those institutions within three years of applying. The first six weeks of the program are spent at the American Academy, the remainder of the year in housing of the fellows choosing. The award is open to candidates in one or more of the following areas of study: early, classical, or medieval Latin; Latin palaeography; the transmission of Latin text; and/or the establishment of texts of Latin authors. Potential candidates should consult with the Chairperson of their graduate department.
Cynthia Hazen Polsky/Metropolitan Visiting Curator Award
This award, a multi-year initiative, brings a curator, mutually recommended by the Directors of the Metropolitan Museum and the Academy, to Rome to be part of the Academy community for a stay of six to eight weeks. Applications are not accepted.
The Michael I. Sovern/Columbia University Affiliated Fellowship
This fellowship, awarded by the Provost of Columbia University, was established by the Trustees of the American Academy in Rome and Friends of Columbia University in honor of Michael Sovern's chairmanship of the Academy board from 1993 to 2005. It enables a member of the Columbia community to spend six weeks in residence at the Academy.
Oscar Broneer Traveling Fellowship
To encourage study of the Greco-Roman world, each year the American Academy in Rome, in conjunction with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, award the Oscar Bronner Traveling Fellowship.
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Raiziss/de Palchi Traveling Fellowship of the American Academy of Poets
This fellowship is awarded bi-annually to a U.S. citizen for the translation of modern Italian poetry into English. Recipients reside at the American Academy in Rome for six weeks. For additional information please contact:
The American Academy of Poets
584 Broadway Suite 1208
New York, NY 10012
Multi-Country Research Program of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
This program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned a Ph.D in the fields of humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences, and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance. Fellowships require scholars to conduct their research in more than one country, at least one of which hosts a participating overseas research center. CAORC member centers include the American Academy in Rome where fellows are required to honor a two week minimum stay. For more information please contact:
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Regional Research Program
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
NHB - CE-123, MRC 178
Washington, DC 20013-7012
fellowships@caorc.org
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa & The American Academy in Rome
In order to promote cooperation in the field of academic research, the American Academy in Rome and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa exchange annually one scholar per institution. The program of exchange is for one student for 9,5 months, or two students for successive semesters to a total of 9,5 months. Scholars eligible for the exchange are normally doctoral candidates in the humanities from the two institutions. AAR pre-doctoral fellows may apply during the year in which they hold the Rome Prize or during any of the three following years, even if they have completed the Ph.D by then.
Exchange scholars have free access to all courses, lectures, seminars and to the libraries of the host institution. As to the fulfillment of their academic duties, they respond only to their home institution. The scholar originating from the AAR has also access to the relevant courses held at the University of Pisa, pending acceptance by the individual teachers. The SNS offers board and lodging or provides a stipend sufficient to cover these costs to the AAR scholar. The AAR offers board and lodging to the SNS scholar. In addition, the AAR provides its own scholar with a stipend. Given the residential nature of the two institutions, scholars selected for the exchange are expected to remain in residence with only occasional, brief absences.
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Getty Research Exchange Fellowship for the Mediterranean Basin and Middle East
The American Academy in Rome (AAR) and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) are pleased to announce the third cycle of the Getty Research Exchange Fellowship Program. The fellowship program is open to scholars who are Italian citizens and who have already obtained a Ph.D. or have professional experience in the study or preservation of cultural heritage and who wish to undertake a specific research project at an overseas research centers in another country.
Program Announcement (PDF)
Program Guidelines (PDF)
Program Application (PDF)
Residents
Invitational Residents Programs
The Director of the American Academy in Rome invites distinguished artists and scholars from around the world to reside at the Academy for periods ranging from two to four months. Invitations are extended to artists and scholars in the same disciplines as those of the Rome Prize.
During their stay, residents serve as senior advisors to Rome Prize recipients and to other members of the Academy community, and are expected to offer a minimum of one Academy-wide event in their area of expertise: a concert, an exhibition or studio visit, a lecture, a reading, or an instructional walk in Rome.
Those wishing to be considered for an invitational residency in the Arts and Humanities may apply in writing to the Academy's Director in Rome.
Visiting Artists and Scholars
The American Academy in Rome offers artists and scholars of any nationality an opportunity to rent living and working space at the Academy for a period from two weeks to four months.
Applications
Artists and scholars in Architecture Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Landscape Architecture, Literature, Music Composition, Visual Arts, Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and Modern Italian Studies may apply.
Applications are accepted year round and reviewed three times each year in June, October, and February. The Academy is closed from early August to mid- September.
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Accommodation & Rates
All Academy accommodation come completely furnished and the use of linens and all utilities except the telephone is included in the weekly cost. Weekly cleaning is provided. Meals are not included in the cost of the accommodation. Visiting Artists and Scholars are welcome to take their meals in the Academy dining room at an additional charge. Visiting Artists and Scholars are also welcome to use the Academy's Library and are given access to common kitchens, laundry rooms and other Academy facilities. High-speed internet connections are provided in all living and work spaces. Radios, television sets, alarm clocks and blow dryers are not provided. None of the Academy buildings are air-conditioned.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about the Visiting Artists and Scholars Program
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Rome Sustainable Food Project
RSFP Mission Statement
The Rome Sustainable Food Project provides the community of the American Academy in Rome with a collaborative dining program that nourishes scholarship and conviviality. Guided by the indomitable spirit of the Roman table, it is our aim to construct a replicable model for sustainable dining in an institution.
In 2006, Alice Waters envisioned the Rome Sustainable Food Project as an eco-gastronomic endeavor that would be a logical extension of the Academy’s values. Since its official launch in February 2007, the Rome Sustainable Food Project has transformed the community of the American Academy in Rome with a collaborative dining program that nourishes and supports both work and conviviality. Guided by the indomitable spirit of the Roman table, the Rome Sustainable Food Project aims to construct a replicable model for sustainable dining in an institution.
“The dining table at the Academy isn’t just delicious, it’s an idea that brings us back to our senses and can be a model for educational institutions everywhere.” – Alice Waters
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LectureGeorge Lewis & Arnold Davidson
Thursday 3 June 2010
Philosophers such as Pierre Hadot have argued that philosophy should not be viewed simply as a system of abstract discourses but as a set of practices or spiritual exercises that aim at individual and social transformation. Similarly, many musical improvisers have understood the sounds and practices of open improvisation as a metaphor for larger individual, social, and political questions. George Lewis and Arnold Davidson contend that the practice of improvisation is not limited to the artistic domain, but is a ubiquitous aspect of everyday life, and that the study of improvisation can lead to new models of intelligibility, agency, expression, and social responsibility. George Lewis is the Paul Fromm Composer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. Arnold Davidson is the Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome and Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
Concert
The concert will present works by the 2009-2010 Fellows in Musical Composition, Lisa Bielawa and Don Byron. Lisa Bielawa is the Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellow. Don Byron is the Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow. The concert is made possible by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Fromm Music Foundation, Herman Goldman Foundation, Estate of Kent W. Kennan, FAAR’39, and Janice and George Scantland.
To see invitation, click here.
Reading
The 2009-2010 Fellows in Literature, Peter Campion and Eliza Griswold, will read from their work. Peter Campion is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eliza Griswold is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman.
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Open Studios
The open studios offer a first-hand look at the Academy’s laboratory environment and the work of the 2009-2010 Rome Prize Fellows in the fields of Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Landscape Architecture, and Visual Arts. The Open Studios are made possible in part by a grant from The Cowles Charitable Trust.
To see invitation, click here.
Conference
The conference will bring together an international group of scholars to discuss the significance of the life-long interest in Italian art and culture of Philip Guston, FAAR’49, RAAR’71, and his late return to figurative painting. It is held in conjunction with the exhibition Philip Guston, Roma, curated by Peter Benson Miller, at the Museo Carlo Bilotti in Rome. Both events are made possible by the generous support of Barclays GRB Italia, Maria Cox and the New Initiatives for Don Fund, Nicolas de Croisset, Tinetta Piontelli Gardella, Julia Grandison, Mirella Petteni Haggiag, LEGG Srl, Nancy O’Boyle, Monina von Opel and Edward F. Miller, Rogers Charitable, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
For a full program, click here
To see invitation, click here.
Conference
The conference will bring together an international group of scholars to discuss the significance of the life-long interest in Italian art and culture of Philip Guston, FAAR’49, RAAR’71, and his late return to figurative painting. It is held in conjunction with the exhibition Philip Guston, Roma, curated by Peter Benson Miller, at the Museo Carlo Bilotti in Rome. Both events are made possible by the generous support of Barclays GRB Italia, Maria Cox and the New Initiatives for Don Fund, Nicolas de Croisset, Tinetta Piontelli Gardella, Julia Grandison, Mirella Petteni Haggiag, LEGG Srl, Nancy O’Boyle, Monina von Opel and Edward F. Miller, Rogers Charitable, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
For a full program, click here.
To see invitation, click here.
Exhibition Opening
The exhibition will feature a variety of portraits of Americans taken over the last 12 years by American photographer Alec Soth. Soth captures diverse images of a country disillusioned with, and deceived by, its own identity, from mothers of marines serving in Iraq to teenage mothers in the Louisiana Bayou; from religious propaganda in the American workplace to the mortgage crisis in Stockton, California. The exhibition is made possible by the Gagosian Gallery, Rome. It will be on show until 18 June 2010 by appointment. Please call 06/5846459.
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LectureCarey Lovelace
Monday 17 May 2010
Carey Lovelace will outline issues foregrounded by a recent landmark exhibit at The Drawing Center in New York. The exhibition portrayed the role of drawing in the work of avant-garde composer and architect Iannis Xenakis. The talk will focus on the fusion of arts that Xenakis embodied, as well as discussing strategies involved in staging the complex installation. Lovelace, critic and independent curator, is the Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome.
Exhibition Opening
The exhibition showcases the work of the band Destroy All Monsters, a Michigan collective consisting of Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw, among others. Through posters, flyers, photographs, blueprints, drawings, banners, magazines, records, and various other ephemera culled from the collective’s archive, the show emphasizes material produced in the 1970s and following the original collective’s reunion in 1996. The exhibition is curated by James Hoff and Cary Loren and made possible by the Depart Foundation and Nero Magazine. It will be on show until 11 June 2010 by appointment. Please call 06/5846459.
Concert
Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include compositions by George Crumb, Erwin Schulhoff, Guillaume Dufay, Sofia Gubaidulina, Lisa Bielawa (Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Don Byron (Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Andrew Norman, FAAR'07 (Berlin Prize in Music Composition Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Brahms, Schubert, and Mozart. For a full program, click here
Concert
Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include compositions by George Crumb, Erwin Schulhoff, Guillaume Dufay, Sofia Gubaidulina, Lisa Bielawa (Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Don Byron (Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Andrew Norman, FAAR'07 (Berlin Prize in Music Composition Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Brahms, Schubert, and Mozart. For a full program, click here
Concert
Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include compositions by George Crumb, Erwin Schulhoff, Guillaume Dufay, Sofia Gubaidulina, Lisa Bielawa (Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Don Byron (Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Andrew Norman, FAAR'07 (Berlin Prize in Music Composition Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Brahms, Schubert, and Mozart. For a full program, click here
Subject Field
Calendar with Gallery
LectureElyn Zimmerman
Monday 26 April 2010
New York-based artist Elyn Zimmerman is the Roy Lichtenstein Visual Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. She will discuss her work and recent projects, which represent a hybrid of sculpture and landscape design.
LectureAnn Vasaly
Thursday 22 April 2010
It is often taken for granted that the Roman historian Livy’s text consistently illustrates the dangerous and destructive role of the masses in the political arena. The lecture challenges this notion by reexamining the role of the populus and their leaders in the first five books. To what extent does the pattern of events support the idea of iusta seditio (justified rebellion) as vital to the creation of the early state? Ann Vasaly, FAAR’83, is the Lucy Shoe Meritt Scholar in Residence (Ancient Studies) at the American Academy in Rome and Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University.
Conference
The conference will re-examine the evidence for Greek and Greek-style baths and revise our understanding of the significance of an extraordinary range of ever-increasing archaeological material, including the earliest evidence from Greece itself, with developments down into the later Roman imperial period, where Greek and Greek-style baths continued alongside Roman complexes. Co-organizing the conference are independent scholar Sandra Lucore, FAAR’07, and Monika Trümper, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The conference is funded by generous support from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and Mrs. Muriel Bell. For a full program, click here.
Conference
The conference will re-examine the evidence for Greek and Greek-style baths and revise our understanding of the significance of an extraordinary range of ever-increasing archaeological material, including the earliest evidence from Greece itself, with developments down into the later Roman imperial period, where Greek and Greek-style baths continued alongside Roman complexes. Co-organizing the conference are independent scholar Sandra Lucore, FAAR’07, and Monika Trümper, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The conference is funded by generous support from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and Mrs. Muriel Bell. For a full program, click here
LectureWilliam Drenttel & Jessica Helfand
Thursday 8 April 2010
William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand are the Henry Wolf Residents in Graphic Design at the American Academy in Rome. They will discuss their library, their collections, their studio, their obsessions—and their aspirations for a design practice after a 29,000 mile trip around the world. Jessica Helfand is a Senior Critic at Yale School of Art, and William Drenttel is a Senior Faculty at Yale School of Management. They are Principals at Winterhouse Studio and founders of Design Observer, a website of design, visual culture, urbanism, and social innovation.
Lecture
When Rome became the capital of Italy in 1870, it inherited a disparate system of prisons located in ancient Roman baths, medieval monasteries, early modern workhouses, Renaissance palaces, and aristocratic villas. This lecture will map the geography of Roman prisons and analyze the evolution of policies of punishment toward men, women, and children during the fifty years after unification. Mary Gibson, FAAR’03, is the American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence (Modern Italian Studies) and Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Jerome Lecture SeriesKathleen Coleman
Thursday 25 February 2010
In 1871, the funerary altar of Q. Sulpicius Maximus was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Salaria. He died in 94 CE at the age of eleven, having worked himself to death. In addition to his epitaph, in Latin, and two funerary epigrams, in Greek, the façade contains the text of a poem in 43 Greek hexameters that he composed for the emperor Domitian’s Greek-style games. These lectures explore Maximus’ social background and the type of education that he received, in order to understand the circumstances of this domestic tragedy and the ambitions that led to it. The series will include a visit to the altar itself after the seminar on Saturday 20 February. Kathleen Coleman is Professor of Latin at Harvard University. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture SeriesKathleen Coleman
Tuesday 23 February 2010
In 1871, the funerary altar of Q. Sulpicius Maximus was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Salaria. He died in 94 CE at the age of eleven, having worked himself to death. In addition to his epitaph, in Latin, and two funerary epigrams, in Greek, the façade contains the text of a poem in 43 Greek hexameters that he composed for the emperor Domitian’s Greek-style games. These lectures explore Maximus’ social background and the type of education that he received, in order to understand the circumstances of this domestic tragedy and the ambitions that led to it. The series will include a visit to the altar itself after the seminar on Saturday 20 February. Kathleen Coleman is Professor of Latin at Harvard University. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture SeriesKathleen Coleman
Saturday 20 February 2010
In 1871, the funerary altar of Q. Sulpicius Maximus was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Salaria. He died in 94 CE at the age of eleven, having worked himself to death. In addition to his epitaph, in Latin, and two funerary epigrams, in Greek, the façade contains the text of a poem in 43 Greek hexameters that he composed for the emperor Domitian’s Greek-style games. These lectures explore Maximus’ social background and the type of education that he received, in order to understand the circumstances of this domestic tragedy and the ambitions that led to it. The series will include a visit to the altar itself after the seminar on Saturday 20 February. Kathleen Coleman is Professor of Latin at Harvard University. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture SeriesKathleen Coleman
Thursday 18 February 2010
In 1871, the funerary altar of Q. Sulpicius Maximus was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Salaria. He died in 94 CE at the age of eleven, having worked himself to death. In addition to his epitaph, in Latin, and two funerary epigrams, in Greek, the façade contains the text of a poem in 43 Greek hexameters that he composed for the emperor Domitian’s Greek-style games. These lectures explore Maximus’ social background and the type of education that he received, in order to understand the circumstances of this domestic tragedy and the ambitions that led to it. The series will include a visit to the altar itself after the seminar on Saturday 20 February. Kathleen Coleman is Professor of Latin at Harvard University. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture SeriesKathleen Coleman
Tuesday 16 February 2010
In 1871, the funerary altar of Q. Sulpicius Maximus was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Salaria. He died in 94 CE at the age of eleven, having worked himself to death. In addition to his epitaph, in Latin, and two funerary epigrams, in Greek, the façade contains the text of a poem in 43 Greek hexameters that he composed for the emperor Domitian’s Greek-style games. These lectures explore Maximus’ social background and the type of education that he received, in order to understand the circumstances of this domestic tragedy and the ambitions that led to it. The series will include a visit to the altar itself after the seminar on Saturday 20 February. Kathleen Coleman is Professor of Latin at Harvard University. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
LectureDaniel Mendelsohn
Monday 15 February 2010
Daniel Mendelsohn, author and critic, is the Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome. The talk is a selection from his new work in progress, “Odysseys: Adventures in Reading the Greeks,” a rumination on the meaning of the classics narrated from within a circumnavigation of the Mediterranean. The talk is a meditation on the fragility of the ancient texts and a chastening reminder of all we do not, in fact, possess.
LectureLeonard Barkan
Thursday 11 February 2010
Through several millennia, high culture–poems, paintings, symphonies–has tended to exclude gastronomy from a place at the table. This lecture will explore especially the problematic relations between Renaissance high art and the dinner table, while pursuing the question why, in regard to all the arts, we refer to the highest degree of refined sensitivity as taste. Leonard Barkan is the American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence (History of Art) and Class of 1943 University Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University.
Concert
This concert includes the European premiere of Tintinnabulation for percussion ensemble and the solo piece Figment V by Elliott Carter, FAAR’53, RAAR’63,’69,’80, along with earlier works for solo instruments (Piano Sonata, 90+, and GRA) and the chamber ensemble work The So-Called Laws of Nature by David Lang, FAAR’91. The concert is performed by PMCE – Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble – and presented in collaboration with the Fondazione Musica per Roma as part of the Progetto Calliope.
Lecture and Exhibition
This exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono (Venice), documents the performance and reception history of the composer’s opera, Intolleranza 1960. The work caused scandal both in its world premiere in Venice in 1961 and its American premiere in Boston in 1965. Nono was denied entrance to the US because of his Communist views until a group of American composers and political figures rose to his defense. This exhibition includes unpublished letters, reviews, FBI and State Department files, and other audio and visual documentation, to provide a window onto the cultural milieu of Cold War international exchange. The exhibition is on view until 27 January 2010 by appointment, tel. 06/5846459.
Claudia Vincis (Director of the Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono) and Veniero Rizzardi (University of Venice) will discuss the exhibition and hold a conversation with Nuria Schoenberg Nono at 5pm in the Lecture Room.
Concert
The concert will include three works by Luigi Nono: La fabbrica illuminata (1964), for voice and tape, performed by Lisa Bielawa (Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize winner); Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto in Auschwitz (1966), for tape alone; and Post-prae-ludium per Donau (1987), performed by Giancarlo Schiaffini (tuba) and Giacomo De Caterini (live electronics). Brief comments will be made by Nuria Schoenberg Nono. This concert is presented in collaboration with the Fondazione Musica per Roma and the Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, as part of the series Controtempo: Festival di musica contemporanea. For tickets, please call 06/67611.
LectureCalvin Tsao
Tuesday 12 January 2010
Calvin Tsao is the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. He is Principal at Tsao and McKown Architects in New York and President of the Architectural League of New York. He will discuss the evolving domain of architecture and design in a polyglottal world.
Conference (day 3 of 3)
The qualities attributed to the singing voice range from corporeal presence to ethereal beauty. In fostering a new understanding of the paradox of the singing voice, this conference will bring together singers, scientists, historians, philosophers, and musicologists. It is co-sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Registration is necessary for this conference. Please send an e-mail to: tplokarz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Conference Program (PDF)
Conference (day 2 of 3)
The qualities attributed to the singing voice range from corporeal presence to ethereal beauty. In fostering a new understanding of the paradox of the singing voice, this conference will bring together singers, scientists, historians, philosophers, and musicologists. It is co-sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Registration is necessary for this conference. Please send an e-mail to: tplokarz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Conference Program (PDF)
Conference (day 1 of 3)
The qualities attributed to the singing voice range from corporeal presence to ethereal beauty. In fostering a new understanding of the paradox of the singing voice, this conference will bring together singers, scientists, historians, philosophers, and musicologists. It is co-sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Registration is necessary for this conference. Please send an e-mail to: tplokarz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Conference Program (PDF)
Concerts
As is customary, Nuova Consonanza – Rome’s oldest and largest contemporary music association – is offering their musical marathon in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome. A variety of concerts, installations, exhibitions, and video projections will be featured throughout the Villa Aurelia and its grounds, and will include a number of new works by Italian and American composers. For tickets, please see www.nuovaconsonanza.it.
LectureT. Corey Brennan
Wednesday 18 November 2009
This presentation aims to contextualize aspects of the life and work of Roman historian Lily Ross Taylor (1886-1969), FAAR’18, on the 40th anniversary of her death (18 November 1969). The focus will be on five of her sustained experiences in Italy: as a young student (1909-1910), a Red Cross worker during the First World War, the first woman American Academy Fellow (1919-1920), and Professor in Charge at the American Academy (1934-1935 and 1951-1955). T. Corey Brennan, FAAR’88, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome.
LectureRonald G. Witt
Thursday 12 November 2009
Ronald G. Witt will offer his explanation for the fact that by the mid-twelfth century laymen in Italy largely dominated intellectual life whereas a similar development did not occur in northern Europe until the sixteenth century. Witt, FAAR’97, is the William B. Hamilton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Duke University and Lester K. Little Scholar in Residence (Medieval Studies) at the American Academy in Rome.
Conference
The Academy hosts the second and final day of a conference organized by the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, to celebrate the 75th birthday of Prof. Antonio Martina, who held the Chair of Greek Literature at the University until his retirement in 2006. The conference will focus on the relationship between local and panhellenic myths in Greek epic and include speakers from Italy and the United States. Papers will be given in Italian.
Book PresentationNancy A. Winter
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Nancy A. Winter’s book, Symbols of Wealth and Power, the ninth and latest Supplement to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (Ann Arbor, 2009), is the first definitive study of Etruscan architecture in almost 70 years. Speakers will include the author, T. Corey Brennan, FAAR’88 (American Academy in Rome), and Ingrid Edlund-Berry, FAAR’84 (University of Texas at Austin). The presentation will be followed by a visit to the American Academy’s archaeological study collection.
Concert
The concert will feature music by American composers Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, and William Susman as well as by the Italian composers Giovanni Sollima, Matteo Sommacal, and Irma Ravinale. This is the closing concert of the 30th edition of the Nuovi Spazi Musicali contemporary music festival.
Book PresentationOretta Zanini De Vita
Saturday 10 October 2009
Oretta Zanini De Vita’s Encyclopedia of Pasta (2009) is a compendium of historical and geographical research on this staple of the Italian diet. It is the latest volume in the University of California Press series California Studies in Food and Culture, which considers food from a range of disciplines and approaches. The author will discuss her methodology in compiling this reference work, with contributions also by Sheila Levine (UC Press), Maureen B. Fant (translator of the book), and Christopher Boswell (American Academy’s Rome Sustainable Food Program).
LectureStephen Greenblatt
Tuesday 6 October 2009
The lecture concerns an experiment in translation and transformation, inspired by a lost play co-authored by Shakespeare and his younger colleague Fletcher. Greenblatt will explore what happens when cultural materials are unmoored from their foundations and set in motion. Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of Humanities in the Department of English at Harvard University and American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence (Literature).
Conference (day 2 of 2)
A two-day conference held at the American Academy on June 16 and at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” on June 17. The conference aims to tackle a set of technical but intriguing questions about the commercial sea-faring of the ancient Mediterranean. Thousands of ancient shipwrecks are scattered all over the floor of the Mediterranean, and yet we know that from time to time Greeks, Romans, and others thought of better ways of building ships and of keeping them afloat. Which innovations -- if any -- really made the Mediterranean safer for ancient commerce? Scholars from France, Italy, Britain, Austria, and the United States will attempt to resolve this problem. The conference is organized by William V. Harris, RAAR’79,’83 (Columbia University), with the support of the Distinguished Scholar Award received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2008-2011), and by Elio Lo Cascio (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”).
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Conference (day 1 of 2)
A two-day conference held at the American Academy on June 16 and at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” on June 17. The conference aims to tackle a set of technical but intriguing questions about the commercial sea-faring of the ancient Mediterranean. Thousands of ancient shipwrecks are scattered all over the floor of the Mediterranean, and yet we know that from time to time Greeks, Romans, and others thought of better ways of building ships and of keeping them afloat. Which innovations -- if any -- really made the Mediterranean safer for ancient commerce? Scholars from France, Italy, Britain, Austria, and the United States will attempt to resolve this problem. The conference is organized by William V. Harris, RAAR’79,’83 (Columbia University), with the support of the Distinguished Scholar Award received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2008-2011), and by Elio Lo Cascio (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”).
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Concert
This concert will present works by the 2008-2009 Fellows in Musical Composition, Keeril Makan and Kurt Rohde. Keeril Makan is the Luciano Berio Rome Prize Fellow. Kurt Rohde is the Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow. The concert is made possible by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Fromm Music Foundation, Herman Goldman Foundation, Estate of Kent W. Kennan, FAAR’39, and Janice and George Scantland.
Reading
The 2008-2009 Fellows in Literature, Brad Kessler and Dana Spiotta, will read from their work. Brad Kessler is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman. Dana Spiotta is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Open Studios
The open studios offer a first-hand look at the Academy’s laboratory environment and the work of the 2008-2009 Rome Prize Fellows in the fields of Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Landscape Architecture, and Visual Arts. The Open Studios are made possible in part by a grant from The Cowles Charitable Trust.
LectureBrenda Way
Tuesday 19 May 2009
A discussion and video sampling of Brenda Way’s choreography, focusing on sources and her unabashed love of movement, form, and the narrative vein. How have the innovations of the 1970’s in American dance transformed over the decades in the eye and on the body? Way is the Donald and Maria Cox Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Artistic Director of the Oberlin Dance Company in San Francisco.
LectureHelen Nagy
Thursday 14 May 2009
Women’s burials in Etruria have yielded thousands of bronze mirrors with incised images on their reverse. Currently an international effort is under way to publish all extant examples of these objects in the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum. Two decorated mirrors from West Coast (USA) collections are the primary focus of this lecture. One represents the “Judgment of Paris,” a common theme on Etruscan mirrors, the other shows Menelaos threatening Helen after the capture of Troy. These depictions, the before and after in the story of Helen and Paris, provide an insight into the Etruscans’ interpretation of Greek mythology. The mirrors also serve as examples of the technical, scientific, and iconographic analysis applied to Etruscan mirrors as part of this collaborative research. Helen Nagy, FAAR’86, is the Lucy Shoe Meritt Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Professor Emerita of Art History at The University of Puget Sound.
LectureJudith Di Maio
Tuesday 12 May 2009
The lecture discusses the similarities between the structural/formal content in early/mid-sixteenth century ‘Mannerist’ Italian architecture and painting. Judith Di Maio will show how these overlaps and strategies of compositional structure have inspired her own architectural work. Di Maio, FAAR’78, is the Colin Rowe Designer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Dean of the School of Architecture and Design at the New York Institute of Technology.
LectureAlexander Stille
Tuesday 5 May 2009
Alexander Stille is working on a memoir which braids together the story of two families -- one a family of Jews from Russia that begins the 20th century in Moscow, and lives through the twenty years of fascism in Italy; the other an American Protestant family from Chicago. It traces their trajectory through the fascist period in Italy and World War II to the two families’ intersection in 1948, in the form of Stille’s parents’ meeting and marriage. It is a microhistory of a much larger historical movement, the exile and dislocation of a large segment of European intelligenzia that was uprooted by fascism in the 1930s and transplanted in the United States. It is also an experiment in narrative and a reflection on historical and personal memory. Stille is the Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome and San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University.
Lecture Series
This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
Lecture Series
This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
Exhibition Opening
The Buffer Zone invites artists to investigate the role of art in creating or identifying communities within an institution and asks the artists to consider the American Academy in Rome to be a context rather than a location. The exhibition includes American artists in residence at the Academy and Italian artists. It is curated by Cecilia Canziani and Lexi Eberspacher and can be visited by appointment at 06/5846459 until 3 June 2009.
Lecture Series
This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
Concert
Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include recent compositions by Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, FAAR’54, RAAR’63, ’69, ’80, Hans Werner Henze, Keeril Makan (Luciano Berio Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Kurt Rohde (Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Daniel Visconti (Lenore Annenberg Music Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert.
Concert
Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include recent compositions by Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, FAAR’54, RAAR’63, ’69, ’80, Hans Werner Henze, Keeril Makan (Luciano Berio Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Kurt Rohde (Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Daniel Visconti (Lenore Annenberg Music Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert.
Concert
Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include recent compositions by Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, FAAR’54, RAAR’63, ’69, ’80, Hans Werner Henze, Keeril Makan (Luciano Berio Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Kurt Rohde (Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Daniel Visconti (Lenore Annenberg Music Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert.
Lecture Series
This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
LectureDaniel P. Jordan
Monday 9 March 2009
Even before the current recession, “at risk” describes many of America’s historic homes, large and small, that are open to the public. The lecture will provide insight into the importance of these historic properties, an analysis of the problem, and some options for the future. Daniel P. Jordan is James Marston Fitch Resident in Historic Preservation at the American Academy in Rome. He is President Emeritus of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Vice Chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
LectureJoan La Barbara
Thursday 5 March 2009
As a performer and composer, Joan La Barbara has profoundly affected the development of the American avant-garde. She has worked with many artists, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Judy Chicago, and Bruce Nauman. La Barbara will speak about her pioneering work in the development of experimental music and extended vocal techniques. This lecture is offered in collaboration with Musica per Roma Fondazione.
Lecture Series
This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
Jerome Lecture SeriesHenner von Hesberg
Monday 23 February 2009
The year 2009 marks the 2000th anniversary of the defeat of Quintilius Varus in the battle of the Teutoburg forest. German historiography has interpreted this battle as signifying the failure of Roman conquest in this area, which consequently did not extend past the Rhine. By contrast, the Romans were in military and political terms very successful in subduing these peoples, so that in the end they held the northwestern provinces for more than 400 years. Mainly based on archaeological evidence, the lecture series will demonstrate why the Romans were so successful. Henner von Hesberg is the Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture SeriesHenner von Hesberg
Saturday 21 February 2009
The year 2009 marks the 2000th anniversary of the defeat of Quintilius Varus in the battle of the Teutoburg forest. German historiography has interpreted this battle as signifying the failure of Roman conquest in this area, which consequently did not extend past the Rhine. By contrast, the Romans were in military and political terms very successful in subduing these peoples, so that in the end they held the northwestern provinces for more than 400 years. Mainly based on archaeological evidence, the lecture series will demonstrate why the Romans were so successful. Henner von Hesberg is the Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture SeriesHenner von Hesberg
Friday 20 February 2009
The year 2009 marks the 2000th anniversary of the defeat of Quintilius Varus in the battle of the Teutoburg forest. German historiography has interpreted this battle as signifying the failure of Roman conquest in this area, which consequently did not extend past the Rhine. By contrast, the Romans were in military and political terms very successful in subduing these peoples, so that in the end they held the northwestern provinces for more than 400 years. Mainly based on archaeological evidence, the lecture series will demonstrate why the Romans were so successful. Henner von Hesberg is the Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture SeriesHenner von Hesberg
Wednesday 18 February 2009
The year 2009 marks the 2000th anniversary of the defeat of Quintilius Varus in the battle of the Teutoburg forest. German historiography has interpreted this battle as signifying the failure of Roman conquest in this area, which consequently did not extend past the Rhine. By contrast, the Romans were in military and political terms very successful in subduing these peoples, so that in the end they held the northwestern provinces for more than 400 years. Mainly based on archaeological evidence, the lecture series will demonstrate why the Romans were so successful. Henner von Hesberg is the Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture Series
The year 2009 marks the 2000th anniversary of the defeat of Quintilius Varus in the battle of the Teutoburg forest. German historiography has interpreted this battle as signifying the failure of Roman conquest in this area, which consequently did not extend past the Rhine. By contrast, the Romans were in military and political terms very successful in subduing these peoples, so that in the end they held the northwestern provinces for more than 400 years. Mainly based on archaeological evidence, the lecture series will demonstrate why the Romans were so successful. Henner von Hesberg is the Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Exhibition Opening II
Inspired by the figure of two-faced Janus, symbol of the American Academy in Rome and of the relationship between past and future, the exhibition reflects upon the different aspects of the double image. The juxtaposition of works by eleven artists explores the sometimes contradictory figure of Janus and helps us question the meaning and value around the construction of the double image. Residents of the American Academy in Rome will join the exhibition with the second opening on 12 February. The exhibition is curated by Francesco Stocchi. It is open every morning from Monday to Friday from 9:30am to 12:30pm and by appointment, tel. 06/5846459 until 3 March 2008.
Lecture Series
This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
LectureGeorge Hargreaves
Thursday 5 February 2009
The lecture will feature selected projects by Hargreaves Associates, illustrating the transformative aspects of landscape architecture. George Hargreaves is Mercedes T. and Sid R. Bass Landscape Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Design Director/ Senior Principal at Hargreaves Associates.
Exhibition Opening I
Inspired by the figure of two-faced Janus, symbol of the American Academy in Rome and of the relationship between past and future, the exhibition reflects upon the different aspects of the double image. The juxtaposition of works by eleven artists explores the sometimes contradictory figure of Janus and helps us question the meaning and value around the construction of the double image. Residents of the American Academy in Rome will join the exhibition with the second opening on 12 February. The exhibition is curated by Francesco Stocchi. It is open every morning from Monday to Friday from 9:30am to 12:30pm and by appointment, tel. 06/5846459 until 3 March 2008.
Concert
This concert marks composer Alvin Curran’s 70th birthday. Since 1965, when he co-founded the radical music collective Musica Elettronica Viva, Curran has been a musical force in Rome. The first performance of his music in the city was held at the American Academy in Rome 43 years ago. The concert will feature works dating from 1965 to 2008 performed by a number of friends and colleagues, including members of the Alter Ego and Ars Ludi ensembles. The concert is offered in collaboration with Musica per Roma Fondazione.
LectureGuy J. P. Nordenson
Wednesday 14 January 2009
Some things take forever to get built and the ruins remain well beyond their time. This talk will begin by ranging over a number of projects from the Tor Tre Teste Jubilee Church (renamed when the Church of the Year 2000 ran late) to built projects at MIT and at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art that all partake of the concrete theater of slow construction. This will lead into a brief account of Palisade Bay, a proposal by a collective of architects, engineers, and landscape architects for the gradual transformation of the New York / New Jersey Upper Harbor to mitigate the effects of sea level rise due to climate change. Guy J. P. Nordenson is William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Professor of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Princeton University.
Film ScreeningLaurie Simmons
Wednesday 17 December 2008
Visual artist Laurie Simmons, RAAR'05, will present her film The Music of Regret (U.S.A., 2006), a mini-musical in three acts starring Meryl Streep, Adam Guettel, and the Alvin Ailey Dancers. This film, which grew out of Simmons' photographic work, includes vintage child-craft puppets that enact the pain and regret that erupt between two feuding families.
Conference
The conference is intended to provide an overview of the extensive research activities conducted at Leptis Magna by the Università di Roma Tre: investigating inhabitation patterns in the city's surrounding territory; analyzing the typologies of countryside villas and their impressive decorative programs; recovering important funerary contexts; examining vast quantities of epigraphic evidence; and studying the use of imported marbles in the construction and decoration of the unique architectural complexes of the city. Speakers will include: Luisa Musso, Università di Roma Tre, Gianni Ponti, Archeology Liaison at the American Academy in Rome, Ginette Everard-Di Vita, La Sorbonne, and other members of the archeological team working at Leptis. Presentations will be in English and Italian.
LectureElizabeth Bartman
Thursday 4 December 2008
Like many other "Grand Tour" collections, the ancient marbles belonging to Henry Blundell at Ince have in recent times been dismissed as over-restored and artistically worthless. By using them as a platform for exploring issues of Roman art theory, production, and reception, this lecture demonstrates why their poor reputation deserves rehabilitation. Elizabeth Bartman, FAAR'83, is an Independent Scholar and James S. Ackerman Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.
PresentationPaul D. Miller / DJ Spooky
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Introducing his book Sound Unbound, Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid) will explore the theme of sound in contemporary art, digital media, and composition. Sound Unbound (MIT Press, 2007) is a collection of thirty essays: reports from the front lines on the role of sound and digital media in an information-based society.
LectureCarroll Dunham
Monday 24 November 2008
As the critic Ken Johnson has recently written in the New York Times, Carroll Dunham's paintings "deliver an uncommonly potent combination of formal punch, narrative intrigue and metaphorical resonance." In this presentation, Dunham will discuss examples of his recent work. He is the Roy Lichtenstein Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.
LectureClaude Baker
Thursday 20 November 2008
Through the discussion of a single symphonic composition, Claude Baker will illustrate those stylistic traits that have been most prevalent in his music during the past two decades. Baker is the Paul Fromm Composer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Class of 1956 Chancellor's Professor of Composition at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Concerts
As is customary, Nuova Consonanza — Rome's oldest and largest contemporary music association — is offering their musical marathon in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome. A variety of concerts, installations, exhibitions, and video projections will take place throughout the Villa Aurelia and its grounds and will include a number of new works by Italian and American composers. For tickets, please see www.nuovaconsonanza.it.
LectureJeanne Marie Teutonico
Monday 3 November 2008
The lecture will present a critical reflection on the work of the Getty Conservation Institute and discuss how changes in approach and emphasis reflect the evolving nature of heritage conservation practice. Case studies from the Institute's work in Egypt, China, and Tunisia will be used to illustrate the presentation. Jeanne Marie Teutonico is the William A. Bernoudy Resident at the American Academy in Rome and Associate Director, Programs, Getty Conservation Institute.
LectureLewis Kaplan
Monday 27 October 2008
The renowned violinist, Lewis Kaplan, will perform J.S. Bach's Partita in D minor for unaccompanied violin and discuss the importance of numbers, numerology, and religion in this cornerstone of the violin repertory. Kaplan teaches at The Juilliard School, The Mannes College of Music, and the Summer Academy at the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria. This year Kaplan was appointed Visiting Professor of Violin at the Royal College of Music in London. He is Director of the Bowdoin International Music Festival.
ConcertPaul Bowman, guitarist
Thursday 16 October 2008
Two virtuoso American performers, on the faculty of the University of California at San Diego, guitarist Paul Bowman and flutist Harvey Sollberger, will perform a program of contemporary works, including pieces by American composers Milton Babbit, Kirsten Broberg, Yotam Haber, FAAR'08, and Harvey Sollberger, RAAR'89, as well as by Italian composers Paolo Cavallone, A. Ciccaglioni, S. Corbett, and Franco Evangelisti. This concert is offered in cooperation with Nuovi Spazi Musicali.
A two-part event
A two-part event: 1) a group exhibition on the theme of Rome; and 2) a sampling of Italian art through films about Italian artists. Curated by Raffaele Gavarro.
Film - Tales of Italian Art
5pm, Lecture Room
Via Angelo Masina, 5
Eight films about Italian artists from different generations directed by Alessandra Populin and Ignazio Agosta. The projections will be preceded by a brief introduction by the directors and conclude with an opportunity to meet some of the artists featured in the films.
Monday 6 October
Jannis Kounellis by Alessandra Populin
Stefano Arienti by Alessandra Populin
Tuesday 7 October
Fabio Mauri by Alessandra Populin
Giacinto Cerone by Ignazio Agosta
Wednesday 8 October
Mimmo Paladino by Ignazio Agosta
Vedovamazzei by Alessandra Populin
Thursday 9 October
Pietro Fortuna by Alessandra Populin
Giulio Paolini by Alessandra Populin
Exhibition - Remembering
6:30pm-8pm
Gallery
Via Angelo Masina, 5
A group exhibition dedicated to memory and to Rome that will explore the capacity of art to make the past an element of our continuous present. Each evening two artists, one from a foreign academy in Rome and one Italian, will show a piece of work. After 9 October and until 31 October 2008, the exhibition will be open by appointment (tel. 06/5846459).
Monday 6 October
Rosa Casado Arroyo (Spain) & Mike Brookes (Great Britain) – Giuseppe Stampone (Italy)
Tuesday 7 October
Elke Zauner (Germany) – Alice Schivardi (Italy)
Wednesday 8 October
Luzia Hurzeler (Switzerland) – Diego Valentino (Italy)
Thursday 9 October
John Kelly, FAAR'07 (U.S.A.) – Alterazioni Video (Italy)
Archives
Lecture
George Lewis & Arnold Davidson
Improvisation as a Way of Life: Time, Form, Technology, Ethics
Thursday 3 June 2010Philosophers such as Pierre Hadot have argued that philosophy should not be viewed simply as a system of abstract discourses but as a set of practices or spiritual exercises that aim at individual and social transformation. Similarly, many musical improvisers have understood the sounds and practices of open improvisation as a metaphor for larger individual, social, and political questions. George Lewis and Arnold Davidson contend that the practice of improvisation is not limited to the artistic domain, but is a ubiquitous aspect of everyday life, and that the study of improvisation can lead to new models of intelligibility, agency, expression, and social responsibility. George Lewis is the Paul Fromm Composer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. Arnold Davidson is the Laurance P. and Isabel S. Roberts Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome and Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
Concert
Fellows’ Annual Concert
Saturday 29 May 2010The concert will present works by the 2009-2010 Fellows in Musical Composition, Lisa Bielawa and Don Byron. Lisa Bielawa is the Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellow. Don Byron is the Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow. The concert is made possible by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Fromm Music Foundation, Herman Goldman Foundation, Estate of Kent W. Kennan, FAAR’39, and Janice and George Scantland.
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Reading
Fellows’ Annual Reading
Friday 28 May 2010The 2009-2010 Fellows in Literature, Peter Campion and Eliza Griswold, will read from their work. Peter Campion is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eliza Griswold is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman.
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Open Studios
Fellows’ Annual Open Studios
Thursday 27 May 2010The open studios offer a first-hand look at the Academy’s laboratory environment and the work of the 2009-2010 Rome Prize Fellows in the fields of Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Landscape Architecture, and Visual Arts. The Open Studios are made possible in part by a grant from The Cowles Charitable Trust.
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Conference
Philip Guston: The Late Work - Day 2 of 2
Tuesday 25 May 2010The conference will bring together an international group of scholars to discuss the significance of the life-long interest in Italian art and culture of Philip Guston, FAAR’49, RAAR’71, and his late return to figurative painting. It is held in conjunction with the exhibition Philip Guston, Roma, curated by Peter Benson Miller, at the Museo Carlo Bilotti in Rome. Both events are made possible by the generous support of Barclays GRB Italia, Maria Cox and the New Initiatives for Don Fund, Nicolas de Croisset, Tinetta Piontelli Gardella, Julia Grandison, Mirella Petteni Haggiag, LEGG Srl, Nancy O’Boyle, Monina von Opel and Edward F. Miller, Rogers Charitable, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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Conference
Philip Guston: The Late Work - Day 1 of 2
Monday 24 May 2010The conference will bring together an international group of scholars to discuss the significance of the life-long interest in Italian art and culture of Philip Guston, FAAR’49, RAAR’71, and his late return to figurative painting. It is held in conjunction with the exhibition Philip Guston, Roma, curated by Peter Benson Miller, at the Museo Carlo Bilotti in Rome. Both events are made possible by the generous support of Barclays GRB Italia, Maria Cox and the New Initiatives for Don Fund, Nicolas de Croisset, Tinetta Piontelli Gardella, Julia Grandison, Mirella Petteni Haggiag, LEGG Srl, Nancy O’Boyle, Monina von Opel and Edward F. Miller, Rogers Charitable, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
For a full program, click here.
To see invitation, click here.
Exhibition Opening
Alec Soth: Portraits
Friday 21 May 2010The exhibition will feature a variety of portraits of Americans taken over the last 12 years by American photographer Alec Soth. Soth captures diverse images of a country disillusioned with, and deceived by, its own identity, from mothers of marines serving in Iraq to teenage mothers in the Louisiana Bayou; from religious propaganda in the American workplace to the mortgage crisis in Stockton, California. The exhibition is made possible by the Gagosian Gallery, Rome. It will be on show until 18 June 2010 by appointment. Please call 06/5846459.
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Lecture
Carey Lovelace
Looking at Sound: The Exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
Monday 17 May 2010Carey Lovelace will outline issues foregrounded by a recent landmark exhibit at The Drawing Center in New York. The exhibition portrayed the role of drawing in the work of avant-garde composer and architect Iannis Xenakis. The talk will focus on the fusion of arts that Xenakis embodied, as well as discussing strategies involved in staging the complex installation. Lovelace, critic and independent curator, is the Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome.
Exhibition Opening
Hungry for Death
Thursday 13 May 2010The exhibition showcases the work of the band Destroy All Monsters, a Michigan collective consisting of Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw, among others. Through posters, flyers, photographs, blueprints, drawings, banners, magazines, records, and various other ephemera culled from the collective’s archive, the show emphasizes material produced in the 1970s and following the original collective’s reunion in 1996. The exhibition is curated by James Hoff and Cary Loren and made possible by the Depart Foundation and Nero Magazine. It will be on show until 11 June 2010 by appointment. Please call 06/5846459.
Concert
Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic
Thursday 6 May 2010Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include compositions by George Crumb, Erwin Schulhoff, Guillaume Dufay, Sofia Gubaidulina, Lisa Bielawa (Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Don Byron (Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Andrew Norman, FAAR'07 (Berlin Prize in Music Composition Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Brahms, Schubert, and Mozart. For a full program, click here
Concert
Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic
Wednesday 5 May 2010Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include compositions by George Crumb, Erwin Schulhoff, Guillaume Dufay, Sofia Gubaidulina, Lisa Bielawa (Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Don Byron (Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Andrew Norman, FAAR'07 (Berlin Prize in Music Composition Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Brahms, Schubert, and Mozart. For a full program, click here
Concert
Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic
Tuesday 4 May 2010Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include compositions by George Crumb, Erwin Schulhoff, Guillaume Dufay, Sofia Gubaidulina, Lisa Bielawa (Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Don Byron (Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Andrew Norman, FAAR'07 (Berlin Prize in Music Composition Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Brahms, Schubert, and Mozart. For a full program, click here
Subject Field
Test Event With Gallery
Tuesday 4 May 2010Calendar with Gallery
Lecture
Elyn Zimmerman
Recent Work
Monday 26 April 2010New York-based artist Elyn Zimmerman is the Roy Lichtenstein Visual Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. She will discuss her work and recent projects, which represent a hybrid of sculpture and landscape design.
Lecture
Ann Vasaly
The “mob” in Livy’s First Pentad
Thursday 22 April 2010It is often taken for granted that the Roman historian Livy’s text consistently illustrates the dangerous and destructive role of the masses in the political arena. The lecture challenges this notion by reexamining the role of the populus and their leaders in the first five books. To what extent does the pattern of events support the idea of iusta seditio (justified rebellion) as vital to the creation of the early state? Ann Vasaly, FAAR’83, is the Lucy Shoe Meritt Scholar in Residence (Ancient Studies) at the American Academy in Rome and Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University.
Conference
Greek Baths and Bathing Culture: New Discoveries and Approaches - Day 2 of 2
Saturday 17 April 2010The conference will re-examine the evidence for Greek and Greek-style baths and revise our understanding of the significance of an extraordinary range of ever-increasing archaeological material, including the earliest evidence from Greece itself, with developments down into the later Roman imperial period, where Greek and Greek-style baths continued alongside Roman complexes. Co-organizing the conference are independent scholar Sandra Lucore, FAAR’07, and Monika Trümper, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The conference is funded by generous support from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and Mrs. Muriel Bell. For a full program, click here.
Conference
Greek Baths and Bathing Culture: New Discoveries and Approaches - Day 1 of 2
Friday 16 April 2010The conference will re-examine the evidence for Greek and Greek-style baths and revise our understanding of the significance of an extraordinary range of ever-increasing archaeological material, including the earliest evidence from Greece itself, with developments down into the later Roman imperial period, where Greek and Greek-style baths continued alongside Roman complexes. Co-organizing the conference are independent scholar Sandra Lucore, FAAR’07, and Monika Trümper, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The conference is funded by generous support from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and Mrs. Muriel Bell. For a full program, click here
Lecture
William Drenttel & Jessica Helfand
New Perspectives on Design Thinking and Practice
Thursday 8 April 2010William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand are the Henry Wolf Residents in Graphic Design at the American Academy in Rome. They will discuss their library, their collections, their studio, their obsessions—and their aspirations for a design practice after a 29,000 mile trip around the world. Jessica Helfand is a Senior Critic at Yale School of Art, and William Drenttel is a Senior Faculty at Yale School of Management. They are Principals at Winterhouse Studio and founders of Design Observer, a website of design, visual culture, urbanism, and social innovation.
Lecture
Mary Gibson The Prisons of Rome: Mapping Punishment after Italian Unification
Thursday 4 March 2010When Rome became the capital of Italy in 1870, it inherited a disparate system of prisons located in ancient Roman baths, medieval monasteries, early modern workhouses, Renaissance palaces, and aristocratic villas. This lecture will map the geography of Roman prisons and analyze the evolution of policies of punishment toward men, women, and children during the fifty years after unification. Mary Gibson, FAAR’03, is the American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence (Modern Italian Studies) and Professor of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Jerome Lecture Series
Kathleen Coleman
Q. Sulpicius Maximus, Poet, Eleven Years Old
Lecture V: Immortality
Thursday 25 February 2010In 1871, the funerary altar of Q. Sulpicius Maximus was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Salaria. He died in 94 CE at the age of eleven, having worked himself to death. In addition to his epitaph, in Latin, and two funerary epigrams, in Greek, the façade contains the text of a poem in 43 Greek hexameters that he composed for the emperor Domitian’s Greek-style games. These lectures explore Maximus’ social background and the type of education that he received, in order to understand the circumstances of this domestic tragedy and the ambitions that led to it. The series will include a visit to the altar itself after the seminar on Saturday 20 February. Kathleen Coleman is Professor of Latin at Harvard University. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture Series
Kathleen Coleman
Q. Sulpicius Maximus, Poet, Eleven Years Old
Lecture IV: Authority
Tuesday 23 February 2010In 1871, the funerary altar of Q. Sulpicius Maximus was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Salaria. He died in 94 CE at the age of eleven, having worked himself to death. In addition to his epitaph, in Latin, and two funerary epigrams, in Greek, the façade contains the text of a poem in 43 Greek hexameters that he composed for the emperor Domitian’s Greek-style games. These lectures explore Maximus’ social background and the type of education that he received, in order to understand the circumstances of this domestic tragedy and the ambitions that led to it. The series will include a visit to the altar itself after the seminar on Saturday 20 February. Kathleen Coleman is Professor of Latin at Harvard University. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture Series
Kathleen Coleman
Q. Sulpicius Maximus, Poet, Eleven Years Old
Seminar III: Symmetry
Saturday 20 February 2010In 1871, the funerary altar of Q. Sulpicius Maximus was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Salaria. He died in 94 CE at the age of eleven, having worked himself to death. In addition to his epitaph, in Latin, and two funerary epigrams, in Greek, the façade contains the text of a poem in 43 Greek hexameters that he composed for the emperor Domitian’s Greek-style games. These lectures explore Maximus’ social background and the type of education that he received, in order to understand the circumstances of this domestic tragedy and the ambitions that led to it. The series will include a visit to the altar itself after the seminar on Saturday 20 February. Kathleen Coleman is Professor of Latin at Harvard University. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture Series
Kathleen Coleman
Q. Sulpicius Maximus, Poet, Eleven Years Old
Lecture II: Precocity
Thursday 18 February 2010In 1871, the funerary altar of Q. Sulpicius Maximus was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Salaria. He died in 94 CE at the age of eleven, having worked himself to death. In addition to his epitaph, in Latin, and two funerary epigrams, in Greek, the façade contains the text of a poem in 43 Greek hexameters that he composed for the emperor Domitian’s Greek-style games. These lectures explore Maximus’ social background and the type of education that he received, in order to understand the circumstances of this domestic tragedy and the ambitions that led to it. The series will include a visit to the altar itself after the seminar on Saturday 20 February. Kathleen Coleman is Professor of Latin at Harvard University. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture Series
Kathleen Coleman
Q. Sulpicius Maximus, Poet, Eleven Years Old
Lecture I: Spontaneity
Tuesday 16 February 2010In 1871, the funerary altar of Q. Sulpicius Maximus was discovered immured inside the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Salaria. He died in 94 CE at the age of eleven, having worked himself to death. In addition to his epitaph, in Latin, and two funerary epigrams, in Greek, the façade contains the text of a poem in 43 Greek hexameters that he composed for the emperor Domitian’s Greek-style games. These lectures explore Maximus’ social background and the type of education that he received, in order to understand the circumstances of this domestic tragedy and the ambitions that led to it. The series will include a visit to the altar itself after the seminar on Saturday 20 February. Kathleen Coleman is Professor of Latin at Harvard University. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Lecture
Daniel Mendelsohn
The Melancholy of the Classics: Time, Loss, ‘Memory’
Monday 15 February 2010Daniel Mendelsohn, author and critic, is the Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome. The talk is a selection from his new work in progress, “Odysseys: Adventures in Reading the Greeks,” a rumination on the meaning of the classics narrated from within a circumnavigation of the Mediterranean. The talk is a meditation on the fragility of the ancient texts and a chastening reminder of all we do not, in fact, possess.
Lecture
Leonard Barkan
Thinking of the Grapes: Food Culture and High Culture in Early Modern Europe
Thursday 11 February 2010Through several millennia, high culture–poems, paintings, symphonies–has tended to exclude gastronomy from a place at the table. This lecture will explore especially the problematic relations between Renaissance high art and the dinner table, while pursuing the question why, in regard to all the arts, we refer to the highest degree of refined sensitivity as taste. Leonard Barkan is the American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence (History of Art) and Class of 1943 University Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University.
Concert
Tintinnabulation: Homage to Elliott Carter
Thursday 21 January 2010This concert includes the European premiere of Tintinnabulation for percussion ensemble and the solo piece Figment V by Elliott Carter, FAAR’53, RAAR’63,’69,’80, along with earlier works for solo instruments (Piano Sonata, 90+, and GRA) and the chamber ensemble work The So-Called Laws of Nature by David Lang, FAAR’91. The concert is performed by PMCE – Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble – and presented in collaboration with the Fondazione Musica per Roma as part of the Progetto Calliope.
Lecture and Exhibition
Intolleranza 1960: Luigi Nono e gli Stati Uniti. Un percorso attraverso i documenti dell'Archivio Luigi Nono
Thursday 21 January 2010This exhibition, produced in collaboration with the Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono (Venice), documents the performance and reception history of the composer’s opera, Intolleranza 1960. The work caused scandal both in its world premiere in Venice in 1961 and its American premiere in Boston in 1965. Nono was denied entrance to the US because of his Communist views until a group of American composers and political figures rose to his defense. This exhibition includes unpublished letters, reviews, FBI and State Department files, and other audio and visual documentation, to provide a window onto the cultural milieu of Cold War international exchange. The exhibition is on view until 27 January 2010 by appointment, tel. 06/5846459.
Claudia Vincis (Director of the Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono) and Veniero Rizzardi (University of Venice) will discuss the exhibition and hold a conversation with Nuria Schoenberg Nono at 5pm in the Lecture Room.
Concert
Homage to Luigi Nono
Wednesday 20 January 2010The concert will include three works by Luigi Nono: La fabbrica illuminata (1964), for voice and tape, performed by Lisa Bielawa (Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize winner); Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto in Auschwitz (1966), for tape alone; and Post-prae-ludium per Donau (1987), performed by Giancarlo Schiaffini (tuba) and Giacomo De Caterini (live electronics). Brief comments will be made by Nuria Schoenberg Nono. This concert is presented in collaboration with the Fondazione Musica per Roma and the Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, as part of the series Controtempo: Festival di musica contemporanea. For tickets, please call 06/67611.
Lecture
Calvin Tsao
A Vocation in Two Acts
Tuesday 12 January 2010Calvin Tsao is the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. He is Principal at Tsao and McKown Architects in New York and President of the Architectural League of New York. He will discuss the evolving domain of architecture and design in a polyglottal world.
Conference (day 3 of 3)
Performing Voices: Between Embodiment and Mediation
Sunday 6 December 2009The qualities attributed to the singing voice range from corporeal presence to ethereal beauty. In fostering a new understanding of the paradox of the singing voice, this conference will bring together singers, scientists, historians, philosophers, and musicologists. It is co-sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Registration is necessary for this conference. Please send an e-mail to: tplokarz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Conference Program (PDF)
Conference (day 2 of 3)
Performing Voices: Between Embodiment and Mediation
Saturday 5 December 2009The qualities attributed to the singing voice range from corporeal presence to ethereal beauty. In fostering a new understanding of the paradox of the singing voice, this conference will bring together singers, scientists, historians, philosophers, and musicologists. It is co-sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Registration is necessary for this conference. Please send an e-mail to: tplokarz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Conference Program (PDF)
Conference (day 1 of 3)
Performing Voices: Between Embodiment and Mediation
Friday 4 December 2009The qualities attributed to the singing voice range from corporeal presence to ethereal beauty. In fostering a new understanding of the paradox of the singing voice, this conference will bring together singers, scientists, historians, philosophers, and musicologists. It is co-sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Registration is necessary for this conference. Please send an e-mail to: tplokarz@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Conference Program (PDF)
Concerts
Music Impura IV
Saturday 21 November 2009As is customary, Nuova Consonanza – Rome’s oldest and largest contemporary music association – is offering their musical marathon in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome. A variety of concerts, installations, exhibitions, and video projections will be featured throughout the Villa Aurelia and its grounds, and will include a number of new works by Italian and American composers. For tickets, please see www.nuovaconsonanza.it.
Lecture
T. Corey Brennan
Lily Ross Taylor's Rome
Wednesday 18 November 2009This presentation aims to contextualize aspects of the life and work of Roman historian Lily Ross Taylor (1886-1969), FAAR’18, on the 40th anniversary of her death (18 November 1969). The focus will be on five of her sustained experiences in Italy: as a young student (1909-1910), a Red Cross worker during the First World War, the first woman American Academy Fellow (1919-1920), and Professor in Charge at the American Academy (1934-1935 and 1951-1955). T. Corey Brennan, FAAR’88, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome.
Lecture
Ronald G. Witt
The Italian Difference: The Two Latin Cultures of Medieval Italy, 800-1250
Thursday 12 November 2009Ronald G. Witt will offer his explanation for the fact that by the mid-twelfth century laymen in Italy largely dominated intellectual life whereas a similar development did not occur in northern Europe until the sixteenth century. Witt, FAAR’97, is the William B. Hamilton Professor of History, Emeritus, at Duke University and Lester K. Little Scholar in Residence (Medieval Studies) at the American Academy in Rome.
Conference
Tradizioni mitiche locali nell'epica greca
Friday 23 October 2009The Academy hosts the second and final day of a conference organized by the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, to celebrate the 75th birthday of Prof. Antonio Martina, who held the Chair of Greek Literature at the University until his retirement in 2006. The conference will focus on the relationship between local and panhellenic myths in Greek epic and include speakers from Italy and the United States. Papers will be given in Italian.
Book Presentation
Nancy A. Winter
Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.
Tuesday 20 October 2009Nancy A. Winter’s book, Symbols of Wealth and Power, the ninth and latest Supplement to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (Ann Arbor, 2009), is the first definitive study of Etruscan architecture in almost 70 years. Speakers will include the author, T. Corey Brennan, FAAR’88 (American Academy in Rome), and Ingrid Edlund-Berry, FAAR’84 (University of Texas at Austin). The presentation will be followed by a visit to the American Academy’s archaeological study collection.
Concert
Piccola Accademia degli Specchi
Monday 19 October 2009The concert will feature music by American composers Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, and William Susman as well as by the Italian composers Giovanni Sollima, Matteo Sommacal, and Irma Ravinale. This is the closing concert of the 30th edition of the Nuovi Spazi Musicali contemporary music festival.
Book Presentation
Oretta Zanini De Vita
Encyclopedia of Pasta
Saturday 10 October 2009Oretta Zanini De Vita’s Encyclopedia of Pasta (2009) is a compendium of historical and geographical research on this staple of the Italian diet. It is the latest volume in the University of California Press series California Studies in Food and Culture, which considers food from a range of disciplines and approaches. The author will discuss her methodology in compiling this reference work, with contributions also by Sheila Levine (UC Press), Maureen B. Fant (translator of the book), and Christopher Boswell (American Academy’s Rome Sustainable Food Program).
Lecture
Stephen Greenblatt
Cultural Mobility: The Travels of Shakespeare’s Cardenio
Tuesday 6 October 2009The lecture concerns an experiment in translation and transformation, inspired by a lost play co-authored by Shakespeare and his younger colleague Fletcher. Greenblatt will explore what happens when cultural materials are unmoored from their foundations and set in motion. Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of Humanities in the Department of English at Harvard University and American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence (Literature).
Conference (day 2 of 2)
Maritime Technology and the Ancient Economy: Ship-design and Navigation
Wednesday 17 June 2009A two-day conference held at the American Academy on June 16 and at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” on June 17. The conference aims to tackle a set of technical but intriguing questions about the commercial sea-faring of the ancient Mediterranean. Thousands of ancient shipwrecks are scattered all over the floor of the Mediterranean, and yet we know that from time to time Greeks, Romans, and others thought of better ways of building ships and of keeping them afloat. Which innovations -- if any -- really made the Mediterranean safer for ancient commerce? Scholars from France, Italy, Britain, Austria, and the United States will attempt to resolve this problem. The conference is organized by William V. Harris, RAAR’79,’83 (Columbia University), with the support of the Distinguished Scholar Award received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2008-2011), and by Elio Lo Cascio (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”).
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Conference (day 1 of 2)
Maritime Technology and the Ancient Economy: Ship-design and Navigation
Tuesday 16 June 2009A two-day conference held at the American Academy on June 16 and at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” on June 17. The conference aims to tackle a set of technical but intriguing questions about the commercial sea-faring of the ancient Mediterranean. Thousands of ancient shipwrecks are scattered all over the floor of the Mediterranean, and yet we know that from time to time Greeks, Romans, and others thought of better ways of building ships and of keeping them afloat. Which innovations -- if any -- really made the Mediterranean safer for ancient commerce? Scholars from France, Italy, Britain, Austria, and the United States will attempt to resolve this problem. The conference is organized by William V. Harris, RAAR’79,’83 (Columbia University), with the support of the Distinguished Scholar Award received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2008-2011), and by Elio Lo Cascio (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”).
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Concert
Fellows’ Annual Concert
Saturday 30 May 2009This concert will present works by the 2008-2009 Fellows in Musical Composition, Keeril Makan and Kurt Rohde. Keeril Makan is the Luciano Berio Rome Prize Fellow. Kurt Rohde is the Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow. The concert is made possible by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Fromm Music Foundation, Herman Goldman Foundation, Estate of Kent W. Kennan, FAAR’39, and Janice and George Scantland.
Reading
Fellows’ Annual Reading
Friday 29 May 2009The 2008-2009 Fellows in Literature, Brad Kessler and Dana Spiotta, will read from their work. Brad Kessler is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize, a gift of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman. Dana Spiotta is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust/American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Open Studios
Fellows’ Annual Open Studios
Wednesday 27 May 2009The open studios offer a first-hand look at the Academy’s laboratory environment and the work of the 2008-2009 Rome Prize Fellows in the fields of Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Landscape Architecture, and Visual Arts. The Open Studios are made possible in part by a grant from The Cowles Charitable Trust.
Lecture
Brenda Way
Chasing the Unfashionable
Tuesday 19 May 2009A discussion and video sampling of Brenda Way’s choreography, focusing on sources and her unabashed love of movement, form, and the narrative vein. How have the innovations of the 1970’s in American dance transformed over the decades in the eye and on the body? Way is the Donald and Maria Cox Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Artistic Director of the Oberlin Dance Company in San Francisco.
Lecture
Helen Nagy
Paris, Menelaos and Helen, Reflections of the Saga in Etruscan Mirrors
Thursday 14 May 2009Women’s burials in Etruria have yielded thousands of bronze mirrors with incised images on their reverse. Currently an international effort is under way to publish all extant examples of these objects in the Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum. Two decorated mirrors from West Coast (USA) collections are the primary focus of this lecture. One represents the “Judgment of Paris,” a common theme on Etruscan mirrors, the other shows Menelaos threatening Helen after the capture of Troy. These depictions, the before and after in the story of Helen and Paris, provide an insight into the Etruscans’ interpretation of Greek mythology. The mirrors also serve as examples of the technical, scientific, and iconographic analysis applied to Etruscan mirrors as part of this collaborative research. Helen Nagy, FAAR’86, is the Lucy Shoe Meritt Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Professor Emerita of Art History at The University of Puget Sound.
Lecture
Judith Di Maio
Perception and Inspiration: Overlaps in 16th-Century Italian Architecture and Painting
Tuesday 12 May 2009The lecture discusses the similarities between the structural/formal content in early/mid-sixteenth century ‘Mannerist’ Italian architecture and painting. Judith Di Maio will show how these overlaps and strategies of compositional structure have inspired her own architectural work. Di Maio, FAAR’78, is the Colin Rowe Designer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Dean of the School of Architecture and Design at the New York Institute of Technology.
Lecture
Alexander Stille
The Force of Things: A Work in Progress
Tuesday 5 May 2009Alexander Stille is working on a memoir which braids together the story of two families -- one a family of Jews from Russia that begins the 20th century in Moscow, and lives through the twenty years of fascism in Italy; the other an American Protestant family from Chicago. It traces their trajectory through the fascist period in Italy and World War II to the two families’ intersection in 1948, in the form of Stille’s parents’ meeting and marriage. It is a microhistory of a much larger historical movement, the exile and dislocation of a large segment of European intelligenzia that was uprooted by fascism in the 1930s and transplanted in the United States. It is also an experiment in narrative and a reflection on historical and personal memory. Stille is the Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy in Rome and San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University.
Lecture Series
Natura morta con autore: Flavio De Marco (visual arts)
Wednesday 22 April 2009This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
Lecture Series
Natura morta con autore: Mauro Covacich (literature)
Wednesday 8 April 2009This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
Exhibition Opening
The Buffer Zone
Friday 3 April 2009The Buffer Zone invites artists to investigate the role of art in creating or identifying communities within an institution and asks the artists to consider the American Academy in Rome to be a context rather than a location. The exhibition includes American artists in residence at the Academy and Italian artists. It is curated by Cecilia Canziani and Lexi Eberspacher and can be visited by appointment at 06/5846459 until 3 June 2009.
Lecture Series
Natura morta con autore: Alberto Fiori (music)
Wednesday 25 March 2009This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
Concert
Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic - Concert III
Sunday 22 March 2009Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include recent compositions by Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, FAAR’54, RAAR’63, ’69, ’80, Hans Werner Henze, Keeril Makan (Luciano Berio Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Kurt Rohde (Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Daniel Visconti (Lenore Annenberg Music Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert.
Concert
Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic - Concert II
Saturday 21 March 2009Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include recent compositions by Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, FAAR’54, RAAR’63, ’69, ’80, Hans Werner Henze, Keeril Makan (Luciano Berio Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Kurt Rohde (Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Daniel Visconti (Lenore Annenberg Music Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert.
Concert
Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic - Concert I
Friday 20 March 2009Three concerts performed by the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic, featuring music by the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome and the American Academy in Berlin. The concerts will include recent compositions by Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, FAAR’54, RAAR’63, ’69, ’80, Hans Werner Henze, Keeril Makan (Luciano Berio Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Kurt Rohde (Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellow in Musical Composition at the American Academy in Rome), Daniel Visconti (Lenore Annenberg Music Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin), and chamber works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert.
Lecture Series
Natura morta con autore: Carola Spadoni (visual arts)
Wednesday 18 March 2009This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
Lecture
Daniel P. Jordan
The Future of the Historic House in America
Monday 9 March 2009Even before the current recession, “at risk” describes many of America’s historic homes, large and small, that are open to the public. The lecture will provide insight into the importance of these historic properties, an analysis of the problem, and some options for the future. Daniel P. Jordan is James Marston Fitch Resident in Historic Preservation at the American Academy in Rome. He is President Emeritus of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Vice Chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Lecture
Joan La Barbara
My Experience
*EVENT CANCELLED*
Thursday 5 March 2009As a performer and composer, Joan La Barbara has profoundly affected the development of the American avant-garde. She has worked with many artists, including John Cage, Morton Feldman, Judy Chicago, and Bruce Nauman. La Barbara will speak about her pioneering work in the development of experimental music and extended vocal techniques. This lecture is offered in collaboration with Musica per Roma Fondazione.
Lecture Series
Natura morta con autore: Caterina Bonvicini (literature)
Wednesday 25 February 2009This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
Jerome Lecture Series
Henner von Hesberg
New Forms of Civilization in the Northwestern Provinces of the Empire (Lecture V: New Forms of Communication)
Monday 23 February 2009The year 2009 marks the 2000th anniversary of the defeat of Quintilius Varus in the battle of the Teutoburg forest. German historiography has interpreted this battle as signifying the failure of Roman conquest in this area, which consequently did not extend past the Rhine. By contrast, the Romans were in military and political terms very successful in subduing these peoples, so that in the end they held the northwestern provinces for more than 400 years. Mainly based on archaeological evidence, the lecture series will demonstrate why the Romans were so successful. Henner von Hesberg is the Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture Series
Henner von Hesberg
New Forms of Civilization in the Northwestern Provinces of the Empire (Seminar IV: A New Concept of Society, Romans and Provincials)
Saturday 21 February 2009The year 2009 marks the 2000th anniversary of the defeat of Quintilius Varus in the battle of the Teutoburg forest. German historiography has interpreted this battle as signifying the failure of Roman conquest in this area, which consequently did not extend past the Rhine. By contrast, the Romans were in military and political terms very successful in subduing these peoples, so that in the end they held the northwestern provinces for more than 400 years. Mainly based on archaeological evidence, the lecture series will demonstrate why the Romans were so successful. Henner von Hesberg is the Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture Series
Henner von Hesberg
New Forms of Civilization in the Northwestern Provinces of the Empire (Lecture III: Victorious Pictures – the Roman Gods)
Friday 20 February 2009The year 2009 marks the 2000th anniversary of the defeat of Quintilius Varus in the battle of the Teutoburg forest. German historiography has interpreted this battle as signifying the failure of Roman conquest in this area, which consequently did not extend past the Rhine. By contrast, the Romans were in military and political terms very successful in subduing these peoples, so that in the end they held the northwestern provinces for more than 400 years. Mainly based on archaeological evidence, the lecture series will demonstrate why the Romans were so successful. Henner von Hesberg is the Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture Series
Henner von Hesberg
New Forms of Civilization in the Northwestern Provinces of the Empire (Lecture II: The Construction of a Civic World)
Wednesday 18 February 2009The year 2009 marks the 2000th anniversary of the defeat of Quintilius Varus in the battle of the Teutoburg forest. German historiography has interpreted this battle as signifying the failure of Roman conquest in this area, which consequently did not extend past the Rhine. By contrast, the Romans were in military and political terms very successful in subduing these peoples, so that in the end they held the northwestern provinces for more than 400 years. Mainly based on archaeological evidence, the lecture series will demonstrate why the Romans were so successful. Henner von Hesberg is the Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Jerome Lecture Series
Henner von Hesberg: New Forms of Civilization in the Northwestern Provinces of the Empire (Lecture I: Entering in Dialogues – the Roman Conquest)
Monday 16 February 2009The year 2009 marks the 2000th anniversary of the defeat of Quintilius Varus in the battle of the Teutoburg forest. German historiography has interpreted this battle as signifying the failure of Roman conquest in this area, which consequently did not extend past the Rhine. By contrast, the Romans were in military and political terms very successful in subduing these peoples, so that in the end they held the northwestern provinces for more than 400 years. Mainly based on archaeological evidence, the lecture series will demonstrate why the Romans were so successful. Henner von Hesberg is the Director of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series is jointly administered by the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome.
Exhibition Opening II
Lo Sguardo di Giano
Thursday 12 February 2009Inspired by the figure of two-faced Janus, symbol of the American Academy in Rome and of the relationship between past and future, the exhibition reflects upon the different aspects of the double image. The juxtaposition of works by eleven artists explores the sometimes contradictory figure of Janus and helps us question the meaning and value around the construction of the double image. Residents of the American Academy in Rome will join the exhibition with the second opening on 12 February. The exhibition is curated by Francesco Stocchi. It is open every morning from Monday to Friday from 9:30am to 12:30pm and by appointment, tel. 06/5846459 until 3 March 2008.
Lecture Series
Natura morta con autore: Teatrino Clandestino (theater)
Wednesday 11 February 2009This lecture series invites artists from different fields to present themselves through three “objects” (book, film, record, painting, etc.) that have been fundamental to their artistic development. The lecture series will be moderated by Flavio De Marco. It will also take place in Bologna at the Teatro San Leonardo and in Milan at Assab One.
Lecture
George Hargreaves
Landscape Alchemy
Thursday 5 February 2009The lecture will feature selected projects by Hargreaves Associates, illustrating the transformative aspects of landscape architecture. George Hargreaves is Mercedes T. and Sid R. Bass Landscape Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Design Director/ Senior Principal at Hargreaves Associates.
Exhibition Opening I
Lo Sguardo di Giano
Tuesday 27 January 2009Inspired by the figure of two-faced Janus, symbol of the American Academy in Rome and of the relationship between past and future, the exhibition reflects upon the different aspects of the double image. The juxtaposition of works by eleven artists explores the sometimes contradictory figure of Janus and helps us question the meaning and value around the construction of the double image. Residents of the American Academy in Rome will join the exhibition with the second opening on 12 February. The exhibition is curated by Francesco Stocchi. It is open every morning from Monday to Friday from 9:30am to 12:30pm and by appointment, tel. 06/5846459 until 3 March 2008.
Concert
Why Is this Night Different from All Other Nights? A Tribute to Alvin Curran
Thursday 22 January 2009This concert marks composer Alvin Curran’s 70th birthday. Since 1965, when he co-founded the radical music collective Musica Elettronica Viva, Curran has been a musical force in Rome. The first performance of his music in the city was held at the American Academy in Rome 43 years ago. The concert will feature works dating from 1965 to 2008 performed by a number of friends and colleagues, including members of the Alter Ego and Ars Ludi ensembles. The concert is offered in collaboration with Musica per Roma Fondazione.
Lecture
Guy J. P. Nordenson
Engineering Ephemera
Wednesday 14 January 2009Some things take forever to get built and the ruins remain well beyond their time. This talk will begin by ranging over a number of projects from the Tor Tre Teste Jubilee Church (renamed when the Church of the Year 2000 ran late) to built projects at MIT and at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art that all partake of the concrete theater of slow construction. This will lead into a brief account of Palisade Bay, a proposal by a collective of architects, engineers, and landscape architects for the gradual transformation of the New York / New Jersey Upper Harbor to mitigate the effects of sea level rise due to climate change. Guy J. P. Nordenson is William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Professor of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Princeton University.
Film Screening
Laurie Simmons
The Music of Regret
Wednesday 17 December 2008Visual artist Laurie Simmons, RAAR'05, will present her film The Music of Regret (U.S.A., 2006), a mini-musical in three acts starring Meryl Streep, Adam Guettel, and the Alvin Ailey Dancers. This film, which grew out of Simmons' photographic work, includes vintage child-craft puppets that enact the pain and regret that erupt between two feuding families.
Conference
Leptis Magna: The City and Surrounding Territory
Wednesday 10 December 2008The conference is intended to provide an overview of the extensive research activities conducted at Leptis Magna by the Università di Roma Tre: investigating inhabitation patterns in the city's surrounding territory; analyzing the typologies of countryside villas and their impressive decorative programs; recovering important funerary contexts; examining vast quantities of epigraphic evidence; and studying the use of imported marbles in the construction and decoration of the unique architectural complexes of the city. Speakers will include: Luisa Musso, Università di Roma Tre, Gianni Ponti, Archeology Liaison at the American Academy in Rome, Ginette Everard-Di Vita, La Sorbonne, and other members of the archeological team working at Leptis. Presentations will be in English and Italian.
Lecture
Elizabeth Bartman
Lessons from Ince
Thursday 4 December 2008Like many other "Grand Tour" collections, the ancient marbles belonging to Henry Blundell at Ince have in recent times been dismissed as over-restored and artistically worthless. By using them as a platform for exploring issues of Roman art theory, production, and reception, this lecture demonstrates why their poor reputation deserves rehabilitation. Elizabeth Bartman, FAAR'83, is an Independent Scholar and James S. Ackerman Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.
Presentation
Paul D. Miller / DJ Spooky
Sound Unbound
Wednesday 3 December 2008Introducing his book Sound Unbound, Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid) will explore the theme of sound in contemporary art, digital media, and composition. Sound Unbound (MIT Press, 2007) is a collection of thirty essays: reports from the front lines on the role of sound and digital media in an information-based society.
Lecture
Carroll Dunham
Recent Work
Monday 24 November 2008As the critic Ken Johnson has recently written in the New York Times, Carroll Dunham's paintings "deliver an uncommonly potent combination of formal punch, narrative intrigue and metaphorical resonance." In this presentation, Dunham will discuss examples of his recent work. He is the Roy Lichtenstein Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.
Lecture
Claude Baker
"Aus Schwanengesang" for Orchestra
Thursday 20 November 2008Through the discussion of a single symphonic composition, Claude Baker will illustrate those stylistic traits that have been most prevalent in his music during the past two decades. Baker is the Paul Fromm Composer in Residence at the American Academy in Rome and Class of 1956 Chancellor's Professor of Composition at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Concerts
Musica Impura III
Sunday 16 November 2008As is customary, Nuova Consonanza — Rome's oldest and largest contemporary music association — is offering their musical marathon in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome. A variety of concerts, installations, exhibitions, and video projections will take place throughout the Villa Aurelia and its grounds and will include a number of new works by Italian and American composers. For tickets, please see www.nuovaconsonanza.it.
Lecture
Jeanne Marie Teutonico
Heritage Conservation in Practice: A Critical Reflection on the Work of the Getty Conservation Institute
Monday 3 November 2008The lecture will present a critical reflection on the work of the Getty Conservation Institute and discuss how changes in approach and emphasis reflect the evolving nature of heritage conservation practice. Case studies from the Institute's work in Egypt, China, and Tunisia will be used to illustrate the presentation. Jeanne Marie Teutonico is the William A. Bernoudy Resident at the American Academy in Rome and Associate Director, Programs, Getty Conservation Institute.
Lecture
Lewis Kaplan
Bach, God and Numbers
Monday 27 October 2008The renowned violinist, Lewis Kaplan, will perform J.S. Bach's Partita in D minor for unaccompanied violin and discuss the importance of numbers, numerology, and religion in this cornerstone of the violin repertory. Kaplan teaches at The Juilliard School, The Mannes College of Music, and the Summer Academy at the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria. This year Kaplan was appointed Visiting Professor of Violin at the Royal College of Music in London. He is Director of the Bowdoin International Music Festival.
Concert
Paul Bowman, guitarist
Harvey Sollberger, flutist
Thursday 16 October 2008Two virtuoso American performers, on the faculty of the University of California at San Diego, guitarist Paul Bowman and flutist Harvey Sollberger, will perform a program of contemporary works, including pieces by American composers Milton Babbit, Kirsten Broberg, Yotam Haber, FAAR'08, and Harvey Sollberger, RAAR'89, as well as by Italian composers Paolo Cavallone, A. Ciccaglioni, S. Corbett, and Franco Evangelisti. This concert is offered in cooperation with Nuovi Spazi Musicali.
A two-part event
Welcome: A Celebration of Contemporary Art
Monday 6 October 2008A two-part event: 1) a group exhibition on the theme of Rome; and 2) a sampling of Italian art through films about Italian artists. Curated by Raffaele Gavarro.
Film - Tales of Italian Art
5pm, Lecture Room
Via Angelo Masina, 5
Eight films about Italian artists from different generations directed by Alessandra Populin and Ignazio Agosta. The projections will be preceded by a brief introduction by the directors and conclude with an opportunity to meet some of the artists featured in the films.
Monday 6 October
Jannis Kounellis by Alessandra Populin
Stefano Arienti by Alessandra Populin
Tuesday 7 October
Fabio Mauri by Alessandra Populin
Giacinto Cerone by Ignazio Agosta
Wednesday 8 October
Mimmo Paladino by Ignazio Agosta
Vedovamazzei by Alessandra Populin
Thursday 9 October
Pietro Fortuna by Alessandra Populin
Giulio Paolini by Alessandra Populin
Exhibition - Remembering
6:30pm-8pm
Gallery
Via Angelo Masina, 5
A group exhibition dedicated to memory and to Rome that will explore the capacity of art to make the past an element of our continuous present. Each evening two artists, one from a foreign academy in Rome and one Italian, will show a piece of work. After 9 October and until 31 October 2008, the exhibition will be open by appointment (tel. 06/5846459).
Monday 6 October
Rosa Casado Arroyo (Spain) & Mike Brookes (Great Britain) – Giuseppe Stampone (Italy)
Tuesday 7 October
Elke Zauner (Germany) – Alice Schivardi (Italy)
Wednesday 8 October
Luzia Hurzeler (Switzerland) – Diego Valentino (Italy)
Thursday 9 October
John Kelly, FAAR'07 (U.S.A.) – Alterazioni Video (Italy)