The American Academy in Rome will host a panel presentation of AIAC, the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica/International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC), in that organization's longstanding Incontri series.

The theme for this evening at the American Academy in Rome will be Ideologie e rituali della vita e della morte nel Mediterraneo antico moderated by Valentino Nizzo (Direzione Generale Musei a Roma). Presenting on the AIAC program will be:

• Marco Arizza (Sapienza. Università di Roma), Società e ideologie funerarie nel territorio di Veio tra arcaismo ed età tardo classica
• Elisa Biancifiori (Sapienza. Università di Roma), La miniaturizzazione nei contesti funerari del Latium Vetus
• Michela Stefani (Università di Roma Tre), Riti e tipologie funerarie nell'area del Sepolcro degli Scipioni sull'Appia

Founded in Rome in 1945, AIAC aims to facilitate international collaboration among classical archaeologists through coordinating conferences and congresses of classical archeology. It also serves in Rome as the principal clearinghouse for information on archaeology-related scholarly events. AIAC publishes Fasti Online, the premier international database for archaeological excavations in 13 countries in the territory of the former Roman Empire (including of course Italy), which in turn continues its print Fasti Archaeologici (published 1948-1987). Since 2000, AIAC also has organized a series of monthly Incontri in Rome, where young scholars from Italian universities and the many foreign institutes in the city can present their research.