Past Events

May 31, 2025
Rome
Film Screening
Performance

David Lang & Bill Morrison – darker

This cineconcert is a collaboration between composer David Lang (1991 Fellow, 2017 Resident) and filmmaker Bill Morrison: a screening and live performance of darker

May 29–30, 2025
Rome
Conference/Symposium

Cosa: Past, Present, and Future – A Conference in Honor of Russell T. Scott

The conference honors the life, scholarship, and academic contributions of Russell T. Scott, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies from 1984 to 1988 and a longtime director of the Cosa Excavations.

May 28–August 24, 2025
Rome
Exhibition

Sublime Cliché: Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome

Sublime Cliché marks the third edition of the Festival of Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes in Rome, on view at MACRO and curated by Saverio Verini.

May 24, 2025
Rome
Tour

Open House Roma 2025

AAR is participating in the thirteenth edition of Open House Roma, offering guided tours of the campus in Italian.

May 17, 2025
Rome
Tour

La Notte dei Musei 2025

AAR will participate in the fifteenth edition of La Notte dei Musei, a city-wide initiative in which museums open to the public in the evening.

Wednesday, May 14, 2025–6:00 PM–7:00 PM
Rome
Conversations/Conversazioni

Shaping the New City: Rome

A writer, archaeologist, and historian will discuss how turn of the century Rome became a center of archaeological research, began a campaign for modernization, and fostered a nascent women’s movement in Italy.

May 14–November 9, 2025
Rome
Exhibition

Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape

AAR presents Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape, the first exhibition dedicated to the influence of a group of trailblazing women who helped record archaeology and landscapes from new vantage points.

May 6, 2025
Rome
Material Culture of the Giubileo

Katherine Jansen – The Jubilee, the Veil of Veronica, and Religious Devotion in Premodern Rome

This illustrated lecture by Katherine Jansen examines the critical role that the veil of Veronica played in the foundation of the Roman Jubilee in 1300 by Pope Boniface VII.

May 5, 2025
Rome
Talking Architecture

Talking Architecture No. 5: Dana Tang and Filippo Lambertucci – Building an Experience: Spaces for Display

Talking Architecture is a series of talks in collaboration with La Sapienza and Casa dell’Architettura dedicated to new orientations and outstanding achievements in contemporary American architecture.

May 5, 2025
Rome
Fellow Shoptalks

Clarissa Tossin & Monia Ben Hamouda – Terrae Nullius

White letters on a orange background that read 2024-25 Fellow Shoptalks

Fellow Shoptalks are a forum in which Rome Prize winners, Italian Fellows, and Affiliated Fellows present their work. Shoptalks are occasionally streamed live on Zoom and posted to the Academy’s YouTube channel.