Eventi passati

This is the first in a series of five lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic year 2025–26. Through five evening lectures, speakers will present new research on environments of ancient and post-Classical Rome and Italy. Changing technologies of research provide new answers to questions about the experience and effect of landscape and climate. These lectures showcase the ways in which environmental considerations recast our study of the past.

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

Circolo Gianicolense is a joint seminar series for fellows at three foreign research institutions at the Gianicolo: The Norwegian Institute in Rome, The American Academy in Rome, and Institutum Romanum Finlandiae.

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

This participative workshop explores the hybrid formations of the vegetal world, from trees in walls to caves with layered accumulations and the many anomalous plants and minerals that sprung in crevices of buildings.

In occasion of the launch of the book Women and Ruins, curators Caroline Goodson and Ilaria Puri Purini will be in conversation at the Fondazione Rovati in Milan.

Two archaeologists who have examined the use of photography in early archaeology will discuss how the technology prompted new ways of thinking about evidence in the study of the human past.

At a time when climate change threatens to damage more and more of what we all hold dear, conservation becomes more important than ever.

This two-day conference will focus on innovative research emerging from the study of Roman-period economies and societies.