Incontri

The American Academy in Rome will host a panel of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC), in that organization’s long-standing Incontri series. The theme will be Contatti e connettività nell’Italia imperiale (Contacts and Connectivity in Imperial Italy).

The speakers and their topics are:

• James Page, British School at Rome, The AMINI Database: Preliminary Results from a Quantified, Synthetic Study of the Distribution and Consumption of Amphora-Borne Goods across Northern Italy
• Mary-Evelyn Farrior (2024 Fellow), PhD Candidate, Department of Classical Studies, Columbia University, Understanding the Stations of the Sacra Via
• Nicola Barbagli (2024 Italian Fellow), Universität Trier, The Pamphilj Obelisk: A Monument at the Crossroads of Cultures

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 as the principal clearinghouse in Rome for information on archaeology-related scholarly events. AIAC publishes Fasti Online, the premier international database for archaeological excavations in thirteen countries in the territory of the former Roman Empire (including Italy), which in turn continues its print Fasti Archaeologici (published 1948–87). Since 2000, AIAC 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.

The American Academy in Rome will host a panel presentation of 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 Volti e sfaccettature della moneta antica moderated by Lorenza Ilia Manfredi (CNR, Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico). Presenting on the AIAC program will be:

• Pia Mustonen (Institutum Romanum Finlandiae), La tematica religiosa nelle monete delle donne della dinastia Flavia (69–96 d.C.)
• Gianluca Mandatori (Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma), Ratio denariaria e denarii coniati: l’introduzione della moneta argentea a Roma
• Giuseppe Castellano (University of Texas at Austin), Coins in Context: Trade, Monetization, and Cultural Contact in the Tyrrhenian Sea
• Chiara Cecalupo (Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana), La collezione numismatica di Propaganda Fide alla luce dei documenti d’archivio

The presentations will be held in Italian and English.

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 thirteen countries in the territory of the former Roman Empire (including, of course, Italy), which in turn continues its print Fasti Archaeologici (published 1948–87). 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.

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.

The American Academy in Rome will host a panel of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC), in that organization’s long-standing Incontri series. The theme for this evening is Immagini e società.

Presenting on the AIAC program, to be moderated by Eugenio Polito of Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, will be:

• Chiara Lo Verme, Sapienza Università di Roma, La coroplastica votiva nell’agro ceretano. Il complesso santuariale di Pyrgi e le aree sacre di Caere e del suo territorio a confronto
• Evan Jewell (2023 Fellow), American Academy in Rome and Rutgers University, Re-thinking the bearded portraits of the Julio-Claudian family: The “depositio barbae” from subaltern ritual to dynastic event?
• Joacim Seger, Svenska Institutet i Rom, “Imagines Clipeatae”: Framing Memory in the Roman World
• Rebecca Levitan (2021 Fellow), British School at Rome and University of California, Berkeley, Revisiting the Sculpture from the Grotto at Sperlonga

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 as the principal clearinghouse in Rome for information on archaeology-related scholarly events. AIAC publishes Fasti Online, the premier international database for archaeological excavations in thirteen countries in the territory of the former Roman Empire (including Italy), which in turn continues its print Fasti Archaeologici (published 1948–87). Since 2000, AIAC 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.

For more information about the event, please write to conferenze [at] aiac.org (conferenze[at]aiac[dot]org).

The American Academy in Rome will host a session of the Incontri tardoantichi a Roma (ITAR)/Late Antique Seminars in Rome with two lectures.

• Jason Moralee (2010 Fellow), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “An Object of Infinite Love and Infinite Hate”: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity
• Michele R. Salzman (1987 Fellow, 2008 Resident), University of California, Riverside, Rome after the Fall of the Western Roman Emperor: A New View of the Papacy of Felix III (483–492)

The lectures will be given in English.

The Incontri ITAR are organized by Olof Brandt (PIAC), Charles Davoine (EFR), Kristine Iara (AAR), Silvia Orlandi (Sapienza Università di Roma), Claire Sotinel (Université Paris-Est Créteil), and Norbert Zimmermann (DAI).

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

The theme for this evening will be Ricostruire la vita attraverso la morte, moderated by Antonio F. Ferrandes (Sapienza – Università di Roma). Presenting on the AIAC program will be:

• Mattia Bischeri (Sapienza – Università di Roma), Contributo allo studio del territorio di Chiusi. La necropoli di Tolle: seriazione dei contesti, analisi tipologica dei materiali, rituali funerari tra età orientalizzante e età arcaica
• Courtney Ward (Istituto di Norvegia in Roma), Unearthing Buried Identity: Skeletal and Jewellery Finds from Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Oplontis
• Victoria Moses (American Academy in Rome), Diet and Economy in Early Latium: Zooachaeology at Gabii (8th–6th Centuries BCE)

The presentations will be held in Italian and English.

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 thirteen countries in the territory of the former Roman Empire (including, of course, Italy), which in turn continues its print Fasti Archaeologici (published 1948–87). 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.

L’American Academy in Rome ospiterà un convegno dell’AIAC, l’Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica: il convegno è parte del benemerito e affermato ciclo Incontri organizzato dall’AIAC da ormai molti anni. Il tema di questo pomeriggio sarà la Gestione dell’acqua e topografia suburbana. L’incontro sarà moderato da Lynne Lancaster (American Academy in Rome). Si susseguiranno gli interventi di:

• Ann GLENNIE (Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome - ICCS), “Coping with Absence: Rainwater Harvesting at Roman Cosa”
• Giuseppe RESTAINO (Università degli Studi di Pavia), “Il tempio “ἐν τῷ προαστείῳ” di Eliogabalo. Problemi storici e topografici”

L’evento si terrà in italiano e inglese. Sarà possibile seguirlo in diretta streaming https://livestream.com/aarome.