Far Afield

Today Seán Hemingway (2003 Affiliated Fellow) speaks at an Italian Academy symposium on “50 Years Since the Discoveries at Mont’e Prama” at Columbia University. Steven Ellis (2013 Fellow, 2016 Affiliated Fellow) moderates the event.

Harvard University’s Danielle Allen (2020 Resident) will give a public lecture at the University of Notre Dame on March 27 as part of the Notre Dame Forum 2024–25. Her subject is “Bringing Democracy Back from the Brink: A Strategic Vision and a Call to Action.” 

Hear the world premieres of two compositions, then, nothing by Kamran Ince (1988 Fellow) and Copper Canvas by Andy Akiho (2015 Fellow) on March 26 at intO tHe WiLd, a music festival in Milwaukee organized by Present Music. Born to be Wild by David Lang (1991 Fellow, 2017 Resident) will also be performed at the same concert, which repeats on March 27.

On March 27 Kate Soper (2024 Fellow) will present Ipsa Dixit—a chamber music theater piece for voice, flute, violin, and percussion that explores music, language, and meaning—at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Nona Faustine, a Brooklyn-based photographer and our 2025 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellow in visual arts, died on March 20. A tribute from the Academy is forthcoming.

Jon Fosse, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in literature, joins Claudia Durastanti (2015 Italian Fellow) and Andrea Romanzi for a conversation at Parco della Musica in Rome exploring literature, language, and silence.

On March 25, Erica Moretti (2024 Fellow) will moderate a Montclair State University event featuring Maria Laurino, who is speaking about her latest book, The Price of Children: Stolen Lives in a Land without Choice.

The London Review of Books has published two poems written by Paula Bohince (2022 Affiliated Fellow) in its current issue. Their titles are “Ecologic” and “Milk Music.”

A sculpture by Antonella Genuardi and Leonardo Ruta (2023 Italian Fellows) finds its way to the cover of the Italian art magazine ArteeCritica. Daniela Bigi interviews the artist duo in the issue.

On March 21 Carrie Mae Weems (2006 Fellow) will convene Monumental Concerns, a full-day program at the Museum of Modern Art in New York exploring the complex landscape of contested memorial sites and monuments.

Alexa Vaughn (2023 Fellow) will present her continuing research on “DeafSpace / DeafScape as Methodology: A Case Study in Cripping the Design Process” at CripTech Creativity: Rethinking Access through Art and Technology, a full-day workshop taking place at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz on March 22.

The New York Times praises Meanwhile, directed by Catherine Gund (2025 Resident), for its lyrical approach to documentary filmmaking, blending art, sound, and history into a meditative exploration of Black resilience and survival.

Participants in the Medieval Academy of America’s one hundredth annual meeting, taking place March 20–22 at Harvard University, include Joshua Birk (2013 Fellow), Denva Gallant (2023 Fellow), Michael McCormick (2017 Resident), and William Chester Jordan (2018 Fellow).

On March 16, Mabel O. Wilson (2022 Resident) will deliver the second of four talks in the 74th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

From March 14 to 16, William Kentridge (2011 and 2016 Resident) will present the first Bay Area performance of a chamber opera, titled The Great Yes, The Great No, at Cal Performances in Berkeley, California.

KieranTimberlake, the architectural firm established in 1984 by Stephen Kieran (1981 Fellow) and James Timberlake (1983 Fellow), has transitioned from a founder-led partnership to a fully employee-owned corporation.

Dietrich Neumann (2014 Resident) has won the 2025 PROSE Award in architecture and urban planning from the Association of American Publishers for his book Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time, published by Yale University Press.

A Hyperallergic review of Paint Me a Road Out of Here explores a documentary by Catherine Gund (2025 Resident) on Faith Ringgold’s 1972 Rikers Island mural, tracing its creation, displacement, and restoration as a powerful symbol of resilience and hope.

On March 10 and 11, Selby Wynn Schwartz (2025 Fellow) and others will read from the French translation of her Après Sappho at La Maison de la Poésie in Paris. The event highlights the work’s choral storytelling and feminist legacy.

David Nirenberg (2021 Resident) will deliver the Clark Horowitz Annual Lecture in Religion at Pomona College in California on March 10, speaking on “History as a Resource in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.”