Open Stacks 2024: Scholars’ Presentations

Rome Tuesday, June 4, 2024 – 3:30 to 6:30pm CET American Academy in Rome Via Angelo Masina, 5 Free admission. The American Academy in Rome will showcase the work of its Rome Prize, Italian, and Getty Global Fellows in the humanities with the first annual Open Stacks: Scholars’ Presentations. The event will feature a variety of short lectures highlighting the questions that motivated Fellows’ research in Rome, concerning topics such as ancient and modern diasporas, constructions of East and West, satire and humor, voting and lawmaking, intolerance, and religious expression in art, craft, and literature. Participating scholars are: Kate Meng Brassel, Mary C. Danisi, John Delury, Christopher Erdman, Mary-Evelyn Farrior, Emre Gönlügür, Jessica L. Harris, Dov Honick, Gabriella L. Johnson, Zakarya Khelif, Sara L. Petrilli-Jones, Nhung Tuyet Tran, and Anne L. Williams. Since 1894 the American Academy in Rome has functioned as a residential center for research and creativity. Its purpose has always been to enable highly motivated scholars and artists to immerse themselves in the experience of Rome, ancient and modern, and to be inspired by daily exchange with the other members of this creative community. The Academy has made an outsized impact on the intellectual and cultural life of the United States, and its Fellows and Residents have been recognized with 629 Guggenheim Fellowships, 75 Pulitzer Prizes, 53 MacArthur Fellowships, 26 Grammy awards, 5 Pritzker Prizes, 9 Poet Laureate appointments, and 5 Nobel Prizes. Approximately 35 Fellows are selected as winners of the Rome Prize each year by rotating juries in the different fields.