On Monday 7th of May AUR Professor and Artist, Prof. Breda C. Ennis will give a public lecture on her art work and teaching and teaching art at AUR at The Louvain Institute for Ireland, in Leuven, Belgium. This lecture will be held at 7 p.m. in the evening in the gallery of the Institute. For more information please contact Professor Ennis at b.ennis@aur.edu.

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The ‘Friends of the Arts’
of The American University of Rome presents:

"Junk or Genius - What Makes Good Art?"

7:30 p.m. Thursday April 26th
Auriana Auditorium
Via Pietro Roselli 16

Art History, traditionally, is founded on a canon of great
masters such as Giotto, Michelangelo, Picasso etc.
This has come in for criticism in recent years as being a construct of a
social hierarchy which privileged men over women,
western art over non western art and painting and sculpture over
other forms of visual expression.
So what is ‘good’ art?

Two professors of Art History from the Department of Arts & Humanities will present their own canon from very diverse viewpoints.
Professor Caspar Pearson is a British trained Renaissance Art Historian currently engaged in writing a book on Alberti.
Professor Flavia Marcello completed her Ph.D. in Australia on fascist architecture and specializes in modern and contemporary art.
We look forward to an entertaining and provocative exchange of views!

There is plenty of parking in the streets around Via Roselli.
The two short lectures with an interval for refreshments.

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 Is the House a Machine?
Arts and Humanities is holding a one-day international conference
on November 24th to answer just that question.
Read about the colloquium
Read about the participants

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"The da Vinci Code Phenomenon; film and book"

Dan Brown's creation has been descried by scholars and blasted by film critics but it continues to exercise a fascination on the public imagination that has rarely been seen before. Professor Terry Kirk, an Art Historian, and Paul Zinder, Professor of Film at The American University of Rome, will examine the phenomenon, what it means and how it has impacted their respective disciplines

We will be meeting on Thursday September 28th. at 19.00 in the AUR Auditorium, Via Pietro Roselli 16. (Gianicolo). There will be refreshments included and there is plenty of parking available in the streets around Via Pietro Roselli.

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As well as Rome, students can explore other areas of Italy and Europe and its rich cultural heritage.

One Credit Courses
Students can combine travel with learning by taking a one-credit course. In the spring semester we offer ‘Athens: City of Pericles; -an exploration of the classical city focusing on the acropolis and agora. In both fall and spring students can take ‘Pompeii & Daily Life in Ancient Society’.

Course Related Excursions
Some classes incorporate trips as part of the schedule. Typical destination in Italy include Florence, Venice, Naples, Orvieto and Ravenna. Other courses focusing on modern art visit Paris.

Trips with Student Service
Art History professors provide the academic expertise on trips organized by Student Services for the whole student body. Every semester they give tours of key sites in guided weekends in Florence and Venice, accompany a trip to Pompeii and Paestum and explore less familiar places in Italy with ‘Inside Italy’ trips.