In this episode, we sit down with Kevin Martìn, a 2025–26 Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies at the American Academy in Rome and a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. Kevin’s research looks at the ...

In this episode, we sit down with Darcy Tuttle, a 2025–26 Rome Prize Fellow in Ancient Studies at the American Academy in Rome. Darcy’s research moves through ancient Roman religion, law, burial, and ...

In this episode, we sit down with visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, and educator Liana Miuccio. Born in Rome and raised in New York, Liana is a dual citizen of Italy and the United States whose ...

On this episode of The Emergence Room, Heather Hart joins us for a conversation about culminating our time as 2025–26 Rome Prize Fellows at the American Academy in Rome and what it means to carry that...

Michela Palermo is an artist, photographer, and founder of Palermo Publishing, an independent publishing project working across photography, visual art, and critical thought.

New episode of The Emergence Room featuring Samiya Bashir. Poet, multimedia artist, educator, trailblazer, and the first Black woman to receive the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature at the Ameri...

On this episode of The Emergence Room, we had the pleasure of talking with educator, researcher, and designer Iman Fayyad, whose work moves through conceptual drawing, sustainability, pedagogy, and sp...

On this episode of The Emergence Room, we had the pleasure of talking with performance artist Jefferson Pinder, 2026 Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, whose work moves between perform...

New episode of The Emergence Room featuring Katharine Ogle, poet, scholar, mother, educator, and 2026 Rome Prize Fellow in Environmental Arts & Humanities at the American Academy in Rome. Katharine’s ...

We had the pleasure of talking with Adam Summers, scientist, educator, explorer, and 2026 Rome Prize Fellow in Environmental Arts & Humanities at the American Academy in Rome.

We had the pleasure of speaking with Peter N. Miller, President and CEO of the American Academy in Rome, historian, scholar, and longtime advocate for interdisciplinary research and public intellectua...

We are joined by Tameka Baba, a Professional Practice Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at the Knowlton School at Ohio State University, where her work explores public space, ecology, comm...

We talk about family, diaspora, storytelling, and the mindset of the composer, as well as how sound can hold memory, grief, intimacy, and cultural inheritance all at once.

In this episode we talk about food as both craft and care – and how choices in the food we eat shape the future.

In this episode of The Emergence Room, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris hosts a conversation with Kaaj Tshikalandand – cultural mediator and anthropological researcher.

Known for her work navigating endurance, material transformation, and the politics of labor, Glynn has been in Rome working with wax and plaster—materials that hold memory, pressure, and impermanence,...

Aliza Wong is Director of the American Academy in Rome, professor of history at Texas Tech University – and skilled conversation architect!

Our conversation with João unfolds around living between places—between homes, cities, languages, and selves.

This conversation unfolds around music and singing, and how sound becomes a way of holding memory, devotion, and care.

In this episode, we are joined by Christine Sun Kim, an artist whose work rigorously examines sound, language, power, and access.

Paula’s research looks at how ancient Roman depictions of Blackness have been shaped—and misshaped—by modern scholarship and museum practice.

We interview Anita Contini about how some of her most influential contributions to public art began almost by accident.

We talk with Timothy Darden about what it means to be an artist finding your voice, and how music and filmmaking inform one another.

We sit down with someone whose presence feels like stepping into a poem — David Keplinger, poet, translator, and teacher.

We talk with Margot Weitzman, whose research traces a 16th-century merchant moving between India and Italy.

We sit down with the architecture duo Bonnie Fisher and Boris Dramov of the ROMA Design Group – partners in life, in practice, and in purpose – have shaped communities and cities, and through their wo...

Pythagoras The Sage — artist, philosopher, and musician — explores how music and philosophy merge in their own transformation and queerness.

A mathematician and lifelong wanderer of unconventional paths, Rick Luttmann brings a generosity of spirit and humor to our latest episdoe.