Sponsor: American Academy in Rome

Seminar and Concert
Remembering Malcolm Bell III

Thursday, May 30, 2024 – 3:00pm CET
American Academy in Rome
Lecture Room and Cryptoporticus
Via Angelo Masina, 5
00153 Rome, Italy
Free admission
 

AAR will host a seminar and concert honoring the life and work of the archaeologist Malcolm (“Mac”) Bell III, who died in January of this year. A 1970 Rome Prize Fellow, a 1989 Resident, and Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies from 1990 to 1996, Bell made extensive contributions to the Academy and beyond. Papers presented today will celebrate the range of his impact: from his time as humanities professor at AAR, to his longtime direction of the excavations of Morgantina on Sicily, to his historic work repatriating looted artifacts and negotiating a bilateral agreement between Italy and the United States aimed at curtailing illegal trade in Italian antiquities.

A cello concert by Bell’s son, Raphael Bell, will follow the seminar.