Projects & Initiatives

The conservation, protection, and preservation of heritage and the contemporary destruction of art and architecture are the focus of this initiative's exhibitions, conferences, and Fellowships.

With several books from Columbia U. Press, numerous gallery exhibitions (in our gallery and online), and a series of conferences, the project highlights this island's importance in Mediterranean culture.  

With two books of essays on sites across the globe, with international symposia, and with as many as four Fellows each year, the Weinberg program is a productive response to grave threats to our shared global heritage.

The Italian Academy marks International Women's Day each March 8—and Women's History Month throughout March—with initiatives on the pressing issues of our time.

This initiative engaged evolutionary anthropology, genetics, archaeology, and more to address a fundamental demographic and cultural change in human evolutionary history. 

The Italian Academy marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with an annual academic event exploring issues of antisemitism, discrimination, and disinformation.

Events, publications, and research on the current state and history of the rule of law. Justice demands that no one is above the law but the rule of law remains vulnerable. Our initiative provides an international forum for rigorous discussion, analysis, and critical reflection on the challenges.

Based at Columbia’s Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, an international team of scholars, students and staff conducts textual and visual analysis and has digitized Sebastiano Serlio’s unpublished manuscript, On Domestic Architecture, as well as published works. Funding for research and scholarship is provided by the Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr. Foundation and by the Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust.

A digital exhibition on the earthquake-damaged town of Amatrice and the fate of its cultural heritage. Developed by former Fellow Francesco Gangemi, together with Rossana Torlontano and Valentina Valerio, in collaboration with the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, and with the Soprintendenza archeologia del Lazio as an official partner.

The Academy's galleries showcase the research and the presentations in archeology, art, and architecture developed within the International Observatory for Cultural Heritage.