Remembering Malcolm Bell III: Seminar

On May 30, 2024, the American Academy in Rome hosed a seminar honoring the life and work of the archaeologist Malcolm (“Mac”) Bell III, who died in January 2024. A 1970 Rome Prize Fellow, a 1989 Resident, and Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies from 1990 to 1996, Bell made extensive contributions to the Academy and beyond.

Papers presented at this seminar 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.

Participants:
-Allison Emmerson (2019 Fellow), Interim Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Professor
-Caroline Bruzelius (1986 Fellow, 1989 Resident, 1994–98 Director), Anne Murnick Cogan Distinguished Professor Emerita of Art and Art History, Duke University
-Anthony Corbeill (1995 Fellow), Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics, University of Virginia
-Karl Kirchwey (1995 Fellow), Professor of English and Creative Writing, Boston University
-Claire Lyons (2022 Resident), Curator, Department of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum
-Stefano De Caro, Director-General Emeritus, ICCROM
-Alex Walthall (2013 Fellow), Associate Professor, University of Texas; Director of the American Excavations at Morgantina
-Pietro Giovanni Guzzo, Accademia dei Lincei