Thomas Römer, Administrator of the Collège de France, and Sam Stourdzé, Director of the Villa Médicis - Académie de France à Rome, signeda four-year partnership agreementon Thursday 14 March 2024, which will enable professors at the Collège de France to participate in the activities of the Villa Médicis through short stays for writing or research purposes.
These visits will also enable professors to take part in Villa Medici's programming, through lectures or presentations of their work.
The first will be hosted by Pr Didier Fassin onMay 29 and 30 2024, for a conference and a day of study and performance on the theme of exile and hospitality.
Founded in 1666 by Louis XIV, the Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis is a French institution established since 1803 at the Villa Médicis, a 16th-century villa surrounded by a seven-hectare park on Mount Pincio, in the heart of Rome. A national public institution under the authority of the French Ministry of Culture, the Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis today fulfills three complementary missions : to welcome artists, creators and art historians of the highest calibre in residence for long stays of one year or for shorter stays ; to put in place a cultural and artistic program that integrates all fields of the arts and creation and is aimed at a broad public ; to conserve, restore, study and make known to the public its built and landscape heritage as well as its collections.
