In May 2025 Dan will be hosted by the Bibliotheca Hertziana / Max Planck Institute for Art History and the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Sapienza Università di Roma in Rome, giving two talks.

On Thursday 15 May at 2pm at the Bibliotheca Hertziana he will give a talk titled "Militarist Realism": Colonialism, Monuments, Museums, and Knowledge Details here >> https://www.biblhertz.it/3661000/militarist-realism-colonialism-monuments-museums-and-knowledge.html

Then on Friday 16. May at 10am he wil give a talk at Sapienza Università di Roma titled "Crumbling is not an Instant's Act" Thoughts on monumentality, endurance, and public memory; details here > https://www.biblhertz.it/3661023/locandina_hicks_sapienza_def.pdf