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Study Abroad Program in Rome
Amy Bryzgel presented the following papers: "Afrika’s 'Stalker III'” at The Mass Media in Post-Soviet Russia Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, England (April 2006), and “New Avant-Gardes in East-Central Europe and Russia” at The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies’ Annual Conference at Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge, England (April 2006). She is currently a contributing writer to "The Baltic Guide," an English-language monthly newspaper in Riga, Latvia, and writes a monthly art column for "Riga Now!" an English-language monthly magazine published in Riga, Latvia. Jeremy Canwell was a Baltic Summer Studies Institute Fellow at Indiana University, funded by the Lithuanian Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He also received a Special Opportunity grant from the Graduate School, New Brunswick.published "System, Terminus and Time: The Mystical Art of Raul Meel" in the Zimmerli Journal (Fall 2006), and is now curating a Zimmerli exhibition on printmaking in the Soviet Baltic Republics. Kim Curtiss was awarded a 2006-2007 ACLS/Luce Dissertation Fellowship in American Art. In October she presented a paper at SECAC entitled "Making White Skin Red: Playing Indian in George Catlin’s Portrait of his Nephew Theodore Burr Catlin," and in November presented "The Meaning of ‘Amalgamation:’ Visual Constructions of Racial Mixture in 1830s America” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Lisandra Estevez will be presenting a paper, "17th-Century Spanish Signatures," on a panel sponsored by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (ASHAHS) at the annual conference of the College Art Association on February 16, 2007. She and her husband, George M. Isaac, are also pleased to announce the birth of their son, Adam George, on August 10, 2006.
Adam George Isaac This past year, Christine Filippone was the managing curator for the exhibition Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection held at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University. She also wrote the brochure essay for the world premier of Eve Sussman’s new video Rape of the Sabine Women for the Nasher Museum.the summer, Christine co-led a group of students from Peace College on a trip through southern Spain.Finally,presented the paper Technology and Feminist Utopias in the Work of Martha Rosler and Carolee Schneemann at the annual conference of The Society for the History of Technology. Ann M. Keen was able to visit both the Munich and Rome Olympic sites during her March 2006 residency at the International Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, in support of her dissertation Redefining Modernism: Monumentality and Expressionism in Architecture of the Olympic Summer Games, 1960-1976. Aided by a travel grant from the art history department, she toured Montreal’s Olympic Park and went through relevant holdings at Canada’s National Archives in Ottawa in July. Ann also traveled to Mexico City and Tokyo in 2006, completing her tours of the five sites to be discussed in her dissertation.
Ann Keen Karen Lloyd was awarded a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Institutional Fellowship to be held at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome (2006-2008). In Rome Karen will conduct research for her dissertation entitled “Altieri Patronage and Adoption in Early Modern Rome (1670-1710).” Karen also received an International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship from the Social Sciences Research Council, which allows her to explore dissertation-related resources in museums and libraries across Europe, and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship. She was also the winner of a departmental Olga Berendsen Baroque Prize, honoring outstanding work on a Baroque topic. Ljubomir Milanovic become a member of the Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in August. In October he presented a paper on “Mirroring Reality: Mosaic Program in the Narthex of the Katholikon of Hosios Loukas Monastery” at the Southern College Art Conference, Vanderbilt University in Nashville TN. In November he presented a paper entitled “Displaying the Relics and Shaping the Sacred Topography: The Shrine of King Stefan Decanski in the Church of Christ the Savior” at the 39th National Convention of the American Association for the Advance of Slavic Studies in Washington D.C. Additionally, he was awarded a Studenica Foundation scholarship for the 2006-2007 academic year. Alison Poe chaired a joint Archaeological Institute of America / American Philological Association panel entitled "Christian Culture and Pagan Underpinnings" at the AIA/APA annual meeting in Montreal in January. She gave a talk entitled "Banqueting in the Catacombs: A Reconsideration" at the WAPACC conference "Constructions of Death, Mourning, and Memory" in New Jersey in October. Alison was an adjunct instructor at Drew University again this year and will team-teach a Humanities course on Classical Antiquity there in the fall of 2007. Sascha Scott is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for 2006-2007. She recently published a review of Barbra Buhler Lynes, Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), in Woman’s Art Journal 27:2 (Fall/Winter 2006). In February, 2007 she will deliver a paper entitled “Will the Real John Sloan Please Stand Up?” in the session “Robert Henri and “The Eight:” A Pre-centennial Reassessment” at the College Art Association Annual Conference. Mary Tinti will present her paper, “Alice Aycock’s Star Sifter” at the Philadelphia Symposium on the History of Art, March 17, 2007. In June 2006, she completed a pre-doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and presented her research as part of the museum’s ongoing “Works in Progress” lecture series. Mary is currently a Research Associate at NASM, where she is in residence for the remainder of the academic year. Carman Vendelin has been Assistant Curator at the La Salle University Art
Museum since April. She also co-curated and wrote a catalogue essay for the
Zimmerli Art Museum's exhibition“Toulouse-Lautrec and The French Imprint:
Fin-De-Siècle Posters in Paris, Brussels and Barcelona,”which
traveled to England and Scotland in 2006.
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