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Jeremy Canwell published an essay, "Orphans of Vision (or *How Modernism Has Been An Awful Parent*)" in the Estonian journal Kunst.ee. He is a Visiting Scholar in the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University.

Jeremy Canwell with artist Raul Meel and Mari Meel in Pivarootsi, Estonia, 2008

Christine Filippone gave the paper “War, Technology and Feminist Utopias in the Works of Martha Rosler and Carolee Schneemann” for the session Persons of Interest: Locating the Artist in Times of Conflict at CAA Dallas. In the spring, she led a study abroad trip to Greece for students at Peace College, Raleigh NC, after which she moved from Raleigh back to the Philadelphia area. She is currently completing the article “Cosmology and Transformation in the Work of Michelle Stuart” for Woman’s Art Journal.

Ann M. Keen presented a paper, “Nervi’s Palazzo and Palazzetto dello Sport: Striking a Delicate Balance between Past and Present in 1960 Rome,” at a conference co-presented by the University of Reading and the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, “Thinking the Olympics: Modern Bodies, Classical Minds.” The international, interdisciplinary conference took place in London in September 2008 as part of the academic and cultural events leading up to the London Olympic Summer Games in 2012. During the past year, she also presented talks related to her dissertation to Dr. Corey Brennan’s first-year seminar on stadium architecture and at Rutgers’ Showcase Italian II: Teaching the Unknown Classics, co-presented by the Italian Studies program and the NJ Italian and Italian American Heritage Commission. In June 2008, Ann accepted an architectural historian position at Geo-Marine, Inc., in Plano, Texas. She now lives in Dallas and is happy to be living in a building older than she is!

Karen Lloyd co-organized a Studiumtag/Giornata di studio (Bibliotheca Hertziana, June 10th, 2008) on the theme of "Der späte Bernini (1655-1680)"with colleague Claudia Lehmann, and presented a paper entitled "Bernini, Altieri, and Albertoni." At the symposium Exempla Moralia hosted by the Norwegian Institute in Rome (October 17-18, 2008) she presented the paper "What's in a Name? Cinzio and Pietro Aldobrandini as Papal nephews and Patrons." Both conference proceedings are slated for publication. In the spring, Karen participated in the the SSRC International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Workshop (New Orleans, March 6-12, 2008). Finally, Karen's first academic publication appears in the December 2008 issue of The Burlington Magazine, in the form of a shorter notice titled "Bernini and the Vacant See."

San Solu, Eveline Baseggio, Prof. Joan Marter, Alexa Arroya and Andrew Scruggs at the Pop Art Opening

Ljubomir Milanovic won a Fellowship from The École française de Rome for spring 2009. He presented a paper entitled “A Body that Matters: St Stephen and the Cult of Serbian Royal Saints, Its Genesis and Images,” at the 40th National Convention of AAASS (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies), Philadelphia, November, 2008.

On May 8, 2008, Gabriella Miyamoto presented a paper entitled "The Ambo of Henry II in the Aachen Palatine Chapel: The Use of Multivalent Imagery to Express Divine and Temporal Legitimization" at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies hosted by The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. She was a part of a three-person panel session on Carolingian and Ottonian Continuity in the Medieval German Empire, sponsored by Societas Rerum Imperii and moderated by Eliza Garrison of Middlebury College. Several distinguished scholars were in the audience, including Ilene Forsyth, Dale Kinney, and Bryan Ward-Perkins.

Chiara Scappini was awarded a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in Art History at the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florence for two academic years. Chiara will be examining documents in Siena and Florence pertaining to her dissertation topic, “History, Preservation, and Reconstruction in Siena: the Fonte Gaia from Renaissance to Modern Times”. In September of 2008 Chiara married Dr. Filippo Paoletti in Porto Ercole, Italy.

Chiara Scappini and Dr. Filippo Paoletti

Carmen Vendelin curated “The Buffoonish Bourgeois: Caricatures and Satire of the Upper Middle-Class Businessman in 19th-century France”, which was on view March 5- May 30, 2008 at the La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The exhibition was supported in part by a grant from the International Fine Print Dealers Association. She also wrote the catalogue essay for the accompanying catalogue and gave a lecture, "“Not so easy: Images of Middle-Class Men accosting Un-chaperoned Women on the Streets of Paris c. 1840s-1890s," in conjunction with the exhibition at the La Salle University Art Museum, April 3, 2008.

Congratulations to the Mellon Fellowship Award Winners Dissertation Fellowship: Ljubomir Milanovic and Florence Quideau Summer Dissertation Writing Stipend: Karen Lloyd Summer Research Grant: David Boffa, Olivia Gruber Florek, Ljubomir Milanovic and Heather Shannon

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