postcArD2012News from Temple UniversityRome Campus

ecause speaking Italian is a key to Italian culture and to a richer, more meaningful experience inRome – and simply navigating daily life – Temple Romestudents are encouraged to make their Italian languagestudy a priority.

Studying Italian at Temple Rome is especially exciting andmeaningful because Rome itself is the language laboratory.It begins with orientation when students learn to recognizethe Italian names for the shops and the services they need.They purchase bus and Metro tickets in Italian, andperhaps order “un cappuccino” or “un caffé americano,”before boarding public transportation where they are asked“permesso?” and “scende?” by other passengers who needto squeeze past them on the crowded bus. They may beasked to produce their “bigletti” by someone checkingtickets while traveling. This full-immersion experiencedemonstrates the need for the language and greatlycontributes to its acquisition.

The communicative approach adopted by our outstandingItalian language faculty is also a key to learning Italianlanguage. Many alumni will recognize their professors inthis picture, described by Dr. Maria Ponce de Leon, ItalianLanguage Coordinator, as “a great group!”

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Italian Faculty (left to right) Gitti Aloisi Masella,Barbara Parisi, Paolo Chirichigno, Camela Merola,Maria Ponce de Leon, Giovanna Agostini, CristianoGentili, Daniela Curioso, Lucy Delogu.

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Dear Alumni, Faculty and Friends:

Welcome to the 2012 issue of Postcard and our annual review of TempleUniversity Rome news and events!

This issue focuses on the achievements of our faculty in the classroom and intheir professional fields, whether it be a team effort as with our Italianlanguage program, or as individuals. Our feature story on Dr. Anna Tuck-Scala provides an example of ground-breaking research combined withexcellence in the classroom, and of local faculty using their experience toengage the environment—in Anna’s case, Rome and Naples—by teaching onsite. In addition to our nearly 40 Rome-based faculty, select main campusfaculty teach during the semester and summer sessions, adding their specialexpertise to the curriculum and the program. “Forty Days in the EternalCity” highlights main campus faculty and new courses offered duringSummer 2011, for example. And look for the Fall 2012 issue of TempleMagazine for a feature article on Dr. Jan Gadeyne and his excavation of anancient Roman villa in Artena, which provides students with a uniqueeducational opportunity during the summer. Professional Activities on pages10-11 details the range of Temple Rome faculty professionalaccomplishments, some of which are supported by grants from Temple Romeand the office of Research and Strategic Initiatives on main campus. As youread more, you will see why we are so proud of our faculty, both as teachersand scholars.

As always we are gratified by the All Roads Lead to Rome section (pages 5-7)which features some of the alumni and friends who visit Temple Rome duringthe year. And as noted on page 4, we now have 10,000 Temple Rome alumnisince our founding in 1966! We thank those who contributed to our recentappeal for the Pia Candinas Library Fund, and we thank everyone forspreading the word about study abroad at Temple Rome. Please let us knowif you will be traveling to Rome and would like to visit. Thank you!

Denise A. ConnertyAssistant Vice President, Education Abroad and Overseas Campusesconnerty@temple.edu

Kim StrommenDean, Temple University Rome kim.strommen@templerome.it

A speciAl note about this issue’s postmark and stamp.

The stamp, which circulated in 2010, commemorates the 100th anniversaryof the Caproni Ca.1, the first aircraft to be designed and built by Italianaviation pioneer, Gianni Caproni (1886-1957). The Caproni Ca.1 was anexperimental biplane built in Italy in 1910, which flew for the first time on27 May 1910, and was later used as a strategic bomber in World War I.Temple Rome alumni/ae will recognize the name; Temple Rome has beenhoused in the Caproni family villa since its founding in 1966, wheremembers of the family still reside.

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er years of painstaking research took her out of libraries and galleries and into churches and archives, where Tuck-Scala discovered a number of new documents. Shehumorously described her entrance into the Archivio Storico Diocesano, where the staffwondered what this young American scholar hoped to find that leading Italian art historianshad not. Knowing, however, that Vaccaro’s son, the painter Nicola, had been baptized asTommaso Domenico Nicola and not as Nicola, she requested the documents filed under “T.”The staff was no less astounded than she when the first document on the pile was the marriagebanns of the artist’s son that Vaccaro signed, not as “painter,” but as “scribe.” This findingenabled Tuck-Scala to secure further biographical data; she also spent a considerable amountof time in the bank archives and located records of payments for Vaccaro’s paintings, all ofwhich allowed her to date previously undated paintings.

These newly discovered documents are gathered together for the first time in her book andgrant a solid chronological development of his art. In the end, however, her discoveries wouldhave meant little without the skill she acquired in deciphering seventeenth-century legal andecclesiastical Neapolitan to understand the importance of her finds. Her work also took her intothe streets and byways of Naples to locate the paintings. Her good fortune continued toaccompany her as she roved; the cover to her book features one of Vaccaro’s most importantpaintings reproduced in color for the first time. The painting had been believed to have beenlost until she rediscovered it in a site normally closed to the public. Out of the blue, shereceived a tip from a friend of a friend who mentioned seeing it.

Andrea Vaccaro (Naples, 1604-1670): His Documented Life and Art is therefore the fruit ofmany years of field research, archival work and persistence combined with luck. Tuck-Scala isgratified to have made evident the stylistic and iconographical connections that demonstrateVaccaro’s influence not only on his currently more celebrated contemporaries, but also on theculture of his period.

Tuck-Scala is an expert not only onseventeenth-century Naples, but also oncontemporary Naples. Arriving in Italy in1994 to begin research for her doctoraldissertation for the Pennsylvania StateUniversity, she has published onCaravaggio’s Neapolitan paintings, AndreaVaccaro’s paintings in Spain, and a literaryguidebook to Sorrento, the town where sheresides. TU Rome students appreciate thedepth and breadth of her on-site lecturesin Naples as much as she enjoys teachingon-site, “an experience,” she says, “thatcannot be duplicated digitally, because theworks are seen in context.”

One particularly striking example is taking her students to the church of Pio Monte dellaMisericordia in Naples to see Caravaggio’s The Seven Acts of Mercy; “when you walk out of thechurch and into the street, it is as if you are stepping into the painting;” those words ring withAnna Tuck-Scala’s knowledge, understanding and passion for Naples.

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TU Rome congratulatesDR. ANNA K. TUCK-SCALA (ArtHistory) on her forthcomingbook, Andrea Vaccaro (Naples,1604-1670): His DocumentedLife and Art, published inEnglish by Paparo Edizioni ofNaples. The publisherdescribes her book as “thefirst scholarly monograph onone of the most importantseventeenth-century paintersof southern Italy,” whichprovides “a solid andfundamental starting point forfuture studies on the painter”and establishes her as theleading expert on this artist.Tuck-Scala explains thatalthough Vaccaro was one ofthe main protagonists in theartistic culture of Naples,modern scholars have oftenconsidered him to be a painterof second rank. Her work aimsat re-establishing thehistorical role of Vaccaro,concentrating in particular onhis secure and documentedartistic production, bychecking firsthand relevantliterary and archival sources.

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She goes on to explain that “each one ofthem brings enthusiasm and creativity to theTU Rome program, which makes learningItalian enjoyable, as well as essential to thestudents’ stay in Italy.” Dean Strommenagrees, “The Italian professors are highlycreative and effective; they know theirstudents and are sensitive to thepsychological impact of the languagelearning process.”

Most students are enrolled in the beginninglevel, which introduces Italian as a spokenlanguage, along with the fundamentals ofgrammar. The emphasis of this course is onbasic oral communication and theacquisition of the practical survival skillsneeded in another culture. This may seem tobe straightforward, but as TU Rome’s Italianlanguage faculty and students know, it is farmore complex.

All together, Temple Rome offers five levelsof language instruction and the courseofferings are especially rich. Theintermediate and advanced courses presentmore complex cultural content that reflectsvarious aspects of modern Italy. Theactivities include going to the theatre,reading newspaper articles, viewing films,watching television programs and learningcontemporary Italian songs, all of which areaimed at expanding learning outside of theclassroom.

The goal of the Italian faculty is to developeach student’s linguistic autonomy, from thefoundation courses to those at the advancedlevel. Students are encouraged to makeRome their classroom with on-site activitiesas they gain the linguistic skills and culturalknowledge they need to navigate and adaptto their new culture independently.

Living in a new linguistic and culturalcontext also gives TU Rome students theopportunity to be informal ambassadors toItaly, while they learn to view their ownsociety from new perspectives.Communicating and interacting confidentlywith people outside our own communities,seeing world events from anotherperspective, understanding culturaldifferences and being able to questionpopular stereotypes are some of the obviousrewards.

TU Rome students do not need a museum ticket to see great sculpture. Piazza delPopolo displays 19th century statues, and a bit beyond lies Via delle QuattroFontane, with statues from the 16th century. Rome offers an abundance of worldfamous figurative sculpture that serves as a resource and inspiration for students.Today, a figure modeling course is a fixture of TU Rome’s studio art courses.Professor Roberto Mannino (pictured with his figure modeling class), a widelyexhibited sculptor, explains the return of the figure: “The human figure is that formthat we experience every day without the analytical concern that’s needed to replicateit; that’s the challenge, to transform our consciousness of the body into formal know-how.” Mannino goes on to note that “human figures have been the palimpsest ofWestern Art for centuries, so any artist working within such an area is directlyengaged in a global contest.” Professor Mannino has a firm grasp of traditional andcontemporary Western Art,having taken his BFA at theRhode Island School ofDesign and his Diploma inSculpture at the Fine ArtAcademy of Rome; he bringsthat breadth and depth to histeaching. “Handmade vs.digital, maybe that’s thekey,” he reflects. “To make afigure from the bone is achallenge, but also anaccomplishment.”

Katherine Krizek (Drawing/Art History), whose students are seen drawing at theHendrik Christian Andersen Museum (below). This neo-Renaissance studio-residence, located next door to Temple Rome, was designed by the artist in the 1890sand now forms part of Rome’s National Gallery of Modern Art. Anderson’s hugefigurative sculptures, which he worked on until his death in 1940, are on display inthe original studio spaces. Anderson’s art and studios are unique, and provide sourcematerial and inspiration for visual arts courses. Professor Krizek agrees withMannino, “For everyone it is a challenge and rewarding. With the figure there areinfinite ways to refresh our skills as artists.”

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Jillian Harris (right front), AssistantProfessor of Dance, Esther BoyerCollege of Music and Dance, taught“Creative Process in Dance” duringthe 2011 six-week summer session.It was the first dance course offeredat Temple Rome and it culminatedwith the performance of works-in-progress inspired by artworks withinRome’s Galleria Nazionale d’ArteModerna. Harris continued her workin summer 2012 with a site-specificdance on a staircase overlooking theTiber River, based on Dante’sInferno, followed by a performance on astaircase in Philadelphia.

Professor Harris’ course is one of manychoices available during TU Rome’ssummer session from a wide variety ofdisciplines, which include new coursesproposed and taught by main campusfaculty. The summer session also supportsa large law program and a graduate seminarfrom the English Department.

Many summer courses emphasize a balancebetween lectures and guided explorations of the city. For example, in “Roma: Modern Architecture and Urbanism,” Alicia Imperiale, Assistant Professor ofArchitectural History and Theory, TylerSchool of Art, examines twentieth andtwenty-first century urbanism andarchitecture in Rome through weeklylectures and walking tours in plannedneighborhoods such as the EUR, theOlympic Village of the 1960 games.

X10,000 TU Rome Alumni

The milestone of 10,000 studentshaving studied at TU Rome has beenreached! In 1966, Temple’s TylerSchool of Art founded a Visual Artsprogram that began when the shipcarrying the first group of 36 studentsdocked in Naples. Today we are oneof the longest-standing Americanstudy abroad programs in Italy, andenrollments have risen impressively.We welcomed 245 students, fromTemple and 36 other institutions, inthe 2012 spring semester.

To keep pace with the changes, and toenhance the quality of the program,we have expanded our library,renovated the building to increase thenumber of classrooms and studios,added homestays, internships, and awide range of cultural and volunteerprograms to enrich the experience ofstudying in Rome. The areas of studyhave also grown with theenrollments. Over the years we haveincluded photography, digitalphotography, printmaking, painting,drawing and sculpture in the artscourses, as well as many moreofferings in international business,humanities and the social sciences.

“Business Communications” requiresstudents to visit cultural sites in Rome or toconduct research on business practiceswithin the European Union and the“International Business” internships teamstudents with the Roman working world.

“Collaborative Design Workshop inRome,” Paul Sheriff, Associate Professor ofDesign, Tyler School of Art, immersesstudents in the culture of Rome to producean in-depth design project, which takes theform of either a magazine or a book aboutthe city (see back cover, and poster below).

DESIGN BY JENNA JULIANO

Students are evidentlyenthusiastic about participatingin the summer session, since

enrollments have climbed froman initial 15 students to over

130 at present.

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Jennifer Potena Vitella (University of Delaware, TU Rome Spring ’87)stopped by with her family from Sacrofano, a town near Rome. “TURome,” she remembers, “was an amazing experience for me; it wasgreat to see it almost 25 years later.”

John Marquette (University of SanFrancisco, TU Rome ’75-’76)learned to speak Italian by beingtaken in by engineering studentsstudying at the University ofRome. His knowledge of Italianhelped his career as a librarian inSouthern California, and allowedhim to work with his Spanish-speaking patrons. “Thirty-sevenyears later, I now have Spanishand Italian to enrich my life.”

Suzanne D. Gaadt (Tyler, TU Rome Fall ’85) broughther husband, John, and their two children to seewhere she went to school. She is now the CreativeDirector of Gaadt Perspectives, LLC, whichproduces visual communications to promoteunderstanding in the arts, education, socialsustainability and the environment.

Laurie (Schual) Morris (Tyler, TU Rome ’67-’68) returned with herhusband, Roger, to share one of the most important experiencesof her life. “I attended Tyler (TU Rome was referred to as Tylerback then) in its infancy, its second year. Our voyage as a groupfrom the USA to Italy was byboat, the “S.S. Rotterdam.” Ourclass first proceeded to a towncalled Pistoia, 50 km outsideof Florence. Each studentlived as a guest with an Italianfamily. The purpose was tolearn Italian and to immerseoneself into Italian culture.Reaching mid-October ourclass traveled to Rome tobegin our studies. Theprofessors were all extra-ordinary. I fondly remember Miss La Penta, a gifted art historian, who led us on multi-day field trips all overthe country during both semesters. Tyler offered such a strong,intense, diverse and in-depth program that has influenced mywork of thirty-five years. I have been able to have several artcareers, all of them successful and many of them simultaneously.It has been most fulfilling, so thank you Tyler!”

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portAnoA roMA Meredith Wenzel (Tyler, TU Rome Spring and Fall ’71)

thinks that although “you don’t realize it at the beginning,there is nothing better than being in a foreign countrywhen you are making the major choices in your life. Italywill always have a part in your daily life.”

The doors to TU Rome arealways open to returningalumni, where a warmwelcome awaits.

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Lydia Boehm (Oberlin, TU Rome,Fall ’11) welcomed her mother,Louise Kirtland Boehm (Scripps, TU Rome Spring ’69) and her father,architect William Boehm, to Rome.

Melissa Ashabranner (Temple, Yale),author and Executive Editor ofCapital Community News, Inc.,spent Parents’ Week with herdaughter, Olivia-Jene Fagon(Brown, TU Rome, Fall ’11).

Susan Hyer,Director,Computer Services atTemple University,Philadelphia, visitedRome with her son,Paul Hyer (Temple, TURome Fall ’11),currently enrolled inthe Fox School ofBusiness.

Olivia Fischer Fox (Rhode Island School ofDesign, TU Rome Spring ’85) returned toRome with her husband, Chris Fox.

John J. Donnelly (Tyler,TU Rome Spring ’80) isin his twenty-third yearas Professor of Art atMount Vernon NazareneUniversity, where heteaches painting anddrawing. He isrepresented by theMarcia Even Gallery inColumbus, Ohio.

Joelle Dietrick (Temple,TU Rome ’93-’94) cameback along with OwenMundy and their daughterSophia. Joelle reports,“My year in Rome waslife-changing, inspiringme to teach in Bahrain,Germany, China, and mostrecently at Florida State.It is great to be back.”

Jill (Campbell) Hammaker-Brinser (Tyler, TU Rome Fall ’88)brought her daughter, Leah, to Rome for her sixteenthbirthday. They enjoyed seeing the residence, the school,the Roman Forum, the Coliseum, the Palatine Hill as wellas “searching for gelato and shopping!”

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Lynn Alpert(HampshireCollege, Temple,TU Rome ’03-’04)stopped in Rome onher way to asummer course heldin Montenegro.Lynn is pursuing aMaster of HistoricPreservation at theUniversity ofPennsylvania because she “really got interestedin preservation and architectural history duringmy year in Rome.”

Molly McCoy (Tyler,TU Rome Spring ’99)and her partner, Nick Raymond, werein Rome and Istanbulfor a vacation. Mollylives in Oakland,California, where she works as anindependent graphicdesigner.

Carrie Davis (University of Pennsylvania,TU Rome Fall ’96) and Michael Lebovicharrived in Rome for their honeymoon, andtook her husband “to all of our haunts frommy Temple Rome days – the residence, theTrionfale market, the delicatessen – andeverything is just as I remember it!”

Adam J. Rose (Wittenberg University, TU Rome Fall ’06) alsocame back on his honeymoon “to visit the city and the campusthat changed my life. The experience I had at Temple Romewas second to none. The culture, the city, the history, theprofessors and my fellow students made it a dream come true!”

Kristin Zartman (Temple, TU Rome Fall ’05) cameback to Italy last spring tovisit her brother, who wasbackpacking throughEurope. “We took lots oftime to visit the landmarks I remember: the residenceapartments, the outdoormarket, the Temple Romecampus. The new additionsto the school looked greatand my visit brought backfantastic memories.”

Katie (Edelmon) D’Angelo(Pennsylvania StateUniversity, TU RomeSpring ’02) and herhusband Chris D’Angelohave been working for alarge accounting firm inLondon for that past twoyears. They “wanted tovisit Rome and enjoy allthe sights before goingback to Philadelphia.”

Katelyn R. Smith (Temple, TU Rome Fall ’09)says that her semester at TU Rome is “myfondest memory thus far in life and helpedform how I now view the world.” Katelyn willbegin teaching English in South Korea inFebruary, but decided to go on backpackingtrip for four months before she moves. Shewent to Denmark, the Czech Republic, theNetherlands, Belgium, France, England andItaly before going on to India, Thailand,Cambodia and Laos. She claims that Rome“is where she caught the traveling bug!”

Eight women artists offered aretrospective of feminist art in Rome, fromthe 1970s to the present, at the TU RomeGallery of Art, titled “Il mondo è delledonne. Artiste a Roma tra anni ’70 eoggi.” This unique exhibition of the worksof Carla Accardi, Rosanna Cattaneo, MarilùEustachio, Giosetta Fioroni, Ida Gerosa,Elisa Montessori, Clioti Ricciardi andSuzanne Santoro was co-curated by LAURAIAMURRI and GREG SMITH. ProfessorSmith explains that the exhibition wascreated to say something about art andthe historic feminist movement in Rome.The show explores how the geography ofthe city played into the feminist movementin the 1970s and 1980s. Smith considersthe TU Rome Gallery to be not only ashowcase for artists, but also a learningopportunity to “push beyond an academicunderstanding of radical urbanmovements, by putting students in directcontact with their living protagonists.”

Temple photography professor MARTHAMADIGAN with a group of Temple Universityalumni in front of the Duomo of Milan aspart of photography seminar and tourthrough the lakes district and NorthernItaly. Madigan is no stranger to Italy,having taught at TU Rome from 2004 to 2006, and her photographs are innumerous museum collections includingthe Art Institute of Chicago, the DetroitInstitute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art. Her work is available at http://marthamadigan.com/.

TU Rome is a family tradition. ProfessorMadigan’s daughter CLAIRE FULLER, anaccomplished singer who appeared onAmerican Idol, performed as a sopranosoloist at the Vatican for two years whilestudying here. She sang in front ofthousands in St. Peter’s Square, at PopeJohn Paul’s morning benedictions and inthe Sistine Chapel for the celebration ofnew cardinals.

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Professor Greg Smith with (left to right) Laura Iamurri, guest curator and professor at theUniversity of Rome “Roma3,” Irene Giacobbe, director of exhibitions for the CasaInternazionale delle Donne, and Giovanna Olivieri Director of the Archivia, archive of theCasa Internazionale delle Donne.

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DR. MARIA PONCE DE LEON (Italian Language) organized the Temple University RomeCampus spring break trip to Tunisia, guiding 22 Temple students and two professors. They not only toured the whole country, including a camel ride into the Sahara desertwhere they spent the night, but also met with Tunisian students and were received by the Tunisian Secretary of State for European Affairs, Dr. Touhami Abdouli, at the Ministryof Foreign Affairs.

For one week each semester, TU ROME invites parents to share the students’experience in Rome. Parents are greeted at a reception, have the opportunity tomeet faculty and staff and attend classes. Their visit is not purely academic,however. They also enjoy the glories of Rome and Florence on guided tours.Pictured above at the Trevi Fountain.

The TU Rome Gallery also hosted JOHNJAMES PRON’s “Roman Remix: repurposingsacred spaces,” a series of mixed mediacollages that expressively interpret thecreative re-use of Rome’s many exquisitebut underutilized churches and piazzas.

Pron, an architect, artist and TylerSchool of Art professor, notes that the six historic churches in Rome he has“reconsidered for repurposing” in thisshow, are “rendered more as polemicsthan as narrowly functional and practicalsolutions. These churches brim with socialcommentary and political implications;they possess ethical underpinnings thatare sincere, but hardly mainstream.”Tailoring his designs to an urbanpopulation, now more secular thanCatholic and more culturally diverse thanethnic Italian, Pron seeks to balance animportant architectural heritage withsurging social change. Sharp humor andirony draw attention to such seriousissues as immigration and commodityfetishism.

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Jesse Le Cavalier’s semester at TU Rome in 1998 persuaded him to pursue his degree inarchitecture from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley on the basis of hisurban history and city drawing studies. Hewas later awarded his doctorate in retaillogistics, infrastructure and urbanism in

Zurich, justin time tojoin hispartner,Angela Co,during herfellowshipat theAmericanAcademy

in Rome. Jesse contacted TU Rome in thehope of participating in the program thatwas so important to him as a student, andbecame part of Franco Possemato andCarolina Vaccaro’s studio examining Rome’surbanism. This year, students developedproposals for an international high schoolbetween Via Flaminia and the VillaBorghese, and another project near Palazzo Farnese.

Joy Holland (TU Rome ’03-’04), on the other hand, dusted off her minor in Italianand returned to Italy on a Fulbright U.S.Student Program scholarship to research theintegration of architecture, new technologiesand fabrication methods in Milan. Her aimis to find methods to reduce waste, conserveenergy and reapply materials. “This work,”Joy explains, “will culminate in a temporarypublic art project for Milan Fashion Week,and will be presented in my public lecturesin Milan and Rome before I return home to Los Angeles.” Joy is pictured with her Temple Rome sculpture professorRoberto Mannino.

Alumni Return to Italy Frank Dabell (Art History) was the

lecturer for the MetropolitanMuseum of Art during recent trips to Libya and Russia. He also contributed essays andcatalogue entries for exhibitions inForlì:“Melozzo da Forlì. L’umanabellezza tra Piero della Francescae Raffaello) and Arezzo (Il Primatodei Toscani nelle Vite del Vasari;”entries on Fra Filippo Lippi, LucaSignorelli and Giovanni BattistaTiepolo for the New CatholicEncyclopedia: Supplement 2011;and “Commentary” on the recentLeonardo da Vinci controversy inthe Observer (London, March 18,2012). His recent translations are published in the catalogues and bulletins of theMetropolitan Museum of Art and the Museo d’Arte, Lugano for the Giorgio Morandiexhibition, as well as for such scholarly journals as Master Drawings (New York) and Paragone (Florence).

Jan Gadeyne (Art History/History/Classics), and his co-director, Cécile Brouillard,continued the excavation of the Roman villa on the Piano della Civita of Artena with the participation of eight students from Temple University Main Campus.

The two have presented their work and published their findings in a number ofconference proceedings, including a paper in English, “The Roman villa at thePiano della Civita di Artena (RM): Changing settlement patterns from the middleRepublican age to the early Middle Ages” at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeo-logical Institute of America in Philadelphia. In Italian, “La villa romana del Pianodella Civita di Artena (RM). Campagna di scavo 2010. Una struttura alto-medievaleed un tesoretto monetale bizantino in: Lazio e Sabina 8” has been published in Attidel Convegno, Roma, 2012, p. 99-105 of the Ninth Conference on archaeologicalresearch in the Lazio and Sabina region.

Anita Guerra (Drawing and Painting), with the support of the Temple Rome facultydevelopment fund, took part in “Cuban Transnational: A Celebration of CubanDiasporic Artists,” a symposium of artists, poets, playwrights and performers held in Southern Colorado. She also participated in panel discussions at the KraemerLibrary and in two exhibits to celebrate the release of a book featuring the artists inthe Colorado show, Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora: Setting the Tent Against theHouse by Andrea O’Reilly Herrera and published by the University of Texas Press.Guerra was also part of the group show “C.A.F.E.-Cortadito” at the Cremata Galleryin Miami, Florida, and her painting, “Tras-tevere” was used again for the logo at theU.S. Embassy to the Holy See in Rome, Italy for the conference, “Building Bridgesof Opportunity: Migration and Diversity.”

Laurie Kalb Cosmo (Art History) contributed a chapter from her book, CraftingDevotions: Tradition in Contemporary New Mexico Santos (University of New MexicoPress) to a forthcoming anthology of Writings on Chicano Art Over the Past Forty Years, which is to be edited by Jennifer Gonzales and published by DukeUniversity Press.

Her paper, “Secrets and Lies: Architectural Preservation, Museums and theMouth of Truth in Rome, Italy,” was given at the International Congress of Museumsof Ethnography in October in Banz, German, and will be published as part of theConference Proceedings.

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Frank Dabell on private visit to theHermitage, Saint Petersburg with theMetropolitan Museum of Art.

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Katherine Krizek (Drawing/Art History)conducted a collaborative workshop withProfessor Marilena Sutera from the“Academia di Belle Arti” on the theme“Greetings from Rome.” Her “RomeSketchbook” students were paired withItalian serigraphy students to produce awork, which was later displayed in theTemple Gallery adjunct space. She wasalso a guest critic and lecturer at theUniversity of Iowa College of Design.

Aroop Mahanty (International Business)conducted the workshop “InvestmentAnalysis and Appraisal” and another on“Financial Risk Assessment andManagement” for visiting administratorsfrom the Government of Kazakstan, hostedby the European School of Economics.

Roberto Mannino (Sculpture/Fiber Art) had asolo show at Studio Watts, Sangemini,Terni and participated in a group show at Il Covo dei Franchi, Porchiano, Roma. His photopolymer intaglio edition onhandmade paper is now part of thepermanent collection of the Galleria Civicad’Arte di Ripacandida, Potenza, and hiswork was published in the artistic sectionof the fifth edition of L’Altra Faccia delMacero (The Other Face of RecoveredPaper) edited by the Consorzio NazionaleRecupero e Riciclo degli Imballaggi a baseCellulosica. An interview of him andimages of his works are included inAuthentic Visual Voices: ContemporaryPaper and Encaustic by Catherine Nash.

In addition to hosting a number ofdidactic visits to his studio, he was aLecturer at the Friends of Dard Hunterpapermakers’ event at Frogmore Mill,Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom, andconducted a regional meeting of Hand-papermaking Magazine in homage to thepaper artist Lynn Sures.

Liana Miuccio (Photography) screened herdocumentary Grandpa/Memories of Warat the Roma Tre Film Festival at thePalladium Theater and at the Casa delCinema at the Archipelago Film Festival in Rome. The documentary is based on an interview with her Roman grandfatherabout his experiences as a soldier andprisoner of war in Berlin in World War II.

Miuccio, who is receiving her master’sin cinema at the University of Roma Tre,will also be showing her Video Portraits ofthe Testaccio Market in the International

Festival di Fotografia at the MacroMuseum in Rome in the fall of 2012. Herwork is online at: www.lianaphoto.com

The academic year 2011-2012 has been abusy but fulfilling one for Dr. Maria Poncede Leon (Italian Language). After beinginvited to give a paper and chair a sessionat the “First Conference for ManagingIntercultural Dialogue”, which was co-hosted in Malta by the Al-BabtainFoundation and the EMUNI University inMarch, she was later invited to participatein the “Poetry for Peaceful Co-existence”Forum, sponsored by the Al-BabtainFoundation held in Dubai in October,where she gave the closing speech. TheAl-Babtain Foundation then named her to represent it on the jury for the “CatulloPoetry Prize,” organized by the AccademiaMondiale della Poesia in Verona, Italy, as well as entrusting her with the task of organizing a poetry renga withdistinguished poets representing each ofthe continents for the “World Poetry Day,”which was held in Verona this year.

Contemporaneously with theseprofessional activities, Dr. Ponce de Leoncommutes weekly between Rome, Italyand Tunisia, where she was hired by theTunisian Ministry of Higher Education asAssistant Professor of Italian for theUniversity of Monastir (Institut Supérieurdes Langues Appliqués aux Affaires et au Tourisme de Moknine).

Greg Smith (Anthropology/Sociology) gave a talk at the European Association ofInternational Education conference inCopenhagen on experiential learning andthe culture of Italian food and wine. Thisis part of an ongoing interest inexperiential learning and the use of thelocal territory as an educational resource.He also collaborated with Rome’sInternational House of Women to providethe social context for an exhibitionorganized at Temple Rome on feminist artin Rome. On an entirely different front, hewas recruited as a pedagogical consultantfor a project in Switzerland organized bythe Lugano Polytechnic University incollaboration with EMUNI, an EUsponsored project, for the creation of aMediterranean platform for digitallytransmitted programs of higher education.This was all in addition to his ongoingethnographic explorations of selectedRome neighborhoods, which included

Rebibbia and Casal Bertone this year. Ashgate will publish the collection

essays he is editing with Jan Gadeyne onpublic space in Rome through the ages,and for which he coauthored theintroduction and wrote a chapter onPasolini’s Rome.

Anna Tuck-Scala (Art History) corrected theproofs of her book on Andrea Vaccaro,soon to be published by Paparo Editore.She also wrote a review of the exhibition “I Borghese e l’Antico” at Rome’s GalleriaBorghese for the Journal of the EuropeanNetwork of Architectural Historians(forthcoming).

Shara Wasserman (Art History/Director of Exhibitions) and Ludovico Pratesicurated “Italian Video Today: Social and Individual Identity.” The exhibitionpresents the evolution of Italian video art,focusing on the most recent generation ofartists who center their artistic research on the idea of identity. This travelingexhibition was first presented at the Crane Art Center in Philadelphia, and was prepared with the sponsorship of theConsul General of Italy in Philadelphiaand Temple University Rome.

Her work continued with “Italian VideoToday: Double Identity,” which was seenat the Macy Art Gallery, Teachers Collegeof Columbia University in New York, and“Italian Video Today: A Glimpse,” shownat the Brodsky Center at RutgersUniversity-New Brunswick.

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