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Isabel Wünsche received a research fellowship from the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, North Carolina for the academic year 2007-2008. During her 9-months stay at the NHC, she will complete the English book publication on the Organic School of the Russian Avant-Garde.

An expanded version of the exhibition "Technical Detours: the Early Moholy-Nagy Reconsidered" curated by Oliver Botar, which opened at the Gallery of the Graduate Center, CUNY, in New York last February and continued on to the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, will be shown at the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pecs, Hungary from December 20, 2007 - March 15, 2008. It will then go on to the Magyar Nemzeti Galeria (Hungarian National Gallery) in Budapest, opening in April. Revised Hungarian and English versions of the accompanying book of the same title will appear with Vince Kiado, Budapest in time for the Pecs opening.

Shulamith Behr contributed interpretive essays to the catalogue of the Georg Baselitz retrospective, held at the Royal Academy 22 September – 9 December 2007, and wrote the gallery guide and didactic panels for the exhibition. For the academic year 2007/8 she is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and Visiting Fellowships at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

Julie Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio, was awarded a residential grant at the IFK Vienna (International Research Center for Cultural Studies)from October 2007 to January 2008.

Brett Van Hoesen has a new position as Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno. In September, she presented the paper, "Modernity and Weimar Re-Visions of Germany's Colonial Past: The Photomontages of Hannah Höch and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy" at the conference, "Germany's Colonialism in International Perspective" hosted by San Francisco State University. See the website: http://www.sfsu.edu/~german/GCC/program.html Brett will also present the paper, "Weimar Photomontage and the Visual Legacy of German Colonialism" on the panel, "Visuality and Colonial Empire: From Wilhelmine to Weimar Germany" at the German Studies Association conference in October. She is currently working on a book project in which she discusses the interrelationship between photomontage, documentary photography and the visual legacy of Germany's colonial past during the Weimar Republic.

Jay A. Clarke, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago, was awarded a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation for research towards her forthcoming Edvard Munch exhibition and publication. Clarke also received an award for "Outstanding Essay of 2006" from the American Association of Museums Curators for her article "Originality and Repetition in Edvard Munch's 'The Sick Child'" published in Edvard Munch: An Anthology, ed. Erik Morstad (Oslo Academic Press, 2006).

Marion Deshmukh presented two invited lectures at the Goethe-Institut, Washington DC: "Simplicissimus: Image and Satire in Imperial Germany," (Sept. 2006) and "Caspar David Friedrich and German Romanticism," (April, 2007). She moderated a session at a symposium on German-American relations (The Cultural Dimension) at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC, in May, 2007. She also reviewed exhibition catalogue Glitter and Doom, German Portraits of the 1920s (Sabine Rewald, ed., Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 2007) for German Quarterly in 2007.