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Sarah McPhee is spending the academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, working on a book on Bernini's portrait sculpture. She will give a paper entitled: "The Long Arm of
the Fabbrica: Saint Peter's and the City of Rome" at a conference devoted to the 500th anniversary of New Saint Peter's in Bonn, Germany, in February, and will give a lecture entitled: "The Topography of
Bernini's Rome: Via della Mercede 11" at the Bard Graduate Center in New York in April.

Walter Melion's introductory study to Volume III of the three volume edition of Jerome Nadal's "Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels," has been published by Saint Joseph's University Press.  The study is entitled: "'Mortis illius imagines ut vitae': The Image of the Glorified Christ in Jerome Nadal's 'Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia.'"  He is currently working on the study for the Passion volume.
Prof. Melion will be presenting two papers, chairing a session, and commenting on another session at the upcoming Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference.  The papers are entitled: "‘O interim felicem commutationem!’: On the Imitation of Christ in Otto van Veen’s Carrying of Cross" and "Sacred History and Sacred Emblem on the Sea of Tiberias: Jerome Nadal on the Penultimate Apparition of the Risen Christ."
Shortly thereafter, Professor Melion will be presenting a paper under the aegis of the recently formed European Studies Program at Emory: "'Nor my praise to graven images': Divine Artifice and the Heart's Idols in a Sixteenth-Century Painted Print of 'The Trinity.'"
For the colloquium on the reproductive print to be hosted by the Institute of Fine Art, New York, in November, Prof. Melion will be presenting a paper entitled "The Meditative Function of Hendrick Goltzius's 'Meesterstukjes,'" and also participating in the panel discussion.
At the Renaissance Society of America Conference in San Francisco (Spring 2006), Prof. Melion will be presenting the paper: "Eros and Imitation in Hendrick Goltzius’s Life of the Virgin."

Publications: Introductory apparatus to Volume III of Jerome Nadal’s Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels: The Resurrection Narratives (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2005): 1-32. My text is entitled: "Mortis illius imagines ut vitae: The Image of the Glorified Christ in Jerome Nadal’s Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia.

Lectures:
"Sacred History and Sacred Emblem on the Sea of Tiberias: Jerome Nadal on the Penultimate Apparition of the Risen Christ," in the session "Scripture for the Eyes: Sacred Text and Image in the Low Countries," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 2005
"‘O interim felicem commutationem!’: On the Imitation of Christ in Otto van Veen’s Carrying of Cross," in the Historians of Netherlandish Art session "Visual Culture in the Netherlands,1400-1700," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 2005
"Mediating and Activating Sacred Space in Antwerp: Rubens in the Cathedral and Jesuit Church of Antwerp," in the session "Rubens in Antwerp 1612-1621," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, October 2005
"The Meditative Function of Hendrick Goltzius’s Life of the Virgin of 1593-94," in the symposium "A Treasury of Excellent Things: Re-Viewing the Paper Museum," Institute of Fine Arts, November 2005
"‘Nor my praise to graven images’: Divine Artifice and the Heart’s Idols in a Sixteenth-Century Painted Print of The Trinity," European Studies Seminar, Emory University, November 2005. I have been actively involved as a member of the E.S.S., which will be meeting monthly over the next three years.

Exhibitions:
Contract signed for the major exhibition "Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in the Netherlands, 1500-1600," Museum of Biblical Art, New York, New York; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; and University Library, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Spring 2009

Gay Robins' article, "Cult Statues in Ancient Egypt," is published in a collection titled, "Cult Image and Divine Representation in the Ancient Near East," by the American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, MA (2005).

Prof. Robins has been elected to the President's Advisory Committee of Emory University for three years.