Rebekah Rast and Edith Taïeb co-edited a special issue of Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère entitled Savoirs et savoir-faire dans l’apprentissage et l’enseignement d’une langue étrangère, which was published in August 2008. The issue comprises a selection of papers from the conference Language Learning and Teaching in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts / Apprendre et enseigner une langue dans un contexte multiculturel et multilingue, organized by the Department for Language Research and Teaching in October 2007.

[AUP - Posted 12 Sep 2008]

On May 2, Jérôme Game and Anne-Marie Picard received Professor Peter Hallward, Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, at their AUP Research Seminar in the Arts/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis. Professor Hallward delivered a paper entitled "Determination and Will: Towards a Dialectical Voluntarism." On May 21 Professor Game has been invited to participate in a Symposium on the philosophy of Jacques Rancière organized by the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures of Roehampton University in London. Professor Game’s paper is entitled "Jacques Rancière’s aesthetics of the choc sensible and its politics: the case of video-art and photography." On 25-26 July Professor Game will speak at the international conference  across Disciplines The French Connection: New Perspectives on French Contemporary Art organized by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Cambridge.

[AUP - Posted 5 May 2008]

Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien organized a session of the Transdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities in April which was conducted by Geoff Gilbert, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at AUP. His seminar ("Amortissement: Psychoanalysis & Sociology, Realism between François Bon and Stephane Beaud") on respectively the French writer's novel Daewoo and the sociologist's account of a sociological auto-analysis, Pays de malheur, explored the way these two works considered human beings left behind by social and economic processes. Professor Gilbert's paper considered what realist fiction and reflective sociology share, and how their relations to the practices of psychoanalysis might be thought through. We thank all our colleagues and students who participated generously to the seminar's lively discussions.

[AUP - Posted 5 May 2008]