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Charlotte Lacaze reappointed by Cambridge University

Charlotte Lacaze has been reappointed by Cambridge University as verifier for the Christie's Education Program in Paris, certified by the University of Cambridge. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

“Passing the Buck” appeared in the Journal Economía

In August, della Paolera’s paper, “Passing the Buck”, appeared in the Journal Economía published by LACEA/Brookings Institute, Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2003. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Brian Brazeau (’95) received his PhD from The University of California, Los Angeles.

In June, Brian Brazeau (’95) received his PhD from The University of California, Los Angeles, in French and Francophone Studies. His dissertation is entitled “Empire and Identity in Early New France (1603-1632)”. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Laurence Brown presented a paper on “Different Paths: Generational Dynamics in the Integration and Exclusion of Caribbean Migrants to Britain and France (post-1945)”

In June, Laurence Brown presented a paper on “Different Paths: Generational Dynamics in the Integration and Exclusion of Caribbean Migrants to Britain and France (post-1945)” at a workshop on “Paths of Integration: Similarities & Differences in the Settlement Process of Immigrants in Europe, 1880-2000” held at the Institute for Migration & Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabruck (Germany). [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Cheryl Caesar received, for the second consecutive year, the “Outstanding Professor Award”

Cheryl Caesar received, for the second consecutive year, the “Outstanding Professor Award” from the MBA graduating class at ESLSCA (Ecole Supérieure Libre des Sciences Commerciales Appliquées) for the pre-MBA program. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

“Introduction to Academic Research: An AUP Library Workshop for Pre-MBA Certificate Students”

Cheryl Caesar initiated a workshop in April with Laurence Amoureux, AUP Reference Librarian, entitled: “Introduction to Academic Research: An AUP Library Workshop for Pre-MBA Certificate Students” in order to enhance the use of the AUP library by card-holding ESLSCA students. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Four new books by Jerome Charyn

Bloomsbury (London) published the first two books of Charyn’s "Isaac Quartet" this summer, and will publish the last two next spring. Gangsters and Gold Diggers, his book on the birth of Broadway culture, will be published by "Four Walls Eight Windows" (New York) in November. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Geoff Gilbert will give two talks in September

Geoff Gilbert will give two talks in September. At the “Parisian Topographies” conference in Glasgow on September 1, he will give a paper on “Expositions internationales: Jean Rhys, Paris, 1937,” which has emerged from his CL/ES 343 class at AUP. He has also been invited to take part in a plenary panel at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Birmingham on September 26, where he will speak alongside Kristin Ross (a recent speaker at AUP, from the Comparative Literature Department at NYU) and Morag Shiach (professor at the University of London), on “Modernism and Cultural Studies”. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

President della Paolera presented his newly published book, "Tensando El Ancla: La Caja de Conversión Argentina y la Búsqueda de la Estabilidad Macroeconómica"

In Buenos Aires this past August, President della Paolera presented his newly published book, "Tensando El Ancla: La Caja de Conversión Argentina y la Búsqueda de la Estabilidad Macroeconómica", published by Fondo de Cultura Económica (July 2003). The presentation was featured in Clarín, the most important daily newspaper in Argentina, and included several excerpts on AUP. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Douglas Yates and the Oil Industry

This summer Yates was invited to serve as the editor of a book on Oil in the Gulf of Guinea, to be published with the Freiderich Ebert Foundation in Berlin. Yates will travel to Cameroun in early October to present his research on the oil industry in the Gulf of Guinea at a conference being funded by the same foundation (which is linked to the German Social Democratic Party). [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Linda Martz examines prostitution, marriage, sexually transmitted disease, and the myth of the male sexual imperative.

Linda Martz attended the conference of the International Federation for Research in Women's History at Queen's University, Belfast, from August 11-14. Her paper, entitled “An AIDS-Era Reassessment of Christabel Pankhurst's - The Great Scourge and How to End It,” examined the militant suffragette's text on prostitution, marriage, sexually transmitted disease, and the myth of the male sexual imperative. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Three new books and an installation by Laurent Sauerwein

An exposition featuring three new books and an installation by Laurent Sauerwein (’64) will take place in September 2003 at Geneviève Breerette’s gallery, Manufacture des Oeillets, in Ivry-sur-Seine. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Julie Thomas and Claudia Roda on "Digital Interactivity"

Julie Thomas and Claudia Roda are presenting a paper and co-chairing a workshop on “Digital Interactivity” at the International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies at Trinity College, Dublin, September 24-26. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

The film "The Cheese Nun", produced and directed by Pat Thompson, screenplay by Jim Bittermann, won the documentary award at the Wine Country Film Festival in Napa and Sonoma, California.

The film "The Cheese Nun", produced and directed by Pat Thompson, screenplay by Jim Bittermann, won the documentary award at the Wine Country Film Festival in Napa and Sonoma, California. The hour-long film describes the life of a cloistered American nun who through her knowledge of cheesemaking becomes an internationally respected scientist and an advocate for preserving tradition and biodiversity. The film was made over a period of four years and was shot in France and the USA. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Jerome Charyn’s articles featured in "Le Monde", "Le Point" and "Metropolis"

Jerome Charyn’s articles about table tennis were published in "Le Monde" during the world championships in May, and his articles about American culture and politics have been featured in "Le Point". In addition, In June, “Metropolis,” the French-German television magazine on Art, devoted a thirty-minute segment to Charyn, filming him both in Paris and New York. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

“Albert Camus, Engage solidaire ou revolte solitaire?” by Lissa Lincoln

Lissa Lincoln presented a paper entitled “Albert Camus, engage solidaire ou révolte solitaire?” at a three-day conference held in Poitiers, France on May 29-31. She also wrote an article for the Magazine Littéraire on “Blanchot: Made in America” which will appear in the October 2003 edition. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Anton Koslov's article featured in NUMI

The "NOMI - Neue Welt der Kunst", the most respected Russian art theory and history magazine, featured an article on Anton Koslov in its Spring (2) 2003 issue. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Charyn interviewed Nathalie Babel

In July in Washington, D.C., Charyn interviewed Nathalie Babel, the daughter of Isaac Babel, for a short biography that he is doing on Babel for Random House and Modern Library. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Kathleen Chevalier has been awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society

Kathleen Chevalier has been awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize by the Sixteenth Century Society for her article "Art patronage and women (including Habsburg) in the orbit of King Francis I" in Renaissance Studies (Oxford University Press) 16.4 (2002): 474-524. Professor Chevalier will accept the prize at the Society's annual meeting in Pittsburgh in late October. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Farhad Nomani’s paper appears in the Review of Middle East Economics and Finance.

Farhad Nomani’s “The Problem of Interest and Islamic Banking in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Egypt, Iran and Pakistan” appears in the Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, vol.1, no.1, 2003. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Rebekah Rast received her PhD from the Université de Paris VIII Saint-Denis

Rebekah Rast received her PhD from the Université de Paris VIII Saint-Denis, successfully defending, in July, her doctoral dissertation in Linguistics: "Le tout début de l’acquisition: Le traitement initial d’une langue non maternelle par l’apprenant adulte". She received the “mention” of “très honorable avec félicitations.” [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Ali Fatemi will participate in a UNESCO Conference in Muscat, Oman.

Ali Fatemi will participate in a UNESCO Conference from September 20-22 in Muscat, Oman. The topic of the conference is “Globalization and Quality Assurance in Higher Education” and the tentative topic of his paper is “The Impact of Globalization on Labor Markets, and Quality Control in Higher Education”. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

David Tresilian attended a regional meeting on tourism and development on behalf of UNESCO in Chitral

David Tresilian attended a regional meeting on tourism and development on behalf of UNESCO in Chitral, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, in May 2003, attending a further meeting on the same subject in Ladakh, India, in August. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Madeleine Beaufort publishes “Hasty Departures for London by French Artists in 1870. Daubigny, Monet, Pissarro and some Compatriots”

An article by Madeleine Beaufort entitled “Hasty Departures for London by French Artists in 1870. Daubigny, Monet, Pissarro and some Compatriots” was published in the context of a symposium “Le Départ à l'époque victorienne” at the University of Metz. The symposium was organized by Marielle Seichepine, general editor for the publication. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

New paper presentation by Adrienne Russell

Adrienne Russell will be presenting a paper entitled “Deviance and Innovation: Media Coverage of File Sharing and the Music Industry” at the conference “Digital Dynamics: Control, Participation and Exclusion” at the University of Loughborough in the UK from November 6-9, 2003. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

David Tresilian's reviews of “Iraq since 1958” appeared in Al-Ahram Weekly, Cairo

David Tresilian's reviews of “Iraq since 1958” by Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett and of Hosham Dawod and Hamit Bozarslan, eds., “La Société irakienne, communautés, pouvoirs et violences” appeared in Al-Ahram Weekly, Cairo, on June 19 and July 17, respectively. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Recent research and publications by Kathleen Chevalier

Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier was one of the twelve scholars invited to participate in a conference organized in July at Clare College, Cambridge, on the theme of "Masculinities in Renaissance France". Her paper, entitled "Feminizing the Warrior at Fontainebleau", will be published in the Cambridge French Colloquia series. Her essay "La représentation de la lectrice bellifontaine et le système de civilité à la cour de François Ier" appeared in "Lectrices d'Ancien Régime", the proceedings of a symposium published in July 2003 by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

Douglas Yates signed two book contracts

Douglas Yates signed two book contracts this Spring. The first was for the publication of his biographical history of the French oil industry, “French Oil Portraits” with Africa World Press. The second was with Rowman Littlefield, to co-author the 3rd edition of “The Historical Dictionary of Gabon.” [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

This summer, the third revised edition of Oleg Kobtzeff's “Russe: Initiation” was on two bestseller lists of Amazon.fr.

This summer, the third revised edition of Oleg Kobtzeff's “Russe: Initiation” was on two bestseller lists of Amazon.fr. It was in the top 50 for several weeks in the practical handbook category (where it remained for many weeks as the best-selling language method in all languages) and it reached n°6 in the category “books on tape”. Kobtzeff's method for learning Russian was written in 1992, before he joined AUP. It was published in English by Barrons, and in Finnish, Spanish, and French by Nathan. It is a work of fiction structured as a 30-episode radio sitcom intended to teach the basic grammar and vocabulary of Russian. Kobtzeff delivered a paper on September 5 at the 2003 Royal Geographic Society conference in London entitled: “French ‘Political’ Landscapes: Geographic Education, Sports, Tourism, and the Geopolitics of France’s Natural Environment”. [AUP - Posted 01 Sep 2003]

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