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Susan Perry will participate in the conference on "The Problem of (Public) Intellectuals" |
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Susan Perry has been invited to present an English version of her work at Berkeley's Center for Chinese Studies conference on "The Problem of (Public) Intellectuals" in April 2004.
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16 Nov 2003] |
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Jerome Charyn's recent publications |
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Jerome Charyn's article on Saul Bellow and Jewish-American fiction, "Inside the Hornet's Head," appeared in the September-October issue of Midstream. His short story on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, "La diable et la BBC," appeared in the August 9 issue of Figaro Magazine. His novel on Stalin and the 1930s, "The Green Lantern", will be published in French translation by the Mercure de France in February. The third volume of his memoirs, "Bronx Boy", will be published in French translation by Gallimard (also in February).
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16 Nov 2003] |
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Marie-Christine Navarro will sign copies of her novel during "Le Salon du Livre du Maghreb" |
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Marie-Christine Navarro will sign copies of her novel "Mémoire confite" (Ed. Fayard) on November 8 between 14:00-16:00 during "Le Salon du Livre du Maghreb" at the Hôtel de Ville de Paris (entrance: 5, rue de Lobau).
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16 Nov 2003] |
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Linda Martz spoke on Christabel Pankhurst at the "Suffragette and Women's History" conference |
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Linda Martz spoke on Christabel Pankhurst at the "Suffragette and Women's History" conference of the University of Portsmouth (UK) on October 11. The conference was organized in honor of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the British militant suffrage movement.
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16 Nov 2003] |
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Lawrence Pitkethly has been awarded a grant by the Alan Slifka Foundation of New York |
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Lawrence Pitkethly has been awarded a grant by the Alan Slifka Foundation of New York to go to Israel in January to prepare and write a documentary film on conflict resolution between Israel's Arab and Jewish citizens. The Slifka foundation previously supported North American outreach of Dr. Pitkethly's documentary, "Belfast My Love", about the Northern Ireland conflict, which was broadcast on ARTE (France-Germany) in September 2001. Alan Slifka is co-founder and chairman of the Abraham Fund, a pioneer in funding co-existence projects between Israeli Arabs and Jews.
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16 Nov 2003] |
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David Tresilian wrote an obituary article on the British explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger for Al-Ahram Weekly |
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David Tresilian wrote an obituary article on the British explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger for Al-Ahram Weekly, Cairo, on October 16. Thesiger, who died in August at age 93, wrote of his sojourns in the Empty Quarter of the Arabian peninsula and in the marshes of southern Iraq in his books "Arabian Sands" (1959) and "The Marsh Arabs" (1964), describing ways of life and ecosystems that have since disappeared.
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16 Nov 2003] |
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"Straining at the Anchor" by Gerardo della Paolera and Alan Taylor to be presented at the Central European University |
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On December 2, Gerardo della Paolera will present the book he co-authored with Alan M. Taylor, "Straining at the Anchor: In Search of Monetary Stability, Argentina and the Gold Standard, 1880-1935" at the Central European University in Budapest.
[AUP - Posted
16 Nov 2003] |
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Douglas Yates returns from a conference on "Oil Policy in the Gulf of Guinea" |
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Douglas Yates returned from a conference on "Oil Policy in the Gulf of Guinea" sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Yaoudé, Cameroon (October 1-4). He is currently co-editing a book, to be published by the FES, based on the conference. He also published an article in West Africa magazine on the same topic.
[AUP - Posted
16 Nov 2003] |
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Myriam Wissa co-organized the conference "L’Apport de l’Egypte à l’histoire des techniques. Méthodes, chronologie et comparaisons" |
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Myriam Wissa co-organized from September 15-17 at the French Institute of History and Archaeology (Ministère de l’Education Nationale et CNRS) in Cairo, with two eminent specialists — Professor Bernard Mathieu (Université de Montpellier) and Dimitri Meeks (Directeur de Recherche au CNRS) — an International Conference on the Ancient and Medieval History of Technology. The conference was entitled: "L’Apport de l’Egypte à l’histoire des techniques. Méthodes, chronologie et comparaisons". Dr. Wissa, beside co-organizing the conference, presented a paper, "Du rouleau de cuir au parchemin. Réflexion sur l’évolution d’une technique en Égypte depuis les origines jusqu’au début de l’ère islamique". The conference, which was a great success, gathered a large number of highly-renowned professors from UCLA, Cambridge, Liverpool, Cardiff and Leiden universities as well as French university professors and CNRS researchers. Proceedings of the conference, to be published by the prestigious press of the IFAO, are in progress.
[AUP - Posted
16 Nov 2003] |
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Della Paolera invited to be the keynote speaker at the seminar "Amérique Latine: La Gouvernance Menacée" |
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On November 26-28, Gerardo della Paolera is invited to be the keynote speaker at the seminar "Amérique Latine: La Gouvernance Menacée", organized by the Centre de Management Europe-Amérique Latine and the Ville de Biarritz. Bertrand Delanoë, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and 12 past presidents of different Latin American countries, among others, will be in attendance.
[AUP - Posted
16 Nov 2003] |
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Hall Gardner was invited to speak in the first panel at the World Political Forum in Torino, Italy, under the invitation of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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On October 23-24, Hall Gardner was invited to speak in the first panel at the World Political Forum in Torino, Italy, under the invitation of Mikhail Gorbachev. Other speakers included: Oscar Arias (former Costa Rican president and Nobel peace prize winner); Hubert Vedrine (former French foreign minister); Ghassan Salame (UN Senior Advisor on Iraq and Lebanon and former AUP professor); Pierre Jox (former French Minister of the Interior); Emma Bonino (European Parliament); Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.); Marshall Goldman (American political analyst); Khaled Fouad Allam (Algerian political analyst); Pascal Boniface (French political analyst); Pierre-Marc Johnson (former Prime Minister of Quebec); and Jean-Christophe Rufin (Action Contre la Faim). See:
www.theworldpoliticalforum.org. Professor Gardner's discussion of the need for "real dialogue" in his talk "Transcending the New Global Disequilibrium" was then cited by the former President of Italy, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, in his address to the Forum in the second panel. The World Political Forum was initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, and the former President of Brazil, Fernando Cardoso.
[AUP - Posted
16 Nov 2003] |
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Susan Perry's article published in the October issue of "Etudes" |
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Susan Perry's recent article on "La Vie Associative en Chine" was published in the October issue of Etudes, the French journal of social sciences and contemporary culture.
[AUP - Posted
16 Nov 2003] |
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Margery Arent Safir was an invited featured speaker at the Festival des Cinémas et Cultures de l’Amérique Latine |
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Margery Arent Safir was an invited featured speaker at the Festival des Cinémas et Cultures de l’Amérique Latine held in Biarritz September 29-October 5. Her talk, “La réception de la littérature latino-américaine aux Etats-Unis,” dealt with both Anglophone and Hispanophone reception of the famous “Boom” authors—Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García-Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Manuel Puig among them—in the 1960s and 1970s, both in academia and among New York literati. Safir was also interviewed by Claude Fell, Professor of Hispanic Culture at l’Université de Paris-III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), and answered questions from the large festival public on the current state of Latino literature in the United States and the development of “Spanglish” as a literary language. A pleasant surprise: one of the audience members asking a question introduced herself as having been a student of Professor Safir’s at AUP some ten years ago.
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16 Nov 2003] |
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Gerardo della Paolera's latest book published by Cambridge University Press |
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Gerardo della Paolera’s book, "A New Economic History of Argentina", which he edited with Alan M. Taylor (University of California-Davis), has just been published by Cambridge University Press. It includes the paper he co-authored with G. Bozzoli and M.A. Irigoin, “Passing the Buck: Monetary and Fiscal Policies in Argentina: 1852-2000.”
[AUP - Posted
16 Nov 2003] |
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Douglas Yates will present a paper for a conference on national oil companies |
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On November 27 and 28 Douglas Yates will be presenting a paper on "Life Stories and Family Histories of the French Oil Industry" at the headquarters of the CNRS in Paris for a conference on national oil companies.
[AUP - Posted
16 Nov 2003] |
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Andrea Trocha Van Nort participated in a conference on "Opéra et Société en Angleterre" at the University of Caen |
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Andrea Trocha Van Nort participated in a conference on "Opéra et Société en Angleterre" at the University of Caen on the October 17. Her paper was titled "Audience Approval: The Role of Opera in the Creation of the Shakespearean Myth during the Restoration."
[AUP - Posted
16 Nov 2003] |
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Della Paolera and other University Presidents will meet at a conference in Buenos Aires |
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On November 17, Gerardo della Paolera will attend with presidents José Antonio Ocampo (UN-ECLA), Wilson Suzigan (Universidad de São Paulo), and Carlos Marichal (El Colegio de México), among others, a conference of economists and economic historians of Latin America to be held at UADE (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa) in Buenos Aires.
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16 Nov 2003] |
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