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Gerardo
della Paolera chaired a session on
exchange rates at a conference organized by the International Monetary
Fund
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April 15 and 16, President della Paolera was invited by the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) to chair a session on exchange rates at a conference
organized by the IMF's Research Department in honor of Guillermo Calvo.
The conference took place at IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Calvo is considered one of the most influential macroeconomists of the
last 25 years, particularly in the area of developing countries. Under
his intellectual leadership, the Research Department has carried out
path-breaking research on capital flows, debt maturity, and inflation
stabilization. Other conference speakers included Sebastian Edwards
(UCLA), Andres Velasco (Harvard), Carmen Reinhart (Maryland), and John
Taylor (Stanford and Undersecretary for International Affairs at the
U.S. Treasury). [AUP - Posted 20
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New York City observed by
Jerome Charyn |
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Charyn's article "Wild Masonry, Murderous Metal and Mr. Blonde," about
randomness in New York City life, was featured in the City Section of
the City Section of the New York Times Sunday edition, February
1, 2004.
On March 18, he spoke at Manhattan's Municipal Art Society on the
Ziegfeld Follies and the birth of Broadway culture.
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George Wanklyn
contributed to the catalog of drawings and prints from the Collection
Edmond de Rothschild of the Louvre Museum |
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A. Wanklyn is one of the authors of the catalog of a loan exhibition of
drawings and prints which runs from February 10 to May 10 at the
Fundación Juan March in Madrid. The 83 works in the exhibition come from
the Collection Edmond de Rothschild of the département des arts
graphiques of the Louvre, and were executed by artists from Italy,
France, Germany, and the Netherlands, from the fifteenth century to the
time of the French Revolution. Professor Wanklyn’s biographical essays
and catalog entries cover selected French and Netherlandish artists and
drawings of the sixteenth century. The other principal authors of the
catalog are Pascal Torres Guardiola, curator of the Collection Edmond de
Rothschild—which was donated to the Louvre in 1935—and Catherine Loisel,
who is also a curator of drawings at the Louvre, and Geneviève
Bresc-Bautier, a Louvre curator of sculpture. The exhibition which is
now in Madrid will open at the Louvre in October, and will run until
January 2005. [AUP - Posted 1
Apr 2004] |
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Ali Fatemi becomes a member of an
international team for the accreditation of MCBS in the Kingdom of Oman |
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 Ali
Fatemi has been nominated and confirmed as a member of an international
team for the Accreditation of Modern College of Business and Science
(MCBS) in the Kingdom of Oman. He will spend a
week in Muscat with other academics and experts in Quality Control from
the US, UK, and Australia reviewing all academic and other aspects of
this institution. The MCBS, is a partner of University of Missouri-St.
Louis. [AUP - Posted 1
Apr 2004] |
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"NATO and the European Union",
edited by Hall Gardner ,
is now available from Ashgate Publishers |
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 NATO
and the European Union: New World, New Europe, New Threats, edited
by Hall Gardner, which features several chapters from AUP professors
Marwan Bishara, Steven Ekovich, Anton Koslov, and Hall Gardner, among
others, is now available for purchase from Ashgate Publishers:
www.ashgate.com .
[AUP - Posted 1 Apr 2004] |
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"French Theory" reviewed by
Lissa Lincoln |
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 Lissa
Lincoln reviewed French Theory: Foucault, Derrida Deleuze & Cie et
les mutations de la vie intellectuelle aux Etats-Unis (Paris: 2003)
by François Cusset for Magazine Littéraire (April, 2004). [AUP - Posted
1 Apr 2004] |
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"A Cosmopolitan Turn in the
Medina: Old Migrants in Old Fes" by
Justin McGuinness
presented at the University of Georgetown, Washington D.C. |
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Justin McGuinness spoke at the “Moving through Morocco: stories of
serial migration” seminar held at the University of Georgetown,
Washington D.C. on March 19 and 20. His paper was entitled “A
Cosmopolitan Turn in the Medina: New Migrants in Old Fes”.
[AUP - Posted 1 Apr 2004] |
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"Charyn: le fou des mots"
featured in Le Point |
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Le
Point (March 25, 2004) featured
Professor
Charyn 's most recently published books in France (BRONX BOY and
THE GREEN LANTERN) in an article entitled "Charyn; le fou des mots."
(See:
http://www.lepoint.fr/litterature/document.html?did=144402).
[AUP - Posted 1
Apr 2004] |
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"What we talk about when we talk
about writing" by Ann Mott
to be presented at the European Writing Center Association Conference |
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Ann Mott will present her paper "What we talk about when we talk about
writing" at the European Writing Center Association Regional Conference
at Sabinci University, Istanbul. Her work will be published in the
Writing Center Journal, Purdue University Press, this summer.
[AUP - Posted 1 Apr 2004] |
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David Pike's second book on the
Holocaust out of print |
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David Pike’s second book on the Holocaust (with Random House Mondadori)
went out of print in the first two months; a new (revised) edition is
now in preparation. A French edition is scheduled to appear in
September. David Wingeate Pike is Emeritus
Distinguished Professor of History, The American University of Paris
[AUP - Posted 1 Apr 2004] |
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Rebekah Rast was an
invited speaker at the Universität Potsdam - Germany |
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Rebekah Rast was invited to speak to faculty and students at the
Universität Potsdam in Germany. Her talk, given March 25, was entitled
“Input processing upon first exposure to a non-native language: the role
of the L1, other L2s, the linguistic input and other factors.”
[AUP - Posted 1 Apr 2004] |
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A drawing attributed by
Professor Wanklyn
to Etienne Delaune was recently exhibited at the Galerie Mazarine of the
Bibliothèque Nationale de France |
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An
exhibition in Paris entitled “Le dessin dans l’art de la Renaissance en
Europe,” presented from February 24 to April 4 in the Galerie Mazarine
of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Site Richelieu), includes a
drawing which was attributed for the first time by Professor Wanklyn to
the French sixteenth-century ornemaniste Etienne Delaune. The
attribution and analysis of the drawing—for the Renaissance object
called “une nef de table”—formed the subject of Wanklyn’s presentation
at the September 1997 international colloquium “Henri II et les arts,”
jointly organized by the Ecole du Louvre and the Musée National de la
Renaissance–Ecouen. [AUP - Posted
1 Apr 2004] |
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"Enhancing Knowledge Management
Systems with Cognitive Agents" by
Claudia Roda
presented at the Journée de Recherche de l'Association Information et
Management |
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Claudia Roda participated at the Journée de recherche de l'Association
Information et Management whose theme was "Gestion de la Connaissance,
Capital Immatériel et Performance". The paper she co-authored,
"Enhancing Knowledge Management Systems with Cognitive Agents" discussed
the design of systems capable of addressing social, organizational, and
individual factors. [AUP - Posted
1 Apr 2004] |
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David Tresilian attended a meeting in Bhutan on behalf of UNESCO |
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David Tresilian attended a regional meeting on culture and development
in Thimphu, Bhutan, on behalf of UNESCO from March 29 to April 2.
Bhutan, a landlocked kingdom in the Himalayas, is one of the world’s
last closed societies and a center of Buddhist civilization.
[AUP - Posted 1 Apr 2004] |
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Quentin Taratino profiled by
Jerome Charyn |
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In
April, Italian Vanity Fair will publish Charyn's
profile of Quentin Tarantino, "Quentin's Shadow Side." And later this
month the German weekly Die Zeit will send him to Berlin (or New
York) to attend a preview of Tarantino's KILL BILL 2, in order to write
about the film. [AUP - Posted
1 Apr 2004] |
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