Brian Brazeau , Roy Rosenstein , and Geoff Gilbert contributed to a major new reference work: the Encyclopedia of the French Atlantic

Three members of the Comparative Literature and English Department have contributed to a major new reference work, of particular interest to AUP. Brian Brazeau, Roy Rosenstein, and Geoff Gilbert wrote entries for the Encyclopedia of the French Atlantic, which will be published by ABC Clio press in 2005. The encyclopedia, under the general editorship of Bill Marshall from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, aims to open up fresh ways of articulating multiple relations between France and the Americas; this is an important corrective to a current tendency to think in terms of oppositions between France and the USA. The CL/EN department plans to bring Bill Marshall to AUP at some point in the coming academic year to speak about this project.

Jerome Charyn featured in the media

Jerome Charyn was interviewed by novelist Frederic Tuten (about his latest novel, The Green Lantern), in the Fall 2004 issue of BOMB, America's leading quarterly of the avant-garde. His article on American politics, "Angels in America," was on the front page of Le Monde, Sunday, September 26. He was interviewed by editor Jacques Buob in the October 2 issue of LeMonde2. His portrait of Jewish cops in the NYPD was the cover story of the City section of The New York Times (Sunday edition) on September 19. An essay-article about his book, Gangsters and Gold Diggers, was one of the cover stories of Midstream, September/October 2004: "The tone of Gangsters and Gold Diggers is by turns mischievous, touching, riotous and elegiac. But the book is above all great fun, the most fun you're likely to find between two covers in a long time." Charyn is currently being filmed by France 3 for a full-length documentary about him and Paris.

Alice Craven gave a paper at the Intl. Comparative Literature Conference in Taiwan

Alice Craven gave a paper "In the Heat of the Night: Teaching the American Nightmare to the World" at the Ninth Quadrennial International Comparative Literature Conference on Comparative Literature in Taipei, Taiwan.

William Dow presented a paper at the Jack London Society 7th Biennial Symposium

William Dow presented his paper, "Jack London's Problem Bodies" at the Jack London Society Seventh Biennial Symposium in Santa Rosa, California, May 23-26. He also co-organized, with writer-publisher Marshall Brooks, the James T. Farrell Centennial Conference held at AUP, June 17-19.

Waddick Doyle was invited to attend the second Interdependence Day celebration on September 12 sponsored by the city of Rome and the European Community. Interdependence day is designed to create an international celebration of the interdependence of world cultures, nations and religions. The participants included many important political figures: Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France, Ruth Dreifuss, former President of Switzerland, Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont, the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations (and former AUP professor), Olara Otunnu, and many other eminent figures from politics and academia.

Doyle has also been invited to be a member of the board of the Global Media Research Center based at the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. 

In a closed session at AUP, Doyle spoke of AUP’s new general education program “Envisioning Interdependence” which was received enthusiastically.

Lawrence Eaker was interviewed by CBS News

Lawrence Eaker was interviewed by CBS News on September 10 concerning U.S. voter registration in France and the upcoming presidential election.

Qui est John Kerry? , authored by Steven Ekovich , was published by Editions Pepper

Steven Ekovich published a book, Qui est John Kerry? It presents the candidate but also explains the American electoral system, voting behavior, and political institutions relevant to U.S. presidential elections.

Hall Gardner 's essay on the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq was published on nthposition.com

Hall Gardner’s essay, "Reflections on the September 11 attacks and ‘pre-emptive’ war in Iraq" was just published on the website of nthposition.com , an on-line magazine, edited by Val Stevenson.

Isabel Gardner organized the art exhibit "A Timeless Montage of Being and Conflict" at Parsons School of Design-Paris

On September 23, Isabel Gardner organized and fundraised an art exhibit at Parsons School of Design-Paris. The exhibit was called "A Timeless Montage of Being and Conflict" and featured works by Vincent Valdez, Joey Fauerso, James Smolleck, and Lloyd Walsh. The artists spoke at the event sponsored by the Association of Trial Lawyers and private donors. A full color catalogue was produced and distributed throughout the USA and Europe. The art show was reviewed by Valeurs Actuelles (September 2004) and other reviews are forthcoming.

Gilbert's book, Before Modernism Was: Modern History and the Constituency of Writing, is published this month by Palgrave Press in London. The book is a cultural study of modernist writing; it places modernist writing within the textures of modern history. Texts by Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Sigmund Freud, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Bronislaw Malinowski, and others are read through a range of figures that construct and disrupt modern meanings: books are studies alongside reports of ghosts in empty London properties, debates about juvenile delinquency, fears of rabies, worries about the place of Poland in Europe, and the difficulties experienced in giving up smoking.

A small conference is planned to take place at AUP towards the end of the semester to launch the book.

The OECD Development Centre published an article co-authored by Martin Grandes

Martin Grandes’ article (with Nicolas Pinaud), “Which Policies can reduce the cost of Capital in South Africa?” was published in the OECD Development Centre Policy Brief N° 25.

Grandes was cited in the October 1 edition of The Economist, in a survey of the world economy.

Professor Isar spoke about "diversity management in Eastern and Western Europe" at a conference organized by the Multicultural Centre of Prague

Yudhishthir Raj Isar took part in a conference entitled “Dialogue of Cultures: Social and Cultural Diversity in Central and Eastern Europe" organized by the Multicultural Centre of Prague in the city’s Lucerna Palace on October 1-2 and gave the concluding overview in the final session devoted to the comparison of ‘diversity management’ in Eastern and Western Europe.

Lissa Lincoln co-organized the international conference "Albert Camus in the 21st Century"

Linda Martz discussed aspects of imperial citizenship in the development of certain movements for social change in Britain

Justin McGuinness ran a research atelier at the first Chantier International du Patrimoine in Algeria

Two books by Farhad Nomani and Ali Rahnema became required readings at universities in Australia and South Africa

Kirsten Ralf participated in the annual meetings of the French Finance Association and the Society of French Economists

Kirsten Ralf presented a paper on "Tax evasion, investors' protection and corporate governance" at the French Finance Association (AFFI) Annual Meeting, Cergy-Pontoise, June 2004, also presented by her co-author at the 21st Symposium on Banking and Finance, CNRS Research Group on Money and Finance, Nice, June 2004.

She also presented a working paper on "«Deep pockets», research and development persistence and economic growth" at the Annual Meeting of the Society of French Economists (AFSE), Paris, September 2004. The paper has been presented by a co-author at the conference "Economic Growth and Distribution: on the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", Lucca, June 2004 and a Conference on Money, Macro and Finance in London, September 2004.

Douglas Yates ' review of "The New Imperial Challenge: Socialist Register 2004", was published in New Political Science, A Journal of Politics & Culture

Douglas Yates reviewed The New Imperial Challenge: Socialist Register 2004, by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds), London: Monthly Review Press, 2003, in New Political Science, A Journal of Politics & Culture, Vol. 26, N° 3, September 2004.

Professor Gilbert will present a paper on Zola and Cézanne at a conference on Literature and the Domestic Interior

Martin Grandes will present a paper at a seminar hosted by the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche Amérique Latine-Europe

Professor Nomani was invited for a lecture at York University on the marginalization of women in the workforce

Professor Farhad Nomani was invited for a lecture on the conceptualization and measurement of marginalization of women in the work force for a project on diaspora, at Atkinson College, York University, on August 19, 2004.