Hall Gardner gave a lecture at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

On October 7, Professor Gardner spoke to MA and PhD students at the European Studies Department of the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. on the subject of "From the Egyptian Crisis of 1882 to Iraq of 2003, British and American interventions compared and contrasted."

Oleg Kobtzeff's ongoing comparative work on the history and geopolitics of North America, France and Central/Eastern Europe produced a long article on the geopolitics of the Baltic and several major public appearances on the Americas. He has collaborated with the Centre de Recherches sur les Identités Nationales et l'Interculturalité, which published his "Space and Cultures of the Neva Basin: mythical representations and geopolitical situations", in Walter Zidaric, ed., Saint Petersbourg: 1703-2003, Université de Nantes: Nantes, 2004. It is one of the first detailed historical analyses of settlement of the Eastern Gulf of Finland before 1703 (with comparisons between St. Petersburg and 17th century Manhattan). The second half of this project studies inter-cultural and inter-ethnic relations at the crossroads of Western-Eastern European civilizations to the present.

Alec Balasescu will present a paper at the Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting

Jim Bittermann delivered the keynote speech at Global Forum 2004

Jim Bittermann delivered the keynote speech at Global Forum 2004 in St. Louis on Oct. 29. His speech "Freedom Fried: A Look at American Media from Afar" highlighted changes in international and domestic news coverage over the past decade. The weekend conference was attended by professors of journalism and communications from many major U.S. colleges and universities.

Gerardo della Paolera was invited to present the paper co-authored with Martín Grandes, "The True Measures of Country Risk," in Costa Rica and Mexico

On November 3-4, Gerardo della Paolera and Martín Grandes were invited to participate in the annual LACEA (Latin American and Caribbean Economic association) conference held in San José, Costa Rica.

On December 3-4, Gerardo della Paolera is invited by the National Bureau of Economic Research to a conference in Mexico City at El Colegio de Mexico to discuss “New Perspectives on Economic History”. He will present the paper he has co-authored with Martín Grandes, “The True Measures of Country Risk: A Primer on the Interrelations between Solvency and the Polity of Emerging Markets: Argentina 1886-1892”. The organizers of the conference include Sebastien Edwards, Gerardo Esquivel, and Graciela Marquez.

Steven Ekovich gave more than twenty television and radio interviews on the U.S. presidential election

In October and the beginning of November Steven Ekovich gave more than twenty television and radio interviews on the U.S. presidential election. He published an article on the subject in the French daily Le Figaro and had a favorable review of his book Qui est John Kerry? in the French newspaper Le Canard Enchainé. He was interviewed in the French paper Metro and had a long interview published in the popular Greek weekly Down Town. He gave a press conference to foreign journalists at the Press Center CAPE (Centre d'Accueil de la Presse Etrangère), sponsored by the French foreign ministry. He gave two press conferences via satellite duplex to African journalists in Dakar, Senegal and Lomé, Togo. He also lectured on the U.S. presidential election at the U.S. Embassy in Paris on November 3.

Critical Quarterly  will publish “Words, Flies, Jews, Joyce, Joint: Wyndham Lewis and the Unpublishing of Obscenity” by Geoff Gilbert

Geoff Gilbert's article, “Words, Flies, Jews, Joyce, Joint: Wyndham Lewis and the Unpublishing of Obscenity”, will be published in Critical Quarterly 86.4 (December 2004). The article reconstructs and analyzes an unpublished anti-semitic novel, written in direct response to Joyce's Ulysses, by British modernist writer and artist Wyndham Lewis.

Dan Gunn will be a resident at the Rockefeller Center in Italy

The application made by Dan Gunn, with the editorial team of the Samuel Beckett correspondence, for a residency at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, has been successful. He and the team will be resident at the Center for ten days in late May 2005.

Hall Gardner participated in "The American Empire" lecture series at Tower Hill School in Delaware

On October 6, Hall Gardner spoke on the subject "The Present Global Crisis" at the Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware. His speech was part of a lecture series entitled "The American Empire" that included speakers Jessica Stern (Harvard), Linda Colley (Princeton), Niall Ferguson (Harvard) and Brent Scowcroft (Former National Security Advisor).

Jayson Harsin will be presenting three papers at the National Communications Association annual conference in Chicago, November 10-14: “Economizing the Public," "FDR's Economic Citizenship," and "Economic Rights: Mapping the Circulation of a Transnational Form”. His review of the book American Cultural Studies will be published next month in the fall issue of the journal American Studies.

On November 10, Kobtzeff (former co-founding director of the Veniaminov Institute, an ethnographic museum on Kodiak Island) will show a multimedia presentation and inaugurate an exhibit of his photos at the Fondation des Etats-Unis, (Cite Universitaire, 15 bd Jourdan, Paris 14ème): "L'Amerique du Bout du Monde: l'Alaska".

In October professor Anton Koslov was invited by the University of Beirut-La Sagesse to deliver a series of lectures on corruption and violence. The account of his lectures was published by the largest French Lebanese newspaper L'Orient on October 8.

Hall Gardner participated in a book presentation organized by Dancing Ink Press in Washington, D.C.

On the evening of October 7, Hall Gardner read his poetry and was filmed/recorded, along with E. Ethelbert Miller and George Ellenbogen, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The poets were invited by Dancing Ink Press as part of the book party for Sheets for Men Only: An International Anthology of Poetry & Prose, edited by Claire Kincannon (Dancing Ink Press, 2004).

Geoff Gilbert will give a paper on Patrick Hamilton at Cambridge University

Gilbert will give a paper called “The Sound of Sociology: Patrick Hamilton, Politics, and Fantasy”, at a conference on the work of Patrick Hamilton, held at Cambridge University on November 27.

France Culture has invited Kobtzeff three times this fall to debate American politics (in particular the issue of minorities and Native Americans).

On November 13-14, Gerardo della Paolera is invited to participate in a round table of the Cité de la Réussite on the topic of “Nouvelles Frontières” to be held in Marseilles. Della Paolera will specifically address the issue of “Culture locale, culture mondiale: une identité à inventer?” Among others, participants include Jacques Attali, Luc Besson, Jean-Marie Cavada, and Costa-Gravas.

The Cicero Foundation invited Professor Gardner to participate in a seminar at the Maison de l'Amérique Latine in Paris

On October 15, he was invited to participate in the Cicero Foundation Seminar, "Catching up after Enlargement: The Integration of the New Member States into the European Union" that took place at the Maison de l'Amérique Latine in Paris.