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Jerome
Charyn was the guest of honor at the "Littératures Métisses" festival
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 Professor
Charyn was the guest of honor at the “Littératures Métisses” festival in
Poitou-Charentes, October 21-23, where he spoke at the library in
Poitiers and visited the prison in Niort, meeting with a “class” of
prisoners who had read some of his books. He was the guest of honor at
the main library in Evry on October 16, where he spoke about his books
in relation to “the city between fiction and fact.” |
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Margery Safir 's article about the use of quantum physics in a
novel by Carlos Fuentes was featured in 'Review: Literature and Arts of
the Americas' |
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Margery Arent Safir's article "Uncertain Ancestors" about the use of
quantum physics in a novel by Carlos Fuentes is the featured article in
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, published by
Routledge. Safir has been invited to contribute an essay on
Fuentes's work to the special edition of Cahiers de l'Herne being
dedicated to him. |
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Petermichael von Bawey participated in the International Conference on
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von Bawey was invited to attend the International Conference on Social
Science Research from November 11 to 14 in New Orleans where he
presented his paper "Concrete Markings: Street Art/Wall Art." He also
participated in daily discussions with panelists on research methods in
Social Science. |
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Jim
Bittermann and
Pat Thompson were delegates to the 2004 News Xchange
conference |
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Jim Bittermann and Pat Thompson were delegates to the 2004 News Xchange
conference in Vilamaura, Portugal, Nov. 17-19. The forum brings together
more than 400 television news executives from all over the world, and is
sponsored by the European Broadcast Union. Among the topics under
consideration at this year's conference were the role of the UN and aid
agencies in reporting humanitarian crises like Darfur, the evolving role
of the Arabic television networks, undercover journalism and hidden
cameras, and protection of journalists in war zones and in the local
newsrooms. |
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Randall Blatt performed in a concert at the Salle Gustave Eiffel in the
Eiffel Tower |
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On November 11, Randall Blatt performed in a concert at the Salle
Gustave Eiffel in the Eiffel Tower for the opening ceremony of the
General Annual Convention of Sixth International. In addition to
performing piano solo, he accompanied world famous tenor Francisco
Araiza, Juan Carlos Echeverry, tenor, Amy Lavietes, soprano, and Rebecca
Tepfer, mezzo-soprano with the string ensemble Quintacordes. |
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An
article by Cheryl Caesar was published in the Internet TESL Journal |
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 An article by Cheryl Caesar, "Gender-Based Vowel Preferences and Their
Use as a Teaching Tool," was published in the
Internet TESL Journal ,
vol. X, no. 11, November 2004. |
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Thunder's Mouth Press will publish a new edition of 'Gangsters and Gold
Diggers' by Jerome
Charyn |
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December, Thunder’s Mouth Press will publish a quality paperback edition
of Gangsters and Gold Diggers, Charyn's book on the culture of
Broadway. The University of Poitiers is currently preparing a DVD about
him and his work. |
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A
telefilm written by
Martin Copeland was screened on television |
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A telefilm written by Martin Copeland, Le Naufrage du Rainbow Warrior,
was screened on the satellite television channel "13ème Rue" in August
with an introduction and debate led by Bruno Masure as part of the
channel's theme week "scandales politiques." Professor Copeland's
co-written Western feature film Texas Rangers arrived on DVD in
France in September." |
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Susan Cure was one
of the translators of "Genome, Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis" |
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Cure was one of the translators for the English version of a book by one
of her colleagues, Alain Bernot, called Genome, Transcriptome and
Proteome Analysis, and published by John Wiley and Sons, 2004. |
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An
article by William Dow
was published in "The Periphery: Viewing the World" |
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William Dow's article, "'Agents of Change': Challenges in the Flesh and
the Teaching of American Literature," was published in The Periphery:
Viewing the World (Athens: The National and Kapodistrain University
of Athens, 2004): 150-157. |
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Waddick Doyle
gave four visiting lectures in November |
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Doyle gave four visiting lectures in November. One on a comparative
study of media deregulation in a conference organized by the Public
Service Broadcasting Council of Denmark. This was reported in the Danish
newspaper Politiken and on Danish television. He gave two at
Northwestern University in Chicago: one on Brand Sacralization to the
graduate program in Marketing Communications at the Medill School of
Journalism and one on Silvio Berlusconi: “Disruption and Transfiguration
in the Italian Public Sphere” to the Center for Global Communication and
Culture. He was also invited to the Center for Global Communication
Research at the University of Southern Illinois where he gave a paper
entitled “Did Media Deregulation End with the War in Iraq?“ |
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Steven Ekovich
gave visiting lectures on U.S. foreign and defense policy and on "The
Formation, Identity and Society of the American Nation" |
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Steven Ekovich gave a series of lectures at the French military academy
St. Cyr on U.S. defense policy. He lectured to French lycée professors
of the Académie de Rouen on "Post 9/11 America" and delivered another
lecture at the Université Catholique d'Etudes Supérieures on "The
Formation, Identity and Society of the American Nation." He was invited
on a lecture tour of Morocco at the beginning of December. Ekovich
appeared twice on the prime-time radio program Travaux Publiques
to comment on U.S. foreign policy and the recent presidential election.
He was also appointed to the editorial board of the European Union
quarterly review EuroFuture. |
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Ali Fatemi was
invited to participate in a seminar on Equity Markets Microstructures at
CUNY |
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 Ali
Fatemi was invited to participate in a seminar on Equity Markets
Microstructures at the Bernard Baruch Business College of the City
University of New York (CUNY) held from November 10-14 at their campus.
He presented AUP's Master of Science in Finance program which is
scheduled to be launched in October 2005. |
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Professor Game
contributed four articles and chapters of books in 2004 |
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 Jérôme
Game contributed four articles and chapters of books in 2004. For the
book Poésie, détours, he wrote the chapter entitled "Du bruit à
l'extérieur — ou pourquoi j'ai écrit certains de mes textes en anglais."
In the March number of Action poétique, for the dossier "Poétisme,"
he contributed a brief article entitled "D'une affirmation intempestive."
In the September number of the same periodical, he is the author of the
brief article "Centripètifuge" for the dossier on the poetry of Danielle
Collobert. For the book Deleuze et les écrivains, Professor Game
wrote the chapter "La répétition différentiante dans la poétique
deleuzienne: temporalité, bégaiement et ritournelle." |
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Hall Gardner
gave a seminar address to students of the Bosnia-Herzegovina and
Pristina Schools of Politics |
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November 19, Hall Gardner gave the final seminar address to MA students
and mid-level professionals of the Bosnia-Herzegovina and Pristina
Schools of Politics, held in Strasbourg, sponsored by the Council of
Europe. |
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Eugeni Gentchev
was invited to present a tutorial at the IEEE ICIT'2004 Conference |
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Eugeni Gentchev was invited to present the tutorial, co-authored with
Anthony Chan, "Wireless Application Systems Architecture" at the IEEE
ICIT'2004 Conference in Tunisia. |
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Yudhishthir Raj Isar
gave speeches and lectures in New Delhi, Torino, Genoa and Brussels |
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Raj Isar was a Keynote Speaker on “linkages between tangible and
intangible heritage” at the 20th anniversary conference of the Indian
National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) held in New Delhi
from November 2 to 4. On November 15 in Torino, Italy, he gave the
inaugural address for the ninth Corso di perfezionamento per
responsabile di progetti culturali organized by the Fitzcarraldo
Foundation and followed this up on November 15-16 by two course modules
on cultural policy issues. On November 20 in Genoa, Italy, he presented
a paper entitled “An inter-cultural deontology: utopianism or utopian
realism” at the international symposium entitled “When Culture Makes the
Difference: The Heritage, Arts and Media in Multicultural Society”
organized by the Associazione per l’Economia della Cultura in
co-operation with the University of Genova. On November 25, in Brussels,
he addressed the Culture Committee of the European Parliament and met
with the European Commission’s Director-General of Education and Culture
in his capacity as the newly-elected President of the European Forum for
Arts and Heritage (EFAH). |
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The
book "Excavating the Medieval Image" includes a contribution from
Charlotte Lacaze |
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the Medieval Image. Manuscripts, Artists, Audiences. Essays in Honor of
Sandra Hindman, ed. by David S. Aresford and Nina A. Rowe, Ashgate,
Aldershot, England, 2004 contains a contribution by Charlotte Lacaze,
"Introducing Monsieur Gonfond, a 'Peasant-Illuminator' from St-Rémy-de-Provence." |
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Lissa Lincoln
presented a paper at the 'Colloque de la Société d'Etudes de la
Littérature Française du XXe Siècle' |
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Lissa Lincoln presented a paper entitled "Le phénomène des cultural
studies: décadence ou renaissance des études littéraires?" at the
Colloque de la Société d'Etudes de la Littérature Française du XXe
Siècle, "Littérature et Sociologie", at the Université Michel de
Montaigne Bordeaux 3, which took place on November 23-25. |
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Terence Murphy
addressed the 'Association des Membres de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques'
and participated in 'Les Débats du Citoyen' at the Sénat |
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On November 24, Terence Murphy addressed the Association des Membres
de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques of the 14th arrondissement of
Paris on the subject of contemporary American culture. On November 30,
he participated in Les Débats du Citoyen at the Sénat. The
subject: "L'Europe vue d'Amérique aujourd'hui : quel regard les
Américains portent-ils sur nous?" |
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Routledge-Curzon will publish a book co-authored by Professor
Farhad Nomani |
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Nomani has received a contract from Routledge-Curzon for a co-authored
book on the problem of public policy in Muslim countries. |
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Professor Emeritus David Pike was the guest of Noel Forgeard, chairman
of Airbus |
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 David
Pike (with 16 other members of the Anglo-American Press Association) was
the guest on November 23 of Noel Forgeard, chairman of Airbus, who
invited the group to visit its headquarters in Toulouse for a full-day
tour of the plant; its Chief Marketing Officer John Leahy (from New
York) showed how precarious was the future of Boeing. |
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Claudia Roda will present a paper at CELDA 2004 |
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Claudia Roda will present a paper titled "Participatory System Design as
a Tool for Learning" at the 2004 IADIS International Conference on
Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2004). Roda and
Julie Thomas have been asked to submit entries to the HCI (Human
Computer Interaction) Encyclopedia. |
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Roy Rosenstein has contributed to "Women in the Middle Ages" |
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 Roy
Rosenstein has contributed to Women in the Middle Ages, a
two-volume encyclopedia to be published later this month by Greenwood
Press. |
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Margery Safir 's work has been featured in Barcelona |
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Margery Safir's talk in September at Kosmopolis '04
in Barcelona ("Mr. Snow's Parenthesis: Beyond the Two Cultures") has
been selected by the organizers to be featured in their digital
publication of the event. A number of Safir's photographs of the
Argentine writer Julio Cortazar were featured in a photo exhibition at
the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture and will now be featured
in a journal of cinema as well as in an exhibition in several Spanish
cultural centers. |
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Alexandra Svoronou will teach statistics at the University of
Montreal |
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Next semester, Alexandra Svoronou will be on sabbatical in Montreal,
Canada. She has been offered to teach a statistics course at the
University of Montreal, in French, to a class of 70 students. |
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The SIEFAR, whose founding members include
Kathleen Chevalier ,
has recently received two new grants |
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 In
2000 Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier was one of the founding members of the
Société Internationale pour l’Étude des Femmes de l’Ancien Régime (SIEFAR).
She continues to sit on the governing board and has assumed the role of
editor-in-chief of its ever-growing bilingual on-line dictionary devoted
to Ancien Régime women (visible at
www.siefar.org ).
On November 18, the Ministère délégué à la Recherche (Mission pour la
parité dans la recherche et l'enseignement supérieur) attributed one
of its three Irène Joliot-Curie awards of €10,000 to the SIEFAR
organization for its active support of women in research (for further
information see
http://www.recherche.gouv.fr/discours/2004/dpprixijcurie04.pdf ).
Moreover, the Florence Gould Foundation has just accorded its second
grant of $10,000 to the SIEFAR dictionary project. The SIEFAR is
particularly grateful to Michael Vincent, former Vice-President of
Academic Affairs at AUP, for his unrelenting support, and to the A.W.
Mellon Foundation. |
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Jerome
Charyn was interviewed by La Vie and France Info |
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Jerome
Charyn was interviewed in the October 28 issue of La Vie,
France’s new Catholic weekly, published in affiliation with Le Monde.
He was interviewed in New York on November 3 by France Info, with
Jean Daniel, publisher of Le Nouvel Observateur, about the
results of the U.S. elections. |
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William Dow
presented a paper at The Swiss Association of North American Studies
Conference |
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William Dow presented a paper, "'Hard Work and Blood' in Whitman's 1855
Song of Myself," at The Swiss Association of North American
Studies Conference in Fribourg, Switzerland, November 12-13. |
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Jérôme Game
delivered two scholarly papers in 2004 |
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Jérôme Game delivered two scholarly papers earlier this year. In March,
he spoke at the colloquium Denis Roche: J'écris donc je photographie
organized at the Ecole Normale Supérieure - Lettres et Sciences
Humaines, Lyon, on "L'image/texte: hybridation de l'absence chez Denis
Roche." In July, he presented a paper at the Annual Conference of the
Society for French Studies, held at Wolfson College, Cambridge
University, entitled "Materialist Feminisms: Desire and Sexuality in
Three Contemporary French Women Poets." |
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A second edition of David Pike's book on the
Holocaust has appeared in Barcelona |
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 Spaniards
in the Holocaust: Mauthausen, the Horror on the Danube - David
Pike's book on the Holocaust published by Random House Mondadori - has
now appeared in Barcelona in a revised and updated second edition. |
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Margery Safir represented the Yale Graduate School Alumni
Association |
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In November, Margery Safir represented the Yale Graduate School Alumni
Association at meetings with the president, vice-president, deans and
other officials of Yale University concerning issues such as
international education. |
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