|
|
|
|
|
Waddick Doyle
has been invited to Cambodia to address the Cambodian Communications
Institute |
|
|
|
|
|
 Waddick
Doyle has been invited to Cambodia to address the Cambodian
Communications Institute (major figures in the Cambodian media). He will
also consult on the curriculum design of the new degree in Mass
Communications at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, meet alumni who
studied at AUP with CECI scholarships, and help choose the new CECI
scholarship recipient. Several AUP students for the second consecutive
summer are currently working on a JustWorld International project (NGO
founded by AUP alumna, Jessica Newman) to work with orphaned Cambodian
children who make a living in the dumps of Phnom Penh. He will also meet
with these students and consult with the Women’s Media Center dedicated
to developing Aids education media programs with the project of setting
this up as an AUP student project.
Doyle has been invited by the Center for Transcultural Studies (CTS),
Northwestern University, and the Journalism and Media Studies Center,
University of Hong Kong, to attend the Summer Institute on Media,
Everyday Life and the Cultures of Consumption on June 16-20, 2005 at
University of Hong Kong. The institute is being funded primarily through
a grant by the Ford Foundation to CTS. He will present a paper entitled
“Converting Television Audiences into Political Publics: Consuming Goods
and Parties in Berlusconi’s Italy”. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Steven Ekovich
has been named a member of the research team funded by the European
Union on "Théories des Relations Internationales et Hégémonie Culturelle" |
|
|
|
|
|
 Steven
Ekovich has been named a member of the research team funded by the
European Union on "Théories des Relations internationales et hégémonie
culturelle." The first meeting of the team was held in April at the
Université Montesquieu, Bordeaux IV. The second meeting will be held at
the University of Beijing, China in June. In May, "Une vision de la
relation entre la France et les Etats-Unis" was published in La
Lettre Diplomatique/The Diplomatic Letter (No. 69, First quarter
2005). He gave a presentation on the history of U.S. relations with Iran
at the Conference "L'Avenir de L'Iran: Enjeux Stratégiques et
Economiques," organized by the Institut International d'Etudes
Stratégiques" on May 14 at the European Union Institute for Security
Studies in Paris. Ekovich participated in the hour-long "Le grand débat
de mardi" of BFM radio on May 17. The topic was transatlantic relations
and Franco-American relations. He was a participant in the Aspen
Institute International Conference on Europe-Mediterranean Relations in
Casablanca, Morocco from May 27-29. Conference participants included
other professors, ambassadors, business leaders, government advisors,
ministers (including the Prime Minister of Morocco, the Moroccan
Minister of Finance and Privatization, the Italian Minister of
Innovation and Technology, a former Foreign Minister of Israel), the
Deputy Secretary General of NATO, bank presidents, members of the
European Parliament, a Palestinian negotiator, and several members from
international research institutes (including The Trilateral Commission). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ali Fatemi
will make a presentation at a conference sponsored by the Aspen
Institute at the World Economic Forum in Jordan |
|
|
|
|
|
 Ali
Fatemi has been invited to take part and make a presentation at a
conference sponsored by the Aspen Institute at the World Economic Forum
in Amman, Jordan (May 21-25). Democracy in the Greater Middle East and
the United Nations Arab Human Development Report 2004 are the topics to
be discussed at this meeting. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Oliver Feltham
gave a paper at the International Philosophy and Literature Conference
in Helsinki |
|
|
|
|
|
On June the 3rd Oliver Feltham gave a paper on Lars Von Triers’
Dogville at the International Philosophy and Literature Conference
in Helsinki. He co-led a seminar – with Alberto Toscano and Howard
Caygill – on Alain Badiou’s Being and Event at Goldsmith College
in London on April 26th. He gave a paper on “Languages of change in the
French Revolution” at the Rhetoric, Politics and Ethics Conference at
the University of Ghent, April 21-23. He gave a paper “Subtractive
Ontology and the Passage from Art to Politics” at a conference on the
fate of the avant-garde at the Jan Van Eyck Academie on March 16th. In
January he gave a paper on his techniques in ludic pedagogy for creative
writing at a colloquium on games in education at the University of
Toulouse. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hall Gardner
spoke on "American Perspectives of the Iranian Nuclear Program" in a
conference sponsored by the Institut International d'Etudes Stratégiques |
|
|
|
|
|
 On
May 14, Hall Gardner spoke on "American Perspectives of the Iranian
Nuclear Program" in the conference “L'Avenir de l'Iran: Enjeux
Stratégiques et Economiques" sponsored by the Institut International
d'Etudes Stratégiques, held at the EU Institute for Security Studies. On
May 18, he spoke on the subject "Les enjeux de la guerre en Irak" in
Rennes, sponsored by L'Ecole Americaine de Rennes, Americans for
Informed Democracy, and l'Association Ysegoria de Sciences Po Rennes.
Gardner was quoted in two articles published by Reuters: "After EU snub,
France tests U.S. ties with Villepin" on May 31, and "French voters fret
over Anglo-Saxon influence" on May 26 (Reuters). He was interviewed on
the US reaction to the French "no" vote on the European Constitution by
BBC world radio on May 30. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"The
True Measure of Country Risk", by
Gerardo della
Paolera and
Martin Grandes , has been accepted for presentation at the 14th
World Congress of the International Economic Association |
|
|
|
|
|
A paper co-authored by Martin Grandes and Gerardo della Paolera, "The
True Measure of Country Risk: A Primer on the Interrelations between
Solvency and the Polity Structure of Emerging Markets: Argentina
1886-1892", has been accepted for presentation at the Fourteenth World
Congress of the International Economic Association in Marrakech,
Morocco, August 29-September 2. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Martin Grandes '
paper "How Important is Sovereign Risk in Determining Corporate Credit
Spreads? The Case of South Africa" has been accepted for presentation at
the Second African Finance Journal Conference |
|
|
|
|
|
Grandes' paper "How Important is Sovereign Risk in Determining Corporate
Credit Spreads? The Case of South Africa" has been accepted for
presentation at the Second African Finance Journal Conference in
Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 13 and 14. His recent publications
include "Exchange Rate Regimes and Macroeconomic Performance: The Case
of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico”, in ECLAC Review, 86, June 2005;
and "Which Policies can Reduce the Cost of Capital in Southern Africa",
in Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa, Yearbook,
Vol. 4 (2004), Windhoek, Namibia.
Martin Grandes traveled to Brazil from May 2-5 to explore potential
sponsorships and partnerships for the upcoming LACEA conference. While
there he met with the president of the Central Bank, Mr. Meirelles, the
French Ambassador, Mr. de Gliniasty, ECLAC-UN director for Brasil's
office, Mr. Renato Baumann, the executive director of Centro de
Estudos Brasileiros Internacionais, Mrs Denise Gregory, the director
for FUNCEX (Fundacao de Comercio Exterior), Mr. Ricardo Markwald, and
several other high-level people from private and public institutions and
academia. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Linda Martz and
Alice Craven
participated in the conference "Le Roman policier: thèmes et
perspectives" hosted by the Institut Catholique de Paris |
|
|
|
|
|
Linda Martz co-organized a three-day conference at the Institut
Catholique de Paris. The conference, entitled "Le Roman policier: thèmes
et perspectives," brought together some 55 speakers from all over the
world, including Alice Craven. Linda chaired a panel and presented the
paper entitled "Suffragette Fictions: the reconstruction of militant
identity in the novels of Gillian Linscott." Alice Craven chaired a
panel and spoke on "Signs of Death, Writing for Life: Chester Himes' Run
Man, Run in context." |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Terence Murphy
published "A Constitution for the European Union: French Exceptionalism
and its Significance for the Future of Europe" |
|
|
|
|
|
Terence Murphy published "A Constitution for the European Union: French
Exceptionalism and its Significance for the Future of Europe,"
International Political Economy, 13 May 2005. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rebekah Rast gave
a paper entitled “Information processing upon first exposure to a second
language” at a seminar on bi- and multilingualism and cognition |
|
|
|
|
|
Rebekah Rast gave a paper entitled “Information processing upon first
exposure to a second language” at the Seminar on Bi- and
Multilingualism and Cognition, hosted by the Mitteleuropa Foundation
in Bolzano, Italy, 19-21 May. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Laurent Sauerwein
will present a photo installation in Shanghai |
|
|
|
|
|
Laurent Sauerwein will have his photo installation “BA-Ba” (96
image/words) exhibited from June 10-25, 2005 at the Alliance Française
in Shanghai, China. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jorge
Sosa attended the 33rd National Conference of LOEX |
|
|
|
|
|
Jorge Sosa attended the 33rd National Conference of LOEX (Library
Orientation Exchange), May 12-14 in Louisville, Kentucky. The conference
focused on the integration of librarians’ instruction with the
intellectual work of faculty and students. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
