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Djamchid Assadi was interviewed by the French press on democracy in
Islam and the Iranian nuclear crisis |
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Over the summer, Djamchid Assadi took part in two interviews with two
French journals. The first interview entitled "La démocratie est-elle
possible dans les terres d’Islam?" was published in the quarterly
EurOrient. The second interview, concerning the Iranian nuclear
crisis, was published in Le Monde on August 11.
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Petermichael von Bawey was co-organizer of the 29th IMISE Conference
held at AUP and was invited to participate in "La marche de la mémoire"
in St. Martin Vésubie |
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von Bawey was co-organizer of the 29th IMISE Conference held at The
American University of Paris from July 4-9. In response to the
Conference's theme "Challenges
of Estrangement in a United Europe Confronting the World," over fifty scholars from more than a dozen
countries presented their papers. Professor von Bawey chaired the panel
"History and Law" and lectured on "The Berlin Wall and the Politics of
Memory."
Professor von Bawey was invited to participate in "La marche de la
mémoire" in St. Martin Vésubie, 10-11 September, a ceremony honoring
Jewish survivors, local residents and Italian alpinists who had hidden
more than a thousand Jews in this small alpine village during World War
Two. |
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Richard Beardsworth
presented a paper at the British Association of International Studies
Post-structural Working Group |
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 Richard
Beardsworth presented a paper on “Concrete Rationality and World Polity”
at the British Association of International Studies Post-structural
Working Group, “Blair- Bush: Resisting the ‘Axis of Evil’”, May 12–15 at
the Department of International Politics, University of Wales,
Aberystwyth.
His article “The Future of Critical Philosophy and World
Politics,” together with a roundtable discussion on the legacy of the
French philosopher Jacques Derrida and his own response to it, are to be
published in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Volume
34:1.
His article "Modernity and Excess in Recent French Thought" will
be published by Telos: Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought in
the next nine months, and his article "A Note on Political Love in our
Global Age" has been provisionally accepted by Contretemps: An Online
Journal of Philosophy. |
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Cheryl
Caesar presented a paper, "The Joys of Otherness: Heteroglossia in Anne
Tyler's St. Maybe" at the international congress of SIETAR |
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 Cheryl Caesar presented a paper, "The Joys of Otherness: Heteroglossia
in Anne Tyler's St. Maybe" at the international congress of
SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research) U.K.
at Middlesex University in London, July 9. The paper will be published
in the proceedings of the congress. |
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Jerome
Charyn has recently published articles in Les Cahiers du Cinéma, The
New York Times, L'Equipe, and Air France Magazine |
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 Jerome
Charyn’s ten-page entry on Film Noir and New York will appear in the
next edition of Les Cahiers du Cinéma’s international
encyclopedia of film. His article on urban architect Michael Avramides
appeared in the City section of the New York Times on July 17.
His article, “Remains of the Day,” on 9/11 memorials, is scheduled to
appear in the City section of the New York Times on September 11. His
story, “An Oral History of an Unremembered Man” (about New York Giant
baseball player Hank Thompson, who became a bandit) was published in the
July 30 supplement of L’Equipe. His photo-essay on Greenwich
Village (“Les secrets de mon Village”), was the lead article in the
100th anniversary issue of Air France Magazine (August 2005).
His essay on New York that accompanies a sketchbook
by Fabrice Moireau will be published in September by St. Martin’s Press
(USA), Thames and Hudson (England), Les Editions du Pacific (France),
and Les Editions Didier Millet (Singapore). On September 10, he and the
artist will sign books at the Bon Marché as part of a celebration on New
York.
In October Random House will publish Savage
Shorthand, Charyn’s study of Isaac Babel. On November 10 he is
scheduled to discuss the book with Isaac Babel’s daughter, Nathalie
Babel, at New York University.
In November Thunder’s Press will publish
his anthology of Jewish-American Literature, Inside the Hornet’s Head,
and will reprint his novel, The Green Lantern, which was a
finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction. |
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Susan
Cure attended the American Society of Gene Therapy conference |
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 Susan
Cure attended the American Society of Gene Therapy conference in St.
Louis, Missouri, from June 1-5. The conference focused on the latest
research in the field and on the subject of stem cells. |
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Steven
Ekovich participated in conferences on transatlantic issues, the use of force, American identity and U.S. foreign policy, and the
history and sociology of American international relations theory |
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 On
May 31, Steven Ekovich commented on the nomination of Dominique de
Villepin as French Prime Minister for the National Public Radio show
“All Things Considered.”
In June his article “Les impacts des relations diplomatiques franco-américaines sur le développement de la démocratie
au Moyen-orient: le cas de Liban” was published in EurOrient (No.
19, 2005).
He participated in a conference on transatlantic issues at
the French National Assembly organized by the American Center of
Sciences Po and Columbia University on “Géopolitique et Développement:
Convergences Transatlantiques?” and shared a panel with the Chairman of
the French Joint Chiefs of Staff and French strategists and researchers.
Ekovich also participated in a conference on “Usage de la Violence” held
at the Université Paris I – Sorbonne.
On June 21 he gave a presentation
on American identity and U.S. foreign policy at a conference of the
Forum de Futur, held at the French National Assembly with speakers
that included former and present government officials.
He also gave a
presentation at the University of Beijing on the history and sociology
of American international relations theory, and was cited in an
Associated Press article on July 5 on the political profile of leading
French politician Nicolas Sarkozy. |
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Hall
Gardner 's book, American Global Strategy and the 'War on Terorism'
was just published by Ashgate, with reviews by Amitai Etzioni, Simon
Serfaty and Marcel van Herpen |
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 Gardner's
book, American Global Strategy and the 'War on Terorism' was
just published by
Ashgate, with reviews by Amitai Etzioni, Simon Serfaty
and Marcel van Herpen. Professor Hall Gardner
will discuss his new book on Wednesday, October 5 at 18:30.
A full thirteen page interview of Hall Gardner's views of transformation
of NATO and of the transatlantic relationship was published in May 2005
by the
International Affairs Forum.
Gardner spoke on the "Future of the Transatlantic Relationship" at the
French National Assembly at the Colloque "Valeurs européennes, valeurs
atlantiques" organized by the Forum du Futur on June 21.
On July 12,
Gardner presented his paper, "Geopolitical Equilibrium, Global Civil
Society and International Law" at the International Sociological
Association (ISA) Research Committee on Sociology of Law conference on
"Law and Justice Beyond Borders," which was organized jointly with the
European Network of Law & Society and the sociology of law section of
the French Sociological Association. His participation was sponsored by
the AUP Trustee Fund for the Advancement of Scholarship.
Gardner's
article, "From the Egyptian Crisis of 1882 to Iraq of 2003" (and that on
hegemony), along with other articles by David Calleo, Albert Fishlow,
and Patrick O'Brien that were presented at the
Second Annual President's Conference for the
Advancement of Scholarship (May 2004), and then published in Sens Public
No. 3 (From the Egyptian Crisis of 1882 to Iraq of
2003;
World Hegemony and its Aftermath) have been listed in
Political Theory Daily Review. |
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Jeff
Gima, David Horn, and Celeste Schenck attended the second annual meeting
of the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries |
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 Jeff
Gima, David Horn, and Celeste Schenck attended and helped organize the
second annual meeting of AMICAL, the American International Consortium
of Academic Libraries, June 1-3 in Beirut, Lebanon. Nearly 50
librarians, information technology specialists and academic officers
from the 17 member universities were in attendance. The meeting was
hosted by the Lebanese American University, but AUP faculty also played
a pivotal role in the meeting’s success. Celeste Schenck provided
organizational leadership and secured funding through the Mellon
Foundation for participants’ attendance. Jeff Gima helped organize
AMICAL’s working groups and has been spearheading several AMICAL
projects, including consortial access to the tens of millions of books
and journals in OCLC’s 9000-library-strong interlibrary loan network.
David Horn has been testing prototypes for a portal to replace AMICAL’s
temporary website (www.ac.aup.fr/amical).
Schenck and Gima are also on the consortium’s steering committee.
AMICAL’s mission is to foster collaboration in the use of information
and technology resources to support the curricular goals of its
member-institutions, universities providing an American-style education
in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia.
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In
May, Dan Gunn was a resident at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio
Study and Conference Center |
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 In
May, Dan Gunn, along with the team editing the letters of Samuel
Beckett, enjoyed a ten-day residency at the Rockefeller Study and
Conference Centre, Bellagio, Italy. |
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Gary
Linn, former Dean of the School of Business at Henderson State
University, joins AUP as Chair of the International Business
Administration Department |
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 Ali
Fatemi announced the arrival of Gary Linn, former Dean of the School of
Business at Henderson State University, to AUP. In addition to serving
as Professor of Finance/ Accounting and Chair of the International
Business Administration Department, Linn’s long-standing association
with the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
will be of great value as AUP seeks AACSB accreditation for our graduate
and undergraduate business curriculum. |
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Linda
Martz gave a paper at the "Women, Faith and Spirituality" conference of
the University of Glamorgan and the West of England and South Wales
Women's History Network |
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 At the end of June, Linda Martz gave a paper entitled "Autobiography,
Gender and Spirituality: the case of Aimee Semple McPherson" at the
Women, Faith and Spirituality conference of the University of
Glamorgan and the West of England and South Wales Women's History
Network. The paper examined the extent to which the evangelist's
autobiographical writings took into account the gendered nature of
attacks against her and asked whether they indicated a feminized
theology. |
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Ann
Mott gave a paper at the annual European Writing Centers Association
Conference |
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 Ann Mott gave a paper entitled “Freshmen in the
Balance: Writing to Learn” at the annual European Writing Centers
Association Conference in Halkidiki, Greece.
Ann has also been asked to continue serving on the
Board of the European Writing Centers Association. |
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A
paper co-authored by Farhad Nomani was presented in the 7th
International Conference on the Economics and Finance of the Middle East
and North Africa |
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 Farhad
Nomani's co-authored paper on measurement problems of women
marginalization in the Iranian work force was presented in the 7th
International Conference on the Economics and Finance of the Middle East
and North Africa at Lebanese American University in June. |
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Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien has recently published two articles on two
French women writers: Marguerite Duras and Christine Angot |
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Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien has recently published two articles on two
French women writers, Marguerite Duras and Christine Angot: "M.D., cette
maladie contagieuse..." in Les Lectures de Marguerite Duras, PUL,
France; "L'intime livre au danger: la solution onirique de Christine
Angot," in L'Intimité, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal
(Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures modernes et contemporaines).
Another article, "'L'enclave de l'écriture': jouissance, symptôme et
création" has been accepted for publication by Presses Universitaires de
Dijon.
She will also give a paper at the 9th International Congress of
the European Scientific Association for Residential and Foster Care for
Children & Adolescents (EUSARF): "Troubled Children in a Troubled World"
held on September 21-24 at Paris X University. Her paper is entitled: "Psychopathologie
des troubles de l'apprentissage de la lecture". |
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David
Pike has received the second travel-and-research grant in his program
funded by the Charles Delmar Foundation |
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 Professor
Emeritus David
Pike has received the second travel-and-research grant in his five-year
program funded by the Charles Delmar Foundation. In preparing his new
book (Called to Account: The Killers of Mauthausen on Trial), he
will be working in Amsterdam, Cologne and Memmingen on the trial
proceedings held in those cities. |
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The
current issue of "New Media and Society" is based on the conference "The
Other Internet: Exploring Digital Resistance" held at AUP in 2004 |
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 The current issue of New Media and Society is guest-edited by
Adrienne Russell. It is a special theme issue on digital resistance. The
issue is based on papers presented at an A.W. Mellon Foundation-funded
conference, “The Other
Internet: Exploring Digital Resistance,” held at AUP
in 2004, and includes an article and an editorial by Adrienne Russell. |
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Adrienne Russell
has joined the research team of the Annenberg Center for Communication |
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Adrienne Russell is on leave for the year and has
joined the research faculty at the University of Southern California’s
Annenberg Center for Communication in Los Angeles. As one of the
Center’s Networked Publics Fellows, she is working with a group of
international interdisciplinary scholars to investigate the social,
economic and political impact of network technologies. Before moving to
Los Angeles, Adrienne taught a course on global media at the University
of California-Berkeley. |
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Julie Thomas
was an invited speaker at the "Académie d'Eté 2005 Couleur & Vie" |
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Julie Thomas was an invited speaker at the "Académie
d'Eté 2005 Couleur & Vie", sponsored by the Fédération Française de la
Couleur and the Centre d'Information de la Couleur, on July 30 at Le
Poet Laval (Montelimar). |
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The
forthcoming book "Information Resources Management: Global Challenges"
includes a chapter co-authored by
Julie Thomas
and Claudia Roda |
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Julie Thomas and Claudia Roda have a chapter
entitled "Cultural Values and E-Learning" accepted for the forthcoming
book Information Resources Management: Global Challenges (Idea
Group). |
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David Tresilian
published two articles in Al-Ahram Weekly |
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David Tresilian wrote a review of “Figures du
Palestinien, identité des origines, identité de devenir” by Elias Sanbar
for Al-Ahram (Cairo), which appeared in Al-Ahram Weekly on June
16. He wrote a profile of the Franco-Algerian writer Assia Djebar,
elected to the Académie Française in June, for the same newspaper on
July 7.
On July 5 he read a paper entitled “Being Estranged
from England: the Case of D.H. Lawrence” at the
29th IMISE Conference held at AUP. |
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George Wanklyn
is working on a catalog produced as part of a series of exhibitions
organized by the Louvre Museum and Atlanta's High Museum of Art |
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 George
Wanklyn is a member of a three-person team working on a catalog for a
loan exhibition entitled “The Kings as Collectors: The Kings’ Drawings.”
The catalog is being produced as part of a series of exhibitions
organized by the Louvre and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta,
collectively called “Louvre in America.” Starting in mid-October 2006,
and running to mid-January 2007, 58 drawings from the Département des
arts graphiques of the Louvre will be exhibited in Atlanta. From
October 2007 to January 2008, 45 other drawings will be shown at the
Denver Museum of Art. One catalog is being prepared for the two
exhibitions, under the supervision of Catherine Loisel, Conservateur
en chef du Département des arts graphiques. The exhibitions each
consist of four sections, presenting drawings acquired in various ways
by three Kings of France, from 1671 to 1775. Professor Wanklyn is
participating in the formulation of the catalog entries, and is serving
as editor for the submission of most of the entries in English. |
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