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Petermichael von Bawey was invited to participate in "La marche de la
mémoire" |
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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 one
thousand Jews in this small French alpine village during World War II.
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Cheryl
Caesar attended a congress of the Society for Intercultural Education,
Training and Research |
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Caesar attended a congress of the Society for Intercultural Education,
Training and Research (SIETAR) Europa, in La Colle sur Loup, from 21-25
September. There she helped organize a session on body work and
intercultural sensitization. |
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Jerome
Charyn will be writing a semi-fictional documentary on the Empire State
Building |
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 Jerome
Charyn will be writing a 90-minute semi-fictional documentary on the
Empire State Building for Roche Productions and Canal Plus. He’s turning
all four novels of his Isaac Quartet into graphic novels for
Editions Denoël; the first volume, Marilyn the Wild, will be
published in the summer of 2006. Denoël will also be publishing
Gangsters and Gold Diggers this month in a French translation.
"Mingled Biographies and Mangled Lives," a chapter of his book on Isaac
Babel (about Babel and Lionel Trilling) will be published this month in
Midstream. Secret Isaac was published this summer in a
Spanish translation by RBA, and El Bronx was published in a
German translation by Rotbuch. Near the end of October he will be going
to Belfast to read from his work at No Alibis, a local bookshop. In
November he will be reading from Savage Shorthand (his book on
Isaac Babel) at a Barnes & Noble bookshop in New York. Savage
Shorthand was also selected by The Readers Subscription as a
featured alternate for October. Raised by Wolves, his book on
Quentin Tarantino, will be published by Thunder’s Mouth Press in June
2006 and by Denoël (in French translation) in 2007. The seminar on
Tarantino that he taught at AUP two years ago was instrumental in
helping him write the book. He is currently negotiating with a Boston
textbook firm to edit an anthology on film theory and film criticism
from ideas he developed at AUP; Professor Lawrence Pitkethly was helpful
in suggesting several of the texts. Charyn visited the Emily Dickinson
Museum in Amherst this summer and was given a guided tour by the
museum’s curator in preparation for a novel on Emily Dickinson. His
article, "The Enduring Salute" was published in the September 11, 2005
edition of The New York Times. |
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William Dow presented a paper entitled "Nostalgia and Estrangement in
American Depression-era Fiction" at the 29th IMISE Conference held at
AUP |
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Dow presented a paper entitled "Nostalgia and Estrangement in American
Depression-era Fiction" at the 29th IMISE Conference held at AUP, July
4-9, 2005. He also published an article, "The Perils of Irony in
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises" in Etudes Anglaises (Paris IV,
Sorbonne), Vol. 52, No. 8, 2005: 178-192. |
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Karl
Dunz presented a paper at the 7th Annual Conference of the European
Trade Study Group |
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Karl Dunz presented a paper entitled "A Re-examination of the Partial
Competitive Equilibrium Analysis of Export Subsidies" at the 7th Annual
Conference of the European Trade Study Group. This conference was held
September 8-10, 2005 at University College Dublin. |
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Steven
Ekovich was interviewed by the French media on the consequences of
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita |
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 Steven Ekovich was interviewed several times on French television and
radio on the social and political consequences of Hurricanes Katrina and
Rita. He was the invited expert on the Nouvel Observateur Website
"Forum en Direct" dealing with Hurricane Katrina
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Hall
Gardner was among twelve scholars asked to propose two questions for
Russian president Putin |
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Gardner was among twelve scholars asked to propose two questions for
Russian president Putin, for the article, "The Questions Putin Was Never
Asked in the Kremlin" by Edward Lozansky, President, American University
in Moscow, published in Izvestia
[read the article] . Gardner was also asked to propose two
questions dealing with US-Russian relations for President Bush, for a
forthcoming article, to make things even! |
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Eugeni
Gentchev will present two papers at the International Scientific
Congress on Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Marine Industry |
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Eugeni Gentchev will present two papers at the International Scientific
Congress on Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Marine Industry (MEEMI,
2005), in Varna, Bulgaria. The first paper discusses "The Future of
Computing : Model Driven Architecture", and the second one, co-authored
by Claudia Roda, addresses the
pedagogy of introductory Object Oriented Programming and is titled "A
shift of accent in introductory Object Oriented Programming." |
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Yudhishthir Raj Isar took part in the 'IV Euro-American Cultural
Cooperation Campus' organized by the INTERARTS Foundation of Barcelona
and the Organization of Ibero-American States |
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Raj Isar took part in the 'IV Euro-American Cultural Cooperation Campus'
organized in Salvador, Brazil by the INTERARTS Foundation of Barcelona
and the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) from 13 to 16
September; he moderated a plenary session on ‘Creativity, consumption
and cultural communication’ and also presented the World Cultures
Yearbook project of which he is Managing Editor. On 20 September he took
part in a seminar on cultural networks and inter-institutional
cooperation organized by the University of Barcelona by giving the
closing address and participating in a round table on the limits and
potential of European cultural networks. On 23-24 September in Warsaw,
Poland he took part in a working conference of CIRCLE, the European
think-tank network of cultural researchers, organized by the Pro Cultura
Foundation in order to discuss the progress of a research project
entitled ‘Metropolis of Europe: urban cultural life and inter-city
interactions for cultural diversity’; as co-drafter of the project and
co-editor of the volume that will emerge, he gave the closing summary of
the proceedings. On 29 September in Berlin, he gave the Keynote Address
at the opening of the 10th conference of Res Artis, the worldwide
network of artist-residencies and residential art centers. |
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Oleg
Kobtzeff was invited by France Culture to participate in the regular
evening talk show 'Travaux Publics' |
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Kobtzeff was invited by France Culture to participate in the regular
evening talk show Travaux Publics live from the “Café El Sur” on
Boulevard St. Germain
[learn more] . Addressing the issue of UN reform, the show was
exceptionally formatted as a simulation of the UN summit with a slightly
satirical, even comical approach from some participants. Next to
renowned scholar Philippe Moreau-Desfarges playing the role of the UN
Secretary General Kofi Anan, Kobtzeff played the role of a fictional US
Ambassador to the UN. This is Kobtzeff’s fifth live appearance on French
national radio in less than a year. |
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Lissa
Lincoln participated in a public debate on Albert Camus' adaptation of William Faulkner's play "Requiem for a Nun" |
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Lincoln participated in a public debate along with
two French intellectuals (CNRS scholar and jurist Marcela Iacub and
magistrate-author Denis Salas) at the Theatre Athénée on October 17th.
The discussion centered on Albert Camus' adaptation of William
Faulkner's play "Requiem for a Nun" and the theme of "Ordre Moral -
Ordre Penal". She presented a paper entitled " Albert Camus's
Creative resistance to 'Resistance'" at the annual Critical Legal
Conference hosted by Kent Law School, University of Kent at Canterbury,
U.K., September 2-4, 2005. She also co-organized one of the conference
streams "The Art of Resistance" and chaired one of the stream panels. |
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A book
review by Farhad Nomani was published by the Journal of the Middle East
Studies |
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Nomani's review of L’Economie de l’Iran Islamique: Entre ordre et
désordre (T.Coville), is published in the International Journal of
the Middle East Studies, vol 37, August 2005. |
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David
Pike participated in the conference "La part visible des camps:
photographies du camp de concentration de Mauthausen (1938-1945)" |
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 Professor
Emeritus David
Pike attended the conference "La part visible des camps: photographies
du camp de concentration de Mauthausen (1938-1945)" held on September
17-18 at the Archives Nationales, where he presented a 26-page account
of the SS photographers who took the photos and the prisoners (all
Spaniards) who stole and hid them. The International Exposition is now
on tour to other European cities but will reopen in Paris at the
Archives Nationales (Hotel de Rohan, 87 rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris 3)
on October 26, staying until November 28. Admission is free. |
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Lawrence Pitkethly has been collaborating with Duke Univerity's Center
for International Studies for a film on Derek Walcott |
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Lawrence Pitkethly has been collaborating with Duke Univerity's Center
for International Studies in North Carolina for a film that he will
write and direct on the life and work of Derek Walcott, winner of the
1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. Duke University plans an international
seminar at which the film will be premiered. Pitkethly has been
assisting PASSERELLES, an International Association for the promotion of
interdisciplinary studies, on the development of 8 science documentary
films for global television broadcast. The science documentary series
will be produced around 8 major seminars with leading scientists to be
held in Paris from 2006 to 2008. |
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Claudia Roda , Ann Borel,
Eugeni Gentchev , and
Julie Thomas will publish
a paper in the journal OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital
Library Perspectives |
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Claudia Roda, Ann Borel, Eugeni Gentchev, and Julie Thomas described
some of the work that took place last semester in the "Digitisation
project" in a paper titled "Digital image library development in
academic environment: designing and testing usability". The paper will
appear in the journal OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital
Library Perspectives, as volume 21, number 4. |
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Edith
Taieb published the article "Le politique et le domestique:
L'argumentation d'Hubertine Auclert sous la Troisième République" |
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Taieb's article "Le politique et le domestique: L'argumentation
d'Hubertine Auclert sous la Troisième République" was published in the
N°78 juillet 2005 edition of Mots: Les langages du politique. |
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Rebekah Rast
presented two papers on language acquisition and multilingualism |
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Rast presented two papers in September. The first, entitled
"Cross-linguistic influence upon first contact with L3 input" was given
at the Fouth International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and
Multilingualism, hosted jointly by the Universities of Fribourg/Freiburg
and Biel/Bienne, 8-10 September. The second, "Activating previously
acquired language(s) upon first contact with a foreign language" was
presented at the 15th Annual European Second Language Association
Conference, organized by the University of Zagreb in Dubrovnik, Croatia,
14-17 September. |
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Charles Talcott
presented a paper at the annual Critical Legal Conference |
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 Charles
Talcott presented a paper entitled "'Criminal Language' and the Stylish
Resistance of Post-colonial Literatures" at the annual Critical Legal
Conference hosted by Kent Law School, University of Kent at Canterbury,
U.K., September 2-4, 2005. |
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Andrea Trocha Van Nort
and Linda Martz
attended a conference organized by the 'Pole de Recherche Culture et
Religion dans les Pays Anglophones' |
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The Pole de Recherche Culture et Religion dans les Pays Anglophones
held its conference in September, this time on the theme of "Enfance et
Enfants." Andrea Trocha Van Nort gave a paper entitled, "Shakespeare and
'Unconstant Children': Children as 'Constant' Measures of Adult Moral
Conduct in the History Plays." Linda Martz also attended the conference. |
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Douglas Yates
has been invited by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung to present a paper on
Chinese oil interests in Africa |
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 Douglas
Yates will be traveling to Johannesberg, South Africa upon an invitation
by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), the think tank of the German
Social Democratic Party. Yates will be presenting a paper on “Chinese
Oil Interests in Africa” (15-22 October). |
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