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Petermichael von Bawey will present the paper "Berlin Wall Memorials:
History Lessons and Lesions" at the International Conference on Social
Science Research |
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von Bawey was invited to attend the International Conference on Social
Science Research, where he will present his paper "Berlin Wall
Memorials: History Lessons and Lesions" in Orlando, Florida, 4-6
December. He will also chair the panel on "History" in Social Science
Research and act as discussant in the session. |
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Steven
Ekovich commented to the international press on the riots in France |
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Ekovich was quoted in an Associated Press story and A Voice of
America story on the riots in France. The AP story was picked up by
almost 200 newspapers. He was also interviewed on the BBC World Service
on the riots. At the beginning of December, Ekovich was invited by the
Council of Europe to lecture on globalization and integration at the
Yerevan School of Political Studies in Armenia. |
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Toda
Institute of Japan has invited
Ali Fatemi to a conference on the reform
of the United Nations |
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Institute of Japan has invited Ali Fatemi to a three-day conference
entitled "Transforming the United Nations: Human Development, Regional
Conflicts, and Global Governance in a Post-Westphalian World".
Proceedings of the conference will be published in a book dedicated to
UN reform. |
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Hall
Gardner spoke on the subject "Is the Dialogue of Civilizations
Possible?" in a conference held at the American University in Moscow |
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November 3, Hall Gardner spoke in Moscow on the subject, "Is the
Dialogue of Civilizations Possible?" in a conference held at the
American University in Moscow, and sponsored by the Gorbachev Foundation
and the Club "Free Word" of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. The proceedings of the conference are to be
published in both English and Russian.
 On
November 22, Gardner was invited by Pascal Boniface to speak at Institut
de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS) about his new book,
American Global Strategy and the 'War on Terorism'. The event was
moderated by IRIS American foreign policy and terrorism expert,
Barthélémy Courmont [ http://www.iris-france.org ].
On November 25, Gardner took AUP students to Brussels to visit NATO HQ,
where they were briefed on NATO's current agenda, NATO's worldwide
military and peacekeeping operations, as well as the Euro-Atlantic
Partnership Council and the Partnership for Peace. |
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Hall
and Isabel Gardner led AUP students on a study trip to Doha, Qatar |
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November 7-12, Hall and Isabel Gardner took AUP students to Doha, Qatar
where they were given a briefing on US-Qatari relations by the US
ambassador to Qatar, and met with officials of the Qatari Foreign
Ministry. They were given a full tour of the Qatari Foundation, the
newsroom of Al-Jazeera, as well as the Islamic Art Museum. They
participated in the Qatari Heritage Fair and saw Qatari crafts, music
and a re-enactment of a traditional Qatari wedding. On the last day of
the trip, they visited the sand dunes and beach outside of Doha, where
students met American GIs stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
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The
OECD has just published "Reducing Capital Cost in Southern Africa," a
book co-authored by Martin Grandes and Nicolas Pinaud |
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paper co-authored by Martin Grandes, “The Opportunity Cost of Equity in
Latin America,” was presented during the IV International Annual Meeting
organized by the Center for Financial Stability of Argentina, on October
18, in Buenos Aires as well as at LACEA 2005. Another paper, entitled
“How Important is Sovereign Risk in Determining Corporate Credit
Spreads? The Case of South Africa” will be published as an IMF Working
Paper and is being proposed for the IMF Staff Papers series. Grandes was
invited to discuss a paper on fiscal policy coordination in Latin
America during a one and a half day seminar held by ECLAC (United
Nations) in Santiago, Chile, November 7-8.
 The
OECD has just published his (first!) book, co-authored with Nicolas
Pinaud, and entitled Reducing Capital Cost in Southern Africa,
OECD Development Centre Studies .
Professor Grandes has been recently appointed Organizing Director of the
AUP School of Government. |
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Jayson
Harsin will lecture on his "Rumor Bomb" research in Turkey |
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Jayson Harsin was asked to give a lecture this spring on his 'Rumor
Bomb' research in political communication at Bilkent University, Ankara,
Turkey. |
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Yudhishthir Raj Isar chaired the opening session of the conference
"Inclusive Europe? Horizon 2020" |
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 Yudhishthir
Raj Isar chaired the opening session of the conference "Inclusive
Europe? Horizon 2020" organized jointly in Budapest from November 17 to
19 by the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (EFAH), of which he
is the current President, and the Hungarian Ministry of Cultural
Heritage. The session, in which Alain Touraine was the Keynote Speaker,
also included statements by the French and Hungarian ministers of
Culture and the European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture
and Multilingualism; it was held in the principal chamber of the
Hungarian Parliament. On November 25-26 in New Delhi, he took part in an
International Cultural Forum organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation in
cooperation with the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the Nand and Jeet
Khemka Foundation. The topic was Cultures in Globalization. A
Europe-India Dialogue on Gobal Challenges and Cultural Visions. Isar
chaired the closing session on ‘Cultural Visions for the Globalized
World in the 21st Century’ as well as a pre-conference working session
based on findings from the World Values Survey project entitled
‘Horizons of Cultural Change in Europe and India’. |
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An
article by Linda Martz was published in a special double issue of
"Women's History Review" |
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article by Linda Martz entitled "An AIDS-Era Reassessment of Christabel
Pankhurst's The Great Scourge and How to End It" was published in
the November issue of Women's History Review, a special double
issue on The Suffragette and Women’s History. |
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Terence Murphy has published a third essay on French politics in
"International Political Economy" |
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Terence Murphy has published a third essay in a series on French
politics: "France's Pain: The Bonfire of the Vanities; or, The End of
the French Social Model" in International Political Economy, 11
November 2005. The previous two essays of the series published in the
same journal were: "France Left Europe Behind in Pursuit of its
Exceptionalism" on 2 June 2005 and "A Constitution for the European
Union: French Exceptionalism and its Significance for the Future of
Europe" on 13 May 2005. |
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"The
New Yorker" has featured an article on
Richard Pevear , Professor of
Comparative Literature at AUP and one of the most eminent translators of
our time |
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 The
New Yorker has featured an article on Richard Pevear, Professor of
Comparative Literature at AUP and one of the most eminent translators of
our time. The article, written by editor David Remnick, is titled "The
Translation Wars" and appeared in the November 7, 2005 edition of the
magazine. Printed copies are available by request from:
communications@aup.edu. |
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Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien gave a refereed paper in the Centre Texte/Image
of the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon |
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Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien gave a refereed paper entitled "Ecrire contre
la mère: le tragique de la transmission maternelle" in the Centre
Texte/Image of the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon for the
colloquium "Création/Filiation" on November 25. Her paper on Michel
Houellebecq: "NO FUTURE! Ou la valeur du désistement" has been accepted
for publication in a book on the writer’s work, due in 2006 with
Amsterdam’s Rodopi Publishers. |
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David
Pike’s second edition of his work on the Holocaust has been reviewed in
Spanish journals |
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 David
Pike’s second (revised) Spanish edition of his work on the Holocaust has
been reviewed in the Madrid journals El Pais, Alerta and Impar
Revista. In El Pais, Gabriel Jackson (Professor Emeritus, UC
San Diego) writes: “If the reader of this complex book takes in half of
what he reads, he has learnt more than by understanding the entirety of
most books to be found on the market.” |
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Michel
Rakotomavo participated in a seminar on Equity Markets Microstructure at
the Zicklin School of Business (CUNY) |
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Michel Rakotomavo attended a seminar on Equity Markets Microstructure at
the Zicklin School of Business (CUNY). He was a discussant in a session
focused on introducing theoretical and practical microstructure concepts
in both undergraduate and graduate Finance and Business curricula. The
seminar was held from November 9 to November 11, 2005. |
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Roy
Rosenstein lectured at the 11th triennial conference of the Association
of Medieval and Renaissance Language and Literature |
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 Roy
Rosenstein lectured on "Robert Burns and the Medieval Inheritance" at
the eleventh triennial conference of the Association of Medieval and
Renaissance Language and Literature, which convened this year at Brock
University, near Toronto, Canada, in July. Occitan prose poetics was the
subject of his presentation in September at the triennial conference of
the Association Internationale des Etudes Occitanes, held at the
University of Bordeaux. Most recently he spoke in October on "Browne,
Borges, and Back: The Phantasmagories of Imaginative Learning" at a
conference on Four Centuries of Sir Thomas Browne, 1605-2005, at
the University of Leiden, Holland. |
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Charles Talcott gave a presentation at the 18th annual IATEFL–BESIG
conference at the International University of Monaco |
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 Charles
Talcott gave a presentation at the 18th annual IATEFL–BESIG conference
at the International University of Monaco on recent innovations in
blended outcomes assessment practices in language acquisition, November
11-13, 2005. |
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David
Tresilian co-organized a regional development workshop in Delhi, India |
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 David
Tresilian co-organized and facilitated a regional development workshop
from 12 to 16 December 2005 in Delhi, India, on behalf of UNESCO. |
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Douglas Yates just published the chapter on “Gabon” for the Africa
Yearbook 2004 |
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 Douglas
Yates just published the chapter on “Gabon” for the Africa Yearbook
2004, a joint undertaking of the African Studies Centre in Leiden (ASC),
the Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg (IAK) and the Nordic Africa
Institute in Uppsala (NAI). The yearbook, which contains articles on all
sub-Saharan African states, has its origins in the IAKs Afrika
Jahrbuck that has been published for 17 years. Yates has been
invited to write the Gabon chapter for the 2005 yearbook. |
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