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Jerome
Charyn has signed with a film company to write an original screenplay
about an American deserter during World War II |
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 Jerome
Charyn, who is a lifetime member of the Screenwriters’ Guild, has signed
with an independent film company to write an original screenplay about
an American deserter during World War II. Charyn’s article on
American gangster Arnold Rothstein, “Le businessman du crime,” was
published in the January 20 issue of Le Monde des Livres. A
portion of France 3’s celebrated program, Thalassa, will be
devoted to him and a trip to his native Bronx. This particular program,
dedicated to New York, is currently scheduled to be aired on March 3.
His short biography of Soviet writer Isaac Babel, Savage Shorthand,
had the second lead review in The New York Times Book Review of
January 1, 2006, in an issue devoted to “Literary Lives” (the review was
reprinted in the International Herald Tribune). On December 5, 2005,
The Nation published a 5-page review of the same book. The reviewer
called Savage Shorthand “a short and impressionistic, but
essential biography of Isaac Babel—the only one we have.” In October
2005, Editions Denoël published C’étais Broadway (Gangsters and Gold
Diggers), which was reviewed prominently in Le Monde, Le Point,
Elle, Lire, etc. Last October, Cahiers du Cinéma also
published Charyn’s 7-page article, “Film noir: le mythe,” in its
encyclopedia, La Ville au Cinéma. |
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An
article by William Dow has been published in "Polysèmes: Arts et
littératures: les figures de la violence" |
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 William
Dow's article, "A Modernist Vernacular: Violent Figurations in Nathaniel
West's Miss Lonelyhearts," has been published in Polysèmes:
Arts et littératures: les figures de la violence (Paris: Publibook,
Vol. 7, 2005: 185-201). He also presented his paper on Jack London, "By
Word of Body: The Social Life of Aesthetic Forms," for the Faire
Corps conference, the University of Lille, January 20, 2006. |
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Waddick Doyle has been invited to participate in an international
conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, on 'Realities and Challenges Facing
Families' |
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 Waddick
Doyle has been invited by the Health Department of the State of Jellico,
Mexico, to participate in the second international conference in
Guadalajara on the family, Realities and Challenges Facing Families.
His paper will be entitled "Reality Television: Different Models for
Living Together". |
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Steven
Ekovich published an article in "Géostratégiques: L'avenir de l'Iran" |
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 Steven
Ekovich published "Etats-Unis – Iran : La Longue Quête de Valeurs et
d’Intérêts Communs" in Géostratégiques: L’avenir de l’Iran: enjeux
stratégiques et économiques (Edition spéciale, N° 10, Décembre
2005). |
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Oliver
Feltham 's translation of Alain Badiou's "Being and Event" will hit the
shelves in the U.K. on the 28th of February |
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 Oliver
Feltham's long awaited translation of Alain Badiou's magnum opus,
Being and Event, will hit the shelves in the U.K. on the 28th of
February. He is currently co-organizing a series of five workshops on
politics and enjoyment to be held jointly by the Jan van Eyck Academie
in Maastricht and AUP. |
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Since
the beginning of the academic year,
Jérôme Game has given three
interviews about his poetic work |
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 Since
the beginning of the academic year, Jérôme Game has given three
interviews about his poetic work: with Stephane Pihet for De quoi
parlons-nous? n°3 (September 2005), with David Christoffel for
Critical Secret n°15 (December 2005), and with Jean-Marc Bailleu for
Sur le Vif n°2/5 (January 2006). Currently he is co-organising a
conference with a colleague from Université Paris 8 (Prof. Christian
Doumet) entitled ‘Poésie et autres arts’ to be held at the Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Paris on 28-29 April 2006. The conference will examine the
interactions between contemporary French poetry, music, dance, visual
arts (painting, photography, video art) and prose writing. |
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Hall
Gardner gave the opening lecture at the Cicero Foundation conference on
"European Security and Defence Policy and the Transatlantic
Relationship" |
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 Hall Gardner gave
the opening lecture at the December 8-9 Cicero Foundation conference,
European Security and Defence Policy and the Transatlantic Relationship. Gardner’s most recent book, American Global Strategy and the
‘War on Terrorism’ (Ashgate, 2005) was listed and described in
The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 4, 2005. His paper "Redefining the Transatlantic Relationship for the Twenty-
First Century - Why the US and Europe Need Each Other" was then
published on the
Cicero Foundation website .
His editorial, “Is it worth declaring war on all forms of "militant
Islam"?” based on his debates at the American University in Moscow on
November 3, was published on both the
America-Russia.net (Face of the
Day) and Mideast Russia
news in both English and Russian. His updated article, "Four Forms of Terrorism", was
published on the political-literary website,
nthposition.com . The article has been cross-listed on
the website,
Wood’s Lot .
His article "Thèses sur l’Iran et l’électronucléaire" was published in
Géostratégiques (No. 10, December
2005).
Gardner was invited to participate in the all day seminar on “The Future
of EU-US Burden Sharing” held at the European Union Institute for
Security Studies, on January 13, 2006. |
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Martin
Grandes ' recent book, " Reducing Capital Cost in Southern Africa", was
reviewed in 'The Economist' |
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 Martin Grandes' recent book:
Reducing
Capital Cost in Southern Africa was reviewed in The Economist
last December 17. On January 9 he gave a conference at the Ecole Normale
Supérieure, Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon. The subject was:
“Financial Globalization and Macroeconomic
Policies in Latin America”. Grandes gave a seminar on “corporate default
risk and the sovereign ceiling” at the Centre for Financial Stability in
Buenos Aires, last December 22. Finally, Prof. Nada Mora, from The
American University of Beirut and MIT, will be visiting AUP's Graduate
School of Business and doing research with Professor Grandes in
February, as part of her William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Grant. |
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Lissa
Lincoln has been invited to speak at The University of Westminster Law
School on the question of how literature can respond to the law |
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Lincoln has been invited to speak at The University of Westminster Law
School in London, England on February 15. Her talk is entitled "(un)Arrested
Justice : Reading Camus", and addresses the question of how literature
can respond to the law and interrogate its premises. |
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Ann
Mott has been appointed to the Board of the International Writing
Association |
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 Ann
Mott has been reappointed to the Board of the EWCA (European Writing
Center Association) and recently appointed to the Board of the IWCA
(International Writing Center Association) as its European regional
representative. |
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Farhad
Nomani attended the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science
Associations |
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 Farhad
Nomani attended the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science
Associations, in Boston, MA, January 5-8, and presented a paper in the
10th annual meeting of LACEA, Paris, October, 2005. |
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Susan
Perry will be chairing panel discussions for the US State Department's
Africa Regional Services digital conferencing program |
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 Susan
Perry will be chairing a series of panel discussions on International
Women's Day for the US State Department's Africa Regional Services
digital conferencing program. |
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David
Pike’s book on the Holocaust is now in its third printing |
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 David
Pike’s book on the Holocaust with Random House is now in its third
printing. A fourth and revised edition is now in preparation. |
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Roy
Rosenstein contributed an invited essay to "Etudes de langue et de littératures médiévales offertes à Peter T. Ricketts" |
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 Roy
Rosenstein contributed an invited essay on "Occitan Language and
Troubadour Song in Renaissance France" to Etudes de langue et de
littératures médiévales offertes à Peter T. Ricketts, Turnhout,
Belgium: Brepols, 2005, 645-55. Ricketts is Professor of Romance
Philology and Dean Emeritus, Westfield College, University of London,
and has just been named Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
Rosenstein's essay in his honor presents a series of classic troubadour
texts published for the first time in 1606 but never recognized or
reprinted until now. A second, longer article now in press will offer a
thorough analysis of the texts and a hypothesis on their transmission
from manuscript to print. |
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David
Tresilian reviewed the collected works of novelist Albert Cossery for
"Al-Ahram" |
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 David
Tresilian reviewed the collected works of Franco-Egyptian novelist
Albert Cossery, published by Gallimard in 2005, for Al-Ahram
(Cairo). His article appeared in Al Ahram Weekly on 26 January. |
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Andrea
Trocha Van Nort gave a paper for a conference on "Âges de la vie et
rites de passage en Grande-Bretagne et en Amérique aux XVIIe-XVIIIe
siècles" |
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 Andrea
Trocha Van Nort gave a paper entitled "Categorizing Women from the
Restoration to 1705" for a conference on Âges de la vie et rites de
passage en Grande-Bretagne et en Amérique aux XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles
on 25 November 2005. She will be giving a paper entitled "'Strange
Images of Death': Shakespeare and Davenant's Macbeth" for the
Journées d'étude on "Pouvoir(s) de l'image aux XVe, XVIe, XVIIe
siècles; Pour un nouvel éclairage sur la pratique des lettres à la
Renaissance" on February 3-4, 2006 at the Maison de la Recherche,
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont II. |
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Douglas Yates was interviewed by the Spanish newsmagazine "La Clave" on
Gabon’s recent presidential elections |
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 Douglas
Yates was interviewed and extensively quoted by the Spanish newsmagazine
La Clave, in an article on Gabon’s recent presidential elections,
entitled: “Bongo, el ultimo dinosaurio” (9-15 diciembre 2005): pp.
53-55. |
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