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Richard Beardsworth
attended the International Studies Association annual conference in San
Diego |
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Beardsworth attended the International Studies Association annual
conference on “The North/South Divide” in San Diego, CA, March 21-25. He
will give a graduate seminar on Jacques Derrida’s last work Voyous
and International Relations at Goldsmiths College, London University on
May 3 and will discuss with Seyla Benhabib and Valerie Moghadam the
question of contemporary citizenship on May 16 with NYU in Paris (under
the auspices of the lecture-series on culture organized by Gabriel
Rockhill and Alfredo Gomez-Muller). He will chair a panel on the legacy
of Derrida called “Derrida Continued” at the International Association
of Philosophy and Literature in June in Freiburg. His book Nietzsche
(Belles Lettres, Paris: 1997) is being translated into Russian. |
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Madeleine Beaufort was invited to attend a colloquium at the National
Gallery of London |
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 Madeleine
Beaufort was invited to attend a colloquium funded by the Elizabeth
Cayzer Foundation at the National Gallery of London in February. A
select group of scholars who are specialists in the field visited and
discussed the exhibition “Americans in Paris 1860-1900”. After its
London venue the exhibition will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. |
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Jim
Bittermann was guest speaker at the London Chapter of the World
Presidents' Organization |
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 Jim
Bittermann was guest speaker at the London Chapter of the World
Presidents' Organization, assessing the threats from bird flu, Iran's
weapons program, and a world energy crisis. |
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Jerome
Charyn 's anthology of Jewish-American literature was just published in a
French edition |
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 Jerome
Charyn's anthology of Jewish-American literature, Inside the Hornet’s
Head, was just published in a French edition by the Mercure de
France. His novel, The Green Lantern, and his history of
table tennis, Ping-Pong, or the Art of Staying Alive, were
reprinted by Folio (Gallimard) in March. In April he took part in a BBC
documentary on table tennis. In June Le Monde 2 (Le Monde's
weekly magazine) will publish his short story, "White Trash." In
November he will attend a crime-fiction festival in Berlin, where some
of his work will be dramatized in a local Berlin theater. The
international literary magazine, STORIE, devoted its current
issue to the work of Charyn (previous issues were devoted to Paul Auster,
Raymond Carver, and Joyce Carol Oates). |
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Susan
Cure attended a conference on biology and disease of skeletal muscle |
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 Susan
Cure attended a conference in Dallas in April entitled "New Directions
in Biology and Disease of Skeletal Muscle". The conference was mainly
concerned with muscular dystrophies, which are genetic diseases. |
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Mark
Ennis attended the 40th Annual TESOL Convention in Florida |
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Ennis attended the 40th Annual TESOL Convention (Teachers of English to
Speakers of Other Languages) in Tampa, Florida, in March, and visited
The English Language Institute at The University of South Florida. |
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Ali
Fatemi will be an invited participant at the Financial Markets
Conference in New York |
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May 2, Ali Fatemi will be an invited participant at the Financial
Markets Conference in New York sponsored by the N.Y. Stock Exchange,
NASDAQ, Deutsche Borse AG and other major financial markets. The
conference is entitled "Competition in a Consolidating Environment." |
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Jérôme
Game co-organized the conference "Poésie et Autres Arts" at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure of Paris |
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April 7, Jérôme Game delivered the paper “Image filmique / écriture
poétique: quel rapport ? ” at the Conference “Cinéma et Poésie”
organized at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Saint-Etienne. On
April 27-28, Professor Game co-organized a Conference at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure of Paris with Professor Christian Doumet, a colleague
from the research center 'Recherches sur la Pluralité Esthétique' of
Université Paris 8. The conference was entitled “Poésie et autres arts”
and focused on the interdisciplinary aesthetics involved in the
encounters between poetry and music, painting, drawing, video art, and
prose writing. Nine papers were delivered by specialists in those
fields. An evening of poetry reading was also hosted by the Columbia
University Programs at Reid Hall in Paris. |
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Hall
Gardner was invited to participate in the conference "The Rights and
Responsibilities of Immigrants and Their New Homelands" |
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 Hall
Gardner was invited by Amitai Etzioni (The Founder and Director of the
Communitarian Network, ‘University Professor’ of George Washington
University and former senior policy advisor to President Jimmy Carter,
1979-80) to participate in the conference, “The Rights and
Responsibilities of Immigrants and Their New Homelands" on April 26 in
the Europe Room of the Representation of Baden-Württemberg, Brussels.
Gardner’s editorial, “The United States and the [EU] Constitution” was
published in the Lettre de l’Association des auditeurs des sessions
européennes de l’Institut des hautes études de défense nationale,
no. 7 (Janvier 2006). His article, Révolution dans l’arrière-cour
d’Amérique: vision bolivarienne du Venezuela was published in
Géostratégiques N°11 (Janvier 2006). His book review of The
Russian Military: Power and Policy, ed. by Steven E. Miller and
Dmitri V. Trenin (MIT Press, 2004) was published in the Slavic Review
Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2005. |
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Martin
Grandes was invited to present his paper "The Cost of Equity in Latin
America" at the London School of Economics |
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April, Martin Grandes was invited to present his paper “The Cost of
Equity in Latin America” at the second annual conference on “The Future
of Financial Regulation” at the London School of Economics (Financial
Markets Group). On May 9 he is invited to participate in a meeting to be
held by the Committee for the Global Financial System at the Bank for
International Settlements (Basel). He will lead a debate on corporate
bond issuance in developing and emerging markets. From May 11 to June 16
he will be visiting the NYU Wagner School of Public Service where among
other activities he will be discussing a partnership between the new AUP
Graduate School of Government and NYU Wagner. The Graduate School of
Government will be co-hosting the 4th Annual Meeting of the Euro-Latin
Network Study on Integration and Trade, on October 20-21. This event is
sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and co-organized by the
CEPII (France). |
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Dan
Gunn delivered a talk organized by the "Times Literary Supplement" at the
National Portrait Gallery in London |
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April 20 Dan Gunn delivered a talk organized by the Times Literary
Supplement at the National Portrait Gallery, London, to commemorate
the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth. The following day the TLS
published, as its cover piece, Dan Gunn's article on Beckett's letters,
entitled "Until the gag is chewed". |
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CIRCLE
(Cultural Information and Research Centres in Europe) has just published
a volume co-edited by Yudhishthir Raj Isar
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 Yudhishthir
Raj Isar has co-edited (with Dorota Ilczuk) a volume entitled
Metropolises of Europe: Diversity in Urban Cultural Life which has
just been published in Warsaw, Poland, by CIRCLE (Cultural Information
and Research Centres in Europe) and was based on a research project he
co-designed. On April 22, in Istanbul, he chaired a session on ‘World
Culture Events’ held during the conference of the Informal European
Theatre Meeting (IETM) in the context of Culture Forum Istanbul :
‘Margins of Europe’, a gathering co-organized by IETM and the
European Cultural Association of Turkey. On April 28 he took part in a
panel on the role of foundations and civil society held at a conference
entitled “Europe for Intercultural Dialogue” organized by the Ministry
of Culture of Spain. |
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Oleg
Kobtzeff debated French politics on the evening news of RTR (Russian
Federal TV channel 2) |
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 Oleg
Kobtzeff appeared on the March 28 evening news of RTR (Russian federal
TV channel 2). From Paris, he debated French politics with the anchorman
and a Russian political analyst in the network’s studio in Moscow. |
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Lissa
Lincoln will participate in a public debate on Albert Camus at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France |
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 Lissa
Lincoln will participate in a public debate on Albert Camus held at the
Bibliothèque Nationale de France on May 4 along with Camus scholars
Jean-Yves Guerin, Jean Daniel, Jean-Pierre Rey, and Denis Salas. |
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"International Political Economy" published an essay by
Terence Murphy |
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Terence Murphy's essay "The Springtime of the People: France once
again," appeared in International Political Economy, Special
Report, March 31, 2006. |
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David
Pike attended the World War II conference held at the Deutsches
Historisches Institut |
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 David
Pike attended the World War II conference “Erfahrung und Erinnerung”
held at the Deutsches Historisches Institut on April 3-4 and spoke on
two topics: “The British Home Front in 1940,” and “Atrocities by French
colonial troops against Italian women in Italy in 1943-44.” |
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Roy
Rosenstein contributed a commissioned essay to Teodolinda Barolini, ed.,
"Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity: Essays in Honor of Joan
M. Ferrante" |
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 Roy
Rosenstein contributed a commissioned essay entitled "Ubi Sunt?
Three Lost (and Found) Ladies in Troubadour Lyric" to Teodolinda
Barolini, ed., Medieval Constructions in Gender and Identity: Essays
in Honor of Joan M. Ferrante, Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval
and Renaissance Studies, 2005. |
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Charles Talcott presented a paper on a panel dedicated to "Derrida and
the Law" at Syracuse Law School |
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 Charles
Talcott presented a paper on postcolonial literatures and the
monolingualism of the law on a panel dedicated to "Derrida and the Law"
at Syracuse Law School for the annual conference of the Association for
the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, March 17-19. On April 22,
he participated in the fourth workshop on "Politics and Jouissance in
the Sciences" at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The
Netherlands, responding to a paper given by Dominiek Hoens. |
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Pat
Thompson has been elected vice-president of the Foreign Press
Association |
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Pat Thompson has been elected vice-president of the Foreign Press
Association (Association de la Presse Etrangère). |
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David
Tresilian reviewed "The Highly Civilised Man: Richard Burton and the
Victorian World" by Dane Kennedy |
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 David
Tresilian reviewed The Highly Civilised Man: Richard Burton and the
Victorian World by Dane Kennedy (Harvard: 2005) for Al-Ahram
(Cairo), his article appearing in Al-Ahram Weekly on April 20.
British explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821 - 1890) led the expedition
that discovered Lake Victoria in 1858, going on to translate the
Thousand and One Nights in 16 volumes between 1885 and 1888. |
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Douglas Yates published an article in "China Monitor", a publication of
the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University |
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 Douglas
Yates published an article entitled, “Policy Watch: China’s Strategic
Interests in African Oil,” in the April edition of China Monitor,
a journal published by the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch
University in Cape Town (South Africa). Yates was also interviewed
on CNBC television on April 12 concerning changes in the French youth
labor law. |
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