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Djamchid Assadi published a peer-reviewed article, “Marketing Strategies for Building Trust” in the journal Innovative Marketing. He also participated in the first International Symposium on Economic Theory, Policy and Applications organized by Athens Institute for Education and Research (www.atiner.gr) on August 22. His paper on “The Meaning of Gifts and Grants in a Market Economy” has received positive comments. Researchers from countries such as Spain, USA, Maurius Island, and England have invited him to participate in seminars in their respective countries and collaborate on common papers.

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Richard Beardsworth chaired a panel on the legacy of Jacques Derrida and was a respondent to Bernard Stiegler and his work on philosophy, technology and politics at the 30th anniversary conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature in Freiburg, 5-11 June. His article ‘French Theory and Historical Modernity’ appears in Telos (Winter issue, 2006). A revised version of his “The Future of Critical Philosophy and World Politics” (Millennium: Journal of International Relations, 2005, vol 35, n° 1) will appear in Ludovic Glorieux, Indira Hasimbegovic, et al. (eds.) The Legacy of Jacques Derrida (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007).

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Jim Bittermann has been appointed to the jury for the Bayeux War Correspondents Award.  Final judging will take place in October.

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Brian Brazeau signed a contract in July with Ashgate Publishing for a book entitled Writing a New France: Empire and Identity (1604-1632).  Professor Brazeau will also be presenting a paper at the annual meeting of the Society for Interdisciplinary Seventeenth-Century French Studies at the University of Iowa in October.

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Professor Cheryl Caesar has been appointed to the board of CRATIL, the Centre de Recherches Appliquées sur la Traduction et l'Interprétation Linguistiques, an international organization supporting research on the theory and practice of translation. CRATIL holds annual colloquia, and offers further information on its website at www.isit.icp.fr/CRATIL.

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Jerome Charyn is working on a study of Marilyn Monroe for Gallimard’s Découvertes series of illustrated texts.  He has done two other books in the same series, one on the myth of New York (currently in its eighth printing), and one on Hemingway.  The books have been translated into seven languages, including Russian, Chinese, Korean, and Italian.  Yale University Press has commissioned him to do a study of Joe DiMaggio for its American Icon series.  His short story, “La Shampouineuse,” will be published in England by Serpent’s Tail in a collection of stories entitled Paris Noir; the same collection will be published in France by Gallimard.

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Waddick Doyle co-edited (with Mary Griffiths, University of Adelaide) a special edition of the academic journal Southern Review on Media and Belief.  He co-authored with Mary Griffiths the editorial article entitled "Caricature and an ‘Ethics of Discomfort’ in an Interdependent Mediated World".  The journal issue is made up of articles derived from papers given at the Media and Belief in an Interdependent World conference held at The American University of Paris in March 2005.

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On May 26 Steven Ekovich gave a talk on French welfare policy to a delegation from the University of South Carolina. On May 31 he gave a talk at the Foreign Press Association of London on U.S. policy in the Persian Gulf.  On June 12 Professor Ekovich discussed President Bush’s summit at Camp David for French international radio RFI.  On July 3 he commented on U.S. policy in Iraq for French Radio. On August 29 he commented on French and European politics for CNBC.

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In early July Oliver Feltham gave a paper in Tunisia on the emergence of new communicative apparatuses during the French Revolution. Later that month he spoke at the Melbourne book launch of his translation of Alain Badiou's Being and Event. He also gave two seminars, one on modernist theatre to the Deakin University Psychoanalytic Studies Research Seminar, and the other on materialism versus empiricism to the University of Melbourne Being and Event Reading Group. He is currently writing a paper on changing appearances in Lacan and Badiou.

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Professor Game was invited by France Culture to give an interview on contemporary French poetry for the program “Les Mardi littéraires” which was broadcast on 11 July 2006. The interview focused on experimental poetry and addressed issues of avant-gardist literary practices in France. His article, "Texte/Image, ou l’hybridation à l’œuvre chez Denis Roche", is to be published in Denis Roche, J'ecris, donc je photographie (Luigi Magno, ed.), ENS Editions, Lyon. His article, "La répétition différentiante dans la poétique deleuzienne : temporalité, bégaiement, ritournelle", will come out in Deleuze et les écrivains (H. Micolet , ed.), Lyon. 

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Hall Gardner’s article, “The Case for Direct US Engagement with North Korea,” was published in June 2006 by the Cicero Foundation: http://www.cicerofoundation.org/pdf/lecture_Gardner_US_NorthKorea.pdf. It has been listed by PolicyPointers.org website, a research organization which selects “policy research from leading think tanks worldwide.” http://www.policypointers.org/page_3982.html   On June 16, he spoke on the topic, “US Policy on ‘Illegal’ Immigration: Toward a Political ‘Showdown’” at the Cicero Foundation conference, “Integrating Migrants in Europe: Comparing the Different National Approaches” in Paris.  He published one review essay, “The Concept of ‘Interest’” and one book review,  “Making Globalization Good,” in The European Legacy (Haifa), vol. 11, no. 4 July 2006.  Hall spoke at the conference: “L’Iran, la technologie nucléaire et l’enjeux de sécurité au Moyen Orient” organized by the Institut Européen de Recherches Stratégiques sur L’Iran, held in Paris on 26 June. The conference discussion was then published in “Nucléaire iranien: le dernier recours?” Journal d’Iran, No. 8 (July-August 2006).  He likewise spoke on “Island Disputes” at a London seminar on disputes between Iran and the United Arab Emirates, organized by the Institut International d’Etudes Stratégiques, held at the Foreign Press Club on May 31.  He was interviewed for the article, “Back to the USSR,” by Michael Petrou, a journalist of one of Canada’s leading magazines, MacCleans, published May 23, 2006.

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Marielle Gorissen-van Eenige co-edited the book Neuropsychological assessment: the clinical practice. The Dutch edition Neuropsychologische Diagnostiek: de klinische praktijk (Hendriks, M., Kessels, R., Gorissen, M. & Schmand, B., Eds.) will be published in September by Boom: Amsterdam http://www.boomsun.nl/catalogus/index.html . The book is the first Dutch handbook on neuropsychological assessment and describes the principles of the assessment process and the application in different settings and clinical populations. Marielle contributed a chapter on measuring mental effort and a chapter on neuropsychological assessment in psychiatry. In addition, she co-authored the six chapters of the first part of the book.

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Martin Grandes has been part of the program committee of the 2006 Annual Meeting of LACEA. This year the meeting will be hosted by ITAM, Mexico DF. He has also been invited to organize a special session on “emerging corporate bond markets” jointly with the Bank for International Settlements.  His paper “ The Cost of Equity in Latin America” has been accepted for presentation at the LACEA 2006 conference. This paper has been published in the Center for Financial Stability of Argentina Working Paper Series and is currently under review in an academic journal.  From May 11-June 7 he visited the NYU Wagner School of Public Service where among other activities he discussed a full-fledged partnership between the new AUP Graduate School of Government and NYU Wagner, including a joint MPA in Public Policy and research projects.  On May 25-26, he was invited to attend the presentations of the “Innovations in American Government Awards program” held at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, and sponsored by the Ford Foundation.  On September 6-9 he attended the annual meeting of the European Group of Public Administration hosted by Universita Bocconi in Milano on the topic “Public Managers under Pressure between Politics, Professionalism and Civil Society.”  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). Professor Grandes will discuss a paper to be presented in a session on economic policy dimensions of integration and trade. Other AUP faculty are expected to join in.

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Jayson Harsin's essay "The Rumor Bomb: American Mediated Politics as Pure War" was just published in the latest issue of Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture; his essay “You’re next Frenchy! An Episode in the Refeudalized American Public Sphere” will appear next month in the publication of La France dans le regard des Etats-Unis, ed. Frédéric Monneyrand. Perpignan/Montpellier : Presses Universitaires de Perpignan/Publications de l'Université Paul Valéry (forthcoming Fall 2006); his review essay on the film "An Inconvenient Truth" was published in the August/September issue of Bright Lights Film Journal; his review of the film "Paris, Je T'aime" was published in the September issue of Bad Subjects; and his editorial "Security After Katrina: One Year Later" was published on Blogcritics. He presented a paper co-written with Waddick Doyle on politics and branding at the Association for Cultural Studies conference in Istanbul, Turkey, July 24.

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar published two articles:  ‘Una “deontologia intercultural”: utopia o realismo utopico?", in S. Bodo e M. R. Cifarelli, eds., Quando la cultura fa la differenza. Patrimonio, arti e media nella società multiculturale, Rome: Meltemi;  and ‘Cultural Diversity’, which appeared in a Special Issue of Theory, Culture and Society (Volume 23, Numbers 2-3 March-May 2006), devoted to the topic ‘Problematizing Global Knowledge’.  On June 7, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, he also spoke on the subject of ‘cultural diversity’, focusing on the recently adopted UNESCO Convention, at the Third Central Asian Theatre Forum organized by the Informal European Theatre Meetings (IETM) and the Central Asian Network for the Arts and Culture, with the support of the Open Society Institute, Hivos and UNESCO.  On July 1-2 in Lyon, he took part in the conference Religions et mondialisation:  désordre ou harmonie? organized by the Institut Aspen France.  He was a plenary session panelist in both the 2006 Social Theory, Politics and the Arts ( STP & A) conference held in Vienna on July 9-11 as well as at the Fourth International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (iccpr 06), July 12 -14.  On 7-8 September he took part, as an invited expert, in the conference Intercultural dialogue and inter-religious relations (International Volga Forum) organized in Nizhniy Novogorod, Russia, by the Council of Europe together with the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation and the Inter-Religious Council of Russia.

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Oleg Kobtzeff has been appointed as one of the two vice-chairs of the steering committee of the forthcoming 2008 international conference on "Borders and Frontiers" organized by the Centre de Recherches sur les Identités Nationales et l'Interculturalité at the Université de Nantes.

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Lissa Lincoln contributed an article to the book Fresh Théorie 2, a collection of works in the domain of French critical theory and aesthetics, entitled "Joel-Peter Witkin: la photographie d'entre les morts", which will be published in late October with Leo Scherer editions.

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Linda Martz gave a paper at the Women's History Network regional conference "Single Women 1000-2000" held at the University of Bristol in June. The paper used unpublished autographical material to chart how a group of single British women at the end of the 19th century used newly-created opportunities for religious service to form a network for public activism in the suffrage movement and the folk music revival.

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Ann Mott presented her paper, "Writer’s Anxiety:  Turning Writing Block into Building Blocks", at the annual International Writing Center Association Conference at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, June 24–27.  As an executive board member of IWCA, Ann also moderated several presentations and gave the final speech.

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An article co-authored by Sally Murray (Database Librarian), “User Satisfaction Survey and Usage of an Electronic Desktop Document Delivery Service at an Academic Medical Library,” will be presented by co-author Ellen Sayed at Mednet 2006: 11th World Congress on Internet in Medicine (Toronto, 14-19 October 2006). Originally published in Medical Reference Services Quarterly 22, no. 4 (Winter 2003), the article was based on work done by Murray at the Biomedical Library of the University of South Alabama.

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In September, librarians Sally Murray and David Horn both attended the European Endeavor Users Group meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. Endeavor’s Voyager is the main system used by AUP for managing the Library’s collection and its use; the Users Group is a forum for exchange of ideas on how best to implement and use this system for the benefit of library staff and, ultimately, library users. Murray is the country representative for France and will be the vice-chair of the group for the next two years.

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Farhad Nomani's co-authored book Class and Labor in Iran: Did the Revolution Matter is published in hard and paper covers by Syracuse University Press.  His co-authored paper on "Peasantization and Proletarianization of Iranian Agriculture" was presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies, London, on 3 August 2006.

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At the height of the North Korean missile launch crisis this past summer, Susan Perry gave a lengthy interview on BBC World News focusing on China’s political and economic influence in East Asia, its strategic options, and its influence vis à vis Pyongyang.

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Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien's paper, "Lol V. Stein ou comment représenter l'absence", has been selected for the University of Verona's Colloquium for the Xth Anniversary Commemoration of M. Duras's death, entitled: "(D)écrire, dit-elle : éthopée et prosopographie dans l'oeuvre de Marguerite Duras". The international colloquium will be held on October 26-28 in Verona. Her article "Marie Redonnet... au nom du symbolique" (trans. in Italian by Cinzia Crozali) has been accepted for publication in the next issue of the literary journal Trasperenze (University of Genoa)