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Djamchid Assadi has been interviewed by the head of the Foreign News Department of Pravda Daily, the Slovak Republic’s national daily, on the Iranian nuclear crisis.  The English draft of this interview can be requested at: assadi@aup.edu.  He has also published an article entitled “Les restaurateurs face à l’obésité des enfants” in the reference journal of the profession, L’hôtellerie restauration.

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Dawn Michelle Baude recently returned from a six-month Senior Fulbright Award to Egypt. She has received a second grant from the Embassy of the United States of America in Egypt to complete an Egyptian poetry translation project. She has new poems out in Verse, Van Gogh's Ear and First Intensity.

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Jim Bittermann interviewed President Jacques Chirac at the Elysée Palace on the eve of the French President's trip to New York for the U.N. General Assembly sessions. Chirac described French foreign policy regarding the U.S., Iran, Lebanon, and Syria and said that he still has not yet made up his mind whether he will run for re-election in 2007.

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Janine Brimbal has been invited to Dublin to lecture at the Dublin Institute of Technology on French Social Policy and the Creative Arts in Social Care in October.
 

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Jerome Charyn had a full-page article published in the October 1, 2006 issue of the Journal de Dimanche, a chronicle of his recent visits to all of Hemingway’s sites in Paris.

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Alice Craven participated in the New Directions in the Humanities conference in Tunis and gave a presentation to the conference participants on the role of the Humanities at The American University of Paris.

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Steven Ekovich spoke on American strategic options vis-à-vis Iran 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 presentation and discussion were published in “Nucléaire iranien: le dernier recours?” Journal d’Iran, No. 8 (July-August 2006).  He also analyzed the five years since 9/11 for French radio station BFM on September 15.

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Oliver Feltham is giving a seminar on "Changing Appearances in Badiou and Lacan" in New York on October 3 at the SUNY Buffalo Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, directed by Professor Joan Copjec. On October 24 he is delivering a paper in the first of the 2006/7 "Regards Croisés" seminars co-organized by the Critical Theory Collective (AUP) and the Centre Internationale d'Etudes de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine (Ecole Normale Supérieure), on locality in reference to the November 2005 riots.

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Jérôme Game's article on the aesthetics of poetic performance, "Quand je vais lire", was published in Henri Ronse (ed.), Quand l’écrit prend langue, Al Dante, Paris, 2006, pp. 25-33.

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On 29 September Jérôme Game and Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien launched the AUP Humanities Transdisciplinary Research Seminar Program in the Arts / Philosophy / Psychoanalysis entitled Between Symptom and Pharmakon: Culture on the verge of a nervous breakdown. On that occasion, they received psychoanalyst and theorist Charles Melman in Bosquet's Grand Salon. Dr. Melman delivered a paper discussing his book, L'Homme sans gravité : jouir à tout prix. During the course of the 2006-2007 academic year the Seminar will receive five scholars. For complete details:  http://www.aup.fr/news/special_events/transdisciplinary_program.htm

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Hall Gardner has been invited to speak at the World Political Forum on October 27-October 28. He will be speaking on the subject “Toward Confederal World Democracy--- or a Retreat to History.”  See http://www.theworldpoliticalforum.org/d1.php?archivio=2006 and http://www.theworldpoliticalforum.org/b1.php?id=9

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Geoff Gilbert and Dan Gunn helped to organise AUP’s participation in, and sponsorship of, the literary festival hosted by the Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Company (in association with the Mairie of the 5th arrondissement). Respectively, they introduced the writers Barry Lopez and Tim Parks at the festival, Travel in Words, which was devoted to travel writing.

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Marielle Gorissen-van Eenige was invited by Association Asperger Aide to lead a debate on high functioning autism and Asperger syndrome. The debate was held after presentation of the film “Autimatiquement: l'Autisme en 61233 images” in Paris on September 22.  http://www.aspergeraide.com/content/view/6/35/lang,fr/

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Dan Gunn published two reviews in the Times Literary Supplement: "A Blacker Magic", reviewing Louise Welsh’s novel The Bullet Trick; and "Scottish Samurai", reviewing Alan Spence's "The Pure Land" (July 7 and August 1).

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar was a keynote speaker and session moderator at the European Regional Conference of the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA) held in Budapest, Hungary, on 22-23 September.  On September 28, at the ‘University of Ideas’ residency program for artists organized by the Cittadellarte–Fondazione Pistoletto, at Biella, Italy, he conducted a four-hour seminar on the topic ‘culturalism, cultural  identities and cultural politics in multicultural societies.’

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Lissa Lincoln will deliver an invited paper at the upcoming conference "Droit et Littérature XVII-XX siècles", organized by the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice and the Ecole nationale de la magistrature, which will take place at the Cour de cassation in Paris on October 13-14. Her paper will discuss the problematic relationship between justice and judgement, drawing from the work of Albert Camus.  Please see:  www.courdecassation.fr/IMG/File/pdf_2006/13_oct_droit_et_litterature/programme_13-14_10_2006.pdf

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Richard Pevear’s translation of The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas, with introduction and notes, was published in the autumn by Penguin Books, New York and London.  He has also completed his translation, with Larissa Volokhonsky, of Tolstoy's War and Peace, which will be published by A. A. Knopf and Everyman's Library, New York and London, in the autumn of 2007.  Together with Larissa Volokhonsky, he received the first Efim Etkind Translation Prize, awarded by the European University, St. Petersburg, on June 28, 2006, for their translation of The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.  He and Larissa Volokhonsky participated in an international conference on "Tolstoy in Translation" at Yasnaya Polyana (Tolstoy's family estate, now a museum and conference center), August 16-18, 2006.

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Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien gave a paper entitled "La Folie faite femme ou comment incarner l'irreprésentable" at the annual congress of the Association des Etudes françaises et Francophone d'Irlande, which was held on September 22-23 at the Centre culturel irlandais in Paris.

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David Pike has received a travel-and-research grant from the Charles Delmar Foundation in Washington, D.C., the third in a five-year series.  He will be working this year (periodically) in the Hemeroteca in Madrid on Franco’s controlled press.

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Roy Rosenstein spoke on intertextual relations between Fernando de Rojas: La Celestina (Spain, 1499) and François Rabelais: Pantagruel (France, 1532) at an international Rabelais conference held at the National Library of Quebec in Montreal last month.  An earlier essay, on Aristophanes and Rabelais, was published in the Revue des études rabelaisiennes 40 (2001), 340-56.

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Charles Talcott has published an article in “Fresh Theorie 2, ‘Black Album’” with Léo Scheer éditions, October 2006.

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Pat Thompson headed the second unit production team in Paris for the upcoming adventure/comedy movie "Bob Bailey" from New Regency Films.

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George Wanklyn was invited to participate in the 2006 Summer Seminar of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  The theme was Modernist Paris.  The seminar was organized this year by Professor Suzanne Nash of the Department of French and Italian, Princeton University, and Professor Maria DiBattista of the Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University.  In July, Professor Wanklyn gave a lecture at AUP for the seminar, on “Paris and the First World War / Paris in the First World War.”  A few days later, he took a group of participants in the seminar to the buildings on the avenue Rapp, the square Rapp, and the rue Sédillot by the Art Nouveau architect Jules Lavirotte for an on-site lecture on Lavirotte and his place in Parisian Art Nouveau architecture.

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On September 19 Douglas Yates was interviewed about the French presidential campaign on CNBC television.

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