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Djamshid Assadi has been invited to
participate in the Washington Post’s
discussion about Iran-US dialogue on a forum
called PostGlobal (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postglobal),
moderated by David Ignatius and Fareed Zakaria
and edited by Amar Bakshi. He was also
interviewed by the Journal of Iran on
“Qu’est qu’une économie rentière islamique?"
Deutsche Welle radio (Persian section)
interviewed Professor Assadi on rent seeking
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 Dawn-Michelle
Baude's book on global communications, Get
the Message Across: The Executive Guide to
E-mail Correspondence, is just out from
Career Press. Her first e-book, Through a
Membrane / Clouds, is up from Gong Press,
at
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Bittermann gave the opening address at the
Indiana State University speaker series at
Terre Haute, Indiana. His talk was entitled
"The DaVinci Code, and Other Mysteries of
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Caesar will attend the conference "Didactiques
et Traduction" hosted by the Centre de
Recherches Appliquées sur la Traduction et
l'Interprétation Linguistiques (CRATIL), at
the Institut Catholique in Paris, on 18
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 Jerome
Charyn's homage to basketball idol Michael
Jordan appeared in the October 14 issue of
L'Equipe magazine. The documentary on
the Empire State Building that he is writing
for Canal Plus should go into production early
next year. |
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 William
Dow has published an article on Walt Whitman,
"'Hard Work and Blood' in Whitman's Song
of Myself" in SPELL (Swiss Papers in
Language and Literature), Vol. 18.,
American Poetry: Whitman to the Present,
Eds., Robert Rehder and Patrick Vincent.
Zurich: Gunter Narr Verlag Tûbingen, 2006:
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September 29 Steven Ekovich gave a
presentation on the “United States, Europe and
Crises in the Middle East” at a conference of
the Institut International d’Etudes
Stratégiques held at the Permanent
Representation of the European Commission in
Paris. The panel included the Iraqi ambassador
to France. He chaired the panel on the role of
Europe in the Middle East. The panel included
the British ambassador to France. On October 4
he participated in an international meeting in
Geneva of the International Committee of the
Red Cross. On October 18 Professor Ekovich
analyzed the television debate of the leading
candidates of the French Socialist Party for
Radio France Internationale (RFI). On October
24-26 he gave televised conferences analyzing
the American midterm elections to political
leaders, journalists, and academics in
Namibia, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Rwanda,
Tanzania, Mali, and Tunisia. |
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Feltham presented a paper entitled "Thinking
the Local in the Global Era" with respondent
Elie During from the Ecole Normale Supérieure
in the Local Vital Legal seminar in October.
In New York, during the fall break, he gave
three papers: one on modernist theater at the
Tisch Department of Performance Studies at New
York University; one at the New School for
Social Research on materialism versus
empiricism; and a third with the Department of
Comparative Literature, also at NYU, on
changing appearances in Lacan and Badiou.
Professor Feltham has just signed a book
contract with Continuum Publishing for an
introduction to Badiou in their Live Theory
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24 and 25 November Jérôme Game will give two
papers as part of the Museum Lectures Series
of the Cultural Heritage Museum at Boðaziçi
University, Istanbul. The papers are entitled
“Performative bodies, video-images and the
text : reflections on contemporary sound- and
video-poetry from France” and “Corporeal
Cinema: the Body in Contemporary European
Film". The lectures are co-sponsored by the
Department of Western Languages and Literature
and the Master of Arts Program in European
Studies. On 29 November Professor Game is
invited by the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
de Rennes to give a public lecture on
‘Ecriture et plasticité : l’esthétique
littéraire en condition des arts visuels’. On
30 November he will speak at the ‘Formes et
normes en poésie contemporaine’ research
seminar of Université Rennes II. His paper is
entitled ‘Normes, formes et effets : d’une
eshtétique du devenir dans la poésie
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Gardner spoke at the Cicero Foundation
conference, “The Coming Enlargement with
Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia” on the subject
of “NATO, the EU, Russia and the Black Sea,”
on October 13 (http://www.cicerofoundation.org/index.php).
He was asked to contribute a commentary on
NATO peacekeeping in Afghanistan for the ISN
Security Watch "Perspectives: Insurgency in
Afghanistan" (23 October 2006)
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=16825).
His book, American Global Strategy and the
‘War on Terrorism’ (Ashgate 2005) has now
been reviewed in Choice, The National
Interest, The International Spectator,
America-Russia.Net, The Muslim News, The
Turkish Weekly, Journal of Contingencies and
Crisis Management, and The Chronicle
of Higher Education, among others
http://www.jmu.edu/nelsoninstitute/Strategic%20Horizons%20(Pham-TNI%202006)1.pdf and
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Jeff Gima attended
the ICOLC Fall 2006 Conference (International
Coalition of Library Consortia), held October
11-17 in Rome. He gave a presentation on
“AMICAL: an international consortium of
American-model universities and their
libraries,” highlighting the consortium’s
goals as well as its unique problems as an
‘American’ collaboration whose members are
drawn from 15 countries. |
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Gorissen-Van Eenige and two former AUP
Psychology majors (Veronique Desbeaumes and
Catherine Mountcastle) presented the poster "A
validation and norm study of the revised
French 'Mind in the Eyes test'" at the 2nd
Meeting of the European Societies of
Neuropsychology (www.esn2006.com)
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Grandes' paper “Convergence and Divergence of
Sovereign Bond Spreads: Theory and Facts from
Latin America” has been accepted for
publication in the Latin American Journal
of Economics (Cuadernos de Economia). AUP
President Gerardo della Paolera and Professor
Grandes foreworded the book How
Universities Promote Economic Growth, to
be published by the World Bank in December,
collecting a number of contributions based on
presentations made during the seminar
“University-Industry Linkages” hosted by the
AUP Graduate School of Government last March
27. The Working Group on Financial Stability
and Local Currency Bond Markets at the Bank
for International Settlements (BIS) will
publish a report including findings
from Professor Grandes' research conducted
jointly with Marcel Peter and published in the
IMF WP Series 217/05. Grandes discussed a
paper at the IV Annual Meeting of the Euro
Latin Study Network on Integration and Trade,
held at AUP on October 20-21 and co-hosted by
the Graduate School of Government. |
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Gunn gave the opening paper at an
international conference devoted to "Samuel
Beckett and the Thirties", held at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure, Paris, October 20-21. The
title of his paper was "Convulsive
Correspondence: Beckett's 1930s letters". |
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Harding has been appointed to the British
Academy Network Group, a research project on
the Reception of British Authors in Europe, in
association with the School of Advanced
Studies at the University of London. In a
Network seminar on Realism at Clare Hall,
Cambridge, he gave a paper on “Awkward
Realism” in two novels by Henry James. In June
he co-hosted an international conference on
“The Institution of Translation in Europe” at
the University of Aix-en-Provence and was
respondent to the plenary lecture by Wolfgang
Iser on Samuel Beckett. At the European
Society for the Study of English Conference at
Senate House, University of London, in August,
he presented two papers, one on James and
Realism, the other on Wordsworth’s “Haunted
Metre”. A revised version of the collection of
essays he co-edited with Annick Duperray,
“Nathaniel Hawthorne: Narrative and the
Ethical”, was published in May by Publibook
Editions, Paris. He also co-edited, with Max
Duperray and Joanny Moulin, the papers from an
international conference on “Discourses of
Melancholy” held at the University of
Aix-en-Provence, published in the online
review EREA in June. |
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 Jayson
Harsin's articles "Public Memories of 9/11:
Exploiting Tragedy," "Security After Katrina,"
"Paris's Nuit Blanche: Institutionalized
Psychogeography," and "Smoking Pas Chic?" were
published and syndicated by Blogcritics
e-magazine. He presented a paper "Cultural
Economy and American Discourses of Economic
Rights" and co-presented another with Waddick
Doyle, "Branding Political Subjects," at the
National Communication Association's
conference in San Antonio. He also now has a
featured monthly music column in
Blogcritics magazine called "Indie Music
Reviews for the Attention Deficient." His new
website "Parisnormale: Indie Paris News," in
conjunction with Paris music clubs and record
labels, will feature news and commentaries on
global and local indie music cultures. |
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 Raj
Isar chaired the conference ‘Islands and
Bridges: from Cultural Diversity to
Intercultural Dialogue’ organized on 5-8
October at the Cable Factory, Helsinki, by the
European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (EFAH),
with the support inter alia of the Finnish
Ministry of Education, the City of Helsinki,
the Cable Factory and TransEurope Halles. On
17-19 October, he took part in a meeting of a
‘Creative Economy Advisory Committee’
established by the UN’s Special Unit for
South-South Cooperation organized by the
United Nations and the Chinese authorities in
Shanghai, China as part of a larger gathering
entitled ‘Forum on City Informatization in the
Asia-Pacific Region’. On October 24, in
Barcelona, Spain, he took part in a meeting of
the Working Group on Culture of the
organization United Cities and Local
Governments (UCLG). |
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Kobtzeff returned once again to
France-Culture's daily talk show "Travaux
Publics" to debate Al Gore's performance in
"An Inconvenient Truth" with Parliament
environment experts Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet
(UMP) and Yves Le Déaut (Socialist).
See the show's blog. |
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Lissa Lincoln,
Charles Talcott and Oliver Feltham launched
the seminar series in Concepts & Practices in
Contemporary French Philosophy on October 24,
2006. The seminar series, Local | Vital |
Legal, is co-organized by the Critical Theory
Collective at The American University of
Paris, the Centre International d'Etude de la
Philosophie Française Contemporaine at the
Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, and Columbia
University Paris Reid Hall. The seminar
gathers together different French and Anglo-saxon
perspectives on twentieth and twenty-first
century French philosophy. Papers are
presented by specialists in contemporary
French philosophy as well as by those who are
engaged in examining the impact of French
philosophy within other domains and
disciplines: law, literature, politics, art,
and the sciences. |
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Marie-Christine
Navarro has been invited by the University of
Istanbul to participate in the International
Colloquium "Le Français, Langue des Elites en
Turquie, de l'Empire Ottoman à la Turquie
Contemporaine" which will begin on the
November 7. She will give a lecture during
this colloquium entitled "Ecrire dans la
Langue de l'Autre". The lecture will be
published in Spring 2007. |
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Nomani's co-edited book Islam and the
Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas (Routledge
2006), has been published. He also has
contributed an article on "The dilemma of riba-free
banking in Islamic public policy" in that
volume. |
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 Anne-Marie
Picard-Drillien's article "Enclave de
l'écriture: jouissance, symptôme et création"
was published in Création au féminin
(Ed. Marianne Camus, Editions Universitaires
de Dijon), where she puts to question the very
notion of "feminine writing", i.e. of a
consubstantiality between subject and
language. On October 25 she gave a paper on
Marguerite Duras and her textual approach of
trauma and madness at the Dipartimento di
Romanistica of the University of Verona during
an international conference entitled: "(D)écrire,
dit-elle: éthopée et prosopographie dans
l'oeuvre de M. Duras". |
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 Rebekah
Rast presented her paper entitled “Different
from the Beginning: Two Case Studies of Early
Adult L2 Acquisition” at the international
conference on Research on Second and Foreign
Language Acquisition and Teaching, hosted by
La Sorbonne Nouvelle, 6-8 September, Paris.
She also presented her most recent work in the
form of a poster, “Theoretical Implications of
First Exposure Studies in SLA (Second Language
Acquisition)” at the 16th Annual European
Second Language Association Conference
organized by Boðaziçi University in Antalya,
Turkey, 13-16 September. |
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