Dawn-Michelle Baude recently gave a talk, "Sensual Soundings, Responding Bodies: How Poems Resonate," at Woodland Pattern Books as part of a midwestern tour that included readings and lectures in Milwaukee and Chicago.

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Petermichael von Bawey's essay "Breaking the Law: Berlin Wall Fugitives" was published in Lo Straniero 44, 2006.  He has been invited to attend the 4th International Conference on History in Athens, Greece, 28-31 December 2006, where he will present his paper "Berlin Wall: Destruction and Preservation" to be published in the Conference proceedings.

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Jim Bittermann was interviewed and presented an award at Le Potager Extraordinaire for growing the 23rd largest pumpkin in France during 2006.  His "Wenzel Jr." weighed 114 kilograms (250.8 pounds).

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Cheryl Caesar will represent AUP's new Center for Language Teaching and Research at the seventh annual congress of IALIC (the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication) in Passau, Germany, from 1-3 December.

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Ali Fatemi was invited by BusinessWeek and Accenture to participate and represent the Graduate School of Business at the European Leadership Forum 2006 in London on 22 November. This conference was attended by CEO's of major European and international firms.

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Oliver Feltham delivered a paper "On the Sea-change of Multiplicity" as part of the Logiques des Mondes conference organized by the Critical Theory Collective at AUP and CIEFPC at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He has just signed a contract to write a monograph on Alain Badiou's philosophy for Continuum Books Live Theory Series.

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Barbara Fliess spoke on the role of host-country trade barriers at a conference on Removing Barriers to SME Access to International Markets organized jointly by APEC and OECD in Athens on 6-8 November. Subsequently she was quoted in an article of La Tribune covering this event. In late October, she participated in the first working session in Washington, D.C. of a  multi-agency support team which is providing substantive support to the work of a recently established group of eminent persons on non-tariff barrier. This group has been asked by the Secretary General of UNCTAD to make recommendations on such issues as NTB classification, data collection and quantification. She also presented a paper co-authored with other colleagues at the 2nd International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility organized by the Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany. The theme of the conference was globalization and corporate responsibility.

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Camille Hercot attended a conference entitled Didactiques et Traduction organized by the Centre de Recherche de l'ISIT at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar spoke and moderated a session at a research workshop entitled ‘Artistic explorations in artistic memory’ organized by the Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts of Leiden University on November 3-4.  On November 17-19, in Berlin, he participated in the conference entitled A Soul for Europe attended by senior European politicians, including EC President Barroso and several European Commissioners, scholars and cultural leaders.  At the Fórum Cultural Mundial (World Culture Forum), Rio de Janeiro, November 24-December 30, he took part in several events, beginning with a meeting of the International Board of the FCM.  On November 26 he spoke on the topic “Creative Economy and Globalization” at the Creative Economy for Development International Forum co-organized by the FCM and the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation of the United Nations; on November 29 he moderated a seminar on the topic “Cultures and Globalization: Conflicts and Tensions” he organized in cooperation with the FCM.  His article entitled “Sustainability Needs Cultural Learning” appeared in Museums & Social Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 2006 (‘A Culture of Sustainability’), while a chapter entitled “Tropes of the ‘Intercultural’: Multiple Perspectives” has appeared in the volume Aspects of Intercultural Dialogue. Theory. Research. Applications., Nancy Aalto and Ewald Reuter (eds.), SAXA Verlag, Cologne, 2006.

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Lissa Lincoln, Charles Talcott, and Oliver Feltham hosted a two-day international conference on November 24-25 devoted to French philosopher Alain Badiou and his latest opus, Logiques des mondes (Paris, Editions du Seuil, 2006). The conference, co-organized with philosopher David Rabouin of the CNRS and of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, emerged from a collaboration between the Critical Theory Collective and the Centre International d'Etude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine.  The first day took place at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the second at The American University of Paris. Over twenty leading contemporary philosophers and critical theorists delivered papers and responses addressing Badiou's recent work. Alain Badiou was present throughout the entire conference, concluding both days with a lively and incisive assessment of the day's proceedings.

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Linda Martz and Rebekah Rast’s new book, 8 jours pour réussir le TOEFL, was just published by Ellipses and is available in French bookstores.

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"'The Essay' Au Risque de la Pensée"  by Julia Kristeva and Marie-Christine Navarro was republished in November by Les Editions de l'Aube.

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The US State Department’s Africa Regional Services Bureau invited Susan Perry and three AUP students to participate in a series of digital conferences with African educators from 9 countries to celebrate International Education Week. David Angeles and Corinne Amany from the MAIA graduate program joined Luz Gonzales, a visiting undergraduate student from Berkeley in discussions with students, professors and civil servants from across the continent.  Susan Perry moderated these discussions and provided guidance on curricular reform initiatives for African university professors and national administrators.

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Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien's article "Marie Redonnet, in nome del simbolico" appeared in Trasparenze n° 27-28/2006 (193-212), a supplement of Quaderni di Poesia, published in Genoa by Edizioni S. M. dei Giustiniani. This special issue of the journal is devoted to new voices on the French contemporary literary scene.

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David Pike’s screenplay, a 140-minute feature entitled "The Eyes of Mauthausen" has been accepted by the KanZaman film company in Madrid, in collaboration with Warner Brothers. The film depicts the epic story of how 2,000 SS photographs were stolen, hidden and ultimately saved by the Spanish prisoners of Mauthausen (to be shown later at the Nuremberg Tribunal), and presents between fact and fiction the intimate lives of the SS who served in Nazi Germany’s only official Ausmerzungslager (death by extenuation). In casting, the producers are looking first at Alejandro Amenábar (director), Sir Ben Kingsley in the role of the SS photographer Hauptscharführer Paul Ricken, Charlize Theron or Diane Kruger as the SS secretary Elke Winter, and Jude Law as her lover, SS-Obersturmführer Hasso Müller. The first three already hold Oscars.
 

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Lawrence Pitkethly has been collaborating on a documentary film series, The March of the Living, about programmed cell death, with Jean Claude Ameisen, author of La Sculpture du Vivant, professor of Immunology at University of Paris VII and president of the ethics panel at INSERM.

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Rebekah Rast was invited to join the interdisciplinary research team Langage, Cognition et Développement, composed of faculty from various universities in France. During a recent CNRS review of the group’s research program, she presented her work on initial processing of a foreign language.

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Roy Rosenstein contributed a chapter on "The End of Insect Imagery: From Dostoyevsky to Kobo Abé via Kafka" to Eric C. Brown, ed., Insect Poetics (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006).  Reviews of the book have begun to appear in The Chronicle of Higher Education (Nov. 24, 2006) and elsewhere.

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Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier's article, "Feminising the Warrior at Francis I's Fontainebleau", has appeared in Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France. Proceedings of the Eighth Cambridge French Renaissance Colloquium 5-7 July 2003 (Philip Ford and Paul White eds., Cambridge French Colloquia, Cambridge, Clare College, 2006, pp. 23-59).  On November 29 she also gave a lecture in the Durham Early Modern Group Public Seminars series (Durham University, UK). The subject, "Female Patronage and Politics in Renaissance France" is related to her forthcoming book.

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Douglas Yates has been invited to travel to Washington, D.C. by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research to present a paper on China's oil interests in Africa (Dec. 4) in a one-day Conference on China in Africa chaired by Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. He was also interviewed by CNBC television (Nov. 9) to discuss the impact of the recent American legislative elections.

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