Dawn-Michelle Baude's review of Ellen Tellermann is out in Verse magazine. Her essay on Amelia Rosselli is forthcoming in Poetry Flash.

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Anatole Bloomfield a assisté au colloque "La maîtrise du français au service de l'entreprise" qui s'est déroulé le jeudi 6 mars à ESCP-EAP European Business School, à Paris. Ce colloque, organisé par la CCIP en partenariat avec le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication était organisé autour de la présentation de l'étude sur l'apprentissage du français dans les entreprises, étude conduite par l'Observatoire de la formation, de l'emploi et des métiers (CCIP) et de deux tables rondes successives: "Des outils pour former au français en contexte professionnel" ainsi que "La maîtrise du français, quelle valeur ajoutée pour l'entreprise?"

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Susan Cure will be attending a conference on "The ethics of human clinical gene transfer - On route to ethical recommendations for gene transfer clinical trials - A Clinigene/Consert think tank" in Geneva on April 2 and 3.

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On January 24 Steven Ekovich led a conference with elected representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on “The Role of the Opposition in a Democracy.” He published “Les États-Unis, l’Europe et les crises au Moyen-Orient” in Géostratégiques N°15 (February 2007). On March 7 he gave a talk in Paris entitled “Iran et les Etats-Unis : le verbe et l’épée” at the Institute for Strategic Research on Iran. He has been invited on French radio and television to analyze American politics and foreign policy, and has also been named a member of the editorial board of “Cahiers de la sécurité.”

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Jérôme Game's article, "L’hybridation texte/image chez Denis Roche", came out last month in Luigi Magno (ed.), Denis Roche : l’un écrit, l’autre photographie (ENS Editions). Professor Game's essay, "Je suis le défils de Shéhérazade et de Pénélope", appeared in the theoretical and creative writing journal Dé-Générations n°2, January-March 2007. On 29 March, Jérôme Game and Anne-Marie Picard received Prof. Richard Beardsworth at the Transdisciplinary Research Seminar in the Humanities–Arts/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis for a paper entitled "The Return of Religion, World Politics, and Psychoanalysis". Prof. Beardsworth's paper made use of a psychoanalytic critique of religion in order to argue for a complex resurgence of religion within a continuing problematic of modernity. Cutting across distinctions between the humanities and social sciences, the paper addressed the relations holding today between contemporary thought and political theory, religion, psychoanalysis and international politics.

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On March 7, Hall Gardner spoke on US Policy toward Iran for the conference "Iran - Etats Unis: Analyse de l'éventualité d'une frappe militaire américaine contre l'Iran" organized by L'Institut Européen de Recherches Stratégiques sur l'Iran. On March 21, he was interviewed by Voice of America on Russia-China relations. His updated book American Global Strategy and the War on Terrorism (Ashgate, 2007) is now available in paperback: https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?key1=&key2=&orig=results&isbn=0%207546%207094%205

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Jayson Harsin is now a weekly contributor to the music section of Go Go Paris, the on-line entertainment guide-magazine. His article "Health Care, Polls, and Bad News," was published last month by Blogcritics Magazine. He will be presenting a peer-reviewed paper on John Kerry and "rumor bombs" at the International Communications Conference in San Francisco next month.

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Raj Isar gave a presentation on ‘conflicts and tensions’ in relation to cultures and globalization at a seminar organized on March 20 by the Groupe d’analyses de la mondialisation of the Centre d’analyse stratégique (attached to the office of the French Prime Minister) on the topic ‘Mondialisation et diversité culturelle’. On March 21-24 he was in Montecatini Terme, Italy, co-directing a workshop entitled Mapping the Euro-Mediterranean Cultural Economy, that was part of the Eighth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, one of the departments of the European University Institute, Florence. At the workshop, attended by eleven other scholars from Canada, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Portugal, Serbia, Spain and Turkey, he also presented a paper entitled ‘The Cultural Economy:  Issues, Aporiae, Challenges.’  Professor Isar also co-edited a book that will be published this month entitled The Cultures and Globalization Series, Volume 1, Conflicts and Tensions, edited by Helmut Anheier (School of Public Affairs, UCLA) and Yudhishthir Raj Isar (AUP).  Please see US version:  http://www.aup.fr/news/posters/Isar_CG2007_FlyerUS.pdf or the UK version:  http://www.aup.fr/news/posters/Isar_CG2007_FlyerUK.pdf

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Christian Joppke recently published articles on citizenship and immigrant integration in Citizenship Studies and West European Politics. He also gave conference papers on “comparative citizenship” at Ramat Gan Law School (Tel Aviv) and on problems of Muslim integration in Europe at Middlebury College in Vermont. At the University of Kentucky at Lexington he gave a graduate seminar and a public lecture on some of his past and present research on “ethnic migration” and citizenship, respectively.

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In the beginning of February George Kazolias led a week long intensive training program for twenty Mauritanian reporters from the print press in Nouakchott on the role of the press in a democracy and election coverage. The training was organized by the US Embassy in Mauritania in coordination with the Mauritanian government commission on the press. The training came a month ahead of the first round in the country's first free presidential elections.

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Lissa Lincoln co-organized an international and interdisciplinary conference on March 29-30 with the Ecole Normale Supérieure on "Albert Camus, littérature, morale, philosophie", at which she also presented a paper entitled "Chute libre ou le déclin du jugement."

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Terence Murphy published "The French Presidential Elections 2007: New Leadership or just more Confusion?" in International Political Economy, March 2007.

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On March 6, Marie-Christine Navarro's documentary, "Who are you, foreigner?" was broadcast by France-Culture (French National Cultural Radio). She will be giving a lecture-performance of her new novel, Une femme déplacée (Ed. Fayard) on April 5, at 20:00 at the Garcia Gallery, 13, rue de Miromesnil, métro Miromesnil, 75008 Paris (lecture with actors, sculptures by Philippe Lemeur, and the exceptional participation of the Albanian violinist Tonin Tane). Professor Navarro will also be giving a lecture-performance of her novel at AUP in the Grand Salon on April 12, at 18:30 (lecture by two actors from the multicultural association "Parler en paix", sculptures by Philippe Lemeur, and the participation of violinist Tonin Tane), followed by a conference, signature, and cocktail reception.

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Farhad Nomani presented a paper on the political economy of Iran in the last decade at a conference on "Development, Economy, and Politics," jointly organized by Université Paris I, Université d'Amiens, Université Paris IX-Dauphine, Revue Tiers-Monde, Association Recherche et Régulation, and GEMDEV, in Paris, on March 23.

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Susan Perry has completed her LLM in International Human Rights Law at Oxford University, with honors.  Her dissertation on the Islamic headscarf in France received a distinction.
 

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Rebekah Rast received a research grant from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. She has also been invited to spend a month at the Institute collaborating with the Language Acquisition Group on the research project entitled "The Dynamics of Multilingual Processing."

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Claudia Roda’s and Julie Thomas’ article “Attention aware systems: Theories, applications, and research agenda” has been on the list of Science Direct Top 25 (most downloaded) articles for the journal Computers in Human Behavior in the period between January and September, 2006. Please see: http://top25.sciencedirect.com/index.php?cat_id=9&subject_area_id=7&journal_id=07475632

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Anna Russakoff recently published a book review of Christopher de Hamel's The Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2005) which appeared in The Book Collector (Winter 2006, vol. 55 no. 4). She will also participate in a roundtable at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo in May 2007 sponsored by the International Medieval Society, Paris (www.ims-paris.org) entitled: "AN, BN, and Beyond: Research Institutes in France."

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Margery Safir has been invited to spend a month in the fall at the National Humanities Center as a Distinguished Visitor. The invitation includes a grant award. She will be joining scholars such as Stephen Pinker (Harvard, work on the brain and language), Martha Nussbaum, and Evelyn Fox Keller. The NHC is currently supporting an initiative on what it means to be human, bringing together scholars in the sciences and the humanities.

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Georgi Stojanov et al’s article “Interactivism in artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent robotics” is on the list of Science Direct Top 25 (most downloaded) articles for the journal New Ideas in Psychology.  Please see:  http://top25.sciencedirect.com/index.php?cat_id=10&subject_area_id=22&journal_id=0732118X

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Charles Talcott presented a paper at Georgetown Law School for the annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities conference, March 23-24, 2007. His paper was entitled "Un-translating Law: Culture Translation and the Trope of Law in Postcolonial Fiction". On March 20, he responded to a paper given by David Saunders entitled "Outlawing Theory: Pierre Schlag and Bruno Latour on Law, not Theory" within the "Local Vital Legal" joint seminar series in Concepts and Practices in Contemporary French Philosophy.

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On March 12 James Ward guest lectured on fixed income investment management and the problems inherent in managing large balance sheets for MBA candidates of The George Washington University’s School of Business Administration. The students were on a tour of financial institutions in Paris, completing requirements for their studies of international financial markets. The tour was coordinated by Professor Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou of GWU and the lectures were hosted at Sciences Po.

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Douglas Yates was invited by the Department of Defense, Joint Information Operations Warfare Command, to speak at its China in Africa Today Seminar in San Antonio, Texas (6-7 March).  Professor Yates will be traveling to South Africa in (April 23-24) to present a paper on French humanitarian interventions and the “responsibility to protect” upon the invitation of the Center for Conflict Studies of the University of Cape Town, where he also published an article on “The Scramble for African Oil” in the most recent issue of the South African Journal of International Affairs (SAJIA).

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