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Djamchid Assadi is a member of the Editorial Board of Innovative Marketing (a peer-reviewed journal) since May 2007 and that of EurOrient (sponsored by the Centre National du Livre) since March 2007.  He was invited by the Institut Européen de Recherche Stratégique sur l'Iran for a conference on the “Impacts of Economic Sanction on Iran” on May 15.
 

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Petermichael von Bawey was invited to present his essay "History as Prologue: A German Discourse" at the 31st IMISE Conference from 2 to 8 July 2007 in Naples, Italy. He will also chair the workshop "History and Law" and participate in the debates of the conference.

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Cheryl Caesar has been asked to contribute an article on chronotopes and culture studies to the Mitteilungen für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer (MDÜ), a Dresden-based journal for translators and interpreters.

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Steven Ekovich published “Les ONG et la politique étrangère des États-Unis” in Géostratégiques (N° 16 – Mai 2007). He has also appeared frequently on French and American radio and television to comment on French and American politics.
 

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On May 15, Jérôme Game was the respondent to a paper entitled "Une pratique comique du droit est-elle possible?" given by Laurent de Sutter, of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, at the seventh seminar in the Concepts and Practices in Contemporary French Philosophy series of the Regards Croisés / Joint Seminar 2006-2007 Local | Vital | Legal, which took place at Columbia University Paris Reid Hall. The paper, as well as Professor Game's response, dealt with Gilles Deleuze's conceptions of law and literature.

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Hall Gardner latest paper, Toward “Regional Security Communities”: NATO, the UN, and the 1948 Vandenberg Resolution has just been published as a  CIVITATIS PAPER by Civitatis International – Researchers Without Borders, a global governance think-tank and political conference consultancy (http://www.civitatis.org/papers.htm). He was interviewed by BBC World Radio and VOA-China on the potential foreign policy of President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy. He has been invited to speak at the World Russia Forum on May 14-15 in Washington, DC.  His paperback, American Global Strategy and the ”War on Terrorism” is featured on Ashgate’s Politics & International Relations homepage: http://www.ashgate.com/subject_area/politics/politics_intro.htm

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On May 7-8 Martin Grandes visited Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the University of Twente to discuss potential academic cooperation and student exchange. At the University of Twente, he also met with Dr. Theo van der Krogt secretary and treasurer of the European Association for Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA) to discuss the MPA accreditation process. The GSG is a full member of EAPAA. Professor Grandes has been invited to be member of the Academic Committee for the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) 2007 that will take place in Bogotá, Colombia, on October 4-6.

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar’s co-edited book Conflicts and Tensions, the first volume in the new Cultures and Globalization Series (SAGE Publications) had a second launch at the London School of Economics on May 22, at an evening event chaired by Professor Lord Anthony Giddens (one of the contributors). Isar and co-editor Helmut Anheier, Director of the Center for Civil Society at UCLA, first presented the project.  Other speakers were Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance and Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance at LSE and Henrietta Moore, Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Culture and Globalization Programme, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE.  A chapter by Isar entitled ‘Reflections of a “Peripheral Insider”. Convictions and Dissonances’ has appeared in Ramadan, Khaled D. (ed) Peripheral Insider. Perspectives on Contemporary Internationalism in Visual Culture, Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2007.

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In June, Christian Joppke (Graduate School of Government) will be giving lectures and papers at Hansung University (Seoul), Hebrew University (Jerusalem), University of Bristol, Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin), the Cicero Foundation (Paris), and in Braga (Portugal).

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Oleg Kobtzeff has appeared on numerous electronic magazines and newsletters in France and one in Bulgaria reporting the annual Easter get-together he has been organizing for several years for international students in Paris.
 

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Lissa Lincoln has been invited to participate in a two-day workshop around the theme of “guilt” at the School of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London, on June 16th and 17th. The workshop consists of a small number of people from different disciplines – law, sociology, literary criticism, theology, politics, psychology and anthropology- who will discuss the notion of guilt within an interdisciplinary context.

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Linda Martz's co-authored textbook for French students of "études anglophones," imaginatively entitled Fiches de Civilisation britannique et américaine, is selling sufficiently well that Editions Ellipses is preparing an all-French edition, to be released some time this year.

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Terence Murphy published a third essay on the French presidential elections, "The Coming Struggle in France: The Victory of the Right and the Emergence of Social Democracy on the Left," on 8 May 2007 in International Political Economy. On 10 May, he participated in a debate on the consequences of the French presidential elections at New York University, France.

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Farhad Nomani’s co-authored book, Class and Labor in Iran, was reviewed in the Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 60, no 2.  This book was also part of the reading list of a course on Econ 344, Economies of the Middle East, at Michigan University, Dearborn.

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On the initiative of Professor Lynn Staley, Harrington and Shirley Drake Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University, Professor Robert Epstein of the Department of English of Fairfield University in Connecticut has addressed a report to Professor Marc Pelen for a scholarly contribution of article length in Middle English Studies to a Festschrift to be published in honor of the retirement of Dr. John V. Fleming, Louis W. Fairchild Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University.  The Festschrift is scheduled to appear in July 2009.

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David Pike has completed his new book Franco and the Axis Stigma, which is now with his publisher Routledge. On 7-11 July he will attend the Mediterranean XXVIII Conference at Castellammare di Stabia and present his paper, “Operation Bodden, 1940: a joint German-Spanish enterprise to seal the Mediterranean in World War II.”
 

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Claudia Roda will present the paper she co-authored with T. Nabeth (Insead), "Supporting Attention in Learning Environments: Attention Support Services, and Information Management" at the Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2007). EC-TEL is a new, very selective conference; only 20% of the submitted papers were accepted for presentation.

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Georgi Stojanov has been invited to give a tutorial on Cognitive Robotics within the Summer School in Cognitive Science, Sofia, Bulgaria, July 9-28, 2007. The tutorial will be given with Bipin Indurkhya from the National Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. Please see: http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/ss2007.html

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Professor Bob Swaim's documentary, '"Lumières Noires" had its television premier on France 2 on May 10.  The award winning documentary has been selected as one of the top ten documentary films of 2006 and is currently in competition at the Monte Carlo Television Festival for The International URTI Grand Prix for Author's Documentaries Awarded by the International Radio and Television University. The International Grand Prix for Author's Documentaries rewards excellence in television productions which deal with current social problems, and in the fields of art and culture.

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Mia Vieyra was invited to be on two panel discussions: one at the Lycée International, American Section, in St. Germain en Laye, on Stress and Stress Management in Adolescents, and the other sponsored by AAWE and Message on Preparing Your Child for College.

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Douglas Yates has been invited by Cheju National University, with the support of the South Korea provincial government of Jeju island, to present a two-day seminar on European perspectives of Asian peace culture initiatives on 26-27 July.  Professor Yates was also invited on May 7 to speak on CNBC Europe about the implications of the election of Nicolas Sarkozy for French foreign relations.

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