Richard Beardsworth gave a paper entitled "Theory and Politics: Some Present Alternatives" at the annual International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Cyprus (June) and a paper entitled "The Messianic Now: A Secular Response" at an international symposium on philosophy, politics, and religion at Lancaster University (July).

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Jim Clayson presented a plenary paper at EuroLogo2007 held in Bratislava in August entitled "Radical Bricolage: Making the Liberal Arts Coherent".  Professor Clayson is the organizing chair and host for EuroLogo2009 to be held at AUP in August 2009. UNESCO invited Jim to speak at the Third Global Forum on International Quality Assurance, Accreditation and the Recognition of Qualifications: Learners and New Higher Education Spaces: Challenges for Quality Assurance and the Recognition of Qualifications to be held in Dar es Salaam in September.

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Susan Cure attended the 10th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy, held in Seattle, May 30-June 3, 2007. Gene therapy is a highly publicized and well-funded technique which is often quite successful in animal models, though less than 100 humans have been successfully treated in clinical trials for serious diseases and only a few products have been given market authorization to date. About 1,800 scientists and clinicians attended the meeting.

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Waddick Doyle gave a plenary address at the 5th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities held at AUP in July. His paper was entitled "Unveiling Public Discourse and Islam in France".  He and Jayson Harsin also gave a paper at  the International Association of Media and Culture Research annual conference held at UNESCO in July. Their paper was entitled "Towards a Theory of Branding and Politics."
 

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Ali Fatemi has been invited to a three-day conference on "Media and Image Change" which will take place at the University of Durham, UK from September 19-21. He will deliver a paper entitled "The Media: How Honest Are They?"

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Oliver Feltham is giving a paper on Marxism and the primacy of practice in Alain Badiou's philosophy at the Society for European Philosophy's annual conference in Brighton, England. At the end of September he will give a paper at the Romanistentag conference in Vienna on the relationship between events and institutions.

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Jérôme Game has signed a contract for the publication of his book, A Poetics of Becoming: Studies in Contemporary French Literature, with Peter Lang Academic Publishers. The book will come out in 2008. His article, 'La répétition différentiante dans la poétique deleuzienne: bégaiement et ritournelle', has appeared in B. Gelas and H. Micolet (eds.), Deleuze et les écrivains: littérature et philosophie, Editions Cécile Defaut (http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article19780.php).

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On August 20, 2007, Andrea Sanke interviewed Mark Pekala, from the US Embassy, Jolyon Howorth, professor of Political Science, Hall Gardner, from AUP, and Rosemary Hollis, specialist of security issues in the Middle East on the subject of Kouchner's vision of Iraq on FRANCE 24: http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/archives/talk/20070820-debate-kouchner-iraq-france-vision.html.  Professor Gardner was interviewed, along with Steve Ekovich, by Djamchid Assadi, in a Table Ronde: Vers a Nouvelle Politique Américaine au Moyen-Orient published in Eur-Orient 24-2007.  His book American Global Strategy and the 'War on Terrorism' was reviewed in the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 14, Number 3, September 2006:  "Gardner's work serves to provoke analysis of the incentives and objectives or lack thereof according to the scholar of American foreign policy since 9/11 and strives to formulate a more coherent, and more encompassing American global strategy. An effort that by itself is a praiseworthy exercise, because it provides an alternative mode of thinking with respect to current thought. Furthermore, Gardner's analytical, erudite and detailed descriptions make American Global Strategy and the 'War on Terrorism' a publication that is well worth reading." https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?key1=&key2=&orig=results&isbn=0%207546%207094%205

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Marielle Gorissen and AUP alumna Julie Leitz ('07) presented the poster “The Use of Effort Tests in Non-native speakers: Risk for False Positives with the French WMT?” at the International Neuropsychological Society mid-year conference in Bilbao (3-7 July 2007). See  http://the-ins.org/documents/Abstracts.pdf  (page 12) and AUP’s virtual psychology lab at: http://web.mac.com/j.leitz/iWeb/Psych%20Lab/Research%20projects/Research%20projects.html

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On July 9-13, Martin Grandes visited CIDE (Mexico) where he taught a summer course on “Country Risk and Macroeconomic Policies” (http://www.cide.edu/cursosdeverano_2007_dc.htm). On July 10, he participated in a weblog with readers from “El Universal”, one of the most prestigious and best-seller newspapers in Mexico (http://foros.eluniversal.com.mx/entrevistas/w_detalle_entrevPK.pl?id_entrevista=6445&id_cat=116).  Professor Grandes contributed to “Financial Stability and Local Currency Bond Markets,” published by the Bank for International Settlements’ Committee on the Global Financial System last June (www.bis.org/publ/cgfs28.htm).  On June 7-8 he visited the Central European University in Budapest to discuss academic cooperation between their Public Policy Dept. and the GSG.

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Jeffrey Greene's latest book, Water From Stone, will be featured at the Fall 2007 Texas Book Festival.  He will also read for the launch of Be A Poet at the Writers and Teachers Cooperative in NYC.

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David Horn was invited to present a paper on his digital history project “Bazarrabusa: A Ugandan Life,” at the Institute of Languages, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, on June 14. Horn is writing a hypertext biography of Ugandan statesman, writer, educator and mountaineer Timothy Bazarrabusa (1912-1966). He maintains a research blog at http://blog.bazarrabusa.info
 

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Christian Joppke’s “State neutrality and Islamic headscarf laws in France and Germany” appeared in Theory and Society (36/4). He was an invited speaker at the 2007 Queen’s International Institute on Social Policy, Kingston (Ontario), 21-22 August.
 

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Oleg Kobtzeff's Russe: Initiation, written to support him during his pre-AUP months of unemployment, returned for a few days on Amazon’s best-selling list (dictionaries and language method section). Local Australian journalists mentioned AUP and Kobtzeff, after the latter helped them resolve the mystery of a large bone found on a beach and marked “Université de Paris”. Contacts with the Parisian museum of natural history allowed its scientists to identify a large bird tagged years earlier in the sub-Arctic regions to study migration patterns.

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Lissa Lincoln presented a paper at the Critical Legal Conference, Birkbeck College, University of London, 14-16 September 2007. Her paper discussed the figure of law in the work of Michel Foucault.

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Linda Martz gave a paper entitled "Moved to Minister: Christabel Pankhurst and Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles" at Women on the Move: Refugees, Migration and Exile, a regional conference of the Women's History Network held in June 2007 at the University of the West of England. Her paper examined how the particular migrant culture of Los Angeles during the interwar period made possible the careers of Pankhurst, former British suffragette turned Fundamentalist writer, and McPherson, the Canadian Pentecostalist evangelist.

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Dominique Mougel, Claudie Moy, Maria Nieblas et Edith Taïeb ont représenté The Center for Language Research and Teaching, le 31 mai 2007, à Saint Etienne, à un colloque organisé conjointement par l'Université Jean Monnet de Saint Etienne et la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris.  Le titre du colloque était : L'évaluation des productions complexes en FLE (Français langue étrangère) et FLS (Français langue seconde) dans l'enseignement supérieur.

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Terence Murphy published "Nicolas Sarkozy: Pragmatic Realism in the Service of France? Or a Media President on the Make?" on June 25, 2007 in International Political Economy.

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Marie-Christine Navarro has published a new essay including interviews with Julia Kristeva this last summer, called "Seule, une femme", at the Editions de l'Aube.

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Farhad Nomani participated in a session on 'authors meet the critics' for his co-authored book, Class and Labor in Iran, during the annual conference of The Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics that was held at the University of Utah.

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Susan Perry was invited to give a plenary address to the 14th International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on Learning held at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Her paper on “The Headscarf Issue: Balancing Human Rights in French High Schools” was followed by a lively debate with an audience of educators from all over the world.  Professor Perry was deeply honored to have the opportunity to meet Graca Machel, a well-known advocate for children’s rights and the wife of Nelson Mandela.

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Anne-Marie Picard Drillien gave a refereed paper entitled "Ecorcher le miroir : L'écriture, chimère du moi dans La Vagabonde de Colette", in the international colloquium, Phénoménologies de l'écriture de soi, held at the Université de Bourgogne this summer.

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David Pike’s book on the Hitler-Franco relationship received contract offers from Routledge and Macmillan; he has signed with Macmillan. His article on Ireland in the Second World War will appear in the Paris quarterly Guerres mondiales et Conflits contemporains.

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Claudia Roda is the co-organizer and co-chair with Mary Zajicek (Oxford Brookes University) of the workshop Attention Management in Ubiquitous Computing Environments (AMUCE 2007) to be held at the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Innsbruck, Austria, 16-19 September 2007. For more information see: http://ac.aup.fr/~croda/attention/Ubicomp2007/

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Anna Russakoff recently wrote a book review of Marina Vidas' The Psalter of Christina of Norway in the Collection of the Royal Library in Copenhagen (Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalanum Press, 2006) for caa.reviews, the on-line publication of the College Art Association dedicated to peer reviews of new books and exhibitions.

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Margery Arent Safir has signed a contract with the German publisher Suhrkamp Verlag for the publication of a collection of essays growing out of AUP's first annual President’s Conference for the Advancement of Scholarship.  Entitled Language, Lies, and Ethics: Storytelling in Science and Literature, the book contains essays by Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Roald Hoffmann, Mieke Baal, and Safir.  Safir is also the general editor of the collection.  Professor Safir will be a Meymandi Distinguished Visitor to the National Humanities Center for a month this fall.  She will participate in the November 8-10 conference on Autonomy Singularity Creativity, part of an on-going NHC project that focuses on “a striking convergence of scientific research and technological innovation on the oldest and most fundamental of all humanistic questions, the question of the human.” Other participants in the conference are Martha Nussbaum, Daniel Dennett, Frans de Waal, Paul Rabinow, Evelyn Fox Keller, Robert Sapolsky, Daniel Batson, Alexander Rosenberg, Michael Gazzaniga, Terrence Deacon, and Steven Pinker.

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