Jim Bittermann co-chaired a foreign policy debate between the French Ambassador to Washington, Pierre Vimont and the American Ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton.

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Alice Craven gave a paper in September at the Southern Comparative Literature Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina on the New African Poet Abd Al Malik.

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Larry Eaker published an article entitled "Limiting EU States' "Golden Shares" and Interventionist Policy – The Struggle Continues" in the Fall 2007 edition of The International Law Quarterly.

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On 11 October Jérôme Game is chairing the 'Politique et Psychanalyse' panel of the Psychanalyse et Sciences Humaines conference organized at AUP by Anne-Marie Picard and the IGRS of London University. At the end of October he will travel to the United States where he has been invited by Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to deliver research papers. At Yale, on 29 and 30 October, he will give two papers in the French Department (one on the politics of desire in Jean Eustache’s cinema and another one on his forthcoming book on contemporary poetics and Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy). At MIT he has been invited to speak on 25 October at the Fall Forum of the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art Department. His paper there will deal with Jacques Rancière's philosophy and visual culture.

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On September 19, Hall Gardner debated the issues of "Lessons of terrorism: How has the West confronted terrorism in past decades and what have those confrontations meant to the global war on terror today" on FRANCE  24: http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/talk.html  He was also interviewed on Top Story FRANCE 24 - "Iraq: Beating around the Bush?":
http://france24Public/en/archives/talk/20070914-Top-Story-iraq-beating-bush.html  On September 25 Professor Gardner appeared on FRANCE 24 to discuss the speeches of George Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy to the UN General Assembly, along with commentators from Moscow, Washington, DC, Tel Aviv, and New York City, and including AUP faculty members Steven Ekovich and Philip Golub.

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Marielle Gorissen-van Eenige published an article on the use of the “Reading-the-mind-in-the-eyes-test” in adults with autism, in the Dutch mental health journal PsychoPraxis, 9(5).

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Dan Gunn has been invited to deliver the Muriel Spark Annual Lecture in November at the National Library of Scotland (which is the chief repository of Spark’s archives). The final 1,200-page typescript of what will constitute Volume I of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, for which he is Associate Editor, was submitted, with the Beckett Estate’s approval, to Cambridge University Press, for publication in fall 2008.

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Peter Haegel published "Allemagne: Européenne mais plus sûre d'elle" as part of a dossier on European identity in: Alternatives Internationales 36 (September 2007).
http://www.alternatives-internationales.net/crise-de-l-union---les-europeens-existent-ils-_fr_art_474_31650.html

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Christian Joppke has been invited as a plenary speaker at the12th International Metropolis Conference in Melbourne (Australia), 8-12 October 2007.

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Youna Kim joined AUP as an Associate Professor of Global Communications in 2007 from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she had taught since 2004, after completing her PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of the book Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (Routledge, 2005). Her book has been reviewed in various academic journals including Media, Culture & Society, Feminist Media Studies, and Political Studies Review. Her article ‘The Body, TV Talk and Emotion: Methodological Reflections’ (2006) has been ranked in The 50 Most-Frequently Read Articles for the journal Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies. Also, she has been invited to join the International Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cultural Studies. She reviews book proposals for the publisher Routledge and serves as a referee for academic journals in the fields of media, communications, cultural and gender studies. She is now completing her second book, Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (Routledge, 2008 forthcoming), while working on another research/book project Diasporic Daughters.

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After last August's geopolitical events in the Polar regions, Oleg Kobtzeff was on France 24 debating these issues and global warming with explorer Jean-Louis Etienne and anthropologist Joëlle Robert-Lamblin, expedition team member and co-author of the legendary explorer Paul-Emile Victor. Professor Robert-Lamblin, a member of Kobtzeff's doctoral thesis jury, published a long and exclusive interview on her work for AUP's Scripta Politica Fall 2005 issue. Kobtzeff is organizing a series of two public debates in AUP’s Grand Salon on the “Geopolitics of Extreme Environments”; the first one on the 50th anniversary of Outer Space exploration and politics (October 4 at 19:00).

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Lissa Lincoln’s article "Jugement et justice dans la Chute de Camus" has been selected for publication in a collective volume Imaginer la loi: Le droit dans la littérature (ed. Antoine Garapon and Denis Salas), with Editions Michalon.

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Anne Marsella has a new novel coming out in the UK. The novel is entitled Remedy and is being published by Portobello Books. She will be giving a reading/conference in London at the French Institute alongside the French journalist, Agnès Poirier, on October 3. The novel will also be published by Feltrinelli Editore in Italy and by AST in Russia.

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Linda Martz gave a paper at a conference at Jesus College, Oxford, on religious conflict in the English-speaking world. Her paper discussed the ministries of two early 20th-century women evangelicals.

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Farhad Nomani's co-edited book, Islam and the Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas (Routledge, 2006), is now also published in paperback by the same publisher.

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Cambridge University Press has published a fully-updated second edition of Charles Talcott's best-selling language acquisition textbook, Target Score.

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Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier's book on female patronage in the French Renaissance (Patronnes et mécènes en France à la Renaissance, with the collaboration of Eugénie Pascal), has been published by the Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, with financial contributions from l'Institut universitaire de France and AUP. The volume opens with an introduction on the spaces of female patronage, followed by a collection of 24 essays. Part one focuses on female patrons and the written word: the passage from manuscript to print; the theater; female correspondence. Part two is constructed around the patronage practices of regents (Anne de France, Marguerite d'Autriche, Louise de Savoie), queens (Anne de Bretagne, Marguerite de Navarre, Eléonore d'Autriche, Catherine de Médicis), mistresses (Diane de Poitiers), and aristocratic ladies – religious (abbesses at the monastery of Fontevraud) or secular (Antoinette de Bourbon and other women of the Guise family). The 25 contributors come from universities and museums worldwide (Europe, North America, Australia).

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Jennifer Wu presented a paper at the European Trade Study Group (ETSG) in Athens in September titled "Does it Matter Where Immigrants Work? Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Sectoral Pattern of Output and Trade".  She also presented this paper on 21 September at the Association Française de Science Economique (AFSE) which was held at the Sorbonne this year.

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Douglas Yates published an introductory chapter entitled “The Resource Curse Thesis,” in volume XV of Max Liniger-Goumaz’ Guinea Ecuatorial: Bibliografía General (Geneva: Editions du Temps, 2007).

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