Sharam Alijani presented a paper entitled "Value Creation and Trust: Review, Implications, and Propositions for the Firm and Its Employees" at the 7th Global Conference on Business and Economics which was held in Rome, Italy, on October 13-14, 2007. The GCBE is organized annually by the Association for Business and Economics Research (ABER) which also publishes the International Journal of Business & Economics. More information about Professor Alijani's paper is available in the Conference Proceedings and on the GCBE Web site.

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Richard Beardsworth’s article ‘Tragedy, World Politics, and Ethical Community’ is to be published in the Journal of International Relations (March 2008). A revised version is to be included in Toni Erskine and Richard Ned Lebow’s edited volume: Tragedy and International Politics (forthcoming). Richard Beardsworth presented in October at the 'Atelier en Psychanalyse et Sciences Humaines' on Philosophy, International Politics and Psychoanalysis (AUP/London University) and at CERI, Sciences Po, in the debate on 'Cultures et mondialisation: conflits et tensions' (organized around Raj Isar and Helmut Anheier's volume on culture and globalization).

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Jim Bittermann delivered the keynote address for the 50th Anniversary celebrations at the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.

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The documentary film "Meantime", a segment of which was written and directed by Alice Craven, won the Broken Lines Feature at the Thin Line Film Festival in Texas.

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Hall Gardner's seminar paper, “Toward Confederal World Democracy or a Retreat to History” (a critique of ‘End of History’ theosophy), written for The World Political Forum's International Seminar, A New World Political Architecture, held at Bosco Marengo, 27-28 October 2006, was published by the World Political Forum: http://www.theworldpoliticalforum.org/b1.php?id=35.  The full text of the Workshop II debate, in which Gardner participated, "Security for States and Citizens: By What Means? At What Price?" was likewise published on the same Web site. His article "La question des ventes d'armes à Taiwan" was published in Géostratégiques No. 17 (Septembre, 2007). On October 9, Hall Gardner spoke on his forthcoming book, Averting Global War: Regional Challenges, Overextension and Options for American Strategy (Palgrave-New York, November 2007) at the Political Pub.

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Librarian Jeff Gima presented a paper at the 73rd IFLA World Library and Information Congress, held in Durban, South Africa, 19-23 August. Entitled "The OCLC-AMICAL RESPOND project: leveraging WorldCat to connect international American universities," his paper described the benefits and unusual challenges of organizing a networked resource sharing project in the diverse and international context of our consortium, AMICAL. His article was selected as an outstanding paper by IFLA's Document Delivery and Resource Sharing Section. See: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla73/papers/096-Gima_Smith-en.pdf

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Jayson Harsin gave an invited talk on rumor and political branding at Cornell University’s workshop on “Diffusion and Contentious Knowledge and Politics” on November 11 in Ithaca, New York.

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar was invited to the Göteborg Book Fair by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) to present his co-edited volume Conflicts and Tensions, the first in the Cultures and Globalization Series (SAGE) and was interviewed there on September 27 by Ola Larsmo, a leading columnist for the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.  On October 18, he presented the volume at a debate co-organized by AUP and Sciences Po’s Centre d’études des relations internationales (CERI).  President della Paolera inaugurated and took part in the debate, chaired by Christophe Jaffrelot, the Director of CERI, and AUP was also represented by Professors Richard Beardsworth and Waddick Doyle, who presented papers. On October 25, Isar spoke at a roundtable discussion organized at the Goethe Institut of Los Angeles on the topic ‘Culture and Conflict:  The Impact of Hollywood’, co-organized by the Goethe Institut, UCLA, and the German Academic Exchange Service.

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Christian Joppke published a policy brief on “civic integration courses” for the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI).

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Oleg Kobtzeff was on France 24 for nearly one hour to comment on the talks between Presidents Sarkozy and Putin in Moscow.

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Lissa Lincoln has been invited to contribute an article to a special edition of “Les Temps Modernes” dedicated to Albert Camus and the question of morality.

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Justin McGuinness travelled to Marseille to participate in Lire en Fête (20-21 October), an annual literary event cum book fair held across the Francophone world. At a roundtable focusing on the Mediterranean city, he presented Tunis 1800-1950, portrait urbain et architectural, a book co-authored with heritage specialist Zoubeir Mouhli. Also presenting their books were novelists and journalists from Istanbul and Tunis.

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Farhad Nomani's co-authored book Class and Labor in Iran: Did the Revolution Matter? is reviewed in International Journal of Social Forces, vol. 86, 2007.

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Robert Ogle participated in a group show "American Artists In Paris" at the Honfleur Gallery in Washington, D.C. where he exhibited new photographs from his series "The Production of Capital Space".

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Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien organized a two-day workshop on Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences with Naomi Segal of the Institute of Romance & Germanic Studies of the University of London. Marie Darrieussecq gave a very moving reading of her latest book Tom est mort on October 11; Monique Schneider (psychoanalyst and CNRS Director of Research), Anne-Marie Bourelly (psychoanalyst), Janine Altounian (co-translator of Freud's Complete Works in French, author of several books on translation), Danièle Lévy (philosopher and psychoanalyst), and Richard Beardsworth (professor at AUP) gave papers on psychoanalysis and literature, politics and philosophy. Professor Picard-Drillien gave a paper entitled: "Le Corps lisant: lecture et psychanalyse" which introduces the epistemological paradigm of her work in progress, a psychoanalytical theory of reading and writing. The workshops were very well attended by psychoanalysts, colleagues, and students from French universities and AUP, and have placed AUP on the map of international research centres in psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences.

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Rebekah Rast and Edith Taïeb, with the Center for Language Research and Teaching faculty, organized and hosted an international French-English bilingual conference in October entitled Language Learning and Teaching in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts / Apprendre et enseigner une langue dans un contexte multiculturel et multilingue. They welcomed 17 speakers from Europe, North America, and Asia.

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Dean Celeste Schenck and Librarian Jeff Gima helped organize the 4th annual meeting and conference of AMICAL, the American International Consortium of Academic Libraries. Information Systems Analyst David Horn and ITS Director Ali Rahimi also attended and contributed to presentations and discussions. Held 27-30 May at Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, the conference focused on three kinds of intra- and inter-institutional collaboration: technology-enhanced learning environments, academic integrity, and networks for sharing resources and professional expertise. The conference was closed with a full-day workshop from NITLE on applications of information technology to higher education.

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Charles Talcott was invited as a plenary speaker at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, Korea as part of Cambridge University Press Korea's 7th annual conference on October 20, 2007. He also gave talks, led workshops and met with researchers and faculty at several other institutions, including IGSE Seoul, the International Graduate School of English, Yeungnam University in Daegu, and Chung-Ang University in Anseong.

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Pat Thompson participated in a panel discussion on "New Developments and Directions in the Media Business" during the 50th Anniversary celebrations at the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.

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George Wanklyn was interviewed by a BBC Four television crew in September in conjunction with a four-part TV series on sacred music and various European locales connected with its composition and performance.  One of the locales chosen for the series is Paris.  The interview, conducted on site, considered the construction of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, and Paris in the 12th and 13th centuries.  The TV series is scheduled for airing in the spring of 2008, around Eastertime.

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On October 19, Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier presented a paper entitled "La performance à Fontainebleau" at the Journée de la Performance held at New York University in France. The organizers Henriette Goldwyn and Timmie Vitz (NYU, French Department) brought together scholars and performers, including actors, fencers, and a counter-tenor from the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

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On October 15 Douglas Yates was consulted by the African Sovereign Ratings team for Standard and Poor’s, which rates 16 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, to evaluate political stability and regime change in Gabon, Congo, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Sao Tome e Principe. Professor Yates has been invited to present a paper on “Human Rights and the Oil Industry in Africa” at an Indian Political Science Association conference to be held from January 12-15, 2008 at the University of Rajasthan, in Jaipur (India).

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