Petermichael von Bawey's essay "History is Prologue: A German Debate," was published in Lo Straniero, #46, October 2007. At the invitation of the Office of Alumni Affairs, Professor von Bawey spoke to over sixty AUP alumni at the Groucho Club in London on 15 November. His presentation was on "A Cultural Excursion in Vienna: It's All In Sacher." The event was hosted by AUP alumnus Joe Dickerson '00.

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From 30 November to 2 December, Cheryl Caesar attended the eighth annual congress of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) in Györ; Hungary, where she spoke on "Crossing Boundaries: Heteroglossia and Culture Studies."

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France Television (France 2) will be adapting Jerome Charyn’s novel Blue Eyes into a 90-minute film. Charyn will co-write the teleplay with French screenwriter Michel Martens. In October il Saggiatore (Milan) published an Italian translation of Gangsters and Gold Diggers, Charyn’s history of Broadway. Il Saggiatore will also republish Professor Charyn’s ten-novel cycle about NY police commissioner Isaac Sidel.  In November Gallimard published his illustrated biography of Marilyn Monroe: Marilyn, La dernière déesse.

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Waddick Doyle was invited to speak at the conference organized on globalization and authors' rights by The International Council of Creators of Music in Warsaw on 12 September. He spoke on "Media Concentration and Authors' Rights". He was also invited to the NYU Department of Media, Culture and Communication graduate student conference in October. He presented a paper at CERI-Sciences Po on October 18 entitled "Belief Between Religion and Media: A Key Factor in Globalized Cultural Conflict" as part of the seminar to launch Anheier and Isar’s book Conflicts and Tensions: The Cultures and Globalization Series. He has also been invited to give a paper on December 3 at NYU in Florence on "Branding, Berlusconi and the Italian Political Imaginary."
 

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Steven Ekovich appears regularly on French television and radio to comment on American politics, and on American television and radio to comment on French politics.

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On 19 December, Jérôme Game will be in conversation with French philosopher Jacques Rancière in the 'Philosophie et Esthétique' Cycle of the Musée d'Art Moderne of St-Etienne. The evening is entitled : "Jacques Rancière : philosophie, politique, esthétique. Dialogue avec Jérôme Game."  It will address all the major aspects of Rancière's work, which is currently being translated into several languages and finding a very strong echo around the world. In the last twenty years, his numerous books have become a major reference in contemporary debates around the political and the esthetic. First a student of Althusser in the early 1960s he then developed his own original thought. His last book, Politique de la littérature, published in 2007, carries on the inquiry initiated in 1995 with La Mésentente on democracy as subversive instance/power, and in 2000 with Le Partage du sensible on the conditions of intelligibility of the rapport relating aesthetics to politics.
 

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Hall Gardner’s book, Averting Global War: Regional Challenges, Overextension, and Options for American Strategy (New York: Palgrave, 2007) is now published. “Averting Global War is an artful and arresting defense of the need for American policy-makers to adopt meaningful and wise strategies for handling the growing number of regional problems throughout the world. In a comprehensive manner, Hall Gardner demonstrates how violence and perhaps even wars among the major powers may result if the wrong approaches are taken to these growing challenges.” –Robert Jackson, Author of Temptations of Power: the US in Global Politics since 9/11.  “Hall Gardner zeroes in on the ‘new world disorder,’ and alerts us to the geostrategic dangers inherent in our unsettled time.” –Susan Eisenhower, Chairman Emeritus, The Eisenhower Institute.  See: http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=0230600859
 

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Jeffrey Greene's latest book Water From Stone on habitat restoration and the protection of endangered species has received recent acclaim from the Texas Observer, Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, and the New Southerner and is coming out in a split cloth reprint and paper editions, with the interest of class adoptions.

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On November 16 Dan Gunn delivered the Muriel Spark Society Annual Lecture at the National Library of Scotland (which is the chief repository of the Spark archive). The title of his talk was “Walking on Air: the Lightness of Muriel Spark”.  He published an article on the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte in the first issue of an online literary journal entitled The International Literary Quarterly. His article is entitled “‘It is the Fate of Europe to Become Naples’: Curzio Malaparte and the Plague of Benevolent Interventionism.” The article may be accessed at: http://www.interlitq.org/index.html
 

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar attended the 33rd annual Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference (STP&A), organized by the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, New York University on October 11-13, and presented a paper on the relationships between creative expression and the cultural economy in a session entitled ‘Globalization and Cultural Industries.’  He covered similar ground in Lisbon on November 1, at a seminar entitled ‘Cultural and Creative Sector – Lisbon Agenda’ organized by the Observatório das Actividades Culturais as part of the seminar program during the Portuguese presidency of the European Union. On November 8-10, in his official capacity as President of the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (EFAH), he chaired EFAH’s Annual General Meeting and Conference entitled ‘INSIDE-OUT Re-imagining Cultural Action in Europe’ held at the Fabryka Trzciny, Warsaw, Poland. On November 22 he gave a keynote presentation entitled ‘Figures of the Intercultural’ at the seminar on Perspectivas de actuaciones en material de diálogo intercultural organized by the Spanish Ministry of Culture for the benefit of cultural officials from Spain’s Comunidades Autónomas.

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Christian Joppke has been invited to Ottawa to brief Canadian policy-makers and academics on dual citizenship (10-11 December).

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Oleg Kobtzeff organized and hosted a roundtable discussion on the geopolitics of the Arctic in a standing-room only AUP Grand Salon. Despite transportation strikes a crowd came to listen to AUP’s own Professor Jim Bittermann of CNN (an enthusiastic veteran of Polar expeditions), Barbara Lipton (Alaskan filmmaker, active in Alaskan affairs), Joëlle Robert-Lamblin (close collaborator of legendary Polar pioneers), and the younger experts, Reuter’s Astrid Wendlandt and hydrologist Caroline Riegel (who spoke to students in the "Waters of the Globe" class a day earlier).

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Lissa Lincoln and Charles Talcott launched the 2007-2008 season of Regards croisés - Concepts & Practices in Contemporary French Philosophy, a seminar series co-organized by the Critical Theory Collective at The American University of Paris, the Centre International d'Etude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, and Columbia University Paris Reid Hall. On October 23, McKenzie Wark (New School for Social Research) led the Local | Vital | Legal seminar with a talk entitled, "What is Local? Topical, Topographic, Topological". On November 20, Elie During (Ecole normale supérieure) and Laurent Jeanpierre (Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg) presented "Postpolis: A Local Approach to Global Cities" based on their recent collaboration with the Centre Pompidou. Justin McGuinness of AUP opened the roundtable discussion. A full video archive of the sessions can be viewed on the Critical Theory Collective website (http://www.critical-theory-collective.org).

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Ann Mott was a featured speaker at the Hellenic American University’s International Writing Centers Conference, Revisioning Tomorrow’s Writing Center: Roles, Practices, Audiences, on November 9-10 in Athens, Greece.  Her paper, "What We Talk About When We Talk about Writing", will be published by HAU’s Center for Applied Linguistics and Language Studies.
 

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Farhad Nomani was invited by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, on October 31, to give a lecture on differentiated life opportunities of the work force in Iran.

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Reviews of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s translation of War and Peace have been published in the November 22, 2007 (Vol. 54, N° 18) issue of The New York Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20810?email) and in the November 26 issue of The New Yorker magazine (http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/11/26/071126crat_atlarge_wood?currentPage=1).

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On November 19, James N. Ward delivered the lecture “On Pricing Credit Default Swaps and Recovery Rate Swaps on Subordinated Debt in a Multi-Regime Trading Environment” at the Université d’Evry as the guest of Professors Vathana LyVath and Monique Jeanblanc for degree candidates of the Masters Ingénierie Financière. Professor Ward has been asked by Professors LyVath and Jeanblanc to join the adjunct faculty of the Université d’Evry’s graduate programs in finance and mathematics in the Fall of 2008.

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On 8 November, Jula Wildberger presented a paper on "Time, Eternity and Divine Action According to the Stoics" at an international interdisciplinary conference in Göttingen, Germany (8. Internationalen Symposion des Graduiertenkollegs Götterbilder-Gottesbilder-Weltbilder. Polytheismus und Monotheismus in der Welt der Antike: Zeit und Ewigkeit als Raum göttlichen Handelns).

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Douglas Yates participated in a France 24 debate on the humanitarian workers in Chad (Nov. 5) and did an interview on President Sarkozy's visit to Washington, D.C. (Nov. 7). He was invited to speak about the French transportation strike on CNBC (Nov. 14). Professor Yates also participated in a debate on France 24 concerning the 3rd OPEC heads of state summit (Nov. 19) and was interviewed by CNBC about the civil service strike (Nov. 20). Yates published "France's New African Policy," in the South African quarterly Global Dialogue, Vol 12.3 (November 2007).

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