Richard Beardsworth's paper 'Cosmopolitanism and Realism: Towards a Theoretical Convergence?', given at the annual British International Studies Association, Cambridge, UK, December 2007, is to be published in Milllennium: Journal of International Studies, 37/1. A response to Between War and Politics: International Relations and the Thought of Hannah Arendt, by Patricia Owens (OUP, 2007) is in the forthcoming issue of Journal of International Politics. His review of Cosmopolitanism and Europe, by Chris Rumford (Liverpool University Press, 2007) is published in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews.

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On 28 November, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz gave a paper entitled "L'éloquence prescrite et proscrite: Prospero Lambertini (Benoît XIV) et la reconnaissance de la sainteté" at the Université de Clermont-Ferrand during a four-day symposium on L'éloquence ecclésiastique de la pré-Réforme aux Lumières. (A breathtaking Romanesque basilica, Notre-Dame-du-Port, was within walking distance!!!)  At about the same time, her essay, "'Painted with the Colour of Ancientie': Two Early-Modern Versions of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica", was finally published by Brepols in The Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Age. Eds. Jacqueline Jenkins and Olivier Bertrand. The volume presents a selection of twenty-eight papers delivered at the Seventh International Conference dedicated to the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, which took place at the Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle in July 2004 (http://www.brepols.net/catalogue/index.jsp?mpk=20295&art=1527062).

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Alice Craven's article "A Victim in Need is a Victim In Deed" was published in the Cambridge Scholars Press' Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction, coedited by Linda Martz.
 

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Susan Cure attended the EuroStemCell meeting (Framework Programme 6) entitled "At the cutting edge: stem cell research in Europe 2007"  in Brussels on December 18, and will be attending the First International Symposium on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: FISH-ESC, January 31-February 2 in Evry.

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On November 29, 2007, Gerardo della Paolera was invited as a keynote discussant to the OECD Conference "Perspectives économiques de l'Amérique latine" where he was part of a roundtable which followed a presentation by Fernando Ballestero (Ambassador of Spain to the OECD) and Javier Santiso (Chief Economist at the OECD) on "L'impact de la Chine en Amérique Latine." In December 2007, he was invited by the Inter-American Development Bank as the main speaker at the conference which took place at the IDB headquarters in Washington, D.C. His talk was entitled "Public Policy Strategy for Higher Education in Latin America." In mid-December, della Paolera was invited to participate in a conference at the World Bank headquarters in Paris, for a one-day session on "Reflections on Higher Education for Sub-Sahara Countries."

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Steven Ekovich published “Options et Contraintes des États-Unis face à l’Iran” in Géostratégiques (N° 18 – January 2008). On December 5 he gave a paper on “The United States, Europe and European Defense” at the Forum Européen de Klingenthal. He has appeared regularly on French Television and radio to comment on the U.S. presidential campaign and on American foreign policy. On January 7, for instance, he was on a panel on France24 television that included the Iranian ambassador to France and a former French foreign minister. He has also commented regularly on Radio Algerie in Algeria and analyzed the U.S. primaries on South Africa’s leading FM radio station SAFM.

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Oliver Feltham has completed his book manuscript on Alain Badiou's philosophy for Continuum Books: it will be published in June. In December Professor Feltham gave the keynote lecture at the Event and Decision conference (Badiou, Deleuze, Whitehead) at Claremont Graduate University in California. In November he gave a paper on Dan Graham's installations at the Performance Studies International Conference at NYU. In Berlin he ran a workshop on his research in theatre and philosophy and gave a paper in the Presenting Potentialities Conference.

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On 19 January Jérôme Game was invited to give a public lecture on contemporary French poetry at the public library of Montfermeil. At the end of January he will take part in the International Colloquium 'Liberté, licence, illisibilité poétiques' organized in San Diego jointly by Nazarene Point Loma University and Université de Valenciennes, 30 January-2 February 2008 (http://www.pointloma.edu/LJML/Colloque_International_de_Po_sie_Fran_aise/Pr_-Programme_Du_Colloque.htm) where he will deliver two papers on the works of Christian Prigent and Jean-Marie Gleize. Professor Game is co-organizing with Professor Picard-Drillien the upcoming Transdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities (Arts/Philosophie/Psychanalyse) with speaker Marc-Léopold Lévy, taking place on February 5 at AUP.

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On 21 December 2007, Hall Gardner was invited to speak at the French Sénat at the Palais du Luxembourg for the conference, L'Iran et la France; Aujourd'hui, hier et demain, sponsored by l'Institut Européen de Recherches Stratégiques sur l'Iran et l'Université de Téhéran under the patronage of Monsieur le Président Christian Poncelet. His article, "Iran: pourquoi une diplomatie de négociations sans conditions?" was published in "La crise iranienne : mythe ou réalité" Géostratégiques No. 18, January 2008 (http://www.strategicsinternational.com). An extract of the article is to be published in Milieux des Empires. He was interviewed in December 2007 by Digital Gulan, one of the major newspapers in Iraqi Kurdistan (four pages in Kurdish!). Over the past two months, he has debated US policy toward Iran, discussed the implications of the Russian parliamentary elections, and was interviewed twice on the US presidential elections on France24. His book, Averting Global War has been listed as a "hot new release" on amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/1196144?ie=UTF8&pg=3

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Dan Gunn has published a review of the new Penguin translation, by Jamie McKendrick, of the classic novel about Ferrara’s Jewish community during the 1930s, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (by Giorgio Bassani). The review is entitled “All not lost” and it appears in the TLS edition of 4 January 2008.

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The reprint of Jayson Harsin's article "The Rumor Bomb: American Mediated Politics as Pure War" appeared this month in the anthology Cultural Studies, editor Michael Ryan (Blackwell).

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar spoke on the topic 'Regional Cooperation, Conservation and Globalization' at the 12th International Conference of National Trusts organized in New Delhi, India, from December 3-5 by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH).  On December 12, as part of a public lecture series organized by the Institute of Cultural Policy at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, he gave a lecture entitled 'European Cultural Policy: An Oxymoron?'

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Linda Martz's co-edited book, Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction, published by Cambridge Scholars Press, was released in December. With essays by an international group of scholars, Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction delves into the ways in which this genre, given its status as a popular yet marginalized literature, allows for the exploration of a wide range of meanings. Contributors examine how the genre both mirrors and focuses the personal/ethnic/spiritual, how it interfaces with national literatures and histories, and how the generic identity of detective fiction has evolved over time. Included are discussions of novels and short stories from American, Argentine, British, Canadian, French, German, and Japanese national literatures from the mid-19th to the early 21st centuries, with a chapter on a suffragette detective series by Linda Martz and one on Chester Himes by Alice Craven.

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Dominique Mougel et Michèle Boularès, Directeur du Programme de langue et Professeur à NYU in France, ont animé, le 9 novembre 2007, un atelier de didactique du Français Langue Etrangère qui a réuni les professeurs de langue française d'AUP et de NYU in France. L'objectif de cet atelier était d'informer leurs collègues de l'approche par compétences préconisée pour les langues par le Cadre européen de référence et de présenter la nouvelle méthode de français langue étrangère "Alors?", niveaux A1 et A2 de J.C. Beacco et M. Di Giura (Editions Didier), d'après leurs expériences respectives de l'utilisation en classe de ces manuels fondés sur l'approche par compétences telles que décrites par le Cadre européen de référence.

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Farhad Nomani's co-authored book Class and Labor in Iran has been reviewed in American Journal of Sociology, vol. 113, number 3, 2007.

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Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien was recently in Tours where she was invited as a discussant at the annual Journées de Tours of the Société psychanalytique (http://www.ihep.fr/psychanalyse/Activites/Colloques-Journees-de-Tours). She was also invited to attend the final colloquium, Vicissitudes, Histories & Destinies of Psychoanalysis, at the University of London's Institute for Germanic & Romance Languages (dir. Naomi Segal) in order to build further academic links and intellectual projects between the British Network (http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conference/conf_psych_concluding1.htm) and AUP's two-year old Transdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities: Arts/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis (http://www.aup.fr/news/special_events/transdisciplinary_program.htm).

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Roy Rosenstein's essay on "Latent Dialogue and Manifest Role-Playing in Bernart de Ventadorn" will be reprinted in a forthcoming volume of the Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism series scheduled to appear in May 2008. The original article was published in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 91 (1990), 357-68.

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Anna Russakoff is going to present a paper at the annual meeting of the College Art Association that will be held in Dallas, TX, at the end of February. The session, entitled "Current Perspectives on Manuscript Illumination in Late Medieval Paris," is sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art.

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Christy Shields-Argelès recently published two book chapters: "Alimentation et identité nationale: le soi et l’autre en France et aux Etats-Unis" in C. Fischler et E. Masson (eds.), Manger: Français, Européens et Américains face à l’alimentation (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2008) and "Célébrer la fin du sevrage. A propos du texte de Jean-Pierre Winter" in M. Szejer (ed.), L’art de nourrir les bébés (Paris: Albin Michel, 2008). She also published a review essay entitled "Consuming Culture, Constructing Identity: A Review Essay of Food Culture in France" on the Web site of the Observatoire CIDIL des Habitudes Alimentaires (OCHA) in December 2007 (http://www.lemangeur-ocha.com/fileadmin/images/cr/C_Schields_Food_culture_in_France-anglais.pdf).  On December 3, 2007 Professor Shields-Argelès was invited to give a paper on "Terroir en Ville" at a conference entitled Tourism, Terroir et Gastronomie, hosted by the Université Lumière Lyon 2 and organized in conjunction with the Université du Québec à Montréal. On December 4, she was invited to speak in Paris at a roundtable discussion/debate with government representatives and nutritionists concerning the impact of recent developments in French and European nutritional policy at the annual convention of ATLA (Association de la Transformation Laitière Française).

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Georgi Stojanov gave a lecture entitled "Constructivisme et psychologie du développement au sein de l'Intelligence Artificielle et de Robotique Cognitive" on December 13, 2007 at the Université Paris-8. The lecture was organized by members of the research group CRAC (Compréhension, Raisonnement, et Acquisition de Connaissances). For more information see: http://paragraphe.univ-paris8.fr/fr/equipes/crac/

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Pat Thompson was Project Manager for a recent episode of the popular MTV docu-reality series "The Hills" which was shot on location in Paris.
 

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Conscience of the Nation: Writers, State, and Society in Modern Egypt, a translation by David Tresilian of Entre scribes et écrivains. Le champ littéraire dans l'Egypte contemporaine by Richard Jacquemond, was published by the American University in Cairo Press in January 2008.
 

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On December 17 James N. Ward delivered two lectures "Pricing and Managing High Yield Bond Portfolios" and "Credit Derivatives for Practitioners: Dimensions of Speculation and Hedging" at l'École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise in Evry as the guest of the faculty of th