On April 30, Jérôme Game is co-organizing an international one-day conference at l'Ecole Normale Supérieure-Lettres & Sciences Humaines entitled "Politiques de l'esthétique: autour de l'oeuvre de Jacques Rancière". Colleagues from the United States, Belgium and France will deliver papers in the presence of Jacques Rancière himself. On April 17, Professor Game and Professor Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien will receive Professor Geoff Gilbert in their Arts/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis Research Seminar at AUP for a paper entitled "Amortissement: Psychoanalysis & Sociology, Realism between François Bon and Stephane Beaud." On April 1st, Jérôme Game has been invited to give a paper at l'Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d'Annecy entitled "L'écriture poétique en condition de l'art vidéo et sonore: prose/poésie". He has also convened a graduate seminar there on text/image relations in contemporary artistic and literary practices.

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Hall Gardner contributed to the collective statement of the UBUNTU World Forum of Civil Society Movements, published in the International Herald Tribune on March 14, 2008, for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. See the entire statement and signatures: http://www.ubuntu.upc.edu/index.php?lg=eng&pg=2&ncom=24  On March 3, Hall Gardner participated in the debate, "Russian election: more of the same?" on FRANCE 24: http://www.france24.com/en/20080303-debate-russia-presidential-elections-medvedev-putin. His book review of The Global Legitimacy Game: Civil Society, Globalization and Protest by Alison Van Rooy appeared in The European Legacy (Haifa), Vol. 13, No. 1, 2008. pp. 101-138.

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Martin Grandes has been invited to join the academic program committee of the 13th annual meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and the Latin American chapter of the Econometric Society to be held in Rio de Janeiro on November 20-23, 2008. The Graduate School of Government will be a partner in the Athens Public Policy & Development (PPD) Mid-Career Summer Programme, a joint effort with the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Athens Development and Governance Institute (A.D.G.I.-INERPOST) and the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), in collaboration with the International Center for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies (DIKEMES).

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Oleg Kobtzeff was recently interviewed by Radio Algérie International. The Centre de Recherches sur l'Interculturalité et les Identités Nationales at the University of Nantes has invited him to actively participate in its April 4 and 5 conference on borders and frontiers and to present a paper on the geopolitics of the Arctic regions. He also presented his work during a promotion tour (Salon du Tourisme, Salon de la Grande Randonnée and other events) organized by his sponsor, the eco-tourism travel agency Taiga-Toundra that also works with Nicolas Hulot and Yves Paccalet (co-author and teammate of Commander Cousteau for numerous book projects and expeditions).

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Lissa Lincoln has had a chapter published in Imaginer la loi: Le droit dans la litterature, edited by Antoine Garapon and Denis Salas, Paris, Michalon, March 2008. The book is the fruit of an international conference on Law and Literature held at the Cour de Cassation in Paris in 2007, which gathered magistrates, philosophers and critical theorists to examine the interrelationship between law and literature.

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Anne Marsella will be reading from her novel, Remedy, at the Village Voice bookstore in Paris on Tuesday, April 15, at 19:00.

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Paschale McCarthy has been asked to speak at the VIth International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy this June 2008 in Rome. She will present a paper on selective mutism in bilingual children and adolescents.

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Stephen Monteiro recently gave a paper on contemporary urban photography for the "Urban Image Now" panel at the College Art Association annual conference in Dallas.

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David Pike’s new book, Franco and the Axis Stigma: the Unrequited Love of a Caudillo for a Führer, will be published by Macmillan in May. A pre-publication reviewer writes: “What Abélard and Héloïse did for the Middle Ages, and Romeo and Juliet for the Renaissance, this tragic tale will represent our time. Once again the infinite sadness of a star-crossed love. Many a reader, in the heartache of the final chapter (“The Death of Hope”), will be reduced to a state too deep for tears.”

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Rebekah Rast presented her paper entitled “Learners ‘taking in’ target language input” at the 33rd LAUD Symposium in Landau, Germany, 7-13 March. The conference theme was Cognitive Approaches to Second/Foreign Language Processing: Theory and Pedagogy. Professor Rast’s paper was also published in the conference proceedings, LAUD Linguistic Agency, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.

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AUP Career Counselor Danielle Savage is cited in the current issue of Career Developments magazine, published by the National Career Development Association, as an example of a career development professional who is "changing the world." (Reinersman, Melanie, "Editor's Pick", Career Developments, Spring 2008, vol. 24 no. 2.)

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David Tresilian's book, A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, was published in London by Saqi Books in March.

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Douglas Yates was interviewed by FRANCE 24 for the Dakar summit (March 12) and participated in the channel's live results platform for the French municipal elections (March 9 and 16).  Additionally, Professor Yates was interviewed by CNBC for the implication of the municipal elections of President Sarkozy (March 10).

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