Peter Barnet has been invited to join the Advisory Board of the Journal of Integrated Marketing Communications published by the Graduate program of the same name at the Medill School at Northwestern University.

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Richard Beardsworth's article 'Arendt and the Critique of Moralism' has been published in International Politics (2008: 16) and 'Cosmopolitanism and Realism' in Millennium: Journal of International Relations (2008: 37/1). His paper 'From Political Cosmopolitanism to Cosmopolitan Realism: 21st Century Global Politics' will be presented at the international conference Thinking With(out) Borders (University of St. Andrews, June 2008).

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Jerome Charyn’s latest novel, Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution (Norton, 2008), was reviewed prominently in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the LA Times Book Review (lead review), the Boston Globe, the Houston Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly (lead review), and the Wall Street Journal.  It received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Book List.  It was also reviewed on National Public Radio (All Things Considered).  Jerome Charyn was interviewed on National Public Radio (Between the Lines), and Bloomberg Radio, and in Bookforum.  The book was also a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.  The first chapter was excerpted in the Winter 2007-08 issue of Columbia Magazine, with three pages of illustrations.  Norton will reprint the book in quality paperback in February 2009.

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On April 17, Oliver Feltham was invited to Ljubljana to give a lecture on his new book, and in May he has been invited to Maastricht to respond to Ray Brassier at the conference Displacements in Ontology. Continuum Books assure him that his corrected manuscript has been received–despite the worst efforts of La Poste–and the book has gone into production.

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On May 2, Jérôme Game and Anne-Marie Picard received Professor Peter Hallward, Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University, at their AUP Research Seminar in the Arts / Philosophy / Psychoanalysis. Professor Hallward delivered a paper entitled "Determination and Will: Towards a Dialectical Voluntarism." On May 21 Professor Game has been invited to participate in a Symposium on the philosophy of Jacques Rancière organized by the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures of Roehampton University in London. Professor Game’s paper is entitled "Jacques Rancière’s aesthetics of the choc sensible and its politics: the case of video-art and photography." On 25-26 July Professor Game will speak at the international conference The French Connection: New Perspectives on French Contemporary Art across Disciplines organized by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Cambridge (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/60/).

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Hall Gardner's article, "L'action militaire en 2008: bras de fer au Congrès," was published in Politique Américaine, No. 10, Spring 2008, as was a very positive review of his book, Averting Global War: Regional Challenges, Overextension, and Options for American Strategy (Palgrave: New York, 2007): 
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=0230600859  He was interviewed on the April NATO Summit in Bucharest on France 24:
http://www.france24.com/en/20080404-russia-nato-putin-missile-shield-vladimir&navi=MONDE?q=node/1090400  Professor Gardner spoke on US and EU approaches to the "Global War on Terrorism" at the Cicero Foundation on April 4.  He also participated in the 8th Doha Forum for Democracy, Development and Free Trade in Qatar from April 13 to April 15. Other Doha Forum participants included Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan; former US Defense Secretary William Cohen; former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin; and Israeli Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni.

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar has launched a new cultural information project entitled ‘Global Cultural Futures’ in collaboration with Professor Helmut K. Anheier, Director of the Center for Civil Society at UCLA. For this purpose they convened a meeting at the London School of Economics on March 27-28 in which 30 scholars, journalists, cultural policy experts and officials from all continents took part.  Supported by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, the project is an offshoot of the ‘Cultures and Globalization Series’.  On April 11-12 in Gothenburg, Sweden, Isar and Anheier brought together the contributors, including AUP’s Professor Julie Thomas, to the 2009 volume entitled Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation. Isar also presented the whole project at a public symposium held in the Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg on April 10. On April 29, in Ottawa, Canada, Isar made the keynote presentation on the topic ‘Cultural expression, creativity and diversity’ at the international symposium entitled Creative Construct:  Building for Culture and Creativity organized by the Centre for Creative Communities and the City of Ottawa.

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Christian Joppke has been invited by the British Academy to 'showcase' European research on migration and social cohesion in Beijing, China, 15-17 May. Also in May, he will give talks at the University of Pennsylvania and in Zurich. In April, he gave talks at INED (Paris), in Aarhus, and at the 21st Century Trust conference on "Managing Migration", Goodenough College, London.

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Oleg Kobtzeff appeared in Le Figaro Magazine, Radio Algérie, and Arte (prime time); his interview on the "Masque de l’archipel Kodiak" introduced the pilot of a new series of documentaries, and is quoted in all the promotional materials of the series and its DVD version. See: http://www.arte.tv/fr/connaissance-decouverte/arts-du-mythe/Extraits-video--/1256970,CmC=1256972.html  and http://www.lefigaro.fr/lefigaromagazine/2008/03/29/01006-20080329ARTFIG00071-l-alaska-inedit.php

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Lissa Lincoln's co-authored and co-edited volume Albert Camus in the 21st Century has been published with Rodopi Press. This collection of essays provides a contemporary reassessment of the relevance of Albert Camus' work. The essays contained within were originally presented at the international, interdisciplinary conference devoted to Albert Camus held at The American University of Paris in September 2004 (http://www.aup.fr/news/pastconf/default.htm).

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Farhad Nomani’s co-edited book, Islam and the Everyday World: Public Policy Dilemmas, Routledge, 2007, is reviewed in the Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford University Press), Vol. 19, issue 2, 2008.  The book is now available in paperback.

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Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien organized a session of the Transdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities in April which was conducted by Geoff Gilbert, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English at AUP. His seminar ("Amortissement: Psychoanalysis & Sociology, Realism between François Bon and Stephane Beaud") on respectively the French writer's novel Daewoo and the sociologist's account of a sociological auto-analysis, Pays de malheur, explored the way these two works considered human beings left behind by social and economic processes. Professor Gilbert's paper considered what realist fiction and reflective sociology share, and how their relations to the practices of psychoanalysis might be thought through. We thank all our colleagues and students who participated generously to the seminar's lively discussions.

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Rebekah Rast’s book Foreign Language Input: Initial Processing has been published by Multilingual Matters in Clevedon, UK. For more information, please consult their second language acquisition series Web site: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/results.asp?sf_01=series&st_01=second+language&sort=sort_multi/d&ds=second+language+acquisition& TAG=&CID=/  Professor Rast also presented her recent work on AUP’s multilingual student population, “Characterizing the Multilingual’s Linguistic Profile”, at the 17th Sociolinguistics Symposium in Amsterdam, April 3-5.
 

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Anna Russakoff is co-organizing an interdisciplinary, international conference on the theme of Blood in Medieval France that will be held at the Sorbonne from 24 to 26 June 2008. For the full program and registration information see: www.ims-paris.org

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Christy Shields presented a paper entitled "Lost in Translation: Le goût et le plaisir selon les cultures" at a conference entitled Questions du goût on April 30 in Besançon, France. The conference was organized by the Centre de linguistique appliquée de l'Université de Franche-Comté.

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Julie Thomas attended the authors' meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, at The Museum of World Cultures, April 10-13, for Vol. III of the Sage Cultures and Globalisation Series: Cultures and Globalisation: Creativity, Innovation and Cultural Expression, for which she is co-authoring with Mo Tomaney a chapter on Ethical Fashion. Thomas will also be giving a paper at the AIC (International Colour Association) conference in Stockholm in June and will be returning to Stockholm July 20-25 to present a paper at the IAMCR (International Association of Media and Communication Research) conference.

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On March 11 and 12, James N. Ward was the distinguished outside guest of the BNP Paribas Senior Banker's Retreat at Chateau Louveciennes where he delivered a series of lectures and guided discussions on leveraged finance and the current global credit crisis from the perspective of asset management. The annual retreat provides an opportunity for BNP's senior bankers to network and exchange information about global capital requirements for their industrial clients. BNP invites one outside guest each year to share in deliberations and provide an alternate insight. Professor Ward was extended the invitation because of his dual role as an asset manager for AXA Investment Managers and his teaching finance at The American University of Paris.

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Jula Wildberger presented the following two papers at the Classical Association Annual Conference 2008, The World in One City, at the University of Liverpool from 27-30 March: "Epicurus and the Structure of Seneca's Epistulae morales" and "Innovative Assessment: Beyond the Essay."  The second paper was given at the Panel of the Classics in the Subject Centre (CSC) of the Higher Education Academy (UK).  In June she will present a paper on "The Emperor as a Moral Person in the Context of Friendship: The Example of Nero" at a conference entitled Identity, Representation and the Principate AD14–68, at the University of St. Andrews.

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At the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America held in Chicago April 3-5, Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier presented a paper entitled "The Politics of License at Francis I's Fontainebleau". Her work was part of a three-pronged series which Sheryl Reiss (University of California at Riverside) organized on the theme "The Erotics of Art in Early Modern Europe". The chair of her session was Sheila ffolliott (George Mason University), the respondent John Paoletti (Wesleyan University). Other contributors to the sessions included Larry Silver (University of Pennsylvania), Jill Burke (University of Edinburgh), and Elena Ciletti (Hobart and William Smith Colleges).

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Douglas Yates published an article on President Sarkozy’s new African policy, “The French Connection,” in the March edition of Global Dialogue, Volume 13.1.  His contribution to the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Conflict Resolution policy advisory group was published last month in a report entitled, Africa’s Responsibility to Protect. Professor Yates also did two television interviews on France 24 concerning the electoral crisis in Zimbabwe (April 1 and April 8) and participated in the station’s one-hour debate on the “Global Food Crisis: Who’s to Blame?” (April 15).

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