Sharam Alijani presented a paper entitled “Enhancing Organizational Capacities Through Trust: Implications for Business Innovation and Organizational Change” at the 76th Conference of ACFAS (Association Canadian-Française pour l’Avancement des Sciences) hosted by the National Institute for Scientific Research in Québec (May 5-9, 2008).  The interdisciplinary research event was the fourth annual conference on Management of Organizational Capacities organized by the Department of Management and Technology of University of Québec in Montréal.  Professor Alijani’s paper is available in the conference proceedings at www.gco.uqam.ca. On February 21, Professor Alijani was invited to lecture on the topic of “Business Webs and their Current Evolution” to the MBA students of Reims Management School (www.reims-ms.fr).

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Ingrid Barnsley recently published "Self-Determination: From Decolonization to Deterritorialization" in Global Peace, Change and Security (with R. Bleiker) 20(2):1-16 (2008) and Terminal Evaluation: UNEP Project on “Development of Issue Based Modules to Support the Coherent Implementation of Biodiversity Related Conventions” (Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme, 2008).  She is co-authoring the legal scenario for the 2009 Telders Public International Law Mooting competition. She presented a paper on May 20 entitled "The Carbon Market and Indigenous Peoples" at an event on Carbon Markets and the Poor at the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Bonn.

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Alice Craven's article "Representing Semiramis in Shakespeare and Calderon" has been published in a special issue of a Shakespeare journal published by Routledge.
 

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Susan Cure co-authored a paper which appeared in the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Diseases in April entitled "L-2-Hydroxyglutaric aciduria: Identification of ten novel mutations in the L2HGDH gene." This is a neurodegenerative disease; earlier genetic studies focused on Turkish and Portuguese patients; this extends the range of mutations to other ethnic groups (France, Venezuela, Pakistan, etc.).

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Waddick Doyle presented a paper entitled "'The Peculiar Unhappiness of that Business': puissance perdue, puissance retrouvée" at the conference De Benjamin Franklin à nos jours: la presse a-t-elle perdu sa puissance? sponsored by the Fondation Singer-Polignac and by the Franklin Committee, in commemoration of the tercentenary of Benjamin Franklin’s birth. Other contributors included Patrick Lelay of TF1, Alexandre Adler of Le Courrier International, Ellen Cohen, Editor of the Franklin Papers at Yale University, Hamid Barrada of Jeune Afrique, and Janine di Giovanni of The Times.

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Throughout the American primaries Steven Ekovich has appeared regularly, often daily, on French television and radio to analyze the elections. He gave interviews to Algerian radio and to the major national radio station of South Africa, as well as video press conferences to journalists, political leaders, academics and diplomats in several African countries including Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Guinea, South Africa, Zaire, Morocco, Senegal, and Tunis. Over one million listened on the radio to the conference given to Conakry (Guinea). On February 6 Professor Ekovich organized and moderated a conference at AUP in cooperation with the US Embassy in Paris on “Afghanistan: Strategies for the Future.” Opened by the American Ambassador Craig Stapleton, participants included Ambassador Assad Omer (Embassy of The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan), John D. Cockrell (First Secretary of the US Mission to NATO), Nasrine Gross (Afghan women’s rights activist, President of Kabultec and member of MEWA), and Gérard Chaliand (Specialist on Irregular Conflicts and author of L’Amérique en Guerre: Irak-Afghanistan). The conference was covered in the major French daily Le Figaro. On February 14, Ekovich had an interview published on the US elections in Pèlerin: “Election présidentielle aux USA: Duel à Trois.” He published “Options et Contraintes des Etats-Unis face à l’Iran” in the January issue of Géostratégiques. On March 10 he made a presentation at the College of Economics of the Vietnam National University in Hanoi on “The US Presidential Elections and its Effects on the World’s Economy.” On March 14 he gave a public lecture to Vietnamese university students on the elections. On April 16 Professor Ekovich gave a press conference and led a roundtable in Antananarivo, Madagascar on the US presidential elections for more than 25 journalists.  Ekovich’s remarks were telecast on Madagascar television and covered extensively in the press. On May 14 he organized a conference at AUP in cooperation with AARO (Association of Americans Residing Overseas) on the French role in the American War of Independence. His presentation was on American diplomacy during the Revolution.

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Jayson Harsin presented research at and attended sessions of the International Communications Association Conference in Montreal, Canada from May 21-26.

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar has joined the Advisory Board for a proposed Handbook of Arts-Based Research, a project launched by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, and attended a first meeting held in Stockholm on May 6-7.  On May 30, in Istanbul, he moderated a session entitled "Creative expressions and the Cultural Industries" organized by the same foundation in cooperation with the Forum on Culture of the Center for Civil Society at UCLA that was held during the Annual Conference – Fostering Creativity – of the European Foundation Centre.

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Oleg Kobtzeff made the first comments on the inaugural speech of Russia's new President Medvedev on France 24, a few minutes after the events. Please see: http://www.france24.com/en/20080507-face-off-medvedev-president-putin-power-russia-facade&navi=DEBATS

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David Pike reports from Cannes: In the course of the Cannes Film Festival, the KanZaman Film Company in Madrid, with whom he holds a contract, selected Kevin MacDonald (an Oscar-winner, and Korda-winner for The Last King of Scotland) as film director of his screenplay, The Eyes of Mauthausen. Shooting is scheduled to begin in 2009.

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Jula Wildberger presented a paper on "The Inner Cynic - A Dilemma" at a workshop on the New Testament and Ancient Philosophy to be held at the University of Münster, Germany, on 24 and 25 May.
 

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Douglas Yates has been invited by the provincial government of Jeju Island to lecture on peace and diplomacy at Cheju National University in Seogwipo, South Korea (August 20-21). He was also invited to speak on France 24 on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process (April 22); President Sarkozy's official visit to Tunisia (April 29); the official results of the first round of the Zimbabwe presidential elections (April 30); and the attempted coup d'état in Sudan (May 13).

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