Cheryl Caesar's paper, "Levels of Heteroglossia and Language Teaching," has been accepted for presentation at the First Annual Conference on Linguistic and Intercultural Education: Multilingualism and Plurilingualism, Migrants Languages, Minority Languages, which will take place from 27-29 November 2008, at the University of Alba Iulia, Romania.

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Jerome Charyn will be speaking at the American Library in Paris on Wednesday, October 29, at 19:30, and will be reading from his current novel, Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution.

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Harry Costin’s paper entitled "China, an Economic Superpower: 'Out of Many, One?'" was published in the August 2008 issue of the Journal of Transnational Management (volume 13, issue 2).

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An article entitled "Personality Characteristics of Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder with and without Substance Use Disorders" authored by B. Sizoo and co-authored by W. van den Brink, M Gorissen-van Eenige and RJ van der Gaag has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

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Jayson Harsin was interviewed by the French magazine La Croix for his expertise on the use of rumor in contemporary political communication.

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Routledge has published Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (June 2008), edited by Youna Kim. This book considers the emerging consequences of media consumption in people's everyday life at a time when the political, socio-economic, and cultural forces by which the media operate are rapidly globalizing in Asia.

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Lissa Lincoln and co-editor David Rabouin have found a publisher for the proceedings of the ‘Autour de Logiques des Mondes de Alain Badiou’ conference that took place at AUP in November 2006. The international conference was co-organized by the Critical Theory Collective and the Centre international d’étude de la philosophie française contemporaine (CIEPFC) of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The collection of essays, to be published in the first quarter of 2009, will include a specially-commissioned contribution by Alain Badiou.

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Farhad Nomani's co-authored article on "The Rise and Fall of Iranian Classes in the Post-Revolutionary Decades" is published in Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 33, Issue 3, 2008. On June 21-23, he was invited by Vu University Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences, to an international conference on “Muslim diasporas: Religious and national identity, gender, cultural resistance.”

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Lawrence Pitkethly has co-written with Gerard Mital a full-length screenplay, "The Committee", for Whoopy Movies Productions, Paris. The film, a drama-documentary feature film on environmental issues is geared for production in 2009.

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The peer-reviewed Journal of Applied Finance has just accepted Michel Rakotomavo's paper entitled, “The Long-Term Variation of Trade Informativeness,” for publication in their Fall/Winter 2008 issue. The journal is a publication of the Financial Management Association, which is the global leader in developing and disseminating knowledge about financial decision making, with over 3,000 academicians and professionals as members. To learn more about the FMA see www.fma.org/History.htm.

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The Mairie de Paris has awarded a grant of 25,000€ for a project proposed by Stephen Sawyer (Chair of the History Department), which includes Brian Schiff (Chair of the Psychology Department) and a team of professors from the Sorbonne and the University of Chicago. The project, entitled "Une cartographie culturelle de Paris Metropole," will map cultural consumption in the capital and its impact on public transportation, political mobilization, and individual narratives of urban experience. The two-year project will generate conferences, articles and books on the role of culture in shaping the Paris of 2030.

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Charles Talcott was translator on a recent book, A marche forcée, les oubliés de la croissance chinoise (Editions Textuel, 2008), published by photographer Samuel Bollendorff. The book, documenting Bollendorff's exploration of the human and ecological costs of China's "Economic Miracle," was sponsored by Amnesty International.

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Julie Thomas recently gave a paper on "Museum Exhibitions, Immigration, and French Cultural Policy" at the International Association of Media & Communications Research Conference in Stockholm.

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James N. Ward’s Op-Ed “The Silence of The Agencies” appeared in the September 26, 2008 edition of The Financial Times (click here to view the archived article). In his editorial, Professor Ward criticized the actions of the credit rating agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s during the current global credit crisis by pointing out that they act as an oligopolistic dupopoly that then follows the Stackelberg leadership economic model (1934), where there is a binary outcome of either first-mover advantage, or inaction. Professor Ward called for the voluntary break-up of the two into five smaller firms to restore a sustainable competitive model for independent and accurate credit ratings.

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Jula Wildberger co-authored a paper on Ovid's Metamorphoses that is to appear in next spring's Jahrbuch für Psychoanalyse: a Kleinian reading of the episode on Invidia (Envy) by Helga Wildberger.

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Douglas Yates was interviewed by France 24 on power-sharing in Zimbabwe (Sept. 18) and the resignation of Thabo Mbeki in South Africa (Sept. 22).  His latest book, The French Oil Industry and the Corps des Mines in Africa (Trenton/Asmara: Africa World Press, 2008) will be coming out shortly.  In November Professor Yates will be traveling to Tanzania to present a report on “Enhancing the Governance of Africa’s Oil Sector” for the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).

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