Richard Beardsworth's 'Cosmopolitan Theory and World Politics: An Argument for Cosmopolitan Realism' is to be published in Modern Theory, Modern Power and World Politics (eds. S.G. Nelson and N. Soguk), Ashgate Research Companion Series, Ashgate: UK. He gave a version of this article at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt University in December 2010, and he will give a working paper entitled 'Cosmopolitan Realism: State Responsibility in a Globalized World' at Edinburgh University, Department of Political Science later this month. He will co-organize a panel with G. Brown (Political Science, University of Sheffield) on 'Cosmopolitan State Responsibility' at the annual conference of the International Studies Association, Montreal in March. He was a discussant on giving up nuclear arms at CERI, Sciences Po and has been invited several times these last two months on the TV channel France24 to discuss international politics.

Michael Dorsch's paper "The Long-Term Implications of the 2008 Bailout for the American Model of Capitalism" was published in the interdisciplinary journal, New Perspectives on Political Economy. A link to the publisher's website is here . On January 11, Professor Dorsch gave a speech to Democrats Abroad France entitled "Public Debt and the US Economy." On February 3, he will present his new research, "Explaining the Willingness to Pay for Environmental Protection," at the Paris Environmental and Energy Economics Seminar at the Paris School of Economics- Université Paris 1.

Waddick Doyle has been invited to join  the editorial board of The Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. He has also been invited regularly on France24 television to discuss social media and Italian media and politics.

On November 2 and 3 Steven Ekovich commented on several French TV stations on the US midterm elections. On November 9, he gave a paper on US relations with Qatar at an international conference “Global Dilemmas of Security & Development in the Middle East” held at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.  He published “La Longue Durée et La Politique Étrangère des États-Unis” in Géostratégiques (4e Trimestre 2010, No. 29). On November 16, Professor Ekovich took part in a video conference with Windhoek, Namibia on the US midterm elections. Also during November he made regular commentaries on American politics on France24. On December 1 he was invited by the Mayor and City Council of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Association des Amis du Jumelage Saint-Germain/Winchester to give a talk on the US midterm elections. On December 9 Ekovich made a presentation on US domestic policy after the midterm elections at the IFRI (Institut Français des Relations Internationales) annual conference on the United States. This year the theme was “Beyond the Midterms: The Outlook for the Obama Administration.” US Ambassador Charles Rivkin opened the conference. On December 10 he gave a talk on “US Policy in the Mediterranean and the Middle East” to the Research Institute of the Ecole Militaire (IRSEM). The other presenter was Yves Lacoste, famous French geographer and geostrategist. On December 15 Professor Ekovich presided a panel on “Le Terrorisme et l’Extrémisme, et leur impact sur la sécurité du Golfe” at the First Forum on Gulf Security held in Paris. Concluding remarks at the conference were given by the former French foreign minister Hervé de Charette.

Matthew Fraser has been invited to give a presentation at the conference “Cyber-surveillance in Everyday Life,” which will take place at the University of Toronto from May 12 to May 15. Professor Fraser’s presentation is titled, “Viral Vigilantes: The Unblinking Panopticon and the Wheelie-Bin Cat Lady.” More information on the conference can be found here.  

Hall Gardner was invited to deliver a keynote address on the subject “Resetting NATO-Russian Relations” at the conference “NATO's Partnerships-The Oberammergau Symposium" on 19-20 January in Germany. Other speakers included: Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin, Head of the Mission of the Russian Federation to NATO; Mr. Dmitri Trenin, Director, Foreign and Security Policy, Carnegie Moscow Center; and Prof. Igor Yurgens, Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of Contemporary Development, Moscow.  He was interviewed by both Russia Today and Al Jazeera “Inside Story” on the international ramifications of the Tunisian revolution. 

Dan Gunn published a review article in the TLS entitled “Improper Intellect,” on the latest collection of essays by Geoff Dyer, Working the Room – Essays and reviews: 1999-2010 (7 January).

Jayson Harsin's article "Wikileaks' Lessons for Media Theory and Politics" was published in Flow.

Yudhishthir Raj Isar co-chaired an Authors’ Meeting for the forthcoming 5th volume entitled ‘Cultural policy and governance in a new metropolitan age’ of his co-edited book series (Cultures and Globalization) that was held on December 10-11, 2010 at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. His article entitled ‘Surviving the Crisis: A Strategic Perspective’ was published in December in NEMO, the newsletter of the Network of European Museum Organisations. His paper ‘Chindia’: a cultural project?’ appeared in the SAGE journal Global Media and Communication, Vol. 6, Issue 3, December 2010. On January 14, he gave a talk on comparative cultural policy at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India.

Brand Russia: the challenges of reinventing an image.  How strong is brand Russia?  In this edition of "Beyond Business" (France24) Oleg Kobtzeff comments on the Russian government’s attempts to clean up its image. See here.  Stalin: war hero or mass murderer? In February, President Dmitry Medvedev will meet members of the Human Rights Council. Ways of commemorating Stalin-era victims is top of the agenda; Medvedev has spoken out against Stalin's time in power and the mass murder committed. Yet for many in Russia, the wartime leader is still considered a hero. Despite the repression committed under his watch, he still has wide support.  Professor Kobtzeff comments on the subject, on France24. 

ADP interviewed Professor Majidi on the importance of cultural diversity. ADP is one of the world's largest providers of business outsourcing solutions with nearly $9 billion in revenues and about 550,000 clients. Professor Majidi’s interview was published and distributed among executives around the world. In this interview, he stresses the importance of cultural diversity as a factor that stimulates innovation and as a source of competitive advantage. He argues that as all multinationals are multicultural in essence, the way they manage diversity is a real distinguishing feature. Professor Majidi says that globalization is not at all conducive to cultural convergence. For the full interview visit here. 

An article by Daniel Medin about Yoko Tawada and Kafka was just published in Études germaniques. He will also deliver a paper on Philip Roth's international reception at this year's meeting of the American Literature Association in Boston.

Stephen Monteiro's article "'Nothing Is So Dangerous as Hypothesis': The Mission Héliographique, Photography and the Spectacle of History," appears in the November 2010 issue of Photography and Culture. The abstract is available on the Berg website.

Anne-Marie Picard's article: "Écrire au bord du gouffre : le Splendid Hôtel de Marie Redonnet" has been published in the December online issue of Interférences littéraires, nouvelle série, n° 5, "Le sujet apocalyptique," Ed. Christophe Meurée, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de littérature. (novembre 2010) : pp. 31-42.

David Pike’s collective work, Crimes against Women, was published by Nova Science Publishing (New York) in December. The  book consists of chapters by twenty-six contributors from around the world who range in profession from academics, diplomats and jurists to journalists, artists and leaders of non-governmental organizations.  It presents a survey of acts of violence suffered by women throughout the world, and calls upon governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to address this issue. The book is organized around a three-fold focus: examining gender-related crimes rooted in concept and law, those deriving from religion, customs and traditions, and those perpetrated in times of conflict. The articles take a broad variety of approaches, ranging from the philosophical and legalistic to the narrative reporting of contributors working in the field. His own chapter is entitled "Imperial Japan and its Inanfu (‘Comfort Women’)."  The author of the Foreword, Taslima Nasrin, is a medical doctor by training who in 1994 had to flee her native Bangladesh when her novel Najia was banned and the author was accused of blasphemy. She now lives in exile, with Swedish citizenship. As an activist in human rights and women’s rights, in books and public speeches, she has received numerous awards and prizes including the Ananda Literary Award in India, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament, the Human Rights Award from the French Government, and Unesco’s Madanjeet Singh Prize for the promotion of tolerance and non-violence. AUP remembers her for the riveting address she gave at the 2005 Commencement, when she was awarded a doctorate honoris causa.   

In December 2010, Christy Shields-Argeles' "Mastering French Cuisine, Espousing French Identity: The Transformation Narratives of American Wives of Frenchmen," appeared in the online bilingual journal Anthropology of Food Special Issue on Migrations, Food Habits and Social Relations.  She made a presentation of the same article at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in a research seminar entitled "Alimentation, corps et santé," directed by Dr. Claude Fischler.

Library Public Services Administrative Supervisor, Michael Stoepel, recently received his Master of Arts in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from Humboldt University in Berlin.  His Master’s thesis, entitled “How do you research? The non-use of Library resources in academic research” is a case study on AUP’s undergraduate students’ library use.  Michael’s thesis can be found at the AUP Library and will soon be available in open access on Humboldt University’s edoc-server.  The Library extends its congratulations to him on this achievement.

Jula Wildberger assisted at the roundtable of a journée d'études at the École Normale Supérieure on "La vertu entre Aristote et les stoïciens," organized by the CNRS Centre Léon Robin, and presented a paper on the literary form and the dialogue frame at a Colloquium on Plato’s Symposium (University of Bonn, Germany).

Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier gave a paper entitled "Alexandre et (des) femmes en France à la Renaissance" as part of a symposium devoted to representations of Alexander the Great in the 15th and 16th centuries (9-10 December 2010): Figures d'Alexandre à la Renaissance, organized by the Centre Michel de Boüard-CRAHAM at the University of Caen/Basse Normandie.

Douglas Yates made numerous televised appearances on France24 speaking about the crisis in the Ivory Coast (Dec. 1, 3, 4, 17, 20, 21, Jan. 3, 4, and 5), intercommunal violence in Nigeria (Dec. 27) and corruption in Gabon (Dec 30), and Franco-American relations in Africa (Jan.12).  Professor Yates also was invited by Al Jazeera to participate about Tunisia in a debate on their English-language channel (Dec. 30), was invited by TeleSud to speak on the referendum in South Sudan (Jan. 10), and by the English-language service of Radio France International to participate on the "Crossroads Debate" about the African revelations of Wikileaks (pre-recorded Jan. 10). Professor Yates also presented a paper entitled "Gabon, les mutations d'un Etat rentier" at the Panthéon for the revue Politique Africaine (Jan. 14) and was invited with a grant by the University of Bayreuth (Germany) to teach a one-day seminar on "Gabon" (Jan. 22).