Waddick Doyle has published a refereed article in a special issue of Popular Communication / The International Journal of Media and Culture (Volume 10, Number 1-2, 2012).  The special issue was entitled "Not Necessarily the News?: Global Approaches to News Parody and Political Satire" and was edited by Geoffrey Baym and Jeffrey P. Jones.  Doyle's article was entitled "No Strings Attached? Les Guignols de l’info and French Television." 

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Fred Einbinder served as a professor in the Seminar for Advanced Studies in Public and Private Law for Professionals of The Hague Academy of International Law on the topic of "Responding to the Challenges of Natural and Industrial Catastrophes: New Directions for International Law" held during the week of January 16th. Professor Einbinder and the former General Counsel of SHELL relied on their experiences as general counsels of large multinational companies to guide the participants – private, humanitarian and public lawyers from all over the world – in understanding the challenges of multinational crisis management following industrial catastrophes through mock negotiations.

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On November 8, Steven Ekovich moderated a debate between former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and campaign consultant Jacques Seguela, organized by The KitSon press club. On November 21 he analyzed American foreign policy in the Arab world in a talk entitled “Les Etats-Unis d’Amérique face aux mutations de l’aire arabe” at the Association des Etudes Internationales of Tunis. Attending were researchers, Tunisian ambassadors, and members of the foreign ministry. On December 9 Ekovich presented a paper on “Le Printemps Arabe, la Tunisie et les Etats-Unis” at a conference in Tunis on “La révolution tunisienne : début d’une nouvelle čre dans les pays arabes” sponsored by the Fondation Temimi and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung en Tunisie. On December 15 he gave a talk on American foreign policy regarding the Arab Spring at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris at a conference on “La Démocratisation dans le Monde Arabe: Alternance pour quelle Alternative?”  The conference was sponsored by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Université Paris Descartes, the Sorbonne, and the Institut du Monde Arabe.  Professor Ekovich appears regularly on French radio and television to analyze American politics and foreign policy.

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On November 7, 2011, Hall Gardner was invited to speak at the research seminar ‘The G-20 after the Cannes Summit’ sponsored by the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto (G8RG). The seminar took place at the Centres de Conférences Ministériels, Ministčre des Affaires Etrangčres et Européennes. Out of this conference, he published  Toward a Geo-Economic Resolution of the Euro Crisis, G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto (G8RG) and
Toward a Resolution of the Cyprus dispute and the Euro Crisis: A Geo-economic perspective / Cicero Foundation Great Debate Paper, No. 12/01  January 2012. He also recently published "Toward a New Euro-Atlantic Security Framework" (European Union Institute for Security Studies), which has also been featured on the New Policy Forum website of Mikhail Gorbachev.  Later, in November, Professor Gardner moderated, and participated in, a panel discussion on the subject "The New Middle East - An Emerging Reality Panel: Strategic fallout and Peace Perspective: Chances, Risks, Obstacles" at the International Conference: Policymakers' Responsibility in a Changing World. The Mediterranean: Waves of Change, jointly organized by the Region of Languedoc-Roussillon (France) and the New Policy Forum (Mikhail Gorbachev). Based on the preparation for this conference, he published A Dangerous Transition in the 'Greater Middle East'.  This article was also re-published on many websites, including, Open Democracy.  Another publication, The Ashgate Companion to War: Origins and Prevention, edited by Hall Gardner and Oleg Kobtzeff and featuring articles by a number of AUP professors, including Hall Gardner, Oleg Kobtzeff, Susan Perry, and Steve Ekovich, is coming out in early February. In the meantime, Gardner participated in the France24 debate on US policy toward Iran with Trita Parsi, Francis Perrin, and Borzou Daragahi (part one and part two).  Professor Gardner was a member of the group of experts that produced the discussion paper "Bridging the Fault Lines: Collective Security in Southwest Asia" (January 20, 2012) produced by the East West Institute.  He also commented on the US primary process for France24 before the New Hampshire primary.

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Jeffrey Greene's The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest continues to receive good reviews, most recently from Choice and Booklist (online), the latter ending with "this elegant portrait enchants."  A special encore edition of Greene's hour-long interview with Jean Feraca on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders was broadcast over the holidays. Two of Greene's poems, including "A Coetzee Reading Group" written for AUP's celebration of J.M. Coetzee, will be appearing in Cerise Press, Journal of Literature, Arts, and Culture.  Greene has been commissioned to write for three composers and three singers for Mirror Visions' 20th anniversary concerts in Paris and New York City.

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Volume I of The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1929-1940, of which Dan Gunn is an editor, won the Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters (books published in 2009 and 2010 were eligible). The prize was awarded at the MLA 2012 convention in Seattle in January, where Dan Gunn presented a paper entitled “Samuel Beckett and Georges Duthuit: Epistolary Traces of a ‘Volcanic’ Friendship”. On 2 December, with his co-editor George Craig, he talked at the Irish launch of Volume II of The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1941-1956, an event sponsored by the French Department of Trinity College Dublin, the Irish Times, and the French Embassy in Ireland. The following day, with George Craig again, he lectured to graduate students on the subject of translation and the Cahiers Series. The second volume of Beckett’s letters has received further reviews: in Irish World, The BookReport, Il Sole 24 Ore, the San Francisco Book Review, Europa, The National Post (Canada), The New Inquiry, The Times (London), The Guardian, The London Review of Books (“annotated with generous and attentive scholarship”); The New Republic (“What these letters celebrate, and do justice to, is the sound of a unique voice, telling the truth”); the Daily Telegraph (“Reading these humane and generous letters, it’s hard not to love Sam”); the Washington Independent Review of Books (“an important work of impeccable scholarship directed not only at Beckett academics”). The volume was chosen as the best book of non-fiction of 2011 by 3:am Magazine, and was selected by several critics and writers as one of their books of the year: by Adam Thirlwell in the New Statesman and Libération; by J.M. Coetzee and John Kinsella in The Australian (“so massive, and so thorough in its scholarship, that I am just coming to terms with its riches”); by Charles McNulty in the L.A.Times; by Roy Foster, Paul Griffiths, Gabriel Josipovici, and Marjorie Perloff, in the Times Literary Supplement; by David Wheatley (“books of a lifetime”), Tim Robinson (“the second, superbly edited volume”), and John Banville (“What a triumph of scrupulous scholarship the book is”) in the Irish Times. In The Guardian John Banville chose Writing Beckett’s Letters by George Craig, no.16 in the Cahiers Series, as one of his books of the year.

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar is on leave this semester; from March to June he will once again be an ‘Eminent Research Visitor’ with the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.  On December 8, 2011 he took part in a policy dialogue on Europe’s external relations in the cultural field that was co-organized by the European Policy Centre and the European Cultural Foundation. The event marked the launch of the new ‘More Europe’ initiative aimed at promoting a larger place for culture in the European Union’s external relations and supported by several leading European cultural foundations.  On December 12 and 13 he was a guest in Amsterdam of the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development for the Fund’s 2011 Awards Ceremony held at the Royal Palace.  His chapter entitled ‘Hoggart in UNESCO:  a close-up in hindsight’ appeared in a volume entitled Richard Hoggart:  Culture and Critique published in December by Critical, Cultural and Communications Press – CCCP).

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Oleg Kobtzeff was solicited by the Cahiers du Monde Russe to review Gwenn Miller’s Kodiak Kreol: Communities of Empire in Early Russian America. Kobtzeff appeared on France24 at a rhythm of one interview every three days, in average, between December 4 and December 26 when he participated in an hour-length debate on the 20th anniversary of the demise of the Soviet Union.

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Editions Ellipses released the second edition of Linda Martz's coauthored bilingual textbook, Fiches de civilisation américaine et britannique, in December. A second edition of the all-French version is expected to follow.

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Farhad Nomani has contributed a paper to Scripta Politica and Economica, Vol.30, Fall 2011, on "The Curious Student's Guide to Euro-Drama: Euro-zone and the Sovereign Debt Crisis."

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Anne-Marie Picard gave a paper entitled "Hollowing out a space for the subject to-be: Robinson Crusoe’s textual family romance" for the European Science Foundation, standing committee for the Humanities conference: “First Person Writing, Four Way Reading” (Dec. 1-3, University College of London, Senate House & Birbeck College).

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David Pike’s book In the Service of Stalin (Clarendon Press Oxford, 1993) is now available online. 

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AUP librarians Michael Stoepel and Sally Murray have recently had the exciting opportunity of working together with Credo Reference, one of AUP’s online resources and e-reference book platforms (3,475,499 full text entries in 876 reference books from 83 publishers), to beta test their new add-on product ‘Literati’. Through webinars and Skype, they have collaborated with the Literati team to create ‘personalized’ AUP videos, tutorials and quizzes for information literacy. Amongst others there are videos about the ‘Deep Web’, ‘Primary Resources’, as well as ‘AUP Research Help’.  As a reward for having helped with the beta testing, AUP will receive this add-on feature at no cost.

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In December 2011 Jonathan Shimony and Jula Wildberger presented a paper entitled "Teaching classics through art: visual arts as a tool for enhancing text comprehension and appreciation" at the 2nd Visual Learning Conference in Budapest, hosted by the Visual Learning Lab, Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The paper reflects on experiences with an EnglishBridge module "Images from Classical Texts" offered at AUP in Spring 2010.

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Douglas Yates’ fourth book, entitled The Scramble for African Oil: Oppression, Corruption and War for Control of Africa’s Natural Resources (London: Pluto Press, 2012), has just been released.  This book describes how the international demand for oil contributes to the chronic problems plaguing Africa, and is being praised by Michael Klare as “essential reading for anyone seeking an understanding of the resource curse.”  In other news Professor Yates was invited to speak on Radio France International about the presidential elections in Senegal (Jan. 3), and on France24 television about the massive strikes against fuel subsidy cuts in Nigeria (Jan.13 and Jan.16). 

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