In February Richard Beardsworth presented ‘Rethinking World Order: Cosmopolitan Vision and Realist Dilemma’ at CERI, Sciences-Po, Paris, and at the political science department, Yale University; and ‘For a Cosmopolitan Politics of the Lesser Violence’ at the International Studies Association, New Orleans. His forthcoming book Cosmopolitanism and International Relations Theory is published with Polity Press, Cambridge (Fall 2010). 

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Madeline Beaufort spoke on the American Register at the College Art Association annual conference on February 13.

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Michael Dorsch presented his paper "Bailouts for Sale" at the Prague Conference on Political Economy on March 22 and at the International Atlantic Economics Conference on March 26.  Both conferences were held in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Steven Ekovich published “The Culture of Democratic Public Administration and Military Culture” in Western Balkans Security Observer (Year 4, No. 14 July-September 2009) which was also published in Serbo-Croatian as “Kultura demokratske javne uprave i vojna cultura” (available in English here). Ekovich published “La Destruction Atomique d’Hiroshima et de Nagasaki: Incertitudes Historiques et Dilemmes Ethiques” in Géostratégiques (No. 26, 1er Trimestre 2010) and “Stosunki Kataru ze Stanami Zjednoczonymui” a Polish translation of a chapter on US foreign policy and Qatar in a collective work, Państwo Katar(Ibidem Lodz, 2009), edited by Robert A. Czulda.  He analyzed President Obama’s State of the Union Message for TF1 News (available here). On Jan. 20, Professor Ekovich made a duplex presentation with political leaders, researchers and journalists in Luanda, Angola on the first year of the Obama presidency. On Jan. 25, in a duplex hook-up from the US Embassy in Paris with Port Louis, Mauritius, he moderated a debate between a representative of the Democratic party and the Republican party on the first year of the Obama presidency; with Tunis on Jan. 26; with Dakar, Senegal on Jan. 27; with Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Jan. 28; with Abidjan, Ivory Coast and Mbabane, Swaziland on Feb. 2; with Rabat, Morocco and Lomé, Togo on Feb. 3; with Asmara, Eritrea on Feb. 8; with Casablanca, on Feb. 9; Juba, Sudan on Feb. 16; Maputo, Mozambique and Bamako, Mali on Feb. 17; Cotonou, Benin and Johannesburg, South Africa on Feb. 18; with Lilongwe, Malawi on Feb. 23; with Nouakchott, Mauritania, Windhoek, Namibia; and with Bujumbra, Burundi on Mar. 3.  On Feb. 10 Ekovich gave a talk on American foreign policy at l'Institut des Hautes Etudes sur les Nations Unies (Institute for Advanced Studies on the United Nations) in Marseilles. On Feb. 1 he was the invited guest on the morning talk show Matins de France Culture to discuss President Obama’s first year.  On Feb. 22, he was interviewed on Radio Orient.

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On February 12 Jérôme Game received Christophe Khim in the research seminar 'Intensités de l'art' which he organises at the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris. Professor at the Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design of Geneva and editor of Art Press, Christophe Khim spoke of rock 'n' roll in a paper entitled "Amplification." On March 12 Professor Game will receive in the same seminar anthropologist/philosopher Bruno Latour, Professor at Sciences-Po Paris, who will speak on contemporary aesthetics. A review of Professor Game's book, Porous Boundaries. Texts and Images in 20th Century French Culture, has appeared in the November 2009 issue (17:4) of the journal Modern & Contemporary France. 

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Hall Gardner’s speech, "La Politique Etrangère Américaine, Actualité et Avenir" at the Palais du Luxembourg on October 10, 2009 was published in "Les Etats Unis, vers une nouvelle politique étrangère?" (Colloque Palais du Luxembourg, Democraties: 10 Octobre 2009). He spoke on the topic "NATO: Toward a New Strategic Vision" at the CIOR conference NATO in an Unbalanced World: An Evaluation of NATO’s Readjustments and Transformation, in Schloss Eichholz, Wesseling, Germany (Feb. 3).  Professor Gardner participated in the IFRI conference NATO’s New Strategic Concept: Setting the Priorities Right (Feb. 5).  He spoke at the NATO School in Oberammergau to senior officers on the “Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism” (Feb. 9).

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Yudhishthir Raj Isar spoke at a ‘VIP debate’ organized at the European Parliament in Brussels on February 2 at the international launch of Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture.  The other speakers were Prof. Nilufer Göle of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; Mr. Egemen Bagisa, Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs; the British Member of the European Parliament Richard Howitt; and Jonny Dymond (Moderator), Brussels Correspondent for BBC News. On February 18, he took part in a breakfast debate organized in the Paris premises of the European Parliament on the topic ‘UE: quel élargissement pour quel avenir’ organized by EurActiv.fr, the French member of the network of EurActiv, an independent media portal fully dedicated to EU affairs.  Isar’s article ‘Cultural Diplomacy: An Overplayed Hand?’ appeared in Issue # 3, Winter 2010 of Public Diplomacy (magazine of the Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars at the University of Southern California).

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Christian Joppke published “Citizenship and Immigration” (Cambridge: Polity 2010).

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Oleg Kobtzeff's textbook, Russe: Initiation, written in his pre-AUP youth in the format of a 30-episode sitcom (a CD dramatizing the texts, with actors and music, is sold with the book) is back on the bestseller list of Amazon.fr

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Linda Martz's article "Frederick Pethick-Lawrence: l'homme parmi les suffragettes" was just published in Ces Hommes qui epousèrent la cause des femmes by Les Editions de l'Atelier, in a volume edited by Martine Monacelli and Michel Prum with introductions by Françoise Heritier and Geneviève Fraisse.

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Stephen Monteiro published the chapter “Lovely Gardens and Dark Rooms: Alice, the Queen, and the Spaces of Photography” in Alice beyond Wonderland: Essays for the Twenty-first Century (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009). More information is available here.

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David Pike’s review of David A. Messenger, L’Espagne Républicaine: French Policy and Spanish Republicanism in Liberated France (Brighton/Portland: Sussex University Press, 2008), appears in the American Society for Spanish and Portuguese Studies Bulletin, 2009, pp. 33-35.

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Claudia Roda and Georgi Stojanov attended the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems and participated at the 2nd Members Meeting of the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics held in Zurich on January 28-29, 2010. For more information on these events please click here.  Claudia Roda also presented a poster “Modelling responses to the first few hours of exposure to new languages” at the CLIN 2010 conference (Computational Linguistics In The Netherlands) which took place in Utrecht on February 5. The poster was coauthored with Rebekah Rast and Georgi Stojanov. For more info please visit http://www.clin.nl/20/

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Christy Shields-Argeles gave a two day intensive seminar on the topic of "Gastronomy and Identity" to international students at the Institut Polytechnique de LaSalle Beauvais.

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Julie Thomas has published a chapter on “Fashion and Ethics, Reinventing Models of Consumption and Creativity,” co-authored with Mo Tomaney, in Vol. III of The Cultures and Globalization Series, Cultural Expression, Creativity, and Innovation (Sage), edited by Helmut Anheier and Raj Isar. Her chapter analyzing transnational identity in a recent museum exhibition, “Recycling Heroines in France: Invisibility and the Transnational,” is to be published in the summer in Circuits of Visibility (NYU Press), and a chapter entitled “The Manipulation of Memory and Heritage in Museums of Migration” will be published in Vol. IV of The Cultures and Globalization Series in the Fall. 

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George Wanklyn has been invited to participate in a one-day symposium at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, on March 6.  The symposium, entitled "Tout art s'apprend par art," is devoted to French Renaissance art, and honors Professor Colin Eisler's 50 years of teaching at the IFA. Professor Eisler was Professor Wanklyn's first teacher when he commenced his graduate studies at the IFA. The program's 11 presentations will be made by museum directors and curators, and professors. George Wanklyn's presentation will be on "New Light, New Thoughts on Baptiste Pellerin as a Draughtsman."

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Douglas Yates published “Life Stories and Family Histories of the French Oil Industry: The Rise and Fall of the Corps des Mines” in Alain Beltran ed., A Comparative History of National Oil Companies (Peter Lang, 2010).  He also presented a paper “Oil, Rebel Movements and Armed Conflict in Africa” at the Total-CNRS 3rd International History Congress: Oil and War (Feb 12).  Professor Yates was interviewed by France24 (click here) on the crisis in Guinea (Feb. 9), by CNBC on the EU bailout of Greece (Feb. 12), by French television Telesud on President Obama (Feb. 15), and by RFI on Equatorial Guinea (Feb. 19).