Sharam Alijani presented a paper entitled “Creating Dynamic Capabilities Through Knowledge Integration and Exploitation: Evidence from the High-tech Industries” at the Sixth Annual Conference on Management of Organizational Capacities organized by the Department of  Management and Technology of the University of Québec in Montréal. This interdisciplinary research event was hosted by the 78th annual gathering of ACFAS (Association Canadian-Française pour l’Avancement des Sciences, www.acfas.ca) in Montreal from May 10 through May 14.  Professor Alijani’s paper is available in the conference proceedings at www.gco.uqam.ca. On May 7, Alijani was invited to speak on the topic of “Business Research Outreach” at the 4th Student Conference on Business Research held at HEC Montreal, Canada. Professor’s Alijani article entitled “Pathways to Innovation: Evidence from Competitiveness Clusters in France” was published as a book chapter in Emerging Issues and Challenges in Business and Economics (2009), Firenze University Press.    

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On 29 April, Petermichael von Bawey interviewed Irene Khan, Secretary-General of Amnesty International, concerning the translation of her book The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights (Norton, NY 2009) into French under the title Pauvres en droits (Max-Milo, Paris 2010). Professor von Bawey's interview was published in English and French in the May issue of Le SNESUP 585.

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Michael Dorsch's paper, "Bailouts for Sale? The Political Economy of the TARP Bill," was one of six papers nominated for the best paper award at the Spring Meeting of Young Economists in Luxembourg out of over 600 submissions. Professor Dorsch was also invited to present the paper at the Public Choice seminar at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne on May 25.

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Jérôme Game has been invited to deliver a key-note paper at the 'Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945' international conference to be held at London University and the University of Cambridge on 16-17 July 2010. Professor Game's paper is titled "A Poetics on the verge - Thoughts on contemporary French Poetry."  In late May he contributed an article entitled "In & Out, ou comment sortir du livre pour mieux y retourner - et réciproquement," for a special issue of the journal Littérature entitled "La littérature exposée. Les écritures contemporaines hors du livre."  Jérôme Game is the laureate of a Mission Stendhaloffered by the French Ministère des Affaires Etrangères to selected writers to carry out a research project wherever they want in the world. Professor Game will travel to Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai throughout this summer to write a book on Asian cinema in its relation to literature. On 11 June Professor Game will receive Vincent Vivès of l'Université Aix-Marseille in his "Intensité de l'art" seminar held at l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. Professor Vivès's talk is entitled "Intensité, quantum d'affect, séries proliférantes: le cas Nietzsche."

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On May 18, Hall Gardner was interviewed by Deutsche Welle on the “European Bailout Protection Act” that is currently being introduced in the House of Representatives  by Republicans. On May 19, Gardner spoke on the subject, "Immigration, la guerre contre la drogue et l'escalade de la crise américano-mexicaine" based on Chapter 9 of his book, Averting Global War (New York : Palgrave, 2010) at the Forum du Futur conference, "Les relations entre les Etats-Unis et l'Amérique latine : une nouvelle donne?" held at France-Amériques. His article, "Afghanistan: An Ever Widening War?" was published in Géostrategiques (No. 27, 2ème trimestre, La Géostratégie de l'Afghanistan).  On May 21, Professor Gardner was invited by Mikhail Gorbachev to participate in the first meeting of the New Policy Forum, held in Luxembourg, as a member of the advisory board. The New Policy Forum aims to bring together current political leaders, veterans of international politics, intellectuals and civil society representatives in a common effort to develop new ideas and new policies for the XXI century (see: http://gorbachev.crmm.ru).

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Jayson Harsin presented research on Obama and Rumor Control at the International Political Science Association's E-Democracy Workshop in Dubrovnik last month.

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Oleg Kobtzeff was interviewed on Radio France International about the legacy of the May 1968 movements in France. On May 13 he appeared on France 2 television discussing the geography of the Arctic regions in European Russia and its populations (and will be interviewed on France 2 again on June 6). 

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In April, Mehdi Majidi reached an agreement with Akou Investment Management for an academic cooperation which will begin with the organization of an international case competition in fall 2010. Graduate and undergraduate students around the world will be invited to develop viable business plans for ‘off grid solar energy electricity generation to serve small communities, villages of 100-1000 people, where electricity will enable new business opportunities and local sustainable development’. The winners will be rewarded and winning projects will be presented to a third party investor for financing from large financial institutions such as the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Kreditansalt fu Wiederaufbau (KfW), the African Development Bank (AFD), etc…  Nadia Popova (AUP 2003) initiated the collaboration between Professor Majidi and Akou Investment after the successful result of AUP’s first case competition in spring 2010. For the first case competition, AUP students offered marketing strategy solutions for AINA, an NGO providing photojournalism education to girls in Afghanistan. Twenty-one graduate and undergraduate students formed five teams and competed in a collaborative structured procedure. Students' proposals were evaluated by a group of judges—AUP faculty members and outside professionals. In the fall, students will implement the winning solution through the internship program at AINA.

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Daniel Medin will present a paper titled "À la Porte. Une leçon kafkaïenne de J. M. Coetzee" at Kafka après "son" siècle, a ten-day colloquium at the Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle this July. He will also co-chair (and present at) a day-long series of panels on Robert Walser in Oakland this fall.

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On May 15, Farhad Nomani was invited by the Center for Ethics at the University of Toronto, Canada, for a talk on "Democracy, Civil Society, and the Iranian Working Class."

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Anna Russakoff will be presenting a paper entitled "Images that come to life: Miracles of the Virgin and the Vierges Ouvrantes" at the Historians of Netherlandish Art conference in Amsterdam, held from May 27-29.  She is also co-organizing a conference for the International Medieval Society in Paris, in collaboration with the research group LAMOP-Paris I Sorbonne, on the theme of Translation, to be held at the Sorbonne from June 24-26.  For the program and registration form, see www.ims-paris.org

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Margery Arent Safir's chapter "Laboratorios fantasticos: literatura y ciencia" (Fantastic Laboratories: Literature and Sciences) was published in Nuevos hispanismos interdisciplinarios y transatlánticos, edited by Professor Julio Ortega, Head of Hispanic Studies, Brown University, and published by Iberoamericana in April 2010.  Her invited lecture on "Borges y Kafka," to be delivered at an international colloquium in Buenos Aires in April, was cancelled due to the air transport problems caused by the Icelandic volcano.

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Edith Taïeb est intervenue dans le cadre du Colloque international intitulé "Les féministes de la 2ème vague" qui s'est tenu à Angers du 20 au 22 mai. Le titre de sa communication: "La postérité d'Hubertine Auclert."

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Douglas Yates was interviewed on CNBC to discuss Sarkozy's mid-term evaluation (May 3) and the European perspective on the new British Conservative government of Cameron and Clegg (May 13).  He was also interviewed on RFI to discuss the failure of power-sharing talks in Madagascar (May 2).  Professor Yates presented a paper, "Port-Gentil: From Forestry Capital to Oil Capital" at the University of Houston (May 20-22) with support of a grant by the National Science Foundation.

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