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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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).
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