Conferences & Talks

ALIJANI, SHAHRAM

• Alijani, S. (2021) Chair and panel organizer. Moving Toward A Decarbonized Economy: Coping with Environmental, Welfare Imperatives & Existential Risks. Global Forum on Democratizing Work, 5–7 Oct., 

• Alijani, S. (2021) Panelist. Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability. RIODD 16th Annual Conference: Entrepreneuriat et développement durable : la « société entrepreneuriale » à l’épreuve de la crise sanitaire, Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France, 29 Sept.–1 Oct.

• Alijani, S., Turnbull, S. and Sun, W. (2021) Caucus proponent and panelist. Education for Managing Existential Risks. Academy of Management, Bringing the Manager Back in Management, USA, 30 July–3 Aug.
• Alijani S., Turnbull, S. and Sun, W. (2021) Symposium proponent and panelist. Democratically Governed Organizations, Managing Existential Risks for the Common Good. European Academy of Management Symposium, Trinity College, Montreal, Canada, 16–18 June.
• Alijani, S. (2021) Les dilemmes de l’innovateur social : les formes d’agir et les processus d’émergence de l’innovation sociale. Session 415, “L’innovation sociale dans l'espace francophone : politiques, pratiques et outils,” Association francophone pour le savoir, 88th ACFAS Congress, Université du Québec à Sherbrooke, Canada, 3–7 May.
• Alijani, S. (2021) Panelist. Innover en temps de COVID-19 : retour d’expériences. Session 415, “L’innovation sociale dans l'espace francophone : politiques, pratiques et outils,” Association francophone pour le savoir, 88th ACFAS Congress, Université du Québec à Sherbrooke, Canada, 3–7 May.
• Alijani, S. (2021) Session Chair. Gestion et évaluation de l’innovation sociale. Session 415, “L’innovation sociale dans l'espace francophone : politiques, pratiques et outils,” Association francophone pour le savoir, 88th ACFAS Congress, Université du Québec à Sherbrooke, Canada, 3–7 May.
• Alijani, S. (2021) La finance responsable et éthique comme levier de transformation sociale : quelle place pour les investissements à impact ? Session 457, “La pratique de la finance responsable,” Association francophone pour le savoir, 88th ACFAS Congress, Université du Québec à Sherbrooke, Canada, 3–7 May.
• Alijani, S. (2021) L’analyse des fondements éthiques et durables des organisations : quelle gouvernance pour quelle performance ? Session 439, “Les organisations responsables et durables au 21e siècle : Antécédents, pratiques et défis stratégiques,” Association francophone pour le savoir, 88th ACFAS Congress, Université du Québec à Sherbrooke, Canada, 3–7 May.
• Alijani, S. (2021) Quel financement des PME africaines : Pistes de réflexions et propositions pour un modèle de financement responsable et durable. Session 608, “Les dispositifs d'appui financiers et non-financiers à l’entrepreneuriat et aux PME africaines: état des lieux et perspectives internationales, ” Association francophone pour le savoir, 88th ACFAS Congress, Université du Québec à Sherbrooke, Canada, 3–7 May.
• Alijani S., Turnbull, S. and Sun, W. (2020) Symposium proponent and panelist. Democratically Governed Organizations, Managing Existential Risks for the Common Good. European Academy of Management Symposium, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 4–6.
• Gangi, F., Meric, J., Daniele, L.M., Alijani, S., Karyotis, C. Jardat, R. (2020) Symposium proponent and panelist. Business for Society Project: Next Step Finance for Society. European Academy of Management Symposium, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 4–6.
• Conference and symposium chair and proponent. Finance and Economy for Society: Inclusion, Empowerment and Sustainability. Business & Society SIG, European Academy of Management (EURAM), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 4–6, 2020.
• Session chair. “ESG, CSR and Financial Performance.” Finance and Economy for Society: Inclusion, Empowerment and Sustainability. Business & Society SIG, European Academy of Management (EURAM), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 4–6, 2020.
• Session discussant. “Circular Economy and Responsible Finance.” Finance and Economy for Society: Inclusion, Empowerment and Sustainability, Business & Society SIG, European Academy of Management (EURAM), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 4–6, 2020.
• Session chair and discussant. “Circular Economy and Responsible Finance.” Finance and Economy for Society: Inclusion, Empowerment and Sustainability. Business & Society SIG, European Academy of Management (EURAM), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Dec. 4–6, 2020.
• Reviewer: Academy of Management Review (AMR), Journal of Business Ethics (JBE), European Academy of Management (EURAM) and Academy of Management (AOM).
• Alijani, S. (2019) Business Panel Chair, “China-EU-USA: Cooperation, Competition or Coopetition? What’s in it for African economic and business development?” NCIB 5th Annual conference, NEOMA Confucius Institute for Business, November 21, 2019, NEOMA Business School, Paris, France.
• Alijani, S. (2019) Discussant, “Financialization and Sustainability,” AFEP-IIPPE Congress, International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy, and Association française de l’économie politique, Sciences Po Lille, July 3–5, 2019.
• Alijani, S. (2019) Session Chair, “Institutions and Entrepreneurship Policy,” Academy of Management, August 10–13, 2019, Boston, USA.
• Alijani S. (2019) Session Chair and Discussant, “Finance and Economy for Society: Inclusion, Empowerment and Sustainability,” European Academy of Management Symposium, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), EURAM, June 25–28, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Alijani S., Sun, W. Robinson, S. (2019) Symposium proponent and panelist, “Social Innovation Pathways: Public Engagement and Participative Democracy,” European Academy of Management Symposium, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), EURAM 25-28 June, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Alijani S., Previati, D., Méric, J., Daniele, L., Gangi, F., Vanvitelli, L. (2019) Symposium proponent and panelist,   “Lending and Equity Crowdfunding and Traditional Financial Services: Competition or Coopetition,” Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), EURAM, June 25–28, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Alijani S., Homberg, F., Herath, D., Worely, C. (2019) Symposium proponent and panelist, “Organizational Design and Agility: Implications for Society, Business and Environment,” Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), EURAM, June 25–28, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Alijani S. (2019) “De l’agilité à la performance organisationnelle : l’analyse des fondements de la gouvernance transformationnelle” (Conference session 460), Governance & Innovation, Association francophone pour le savoir 87th ACFAS Congress, May 27–30, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada.
• Alijani S. (2019) « De la coopération à la confrontation : l’étude des pays du Conseil de coopération du Golfe » (Conference session 429), Mondes arabes post-2011 : acteurs, évolutions sociopolitiques et (en)jeux géopolitiques, Association francophone pour le savoir 87th ACFAS Congress, May 27–30, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada.

 

BERG, ELENA

• Piani, Claudio, Elena Berg, and Wei-Tse Hung. “Adaptation of Seed Beetles to Fluctuating Temperatures.” Poster presentation given at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, Austria, April 2019.
• Berg, Elena, Martin Lind, Shannon Monahan, Sophie Bricout, and Alexei Maklakov. “Kin Selection and Sexual Conflict in Seed Beetles.” Talk given at the joint meeting of the Animal Behavior Society and International Ethological Congress in Chicago, Illinois, July 2019.

 

BODEVIN, SUZANNE

• Summer Academy of the Fondation St. Omer (involving students from Science Po Lille and Georgetown University). The Director, Edouard de Lencquesaing, granted invitation to give a formal presentation on “The Importance of Impact Measurement for Sustainable Investing,” July 2021 lecture series.
• “Sustainable Finance Metrics, Measurement and the Attainment of Higher ESG Standards in the Private Sector.” Invited guest presentation at the Summer Academy of the Fondation St. Omer by the director, Edouard de Lencquesaing (involving students from Sciences Po Lille and Georgetown University), July 2020.

 

BROCKMEIER, JENS

• Ohnmacht und Exzess. Für ein kulturpsychologisches Verständnis von Zeit und Simultaneität [Helplessness and Excess: Toward a Cultural Psychology of Time and Simultaneity]. Conference of the Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie / Society for Cultural Psychology. Ascona, Switzerland, Sept. 2021.
• “Is Narrative Time Diachronic?” DFG Koselleck Workshop, Diachronic Narratology. University of Freiburg, Feb. 2020.
• “The Self and Its Crises.” The Psychology of Global Crises, #PGC2020, The American University of Paris, May 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOJeRNPnFM.
• “How Do Humans Make Sense of Multiple Temporalities?” Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin, July 2020, https://youtu.be/9qrSZNOQxx0.
• “Is There a Narrative Perspective of Time?” The Study of Literature, Reading, and Cognition: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Concepts, and Terms. Technical University Aachen, Germany, Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies, Oct. 2020.
• “Lifetime between diachrony and synchrony.” Invited lecture. English Department, Research Center Factuality and Fictionality, University of Freiburg/Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany, December 2019.
• “La morfologia della vita umana.” Keynote lecture. International conference. History, Narration, Big Data: Morphology and Historical Sequence. Centro Studi Arti della Modernità, University of Turin, Italy, November 2019.
• “Der Angst ein Gesicht geben: Metaphor as Handlung [Giving a face to anxiety: Metaphor as action]. Invited lecture. 7th Berlin Symposium on Narrative Medicine: Metaphors in Medicine. Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin [Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine], Charité University Hospital, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, October 2019.
• “Time, Life and Narrative.” Conference Rethinking a Lifetime: Perspectives from Antiquity Until Present. Invited Lecture. Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin, Germany, October 2019.
• “Memory, Time, and Simultaneity in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz.” Invited Lecture. Department of Literature, University Oslo, Norway, September 2019.
• Invited Seminar. Research group Literature, Cognition, Emotions, University of Oslo, September 2019.
• “I Have Many Sick Hearts: Stories About Illness, Borders, and Life.” Keynote Lecture. CHCI Medical Humanities Network Summer Institute Health Beyond Borders. Columbia University Global Center Paris, Reid Hall, France, June 2019.
• “Variations of Language Awareness: Writing and Narrative.” Invited talk. Conference on Literacies, Cultures, and Minds. University of Calgary, Canada, May 2019.
• “Juggling How Many Balls at Once? On Autobiographical Simultaneity.” Invited talk. Conference on Uses and Abuses of Storytelling: Theorizing the Intersections of Narrative, Memory and Identity. University of Turku, Finland, February 2019.

 

CABALLER GUTIERREZ, MANUEL

• “New Lights in the Ocean: Biodiversity Exploration and Bioluminescence.” Learning Commons Forum for Research and Practice, the Learning Commons Advisory Committee and the Joy and Edward Frieman Environmental Science Center, AUP, 27 Oct. 2021.

 

CANELAS, CARLA

• Mass Trials conference. Presenting on mass trials for terror actors in Syria. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Oct. 2021.
• EUROCRIM annual conference. Presenting on ISIS wives and children before European courts. Sept. 2021.
• Book launch, Prosecuting the President (Feb. 2021, University of Cardiff). Law & Society Association, May 2021.
• Charlie Hebdo trial ethnography presentation. Justice Visions Podcast, Feb. 2021.
• PEP Annual Conference (Partnership for Economic Policy – PEP). Online, paper presentation, June 2021.
• Discussant and paper presentation, Jobs and Development Conference, IZA/World Bank, Sept. 2020.
• Discussant and paper presentation, Transforming Informal Work and Livelihoods Workshop, UNU-WIDER, Nov. 2020.
• Invited speaker, International Workshop on Informality and Undeclared Employment, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Nov. 2020.
• Discussant and paper presentation at the World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) annual conference, Thailand, September 2019.
• Discussant and paper presentation at the Business and Entrepreneurial Economics (BEE), Croatia, May 2019.

 

CARLSON, KERSTIN

• Presentation on law and citizenship, Migration in the Mediterranean, EHESS Paris, Jan. 2020.
• Justice360 (CA18228) workshop, COST network, Sarajevo, Jan. 2020.
• Neha Jain’s ICL seminar, presenting Model(ing) Justice, EUI, Feb. 2020.
• Presenting on the Habré trial, International Criminal Court and Its Impact, Aarhus, Feb. 2020.
• Presenting on foreign fighter legislation in Danish, Borgermødet for UNHCR Review, SDU, Denmark, Mar. 2020.
• Presenting on foreign fighters, Law and Society Association (LSA), Denver, May 2020.
• Presenting “face covering ban" paper with J. Slosser, Disentangling Religion and Law, Oslo, June 2020.
• Presenter, TwixtLab Webinar on “Use of International Criminal Law to Address Violence against Migration.” July 2020.
• Conference organizer, CWS annual conference, “What is a Battlefield, Who is a Fighter,” Odense (virtual), Oct. 2020. Presented paper, “Transitional Justice for European Foreign Fighters? What Colombia’s JEP Teaches.”
• Just Sites conference launch – presenting paper on Habré book, Copenhagen, December 2019.
• “When Human Rights are a Baseline, Not a Mandate: The Emerging Human Rights Jurisprudence of the East African Court of Justice.” Southern Criminology Conference Bogotá Colombia, November 2019.
• Book launch, Model(ing) Justice, AUP, October 2019.
• EUROCRIM Transitional Justice pre-conference, Ghent, September 2019 – presenting paper on South Sudan.
• European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Edinburgh, June 2019 – organizer of 2 panels on transitional justice.
• Council for European Studies (CES), Madrid, June 2019 – presenting paper on Danish citizenship revocation.
• Law and Society Associations (LSA), Washington DC, May 2019 – presenting paper on terror law in Denmark; book launch for Model(ing) Justice.
• Book launch, Model(ing) Justice at iCourts, University of Copenhagen.
• “Un-Belonging: Terrorism, Citizenship, and the Return of Banishment.” International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, March 2019.
• Transitional Justice for South Sudan conference, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, February 2019.

 

CATH, ALBERT

• Participated in LITEM workshops (Mar., June and Dec.) on the book project Epistemologies of Accountability, organized by an International Research Consortium LITEM. The LITEM research consortium is made up of Saclay/Institut Mines-Télécom (Paris), Neyenrode Business University (Netherlands), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Aston Business School (UK), and Eada Business School (Spain). Co-research on the theme of “Ethnographies of Accountability.”
• Participated in the SCOS conference 2021: Difference. The 38th Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS) took place online between 5–6 July, 2021. The conference was hosted by Copenhagen Business School. Paper presentation and chaired a session, https://www.tilmeld.dk/scos2021/scos-conference-2021-difference.html.
• Attended and participated in the conference/festival La Manufacture d’Idées, Edition 2021 “Lignes des possibles,” Aug. 2021, https://lamanufacturedidees.org/edition-2021/.
• Co-organized and presented the MSIM symposium on “Hyper-Management,” 17 Nov. 2021, AUP.

 

CULP, JULIAN

• Democratic Citizenship Education in Digitized Societies. A Habermasean Approach. SPOT Political Theory Seminar, Sciences Po Paris – Cevipof, Nov. 2021.
• Does Digitized Democracy Have an Epistemic Dimension? Probably “No.” Democratic Participation, Popular Sovereignty and Territory, workshop, Sciences Po Paris – Cevipof, Sept. 2021.
• Schulische Demokratieerziehung und die Krise der repräsentativen Demokratie (Democratic School Education and the Crisis of Representative Democracy). Panel on “the Capacity for Democratic Conflict, We Have the Choice!” Congress of the German Association for Political Science, Sept. 2021.
• Was heißt globale Bildungsgrechtigkeit? (What Does Global Educational Justice Mean?) Department of Philosophy, University of Mainz, Sept. 2021.
• After Rawls: The Future of Political Philosophy. Political Philosophy Section, German Society for Philosophy Congress, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sept. 2021.
• Transnationale Bildungsgerechtigkeit (Transnational Educational Justice). Lecture series, International Perspectives on Educational Justice, Technische Universität Dortmund, July 2021.
• Democratic Education and Electoral Ethics, What Should Citizens Vote for? International Conference, Sciences Po Paris – Cevipof, July 2021.
• Does Digitized Democracy Have an Epistemic Dimension? Probably “No.” Online Workshop of the journal Educational Theory, June 2021.
• Multicultural Education for Transnational Democratic Citizenship. Thematic conference, “Do We Lack a Societal Consensus? Conflicts of Identity and Political Participation in Civil Society,” German Association for Political Science, University Göttingen, May 2021.
• “Demokratieerziehung und die Krise der liberalen Demokratie.” Which Citizenship Education for Which Democracy?, German Historical Institute Paris, Paris, Oct. 2020.
• Culp, Julian. 2019. Book launch workshop on Democratic Education in a Globalized World, Chair for Political Theory, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
• Culp, Julian. 2019. Book launch panel on Democratic Education in a Globalized World, Human Development and Capability Organization, University College London.
• Culp, Julian. 2019. Book launch workshop on Democratic Education in a Globalized World, Center for Critical Democracy Studies, The American University of Paris.
• Culp, Julian. 2019. “Bildung und Gerechtigkeit,” Inaugural Lecture (Antrittsvorlesung), Department of Philosophy, Goethe University of Frankfurt.
• Culp, Julian. 2019. “Is there a Universal Grammar of Justice?,” New Universalisms Workshop, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Delmenhorst, Germany.
• Culp, Julian. 2019. “The Bi- and Multinational Education of Migrant Children.” Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, Princeton University.
• Culp, Julian. 2019. “Discourse Ethics, Epistemology, and Educational Justice,” North American Association for Philosophy and Education, University of St. Mary of the Lake, Illinois, conference participation.
• Culp, Julian. 2019. “Ideale und Kritik: Zur Aufgabe und Methode politischer Philosophie,” International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg (Austria), conference participation.
• Culp, Julian. 2019. Commentary on Morganne Ollier, Translating Science into Climate Action Conference, The American University of Paris.
• Conference organization, Translating Climate Science into Political Action, led by Elena Berg and Claudio Piani.
• Lecture series organization with Rob Reich and Ted Lechterman on Philanthropy, Power and Democracy, Center for Critical Democracy Studies, AUP, with Jessica Feldman and Peter Hägel.
• Guest lecture organization by Regina Kreide on Crossing Out Borders, George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention, AUP.
• Guest lecture organization by Jiewuh Song on The International Criminal Court, George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention, AUP.
• Guest lecture organization by Lukas Sparenborg on Climate Justice and Responsibility, Department of History, AUP.

 

DENNIS, AMANDA

• Her Here book launch events/interviews/book clubs (selected):
• Reading and launch party at The Red Wheelbarrow, Paris, Mar. 2021.
• In conversation with Clare Beams, River Bend Bookshop, CT USA, Mar. 2021.
• In conversation with Dan Gunn, Center for Writers & Translators, Paris, Mar. 2021.
• In conversation with Rachel Donadio, The American Library of Paris, Apr. 2021.
• Bellevue Literary Press Salon, in conversation with Michael Coffey, May 2021.
• Bartleby Book Club, discussion, Brussels, Belgium, May 2021.
• Princeton Alumni of Rhode Island book club discussion, July 2021.
• Author event, “Where We Come from and Where We’re Going: A Conversation with Ann Tashi Slater.” Sponsored by the Princeton Alumni Associations of Japan and France, July 19, 2020,
• https://www.ptonartsalumni.org/arts-alumni-calendar/2020/7/19/where-we-come-from-and-where-were-going-ann-tashi-slater-84-in-conversation-with-amanda-dennis-03.
• Co-organized, with Nicholas Johnson, Celine Thobois, and Douglas Atkinson, the first fully virtual Beckett
• conference, “Beckett and the Anthropocene,” hosted by Trinity College Dublin, Dec. 4–5, 2020,
• https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/event.php?eventid=146263380
• Welcome video: https://vimeo.com/485950783.
• “Style and the Violence of Passivity in Samuel Beckett’s How It Is.” Invited talk at The Hermeneutics of Violence Workshop, part of Interpreting Violence: Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics, Turku, Finland, August 2019.
• Co-organized (with Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University) and hosted an interdisciplinary symposium at AUP – Beckett, Phenomenology and Ecology – which brought together an international group of philosophers and Beckett scholars for a day-long discussion and laid the groundwork for a larger conference to be held at Trinity College Dublin in December 2020, Beckett and the Anthropocene. Paris, June 2019.
• “Translation as Ecstasy’s Mediation: Beckett contra Rimbaud,” paper presented at the annual conference of the Samuel Beckett Society, Beckett and Translation, Almería, Spain, May 2019.
• “Writing the Body: Style and the Non-Human,” paper presented at the conference, Beckett and the Non-Human, Brussels, Belgium, February 2019.

 

DOYLE, WADDICK        

• “The Attention Economy in the Post Covid Mediterranean.” Keynote address, Mediterranean Forum: Mediterranean Perspectives in the Next Decade. University Conference Center Sarajevo, 29–30 Oct. 2021.
• “Brand Communication and the Attention Economy.” Digital economy lecture series at the Digital Economy Lab (DELab), an interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Warsaw, 10 Nov. 2021.
• Chair of session. “Post-Truth, Alternative Epistemologies and Trials of Deliberation.” International Communication Association annual meeting, Gold Coast, May 2020.
• Invited research paper presentation “Power and Techniques of the Self in Moroccan Sufism: The Tariqa Qadiria Butshishiya, an Islamic Counterreformation?” ANU Canberran, February 2019.
• Artificial intelligence workshop, Transform AI annual conference. Workshop on “Digitalization and Culture,” Paris, April 12, 2019.
• Digital Humanities Institute – Beirut 2019 at the American University of Beirut, May 3–5, 2019.
• Invited analyst and reviewer of research projects at the Qatar National Research Council, September 10–14, 2019.
• Chair and discussant of keynote “Ghassan Hage No Way: Australia from the Radical Point of Non-Belonging.” Theme: Alter/Natives, European Australian Studies Association Toulon, September 17, 2019.
• Invited guest speaker at the Salon du Livre Maghrebin Oujda, “Transmission Maroc en France spiritualité et technologie numerique.” Morocco, October 9–13, 2019.
• Third Mediterranean Forum: Sarajevo-Dubrovnik Constellation. Section: Digitalisation – 4.0 Revolution and Increasing Digitalisation in Society, invited keynote “New Digital Routes Are Creating a New Sense of Space in the Mediterranean,” Sarajevo, Bosnia, October 25–26, 2019.
• Invited speaker, conference: Sufism and Development. Paper: “Digital Technologies and Techniques of the Self Madagh,” Morocco, November 5, 2019.
• Moderated Civic Media conference at AUP, Listening and Transformation: Acoustics and Civic Life. Co-organised with Jessica Feldman, November 13, 2019.
• CSAA Conference 2019: Cultural Transformations. Paper: “Reciprocal Translations: Islam and France.” University of Queensland, Brisbane, December 4–6, 2019.
• GLAA Conference on Humanitarian Innovation and Entrepreneurship: SDG Impact Through Service-Learning, Hong Kong, December 16–17, 2019.

 

DOW, WILLIAM

• “Literary Journalism and U.S. Found Poetry: Intersections in Place and Temporality.” Literary Journalism and Found Poetry. “Literary Journalism Across Media.” The Fifteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-15). University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20–22 May 2021 (virtual).
• “American Literary Journalism Studies, Envisioning Futures: The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism.” Panel co-chair. “Literary Journalism Across Media.” The Fifteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-15). University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20–22 May 2021 (virtual).
• “Introduction: Literary Journalism and the City.” American Urban Literary Journalism (talk by Robert Boynton). SEA (Savoirs et Espaces Anglophone) Research Group. Lecture organizer. Université Gustave Eiffel (UGE), 7 May 2021.
• Co-director (with Professor Marie-Françoise Alamichel) of four seminars devoted to the cultural, political and literary representations of cities for the research group Savoirs et Espaces Anglophone (SEA), Paris-Est (UPEM).
• All Things James Baldwin. “Signatures of Witness.” James Baldwin panel discussion and book launch. Alice Craven and William Dow (eds.), Of Latitudes Unknown (2019). With Bill V. Mullen, James Baldwin: Living in Fire (2019) and Yule Caise, The American University of Paris. October 4, 2019.
• Panel moderator. “Express Cities.” Représenter la Ville : les Mots, les Gestes et l’Esprit. Savoirs et Espaces Anglophone (SEA), Université Paris-Est UPEM. September 12–13, 2019.

 

 

DWIBEDY, BISWAMIT

• Poetry reading. The New Social Environment, Brooklyn Rail, July 8, 2020.
• Invited speaker. Writers on Writing, Brown University, Sept. 21, 2020.
• Poetry reading. Radical Poetry Reading, Brooklyn Rail, Nov. 11, 2020.

 

EARHART, ROBERT

• Earhart, Robert and Farley Sawyer. “What’s the Difference? Authentic Leadership and Aesthetics.” Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS), Copenhagen, 5 July 2021.
• Earhart, Robert and Kate Zhang. “A Different Object: Eco-Tourism Adaptations in the Face of Mass Tourism in Tiger Leaping Gorge Yunnan Province, China.” Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS), Copenhagen, 5 July 2021.
• Earhart, Robert. Chair, Hypermanagement: Experiencing Complexity, AUP Graduate Symposium, 17 Nov. 2021.
• Chair. Re-visioning Sustainability and Management Strategy for Climate Change in a (Post) Covid-19 World, AUP Graduate Symposium, Sept. 10, 2020
• Earhart, Robert. “Haunted Management: Film as Metaphor, Representation and Affect for Management Pedagogy” Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism, Kings Manor, University of York, Exhibition Square, York, July 9, 2019. Management Stream Presentation.

 

EINBINDER, FRED

• Speaker. “A Comparative Law Perspective on Transnational Anti-Corruption Enforcement,” Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law. Hosted (online) by the University of Wisconsin in Madison, 14 Oct. 2021.
• Speaker. “Rejection, Resistance and Resonance: Recent French Responses to US Anti-Corruption Measures and Pharma ‘Class actions’ Mass Torts,” Foreign and International Committee of the Chicago Bar Association (videoconference), 14 Sept. 2021.
• Speaker. “Essential Themes for Implementing Tools that Enable Next Level PPP’s,” World Association of PPP Units and PPP Professionals “WAPPP” Annual Congress (videoconference), Geneva, 14 June 2021.
• Speaker. “Key Concessions/PPP Clauses and Guiding Principles, Impact of the International Centre .’Policies, Laws and Institutions’ for Attracting the Private Sector into Sustainable and Resilient PFPPP Projects,” Fifth International UNECE Forum on Public-Private Partnerships (videoconference), Geneva, 26 Apr. 2021.
• Research presentation to AUP Economics and Management colleagues, “Comparative French and American Law and Practice: Corruption Abroad and Mass Torts,” 8 Apr. 2021.
• Speaker. « Responsabilités Civiles et Pénales des Dirigeants et Législation Américaine (FCPA) : Evolutions Récentes et Nouveaux Enjeux », GOVERNANCES, Paris, Feb. 4, 2020.
• Several seminars organized by IKARIAN (with Fréderic Pierrucci) for experienced French lawyers, senior executives and general counsels on “Responsabilité Pénales des Dirigeants et Analyse des Sanctions du US Departement du Justice,” April 2, May 16, October 24, 2019. 
• Training Session for French prosecutors, judges and investigators on “La Responsabilité Pénale des Personnes Morales,” organized by the Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature (Directors-Vice Procureur, TGI de PARIS, Premier Vice-Procureur TGI Nanterre), December 17, 2019.
• Masterclass on mergers and acquisitions, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), organized by colleague Doris Speer, December 4–5, 2019.
• "Compliance et Gouvernance – Le Cas Alstom" (with Fréderic Pierrucci and Marcus Asshoff), Le Cercle des Administrateurs de SCI PO Alumni – October 24, 2019.
• Conference paper presentation – “Mass Torts: Dispute Resolution in France and the USA: The Vioxx and Mediator Cases Compared” – at the University of Missouri, ASCL Annual Meeting, October 17, 2019.
• Conference paper presentation at ALSB Annual Meeting: “Assaulting the New Citadel: Individual Responsibility Vs. Corporate Irresponsibility, Addiction, Lack of Choice and Fraud as Bases for Legal Redress for Third Parties.” Montreal, August 10, 2019.

 

EKOVICH, STEVEN

• Moderator at expert seminar, “JCPOA: Can Europe keep it alive?” at AUP, February 11, 2019.
• Participant and presenter on migration and cultural hybridity at 19th Forum de Bamako. “Nouvelles identités entre l'Europe et l'Afrique (y compris la diaspora africaine transatlantique) via la littérature francophone,” February 22–24, 2019.
• Presentation of research at the 5th biennial conference of ERGOMAS (European Research Group on Military and Society), “Vo Nguyen Giap: Leadership and the Evolution of Vietnamese Strategic Culture.” Lisbon, Portugal, June 17–21, 2019.

 

FELDMAN, JESSICA

• “COLBAC: Shifting Cybersecurity from Hierarchical to Horizontal Designs,” New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW '21), online, 2021.
• “State Apps & The Digital Citizen,” The Digital State: Technology and Government in Pandemic Times, annual conference of the Centre for Digital Culture at the Art and Humanities Research Institute, King's College, London, online, 2021.
• “What Makes an Open Source Project Critical Digital Infrastructure?” with Argyri Panezi, Digital Infrastructure: Building Our Digital World, Ford Foundation, 2020.
• “Radical Protocols: Designing Democratic Digital Tools in Social Movements,” Eindhoven University of Technology, Philosophy & Ethics group, 2020.
• “Radical Protocols: Designing Democratic Digital Tools in Social Movements,” Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society, University of Edinburgh, 2020.
• Workshop facilitator, governance of FOSS projects, SustainOSS, Brussels, 2020.
• “Radical Protocols and Systemic Failures: Designing Digital Tools in Social Movements,” at the Annual Conference of the Institute for Protest and Movement Research, Weizenbaum Institut for the Networked Society, Berlin, 2019.
• Panel moderator, "Theater, Space, and Time," Digital Civil Society Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2019.
• "The Romantic Agon of the MIDI Protocol," with Martin Scherzinger, SIGCIS (Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society), Society for the History of Technology annual conference, Milan, 2019.
• "Inclusion, Distribution, Decentralization: How Democratic Social Movements Design Communication Technologies, and What They Tell Us About Theory," Democratic Theory and Practice (Political Theory Specialist Group), Political Science Association of Ireland annual conference, Maynooth, Ireland, 2019.
• Co-facilitator, "Coding Caring: Human Values for an Intimate AI," study-workshop, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, 2019.
• Presentation of "Hold Up Half the Sky," Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, 2019.
• Invited talk, Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin, 2019.
• “We Are Nature Defending Herself: Decentering the Human Through Collective Listening and Coordinated Silence in Climate Protest," Voice and Environment, ICI Berlin, 2019.
• Invited talk, “Radical Protocols: Designing Digital Tools in Social Movements, from Tahrir to Occupy to République,” Center for American Studies and Research, American University of Beirut, 2019.
• “Channel: Technology and Infrastructure,” Regenerative Feedback: On Listening and Its Emancipatory Potential, Rotterdam, 2019.

 

FELTHAM, OLIVER

• “Lying is a Bloodsport: Theatricality in Barbara Cassin’s Work,” Online English and Theatre Studies Seminar, University of Melbourne, 26 Mar. 2021.
• Hosted invited guest, Dr. Robert Boncardo (University of New South Wales), for a guest lecture on Alain Badiou’s political philosophy in class PO/PL2003 Introduction to Political Philosophy, Jan. 17, 2020.
• “Genealogy and Comparative Ontology of Political Action in European Modernity.” College Internationale de Philosophie Research Seminar. Hosted invited speaker, Stephen Sawyer, “Was There a Modern Democratic Tradition?” Feb. 6, 2020.
• Hosted invited guest, Katharina Kraus, “Kant on Personhood.” University of Notre-Dame, Mar. 12, 2020.
• Elodie Djordjevic, « Qu’est-ce qu’une action politique ? Le politique, l’historique et l’étatique dans la conception hégélienne des conditions de l’action ». Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, Nov. 5, 2020.
• Frank Ruda. “The Excluded and Grotesque Sovereigns. Luhmann, Foucault, Hegel.” University of Dundee, Dec. 3, 2020.
• Gilles Marmasse. "L'homme dans l'Etat selon Hegel." Université de Poitiers, Dec. 10, 2020.
• Presentations at the Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, December 4–6, 2019.

 

GAO, ZHIPENG

• Gao, Zhipeng and Thomas Teo. Symposium. “Theorizing the Psychology of Deglobalization,” APA Annual Convention. Co-organizers: Thomas Teo. Participants: Catarina Kinnvall, Thomas Teo, James Liu, Sunil Bhatia and Zhipeng Gao. Online, Aug. 2021.
• Gao, Zhipeng. “Theorizing Chinese Immigrants’ ‘Double Unbelonging’ in an Era of Deglobalization.” In symposium “Theorizing the Psychology of Deglobalization.” APA Annual Convention, online, Aug. 2021.
• Gao, Zhipeng. “The Transnational Containment of Bodies and Citizenship amid the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Bodies on the Edge of Citizenship Conference, University of Portsmouth, UK, online, July 2021.
• Gao, Zhipeng. “Trauma of Revolution: A Communist Patient’s Management of Neurasthenia.” Annual Meeting of Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences, online, June 2021.
• Gao, Zhipeng. “Between Agency and Nature: Psychosomatic Healthcare in Socialist China, 1949-1965.” Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies, online, Mar. 2021.

 

GARDNER, HALL

• “Les premières actions diplomatiques de Joe Biden, vues d’Europe.” Cycle “Les Etats-Unis et le monde,” La Fondation Prospective & Innovation, 11 Feb. 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVdAAfEEHcc.

• “Key Regional Focal Points of Major Power Rivalry before WWI, WWII, the Cold War and Today.” Videoconference, Florida Political Science Association, Mar. 2021.

• “Not a New Cold War: It is Even More Dangerous” TedxAUP talk, The American University of Paris, 4 Dec. 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uftE56fbcqk. Text: https://wsimag.com/economy-and-politics/68323-not-a-new-cold-war.
• “Geostrategy, Oman and the Gulf.” Conference: National Defense University, 26 Dec. 2021.
• Fondation Prospective et Innovation. Les Premières Actions Diplomatiques de Joe Biden, Vues d’Europe - Cycle “Les Etats-Unis et Le Monde.” 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVdAAfEEHcc.
• Talk. “Trump and the Geopolitics of the New Arms Race.” Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico, Feb. 20, 2020.
• Talk. “Session 5: The Impact of the Covid-19 Crisis on American Power and Transatlantic Relations.” Geneva Center for Security Policy, June 10, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD7CxhlnSgQ. 
• “Trump and the Global Crisis.” Class of Larry Leck, College of Lake County, July 2020.
• Invited speaker. “Russia, China, Iran, Cyber. What Are the Greatest Challenges to European Security and How to Best Combat Them?” Economic Forum 2020, Krynica Zdrój, Poland, Sept. 8–10, 2020. Unable to attend due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Lecture. “US–French Security and Defense Relations.” John Hopkins University, Baltimore campus, class of former AUP student April Wuensch, Sept. 22, 2020.
• Publication and discussion of book, Etats-Unis, Chine, Europe: Quelle Remondialisation by Jean-Paul Betbeze, published by the Fondation Prospective et Innovation. Discussion presided over by the former Prime Minister of France, Jean Pierre Raffarin, Oct. 16, 2020, http://www.prospective-innovation.org/wp-content/uploads/Hall-gardner-texte-1-1.pdf.

 

GILBERT, GEOFF

• Gilbert, Geoff. “Occasion: Crisis, Collective Violence, and Price-Setting in Zola, 1871.” Risk, Violence, and Collective Agency conference, Institut des études avancées, Paris, May 22, 2019.
• “Language, Work, and Shared Lives: Juliana Spahr’s Poetics of the Commons,” Cultural Literacy and Cosmopolitan Conviviality conference, Lisbon, May 11, 2019.

 

GOLUB, PHILIP

• Invited speaker. “La réemergence de la Chine dans une perspective historique.” Institut d’études politiques de Lille, Feb. 3, 2020.
• Dialogue with Professor Raffaele Laudani (University of Bologna), President of the Fondazione Innovazione Urbana, on the global implications of the Covid-19 pandemic. Fondazione Innovazione Urbana, online, Apr. 6, 2020.
• Invited speaker. “Bringing the State Back In: Rethinking the State in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” China School of Economics and Management of Northwest University, online, Apr. 8, 2020.
• Invited speaker. “Global Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Demeter Club, online, Apr. 30, 2020.
• Discussant. Michael Walzer (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University), “On Political Action.” Horizons of Freedom conference series, IPST Belgrade-Center for Advanced Studies of Rijeka, Oct. 29, 2020.
• Discussant. Yanis Varoufakis (Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). “The Cunning of Freedom in Times of a Twin Authoritarianism.” Horizons of Freedom conference series, IPST Belgrade-Center for Advanced Studies of Rijeka, Oct. 30, 2020.
• Invited speaker. “Serpents in Paradise: the Sources and Implications of the Global Retreat of Liberalism.” Horizons of Freedom conference series, Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory of Belgrade, online, Dec. 3, 2020.
• Invited speaker. “Politiques impériales au Moyen-Orient : de la Grande Bretagne aux Etats-Unis.” Irak: un État sans nation, IreMMo, French National Assembly, Dec. 12, 2020.
• Program and organization committee of the international conference Éterniser Bourdieu. IPST Belgrade, Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Rijeka, and the École normale supérieure (ENS), Dec. 22, 2020.
• Roundtable on Pierre Bourdieu’s work as a scholar and activist in the 1990s at the international conference Éterniser Bourdieu. IPST Belgrade, Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Rijeka, and the École normale supérieure (ENS), Dec. 22, 2020.

 

GUNN, DAN

• Participated in a roundtable (with Daniel Medin and invited guests) at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin on The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume IV, March 2019.
• Chaired two sessions at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 2019.
• Plenary lecture at an international conference on “Translation and Space” at the University of Modena: “Translating Distance: Epistolary & Editorial Spaces,” Italy, May 2019.

 

HÄGEL, PETER

• Introduction and response to commentators. “Billionaires in World Politics” book launch roundtable discussion, organized by Julian Culp, AUP, Paris, 31 Mar. 2021.
• Organized Lecture Series: Philanthropy, Power, and Democracy.
• Organized Lecture Series: Philanthropy, Power, and Democracy.Talk by Theodore Lechterman: “Famine, Affluence, and Democracy: The Politics of Effective Altruism,” February 25, 2019.
• Discussant at talk by Rob Reich (Stanford University): “Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better,” April 3, 2019.

 

HARSIN, JAYSON

• “From Emo- to Aggro-truth Politics: Hyper-Masculinity and Transposable Dispositions.” International Communication Association Annual Conference, online, 22 May 2021.
• “Attention, Post-truth, and New Communication and Media Technologies.” The American University of Paris, Faculty Convocation Address, 8 Sept. 2021, https://www.aup.edu/news-events/news/2021-09-07/convocation-launching-aup%E2%80%99s-60th-anniversary.
• “Aggro-Truth: Toxic White Masculinity and Post-Truth Politics.” International Communication Association Annual Conference, online, May 24, 2020.
• “Plenary Address: Reflections on Publishing, Publics and Post-Truth Society.” Annual Conference of Information, Medium and Society, online, July 2, 2020.
• “Communication, Culture, and Post-Truth Politics.” NYU Research Seminar Lecture Series (convenor: Radha Hegde), online, Oct. 12, 2020.
• “Affect and Emotion Theory in Contemporary Politics,” invited talk for Global Communications Research Seminar, American University of Paris, April 2019.
• “Quel est la situation post-verité en France ? Considerations des cas récents,“ Forum francophone de Recherche (initiative de l’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and The American University of Paris), Paris, France, April 25, 2019.
• “Donald Trump’s Emo-Truth Politics: A Critical Cultural Approach,” Cultural Studies Association annual conference, New Orleans, May 28, 2019.
• “Post-Truth and Liberal Democracy: Origins and Futures,” Plenary Speaker Address, 7th International Congress on Social Sciences, Paris, July 17, 2019.

 

HOBART, BRENTON

• “Écrire l’histoire de la peste à la Renaissance : entre autopsie et plagiat (Marot, Rabelais, Nostradamus, Montaigne).” OIF (Organisation International de la Francophone), 19–21 avenue Bosquet, Paris, Nov. 2021.
• “‘Oncques n’y prindrent mal’: les semeurs de la peste de Rabelais.” Journée d’études – L’art de déjouer le mal: penser “la partie prophylactice et conservatrice de santé,” Basel, Switzerland, October 18–19, 2019.

 

HOLLINSHEAD-STRICK, CARY

• “The Power of Staying Put: Bad News as Good Sustenance in Nineteenth-Century Print Tropes.” Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, 30 Oct. 2021, Washington, D.C.
• “Text Puréed or in Patches: The Epistemology of Alimentary Metaphors from Balzac to Zola.” Session in honor of Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson. MLA, Seattle, Washington, Jan. 11, 2020.
• “Choosing to Keep the Feuilleton: Handwork as Valorization of Popular Literature.” Cultural Production in the Nineteenth Century – Transgressions: Censorship and Self-censorship, Université Paris 7, Paris, June 18, 2019.
• “Scissors of Enchantment, or How to Cut a Book from Your Newspaper.” https://ncfs2019.fsu.edu/. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Sarasota, Florida, October 31–November 2, 2019.
• “On the Persistence of the Mummy Paper Idea in France.” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois, January 3–6, 2019.

 

KINNE, ELIZABETH

• “Ventriloquism and Pious Infidelity in Premodern European and South Asian Devotional.” Comparative Approaches to Gender and Mysticism, Ashoka University, India, 17 Mar. 2021.
• “Kama and Tapas: A Poetics of Kavya, A Praxis of Piety.” Gender in Global Medieval Mysticism, Ashoka University, Sonepat (Haryana, India), Sonepat and online, conference presentation, 17 Mar. 2021.
• “The Nature of Conduct and Its Orientations in Fourteenth-Century France.” Gender and
• Medieval Studies: “Gender, Science and the ‘Natural’ World.” Swansea University, UK, Jan. 6–8, 2020.
• “Beyond Technologies of Self: Pushing Back the Boundaries of Medieval Conduct.” Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Sydney, February 5–8, 2019.

 

KOBTZEFF, OLEG

• Keynote speaker, homecoming exercises, Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint Serge, Paris, 3 Oct. 2021..
• Public lecture, "Le Transsibérien," Université Populaire de Poissy & Association Linguarik; Théâtre Blanche de Castille, Poissy, September 22, 2019.

 

LAURENT, CAROLINE

• Laurent, Caroline D. “(Mi)Lieu de Mémoire: Southeast Asian Identities in Paris’s Chinatown.” Postcolonial Realms of Memory: Sites and Symbols in the Modern Francosphere. Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. Florida State University. Tallahassee, 7–8 Oct. 2021.

 

LEVINSON, SHARON

• Levinson, Sharman (2019) “Circulations of Concern with the ‘Uncertainty of Signs of Death’ in mid–18th Century France: A Historical and Cultural Translation Perspective.” 24th annual meeting of the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences, (University of Vilnius) Vilnius, Lithuania, July 8–11, 2019.
• Levinson, Sharman (2019) "Repetition of the Singular and Accumulation of the Exceptional in Jacques-Jean Bruhier D’Ablaincourt’s (1742)." Dissertation sur l’Incertitude des signes de la mort et l’abus des enterremens et embaumens précipités. 38th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, (Central European University) Budapest, Hungary, July 4–6, 2019.

 

LIBAL, TOMER

• “Automated reasoning in normative detachment structures with ideal conditions.” Conference talk at ICAIL 2019.
• “NAI: The Normative Reasoner.” Demo in ICAIL 2019.
• “The NAI Suite – Drafting and Reasoning over Legal Texts.” Conference talk in JURIX 2019.
• “The NAI Tutorial.” Half-day tutorial in ICAIL 2019.
• “Automated Reasoning on Legal Texts.” Invited tutorial in ReMeP 2019.

 

LIBINA, MARSHA

• “Visions in Stone: Illusion and the Devotional Gaze in Borromeo’s Sacred Images.” Renaissance Society of America (RSA), virtual, 20 Apr. 2021.
• “Artists’ Academies and the Ideation of ‘Divine Things’ in the Age of Reform,” Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Toronto, March 17–19, 2019. Paper presented.
• “‘The Flux and Fog of Matter’: Materiality and the Senses in Sebastiano del Piombo’s Devotional Painting,” Fellows Seminar Series, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, February 8, 2019. Paper presented.
• “The Artist’s Faculties and the Artistic Process,” The Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Toronto, March 17–19, 2019. Panel co-organized with Colin Murray.
• The Early Modern Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, January 15, 2019. Panels chaired.

 

LINCOLN, LISSA

• Presentation of paper “Dalit Feminist Resistance” at the annual Law, Culture and the Humanities conference, Ottawa, Ontario, March 22–23, 2019.
• Organized public lecture by Alain Badiou, “Ontologie et mathématiques,” hosted at AUP, June 17, 2019.

 

MAJED, ZIAD

• “Public and Private Freedoms in Lebanon.” Secular club at the Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Feb. 2021.
• “Regards sur 10 ans de revolutions.” Mouvement pour le socialisme et Femmes pour la démocratie, Geneva, Mar. 2021. 
• “Syrie : 10 ans après.” University of Toulouse, Apr. 2021.
• Majed Ziad, “Michel Kilo ou la vie et la mort d’un intellectuel syrien.” Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Apr. 2021.
• “La Syrie dix ans de guerre.” Iremmo (Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient), Paris, May 2021.
• “Revolutions and Counter Revolutions in the Arab World.” Association of Foreign Affairs, Malmo, May 2021.
• “L’Alterpolitique: Anthropologie critique et imaginaire radicale.” University de Toulouse, May 2021.
• “Horror and Its Representations.” (Arabic). Mena Prison Forum, Beirut, June 2021.
• “Liban: la faillite d’un état.” Iremmo (Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient), Paris, Oct. 2021.
• “Echos artistiques et culturels de Beyrouth.” Brussels, Nov. 2021.
• “Le Liban : une mission une histoire.” Amitiés limousins libanais, Limoge, Dec. 2021.
• “Regional Rivalry and Iranian Role in Lebanon.” Carnegie International, Beirut, Dec. 2021.
• “Géopolitique des religions.” IRIS (Institut des Relations Iinternationales et Stratégiques), Paris, Dec. 2021.
• « La nouvelle génération arabe et ses aspirations politiques ». Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Feb. 2020.
• « Samir Kassir, le parcours d’un intellectual ». Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Mar. 2020.
• “Deliberative Democracy and Its Approaches.” The Kettering foundation, Dayton, Ohio, USA, online, July 2020.
• “The Crisis of Lebanon.” Saint Olaf College, USA, online, Aug. 2020.
• “The Decline of the Lebanese System.” The Council for Arab-British Understanding, online, Sept. 2020.
• “The Regional Consequences of the Syrian Conflict.” American Graduate School, online, Oct. 2020.
• « Liban récit d’une catastrophe ». L’Institut de Recherches et d’Etudes sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen Orient, online, Oct. 2020.
• « Le Liban et sa crise existentielle ». Mucem et Mediapart, Dec. 2020.
• "The Impacts of Trump's Withdrawal from Syria," SOAS University of London, Khalili Lecture Theatre, March 5, 2019.
• "Dans la tête de Bachar Al-Assad," Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, March 14, 2019.
• "Syrie, notre propre humanité en question," French Parliament and Association Revivre, Paris, March 25, 2019.
• "Dans la tête de Bachar Al-Assad," Association Medina, Bourges, March 26, 2019.
• "Samir Kassir, intellectual libanais, palestinien, syrien et français assassiné à Beyrouth," Institut des cultures de l’Islam, Paris, May 2, 2019.
• "De Santiago à Beyrouth : des luttes pour une vraie démocratie," Mediapart, November 9, 2019.
• "Liban : soulèvement ou révolution?" Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, November 28, 2019.
• "Liban : la révolution d’une nation?" IRemmo, Paris, December 2019.

 

MALO, STEPHANE

• Organized the workshop on “Design Thinking” at AUP, Oct. 2021.
• Participated in a creativity workshop as organized by Prof. Valérie Lejeune of Université Catholique de l’Ouest (UCO), Bretagne Nord, June 2021.
• Organizer of the Open Innovation Contest with guest speaker Laetitia Cuirot from Agorize, 2019.

 

McGUINNESS, JUSTIN

• McGuinness, Justin and Iman Batita. “The Impact of Heritage Policies on the Appropriation of Domestic Space in the Médina (Historic Urban Core) of Tunis, 1950 to the Present.” Association for Critical Heritage Studies, fifth biennial conference, UCL – University of London, online, Aug. 26–30, 2020.

 

MEDIN, DANIEL

• “Specters of Violence: A Conversation with Jakuta Alikavasovic and Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse.” CWT event in collaboration with Schaeffer Center at The American University of Paris, Nov. 2021.
• “A Conversation with Lauren Elkin about A Diary of a Year on the Bus.” Visit to First Bridge class of CL1091: Autobiographical Writing, Nov. 2021.
• “Reconstructing Ourselves: Confronting Memory and Trauma” with Andrés Neuman, Bibliotopia Festival, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, June 2021.
• “Life Interrupted” with Jorge Comensal and Susana Moreira Marques, Bibliotopia Festival, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, June 2021.
• “Excavating the Language: Fragments and Silences” with Adania Shibli, Bibliotopia Festival, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, June 2021.
• Endnote at Translating (and) World Literature across the University, GLCA Virtual Conference, DePauw
• University, Apr. 2021.
• “Fifty Sounds: A Reading and Talk by Polly Barton,” CWT event at The American University of Paris (virtual), Apr. 2021.
• “The Midlife Mind: Literature and the Art of Aging.” Panelist for launch of book by Ben Hutchinson with author, Lucy Campos, Jeremy Carrette and Claire Davison, University of Kent in Paris (virtual), Mar. 2021.
• “River and Life” with Esther Kinsky, Bergen International Literature Festival, Bergen, Feb. 2020.
• “Dreams from the War” with Mazen Maarouf, Bergen International Festival, Feb. 2020. 
• “Literary Celebrity, Activism, and the Industry,” panel with Alice Guthrie, Charlotte Ryland, Alan Taylor and Elleke Boehmer at Art & Action: A Webinar Series on Literary Authorship, Politics, and Celebrity Culture, University of Oxford (virtual), Sept. 2020.
• “Cartographies” with Mathias Enard, Irène Jacob and Lucie Campos, Villa Gilet, Lyon, Oct. 2020.
• “A Conversation with Eduardo Halfon,” CWT event at AUP, November 2019.
• “Arabic Literature in Translation: A Masterclass.” Workshop for young writers of promise from the Arabic world; mentors include Alaa Al-Aswany and Adania Shibli. Sponsored by Foundation KfW Stiftung and the Commonwealth Foundation. Frankfurt, October 2019.
• “A Conversation with Alaa Al-Aswany,” panel at The Politics of Translation: Arabic Literatures in Europe, Frankfurt, October 2019.
• “Publishing Arabic Literature in Translation,” panel with Lynn Gaspard (Saqi Books), Elisabeth
• Jaquette (American Literary Translators Association), Pierro Salabè (Hanser Verlag), Adiana Shibli (Palestinian author) at The Politics of Translation: Arabic Literatures in Europe, Frankfurt, October 2019.
• “Saison der Wirbelstürme : A Conversation with Fernanda Melchor and Angelica Ammar.” Award Ceremony of the HKW International Literaturpreis, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, June 2019.
• “Writer as a Literary Activist” with Mikhail Shishkin and Jacek Dehnel. Bibliotopia Festival, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, May 2019.
• “Reversing the Gaze” with Aminatta Forna. Bibliotopia Festival, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, May 2019.
• “The White Review Roundtable on Translation” with Nina Leger, Daniel Levin Becker and Zeljka Marosevic, Shakespeare & Company, Paris, May 2019.
• “European Dreams and Fictions” with Jonathan Coe, Olivia Rosenthal, Sophie Lewis and Claudia Durastanti, Beyond Words French Literature Festival, Institut Francais London, May 2019.
• “A Conversation About the French Edition of Temporada de Huracanes” with Fernanda Melchor and Joachim Schnerf. CWT event at AUP, March 2019.
• “Berlin als Schaffensort (series)” with Dag Solstad and Audun Lindholm. Sponsored by Royal Norwegian Embassy in Berlin and Norwegian Literature Abroad, Literaturhaus-Berlin. March 2019.
• “Beckett als Briefschreiber” with Dan Gunn, Gyorgy Dragoman, Chris Hirte, Ulrich Matthes and Ulrich Peltzer, Akademie der Künste (German Academy of the Arts), February 2019.
• “What Does the Fox Say?” with Dubravka Ugresic, Bergen International Literature Festival. Bergen, February 2019.
• “Translating Sorrow” with James Montgomery (about Cahier 32), Bergen International Festival, February 2019.
• “What Is Literary Quality?” with Ane Farsethås, Jennifer Makumbi, Kari Marstein, Peter Nielsen, and Eirik Vassenden, Bergen International Literature Festival, Bergen. February 2019.

 

MEDVED, MARIA   

• Board member and co-organizer. Annual Berlin Symposium of Narrative Medicine (recognized by German Medical Association for continuing education credits), Charité Hospital/Humbolt University, 2021.
• Online speaker. “Gender and Covid-19.” Episode One: “Why Do More Men than Women Die of Covid-19?” Episode Two: “How Does Covid-19 Impact Women?” Learning Laboratory. The American University of Paris.
• Invited speaker. “De-Individuation and De-Personalization During the Time of Covid-19.” Psychology of Global Crises Conference, Paris, May 2020.
• Invited speaker. “Memory and Narrative: New Alliances in the Sciences of Life.” Wissenschaften von Leben: Natur- und Kulturewissenschaften im Dialog. Salzkammergut, Austria, June 2020.
• Wright, M., Medved, M. I., Montgomery, J., Roger, K. “Understanding Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Clinical Encounter.” Presented at the International Conference for Communication in Healthcare. Conference award winner, Sept. 2020.
• Co-organizer of The Psychology of Global Crises (open access synchronous and asynchronous conference with 64 presenters, 10 panels, 2,000 participants, 10,000 YouTube views).
• Co-organizer of the Annual Berlin Symposium of Narrative Medicine (recognized by German Medical Association for continuing education credits), Charité Hospital/Humboldt University on theme of Narratives in Medicine: Between Fact and Fiction.
• Medved, M. I. “Broken Brains, Shattered Rationality?” Presented at the Literacies, Cultures and Minds Symposium. Calgary, Canada, May 2019. Invited talk.
• Kenyon, K. M., Hiebert-Murphy, D., Ristock, J., and Medved, M. I. “Situating the Empowerment Experiences of Women in Domestic Violence Shelters.” Presented at the 3rd European Conference on Domestic Violence, Oslo, Norway, September 2019. Conference presentation.
• Medved, M. I. “Apples, Currants, and Machines.” Presented at the 7th Annual Berlin Symposium of Narrative Medicine, Berlin, Germany, November 2019. Conference presentation.

 

MLIH, FOUAD

• “Construction d’une identité savante en temps de crise : l’exemple du philosophe al-Fārābī en contexte abbasside (Xe-XIIIe s.).” Table ronde pôle TELL (Temps, Espace, Lettres, Langues), Université de Lorraine, “Crises et (re) constructions d’identité, de l’Antiquité à nos jours.” Pont-à-Mousson, 22 Nov. 2021.
• “Une image des dialecticiens et des théologiens dans le Kitāb al-Ğadal d’Avicenne,” colloquium in Naples for the Société Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et de Philosophie Arabe et Islamiques, September 2019.

 

ODONKOR, EVELYN

• European Advertising Academy (ICORIA), Krems, Austria, June 27–29, 2019. 
• Odonkor, Evelyn, M. “Values and Consumer Attitudes: An Empirical Investigation Across a Selected Sample of Sub-Saharan African Countries,” International Conference on Contemporary Marketing Issues, Crete, Greece, July 10–12, 2019.
• Odonkor, Evelyn, M. “Making Equal Opportunity Meaningful,” GLAA Conference for Humanitarian Innovation & Entrepreneurship: SDG Impact through Service-Learning, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, December 16–17, 2019.

 

PAYNE, ROBERT           

• “Queer Media Materialities.” Guest lecture invited by Dr Diego Semerene, Oxford Brookes University, Mar. 2021.
• Conference presentation. “Queer Fits: Towards a Theory of Queer Media Formats.” Mediating Sexualities: The Sexual Politics of Media Production and Regulation, Université de Lille, online, Nov. 3, 2020.
• Keynote presentation. “The Queer Potential of Infrastructural Failure.” The Failure of Knowledge / Knowledges of Failure research network, University of Bayreuth, online, Dec. 10, 2020.
• “Circulations: Researching with Affect Theory,” invited talk for Global Communications Research Seminar, The American University of Paris, February 2019.
• “Deterioration: Infrastructures Becoming Visual” presented at Infrastructures and Inequalities conference, University of Helsinki, October 2019.

 

PIANI, CLAUDIO

• C Piani, T Hung, and E Berg. “Adaptation of seed beetles to fluctuating temperatures.” Geophysical Research Abstracts 21, European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2019, Vienna.

 

PICARD, ANNE-MARIE

• “Lisser les plis du réel ? Un monde à portée de mots (Maylis de Kérangal).” Colloquium: Origami – Is There Something New Between the Folds? The Fold in Literature and Arts Origami, du nouveau entre les plis ? Le Pli dans la littérature et les arts, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, May 23–24, 2019.

 

RAST, REBEKAH

• Trévisiol, P., Rast, R. and Watorek, M. “From Processing to Production in Japanese Ln at the Initial Stages of Acquisition.” The 20th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association, Shizuoka University, Japan, online, 27 Mar. 2021.
• Watorek, M., Majdoub, H., Rast, R. and P. Trévisiol. “Influence des différences translinguistiques dans la reconnaissance des mots en L2.” ReAL2 International conference - Influences translinguistiques : où en est-on aujourd’hui ? Université Toulouse, Jean Jaures, 7 July 2021.
• Watorek, M., Majdoub, H., Rast, R. and P. Trévisiol. “Extracting Lexical Items from the Speech Stream at First Exposure: French Learners of Polish and Arabic.” European Second Language Association Conference 30, Universitat de Barcelona, online, 2 July 2021.
• Trévisiol, P., Rast, R. and M. Watorek, M. “From Processing to Production in Japanese Ln at the Initial Stages of Acquisition.” The 20th International Conference of the Japan Second Language Association, Shizuoka University, Japan, online, 27 Mar. 2021.
• Invited speaker. “Instructed Third Language Acquisition: Input Processing in the First Moments of Access to the Target Language.” Seminar, MA in Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition in Multilingual Contexts, University of Barcelona, 29 Jan. 2021.
• Rast, R., M. Starren and M. Watorek. “Measuring the Language Input, Uptake and Intake of Learners Abroad.” Study Abroad Research in European Perspective: Input in Study Abroad and Views from Acquisition. Focus on Constructs, Operationalisation and Measurement Issues, COST Action Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, January 24, 2019.
• Watorek, M., H. Majoub, R. Rast and C. Vincent. “Reconnaissance des items lexicaux dans un flux sonore par les débutants francophones apprenant le polonais et l’arabe.” Journées d’étude sur l’acquisition lexicale, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, November 21, 2019.

 

REGAN, MARIE

• “The body performing witness: exploring in film the the embodied experience of simultaneous interpreters at atrocity tribunals” International Conference Translating Performance / Performing Translation.” École Universitaire de Recherche ArTeC.  Paris, France. Invited Talk, December 2019.
• American Fringe filmmakers, Cinematheque Française. Panel leader, November 2019.
• Outsider Art Film Series, Paris Outsider Art Fair, American Center for Art and Culture, Paris, France, discussion leader, October 2019.

 

RODA, CLAUDIA

• Roda, C., and S. Perry (2020) “Learning on Lockdown: A Survey of Higher Education Students during the Covid-19 Pandemic.” Presentation to Teaching Information Literacy during COVID-19: Your Reflections and Looking Forward. AMICAL Consortium, June 17, 2020.
• TEDxLaPosteBSCC Matière(s) – Attention, numérique, et dématérialisation – Paris, April 1, 2019.

 

ROSENSTEIN, ROY

• "De la sorcellerie à la sagesse :  Hérodote, Ovide, Apulée, Saint Augustin." Conference on Magie, Féerie, Sorcellerie Médiévales. Université de la Haute Picardie, Amiens, France, March 13–15, 2019.

 

ROY, SNEHARIKA

• Conference presentation. “In the Name of the Father: Edward Said’s Foundational Status in Postcolonial Studies.” Name of a Discipline: Where Are “Postcolonial” Theories and Practices Going, and What Can We Call Them? (Société d’Étude des Pays du Commonwealth), Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris and online, 28–29 Jan. 2021.
• Conference presentation. “Le radicalisme noir et les études postcoloniales : convergences et angles morts.” Transculturalismes, Sorbonne Université, Paris and online, 11 Mar. 2021.
• Conference presentation. “Kama and Tapas: A Poetics of Kavya, A Praxis of Piety.” Gender in Global Medieval Mysticism, Ashoka University, Sonepat (Haryana, India), Sonepat and online, 17 Mar. 2021.
• “La Mission et la transmission de la parole épique dans les Caraïbes.” La Transmission dans la Caraïbe, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France, April 11, 2019.
• “Invocation and Illumination: ‘Metaphoric Montage’ in Khaled Hosseini’s Sea Prayer.” Third Biennial Cultural Literacy in Europe Conference, Catholic University of Lisbon, Portugal, May 10, 2019.
• Roy, Sneharika. “Marx, Subaltern Studies and Amitav Ghosh: The Enterprising Subaltern in Amitav Ghosh’s Economic Sagas.” ACLALS (Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies), The University of Auckland, New Zealand, July 16, 2019.

 

RUSSAKOFF, ANNA

• Participated in a workshop at Rice University entitled “Towards a Visual History of the Working Class,” Sept. 2021. Delivered a paper entitled “Pain Quotidien: Images of Bakers in Medieval France.”
• Invited to participate in a Zoom seminar at Loyola University Chicago on “Medieval Animals,” Mar. 2021. Delivered a paper entitled “Familiar and Exotic: Cross-Cultural Animals in the Kalila wa Dimna.”
• Kalamazoo, International Congress on Medieval Studies, invited to participate in roundtable session sponsored by the International Medieval Society, Paris, entitled, “Introduction to Libraries and Archival Work: Conducting research in Paris and France.” May 2019.
• Conference organization – on the organizing committee (comité scientifique) for the journées d’études: “Looking across the Atlantic: Circulations d’idées entre la France et l’Amérique du Nord en art medieval,” INHA Paris, June 12–13, 2019.

 

RYMAN, RENE

• Keynote speaker for KW Signature Event, “Understanding European Markets & the Post-COVID Economic Recovery Plan.” Rockford, IL.
• “Bermuda and Great Britain” – Hamilton, Bermuda, May 2019.
• “Bermuda: The History, Culture and Wealth of a Diverse Nation” – Hamilton, Bermuda, May 2019. 
• “The Bermuda Triangle: The Myth, the Mystery and the Money” – Hamilton, Bermuda, May 2019.
• “Brexit and the Future of the EU” – Rock Valley College – Rockford, Illinois, USA, October 2019.
• “The Chilean Fjords: Nature’s Gift of History and Beauty” – Santiago, Chile, December 2019.
• “The Falkland Islands: The History and the Controversy” – Falkland Island, (BT), December 2019.
• “Punta Arenas: A Diverse Port City of Economic Success” – Punta Arenas, Chile, December 2019.  
• “Montevideo: The History and Success of Uruguay Capital City” – Montevideo, Uruguay, December 2019.   
• “Buenos Aires: A Beautiful City with a Complicated Past” – Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2019.

 

SAWYER, STEPHEN

• Events organized by the Center for Critical Democracy Studies:
• “The End of the War on Terror?” Lecture given by Marc Hecker and Elie Tenenbaum, 8 Dec. 2021. Co-organized with Roman Zinigrad.
• “Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing 1919–1952.” Lecture given by Jennifer Boittin, 7 Dec. 2021. Co-organized with Miranda Spieler.
• “No Virtue Like Resilience – A New Machiavellian Justification of Democracy.” Lecture given by Carlo Burelli., 12 May 2021.
• “Anti-Fascism as a Differentially Mobilizing Ideology: Anti-Imperialism and the Failed Globalization of the European Left, 1935–1979.” Lecture given by Guiliana Chamedes, 20 Apr. 2021.
• “The Prison Abolitionist Movement: The Convergence of Movements to End Immigrant Detention and Mass Incarceration.” Lecture given by Michelle Kuo, 12 Apr. 2021. Co-organized with Miranda Spieler.
• “A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant’s Poetic of Nonhistory.” Lecture given by Gary Wilder, 8 Apr. 2021. Co-organized with Miranda Spieler.
• “The Construction of Race and Racial Hatred by the State in French Algeria.” Lecture given by Joshua Cole and Judith Surkis, 29 Mar. 2021. Co-organized with Miranda Spieler.
• “Slavery, Race, and the Law During the Long Eighteenth Century.” Lecture given by Christy Pichichero and Miranda Spieler, 22 Mar. 2021. Co-organized with Miranda Spieler.
• “A World Before Race? Gender, Mobility, and Property in the Early Modern Iberian World.” Lecture given by Mariana Dantas and Michelle McKinley, 15 Mar. 2021. Co-organized with Miranda Spieler.
• “Race, Law, and Universalism: Empire and Its Legacy in Modern France.” Lecture given by Jennifer Boittin and Lionel Zevounou, 9 Mar. 2021. Co-organized with Miranda Spieler.
• “Race, Law, and Social Justice: An Introduction.” Lecture given by Michelle Kuo and Miranda Spieler, 23 Feb. 2021. Co-organized with Miranda Spieler.
• “Global Medicine in the Republic of China, 1937 to 1970.” Lecture given by Wayne Soon, 2 Feb. 2021.
• “D.Rad Symposium: Trends of Radicalization in Europe and Beyond” with D.Rad Project Consortium. 2 Dec. 2021. Co-organized with Roman Zinigrad.
• “Democracy in Selection” with Annabelle Lever, 1 Dec. 2021. Co-organized with Julian Culp.
• “The Privatized State” with Chiara Cordelli. 30 Nov. 2021. Co-organized with Julian Culp.
• “Should the People Control Public Spending? A Normative Assessment of Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendments” with Carlo Burelli and Enrico Biale, 22 Nov. 2021. Co-organized with Julian Culp.
• “Towards a Theory of Postcolonial Justice” with Jamila Mascat, 10 Nov. 2021. Co-organized with Julian Culp.
• “The Democratic Boundary Problem – A Function-Sensitive View” with Eva Erman, 20 Oct. 2021. Co-organized with Julian Culp.
• “How Should Republicans Conceive of Transnational Solidarity?” with Miriam Ronzoni, 29 Sept. 2021. Co-organized with Julian Culp.
• “The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility” with Ayelet Shachar, 28 Apr. 2021. Co-organized with Julian Culp.
• “Constituting European Citizenship” with Sandra Seubert, 14 Apr. 2021. Co-organized with Julian Culp.
• “Remaking the Demos ‘From Below’?” with Robin Celikates, 17 Mar. 2021. Co-organized with Julian Culp.
• “The Representative, the People, and the Public Sphere” with Simone Chambers, 17 Feb. 2021. Co-organized with Julian Culp.

 

SCHIFF, BRIAN

• Keynote. “The Hermeneutics of Crisis and the Crisis of Interpretation.” The Psychology of Global Crises, The American University of Paris, May 20, 2020.
• Keynote. “One Narrative Studies or Many?” Delivered to the workshop The Study of Literature, Reading, and Cognition: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Concepts, and Terms. ACCELS–Aachen Center for Cognitive and Empirical Literary Studies, Oct. 5, 2020.
• Invited speaker. “Entering Stories.” Delivered to Narrating the Mesh at the University of Ghent, Dec. 8, 2020.
• Schiff, B. “Conceptual Shell Games.” Uses and Abuses of Storytelling: Theorizing the Intersections of Narrative, Memory and Identity. University of Turku, Finland, February 16, 2019.
• Schiff, B. “Structural Straightjackets.” Social for the Study of Narrative Conference. University of Navarra, Spain, May 31, 2019.
• Schiff, B. Keynote address. The Summer Course for Narrative Study. Aarhus University, Denmark, July 2019.
• Schiff, B. “The Hermeneutics of Darkness: Interpreting Perpetrators on their Crimes.” Hermeneutics and Violence Workshop. University of Turku, Finland, August 28, 2019.
• Schiff, B. Invited roundtable presentation. Epistemologies of Memory Conference at Kings College London, September 12–13, 2019.
• Schiff, B. “Are Small Stories Another Category of Narrating?” Small Stories: A Research Paradigm Across Data and Disciplines Workshop, University of Freiburg, Germany, November 22, 2019.

 

SHIELDS-ARGÉLES, CHRISTY

• “Food Without Borders/Nourriture sans Frontières,” Keynote address at the University of Bordeaux-Agen, with Anne Luneau and Caroline Schneider (Ravel teachers who collaborated on the project), September 30, 2019.

 

SHIMONY, JONATHAN

• Artist’s talk for FRAME, Mar. 2021.
• Artist’s talk for the Focus Art Fair, June 2021.
• Presentations in the Combes Fine Arts Gallery of the work exhibited in “Pandemics and Propaganda” for six different AUP courses.
• TEDx talk at AUP, Oct. 2021.
• Workshop hosted for the UC Davis Summer Program in France.
• Workshop hosted for L’Institut Français de la Mode.
• Two printmaking workshops hosted for Trinity College, Paris.

 

SLAVKOVA, IVETA

• Member of the organizing committee of the virtual conference “Surrealisms: Nuits Blanches; Noches en Blanco; Around the Clock” with ISSS (International Society for the Study of Surrealism), Nov. 2021, https://isss2021.exordo.com/.
• Organization and moderation of the panel “Earth as a Desert: Surrealism and Ecology (revisited).” Dr. Iveta Slavkova, Dr. Anne Marie Butler, Dr. Donna Roberts, Dr. Christina Heflin, Dr. Julia Drost, and Dr. Samantha Kavky. Nov. 2021.
• Moderation of the panel “Aventure de Réception” with Dr. Teresa Nocita and Dr. Christian Roy, Nov. 2021.
• “Penser le corps au-delà de l’humanisme, Jacques Audiberti et l’abhumanisme.” The Politics and Narratives of Bodies/Politiques et récits du corps, organised by Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (Argentina) and Fernando Gonçalves, Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 26–28 May 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxSNNPxkKW8&list=PLcXlcesjzxY_s3nIs0Oqip-tfwm_HvaI9&index=3.
• “Earth as a Desert: The Ecology of Surrealism.” Panel chair and organizer with Anne Marie Butler (Kalamazoo College) for the CAA (College Art Association) Annual Meeting 2021, Art and Climate Change, online conference, Feb. 2021, https://caa.confex.com/caa/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Home/0.
• Presentation of book Réparer l’homme. La Grande Guerre, la crise de l’humanisme et l’Homme nouveau du futurisme et du Bauhaus, (Presses du réel, Dijon, 2020). Annual meeting of the Association des Amis de Jacques Audiberti (https://audiberti.com/), Nov. 3, 2020.
• “Abhumanism After World War II Paris: A Periphery Within a Centre,” International conference Art in the Periphery, Instituto de História Contemporânea da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa e Instituto de História da Arte da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, March 15, 2019.
• “La politique du corps sain : sport et société dans l’entre-deux-guerres,” Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valence, January 29, 2019.
• “La Crise de personnage” and “De duo au collectif,” High School Notre-Dame, Valence. Collaboration with the Musée de Valence and the Region Auvergne-Rhônes-Alpes, February 7, 2019.
• “La Renaissance,” High School Loubet, Valence. Collaboration with the Musée de Valence and the Region Auvergne-Rhônes-Alpes, April 11, 2019.
• “Le Futurisme,” Université du Temps Libre, La Rochelle, May 28, 2019.
• “La revue Documents: redéfinir le primitif et la civilisation,” Université du Temps Libre, La Rochelle, October 17, 2019.

 

STAUSS, RENATE

• The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2021: A Conference on Learning and Teaching Fashion in Theory and Practice. Concept, organization and hosting of conference, facilitated by The American University of Paris, France, online event, with Franziska Schreiber, 1–2 Oct. 2021, https://www.aup.edu/conferences/fashion-education.
• “Hoping & Doubting” was a virtual student exhibition showcasing projects that doubt and hope in/with/through fashion – projects of particular relevance to learning and teaching fashion now.
• “The Utopia of Fashion: Imagining the Future of Fashion Education” was a student think-tank interdisciplinary workshop for students from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and The American University of Paris (AUP) to rethink, reimagine and develop visions of learning and making fashion together.
• “The End of Fashion Education? Towards New Beginnings.” Symposium, Fashioning Education series, Berlin University of the Arts, online event, with Franziska Schreiber, 26 May 2021.
• “Don’t / Look in the Mirror! – The Gendering Politics of the Dressing Mirror.” Conference paper, Fashion Tales 2021: Politics Through the Wardrobe, Modacult – Centro per lo studio della moda e della produzione culturale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, online event, with Lucia Ruggerone, 17–19 June 2021.
• “The End of Fashion Education? Towards New Beginnings.” Invited lecture, Design Pedagogy Symposium, School of Form at SWPS University Poland in collaboration with the Center for Philosophical Technologies at Arizona State University, US, online event, with Franziska Schreiber, 20 May 2021.
• “Dress as Therapy: Working with Dress in Psycho-medical Settings – Between Control, Cure, Care and Creative Play.” Conference paper, Curative Things: Medicine / Fashion / Art, facilitated by Leeds Arts University, online event, 12 Feb. 2021.
• “Everything Is Constructed: Of Fashion, Ambiguity and Interstices.” Invited talk, Hochschule Hannover, University of Applied Sciences and Art, Germany, online event, 26 Jan.
• “Dress Therapy – Between Control, Cure, Care and Creative Play.” Invited lecture, Central Saint Martins, London, online event, 17 Feb. 2021.
• “I love it! Werte/n in der Designlehre.” (“Values and Evaluation in Design Education.”) Concept, organization and delivery of two-day professional development workshop, Berlin Center for Higher Education, Germany, with Franziska Schreiber, 22 Jan. 2021.
• “Vestimentary Protest: Dress as Visualized Resistance and Agency.” Invited workshop, International Week, FH Bielefeld, University of Applied Sciences, Germany, online event, 4 May 2021.
• Conference conception, organization and hosting with Franziska Schreiber. The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education, facilitated by The American University of Paris, France, Sept. 25, 2020, https://www.aup.edu/conferences/digitalmultilogue-fashion-education.
• Invited lecture with Franziska Schreiber. “Fashion Education: Dimensions, Contexts and Futures.” Annual Conference of the Network Fashion Textile, Germany, Sept. 26, 2020.
• Conception, organization and hosting of two-day professional development workshop with Franziska Schreiber. “I love it! Werte/n in der Designlehre.” (“Values and Evaluation in Design Education.”) Berlin Center for Higher Education, Germany, Nov. 25, 2020.
• “Lost in Reflection: Clothes’ Mirrors and the Self,” The Annual Conference of the Association for Art History. Brighton, Brighton University, April 2019 (with Lucia Ruggerone).
• “Fashion Education: Learning and Teaching Fashion in Theory and Practice,” professional development workshop for fashion educators, Berlin Center for Higher Education, Germany (with Prof Franziska Schreiber) April 1, 2019.
• “Fashion Education Retreat,” two-day professional development workshop for fashion educators, Gutshof Sauen, Berlin Center for Higher Education, Germany, with Prof Franziska Schreiber, September 30–October 1, 2019.

 

STÖPEL, MICHAEL

• Stöpel, Michael. “Faculty-Librarian Collaborations: Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses.” 8th Sharjah International Library Conference (SIBFALA), 11 Nov. 2021. Invited talk.
• Stöpel, Michael, Livia Piotto, Samantha Godbey and Xan Goodman. “The Sustainability of Faculty-Librarian Partnerships Inspired by the ACRL Framework.” European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL), 20 Sept. 2021. Online poster presentation.
• Stöpel, Michael, David Tresilian and Paul Love. “Student-Led Cross-Institutional Collaboration between France & Morocco.” AMICAL Conference 2021, 24 June 2021. Online community idea exchange.
• Stöpel, Michael and Christine, Furno. “Creating learning experiences: Reimagining IL instruction for Fall 2021.” AMICAL Conference 2021, 23 June 2021. Online workshop.
• Stöpel, Michael, Livia Piotto and Aziz El-Hassani. “The Future of Media Education: Media, News & Information Literacies.” Media Education Summit 2021, 1 Apr. 2021. Online panel discussion.
• Attended the continued training program The Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS)
• Attended continued training at the 2019 Data Visualisation at Pyramid/Paris
• Attended continued training at the 2019 Library of Congress Research Initiative (Great Lakes Colleges Association - GLCA) at the Library of Congress/Washington DC
• Attended continued training at the 2019 Digital Humanities Institute – Beirut at the American University of Beirut/Lebanon
• Stöpel, Michael, Stanley, Samantha “Evaluate and Reflect: Unifying Concepts and Learning Techniques in Information and News Literacy” NAMLE Conference 2019. American University. Washington DC, USA. 27 May 2019. Poster Presentation.
• Stöpel, Michael. “Digital reflections on evaluating information“ AMICAL Conference 2019. American University of Cairo. Cairo, Egypt. 5 May 2019. Poster Presentation.
• Webinar Leader and Organizer – AMICAL Virtual Forum; Brandon D. Locke (Faculty at the University of Washington iSchool) “Teaching multiple literacies through digital liberal arts instruction”, April 16, 2019 at 16–17h (CET). Online.

 

STOJANOV, GEORGI

• Invited talk at the special edition of the ISI 2021 conference, https://www.ecointeractivism.com/conference.
• Invited expert rapporteur for five multimillion projects (i.e. summarizing individual 3x5=15 reviews for each project and producing a solidified report for each one) financed by the European Commission within the call “HORIZON-CL4-DIGITAL-EMERGING-2021-01-11.” Nov. and Dec. 2021, https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation_en.
• Lecture during the 2021 edition of the Presidential Lecture Series at AUP.
• “Robots in the Wild,” workshop within the Eleventh International Conference on Social Robotics, member of organizing committee and keynote speaker, Madrid, Spain, November 26–29, 2019.
• RE-IMAGINING AI, Scholars, Artists and Designers in Dialogue (participating Al scholar), Basel, Switzerland, June 20–21, 2019.

 

SUPRINYAK, CARLOS EDUARDO

• Suprinyak, Carlos E. “Free Trade Before Cobden: Autonomy and Empire in the Irish Free Trade Campaign, 1779–1785.” 24th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, Oct. 2021.
• Suprinyak, Carlos E. “Grotius Among the English Merchants: Mare Liberum and Anglo-Dutch Rivalry in the Early-17th Century.” The Making of the Modern International Realm: Hobbes-Bentham, ESPOL, Catholic University of Lille, France, Apr. 2021.

 

TREILHOU, STÉPHANE

• Invited talk. “The Instrumental Reconstruction, Process or Object?” at the fourth session of Experimental Archaeology, a conference organized by the University of Montpellier III in Saint Guilhem de Désert (Hérault) and dedicated to bagpipes in the Middle Ages, 26–27 May 2021.

 

TRESILIAN, DAVID

• Attendance and presentation at ILiADS (Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship), 26–30 July (with Michael Stöpel and Paul Love).
• Attendance and presentation at AMICAL 2021 Conference, Critical Transitions in Libraries, Technology and Pedagogy, 21–24 June (with Michael Stöpel and Paul Love).
• “Student–Faculty Research Team Collaboration in the Liberal Arts: Lessons Learned from the GLCA-Library of Congress Program,” with Michael Stoepel. AMICAL Conference, Kuwait, Jan. 2020.
• AUP TLC Mellon Seminar, “Student-Faculty Collaboration in the Liberal Arts: Lessons Learned from the GLCA-Library of Congress Program,” November 25, 2019, with Michael Stoepel.

 

VALEONTI, SOFIA

• Conference presentation. “Irving Fisher, Simon Newcomb, and Their Plans to Stabilize the Dollar.” European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) Annual Conference, University of National and World Economy in Sofia, 8–10 Oct. 2021. Coauthored with Robert Dimand, Brock University.
• Guest lecture. Seminar Topics in Global Economic History, University of Oxford, Trinity College, June 2021.
• Invited speaker. PhD seminar, Colorado State University, Mar. 2021.
• Invited speaker. “Magnifying Spaces of Capitalism: a Webinar.” University of Santiago de Compostela and YSI Economic History Working Group, Feb. 2021.

 

WEILL, SHARON

• Organizer and participant. “Victims’ Rights: What Justice for Victims of International Crimes?” Round table and book presentation, Sciences Po, PSIA, online, Feb. 2021.
• Book talk. “The President on Trial: Prosecuting Hissène Habré.” Centre for Conflict, Security and Societies, Cardiff University, online, 24 Feb. 2021.
• “Prosecuting a President for Crimes Against Humanity.” Book presentation online with a panel of contributors and international lawyers, Columbia Law School, Human Rights Institute, 14 Oct. 2021.
• “The Inter/National Tracks of Judicialization.” Paper presented in the Annual Conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association – SLSA (with S. Dezalay), online, Mar. 2021.
• “The Role of Courts in the War on Terror.” Paper presented in the Law and Society Annual Conference, online, May 2021.
• “Terrorism on Trial: An Ethnography in French Courts.” Presentation of a paper upon invitation, in
• the international conference Critical Exploration of Human Rights, University College Dublin, Ireland, (The 23rd Irish European Law Forum). I also gave keynotes in the panel “Human Rights, Crises, and Legal Dilemmas,” online, 7–8 May 2021.
• Invited to participate in a workshop “‘On Behalf of the People’ – Courtrooms as a Field of Research on Political Violence, Radicalization, Extremism and Terrorism.” Online workshop, organized by Bielefeld University, Germany, 23 Sept. 2021.
• Participation and presentation of my book in the International Symposium “Mass Trials for Mass Violence? 75 Years after Nuremberg.” Université Libre de Bruxelles and McGill University, Brussels, 4–5 Oct. 2021.
• Invited to a round table discussion at the conference “Comprendre et juger, le démocratie face au djihadism.” Title of presentation : “La transformation des procès pénaux à l’ère du terrorisme djihadiste.” CERI, Sciences-Po, Nov. 2021.
• Lectures for magistrates (the French National School for Magistrates, ENM), law professionals and the general public:
• Invited as a speaker in a seminar held at the French Supreme court. “La justice pénale internationale : quelle perception mémorielle ?” Séminaire à la Cour de Cassation, Cycle 2021 - La justice entre mémoire et oubli, 27 Sept. 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWcWQz4XSM.
• Invited to give a lecture “Cultural Expertise and Asylum Courts” at the Formation Continue des Magistrats, French National School for Magistrates (ENM), Sept. 2021.
• Invited to give a lecture “Le procès Hissène Habré devant les chambres extraordinaires du Sénégal.” Formation Continue des Magistrats, French National School for Magistrates (ENM), 14 Dec. 2021.
• Invited to present my research “Les filières djihadistes en procès : une étude ethnographique a la cour d’assises de Paris.” CAREP, 6 Apr. 2021, https://www.carep-paris.org/evenements/webinaires/webinaire-39-les-filieres-djihadistes-en-proces-une-etude-ethnographique-a-la-cour-dassises-de-paris/.
• Invited to give a lecture in the International Criminal Law Summer Course for professionals organized by Professor Schabas, July 2021.
• “Terror in Court: Transnational Jihadism and the Fabrication of Its Judges.” Center for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University, UK, Jan. 30, 2020, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/terror-court-transnational-jihadism-and-fabrication-its-judges-ethnography-french-criminal.
• Organizer and participant. “Jihadists on Trial: An Ethnographic Study at the French Assize Court (2017–2019).” CERI, Sciences Po, Mar. 2020, https://www.sciencespo.fr/agenda/ceri/fr?event=1953. For the launch of our research report, this interdisciplinary colloquium was organized with the participation of academics and judicial actors including the French Counter-Terrorism Prosecutor, the President of the Assizes Criminal Court, a counter-terrorism investigative judge and a defense lawyer.
• Presentation of a paper. Annual Conference of Law and Society, May 2020.
• Book presentations of The President on Trial, Prosecuting Hissene Habré (OUP 2020) at Irish Center of Human Rights, Galway, Nov. 2020, and Groningen University, The Netherlands, Dec. 2020.
• Presentation of book The Trial of Hissène Habré at the international conference Beyond, Between and Below the International Criminal Courts in the panel “Alternative International Criminal Justice Sites,” ICOURT (with K. Carlson) University of Copenhagen, December 2019.
• Invited to participate in the panel “The Viewpoint of Academics” in the international workshop Measuring the Impact of Anti-Terrorist Laws on Human Rights in France. Among the participants were the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism. Sciences Po, November 2019.
• Participation in the panel "Is the International Criminal Justice ‘Model’ Justice?" The American University of Paris, October 2019.
• Organized the panel “Terror, Rights and Belonging: Dignity Before the Law and Courts” and presented research at the Law and Society Annual Conference, Washington DC, June 2019.
• Invited to present a paper at the Cardiff Centre of Law and Society Annual Conference “Wars on Law, Wars Through Law? Reflections on the Past and the Present of the War on Terror,” Cardiff University, UK, May 2019.
• Trial Watch Conference, The Clooney Foundation: invited to present my work on French courts during a workshop with the participation of George and Amal Clooney who launched the Trial Watch project, Colombia University, NYC, April 2019.
• “Le retour des combattants terroristes étrangers dans l’Union Européenne,” European Council for Foreign Relations, Paris office, invited to speak in a round table, March 2019.

 

WESTLEY, HANNAH

• “Local Hype: Campus Journalism during Covid-19 Lockdown.” Paper presented at the Future of Journalism Conference: Overcoming Obstacles in Journalism. Cardiff, 23–24 Sept. 2021.
• Panel Discussant, “How Young People Understand and Engage with News,” with Lynn Schofield Clarke (University of Denver), Paul Mihailidis (Emerson College), Sonia Livingstone (London School of Economics and Political Science), Neil Thurman (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München). Academy Colloquium, The Audience Turn in Journalism, a collaborative research project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and conducted by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Groningen with twelve news industry partners, Amsterdam, January 22–25, 2019.
• “The Trump-Bump: Journalism Education in an Age of Change,” paper presented at the 5th ECREA Journalism and Communication Education TWG conference, Trial and Error III. Business as Usual? On the Relationship Between Industry and Education for Media Professionals in Times of Change. Salzburg, May 17–18, 2019.
• Session Moderator, “Ethical Challenges for Teaching and Undertaking New Forms of Journalism,” at the 5th World Journalism Education Congress, Université Paris Dauphine, July 10, 2019.

 

WILLIAMS, RUSSELL

• Invited paper. “Michel Houellebecq’s New Dark Age: Information Overload, Appropriation, Extremity.” Houellebecq in Focus online conference, Villanova University, Mar. 2021, https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/houellebecq.html.
• Invited talk, “La France, ce n’est pas Michel Houellebecq,” GLITS Research Seminar, Goldsmiths University London, February 14, 2019 [Modern and Contemporary France special issue launch].
• Invited talk, “La France, ce n’est pas Michel Houellebecq,” AUP Forum francophone interdépartemental de Recherches et d’enseignement, Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, March 28, 2019.

 

ZHANG, KATE YUE

• Kate Yue Zhang, “Identity Changes and Self-Adapting Strategies in a Remote Work Environment.”

• Workshop 1: “Cognition in the Rough,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2021.

• Workshop 2: Academy of Management Paper Development Workshop on Managing Remote Work, 2021.