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

[AUP - Posted 17 June 2010]

Yudhishthir Raj Isar took part in the France 24 show called ‘The debate’ on the evening of April 7; the topic was US hegemony in cultural globalization. His article entitled ‘International organizations and culture: new horizons for policy advice?’ was published in Vol. 2, no. 4 of the Zeitschrift für Politikberatung.  Entries by him on the topics ‘Civil Society and Cultural Organizations’ and ‘Civil Society and Culture’ appeared in the International Encyclopedia of Civil Society, H.K. Anheier, S. Toepler & R. List (eds.). New York: Springer, 2010.

[AUP - Posted 6 May 2010]

Stephen Monteiro’s article “Outside and In-Between: Representation and Spatial Production in Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s Urban Imagery,” appears in the spring 2010 issue of Visual Resources (Routledge). More information is available here.

[AUP - Posted 6 May 2010]

Waddick Doyle participated in a roundtable at a conference on Virtual and Internet Communication in the Mediterranean: Complex Identities and the Transformations of Social Bonds (La communication virtuelle par l’Internet, la complexité des identités, et les transformations des liens sociaux en Méditerranée) held in Tunis by the IRMC (Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain).  He also gave a paper entitled “How to live together and secularism: Sufi responses to Media Islamophobia” at a conference entitled Sufism and Society: Reality and Perspectives, held in Madagh, Morocco on February 26 and 27.

[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010]

Jayson Harsin attended the South by Southwest Music Industry Conference and Festival in Austin, TX, where he wrote concert reviews and articles on the state of the music industry and conducted interviews for PopMatters Magazine online.

[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010]

Yudhishthir Raj Isar took part in a panel discussion on Culture and Conflict in Global Perspective organized by the Bertelsmann Stiftung at the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the European Union in Brussels on March 22 to present a report of the same name based on research carried out by Professor Aurel Croissant and colleagues at the University of Heidelberg with the support of the Bertelsmann Foundation. On March 29, he was a panelist at the event entitled Any Questions About the Arts? chaired by the broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom; the event was designed to mark the launch of the university’s ‘Arts and Culture Strategy.’

[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010]

Stephen Monteiro presented his paper, "Designing Men: Andy Warhol's Camouflage and Patterns of Masculinity," at the College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago in February.

[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010]

Charles Talcott gave a paper entitled "Thai me up, Thai me down: the 'Bad Life' of Politicized Prostitution" at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities (ASLCH) held at Brown University, March 19-20.

[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010]

Pat Thompson worked as line producer for two recent episodes of the adventure reality show, The Amazing Race, which were broadcast on the CBS network in March. One featured a recreation of a World War I battle near Verdun and the other focused on the Champagne region. The Amazing Race just won its 8th Emmy Award in a row for best program in its category. More than 100 local staff worked on the French production, including several AUP alumni.

[AUP - Posted 2 Apr 2010]

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.

[AUP - Posted 4 Mar 2010]

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. 

[AUP - Posted 4 Mar 2010]