Waddick Doyle co-authored, with Gabriele Cosentino and AUP undergraduate Dimitrina Todorova, a chapter entitled "Tearing up Television across borders: format transfer of news parody between Italy and Bulgaria" in TV Formats Worldwide: Localising Global Programs (edited by Albert Moran / Intellect 2010).  He also gave a paper at a conference on Islam and the Media held at the Center for Media and Religion at the University of Colorado (January 2010).  His paper was entitled "May Allah Bless France: Muslims redefining Secularism on French Media as how to live together." 

[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2010]

Jayson Harsin was a guest on France24’s “Face Off,” to debate the Internet and democracy.  Professor Harsin's picks for the Top 10 albums of 2009 were featured in the Village Voice last month. 

[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2010]

Yudhishthir Raj Isar attended the 2010 Awards Ceremony and related events of the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development organized on December 15-16 in Amsterdam.  In Auroville, India on January 8-9, 2010 he gave two overview lectures on the topics of Indian civilization and political history respectively to the AUP students taking part in the Sustainable Development Practicum organized by the Department of Global Communications.  On January 12, at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, he gave a talk on the ‘Cultures and Globalization Series’ of which he is co-editor.  The third volume of the series, entitled Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation, appeared in January 2010.  (See link.)

[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2010]

Christy Shields-Argelès, Rozin, P., and Fischler, C. published “Additivity dominance: Additives are more potent and more often lexicalized across languages than are ‘subtractives’” in Judgement and Decision Making, Vol. 4, No. 6 (October 2009): 475-478.

[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2010]

Waddick Doyle was invited to speak at the Unesco Global Forum on the Power of Peace, Bangkok in October 2009. He gave a keynote talk in the section on University leadership and the application of media and ICTs for Peace education. His speech was entitled "Digitization and Global Liberal Arts Education." He was also interviewed by France24 on several issues related to search engines and Google. He was invited by The School of Cultures and Languages of The University of Hong Kong to a conference on Love in the Religions of the World, University of Hong Kong. He gave a paper on "Love, and the Semiotics of Unicity in Ibn Arabi and Patanjali." 

[AUP - Posted 4 Dec 2009]

Jayson Harsin presented a paper "Rancière's Aesthetics and Politics for Rhetorical Theory: Circumspect Remarks" at the National Communication Association conference in Chicago, and participated in the Personal Democracy Forum Europe in Barcelona last month.

[AUP - Posted 4 Dec 2009]

Yudhishthir Raj Isar is currently the interim Chair of the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), London.  On November 13-14 he took part in the Third World CULTURELINK Conference held in Zagreb, Croatia, on the topic ‘Networks: The Evolving Aspects of Culture in the 21st Century’.  On 20 November, at Rivington Place, London, he presented the soon-to-be-published third volume of the Cultures and Globalization Series entitled Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation (with a foreword by Stuart Hall). He was joined in a panel discussion by co-editor Helmut K. Anheier, newly appointed Dean of the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and professors Andrew Dewdney of Southbank University, London, Maruška Svašek Svasek of Queens University, Belfast and Mo Tomaney of Central Saint Martins and the University for the Creative Arts (UCCA), see link.

[AUP - Posted 4 Dec 2009]

Yudhishthir Raj Isar took part in a Plenary Panel on the topic ‘Culture as a Catalyst for Creativity and Innovation’ held on September 29 during the European Culture Forum in Brussels, a conference organized by the Directorate-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission, which was attended by one thousand European cultural activists and policymakers.  On October 5, in Åre, Sweden, he spoke on the topic of culture in local development at the annual conference of the Swedish Organization of Local Authorities and Regions.  On October 21-22, in Barcelona, he attended the ‘Forum of Young Cultural Policy Researchers’ organized by the European Cultural Foundation.  On October 29, at Birkbeck College, London, he spoke at the Opening Plenary of the annual conference of ‘Social Theory, Politics and the Arts’ (STP&A) devoted to the topic ‘Innovation, creativity and change in a globalized world’ and on October 30 he presented a paper entitled ‘Renovating Cultural Policy.’ 

[AUP - Posted 26 Nov 2009]

Justin McGuinness gave a paper at the annual international symposium of the IAPS (International Association for People-Environment Studies) organized with the CSBE (Centre for Study of the Built Environment) held between 12-16 October at Istanbul Technical University. Entitled ‘Restoration Dramas: the Fassi courtyard house, 2000-2009,’ the paper explored issues of cross-cultural communication, knowledge production, and home restoration practice in Fès, a Moroccan world heritage city.

[AUP - Posted 26 Nov 2009]

Stephen Monteiro has received a grant from the Canadian Centre for Architecture to support research on constructions of cultural memory in urban architectural photography. The grant includes residency at the CCA in summer 2010.

[AUP - Posted 26 Nov 2009]