| Performances/Media Productions/ Exhibitions
Alan Mandel, professor emeritus, performing arts, CAS: performed the world premiere of his composition “Steps to Mount Olympus” during a concert at the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, November. Honors/Awards/Appointments
Jon Wisman, economics, CAS: received the Ludwig Mai Service Award granted by the Association for Social Economics at the Allied Social Science Meetings, Boston, January. Lectures/Presentations
Erran Carmel, Kogod: keynote address, “Offshoring, Software Exports and the Place of Peru,” at the conference “Development and Globalization of the Software Industry,” Fourth International Software Industry Congress (of Peru), Lima, November. Stephen Cohen, SIS: spoke on Latin America’s external debt situation to the Inter-American Defense College; spoke on the fundamentals of U.S. international economic policy to the Washington winter semester of the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management; and spoke on the relationship between U.S. trade policymakers and the American business community to the Executive MBA Seminar of Suffolk University, December and January. Joshua Ederheimer, SPA: “Conducted Energy Devices: The U.S. Experience,” Association of Chief Police Officers, London, U.K., January. Walter Effross, WCL: served as a faculty member for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s Bankruptcy Conference, Princeton, N.J., January. Tamar Gutner, SIS: “Pathologies of Delegation: The IMF and the Millennium Development Goals,” American Political Science Association conference, Washington, D.C., September. Paul Oehlers, audio technology, CAS: “MFL: a Collaboration Integrating of Electro-acoustic Music and Video Through Magic Squares as Compositional Models,” Hawaiian International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January. Naima Prevots, professor emerita, performing arts, CAS: participant on the panel “Made in America: Nationalism and Culture in the World War II Era,” Bard Graduate Center, New York, in conjunction with the exhibit Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States,1931–1945, January. Published Works
Robert Beisner, professor emeritus, history, CAS: appeared with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (University of California at Santa Barbara) to discuss his book, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan, Woodrow Wilson Center (and Cold War International History Project), January. Jocelyn Johnston, SPA: coauthored “Contracting and Accountability: A Model of Effective Contracting Drawn from the U.S. Experience,” in Unbundled Government: A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos, and Contractualisation, Routledge, 2004. Brian Nelson, Kogod: Law and Ethics in Global Business: Integrating Corporate Governance into Business Decisions, Routledge, 2006. Ira Robbins, WCL: Habeas Corpus, Thomson-West, 14th ed., 2006. Joseph Trotter and Caroline Cooper, Justice Programs Office, and SPA: “Review of the Felony Case Process in Cook County (Chicago, Ill.) and Its Impact on the Jail Population,” for the Cook County Board of Commissioners and the Cook County Judicial Advisory Council, March 2004–September 2005. Report published by SPA’s Criminal Courts Technical Assistance Project (of the Justice Programs Office).
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Papers Presented
David Carlini, biology, CAS: coauthored “Synonymous SNPs Provide Evidence for Selective Constraint on Human Exonic Splicing Enhancers,” Journal of Molecular Evolution, January 2006. J. Alberto Espinosa, Kogod: “Coordination Mechanisms in Globally Distributed Software Development” was presented by a coauthor and published in the conference proceedings, First International Conference on Management of Globally Distributed Work, Bangalore, India. Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: “El otro archivo de América,” Seminario de Poesía Peruana del 70, “Marginalidad-oralidad y nuevos sujetos migrantes descentrados,” Instituto de Investigaciones Lingüísticas, Universidad Nacional de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Media
Muneer Ahmad, WCL: quoted or mentioned in the New York Times, Toronto Star, London Free Press, and on Canadian Television and CBC several times on the Khadr case, January. Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS, and Center for Global Peace: quoted in the article “Resolution des conflicts en Afrique,” in Sud Quotidien (Senegal), and in the article “Codesria—Recherche Sur La Paix: Les chercer pour un meilleur decodage du systeme social,” in Le Solei (Senegal), October. Randall Eliason, WCL: interviewed by FoxNews.com about the Abramoff case and quoted in the article “Former Aide’s Guilty Plea Implicates Congressman,” Los Angeles Times, January. Claudio Grossman, dean, WCL: interviewed by Channel 13 (Chile) about the asylum request by Augusto Pinochet’s daughter, January. Judith Shapiro, SIS: discussed Chinese environmental issues on Voice of America’s television program “Pro and Con” (Mandarin), January. James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: appeared on the CBS Evening News to discuss the “imperial presidency”and was quoted by the Washington Post regarding domestic spying and by the Associated Press regarding the economy, January. Robert Tobias, director, ISPPI, and SPA: quoted by Federal Computer Week regarding workers’ advancement, February. Robert Vaughn, WCL: quoted by the Associated Press regarding a whistle blower case, February. Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed on Voice of America ( Middle East) on the book Embracing the Infidel : Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West by Behzad Yaghmaian in connection with the publication of the Mohammed cartoons in Denmark and elsewhere in Europe, February. Howard Wachtel, economics, CAS: quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer regarding health care costs, February. John Watson, SOC: quoted in the Washington Times regarding the Danish cartoon uproar, February. Stephen Wermiel, WCL: quoted in the Legal Times and on Law.com in the article “Bracing—finally—for the battle royal,” November. Paul Williams, WCL and SIS: interviewed by FoxNews.com about his and the PILPG nomination for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, February.
Courtesy of Gail Humphries Mardirosian
AU students reprise Antigone for prestigious theatre festival
Two dozen AU students traveled to the State University of New York at New Patz last month to perform portions of last spring’s Antigone for a regional festival in the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival (ACTF) program. Each year ACTF invites four to six of the best college and university theatre productions to each of its eight regional festivals. From there, national judges select one show from each region for the national festival at the Kennedy Center each April.
Since several of the students in last year’s production of Antigone have since graduated, Department of Performing Arts chair Gail Humphries Mardirosian assembled the play’s choral pieces into a “workshop” showcasing the returning students. Pictured above loosening up between back-to-back performances are, from left, Daniel Rakowski, Amanda Thickpenny, Stephanie Penet, Ben Gibson, and Anne Veal. They worked with other returning students to stage the pieces for several hundred students and faculty from colleges and universities in Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C., New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Though the performance’s truncated format kept it out of the running for the national festival, Mardirosian noted that inclusion at the regional level was “an amazing honor” acknowledging not only this production, but also the students’ overall education.“The acknowledgment really goes beyond just this performance,” she said, “because, while it’s one production, what they’re doing represents all the training that they’re getting at American University.” —MG
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