People, Papers, Presentations

Bernard Aresu, professor of French studies, delivered a paper titled “Writing from Cold Cities: Contemporary Algerian Fiction and the Civil War” at Harvard University, where he was the guest of the Humanities Center and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.

Deborah J. Barrett, senior lecturer in management and director of MBA Communications at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, has been invited to serve on an editorial board reviewing submissions for a special volume on international MBA communication programs for Business Communication Quarterly.

Jane Chance, professor of English, was one of several people interviewed in a documentary called “Ringers: Lord of the Fans.” Chance was the only scholar and academic interviewed. The film brings together extensive footage collected over 21 months, across three continents, to show how an adventure story published in 1954 has had such an effect on Western pop culture. The film premiered at the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival and was to be screened at the Sundance Film Festival.

Jean-Joseph Goux, the Laurence H. Favrot Professor of French, delivered a paper titled “Shipwrecks and Hopes: the Youth of Utopia” at the International Encounter on Utopia in Morelia, Mexico. He has also published “Kilo de plomb, kilo de plume,” a trilingual book in French, English and German on the French contemporary painter Jacques Barry.

Seethu Seetharaman, associate professor of management at the Jones School, recently attended the Young Scholars Event by the Marketing Science Institute at Park City, Utah. He presented a paper titled “Estimating Dynamic Pricing Decisions in Oligopolistic Markets: An Empirical Approach Using Micro- and Macro-Level Data,” co-authored with Tat Chan from Washington University in St. Louis.

Roland Smith, associate provost, was the guest speaker for the “Reaching Out to K-12: Best Practices in Collaboration” session during the third national conference on Best Practices in Black Student Achievement at Clemson University.

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