Harvard Club Annual Cocktail Mixer, October 18

The Harvard Club of France
Annual Cocktail Mixer on the Seine
Thursday, October 18 starting at 7:30 pm
35 euros per person
aboard the péniche Baleine Blanche
Porte de la Gare, 75013

All alumni clubs are cordially invited
Please RSVP by October 13
This joint event has been a tradition for a long time and remains a great way to mix and mingle with other University Club alums.
The Harvard Club has opted for a location in front of the Bibliothèque François Mitterrand and the barge is stationary, so as to allow late arrivals.

Please contact Jacques Laden, Jacques_Laden@hotmail.com if you have any questions relating to this event.

Registrations are accepted on a first come, first served basis and they encourage members to sign up as quickly as possible. The reservation deadline is right around the corner, and they will likely have to turn people away because of the usual space (and safety) constraints.

Adopt-A-Student Fall 2007

Dear Alumna, Dear Alumnus,

Last year we launched the "Adopt-A-Student" program which, thanks to your participation, was a great success. The feedback from students and alumni was positive and we are eager to offer this semester's incoming group another opportunity to connect with you.

Would you please take a moment to email center@ucparis.fr and let us know if you would again be interested in being part of this program? Students have arrived and are excited to have begun their study abroad experience. Whether it be just for conversation over a cup of coffee, or a walk through a museum together, they appreciate this opportunity to meet and talk with a "real" Parisian.

Thank you so much for your past participation and we hope that you will be able to be part of the "Adopt-A-Student" program for Fall 2007.

France-Amériques June Events Calender

Contact France-Amériques
for details on the following list of events
www.france-ameriques.org
01 43 59 51 00
9, avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 75008 PARIS
info.france-ameriques@wanadoo.fr

Monday, June 4 at 6:30pm
"Mexico surréaliste : intensifications mexicaines pour aujourd’hui"
Conference given in French by Dr. Dominique de Courcelles
Research Directeur at the Centre d'Etude en Rhétorique, Philosophie et Histoire des Idées - ENS des Lettres et Sciences Humaines de Lyon

Monday, June 4 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
"Les Modes alternatifs de règlement des litiges : un marché prometteur pour les avocats"
Conference in the cycle « L’attractivité économique du droit : Regards croisés franco-américains »

Wednesday, June 6 at 6:30pm
"Le Canada à l’ère des guerres de religion : une page oubliée de l’Histoire de France"
Conference given in French by Senator Serge Joyal c.p.,o.c. Sénat du Canada, Ancien Ministre

Monday, June 11 at 7pm
"Pourquoi et comment l’alliance franco-américaine s’est arrêtée en 1793"
Conference followed by a book signing by author Claude Moisy, author of « Le citoyen Genet » Editions Privat 2007

Wednesday, June 13 at 6:30pm
"L’escapade de La Fayette vers l’Amérique : la véritable histoire"
Conference given in French by Bernard Vincent, Professor emeritus from the Université d’Orléans

Saturday, June 30 - A Day of Remembrance at Omaha Beach
www.TheFrenchWillNeverForget.com

US EMBASSY Cocktail - SAVE THE DATE

Cocktails at the US EMBASSY in Paris
Wednesday, June 27th from 18h to 20h

Formal invitation to follow....

Thunderbird speaker event: Roxana Pinto, Costa Rican Ambassador to France

The Thunderbird School of Management presents Roxana Pinto, the Costa Rican Ambassador to France, who will speak on

Wednesday June 20, 2007, from 6:30 to 8:00pm at
L’Echangeur, 66 rue des Archives, 75003 Paris, www.echangeur.fr
RSVP by Thursday, June 14, 2007
For more details and to reserve, contact Bernadette Martin at bmartin@noos.fr

Ambassador Pinto will talk aboit the beautiful country of Costa Rica and discuss some interesting facts that may come as a surprise.

Price 20 euros for guests, 10 euros for T-bird Alumni and Students. The price includes wine, kir & non-alcoholic beverages as well as snacks.

Life after the MBA: Become an Astronaut !
May 30 Stanford-INSEAD event

with Steven L. Smith MSc. and MBA from Stanford, and… a NASA Astronaut
Wednesday, May 30th 2007
Hôtel le Westin (ex-Intercontinental), 3 rue de Castiglione - 75001 Paris
starts at 7pm, cocktail at 8:30pm
45 euros for Stanford Club of France, Stanford Business Club and INSEAD members
50 euros (non club member)

After graduating with a Stanford MBA in 1987 and starting his career with IBM, Steven Smith joined NASA in1989. In 1993, he was the first of his astronaut class to receive a flight assignment. Since then, he's performed multiple space walks, including as a member of the Discovery crew which serviced the Hubble Space Telescope. Cumulatively, he's gone more than 600 times around the Earth and covered 16.5 million miles in only 40 days.

A dynamic and inspiring speaker, Steve will share key moments of his career evolution, how he managed the transition, how his training as an engineer and in business helps him in his journey into astronomy.

To request RSVP form, please contact:
Association INSEAD Alumni France
19 rue de l'Arc de Triomphe, 75017 PARIS
Tel : +33 (0)1 42 12 09 01Fax : +33(0)1 40 54 72 61

France24 Presidential Soiree

Thanks to Princetonian Renée Kaplan, a senior producer at France24, our club members are all invited to the brand-new TV station'sPresidential Election Party! Absolutely the place to be — From journalists and politicians to bloggers and pollsters, everyone willbe there.

Cocktail Dînatoire (champagne and petits fours)Sunday, May 6, 19h to 23h at the France24 offices, 62 rue Camille Desmoulins, Issy lesMoulineaux. Free of charge.

RSVP: Contact elections@france24.com or tél 01 73 01 26 28

American Chamber of Commerce Event - Deadline Friday March 23rd

The annual all-alumni networking event, to which many UC alums came last year, will be taking place in the offices of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris 8th, on the evening of Thursday March 29.

Alumni from 16 other US universities have been invited.

The deadline is this Friday March 23. You can find all the details in the attached invitation. Please note that if you answer by the deadline, your name and job title will appear on the list distributed to all attendees that evening and the price is 30€ instead of 40€ at the door. It only takes a few minutes to sign up and pay for the event on the AmCham website, www.amchamfrance.org/calendar.html.

Haas Celebration in Paris - Tom Campbell

The Haas School of Business and the Haas Alumni Network cordially invite you to an evening with:

Tom Campbell
Bank of America Dean and Professor,
Haas School of Business,
University of California, Berkeley

Join fellow Haas alumni for an intimate evening with Dean Tom Campbell. Dean Campbell will give an update on the Haas School and lead a dialogue on the impact of the recent U.S. elections at home and abroad.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007
7:00-9:00 p.m.

UC Paris
89, rue du faubourg St-Antoine
Paris 75011

Registration deadline: March 4, 2007.

Tom Campbell has held the position of Dean for the Haas School of Business since 2002. He formerly held positions of US Congressman, California State Senator, Stanford University law professor, and, recently California’s Director of Finance.

Haas has significantly improved in rankings in the Wall Street Journal (#5), U.S. News and World Report (#7), and Business Week (#8), and is poised for even greater achievement in the immediate future.

For questions, contact Haas Alumni Relations at events@haas.berkeley.edu.

Theatre Production - Kafka's Soup

We thank Cynthia Liebow '75 who has sent us this news about the Paris production of a true theatrical event: (RESERVE SOON!!!)

"Kafka's Soup", by Mark Crick, translated into French, presented by
Editions Flammarion - Le Théatre de l'Atelier et Cinq Scenes

Une histoire complète de la littérature mondiale en 16 recettes
Textes inspirés de Raymond Chandler, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, Irvine
Welsh, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Steinbeck, Italo Calvino, le
Marquis de Sade, Virginia Woolf, Homère, Marcel Proust, Graham
Greene, Jorge Luis Borges, Harold Pinter, Thomas Mann, Geoffrey Chaucer.

Monday MARCH 5 at 20h
Théatre de l'Atelier

1 Place Charles Dullin
75018 PARIS (métro : Anvers, Pigalle ou Abbesses).

Réservations : Fnac 0 892 683 622 et le jour même au guichet du
théâtre dans la limite des places disponibles.
Prix des places de 10 à 15 €
Tarif jeune – 26 ans: 10 €

Dictionnaire des mondialisations

I have the pleasure of introducing you to the "Dictionnaire des Mondialisations, which Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin, an esteemed member of the original UC Steering Committee, has produced while working at the CNRS. I invite you to become better acquainted with the work of our alumni. If you have any information that you would like me to add to this blog. Please let me know. - Lucie-Anne Radimsky (lradimsky@gmail.com)

Dictionnaire des mondialisations
Edited by Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin
Paris, Armand colin, 2006, 400 pages,
ISBN : 2200-26479-8


The ambition of the “Dictionnaire des mondialisations” is to explore the various dimensions as well as the historicity of the ongoing worldization, and capitalize on a vast, growing and often disparate literature (French and English). Hence the use of the plural, the choice of a scientific committee (Martine Azuelos, Yves Boyer, Jean-Michel Dauriac, Catherine Distler & Christian Grataloup) composed of experts with different backgrounds and the contribution of more than 40 researchers coming from many fields of social sciences. Globalization is the current name of “worldization” and “internationalization” as recent technological changes and the growing importance of the Internet allow real time interactions between production units and people (both in emerging and old industrial countries), while excluding large territories.The entries (150) and the essays (38) cover every major aspect of the debate from agriculture to virtual, including traditional concepts with evolving meanings such as capitalism, economy, city or inequalities, long term challenges such as climate change, global governance and terrorism, new concepts such as global company, mutual recognition, and precautionary principle, and emerging phenomena such as transnational communities, green refugees and pandemia….All of them are referenced while offering additional readings on the topic. Designed to help the reader in its understanding/apprehension of the inedited current context, it also includes an English-French glossary and attempts to present the specificities of the European approach vis a vis the American one.

CGG is affiliated with the CNRS (national scientific research center) where she is director of research. She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA and a doctorat d’Etat from the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris 1). She teaches at the Institute of Political studies (Paris) and at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. She is also a visiting researcher at Prométhée.

Voting Experience Survey

To capture the personal voting experiences of those who voted in the 2006 mid-term elections, as well as those who did not vote, or wanted to vote and couldn't, FAWCO's Alliance partner Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF) is conducting a 2006 post-election survey for US citizens and active-duty military who live outside the country.

FAWCO encourages you, your family and friends overseas (FAWCO members or not) to sign up now, and receive a personal invitation to participate in the OVF 2006 post-election survey! Each survey link is uniquely generated, can be used only once and cannot be forwarded.

Voters who participate will contribute to this important research program conducted in collaboration with the University of California Election Research Administration Center) and help to get the key messages home.

The 5-minute survey will provide valuable information about the overseas voting population and their successes and frustrations this year, helping us all to make the 2008 election experience even better!

Survey Sign-up

Thank you for your very well-spent 5 minutes!
Lucy Stensland Laederich, FAWCO U.S. Liaison

Renaudot Prize goes to UCLA Professor

An American in Paris
Foreigners have dominated France's literary prizes this year. The country's most prestigious laurel, the Goncourt, was awarded on November 6th to Jonathan Littell, an American, for his debut novel, Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones). The 900-page tome, written in French, is written as a memoir from the perspective of a Nazi SS officer, and is the most talked-about work this year. Mr Littell also scooped the prize given by the Académie Française, guarantors of the purity of the French language. But the author avoided both award ceremonies: his publisher explained that he preferred to keep attention on the book.

Other foreign laureates included Nancy Huston, a Canadian-born writer and a long-time resident of Paris. She won the Prix Femina, awarded by a female jury, for her Lignes de Faille (Faultlines). The Renaudot went to Alain Mabanckou, a Congolese novelist who teaches at UCLA, for Memoires de Porc-épic (Memoires of a Porcupine). Sorj Chalandon, a Tunisian-born journalist at Libération newspaper, claimed the Médicis with his novel, La Promesse (The Promise). The Médicis is awarded to a writer whose fame does not yet match his talent.

Photos: Wild Mushroom Hunt

For those who were not able to attend this fun event, here are some pictures of what you missed.

Photo Set

France-Amériques: Events Calendar 06

Please find the Calendar of France-Amériques Events for the remainder of this year.
The document contains reservation slips for all events.

Nov-Dec 06 Events