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SÉVERINE LETALLEUR-SOMMER Associate Professor
Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense Office V226, building V 200 avenue de la République, 92001, Nanterre (0033)1 40 051 769 / (0033)6 83 363 464/(001)512-915-3634
http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article1086
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EMPLOYMENT 2007-present Associate Professor [maître de conférences], Double major English & Law, Department of English University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense 2004-2007 Teaching Assistant [attaché temporaire d’enseignement & de recherche], University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas 2001-2004 Teaching Assistant [allocataire-moniteur], Paris-Sorbonne University 2000-2001 Secondary school teacher (English), Lycée Hélène Boucher, Paris 1997-1998 French assistant, Kingsway College (London, UK) Preparation of the oral examinations for French GCSEs and A-Levels 1996-1997 French assistant, Preston Manor High School (Wembley, UK) Preparation of the oral examinations for French GCSEs and A-Levels EDUCATION 2001-2006 Ph. D. English Language, Visual Semiotics & Representation Theories, Paris-Sorbonne University, defended in December 2006 Dissertation: “Focusing phenomena in language and image” Committee: Pr. M-M. Martinet (supervisor) & Pr. P. Cotte (supervisor); Pr. C. Bernard, Pr. C. Crowley, Pr. L. Louvel
2003 B. A. in Philosophy (major: Metaphysics, Aesthetics, History of Ideas), Paris-Sorbonne University 2000-2001 D-Phil in English Language & Visual Semiotics (Paris-Sorbonne University) Dissertation: “Image & Grammar”, supervisors: Pr. M.-M. Martinet & Pr. P. Cotte, with highest honours 2000 Agrégation in English [national competitive examination for teachers at secondary and university levels] (10/145 admitted) 1999 CAPES in English [national competitive examination for teachers at secondary level] 1996 M-Phil in History (major: 17th century France) University Toulouse Jean Jaurès. Thesis: “Françoise d’Aubigné ou la jeunesse de Madame de Maintenon – 1635-1719”, supervisor: Pr. E. Birnstiel, with highest honours
1995 B.A. in English, University Toulouse Jean Jaurès (major: English and 18th century England) 1994 B.A. in History (major: French Revolution, 17th century England), University Toulouse Jean Jaurès 1991-1994 Classes préparatoires littéraires (a two-year multi-disciplinary course) at the lycée St Sernin (Toulouse), subjects studied: Literature, Philosophy, History, Geography, Cartography, English & Spanish; major subject: History & Geography
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1992 Baccalauréat A1 (Philosophy and Mathematics), with Highest Honours
RESEARCH Research topics Representation theories, history of visual culture, visual semiotics, cultural studies, meaning construction via various representational tools – literature, image. Specialised translation. Peer-reviewed articles 2017 (submitted) "Heightened perception and neuroesthetics: when ‘losing sight’ make sense" [with an analysis of Milton’s Paradise Lost] (forthcoming) "L’un et le multiple ou la question de l’intempestivité dans les triptyques de Francis Bacon" ["Unicity and Multiplicity: The Question of Untimely Art in Francis Bacon's Triptychs"] 2015 "More than a Condition: An Examination of Synaesthesia as a Key Cognitive Factor in the Processing of Reality and in its Literary and Pictorial Renditions – Nabokov. Speak, Memory". Synesthésie dans le texte et l’image/Synaesthesia in Texts and Images, S. Aymes, C. Cambray, & M. Géracht (eds.) Interfaces - image, texte, langage - vol. 36, 2015: 29-55. http://college.holycross.edu/interfaces/vol36/Letalleur-Sommer.pdf
2013 "Rôle de la vision et du contexte visuel dans la construction du sens 1 - Poe, ‘The Oval portrait’". [The Role of Vision and of the Visual Context in Meaning Construction– 1]". Etudes de Stylistique Anglaise 3, 2013: 59-74.
2013 "Rôle de la vision et du contexte visuel dans la construction du sens 2 - Poe, ‘The Oval portrait’” – [The Role of Vision and of the Visual Context in Meaning Construction– 2]. Etudes de Stylistique Anglaise 5, 2013: 99-114.
2013 "Meaning Construction and Colour Schemes: an Enactive Paradigm – Rothko ‘Light Red over Black’" Definitions of Color/de la Couleur. F. Ogée & M. Géracht (eds.) Interfaces - image, texte, langage - vol. 33, 2013: 61-80.
2011 "Théories linguistiques/théories esthétiques : la quête du sens et du sujet" [A Cross-Analysis of Linguistic Theories and Aesthetics: Meaning Construction and the Self]. Texte & Image : la théorie au 21ème siècle. Interfaces - image, texte, langage - vol. 32, 2011: 83-98.
2009 "Dialogues théoriques autour de l’émergence du sens linguistique et visuel" [Cross-Examining Theories in Meaning Construction and Text/Image Analysis]. Anglophonia Sigma 26, 2009: 267-281.
2009 "Métaphore & métonymie - effets de style et figures du sens" [Metaphor and Metonymy – Stylistic Effects as Meaningful Devices in V. Woolf’s ‘Kew gardens’]. BSSA 32, 2009: 139-152.
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2004 “Uncovering Knowledge Acquisition behind Digital Contextualisation” DigiCULT Info n°9, November 2004. http://www.digicult.info/downloads/digicult_info_9.pdf
Other scholarly articles 2017 (forthcoming) "La mise en abyme : de la curiosité esthétique au fondement de la sémiotique" [a study of "mises en abyme" in various fields ranging from literature, art to biology and mathematics] (forthcoming) "’Voyage sentimental’ à l'endroit du sens ou le rôle du sentiment dans la construction du sens au XVIIIème siècle" - Actes du Colloque international et pluridisciplinaire - « Le Sentimentalisme en Europe : splendeur, décadence et renouveau » (to be published online) "Colliding perspectives: the notion of ‘focus’ revisited, from Renaissance optics to sentence analysis and back - an interdisciplinary approach"
2014 "Dispositif perspectif et linéaire linguistique". [A Comparison between Pictorial Perspective and Linguistic Linearity with respect to Information Structure]. Perception, perspective, perspicacité, F. Buisson, C. Lacassain-Lagoin & F. Marie (eds.) Paris: L’Harmattan, 2014: 113-133.
2014 "Meaning Construction in Digital Environments: Turner’s Virtual Gallery". Naming & Narrating. Actes du colloque "Etats critiques et transitions disciplinaires". Transferts critiques et dynamiques des savoirs 1, 2014: 137-154. http://1.static.e- corpus.org/download/notice_file/2522904/Naming%20and%20Narrating.pdf
2012 "Mapping Parameters of Meaning in Words and Pictures: a Comparative Study of Words and Figurative Paintings’ Spatiotemporal Qualities and their Impact on Meaning Construction". M. Sekali and A. Trévise (eds.) Mapping Parameters of Meaning. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012: 118- 134.
2001 "Landscape and Hypermedia: Stowe and Monticello websites" http://www.csti.paris- sorbonne.fr/en/cours/agregation/2001/landscape/landscape.php
Books 2007 The English of Law and Politics in the United States (et al.) Paris: Belin, 2007, 368 p. 2006 The English of Law: England and Wales (et al.) Paris: Belin, 2006, 400 p.
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2005 Maurel, N. (preface by S. Letalleur). Pictogrammes I/Mnémotechnie. Sète: Villa St Clair, 2005, 126 p.
Works in progress 2017 "Simplexity, Meaning Construction & Creativity" Translations 2007 "Anthony Collins’ Debt to French Thought" par James Dybikovski, pour le Centre d’Etude de la Langue et la Littérature Française (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles) Paris IV – CNRS 2016 (forthcoming) US Supreme Court decisions in J. Merchant & V. Michelot. De la Constitution aux droits : les fondements juridiques des droits des femmes aux Etats-Unis (en collaboration avec Vincent Michelot), Lyon: ENS Editions. Conferences organized 2014 co-organization (with A.-P. Bruneau-Rumsey) of the International Conference "Painters & the Great War – productions, commission & collections: towards a comparative history", University Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense in collaboration with the BDIC and the Musée de l’Armée, Hôtel des Invalides December 4-6, 2014 http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article2176 http://www.musee-armee.fr/programmation/expositions/detail/vu-du-front- representer-la-grande-guerre.html
2010 co-organization (with Laurence Veyssière-Harris) of the International Conference "Databases & Information Space", University Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, January 15-16, 2010 http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?article1339
Conference Papers 2016 University Blaise Pascal – Clermont Ferrand "Enaction, language, art and literature." International conference - Langenact – June 1-3 2016 University Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle "Simplexity, Meaning Construction, Creativity." International Conference Heightened senses - Les sens en crise – January 9 2015 University Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité - CRIDAF EA453 "La métalangue de l’emphase : de la technicité du métadiscours à la cognition incarnée" - International Conference Les discours métalinguistiques 2 – March 20
2015 University of Luxembourg - Luxembourg "La mise en abyme, de la curiosité esthétique au fondement de la sémiotique" - Colloque Sonder l’Abyme. "La
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mise en abyme dans les textes et les images" [A Study of Embedded Structures in Art, Nature, Language & Literature] – January 16 2014 University of Burgundy - Dijon "More than a Condition: An Examination of Synaesthesia as a Key Cognitive Factor in the Processing of Reality and in its Literary and Pictorial Renditions" – International Conference Text & Image – "Synaesthesia in Texts and Images" – June 26 2013 University of Pau & Pays de l’Adour "Dispositif perspectif et linéaire linguistique: de la perception au sens" ["A Comparison between Pictorial Perspective and Linguistic Linearity with respect to Information Structure"] International Conference (CRPHL) Perception, Perspective, Perspicacity – March 8 2013 University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense "Unexpected Meaning & Common Law: Statutory Interpretation”. International Conference GReG PLS III– Sens attendu/inattendu dans les langues - Mapping expected/unexpected meaning in languages – January 26 2012 Faculté des Lettres & Sciences humaines – Victor Segalen - Brest "De la main au mot - la trace, entre vestige archéologique et intention sémiotique" Projet InterMSH - Les confins de l’humanité- December 14 2012 Universities of Paris VII – Denis Diderot & Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle "Meaning Construction and Colour Schemes. An Enactive Paradigm". International Conference Interfaces - Texte, langue, image – January 16 2011 University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense "Unexpected Meaning & Common Law: Rules of Interpretation" – GreG Seminar - "Mapping unexpected meaning in languages" – December 14 2011 University of Paris VIII - Vincennes-Saint-Denis Round Table - "Databases, Interfaces and Hypermedia Environments: an Epistemological Paradigm Shift for the Humanities?" – November 18 2011 Universities of Paris VII – Denis Diderot & Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle "Le rôle de la vision et du contexte visuel dans la construction du sens: ‘Eyes speak with silence’" - congrès SAES - stylistique anglaise – May 22 2010 University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense "Paramètres, relativité et construction du sens" - Colloque GReG – Paramétrer le sens ? Filtres, filtrage, élaboration – November 19 2010 University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle "L’un et le multiple, ou la question de l’intempestivité dans les triptyques de Francis Bacon" - International Conference L’art intempestif" /Untimely art - SAIT – September 9
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2010 University of Burgundy - Dijon "Théories linguistiques/théories esthétiques : la quête du sens et du sujet" - International Conference Text & Image – Theory in the 21st Century – June 26 2010 Belfast, UK - University of Ulster "Musing in Turner’s 3D gallery – a Theoretical Reflection on Meaning Construction in a 3D Context" - International Conference Musing in the Museum - "Displaying Word and Image", IAWIS Focus conference – June 5 2009 University of Bordeaux III - Michel de Montaigne "Métaphore et métonymie - effets de style et figures du sens" – SAES Conference -English Stylistics – May 9 2008 Odense, Denmark - University of Southern Denmark "The Construction of Meaning in Language and Images - On the multi-dimensional nature of intersubjective exchanges" - Language, Culture and Mind III International Conference - "Social life and meaning construction" – July 16 2008 University of Littoral - Côte d’Opale "Voyage sentimental à l’endroit du sens ou le rôle du sentiment dans la construction du sens au 18ème siècle" - International Conference - Le Sentimentalisme en Europe: splendeur, décadence et renouveau – May 22 2008 Paris X - Nanterre "L’interactivité ou la question du choix - L’actualisation de mondes possibles" - Colloque RAO (recherche assistée par ordinateur) - Singulier/Pluriel – January 12 2007 University of Paris - Sorbonne (Paris IV) "Recherches anglicistes: de la focalisation au multimédia" - Journée d’études "Problématiques des équipes de recherche" - Enjeux actuels des recherches en histoire culturelle et civilisation – November 10 2007 University of Avignon & pays de Vaucluse "L’envers signifiant du Sujet-Signe" - congrès SAES - psychanalyse et littérature – May 10 2007 Paris VII – Denis Diderot "L’entrelacs sémiotique des images et des mots" - Journée d’étude organisée par les Pr. C. Bernard (Paris VII, LARCA, groupe « Lire et représenter le présent »), F. Brunet (Paris VII, LARCA, groupe « Histoire des images en Amérique du Nord), A. Renonciat & A.-M. Christin (Paris VII, Centre d’étude de l’écriture et de l’image), C. Parfait & M.-F. Cachin (Paris VII, LARCA, groupe « Livre et édition dans le monde anglophone ») – May 4 2007 University Paris - Sorbonne (Paris IV) "La notion de focalisation, examen croisé d’un concept – image – langue -hypermédia" - Séminaire Des décors de la Renaissance aux sites Internet - Pr. M.-M. Martinet – April 4 2006 London, UK "Constable’s Art and its Visual Reception”. International Conference European Society for the Study of English – English Art - 08/2006 - 09/2006
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2006 University Paris - Sorbonne (Paris IV) "Digital Humanities or the Gradiva Complex" - International Conference Digital Humanities - 07/2006 2006 University of Nantes "Regulus de J. M. Turner ou le spectateur étranger à lui- même" - SAES Conference – English Art- 04/2006 2006 University Paris - Sorbonne (Paris IV) "Réception et préhension dans Les Ambassadeurs de Hans Holbein" - Groupe de recherche sur la réception des arts en Grande-Bretagne - Pr. Jacques Carré - 02/2006 2004 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GB "Enhancing Contextualization in the Humanities: Exploring the Role of Hypermedia as a Pedagogical Tool" - International Conference Digital Resources and the Humanities 09/2004 2003 Université Stendhal - Grenoble III - "La focalisation pensée en tant que manifestation de l’intersubjectivité à l’œuvre dans le langage" - International Conference SAES – Linguistics/doctoral conference- 05/2003 2003 Université of Paris - Sorbonne (Paris IV) - Journée doctorale ED IV – "Questions d’interdisciplinarité" 03/2003 2002 University Paul Verlaine - Metz "Des abeilles et des araignées dans l’œuvre de Wright of Derby" - congrès SAES – English Art- 05/2002 2002 University Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle – Doctoral Conference Pr. P. Cotte, C. Delmas & G. Girard Paris III - Paris IV "Grammaire & Image" - 02/2002 Affiliations CREA (Research Centre for English Studies at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) http://anglais.u-paris10.fr/spip.php?rubrique4 SAES (French Association of University Teachers of English) http://www.saesfrance.org/ SAIT (Société Angliciste – Arts, Images, Textes) http://sait-france.org/ IAWIS/AIERT (International Association of Word and Image Studies) http://iawis.org/ SSA (Société de Stylistique Anglaise) http://stylistique-anglaise.org/fr/presentation/ CSTI (« Cultures, Sociétés et Technologies de l’Information») http://www.cati.paris4.sorbonne.fr/
COURSES TAUGHT
GRADUATE LEVEL
- Text & Image analysis/Semiotics and Art history (comparative study between literary, historical and iconographic documents) preparation for the oral examination for
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students preparing the “agrégation d’anglais” (highly competitive examination for teachers at secondary and university levels, M2 level), 2015-2016, 18 hrs - US Constitutional history, Supreme Court decisions, Civil & Criminal Procedure (fifth- year law students), 2008-2016, 24 hrs - Specialised translation course, (fifth-year translation students), 2014-2016, 8 hrs - Legal Translation (fourth-year bilingual students from the double major English & Law), 2007-2014, 72 hrs - English for Psychologists (fourth-year Psychologist students), 2014-2015, 18 hrs - Legal translation for Erasmus Law students, English to French, 2011-2013, 18 hrs
UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL
- Literary translation - French to English and English to French (first-year students of English & students of the double major “Humanities” history, philosophy, English), 2013-2015, 36 hrs - Literary translation French to English (first-year students of English), 2001-2004, 36 hrs - Literary translation French to English (second-year students of English), 2003-2004, 36 hrs - Legal Translation (third-year bilingual students from the double major English & Law), 36 hrs - Literary translation English to French (second-year students of English), 2001-2002, 36 hrs - Literary translation French to English (first-year students of English), 2003-2004, 36 hrs - English linguistics (first-year students of English), 2009-2010, 36 hrs - English phonetics (first-year students of English), 2001-2003, 36 hrs - English phonetics (second-year students of English), 2001-2003, 36 hrs - English grammar & translation (first-year students from the double major English & Law), 2007-2014, 72 hrs - English grammar & translation (first-year bilingual students from the double major English & Law), 2014-2016, 36 hrs - Constitutional History UK (first-year bilingual students from the double major English & Law), 2009-2012, 72 hrs - Introduction to the History of Common Law (first-year bilingual students from the double major English & Law), 2007-2010, 36 hrs - Legal Terminology (first-year bilingual students from the double major English & Law), 2007-2010, 18 hrs - Civil Liberties in the UK and the US (first-year bilingual students from the double major English & Law), 2007, 18 hrs - Legal English, American Law (English for third-year Law students), 2007-2008, 36 hrs - English (second-year Psychology students), 2014-2015, 54 hrs - English (third-year Psychology students), 2014-2015, 18 hrs - English (third-year History students), Paris-Sorbonne University, 2002-2003, 26 hrs
LECTURES
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- English Historical Landmarks (first-year bilingual students from the double major English & Law), 2015, 18 hrs - Civil Liberties in the UK (second-year bilingual students from the double major English & Law), 2007, 12 hrs
GRADUATE TUTORIALS
- US Constitution, Supreme Court decisions, Civil & Criminal Procedure (fifth-year law students), 2008-2016, 24 hrs - English for Psychologists (fourth-year students), 2014-2015, 18 hrs - Legal translation for Erasmus law students, English to French, 2011-2013, 18 hrs/yr
LECTURES
- Introduction to the History of Common Law (first-year Law students, amphitheatre course), 2008-2016, 9 hrs - Introduction to Common Law (first-year Law students), 2008-2016, 12 hrs
DEFENSE COMMITTEES Evaluating the English versions of theses in Comparative Law - Double-Major Master’s Degree French law/Common law
1. "National Implementation of International Criminal Law: The case of France and United Kingdom" – A. Yousfi-Roquencourt dir. M. Forteau – November 22, 2014 2. "The status of private military companies under international humanitarian law in international armed conflicts" – T. Bourges dir. M. Eudes – December 2, 2014 3. "The protection of legal attributes confronted with the rise of new technology"– V. Ho Minh Triet dir. N. Thomassin - 16 Nov. 2013 4. "The law on protection of trade secrets in France and in the US"– A. Pacaud dir. N. Thomassin - 16 Nov. 2013 5. "Right to privacy and right of publicity a comparative study in French and American law"- G. Soubiran dir. N. Thomassin - 16 Nov. 2013 6. "Judicial Review: a comparative analysis between France and the US"- A. Anglès d’Auriac dir. R. Chemain - 26 Nov. 2013 7. "The concept of consent in data processing: European, English and French perspectives"– C. Deydier dir. R. Chemain - 26 Nov. 2013 8. "The National Punishment of Domestic Violence regarding International Human Rights Law Standards" - N. Churlet dir. M. Eudes - 4 Dec. 2012 9. "A Comparative Study on Gay Marriage in France and in the United-States of America" - A.-C. Lapointe dir. P. Guez - 29 Nov. 2012 10. "The Protection of the Integrity of Audiovisual Works: a Comparative Study of the French and American legal systems" - V. Mauduit dir. N. Thomassin - 27 Nov. 2012 11. "The Implementation of the EU directive 90/314/EEC – a comparative analysis of the strict liability of tour operators and travel agents"- A. Pouhaer dir. L. Sinopoli - 24 Nov. 2011
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12. "Media freedom and the administration of justice in French law and Common law"- A. Girod dir. L. Sinopoli - 24 Nov. 2011 13. "The Judge’s control on detention: providing guarantees against administrative violations of aliens’ rights and individual liberties" - C. Chanson dir. L. Sinopoli - 24 Nov. 2011 14. "Judicial framework establishing affirmative action or positive action in France and the US"- L. Bataillard dir. L. Sinopoli - 24 Nov. 2011 15. "The ECHR, France and the UK scope of the prohibition of torture and the protection of individuals"- E. Hennequet dir. M. O. Leclerc - 30 Nov. 2010 16. "Med-Arb : between mediation and arbitration"- S. Le Pironnec dir. M. F.-X. Train - 25 Nov. 2010 17. "Software patentability"- S. Kervern dir. M. le Pr. J.-S. Bergé - 25 Nov. 2009 18. "French and American audiovisual production contracts: relationship between authors and producers – a comparative study" - M.-C. Argac dir. M. le Pr. J.-S. Bergé - 25 Nov. 2009 19. "Regulation of biologics in the US & in Europe, searching for a balance between the promotion of innovators and the protection of public health interests" - J. Dillon dir. M. le Pr. R. Chemain - 19 Nov. 2008 20. "The Influence of European law on matrimonial regimes : a comparative study of France and England" - R. Huxford dir. Mme C. Bourdaire-Mignot - 18 Nov. 2008 21. "Regulation of deregulation: a compared study of the American and European Union systems applied to the opening of their electricity market" - J. Monthe dir. M. D. Barthe - 17 Oct. 2008
ADMINISTRATION Board of examiners 2013-2015 Member of the board of examiners for the entrance examination to the École Normale Supérieure, written examination (text commentary and translation) Recruiting committees 2015 University Paris II Panthéon – Assas (post as lecturer in Legal English), May 2015 2015 University of Lorraine (post as lecturer in English), May 2015 2014 Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense (post as lecturer in English Linguistics), May 2014
2009-present University Pierre & Marie Curie
Administrative duties at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense
2009-present Coordinator of legal English courses for the Law Department (first, second & third-year students, in charge of an average 96 tutorials/year, recruiting teaching assistants, course convenor, preparation of the final examinations)
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2009-present Coordinator of legal English courses for the Law Department Graduate students "M2 professions judiciaires" (2 tutorials/year, recruiting teaching assistants, curriculum, course preparation, final examinations), 72 hrs 2013-2014 Coordinator of the first-year course of English Oral Expression
Administrative duties at the University of Paris-Sorbonne 2001-2002 Student Representative of the Doctoral School Committee, Civilisations, Cultures, Littératures & Sociétés, Post-graduate Students Representative on the Ph.D. Advisory Board, University of Paris - Sorbonne Grants 2004 Stipend to attend the DRH International Conference at Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2001-2004 Research doctorate grant (3 out of 30 applicants) Stays abroad 2017 January-June Austin UT, US 1996-1998 London, UK 1982-1986 Washington DC, US
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