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Quel avenir pour nos démocraties? avec Perrine Simon-Nahum (Directrice du département de philosophie, ENS-Ulm)
Comment restaurer l'idée de la démocratie à ceux qui pensent qu'elle les a abandonnées? Comment sortir du triomphe de l'individualisme et redonner goût de l'engagement, le désir d'une société d'égaux, une revendication de cit ...
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Shaping Degas’s Dancers, on Stage, in Wax, in the Press
Andrea Christmas and Liliane Erhart, in conversation with Cary Hollinshead-Strick– ‘Shaping Degas’s Dancers, on Stage, in Wax, in the Press’. The nineteenth century saw a progressive feminization of the ballet dancer and masculinization of the imagined a ...
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Poisoned bread, the CIA, and the psychedelic humanities
Russell Williams, in conversation with Elizabeth Kinne, ‘Poisoned bread, the CIA, and the psychedelic humanities’. History is weird. Did the CIA lace bread with LSD, and what happens when contemporary novelist Sophie Macintosh writes about it? Does psych ...
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Between Becomings: Narration and International Law
Rashmi Dharia, in conversation with Sneharika Roy – ‘Between Becomings: Narration and International Law’. What is at stake in telling stories in the work of international law? How can thinking like a literature scholar help? This talk explores those quest ...
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Solidarity vis-à-vis Recurring Issues
Tomáš G. Masaryk, the Czech philosopher and statesman, wrote with optimism that the disasters of World War I ‘brought mankind closer together.’ In The New Europe, Masaryk explained that ’Internationalism, more intimate than ever, has been fostered by thi ...
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Queering the Quai: Paris’ Magic City
Patrick Preston, in conversation with Robert Payne, ‘Queering the Quai: Paris’s Magic City.' There were drag balls at the Magic City, a pleasure space on the Quai d’Orsay and the Rue de l’Université (right near where AUP is now), from 1900-1934. How ...
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14 AUP Artists
Please join us for the celebration of the vernissage in the presence of the exhibiting artists: Ana Pranjic Anusic, Mano Banduwardena, Jennifer Dixey, Kevin Dixey, Denise Geney, Pascale Guibout, Donatella Jackson, Sandra Lefaure, Randa Massot, Lily Servel ...
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Archive Testimony Use in the Classroom: A Workshop for Faculty and Staff
The Teaching and Learning Center and the Schaeffer Center are organizing a workshop for AUP faculty and staff about the use of the Visual History Archive and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. We will be talking about the history of bo ...
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Acts of Witnessing on Film
The definitions, uses, policies, and norms of testimony continue to be debated, with discussions fueled by a large scientific literature; works of philosophy and aesthetics (Frosch, & Pinchewski, 2009, Goutte, 2016, El Madawi, 2020, Détue, 2022) explo ...
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The Armenian Genocide: New Interpretations and Cross-Disciplinary Conversations
From the 30th of June to the 2nd of July in 2025, The American University of Paris and the AGBU Nubar Library will host an international conference that will ask: how can the social sciences, memory studies, and genocide studies contribute to a broader un ...