Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 18:30

This February AUP is celebrating Black History Month with an excellent line-up of guest speakers and events! Join us for the fifth event of this incredible program for "An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates," author of Between the World and Me, a #1 New York Times Bestseller & Winner of the National Book Award. This event is sponsored by AUP's Centre For Critical Democracy Studies and professors Stephen Sawyer and Michelle Kuo will be conducting the Q & A session.

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Monday, February 15, 2016 - 18:30

This February AUP is celebrating Black History Month with an excellent line-up of guest speakers and events! Join us for the fourth event of this incredible program for "An Evening with Thomas Chatterton Williams." This event is sponsored by AUP's Centre For Critical Democracy Studies and professors Stephen Sawyer and Michelle Kuo will be conducting the Q & A session.

Biography:

Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool: Love, Literature and a...

Thursday, February 11, 2016 - 17:00

This February AUP is celebrating Black History Month with an excellent line-up of guest speakers and events! Join us for the third event of this incredible program for "A Book Forum on Gary Wilder's "Freedom Time: A  Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015) at Reid Hall. This event is sponsored by the AUP Center for Critical Democracy Studies and Columbia’s Global Center in Paris.

Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire...

Friday, February 5, 2016 - 00:00

The Center for Critical Democracy Studies invites you to a conference with Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer.

Thomas Piketty—whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debate—wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic inequality over time. This concise text has...

Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 18:30

The Center for Critical Democracy Studies presents "Decoding the COP21" with expert speakers from UNEP, the French Senate and the Fondation Nicolas Hulot.

A bilingual discussion about what the COP 21 accomplished, or didn't, from a french perspective. ALL ATTENDEES must RSVP through our webform below or write to criticaldemocracy...

Monday, December 7, 2015 - 18:30

The Center for Critical Democracy Studies presents :
What is Critical Democracy? And why is it so important?
 

Professors Cynthia Fleury and Stephen Sawyer will discuss Critical Democracy and answer students’ questions.
Submit your questions before the event! Email them to: a92292ataup.edu...

Friday, October 23, 2015 - 19:15

The American University of Paris (AUP) will launch The Center for Critical Democracy Studies on Friday October 23rd, 2015 with an evening of jazz and conversation led by Gregory Clark, President of the Rhetoric Society of America and author of Civic Jazz (U of Chicago Press, 2015) and by Marcus Roberts of the Marcus Roberts Trio. The conversation will be followed by a...

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