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Visiting Lecturers Daniel Levin Becker and Nafkote Tamirat Discuss “Notes on Rap”
none One of the hallmarks of an AUP education is exposure to industry professionals through hands on classes taught by visiting lecturers. By immersing themselves in outside perspectives, students grasp new ways to put theory into practice. At a recent ev ...
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Symposium: Liberal Democracy and its Challenges for Education and for Political Science
none Background The rise of authoritarian leadership and ideologies in Europe and beyond challenges the very basis of liberal democratic societies and their universities. Simultaneously, the weaknesses of liberal democratic institutions are visible in the ...
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Book Launch of The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education & Workshop on the Future of Democratic Education
none Democratic education is central to the functioning and flourishing of modern multicultural democracies, and yet it is subject to increasing public controversy and political pressure. Waning public trust in government institutions, sustained attacks o ...
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Made Against. Repenser la dimension politique du vêtement
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/2023%20-%20Made%20Against%20WebsiteEventFeature%202.png 0 Made Against. Repenser la dimension politique du vêtement La séance de séminaire Cultures et Histoires de mode du 12 oc ...
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From utopia to real possibilities. How can critical social science contribute to political strategy? with Laurent Jeanpierre
none This conference will address questions of hope and powerlessness and their interplay in contemporary societies, as well as the role that social sciences can play in the renewal of our collective emancipatory imagination. 100 Image https://www.aup.edu ...
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Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory. A discussion on Bernard E. Harcourt's latest book
none Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, unable to address pressing problems such as climate change. There is, however, another path- cooperation democracy. From consumer co-ops to credit unions, worker cooperatives to insurance mutuals, nonp ...
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A Working-Class Ecological Perspective on Just Transition: The GKN Case Study
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/28eco-sotto-gkn-fonte-facebook.jpg 0 On 9 July 2021, more than 450 metalworkers received a dismissal email from Melrose Industries, the private equity fund that used to own GKN ...
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Over Yet Unresolved: The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, from Self Determination to Ethnic Cleansing
none The Schaeffer Center for the study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention has invited Taline Papazian to AUP to speak about the ongoing conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Taline Papazian is a political scientist. She has published and taught at ...
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Justice Lab Presents: Law in Action
none The Justice Lab bridges the gap between academia and practice. Utilizing insights derived from its research projects, the Justice Lab aims to examine the role of courts in addressing global challenges. During the Justice Lab event, we will present ou ...
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Unraveling Plague Discourses: From Renaissance Europe to COVID-19
none On October 19-20, 2023, the Center for Media, Communication, and Global Change of The American University of Paris, in collaboration with the Université Côte d’Azur and the CNRS laboratory “Bases, Corpus, Langage” (Nice), hosted the conference “Disco ...