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AUP Common Read: Yannick M Blec on James Baldwin

To round off this semester’s Common Read activity, we are delighted to invite the AUP community to a James Baldwin workshop with Baldwin’s most recent French biographer, Yannick M. Blec. Yannick will be leading attendees through a consideration of Baldwin ...

A Conversation with Kathrine Nedrejord

Photo credit: Fartein Rudjord The Center for Writers & Translators Presents A Conversation about The Sami Problem with Kathrine Nedrejord We are delighted that novelist Kathrine Nedrejord will join us to discuss Sameproblemet (The Sami Problem), w ...

Stephen Sawyer, Care and the Social Contract: Toward a Reconstructive Critique of the Modern (Care & Democracy Seminar Series)

Abstract How may we make sense of the void at the center of our narratives of contract theory: from Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, did social contract theory really disappear in the years following the French Revolution only to be magically resurrected ...

AN EVENING WITH LAUREN ELKIN

The Program in Creative Writing is delighted to welcome Lauren Elkin back to AUP for an evening devoted to her work. Lauren will read from new and selected projects, and an audience Q&A will follow, as well as a reception with wine and cheese. Convers ...

Trust in the Digital Age: Governing Platforms for the Public Good

The session, titled Trust in the Digital Age: Governing Platforms for the Public Good, will feature a 30-minute keynote address from, Christophe Gauthier, a leader of UNESCO’s Internet for Trust initiative, followed by an open Q&A discussion with stud ...

Law, State, and Democracy | International Symposium 2025

Download The Symposium Booklet Program and Bios Abstract This Symposium seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars working at the crossroads of law, the state and democracy. Within liberal democracy, rule of law is commonly treated as ...

Hasret Dikici Bilgin, "Pink but not Purple: From State Feminism to the Era of Tradwives"

ABSTRACT Dating back to late 19th century, some states in Europe and the Middle East devised gender equalitarian policies which led to notable rise in education level and female participation to the labor force. It also paved the way for equal political a ...

Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Professor Miranda Spieler's New Book on Slaves in Paris

By Katelyn Simone “I study people on the run,” says AUP Professor Miranda Spieler, a historian of France and its overseas empire whose expertise spans European legal history, human rights, slavery and emancipation. Her first book, Empire and Underworld: ...

A World in Motion: Eurasian Border Areas in Times of War and Postwar, from the Early Modern Period to the Present

AUP Students Visit the Assemblée Nationale as the French Government Collapses

By Savannah Gerlach On October 6, 2025, 16 AUP students and Professor Mirjam Dageförde arrived in front of l’Assemblée Nationale de Paris (the National Assembly of Paris), anticipating a guided tour of the nation’s lower house of parliament, and an insid ...

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