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Celebrating Black History Month: The Poetry of Evie Shockley
none As Black History Month began, AUP opened its doors to poet Evie Shockley, Associate Professor at Rutgers University. Shockley hosted a reading on February 5th, inviting the whole AUP community to the presentation of her new repertoire of poetry from ...
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Migration: Rights, Risks and Responsibilities
none “Each displacement will make your life completely change – you will miss the friends, the rituals… each morning the light is different in the place where you go.” These were the words of Ziad Majed, Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at AUP, ...
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Guide for Career Mentors
none AUP’s mission is to educate our graduates to communicate well in a world of many languages, to think critically about history, culture, the arts science, politics, business, communication, and society, to develop creative interdisciplinary approaches ...
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Global Justice In and Through Education
none Contemporary political philosophers and philosophers of education tend to focus on theorizing the interconnections between the concepts of education and justice at the level of the nation-state. The workshop explores the implications of shifting this ...
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Christina Hesselholdt on 'Companions'
none On October 3, students, faculty and guests packed the Pierre Salinger Grand Salon to hear from the first Center for Writers and Translators guest speaker of the year. Christina Hesselholdt was on campus for a talk and reading on her English-language ...
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Deborah Levy on 'The Cost of Living'
none On Tuesday, November 27, the Center for Writers and Translators (CWT) hosted a reading and talk by author Deborah Levy. As part of the event, Levy read from her most recent work, The Cost of Living, which was included in the recently published New Yo ...
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Internship Prep Tutorial
none The Internship Prep Tutorial is designed to be a one-stop shop for students to quickly and effectively inform themselves about much of the most pertinent information related to planning and finding an internship, registering an internship with AUP, a ...
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The Conditions of Thinking About the Armenian Genocide in Turkey
none On April 17, 2018, the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention invited political theorist Hakan Seckinelgin to speak at AUP about his research on what is publicly remembered in Turkey about th ...
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Late Suicide Among Holocaust Survivors in Israel
none On April 29, 2019, the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention invited Amia Lieblich – an Israeli psychologist and writer, and a professor emerita of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – to s ...
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Kouross Esmaeli on Educating Americans for the Digital Age
none On May 3, 2019, AUP’s Civic Media Lab welcomed Kouross Esmaeli – a researcher, educator and media activist, and currently a visiting professor at the American University of Beirut – who spoke to an audience of AUP community members in the David T. Mc ...