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Book Talk: "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics", Duncan Kelly
BOOK DESCRIPTION The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice in Europe on November 11, 1918, amid the continuing violence of blockades and epidemics, amid numerous forms of reconstruction and revolution. Its legacies, in fact, resonate deep ...
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Curriculum
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies seeks to combine education with democratic experiments to pursue innovative pedagogical opportunities for students and faculty at AUP. Among the Center’s initiatives are the “ Democracy Lab ” that provides a ha ...
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Katharina Isabel Schmidt, "The Law Laid Bare: German Jurists and the Search for Life"
ABSTRACT Ours is a time of withering trust in law and its officials, a time of yearning for alternatives to rule-based governance. Postwar codes and constitutions have not delivered on their promises; their concepts do not solve, they symbolize, the sundr ...
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International Conference: A Quarter-Millennium of Franco-American Relations
Hosted by: Guest Registration Participants’ Bios Participants’ Abstracts Abstract: The Tocqueville Society and the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris, with the support of Princeton University and the Chambrun ...
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Book Launch: "Climate Justice Now: Crossing Disciplines to Combat Our Planetary Crisis"
ABSTRACT Climate Justice Now: Crossing Disciplines to Combat Our Planetary Crisis, Edited by Rebecca Marwege, Nikhar Gaikwad, and Joerg Schaefer (Columbia University Press, 2026) Climate change is not only an environmental crisis but also a catalyst for w ...
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Launch of Cahiers Series no.42 by AUP alumnus Jan Steyn
Join us for a celebration of the launch of no.42 in AUP's Cahiers Series, by AUP alumnus Jan Steyn, currently a professor at the University of Iowa. Jan's cahier, entitled JIG, deals with the experience, across several cultures, of the afflictio ...
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Memorial/Мемориал: Defending the Memory of Soviet Crimes
Memorial (Мемориал in Cyrillic) is an association dedicated to the documentation of the history of human rights violations and the defense of human rights. Memorial specializes in the state crimes committed in the Soviet Union during the rule of Joseph St ...
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JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE, « LA PHILOSOPHIE POLITIQUE DE ROUSSEAU: NOUVELLES PERSPECTIVES »
La journée d’étude « La philosophie politique de Rousseau: nouvelles perspectives » propose de revisiter l’œuvre de Jean-Jacques Rousseau à la lumière des débats contemporains en théorie politique. Cet atelier explore les multiples dimensions de sa pensée ...
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Book Launch: "Surrealism and Ecology" organized by the Art History and Fine Arts Department & the AUP Library.
The book Surrealism and Ecology explores for the first time the significant role of Surrealist artists and writers within the history of critical thinking about nature and environment over the last hundred years. It approaches ecology both as a mode of th ...
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A discussion with Ron Dudai: Transitional Justice and Denial in the Age of Post-Truth
Lecture organized with Sharon Weill. The practices and discourses of transitional justice and human rights advocacy have been shaped in response to the ways regimes have denied the factual existence of abuses, and have therefore placed a premium on credib ...