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Popular and Municipal Magistrates at the Head of Each Community
none On Wednesday October 4th, the Center for Critical Democracy Studies will be hosting a presentation by Professor Andrew Jainchill (Queen’s University Ontario) titled Popular and Municipal Magistrates at the Head of Each Community: The Marquis d’Argens ...
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J'ai Deux Amours: A Josephine Baker Symposium
none Actress, artist, and activist, Josephine Baker was a whole revolution unto herself, showing us new ways of being in the world. This symposium celebrates her many avatars and the artists who have been inspired by her life and keep her legacy alive. Ov ...
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Discourse on the Plague (1347-1600):
Related links Center for Media, Communication and Global Change Université Côte d’Azur Prof Brenton Hobart Download more information https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/widget-download/file/PROGRAMME_DISCOURS_SUR_LA_PESTE_VF.pdf Discourse on the Plagu ...
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Quel avenir pour nos démocraties? avec Perrine Simon-Nahum (Directrice du département de philosophie, ENS-Ulm)
none Comment restaurer l'idée de la démocratie à ceux qui pensent qu'elle les a abandonnées? Comment sortir du triomphe de l'individualisme et redonner goût de l'engagement, le désir d'une société d'égaux, une revendication d ...
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Between Becomings: Narration and International Law
none Rashmi Dharia, in conversation with Sneharika Roy – ‘Between Becomings: Narration and International Law’. What is at stake in telling stories in the work of international law? How can thinking like a literature scholar help? This talk explores those ...
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Shaping Degas’s Dancers, on Stage, in Wax, in the Press
none Andrea Christmas and Liliane Erhart, in conversation with Cary Hollinshead-Strick– ‘Shaping Degas’s Dancers, on Stage, in Wax, in the Press’. The nineteenth century saw a progressive feminization of the ballet dancer and masculinization of the imagi ...
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Queering the Quai: Paris’ Magic City
none Patrick Preston, in conversation with Robert Payne, ‘Queering the Quai: Paris’s Magic City.' There were drag balls at the Magic City, a pleasure space on the Quai d’Orsay and the Rue de l’Université (right near where AUP is now), from 1900-1934 ...
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Poisoned bread, the CIA, and the psychedelic humanities
none Russell Williams, in conversation with Elizabeth Kinne, ‘Poisoned bread, the CIA, and the psychedelic humanities’. History is weird. Did the CIA lace bread with LSD, and what happens when contemporary novelist Sophie Macintosh writes about it? Does ...
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Refusing to Be Silent: Engaged Conversations with Leading Intellectuals, book promotion
none How can we approach the world and guide our thinking in the face of profound, myriad challenges? The book seeks to formulate these challenges and develop ways to tackle them through a set of wide-ranging interviews with leading intellectuals of our t ...
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Journée d'Etudes sur Le discours philosophique de Michel Foucault
none In the summer of 1966 Foucault prepared to take on his much anticipated first position as a professor of philosophy, but unlike Kafka’s hapless countryman, Foucault did not patiently wait for the institution of philosophy to finally open its door! H ...