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Anne Weber & Tess Lewis: Portraying the Self, Portraying Others
The Center for Writers & Translators is delighted to sponsor a conversation with acclaimed author Anne Weber about the strategies, challenges, and risks of writing autobiographically. In addition to examining approaches to self-portraiture in fict ...
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Violent Turns: Sources, Interpretations, Responses
External guests must register 48 hours before the event and bring a valid ID From the 21st to the 23rd of June 2023, The American University of Paris will host an international conference to provide researchers with an interdisciplinary platform to invest ...
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Presentation: Dominic Spada (AUP), "Legitimate Failure: The Illegitimacy of Digital Regulation"
On November 16th at 5pm, Dominic Spada (AUP) will present a paper titled "Legitimate Failure: The Illegitimacy of Digital Regulation". Dominic is presently a Master of Science student in Human Rights and Data Science at the American University o ...
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A New Narrative: Imagining an Alternative Psychology
Is there an alternative to the mainstream of psychology, one that could help to better understand the fundamental problem of meaning-making? On September 20, Brian Schiff, head of AUP’s Psychology, Health and Gender Department, entertained a roundtable of ...
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Addressing Gun Violence for a Safer Society with Delaney Tarr
On Tuesday, February 11, 2020, the Office of the President cohosted the first in a series of events tackling major political issues in the run-up to the 2020 US elections. The event, which focused on gun violence and gun control legislation in America, wa ...
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Global Network on Prison and Education
Join AUP students and professors who are participating in the creation of an international network reflecting on incarceration, education, and justice. The new non-profit “Dialogue & Transformation” brings together educators and advocates from around ...
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Presentation: Degenerations of Democracy with Craig Calhoun, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, and Charles Taylor
AUP's Center for Communication, Media, and Global Change and the Center for Critical Democracy Studies present "Degenerations of Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2022) A dialogue between co-authors Charles Taylor, Dilip Gaonkar and Craig Calhoun, wi ...
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Deborah Levy on 'The Cost of Living'
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 York Ti ...
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In Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri and Biswamit Dwibedy: Translation, Truth and Circling the Silence
Jhumpa Lahiri (left) and Dan Gunn (right) In April 2025, The American University of Paris welcomed to campus Jhumpa Lahiri, a celebrated author and the winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. Her visit came as she joined forty other authors in contributing to ...
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Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories with Miranda Spieler
The George and Irina Schaeffer Center and the Center for Critical Democracy Studies are hosting a book launch for Miranda Spieler’s new work, Slaves in Paris. The event will feature commentary from three distinguished scholars: Anne Lafont (EHESS), Pierre ...