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Dual Exhibitions Explore Cambodia Through Art and Photography
Programs at The American University of Paris seek to engage students and other members of our global community in exploring issues of international importance through multidisciplinary lenses. In October 2022, for example, the MA in Diplomacy and Internat ...
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Visiting Lecturers Daniel Levin Becker and Nafkote Tamirat Discuss “Notes on Rap”
One of the hallmarks of an AUP education is exposure to industry professionals through hands on classes taught by visiting lecturers. By immersing themselves in outside perspectives, students grasp new ways to put theory into practice. At a recent event h ...
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Demos21 Talk by Carlo Burelli (University of Genova): No Virtue like Resilience – A new Machiavellian justification of democracy
Political realism claims that normative evaluations of politics should be grounded on political rather than moral values (Rossi and Sleat 2014). This paper revives Machiavelli’s justification of republican government (Machiavelli 2003), and seeks to updat ...
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How Should Republicans Conceive of Transnational Solidarity?
This lecture is part of the Contemporary European Democratic Theory Lecture series. Attempts to adapt the concept of solidarity to globalised circumstances has mainly developed in two directions. The first has followed the footsteps of the literature on “ ...
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The Democratic Boundary Problem – A Function-Sensitive View
In response to the democratic boundary problem, two principles have been seen as competitors: the all-affected interests principle and the all-subjected principle. This article claims that these principles are in fact compatible, being justified vis-à-vis ...
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PPE & Philosophy Open House
What makes a society just? Does God exist? Who am I? Should citizenship be for sale? What is the value of nature? Philosophy and PPE students and professors don’t have all the answers – but several other big questions. Meet them and find out about the PPE ...
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Towards a Theory of Postcolonial Justice
Towards a Theory of Postcolonial Justice This paper aims at proposing a definition of the concept of “postcolonial justice” in view of elaborating an empirically-informed theory of postcolonial justice qua reparative justice. For this purpose, it suggests ...
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Should the people control public spending? A normative assessment of balanced budget constitutional amendments
Should the people control public spending? A normative assessment of balanced budget constitutional amendments During the XX century, many western countries introduced balanced budget constitutional amendments (BBCA), i.e. they reformed their constitution ...
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Technology, Activism and the Social Good with Speaker Jessica Feldman (AUP)
The American University of Paris invites you to a talk with Jessica Feldman entitled "Technology, Activism and the Social Good". This talk is part of the Presidential Lecture Series "Technology and the Human Future" organized by the Of ...
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Anna-Louise Milne & Andy Robert: A General Practice
Event name: Anna-Louise Milne & Andy Robert: A General Practice Date & Time: 10 February, 18.30h Location: The Quai Building, room 801, 69 Quai d’Orsay (Entrance: 6 rue du Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris) Join us for the launch – in person and on ...