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Screening "Behind Asia's Cyber Slavery"
none The Center for Media, Communication & Global Change (MCGC) invites you to a screening of the documentary Behind Asia's Cyber Slavery by director and AUP alumnus Lewis Sanders IV. The screening is part of the Video Storytelling course fo ...
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Exploring Blackness Beyond Borders: Aalyiah Heath's Artistic Journey from Detroit to Paris
none Aalyiah Heath is many things. First and foremost, she’s a writer, mixed media graphic designer, photographer, and AUP alumni proudly based in Paris. Heath is also an entrepreneur. She founded and leads POPOUT, an independent art magazine that has rec ...
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Poverty as Capability Deprivation
none Amartya Sen has argued that poverty is much more than a lack of income: it means that a person falls short of securing a basic level of capabilities. His main justification for this claim is that we need to look at what is important in a person’s lif ...
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Les Délibérations du Peuple with Dr. Théophile Pénigaud
none On March 13th, the Center for Critical Democracy Studies will host an event titled Les Délibérations du Peuple with Dr. Théophile Pénigaud. La prégnance des références au Contrat Social durant la Révolution française, mais également parmi les philoso ...
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Nicole Hassoun on Global Health Justice
none We live in tragic times. Millions are sheltering in place to avoid exacerbating the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. How should we respond to such tragedies? This presentation argues that the human right to health can help us do so because it inspire ...
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Media Aesthetics: Experience, Practice, and Pedagogy
The media aesthetics project examines and engages the saturation of ordinary life by varieties of constant mediation, while also examining the diverse array of mediated experiences and modernities worldwide. Here we have in mind new forms of digital techn ...
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The Mediated Climate, with author Adrienne Russell
none The Center for Media, Communication & Global Change invites you to an evening with former AUP colleague Adrienne Russell, who will present her new book The Mediated Climate: How Journalists, Big Tech and Activists are Vying for our Future (Columb ...
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Bypassing Democracy: Understanding the Financial Leverage of the Paris Club of Creditors
none The Center for Critical Democracy Studies presents: Bypassing Democracy: Understanding the Financial Leveage of the Paris Credit Club by Sven van Mourik. Having received his Ph.D. in economic history from New York University, Sven van Mourik investig ...
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Cahiers Series: Mercy, Athena
none The CWT presents: Andrea Applebee The Chaiers Series- Mercy, Athena Having arrived from the United States to make a new life in Greece, Andrea Applebee gives a vivid account of the challenges and pleasures that await her as she learns a new language ...
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Anti-Social Capital: Community Cohesion and Tax Avoidance among American Elites
none On April 15th, 2024 the Center for Critical Democracy Studies will host: Anti Social Capital: Community Cohesion and Tax Avoidance among American Elite by Professor Yossi Harpa (Sociology, Tel Aviv Univeristy) Professor Harpaz is a tenured Senior Lec ...