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Seminar: Iain Stewart, "Thinking Democracy after Marx and Empire"
ABSTRACT: This talk examines how decolonization informed the development of a new democratic theory at the end of the Algerian War, with far-reaching consequences for intellectual politics in France and beyond during the final decades of the twentieth cen ...
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'Uncanny Intimacies: between hosts and guests', A Conversation with Alice Blackhurst
Join us for an evening with AUP's 2025 Writer in Residence, Alice Blackhurst, in conversation with Russell Williams (Comparative Literature). Their conversation, 'Uncanny Intimacies: between hosts and guests' will touch on topics as varied ...
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Online Book Launch: Memory Politics after Mass Violence by Timothy Williams
This event is organized by the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at The American University of Paris and by Practicing Memory after collective violence, a collaborative scholarly working gro ...
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First Year Students Visit the Loire Valley
Your first semester at AUP has arrived. Your bags are packed; your plane tickets are booked. And all around the world, your future classmates are preparing to land in Paris for the adventure of a lifetime. But what awaits you in your first year? Once on ...
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Reading James Baldwin in 2025: A Conversation with Gary Younge
As part of this year’s Common Read, we will be gathering in room C102 on October 22 from 5:30pm to think about, talk about and celebrate the work of African-American writer James Baldwin. In particular we will be wondering what it means to read James Bald ...
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Contemporary French Poetry Reading
JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF BILINGUAL READINGS BY CONTEMPORARY FRENCH WRITERS VINCENT BROQUA, VIRGINIE POITRASSON, AND MICHELLE NOTEBOOM Vincent Broqua is a writer and translator. He works with text, video and narrative for a politics of gaiety. He wri ...
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The Center for Writers and Translators
Newsletter Signup Upcoming Events November 10 th A Conversation with Kathrine Nedrejord 10h30 Take a look at a selection of previous events... Quick Links Press Coverage CWT Community Contact Professor Daniel Gunn Director of the Center for Writers and Tr ...
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Annual Reports
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AUP Common Read: Yannick M Blec on James Baldwin
To round off this semester’s Common Read activity, we are delighted to invite the AUP community to a James Baldwin workshop with Baldwin’s most recent French biographer, Yannick M. Blec. Yannick will be leading attendees through a consideration of Baldwin ...
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A Conversation with Kathrine Nedrejord
Photo credit: Fartein Rudjord The Center for Writers & Translators Presents A Conversation about The Sami Problem with Kathrine Nedrejord We are delighted that novelist Kathrine Nedrejord will join us to discuss Sameproblemet (The Sami Problem), w ...