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Stina Bergman Blix, "Orderly Feelings in Law: An International Comparison of Legal Decision-making"
none Lecture topic: There is a longstanding belief that emotions bring disorder into legal decision-making. Judges and prosecutors should not take decisions in anger or out of pity. But are there also emotions that are essential to legal decision making? ...
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Restaurants and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris: A Lecture By Rebecca L. Spang
none Why are there restaurants? To answer this question, Professor Rebecca L. Spang takes us back to the invention of the restaurant in eighteenth-century Paris. Originally, a restaurant was not a place or a business but a thing to eat: a quasi-medicinal ...
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Screening and Q&A: Unrest (2022)
none The Film Studies program is delighted to announce a screening of the award-winning film Unrest (2022, 93 min.) presented by its director Cyril Schäublin. “New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a ...
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Book Launch: Peter Weiss, The Aesthetics of Resistance (Vol III), Translated by Joel Scott (Duke UP, 2025)
none ABOUT THE BOOK: A major literary event, the publication of the final volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers ...
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Book Talk, "Politicisation, Democratisation and EU Identity: National EU Discourses in Germany and France"
none The CCDS is excited to host Claudia Wiesner (Fulda U) for a discussion of her recent book on "Politicisation, Democratisation and EU Identity: National EU Discourses in Germany and France" (Routledge, 2024). The presentation will be followe ...
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Drawing Africa: A Conversation with Marguerite Abouet and Sylvain Savoia
none The Department of French Studies and Modern Languages and the AUP Library invite you to a special event featuring two leading voices in contemporary Francophone bandes dessinées. Franco-Ivorian writer Marguerite Abouet, author of the acclaimed series ...
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Dessiner l’Afrique / Drawing Africa- Festival BDs
none Le festival annuel de bandes dessinées francophones met à l'honneur la bande dessinée d'Afrique subsaharienne dans son édition 2025 intitulée « Dessiner l'Afrique ». Venez découvrir le talent des artistes qui illustrent la diversité cu ...
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Care & Dem Seminar Series: Valentina Moro, Politics of Care: Feminist Approaches to Rethinking Communality
The seventh session of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series will host Valentina Moro (Stony Brook University) for a talk on "Politics of Care: Feminist Approaches to Rethinking Communality as a Critique of Neoliberalism". The Care & Democ ...
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An evening with Palestinian writer Karim Kattan
The Department of Comparative Literature is delighted to welcome the Palestinian writer Karim Kattan for a discussion and celebration of his work. His first book in French, Préliminaires pour un verger futur, published in 2017 by Tunis-based Éditions Elyz ...
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Care & Dem Seminar Series: Judge Patricia Pérez Goldberg, The Right to Care
This event has been canceled The sixth session of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series will host Judge Patricia Pérez Golberg (Judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and Former Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Chile) for a talk on ...