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Queering the Quai: Paris’ Magic City
none Patrick Preston, in conversation with Robert Payne, ‘Queering the Quai: Paris’s Magic City.' There were drag balls at the Magic City, a pleasure space on the Quai d’Orsay and the Rue de l’Université (right near where AUP is now), from 1900-1934 ...
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Poisoned bread, the CIA, and the psychedelic humanities
none Russell Williams, in conversation with Elizabeth Kinne, ‘Poisoned bread, the CIA, and the psychedelic humanities’. History is weird. Did the CIA lace bread with LSD, and what happens when contemporary novelist Sophie Macintosh writes about it? Does ...
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Refusing to Be Silent: Engaged Conversations with Leading Intellectuals, book promotion
none How can we approach the world and guide our thinking in the face of profound, myriad challenges? The book seeks to formulate these challenges and develop ways to tackle them through a set of wide-ranging interviews with leading intellectuals of our t ...
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Journée d'Etudes sur Le discours philosophique de Michel Foucault
none In the summer of 1966 Foucault prepared to take on his much anticipated first position as a professor of philosophy, but unlike Kafka’s hapless countryman, Foucault did not patiently wait for the institution of philosophy to finally open its door! H ...
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Cabaret and Collaboration: A Symposium Honoring the Rich Life of Josephine Baker
none A roaring brass section, limbs gliding effortlessly across the stage to the beat, shining costumes, or sometimes lack thereof, capturing the audience’s regard-- this was cabaret in the 20’s and the backdrop for the performances of one of the most mem ...
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14 AUP Artists
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/Screenshot%202023-11-13%20at%2011.33.21.png 0 Please join us for the celebration of the vernissage in the presence of the exhibiting artists: Ana Pranjic Anusic, Mano Banduwarde ...
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Acts of Witnessing on Film
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/cinema%20event.png 0 The definitions, uses, policies, and norms of testimony continue to be debated, with discussions fueled by a large scientific literature; works of philosoph ...
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Archive Testimony Use in the Classroom: A Workshop for Faculty and Staff
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/IMG_8498.jpeg 0 The Teaching and Learning Center and the Schaeffer Center are organizing a workshop for AUP faculty and staff about the use of the Visual History Archive and the ...
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I Am Not Proud to be German: East German Identity and The Legacy of Fascism
none This presentation will explore the complexity of East German national identity as experienced by a small group of dissident activists I have interviewed over 3 decades. Interwoven into the analysis is a deep contextualization of the role of anti-Fasc ...
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Les Conférences francophones: « Le jury terroir et la roue des arômes du Comté: goûter la diversité »
none S’il vous plaît, étant donné qu'une dégustation est impliquée, il est important de s'inscrire à la conférence ci-dessous. (Sinon, nous ne pourrons pas garantir qu'il y aura suffisamment de fromage pour tout le monde... et ce serait dom ...