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Care & Dem Seminar Series: Barbara Formis, Repair, Redo, Maintain: Performance Art and Practice of Care
none The third session of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series will host Barbara Formis (Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne) for a talk on "Repair, Redo, Maintain: Performance Art and Practice of Care". The Care & Democracy Seminar Series explore ...
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Palestine and Lebanon: A Discussion with Professor Ziad Majed
none "Students for Justice in Palestine" invites you to a discussion with AUP Professor Ziad Majed on the situation in Palestine and Lebanon today, after a year of war, destruction and what many legal experts, UN officials and international orga ...
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Critical Theory 101 Series: Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression
none Prof. Rahel Jaeggi will present the central ideas of her latest book Progress and Regression (Harvard University Press, forthcoming), in which she claims that “societies don’t have a goal, they solve problems.” Her talk will focus on the book’s t ...
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THE CONVOY: A CONVERSATION WITH BEATA UMUBEYI MAIRESSE
none Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s memoir documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The Convoy reflects on the act of bearing witness and the ...
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Book Talk: Seeing Like a Firm
none Business corporations are political entities and need to be considered as such. Seeing Like a Firm invites readers to do just that by providing a political theory of the business firm and, in doing so, offering new perspectives on the recent histor ...
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Book Talk: Seeing Like a Firm (With Pierre-Yves Néron, ESPOL)
none Join the Center for Critical Democracy Studies for a book talk with philosopher Pierre-Yves Néron on "Seeing Like a Firm" (Oxford University Press, 2024). The book will be commented by Peter Hägel (AUP), Sandrine Blanc (INSEEC), and Morgane ...
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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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The Paris Writer's Residency: Call for Applicants 2025
none 1- 31 October, 2025 From 1 March, applications are invited for The Paris Writer's Residency, sponsored by The American University of Paris (AUP) and the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Irish Arts Centre). The appointment is non-stipendiary but accomm ...
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Limor Yehuda presents 'Collective Equality: Human Rights and Democracy in Ethno-National Conflicts'
none On April 3rd, The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention, in collaboration with Professor Sharon Weill (AUP), will welcome Limor Yehuda to present her book Collective Equality: Human Rig ...
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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 ...