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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 (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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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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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 ...