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Book Launch: 'Contesting Cosmopolitan Europe' with Professor Umut Korkut (Glasgow Caledonian University)
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies will be hosting Professor Umut Korkut for the official launch of his new co-edited volume 'Contesting Cosmopolitan Europe: Euroscepticism, Crisis and Borders' (with James Foley) on Friday, October 14th. ...
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Prof. Nythamar de Oliveira (Porto Alegre/Brazil): Critical Theory of Artificial Intelligence: Marx, Heidegger, Marcuse, Habermas
Nythamar “Nita” de Oliveira was born in Rio and teaches Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Porto Alegre (PUCRS), Brazil, since 1999, where he develops an interdisciplinary research program in Naturalism and Normativit ...
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Presentation: James T. Sparrow (History, University of Chicago) at CCDS
On Tuesday October 18th Professor James T. Sparrow will give a presentation at AUP at the Center for Critical Democracy Studies titled "Public Power as Democratic Sovereignty: David Lilienthal and the ‘River of Power Flowing to War.’” Romain Huret (E ...
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Lisa Robertson Reading
Poet and novelist Lisa Robertson will read from her novel The Baudelaire Fractal Robertson has written numerous books of poetry, fiction, and essays. Her collections of poetry include 3 Summers (Coach House Books, 2016); R’s Boat (University of California ...
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The George and Irina Schaeffer Center's Open House
Welcome to the Fall semester at AUP! The Schaeffer Center is hosting their annually Open House event on September 16th at 5 pm to 7 pm in Q-709. This is an opportunity to learn more about the Center's work and how you can get involved! The Center fun ...
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Seminar: Charles Walton, "Social Rights in the Longue durée"
Abstract: As historians have recently noted, economic and social rights have a long history. Far from being ‘second generation rights’ of the twentieth century, they are now seen as stretching back even further than the civil and political rights of the E ...
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Mind Matters: Opportunities and Challenges for Neurotechnology
From brain-computer interfaces enabling paralyzed patients to control robotic limbs, to deep brain stimulation treating depression, we are witnessing unprecedented breakthroughs in our ability to interface with the human brain. Yet with these opportunitie ...
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THE PROGRAM IN CREATIVE WRITING AT THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS INVITES CLAUDIA RANKINE AS THE INAUGURAL SPEAKER FOR THE MFA LECTURE SERIES
We are honored to welcome Claudia Rankine, award-winning author and acclaimed voice in contemporary literature, as the inaugural speaker for the newly launched MFA in Creative Writing at The American University of Paris. Claudia Rankine is the author of ...
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Care and Democracy Seminar
We are pleased to announce a seminar series dedicated to the critical intersection of Care Ethics and Democratic Theory. This series will explore how the relational dimensions of care, traditionally centered on dependency and moral responsibility, can dee ...
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Celebration of the launch of The Letters of Muriel Spark Volume I
Join us for a celebration of the publication of the first of two volumes of The Letters of Muriel Spark, edited by AUP professor Dan Gunn. Muriel Spark is considered by many to be the most important Scottish writer of the 20th century, and by some as the ...