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Narrative Matters 2025
Registration Explore the Program Keynote Speakers Venue Closing Reception Accommodations & Restaurants Exposition ...
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Alice Blackhurst: AUP’s 2025 Writer in Residence
The American University of Paris (AUP) and the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Irish Cultural Center) in Paris are delighted to announce that Alice Blackhurst has been appointed this year’s Paris Writer in Residence. Blackhurst is a writer, critic, and the a ...
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Food Stories from the Borderlands, and Why They Matter
Meredith Abarca, Frances Spatz Leighton Endowed Distinguished Professor in English University of Texas at El Paso Co-sponsored by Food and Wine Studies, the Center of Media, Communication and Global Change, and the Department of Comparative Literature, En ...
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Gastro-Constitutionalism (Mathilde Cohen, UConn)
Gastro-Constitutionalism: The Role of Food in Constructing Constitutional Norms (Mathilde Cohen, UConn) ABSTRACT This presentation proposes the concept of "gastro-constitutionalism" (and more broadly of "gastro-legalism") to articulate ...
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The Limits of Terroir-as-Heritage in European Viticulture
Dr. Jenny L. Herman, Postdoctoral researcher, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, EIREST Co-sponsored by Food and Wine Studies and the Joy and Edward Frieman Environmental Science Center Romanticized notions of terroir and authenticity play into mark ...
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Prof. Elena Berg and AUP Green Lead Environmental Science Poster Project and Celebrate Interdisciplinary Collaboration
In testament to the power of interdisciplinary learning, Dr Elena Berg, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Director of the Joy and Edward Frieman Environmental Science Center, hosted AUP’s environmental poster presentation session this sprin ...
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Fashion Talks at AUP: Loved Clothes Last
On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, this year’s Fashion Talks at AUP lecture series, entitled “Between Despair and Hope,” concluded with a talk from author and designer Orsola de Castro, who talked about the not-for-profit global movement Fashion Revolution she c ...
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The “Retail Apocalypse”
Related Links Discover FirstBridge Department of Economics and Management One of the most exciting aspects of beginning an AUP education is the opportunity to engage immediately with interdisciplinary liberal arts thinking. As part of AUP’s first-year exp ...
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AUP Community Members Discover the Monttessuy Center for the Arts
Olivia de Havilland Theater Hosts First Live Performance On Thursday, November 18, 2021, the Monttessuy Center for the Arts opened its doors to the AUP community for a private launch event ahead of the building’s scheduled opening in January 2022. This “s ...
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Seth Farbman Launches Presidential Lecture Series
On Wednesday, December 1, 2021, AUP’s 60th-anniversary Presidential Lecture Series, titled Technology and the Human Future, hosted its inaugural event: a guest lecture from Seth Farbman, the former CMO of Spotify and currently an Executive Fellow at the Y ...