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Stina Bergman Blix, "Orderly Feelings in Law: An International Comparison of Legal Decision-making"
none Lecture topic: There is a longstanding belief that emotions bring disorder into legal decision-making. Judges and prosecutors should not take decisions in anger or out of pity. But are there also emotions that are essential to legal decision making? ...
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The Conflict of Human Values in Europe
none Prof. Dr. Mirjiam Dageförde from the American University in Paris will speak on the Conflict of Human Values in Europe. Western democracies are going through drastic changes: anti-elitist sentiments and populism are increasing, there is a rise in ine ...
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Cahiers Series: Bone into Stone with Author Jhumpa Lahiri
none Join us for a celebration of the work of Jhumpa Lahiri, author of no.41 in AUP’s Cahiers Series, Bone into Stone. For three years the renowned author and translator Jhumpa Lahiri has been working on translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses into English. F ...
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The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education / Current Hour: Come Together – a world workshop on fashion education for democracy
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/TDM25_Current%20Hour.jpg 0 In light of current politics, we feel a strong need for community and solidarity. We have decided to organize a spontaneous Multilogue, a "Curren ...
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Restaurants and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris: A Lecture By Rebecca L. Spang
none Why are there restaurants? To answer this question, Professor Rebecca L. Spang takes us back to the invention of the restaurant in eighteenth-century Paris. Originally, a restaurant was not a place or a business but a thing to eat: a quasi-medicinal ...
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Screening and Q&A: Unrest (2022)
none The Film Studies program is delighted to announce a screening of the award-winning film Unrest (2022, 93 min.) presented by its director Cyril Schäublin. “New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a ...
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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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Communications, Media, and Culture Department Mixer
none This event provides faculty and staff with the opportunity to network in a relaxed and engaging atmosphere while strengthening professional relationships within the department. 100 Related links Department of Communication, Media and Culture ...
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Film Screening and Roundtable Discussion: "Les Fantômes"
none You are all warmly invited to an event Sharon Weill is organizing with students from the Justice Lab and the Graduate Program on War Crimes Trials and Accountability: 🎬 Film Screening & Roundtable Discussion in the presence of the filmmaker Jon ...
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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 ...