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A Reading and Q&A with Sophie Mackintosh, Paris Writer in Residence
Join us for a reading and conversation with Sophie Mackintosh, a writer based in London. Her debut novel The Water Cure was nominated for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, and her second novel, Blue Ticket, was published in 2020. Praised for its "cool inten ...
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PPE & Philosophy Open House
What makes a society just? Does God exist? Who am I? Should citizenship be for sale? What is the value of nature? Philosophy and PPE students and professors don’t have all the answers – but several other big questions. Meet them and find out about the PPE ...
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FfIRE @ AUP et l'OIF – "Français.e-n/Noir.e. Au-delà de la « norme »?"
Le département d'Etudes françaises à The American University of Paris et l'Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie sont très heureux de vous annoncer leur prochain FfIRE – Forum francophone interdépartemental de Recherches et d’enseigneme ...
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Écrire l’histoire de la peste à la Renaissance: entre autopsie et plagiat (Marot, Rabelais, Nostradamus, Montaigne)
Résumé L’imaginaire de la peste en France à la Renaissance se décline sous plusieurs formes: la lecture des textes originaux (historiques, médicaux et littéraires, de l’Antiquité et du Moyen Âge), de leurs traductions en français (qui prennent souvent des ...
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Campus Roundtable Discussion
Come listen to AUP student clubs, administrative staff and faculty present their work on issues of international concern occurring in the global south. Pose questions and join in the discussion to see how AUP is expanding to include non-western perspectiv ...
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Democratic Citizenship Education in Digitized Societies
In this paper I offer a new conceptualization of democratic citizenship education in light of the transformations of contemporary Western societies that the use of technologies of the digital net have brought about. My conceptualization adopts a deliberat ...
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A Conversation with Yasmine Seale about The Annotated Arabian Nights
The Center for Writers and Translators is pleased to host a discussion and reading with British-Syrian poet Yasmine Seale about The Annotated Arabian Nights. The first edition translated into English by a woman, it has been praised as "electric ...
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The Shifting Role of Survivor Testimony in Court: the Case of the November-13 Attacks Trial (V13)
Testimony of Survivors in Judicial Proceedings: The Case of the Terror Trials in Paris Talk by: Hélène Quiniou PhD Candidate, Anthropology Fellow, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society Columbia University https://anthropology.columbia.edu/cont ...
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Les Conférences francophones: Mounira Chatti: Orientalisme et occidentalisme: poétique du déplacement et éthique de la relation
Mounira Chatti is a professor at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne. She is the author of "La fiction hérétique. Arab and Francophone literary creations in the land of Islam" (Classiques Garnier, 2016), "Translation as an experience of li ...
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Media Diversity, Hybridity and Democratic Transition with speaker Fatima el Issawi
In this talk, Dr. Fatima el Issawi reflects on the notions of hybrid media systems, agonistic pluralism, and civic culture, based on empirical research with Tunisian journalists and stakeholders between 2019 and 2020. The study looks at the meanings of me ...