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Care & Dem Seminar Series: Estelle Ferrarese "Is A Genuinely Caring Society A Democracy?"
The Care & Democracy Seminar Series explores how the relational dimensions of care, traditionally centered on dependency and moral responsibility, can deepen our understanding of democratic practices. By examining care as a normative and political f ...
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Care & Dem Seminar Series: Juliet Williams "New Masculinities and Care"
The Care & Democracy Seminar Series explores how the relational dimensions of care, traditionally centered on dependency and moral responsibility, can deepen our understanding of democratic practices. By examining care as a normative and political f ...
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Care & Dem Seminar Series: Hannah Taieb "Care in the Carceral System"
The Care & Democracy Seminar Series explores how the relational dimensions of care, traditionally centered on dependency and moral responsibility, can deepen our understanding of democratic practices. By examining care as a normative and political f ...
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Care & Dem Seminar Series: Catherine Larrère "Care and Ecology"
The Care & Democracy Seminar Series explores how the relational dimensions of care, traditionally centered on dependency and moral responsibility, can deepen our understanding of democratic practices. By examining care as a normative and political f ...
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Book Talk: "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics", Duncan Kelly
BOOK DESCRIPTION The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice in Europe on November 11, 1918, amid the continuing violence of blockades and epidemics, amid numerous forms of reconstruction and revolution. Its legacies, in fact, resonate deep ...
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Katharina Isabel Schmidt, "The Law Laid Bare: German Jurists and the Search for Life"
ABSTRACT Ours is a time of withering trust in law and its officials, a time of yearning for alternatives to rule-based governance. Postwar codes and constitutions have not delivered on their promises; their concepts do not solve, they symbolize, the sundr ...
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International Conference: A Quarter-Millennium of Franco-American Relations
Hosted by: Guest Registration Participants’ Bios Participants’ Abstracts Abstract: The Tocqueville Society and the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris, with the support of Princeton University and the Chambrun ...
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Book Launch: "Climate Justice Now: Crossing Disciplines to Combat Our Planetary Crisis"
ABSTRACT Climate Justice Now: Crossing Disciplines to Combat Our Planetary Crisis, Edited by Rebecca Marwege, Nikhar Gaikwad, and Joerg Schaefer (Columbia University Press, 2026) Climate change is not only an environmental crisis but also a catalyst for w ...
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Launch of Cahiers Series no.42 by AUP alumnus Jan Steyn
Join us for a celebration of the launch of no.42 in AUP's Cahiers Series, by AUP alumnus Jan Steyn, currently a professor at the University of Iowa. Jan's cahier, entitled JIG, deals with the experience, across several cultures, of the afflictio ...
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Book Talk, "Democratic Commitment: Why Citizens Tolerate Democratic Backsliding" (OUP, 2025), Natasha Wunsch
ABSTRACT Why do citizens often fail to resist democratic backsliding? This book claims that political culture is key to explaining the electoral success and enduring public support for authoritarian-leaning leaders despite their open violations of democra ...