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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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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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Memorial/Мемориал: Defending the Memory of Soviet Crimes
Memorial (Мемориал in Cyrillic) is an association dedicated to the documentation of the history of human rights violations and the defense of human rights. Memorial specializes in the state crimes committed in the Soviet Union during the rule of Joseph St ...
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JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE, « LA PHILOSOPHIE POLITIQUE DE ROUSSEAU: NOUVELLES PERSPECTIVES »
La journée d’étude « La philosophie politique de Rousseau: nouvelles perspectives » propose de revisiter l’œuvre de Jean-Jacques Rousseau à la lumière des débats contemporains en théorie politique. Cet atelier explore les multiples dimensions de sa pensée ...
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Nowruz Celebration
The AUP community is warmly invited to celebrate Nowruz, the arrival of spring and the Persian New Year, observed by people from various cultures and religions. The celebration will feature a delightful selection of sweet and savory snacks, music, and an ...
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Après Coup Film Screening
The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention welcomes Susan Solomon and Amélie Mutarabayire-Schafer to screen their documentary, Après Coup which explores the persistence of trauma among adults who ...
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Film Screening and Q&A: Politzek, the voices that challenge the Kremlin (2026)
Film screening and Q&A session with the film’s author and AUP lecturer, Sacha Koulaeva. Organized by Sharon Weill and The Justice lab. In Russia, criticizing the war in Ukraine or Vladimir Putin’s regime has become a crime. Thousands of ordinary citi ...
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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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Peacock Guest Speaker: True Crime & Documentary Filmmaking
Join us for an engaging conversation with LORNA THOMAS, Vice President of Nonfiction Production at Warner Bros. Discovery’s ID and HBO Max. With over 30 years of experience, Thomas oversees the production of many of the network’s best performing and high- ...