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Seminar: Iain Stewart, "Thinking Democracy after Marx and Empire"
ABSTRACT: This talk examines how decolonization informed the development of a new democratic theory at the end of the Algerian War, with far-reaching consequences for intellectual politics in France and beyond during the final decades of the twentieth cen ...
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Deborah Levy on 'The Cost of Living'
On Tuesday, November 27, the Center for Writers and Translators (CWT) hosted a reading and talk by author Deborah Levy. As part of the event, Levy read from her most recent work, The Cost of Living, which was included in the recently published New York Ti ...
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Online Book Launch: Memory Politics after Mass Violence by Timothy Williams
This event is organized by the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at The American University of Paris and by Practicing Memory after collective violence, a collaborative scholarly working gro ...
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Religion and Human Rights
In collaboration with Susan Perry, Waddick Doyle (AUP), Ibrahim Salama and Michael Wiener (OHCHR), the Center hosted a conversation on the roles and responsibilities of faith actors in discussions on human rights and peace. Faith actors from various tradi ...
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Reading James Baldwin in 2025: A Conversation with Gary Younge
As part of this year’s Common Read, we will be gathering in room C102 on October 22 from 5:30pm to think about, talk about and celebrate the work of African-American writer James Baldwin. In particular we will be wondering what it means to read James Bald ...
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Israelis, Palestinians, and Collective Equality. A discussion with Limor Yehuda and Omar Dajani on Yehuda's book Collective Equality, Human Rights and Democracy in Ethno-National Conflicts
On April 3rd, The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention, in collaboration with Professor Sharon Weill (AUP), will welcome Limor Yehuda to present her book Collective Equality: Human Rights a ...
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THE MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING INVITES YOU TO A READING BY ANNE WALDMAN
THE MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING INVITES YOU TO A READING BY ANNE WALDMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH EMMA GOMIS 13 NOVEMBER 2025, 14h30 AT Q801, COMBES BUILDING THE READING WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A SCREENING OF OUTRIDER, A FILM ON AND WITH ANNE WAL ...
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A Conversation with Kathrine Nedrejord
Photo credit: Fartein Rudjord The Center for Writers & Translators Presents A Conversation about The Sami Problem with Kathrine Nedrejord We are delighted that novelist Kathrine Nedrejord will join us to discuss Sameproblemet (The Sami Problem), w ...
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Stephen Sawyer, Care and the Social Contract: Toward a Reconstructive Critique of the Modern (Care & Democracy Seminar Series)
Abstract How may we make sense of the void at the center of our narratives of contract theory: from Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, did social contract theory really disappear in the years following the French Revolution only to be magically resurrected ...
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AN EVENING WITH LAUREN ELKIN
The Program in Creative Writing is delighted to welcome Lauren Elkin back to AUP for an evening devoted to her work. Lauren will read from new and selected projects, and an audience Q&A will follow, as well as a reception with wine and cheese. Convers ...