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Palestine and Lebanon: A Discussion with Professor Ziad Majed
none "Students for Justice in Palestine" invites you to a discussion with AUP Professor Ziad Majed on the situation in Palestine and Lebanon today, after a year of war, destruction and what many legal experts, UN officials and international orga ...
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Critical Theory 101 Series: Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression
none Prof. Rahel Jaeggi will present the central ideas of her latest book Progress and Regression (Harvard University Press, forthcoming), in which she claims that “societies don’t have a goal, they solve problems.” Her talk will focus on the book’s t ...
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Book Talk: Seeing Like a Firm
none Business corporations are political entities and need to be considered as such. Seeing Like a Firm invites readers to do just that by providing a political theory of the business firm and, in doing so, offering new perspectives on the recent histor ...
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Book Talk: Seeing Like a Firm (With Pierre-Yves Néron, ESPOL)
none Join the Center for Critical Democracy Studies for a book talk with philosopher Pierre-Yves Néron on "Seeing Like a Firm" (Oxford University Press, 2024). The book will be commented by Peter Hägel (AUP), Sandrine Blanc (INSEEC), and Morgane ...
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An Evening with Fiona Sze-Lorrain
none Please join us on the 22nd of January for a reading by poet, literary translator, and musician Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Lorrain writes and translates in English, French, and Chinese and is the author of several poetry collections and most recently a novel ...
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Discussing the Current Situation in Syria with Professor Ziad Majed
none After 54 years of brutal dictatorship and 14 years of revolution and war, the Assad regime in Syria has fallen. How did this happen and what is the situation today? What are the political challenges in this devastated country and what kind of transit ...
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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 Right to Education in International Law: Abidjan Principles on Regulation of Private Education
none Join Roman Zinigrad (AUP) and other experts on the right to education for a webinar on "Abidjan Principles 6th Anniversary: Unpacking the Legal Foundations and Justifications". The webinar will focus on the Guiding Principles on the Human R ...
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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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Impact Club Movie Screening for Women's History Month
none Come join us for a night to celebrate historical women on the big screen, as we will be showing Hidden Figures starring Taragi P. Henson, Janelle Monáe, and Octavia Spencer. All donations will go to The Malala Fund to support the equal education of ...