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AUP Common Read: Yannick M Blec on James Baldwin
To round off this semester’s Common Read activity, we are delighted to invite the AUP community to a James Baldwin workshop with Baldwin’s most recent French biographer, Yannick M. Blec. Yannick will be leading attendees through a consideration of Baldwin ...
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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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Trust in the Digital Age: Governing Platforms for the Public Good
The session, titled Trust in the Digital Age: Governing Platforms for the Public Good, will feature a 30-minute keynote address from, Christophe Gauthier, a leader of UNESCO’s Internet for Trust initiative, followed by an open Q&A discussion with stud ...
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Hasret Dikici Bilgin, "Pink but not Purple: From State Feminism to the Era of Tradwives"
ABSTRACT Dating back to late 19th century, some states in Europe and the Middle East devised gender equalitarian policies which led to notable rise in education level and female participation to the labor force. It also paved the way for equal political a ...
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Care & Democracy Seminar Series: Pascal Molinier, "Lutter contre la verticalité, un vœu pieux?"
Lutter contre la verticalité, un vœu pieux? Care et recherche participative dans un dispositif d'entraide avec des personnes en souffrance psychique BIO Pascal Molinier fait des études de psychopathologie et psychologie sociale à l'École des hau ...
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A World in Motion: Eurasian Border Areas in Times of War and Postwar, from the Early Modern Period to the Present
Location details: Friday, 12 December 2025, The American University of Paris | Room Q-801| 6, Rue du Colonel Combes | 75007 Paris from 9h CET to 20h30 CET and Saturday, 13 December 2025, Campus Condorcet | conference centre | Place du Front populaire, 93 ...
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Colloque "Les Lieux de la folie" / "Sites of Madness"
Les Lieux de la folie – Sites of Madness est un colloque organisé à The American University of Paris du 15 au 17 octobre 2026 (6, rue du Colonel Combes, Paris 7e). Il explore la manière dont la folie s’inscrit dans des espaces concrets – hôpital psychiatr ...
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Paris Book Launch: "See You Through" by Geoff Gilbert and Alex Houen
Join us for a reading from, and discussion of, the new novel, See You Through, co-written by Alex Houen and Geoff Gilbert. This collaborative fiction/poem, written online during the pandemic, considers the politics and affect of facial recognition technol ...
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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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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 ...