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Racism in Obstetrics and Gynecology with Rachel Bervell, MD
none ReSisters is honored to host Rachel Bervell, MD, co-founder of the Black OBGYN Project to discuss the racist history of obstetrics and gynecology and how it persists today. The Black OBGYN Project is an Instagram page led by two Black ObGyn doctors o ...
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Fashion Talks at AUP 2000/21: Between Despair & Hope with Orsola de Castro
none Author Orsola de Castro's lecture is part of this year's Fashion Talks at AUP entitled: Between Despair and Hope, organized by Professor Renate Stauss and Professor Sophie Kurkdjian, where she will discuss her book Loved Clothes Last: H ...
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A Sparkling Conversation with Beatrice Cointreau
none AUP alumni and families are invited to join "A Sparkling Conversation with Beatrice Cointreau." An AUP trustee and certified expert, Beatrice Cointreau is the owner of Admirable Family Vineyards in Malibu, has been in the industry for more ...
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Demos21 Talk by Carlo Burelli (University of Genova): No Virtue like Resilience – A new Machiavellian justification of democracy
none Political realism claims that normative evaluations of politics should be grounded on political rather than moral values (Rossi and Sleat 2014). This paper revives Machiavelli’s justification of republican government (Machiavelli 2003), and seeks to ...
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"Impudent Jews" The Forgotten Individual Jewish Resistance in Hitler’s Germany- An online lecture by Pr. Wolf Gruner
none Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still understood mostly in terms of rare armed group activities in the Nazi occupied East, for example ghetto uprisings or partisan activities. Based on a new approach and new sources, as police and court mat ...
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Towards a Theory of Postcolonial Justice
none Towards a Theory of Postcolonial Justice This paper aims at proposing a definition of the concept of “postcolonial justice” in view of elaborating an empirically-informed theory of postcolonial justice qua reparative justice. For this purpose, it sug ...
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New technologies of warfare – the challenges raised by Autonomous Weapons Systems and Cyberwarfare
none Of the main challenges with autonomous weapon systems lies in the difficulty of anticipating their effects. From a humanitarian perspective, they risk harming civilians, and they increase the risk of conflict escalation. From a legal perspective, the ...
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Marc Hecker and Élie Tenenbaum: The End of the War on Terror?
none The lecture will draw on the book The Twenty Years’ War: Jihadism and Counterterrorism in the XXIst Century. Based on several years of field investigations, this book, which was recently awarded the Prix du livre géopolitique, offers the first histor ...
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D.Rad Symposium: Trends of Radicalization in Europe and Beyond
none The Symposium will present the findings of 17 countries on trends of radicalization in Europe and the Middle East. The reports analyze specific moments – or “hotspots” – of radicalization in historical, social, and cultural context and are part of th ...
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Why Open Democracy?
none This paper examines open democracy, the conception of democracy introduced by Hélène Landemore in her recent book of the same name. Open democracy offers both an institutional paradigm and a specification of democratic values underlying it. It differ ...