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Carrying James Baldwin: Frontline Prophet Exhibit at AUP Celebrates His Birthday, Journey, and Legacy
none In 1948, seeking refuge from racial and sexual discrimination in the United States, the renowned Harlem-born writer and social visionary James Baldwin moved to Paris. There, and during his ensuing years as an expatriate in Europe, Turkey, and souther ...
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Three New Majors for the New Academic Year
none At AUP, you’ll get to experience what the French call “ la rentrée,” a period of reflection and renewal that follows summer vacation and sets you up for the new academic year. This time around, our academic community is also engaging in renewal; AUP ...
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Voices of the Global Majority Promotes Emancipation Through Education
none The student-led club Voices of the Global Majority emerged from a deep-seated need felt among students to bring underrepresented perspectives into the academic conversation. “We wanted to give center stage to voices that have historically resisted co ...
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Reclaiming History through Color and Joy: the Visionary Art of Maya Freelon
When artist and educator Maya Freelon '00 was a girl, her grandmother taught her to quilt–and to stitch together far more than fabric. In her grandmother’s hands, quilting was an act of interconnectedness and creativity rooted in their family’s legac ...
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AUP Students Shine at 2025 UAB Model United Nations Competition
With over 160 delegates reporting, some of the world’s most prestigious universities flocked to the 2025 UAB Model United Nations Competition, from which AUP students emerged with the weekend’s top accolades. Artem Atamanov, Angel Karchev, and Carson Hall ...
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Professor Dan Gunn receives the Distinguished Faculty Award
Prof. Gunn speaking during the launch of The Letters of Samuel Beckett Vol. 4 On December 7, 2016, AUP’s Faculty Senate honored Professor Dan Gun with the Distinguished Faculty award. As Professor Roy Rosenstein declared in his letter of recommendation, “ ...
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Prof. Golub’s Book: East Asia’s Reemergence
Co-Chair of AUP’s International and Comparative Politics Department, Professor Philip S. Golub, has spent his career studying and writing about imperial systems, the ways in which contemporary world politics has been shaped by late-modern colonial and imp ...
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Writer–Director Carolina Cavalli ’13 Has a Message for Aspiring Filmmakers
Take yourself seriously – right from the beginning. Even if other people don’t. Carolina Cavalli ’13 Carolina Cavalli ’13 is an Italian screenwriter, director and author whose first film, Amanda (2022), achieved acclaim at both the Venice and Toronto inte ...
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First Year Students Visit the Loire Valley
Your first semester at AUP has arrived. Your bags are packed; your plane tickets are booked. And all around the world, your future classmates are preparing to land in Paris for the adventure of a lifetime. But what awaits you in your first year? Once on ...
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Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Professor Miranda Spieler's New Book on Slaves in Paris
By Katelyn Simone “I study people on the run,” says AUP Professor Miranda Spieler, a historian of France and its overseas empire whose expertise spans European legal history, human rights, slavery and emancipation. Her first book, Empire and Underworld: ...