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Vernissage & Film Screening: Enamorada
Film@AUP is delighted to screen the Mexican classic Enamorada (Emilio Fernández, 1946), which accompanies the poster exhibition Una Mujer Nada Cualquiera- María Félix: The Making of a Star Image in Mexican Cinema in Monttessuy Center for the Arts. Join us ...
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Film Screening and Q&A: Politzek, the voices that challenge the Kremlin (2026)
Film screening and Q&A session with the film’s author and AUP lecturer, Sacha Koulaeva. Organized by Sharon Weill and The Justice lab. In Russia, criticizing the war in Ukraine or Vladimir Putin’s regime has become a crime. Thousands of ordinary citi ...
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Book Talk, "Democratic Commitment: Why Citizens Tolerate Democratic Backsliding" (OUP, 2025), Natasha Wunsch
ABSTRACT Why do citizens often fail to resist democratic backsliding? This book claims that political culture is key to explaining the electoral success and enduring public support for authoritarian-leaning leaders despite their open violations of democra ...
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Peacock Guest Speaker: True Crime & Documentary Filmmaking
Join us for an engaging conversation with LORNA THOMAS, Vice President of Nonfiction Production at Warner Bros. Discovery’s ID and HBO Max. With over 30 years of experience, Thomas oversees the production of many of the network’s best performing and high- ...
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The Mystery Show- Episode 2
Following upon the success of his first show at the Monttessuy Center for the Arts, AUP student, Kiki Nwankwo, aka Kikifromsmog, will be showing a larger selection of pieces in AUP's Combes & Quai Gallery from March 31st to April 5th. You are war ...
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Book Talk: "Being Cosmopolitan: A Political Approach", Luke Ulaş
Abstract: What does it mean to be cosmopolitan? Typically, cosmopolitanism is understood as a broad moral orientation, involving some kind of commitment to global moral equality. On this understanding, to be cosmopolitan is simply to evidence that moral o ...
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Conversation with Award-Winning Author Brianna Holt
Join us for a conversation and Q&A with AUP MFA student Brianna Holt. Holt is an award-winning author, writer, and journalist who splits her time between New York City and Paris. Her work explores culture, identity, and race, and has appeared in The N ...
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Igor Shoikhedbrod (St. Francis Xavier University): The Legal Thought of E.B. Pashukanis
DISCUSSANT: Mariana Dias Paes, Assistant Professor of History, Law and Society (AUP) ABSTRACT: The year 2024 marked the centenary anniversary for the publication of E.B. Pashukanis' General Theory of Law and Marxism, which has long been considered *t ...
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Lancement: America In French / L'Amérique en français
Nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer le lancement du numéro spécial de Contemporary French & Francophone Studies/SITES, « L’Amérique en français / America in French », co-dirigé par Roger Célestin, Anne-Marie Picard et Niv Schwartz. Consacré aux représent ...
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Building Bridges
held a focus group that we framed as an International Meet and Greet. The incredibly successful event ...