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Nicholas Burns, Honorary Degree Recipient, speaks at 2017 Graduation Ceremony
none On Tuesday May 23, Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns received an honorary degree from The American University of Paris at the 2017 Commencement Ceremony held at the Théâtre de Paris. Ambassador Burns is the father of AUP alumna Sarah Burns ’05. His diplom ...
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Relive Global Alumni Weekend 2017
none AUP’s 55th anniversary Global Alumni Weekend (May 19-May 22, 2017) created a unique opportunity for alumni, students, professors, and members of staff to come together, reminisce about the past and share plans for the future. AUP alumni enjoyed a se ...
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Lan Samantha Chang of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop joins AUP's Summer Creative Writing Institute
none Lan Samantha Chang is the author of the short story collection Hunger, as well as the novels Inheritance and All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost. She is an English professor at the University of Iowa and the first female and the first Asian-American to ...
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Women of AUP: Origin of the Storm
none Sarina Shirin Amini, a recent AUP graduate majoring in Entrepreneurship, created a project while at AUP that sought to redefine the traditional definition of "beauty" featuring different women from the university. Read about her interesting ...
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Translation and Loss: A Talk with Professor James Montgomery
Related Links Center for Writers and Translators Cahiers Series Prof. James Montgomery Profile Library of Arabic Literature none On October 9, 2017, Dr. James Montgomery, the Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge and Execut ...
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Migration: Rights, Risks and Responsibilities
none “Each displacement will make your life completely change – you will miss the friends, the rituals… each morning the light is different in the place where you go.” These were the words of Ziad Majed, Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at AUP, ...
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Alumna Emma Ramadan G’14 Wins Prestigious Albertine Award
none For the second year running, Albertine, a project of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US, awarded their prize for the best French-language fiction newly available in English. AUP Alumna Emma Ramadan G’14, translator of Anne Garréta’ ...
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Global Justice In & Through Education
Related Links Center for Critical Democracy Studies History Department Prof Julian Culp Prof Maria Bach Prof Oliver Feltham Prof Philip Golub Prof Peter Haegel Prof Jula Wildberger none When asking fundamental questions about education, philosophers have ...
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A Lesson in Complex Business
none The International Business Administration Department’s BA 4050 Business Integration Capstone uses a complex business simulation, which allows students to demonstrate their knowledge in the various business disciplines that they studied throughout th ...
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Late Suicide Among Holocaust Survivors in Israel
none On April 29, 2019, the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention invited Amia Lieblich – an Israeli psychologist and writer, and a professor emerita of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – to s ...