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Elephant biologist and science writer Caitlin O'Connell discusses her new book, Wild Rituals
none Renowned elephant biologist, writer, and documentary filmmaker Dr. Caitlin O'Connell will be joining us for a presentation and book signing. After giving a broad overview of why all social animals engage in ritual, she will discuss the major the ...
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Alumni Welcome Party in LA
none Join AUP Alumni in Los Angeles on October 5 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Massilia in Santa Monica to celebrate la rentree! Parent & Family Relations Manager Dana Pasic-Callaghan, and alumna Kristin Dosetti are delighted to welcome all Southern Californi ...
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Quel avenir pour nos démocraties? avec Perrine Simon-Nahum (Directrice du département de philosophie, ENS-Ulm)
none Comment restaurer l'idée de la démocratie à ceux qui pensent qu'elle les a abandonnées? Comment sortir du triomphe de l'individualisme et redonner goût de l'engagement, le désir d'une société d'égaux, une revendication d ...
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From utopia to real possibilities. How can critical social science contribute to political strategy? with Laurent Jeanpierre
none This conference will address questions of hope and powerlessness and their interplay in contemporary societies, as well as the role that social sciences can play in the renewal of our collective emancipatory imagination. 100 Image https://www.aup.edu ...
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Syria Round Table I: The Struggle Against Impunity in Syria
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/Syria%20impunity%20header.png 0 Since 2012, after a year of peaceful pro-democracy protests suppressed by the Assad regime, Syria has been embroiled in a war involving local, re ...
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Syria Round Table II: Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad’s Prisons
none Out of a pre-war Syrian population of 24 million, at some point during the ongoing conflict, there were about 250,000 Syrians detained in its many prisons, a percentage of the population (1%) that dwarfs that of many other authoritarian regimes. Impr ...
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I Am Not Proud to be German: East German Identity and The Legacy of Fascism
none This presentation will explore the complexity of East German national identity as experienced by a small group of dissident activists I have interviewed over 3 decades. Interwoven into the analysis is a deep contextualization of the role of anti-Fasc ...
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Les Conférences francophones: « Le jury terroir et la roue des arômes du Comté: goûter la diversité »
none S’il vous plaît, étant donné qu'une dégustation est impliquée, il est important de s'inscrire à la conférence ci-dessous. (Sinon, nous ne pourrons pas garantir qu'il y aura suffisamment de fromage pour tout le monde... et ce serait dom ...
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The Limits of Democracy- Book Discussion with Prof. Marcos Nobre
none In this timely book, Brazilian political philosopher Marcos Nobre analyzes the social and political roots of the election of Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil and shows how this process is connected to the rise of new far-right movements thr ...
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Justice as Equality: Inheritance for All
none Stefan Gosepath is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Free University Berlin (Germany) and associated at the Departments of Politics there. He is Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence ”The Contestation of the Liberal Script” (SCRI ...