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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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Alice Blackhurst: AUP’s 2025 Writer in Residence
The American University of Paris (AUP) and the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Irish Cultural Center) in Paris are delighted to announce that Alice Blackhurst has been appointed this year’s Paris Writer in Residence. Blackhurst is a writer, critic, and the a ...
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AUP Awards Honorary Degrees to Three Interdisciplinary Thinkers and Creators at Commencement 2025
Each year, we are proud to honor individuals whose work profoundly resonates with The American University of Paris’ mission and values. This year’s Commencement Ceremony on May 23, 2025, celebrates artist Julien Creuzet, writer Édouard Louis, and scholar ...
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AUP Makes Université History: A Flagship Building for a Global Community
A new chapter is beginning on AUP’s campus, with the arrival of a new building at 127bis-129 rue de l’Université, the renovation of the AMEX Café, and reimagined lobbies for the Combes Student Life Center and the Quai d’Orsay Learning Commons, the largest ...
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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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Footloose Musical Continues Student-Led Performing Arts Revival
It’s been a strong couple of years for the performing arts at AUP. Following on from last year’s student-led Spring Arts Festival, the VIVRE performing arts club has this year collaborated with AUP’s Office of Student Leadership to put on a production of ...
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The Ultimate Education: Mattie Drucker on Athletics, Academics, and Belonging Through Frisbee
Matlyn “Mattie” Drucker is a graduate student in Global Communications at The American University of Paris and a former player on the French National Ultimate Frisbee Team. Through the intersection of sports and academia, Mattie has cultivated a life defi ...