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Angela Tate on James Baldwin
none In the context of the First Year Success Common Read, we are delighted to be hosting a talk on James Baldwin by Angela Tate, writer, artist, scholar, and curator. Angela serves as the chief curator and director of collections at the Museum of Afric ...
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THE CONVOY: A CONVERSATION WITH BEATA UMUBEYI MAIRESSE
none Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s memoir documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The Convoy reflects on the act of bearing witness and the ...
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Discussing the Current Situation in Syria with Professor Ziad Majed
none After 54 years of brutal dictatorship and 14 years of revolution and war, the Assad regime in Syria has fallen. How did this happen and what is the situation today? What are the political challenges in this devastated country and what kind of transit ...
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Restaurants and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris: A Lecture By Rebecca L. Spang
none Why are there restaurants? To answer this question, Professor Rebecca L. Spang takes us back to the invention of the restaurant in eighteenth-century Paris. Originally, a restaurant was not a place or a business but a thing to eat: a quasi-medicinal ...
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Impact Club Movie Screening for Women's History Month
none Come join us for a night to celebrate historical women on the big screen, as we will be showing Hidden Figures starring Taragi P. Henson, Janelle Monáe, and Octavia Spencer. All donations will go to The Malala Fund to support the equal education of ...
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AUP Spirit Day
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/Spirit%20day%20image%202.png 0 Join AUP students, faculty and staff for a day of activities, prizes, themed outfits and more! We will be celebrating AUP's fourth annual Spi ...
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Alumni Weekend 2025
none AUP alumni and friends will gather for a showcase of faculty lectures, tours and programs. The weekend culminates with a Soiree on the Seine. Faculty and staff are invited to join for a welcome reception on Thursday, April 24 from 17:00-18:30. For mo ...
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Authoritarian Legalism: A conversation with Kim Lane Scheppele
As part of the Human Rights Summer Institute Guest Series, directed by Professor Sharon Weill, we are honored to host Kim Lane Scheppele, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Author of Authoritarian Legalism, Professor Scheppele will discuss re ...
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Toward the Psychological Humanities
More details coming soon. Related Links George and Irina Schaeffer Center ...
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Marina Warner- Temporale
Join us for a celebration of the work of Marina Warner, author of no.39 in AUP’s Cahiers Series, Temporale. What happened to time during the Coronavirus pandemic? Marina Warner recounts how strangely her days and weeks passed, in this highly personal acco ...