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AUP Alumna Sonia Terrab Wins 2020 Simone de Beauvoir Prize
none On January 9, 2020, the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom was awarded to AUP alumna Sonia Terrab G’11, along with writer Leila Slimani and poet Karima Nadir; they accepted the prize on behalf of the Collective 490 hors-la-loi, or Outlaws C ...
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Water Is Not Just Water: A Zoomcast with Professor Elena Berg
none Professor Elena Berg is a certified water sommelier – trained to discern the flavor subtleties between mineral water varieties and knowledgeable of the specificities of a complex industry. “I never knew a thing like this existed before I got started, ...
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Announcing the Quai d’Orsay Society, a New Legacy Giving Program for AUP’s Future
none AUP's generous community of alumni, former students, trustees, parents and friends supports initiatives across the University with direct financial contributions to scholarships, campus redevelopment projects, an endowment and more. Now, the AUP ...
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Building Environments for Discovery: Professor Elena Berg’s Research on Beetles and Beyond
none Early in her career as an evolutionary biologist, Dr. Elena Berg’s academic advisors told her to specialize. Instead, she ran full-tilt into the multiplicity of her interests, which span anthropology, human behavior, and environmental science. Now Pr ...
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Magali An Berthon Brings Fashion and Cultural Expertise to AUP and to the Musée du Quai Branly
none Magali An Berthon is a design historian and expert of textile, fashion and craft. She joined AUP as Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies in the fall of 2024 after spending the past decade and a half deepening her knowledge of textiles and the cultu ...
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Daniel Hahn Appointed to Inaugural Paris Writer’s Residency
The American University of Paris, the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture and the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Irish Arts Centre) are pleased to announce that Daniel Hahn has been appointed to the first Paris Writer’s Residency. We look forw ...
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Sophie Mackintosh Appointed as Paris Writer in Residence
The American University of Paris, the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture and the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Irish Arts Center) are pleased to announce that Sophie Mackintosh has been appointed to the third Paris Writer’s Residency. We loo ...
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A Day with Writer-in-Residence Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Tinashe Mushakavanhu Our 2023 writer in residence, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, spoke with AUP creative writing students about imagination, form, media, the Zimbabwean literary diaspora, and artmaking under the radar of authoritarianism. Using examples from his ...
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Fashion Talks at AUP: “I Make Because I Am Human”
On Thursday, September 16, 2021, the Fashion Talks at AUP lecture series hosted its first lecture of the academic year, which saw designer and arborist Zoe Jo Rae present on the subject of “Resourcefulness – And Other Quiet Forms of Activism.” The latest ...
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D.Rad Symposium Explores Radicalization Trends in Europe and Beyond
On Wednesday, December 8, 2021, AUP’s Center for Critical Democracy Studies, a research center devoted to promoting the practice, study and life of democracy, hosted a symposium composed of the 17 research teams involved in the D.Rad research project: a c ...