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Christina Hesselholdt on 'Companions'
none On October 3, students, faculty and guests packed the Pierre Salinger Grand Salon to hear from the first Center for Writers and Translators guest speaker of the year. Christina Hesselholdt was on campus for a talk and reading on her English-language ...
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Kouross Esmaeli on Educating Americans for the Digital Age
none On May 3, 2019, AUP’s Civic Media Lab welcomed Kouross Esmaeli – a researcher, educator and media activist, and currently a visiting professor at the American University of Beirut – who spoke to an audience of AUP community members in the David T. Mc ...
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AUP Fine Arts Gallery Exhibits Katherine Dolgy Ludwig’s Light City
none On June 6–24, 2019, New York–based artist Katherine Dolgy Ludwig exhibited her collection of Paris- inspired watercolors in the AUP Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibition, entitled “Light City: Paintings of Paris,” was curated by Professor Jonathan Shimo ...
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Bunny Harvey Exhibits Survival Tactics in AUP Fine Arts Gallery
none Between November 19 and December 9, 2019, the AUP Fine Arts Gallery hosted a special exhibition by American painter Bunny Harvey, titled Survival Tactics, which focused on the unseen elements of urban spaces and, in particular, plants that are consid ...
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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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Counting on Beetles: AUP students unlock clues to the impacts of climate change
none The impact of climate change is rippling across the globe and reshaping the natural world. At AUP, students are not just learning about it in the classroom; they are actively enhancing our collective understanding through unique research. This semest ...
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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 ...