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Screening "Behind Asia's Cyber Slavery"
none The Center for Media, Communication & Global Change (MCGC) invites you to a screening of the documentary Behind Asia's Cyber Slavery by director and AUP alumnus Lewis Sanders IV. The screening is part of the Video Storytelling course fo ...
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Book Talk: Equality- Reflections on the History of an Elusive Idea by Darrin M. McMahon
none The Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS) cordially invites you to a book talk for: Equality: Reflections on the History of an Elusive Idea by Professor Darrin M. McMahon (Dartmouth College and The Davis Center, Princeton University) Equality ...
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Poverty as Capability Deprivation
none Amartya Sen has argued that poverty is much more than a lack of income: it means that a person falls short of securing a basic level of capabilities. His main justification for this claim is that we need to look at what is important in a person’s lif ...
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Book Presentation of Darrel Moellendorf's Mobilizing Hope – Climate Change and Global Poverty (OUP)
none A climate crisis and other pressures on planetary ecology are cause for profound anxiety. Climate change threatens to trap hundreds of millions of people in poverty and to separate further an already deeply divided world. However, a new generation of ...
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Nicole Hassoun on Global Health Justice
none We live in tragic times. Millions are sheltering in place to avoid exacerbating the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. How should we respond to such tragedies? This presentation argues that the human right to health can help us do so because it inspire ...
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Bypassing Democracy: Understanding the Financial Leverage of the Paris Club of Creditors
none The Center for Critical Democracy Studies presents: Bypassing Democracy: Understanding the Financial Leveage of the Paris Credit Club by Sven van Mourik. Having received his Ph.D. in economic history from New York University, Sven van Mourik investig ...
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Through the Clouds– The Art of Amy West
none Please join us for the opening of the latest exhibit in the Combes Fine Art Gallery. Through the Clouds is a glass and silk installation from artist Amy West. https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/styles/263_305/public/images/widget-text-with-image ...
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Perspectives on Academic Freedom: USA & Europe
none Join the AUP Center for Critical Democracy Studies for a symposium on the contemporary challenges and threats to academic freedom in the United States and Europe. Keynote address: Robert C. Post | Professor of Law, Yale Law School Participants Ol ...
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Educide in Gaza
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/F93bLSVWIAAkKP3.jpeg 0 What are the definitions of Ecocide, Urbicide, Domicide, Culturicide and Educide? Why do these definitions apply to the Gaza war? Why do many internationa ...
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Increasing Accountability and Reducing Polarization through Evaluative Voting with Dr. Pierre Etienne Vandamme
none The Center for Critical Democracy Studies presents: Increasing Accountability and Reducing Polarization through Evaluative Voting with Dr. Pierre-Etienne Vandamme (UC Louvain). Abstract: Outside of social choice theory, philosophical reflection on vo ...