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Film Screening: “The Prosecutors”
none Join filmmaker Leslie Thomas, Dr. David Eichert, and the Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention for a film screening of “The Prosecutors,” a powerful documentary about conflict-related sexual violence and the ...
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Zoë Skoulding Poetry Reading
none Poetry reading and conversation with Zoë Skoulding. Zoë Skoulding is a poet and literary critic interested in translation, sound and ecology. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University. Her latest collection of poems is A Ma ...
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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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Palestine and Lebanon: A Discussion with Professor Ziad Majed
none "Students for Justice in Palestine" invites you to a discussion with AUP Professor Ziad Majed on the situation in Palestine and Lebanon today, after a year of war, destruction and what many legal experts, UN officials and international orga ...
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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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Book Talk: Seeing Like a Firm (With Pierre-Yves Néron, ESPOL)
none Join the Center for Critical Democracy Studies for a book talk with philosopher Pierre-Yves Néron on "Seeing Like a Firm" (Oxford University Press, 2024). The book will be commented by Peter Hägel (AUP), Sandrine Blanc (INSEEC), and Morgane ...
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An Evening with Fiona Sze-Lorrain
none Please join us on the 22nd of January for a reading by poet, literary translator, and musician Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Lorrain writes and translates in English, French, and Chinese and is the author of several poetry collections and most recently a novel ...
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Gastro-Constitutionalism (Mathilde Cohen, UConn)
Gastro-Constitutionalism: The Role of Food in Constructing Constitutional Norms (Mathilde Cohen, UConn) ABSTRACT This presentation proposes the concept of "gastro-constitutionalism" (and more broadly of "gastro-legalism") to articulate ...
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A Reading and Q&A with Sophie Mackintosh, Paris Writer in Residence
Join us for a reading and conversation with Sophie Mackintosh, a writer based in London. Her debut novel The Water Cure was nominated for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, and her second novel, Blue Ticket, was published in 2020. Praised for its "cool inten ...
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PPE & Philosophy Open House
What makes a society just? Does God exist? Who am I? Should citizenship be for sale? What is the value of nature? Philosophy and PPE students and professors don’t have all the answers – but several other big questions. Meet them and find out about the PPE ...