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A Conversation with Author Juan Gabriel Vásquez
none Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vásquez - "one of the most impressive novelists currently writing in Latin America" (TLS)- will participate in a conversation with students about his latest novel, The Retrospective. Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
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14 AUP Artists
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/Screenshot%202023-11-13%20at%2011.33.21.png 0 Please join us for the celebration of the vernissage in the presence of the exhibiting artists: Ana Pranjic Anusic, Mano Banduwarde ...
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Syria Round Table I: The Struggle Against Impunity in Syria
none Image https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/images/widget-assets/image/Syria%20impunity%20header.png 0 Since 2012, after a year of peaceful pro-democracy protests suppressed by the Assad regime, Syria has been embroiled in a war involving local, re ...
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The Limits of Democracy- Book Discussion with Prof. Marcos Nobre
none In this timely book, Brazilian political philosopher Marcos Nobre analyzes the social and political roots of the election of Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil and shows how this process is connected to the rise of new far-right movements thr ...
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Justice as Equality: Inheritance for All
none Stefan Gosepath is Professor of Practical Philosophy at the Free University Berlin (Germany) and associated at the Departments of Politics there. He is Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence ”The Contestation of the Liberal Script” (SCRI ...
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Book Launch: Re-thinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust
none The Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS) and The Center for Media, Communication & Global Change (MCGC) cordially invite you to the book launch for: Rethinking Mediations of Post-truth Politics and Trust: Globality, Culture, Affect Commen ...
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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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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 ...