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Culture and the Limits of Empathy of Healthcare Personnel: Observations in the Context of Suicide Care in Rural India
none Please join the Department of Psychology at The American University of Paris for a talk on "Culture and the Limits of Empathy of Healthcare Personnel: Observations in the Context of Suicide Care in Rural India." Varnica Arora is based in Ps ...
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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 ...
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Book Talk- Imperial Material by Alvita Akiboh
none Imperial Material. National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire (The University of Chicago Press), by Alvita Akiboh In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity has been created, challenged, and transformed through embodiments o ...
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Psychological Transformations/Transformational Psychology
none Summary In this talk, I would like to offer a retrospective summary of my intellectual journey within the wide and fragmented fields of Psychology and their relations with other disciplines as both an academic and practitioner and what might be descr ...
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Film Screening: Beyond the Frontlines
none This film (2017, by Alexandra Dols) takes us on a journey both within our own minds and on the roads of Palestine, led by Palestinian psychiatrist and writer Dr. Samah Jabr. An heir to anticolonial psychiatrist Dr. Frantz Fanon, she exposes the psych ...
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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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Critical Theory 101: Axel Honneth
none The seminar series Critical Theory 101: Future Directions and New Challenges, co-organized by The American University of Paris and the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, seeks to explore the evolving landscape of cr ...
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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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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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An evening with Palestinian writer Karim Kattan
The Department of Comparative Literature is delighted to welcome the Palestinian writer Karim Kattan for a discussion and celebration of his work. His first book in French, Préliminaires pour un verger futur, published in 2017 by Tunis-based Éditions Elyz ...