Professor Jeannie Whayne of the University of Arkansas will give a talk entitled, "Forging a New South Empire: The Consequences of the Plantation Model of Development."
This lecture will examine the implications of the plantation model of development by focusing on one planter in the environmentally challenging Lower Mississippi River Valley in the post-Civil War era. Wilson’s plantation empire began under the auspices of his father in 1848 and remained in the hands of the Wilson...
This February AUP is celebrating Black History Month with an excellent line-up of guest speakers and events! Join us for the fifth event of this incredible program for "An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates," author of Between the World and Me, a #1 New York Times Bestseller & Winner of the National Book Award. This event is sponsored by AUP's Centre For Critical Democracy Studies and professors Stephen Sawyer and Michelle Kuo will be conducting the Q & A session.
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This February AUP is celebrating Black History Month with an excellent line-up of guest speakers and events! Join us for the fourth event of this incredible program for "An Evening with Thomas Chatterton Williams." This event is sponsored by AUP's Centre For Critical Democracy Studies and professors Stephen Sawyer and Michelle Kuo will be conducting the Q & A session.
Biography:
Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool: Love, Literature and a...
This February AUP is celebrating Black History Month with an excellent line-up of guest speakers and events! Join us for the third event of this incredible program for "A Book Forum on Gary Wilder's "Freedom Time: A Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015) at Reid Hall. This event is sponsored by the AUP Center for Critical Democracy Studies and Columbia’s Global Center in Paris.
Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire...
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies invites you to a conference with Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer.
Thomas Piketty—whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debate—wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic inequality over time. This concise text has...
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies presents "Decoding the COP21" with expert speakers from UNEP, the French Senate and the Fondation Nicolas Hulot.
A bilingual discussion about what the COP 21 accomplished, or didn't, from a french perspective. ALL ATTENDEES must RSVP through our webform below or write to criticaldemocracy...
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies presents :
What is Critical Democracy? And why is it so important?
Professors Cynthia Fleury and Stephen Sawyer will discuss Critical Democracy and answer students’ questions.
Submit your questions before the event! Email them to: a92292
aup.edu...
The American University of Paris (AUP) will launch The Center for Critical Democracy Studies on Friday October 23rd, 2015 with an evening of jazz and conversation led by Gregory Clark, President of the Rhetoric Society of America and author of Civic Jazz (U of Chicago Press, 2015) and by Marcus Roberts of the Marcus Roberts Trio. The conversation will be followed by a...