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Fashion Talks at AUP: Between Democracy, Distinction, Discrimination, and Dictatorship "Making Up Democracy: Beauty, Power & the Politics of Looking"
In this provocation, Sharon D Lloyd explores the uneasy relationship between beauty and democracy- where inclusion often performs as progress, and aesthetics become a form of control. Drawing on her research, activism, and policy work across FACE, the Bri ...
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The Center for Writers and Translators
Newsletter Signup Upcoming Events November 10 th A Conversation with Kathrine Nedrejord 10h30 Take a look at a selection of previous events... Quick Links Press Coverage CWT Community Contact Professor Daniel Gunn Director of the Center for Writers and Tr ...
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Annual Reports
2016-2017 Annual Report 2017-2018 Annual Report 2018-2019 Annual Report 2016-2022 Six-Year Report ...
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AUP Common Read: Yannick M Blec on James Baldwin
To round off this semester’s Common Read activity, we are delighted to invite the AUP community to a James Baldwin workshop with Baldwin’s most recent French biographer, Yannick M. Blec. Yannick will be leading attendees through a consideration of Baldwin ...
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Stephen Sawyer, Care and the Social Contract: Toward a Reconstructive Critique of the Modern (Care & Democracy Seminar Series)
Abstract How may we make sense of the void at the center of our narratives of contract theory: from Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, did social contract theory really disappear in the years following the French Revolution only to be magically resurrected ...
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AN EVENING WITH LAUREN ELKIN
The Program in Creative Writing is delighted to welcome Lauren Elkin back to AUP for an evening devoted to her work. Lauren will read from new and selected projects, and an audience Q&A will follow, as well as a reception with wine and cheese. Convers ...
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Trust in the Digital Age: Governing Platforms for the Public Good
The session, titled Trust in the Digital Age: Governing Platforms for the Public Good, will feature a 30-minute keynote address from, Christophe Gauthier, a leader of UNESCO’s Internet for Trust initiative, followed by an open Q&A discussion with stud ...
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Law, State, and Democracy | International Symposium 2025
Download The Symposium Booklet Program and Bios Abstract This Symposium seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars working at the crossroads of law, the state and democracy. Within liberal democracy, rule of law is commonly treated as ...
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Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Professor Miranda Spieler's New Book on Slaves in Paris
By Katelyn Simone “I study people on the run,” says AUP Professor Miranda Spieler, a historian of France and its overseas empire whose expertise spans European legal history, human rights, slavery and emancipation. Her first book, Empire and Underworld: ...
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A World in Motion: Eurasian Border Areas in Times of War and Postwar, from the Early Modern Period to the Present
Location details: Friday, 12 December 2025, The American University of Paris | Room Q-801| 6, Rue du Colonel Combes | 75007 Paris from 9h CET to 20h30 CET and Saturday, 13 December 2025, Campus Condorcet | conference centre | Place du Front populaire, 93 ...