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Film Screening: Missing in Brooks County
The Film Studies program is delighted to announce the screening of the documentary film Missing in Brooks County, with the presence of the director Lisa Molomot, on Thursday September 26. The screening will take place in the Olivia De Havilland Lecture Th ...
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Carrying James Baldwin: Frontline Prophet Exhibit at AUP Celebrates His Birthday, Journey, and Legacy
In 1948, seeking refuge from racial and sexual discrimination in the United States, the renowned Harlem-born writer and social visionary James Baldwin moved to Paris. There, and during his ensuing years as an expatriate in Europe, Turkey, and southern Fra ...
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From a Francophone Perspective: Gender and Race in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
Article written by AUP Assistant Professor Caroline Laurent, French Studies and Modern Languages Department Since 2016, through its Olympics Art Visions programme, the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage has commissioned a sculpture to represent t ...
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Fashion Studies Apéro 2024
The Fashion Studies apéro welcomes new students and faculty and marks the launch of the Major in Fashion Studies within the Department of Communication, Media and Culture. We will come together as a community and hear about upcoming events and projects fr ...
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Boycotting German and Germany: Artistic Censorship and the Creation of Israel (1948-1967)
This article discusses the artistic censorship of German and Germany in Israel between 1948-1967. During these years, with various fluctuations, the Israeli Film and Theatre Review Board, the agency in charge of artistic censorship, actively censored film ...
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Constitutional Overhaul and the War in Gaza: The Puzzle of Civic Mobilization in Israel
Much has been written on the constitutional overhaul in Israel, and the attendant constitutional crisis in the first nine months of 2023. Since October 7, however, with the breakout of the Israel-Gaza war, the overhaul was seemingly shelved. This Article ...
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Past Events
Past events May 2-4, 2024: Media Aesthetics: Experience, Practice, and Pedagogy The media aesthetics project examines and engages the saturation of ordinary life by varieties of constant mediation, while also examining the diverse array of mediated expe ...
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Upcoming Events & Highlights
Event Study trip Cultural Excursion Event Highlights Media Aesthetics: Experience, Practice, and Pedagogy project examines and engages the saturation of ordinary life by varieties of constant mediation, while also examining the diverse array of mediated ...
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Book Talk- Imperial Material by Alvita Akiboh
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 of emp ...
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Care and Democracy Seminar
We are pleased to announce a seminar series dedicated to the critical intersection of Care Ethics and Democratic Theory. This series will explore how the relational dimensions of care, traditionally centered on dependency and moral responsibility, can dee ...