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Collecting Life Stories in the Jewish World, 19th-21st Centuries
Co-organized with the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention (AUP), the Middle East and Mediterranean Research Centre (CERMOM, INALCO), and Museum of Jewish Art and History (MAHJ). In the wake of ...
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A Conversation with Yasmine Seale about The Annotated Arabian Nights
The Center for Writers and Translators is pleased to host a discussion and reading with British-Syrian poet Yasmine Seale about The Annotated Arabian Nights. The first edition translated into English by a woman, it has been praised as "electric ...
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Experimental Democracy. An Approximation via John Dewey's Liberalisms
In political philosophy John Dewey is most famous for his concept of experimental democracy. But in fact, Dewey doesn’t elaborate on what he means by experiment and how this concept would translate into politics. So, what are the major elements of an expe ...
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Jean Painlevé, scientist and surrealist, by Christina Heflin
This presentation will begin with a biographical overview of Painlevé and his work, which will then be followed by a discussion of the focus of my recently completed doctoral thesis on the connection between the Surrealist use of marine animals in artwork ...
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ONLINE- Women, Power and Violence: Researching Sexual Crimes during the Holocaust in Time of Russia's War in Ukraine
Please use this page to register to attend this event online. The George & Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention is honored to host Marta Havryshko, who will give an online presentation on "Women ...
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Dark Neighborhood: A Reading and Conversation with Vanessa Onwuemezi
The Center for Writers and Translators at the American University of Paris is delighted to present, in collaboration with the American Library in Paris, a conversation with Vanessa Onwuemenzi about Dark Neighbourhood, her debut collection of short fictio ...
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Lan Samantha Chang at the Summer Institute for Creative Writing
Lan Samantha Chang is the author of the story collection Hunger and the novels The Family Chao, Inheritance, and All is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories. She is Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at ...
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New Plays from the Caribbean Edited by Stéphanie Bérard (with Frank Hentschker)
This unique anthology New Plays from the Caribbean represents a most significant and lasting part of the 2019 Caribbean Theater Project ACT (Actions Caribéennes Théâtrales)—co-organized by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City, the theater c ...
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The Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace: When victims meet their aggressors
Prof Sharon Weill and the Justice lab are happy to invite you to an open lecture on Transitional Justice in Colombia addressing the challenges of restorative justice in the context of mass crimes. In 2016, Colombia ended 50 years of war with FARC with an ...
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Solidarity with the uprising of Women in Iran
The Middle East Pluralities program (History and Politics department) cordially invites you to an evening of Solidarity with the uprising of Women in Iran. Date: Friday, September 30 at 6:30pm. Place: AUP Combes C-102. The program includes a film screenin ...