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Gastro-Constitutionalism (Mathilde Cohen, UConn)
Gastro-Constitutionalism: The Role of Food in Constructing Constitutional Norms (Mathilde Cohen, UConn) ABSTRACT This presentation proposes the concept of "gastro-constitutionalism" (and more broadly of "gastro-legalism") to articulate ...
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David Wright on the Ethics of Technological Self-Defence
On Wednesday, April 20, 2022, the Office of AUP’s President Celeste M. Schenck hosted the ninth and penultimate event in its Presidential Lecture Series: a lecture by David Wright, Director of Trilateral Research. The Presidential Lecture Series, titled “ ...
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A Reading by Siân Melangell Dafydd and Biswamit Dwibedy
Join the AUP Community and the Summer Creative Writing Institute of The American University of Paris for a reading by Siân Melangell Dafydd and Biswamit Dwibedy Please register by emailing: bdwibedy aup.edu or sdafydd aup.edu ABOUT SIÂN MELANGELL DAFYDD: ...
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A Reading and Q&A with Sophie Mackintosh, Paris Writer in Residence
Join us for a reading and conversation with Sophie Mackintosh, a writer based in London. Her debut novel The Water Cure was nominated for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, and her second novel, Blue Ticket, was published in 2020. Praised for its "cool inten ...
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Écrire l’histoire de la peste à la Renaissance: entre autopsie et plagiat (Marot, Rabelais, Nostradamus, Montaigne)
Résumé L’imaginaire de la peste en France à la Renaissance se décline sous plusieurs formes: la lecture des textes originaux (historiques, médicaux et littéraires, de l’Antiquité et du Moyen Âge), de leurs traductions en français (qui prennent souvent des ...
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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 ...