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“a place that lives in me”: Writing Caribbean Identity- AUP Sponsored Event
What does it mean to be Caribbean in the 21st century? Is it imprinted in the landscape, the language, or is it perhaps, in the words of Mireille Jean-Gilles (tr. Eric Fishman), “a place that lives in me, and that I unfurl, like a nomad his tent, in each ...
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Picking Evil Flowers with Gunnhild Øyehaug and Daniel Medin- AUP Sponsored Event
In partnership with the Center for Writers and Translators, we are delighted to present Norway’s most celebrated contemporary writer, Gunnhild Øyehaug, in conversation on her latest collection of short fiction Evil Flowers. Across its 25 stories, Øyehaug ...
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Meditations on Life, Politics, and Journalism with Roger Cohen- AUP Sponsored Event
From China and Kyiv, to Afghanistan and Israel, to elections in Iran and the debacle of Brexit, for over forty years New York Times Paris bureau chief Roger Cohen has journeyed to all corners of the world to cover everything from truth and dissent, to dic ...
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Popular and Municipal Magistrates at the Head of Each Community
On Wednesday October 4th, the Center for Critical Democracy Studies will be hosting a presentation by Professor Andrew Jainchill (Queen’s University Ontario) titled Popular and Municipal Magistrates at the Head of Each Community: The Marquis d’Argenson’s ...
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The Three Pillars and Four Fears of Liberalism
On Thursday September 21st, the Center for Critical Democracy Studies will be hosting a presentation by Professor Alan Kahan (Université de Versailles) titled The Three Pillars and Four Fears of Liberalism. The event will be held at 5:30pm in the Center f ...
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Quel avenir pour nos démocraties? avec Perrine Simon-Nahum (Directrice du département de philosophie, ENS-Ulm)
Comment restaurer l'idée de la démocratie à ceux qui pensent qu'elle les a abandonnées? Comment sortir du triomphe de l'individualisme et redonner goût de l'engagement, le désir d'une société d'égaux, une revendication de cit ...
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J'ai Deux Amours: A Josephine Baker Symposium
Actress, artist, and activist, Josephine Baker was a whole revolution unto herself, showing us new ways of being in the world. This symposium celebrates her many avatars and the artists who have been inspired by her life and keep her legacy alive. Over Oc ...
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Shaping Degas’s Dancers, on Stage, in Wax, in the Press
Andrea Christmas and Liliane Erhart, in conversation with Cary Hollinshead-Strick– ‘Shaping Degas’s Dancers, on Stage, in Wax, in the Press’. The nineteenth century saw a progressive feminization of the ballet dancer and masculinization of the imagined a ...
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Poisoned bread, the CIA, and the psychedelic humanities
Russell Williams, in conversation with Elizabeth Kinne, ‘Poisoned bread, the CIA, and the psychedelic humanities’. History is weird. Did the CIA lace bread with LSD, and what happens when contemporary novelist Sophie Macintosh writes about it? Does psych ...
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Between Becomings: Narration and International Law
Rashmi Dharia, in conversation with Sneharika Roy – ‘Between Becomings: Narration and International Law’. What is at stake in telling stories in the work of international law? How can thinking like a literature scholar help? This talk explores those quest ...