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Paris Inside Out Tours with the Dean- Medieval Paris
none The Middle Ages started with the fall of the Roman Empire and ended according to many historians at close of the Hundred Years War in 1453. While much of the medieval Paris has been lost, this two-part walking tour will highlight world-renowned mon ...
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Paris Inside Out Tours with the Dean- The History of the Louvre
none Spend an afternoon with the Dean of Student Development, Kevin, to explore Paris in a very unusual way. This excursion on foot will show you the highlights of the history of the Louvre and art in the center of Paris! Price: 15€ (includes the tou ...
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Paris Inside Out Tours with the Dean- Paris' Covered Passageways
none The passages of Paris (Passages couverts de Paris) are an early shopping area in Paris during the 19th century. Follow our Dean of Student Development, Kevin Fore, to discover the history of these amazing passageways in the city center. Price: ...
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Presentation: Daniel Statman (University of Haifa) at CCDS
none On Monday March 27, the Center for Critical Democracy Studies will host Professor Daniel Statman (University of Haifa) for a lecture titled "Does Anybody Know What Proportionality in Warfare Means in Practice? Reflections on a Disturbing Empiric ...
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Talk by Prof. Shmulik Nili (Northwestern University) on Philosophizing the Indefensible: Strategic Political Theory
none This book asks what distinctive contributions political philosophers might make when reflecting on obvious moral failures in public policy. I defend a particular kind of contribution: I argue that political philosophers can and should craft “strategi ...
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Tocqueville Colloque 2023: Autocratie vs. Democratie? A new geopolitical landscape in France, Europe, and the United States?
none In a recent book entitled The Age of the Strongman, the journalist Gideon Rachman described the inexorable rise of autocracies over the past twenty years, during which democracies once thought to be solid, such as India, Brazil, Hungary, and Turkey, ...
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Imaginaries of contemporary conflicts: engaging with the War in Ukraine on TikTok
none MCGC Working Paper Series presents research in progress by AUP scholars Noemie Oxley and Fatima Aziz, with an external discussant to be announced. 100 Fixed-50px space Featured Links MCGC at AUP ...
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Peacock Spring 2023 Magazine Launch Party
none The Peacock Student Media (including Magazine, Podcast, AUP Radio, and Video) will celebrate their end-of-semester productions with the Spring 2023 Magazine Publication edition. There will be drinks, live music, and an awards ceremony to celebrate th ...
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The Cultural-Developmental Approach & Applications to Emerging Adulthood
none This presentation will address how one-size-fits-all theories, which were highly popular in psychology in the 20th century, are often too rigid and too biased to adequately capture human development across diverse and changing cultures. An alternativ ...
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Presentation: "Carl Schmitt, Political Theology and the History of Political Thought" with Samuel Zeitlin (Cambridge)
none On Wednesday July 5, Dr. Samuel Garrett Zeitlin (University of Cambridge) will give a presentation at the CCDS titled "Carl Schmitt, Political Theology and the History of Political Thought." The talk will take place at 18h30, in-person in r ...