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Angela Tate on James Baldwin
none In the context of the First Year Success Common Read, we are delighted to be hosting a talk on James Baldwin by Angela Tate, writer, artist, scholar, and curator. Angela serves as the chief curator and director of collections at the Museum of Afric ...
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Care & Dem Seminar Series: Carol Gilligan, In a Human Voice
none Opening the second year of the Care & Democracy seminar series we will host Carol Gilligan (NYU) for a discussion of her book "In a Human Voice" (Polity, 2023). The Care & Democracy series explores how the relational dimensions of c ...
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Care & Dem Seminar Series: Patricia Paperman, Comment penser le care en temps de guerre?
none This session of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series will host Patricia Paperman (Université Paris VIII) for a talk on Comment penser le care en temps de guerre? The Care & Democracy Seminar Series explores how the relational dimensions of car ...
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Book Talk. Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire
none Join the Center for Critical Democracy Studies for a book talk with historian Alvita Akiboh on "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire" (University of Chicago Press, 2023). The book will be commented by Melanie Bavari ...
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Care & Dem Seminar Series: Judge Patricia Pérez Goldberg, The Right to Care
none The sixth session of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series will host Judge Patricia Pérez Golberg (Judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and Former Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Chile) for a talk on "The Right to Care&qu ...
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Palestine and Lebanon: A Discussion with Professor Ziad Majed
none "Students for Justice in Palestine" invites you to a discussion with AUP Professor Ziad Majed on the situation in Palestine and Lebanon today, after a year of war, destruction and what many legal experts, UN officials and international orga ...
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Critical Theory 101 Series: Rahel Jaeggi, Progress and Regression
none Prof. Rahel Jaeggi will present the central ideas of her latest book Progress and Regression (Harvard University Press, forthcoming), in which she claims that “societies don’t have a goal, they solve problems.” Her talk will focus on the book’s t ...
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THE CONVOY: A CONVERSATION WITH BEATA UMUBEYI MAIRESSE
none Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s memoir documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The Convoy reflects on the act of bearing witness and the ...
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Book Talk: Seeing Like a Firm
none Business corporations are political entities and need to be considered as such. Seeing Like a Firm invites readers to do just that by providing a political theory of the business firm and, in doing so, offering new perspectives on the recent histor ...
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Book Launch with Boris Adjemian
none The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention warmly welcomes Boris Adjemian to discuss his new book, The Library and the Survivor: An Armenian Intellectual in the Century of Genocides. The book ...