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Environmental Justice and the EPA: A Panel Conversation with members of the Environmental Protection Agency
none In honor of Black History Month, join the Advisory Board on Environmental Sustainability and Black & Abroad this evening for a conversation with members of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the topic of environmental justice. They will ...
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Fashion Talks at AUP 2000/21: Between Despair & Hope
none Caroline Evans will talk about her most recent anthology, Time in Fashion (2020), co-edited with Alessandra Vaccari, focusing on the three concepts that structure the book: industrial time, antilinear time and uchronic time. Her lecture is part of ...
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Virtual Cooking Class with La Cuisine Paris
none AUP parents and alumni are invited to join us for another virtual cooking class, led in English by French cooking school La Cuisine Paris. This time, attendees will learn how to prepare two French classics, the croque monsieur/madame, a bistro staple ...
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Fashion Talks at AUP 2000/21: Between Despair & Hope with Orsola de Castro
none Author Orsola de Castro's lecture is part of this year's Fashion Talks at AUP entitled: Between Despair and Hope, organized by Professor Renate Stauss and Professor Sophie Kurkdjian, where she will discuss her book Loved Clothes Last: H ...
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A Sparkling Conversation with Beatrice Cointreau
none AUP alumni and families are invited to join "A Sparkling Conversation with Beatrice Cointreau." An AUP trustee and certified expert, Beatrice Cointreau is the owner of Admirable Family Vineyards in Malibu, has been in the industry for more ...
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African Philosophy and Global Justice
none Professor Okeja is an Associate Professor in the department of philosophy at Rhodes University and Director of the Emengini Institute for Comparative Global Studies. He is editor of The Routledge Handbook of African Political Philosophy (forthcoming) ...
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Demos21 Talk by Carlo Burelli (University of Genova): No Virtue like Resilience – A new Machiavellian justification of democracy
none Political realism claims that normative evaluations of politics should be grounded on political rather than moral values (Rossi and Sleat 2014). This paper revives Machiavelli’s justification of republican government (Machiavelli 2003), and seeks to ...
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New technologies of warfare – the challenges raised by Autonomous Weapons Systems and Cyberwarfare
none Of the main challenges with autonomous weapon systems lies in the difficulty of anticipating their effects. From a humanitarian perspective, they risk harming civilians, and they increase the risk of conflict escalation. From a legal perspective, the ...
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Prof. Annabelle Lever (Sciences Po Paris): Democracy in Selection
none Should we replace elections with lotteries? Bernard Manin’s famous book on representative government first taught many of us that the Greeks thought of elections as an aristocratic, not a democratic, way to select people for political power and auth ...
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Why Open Democracy?
none This paper examines open democracy, the conception of democracy introduced by Hélène Landemore in her recent book of the same name. Open democracy offers both an institutional paradigm and a specification of democratic values underlying it. It differ ...