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Nicole Hassoun on Global Health Justice
We live in tragic times. Millions are sheltering in place to avoid exacerbating the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. How should we respond to such tragedies? This presentation argues that the human right to health can help us do so because it inspires hum ...
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Through the Clouds– The Art of Amy West
Please join us for the opening of the latest exhibit in the Combes Fine Art Gallery. Through the Clouds is a glass and silk installation from artist Amy West. ...
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Educide in Gaza
What are the definitions of Ecocide, Urbicide, Domicide, Culturicide and Educide? Why do these definitions apply to the Gaza war? Why do many international humanitarian and human rights organizations, UN officials, and thousands of scholars consider this ...
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Book Presentation of Darrel Moellendorf's Mobilizing Hope – Climate Change and Global Poverty (OUP)
A climate crisis and other pressures on planetary ecology are cause for profound anxiety. Climate change threatens to trap hundreds of millions of people in poverty and to separate further an already deeply divided world. However, a new generation of acti ...
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Anti-Social Capital: Community Cohesion and Tax Avoidance among American Elites
On April 15th, 2024 the Center for Critical Democracy Studies will host: Anti Social Capital: Community Cohesion and Tax Avoidance among American Elite by Professor Yossi Harpa (Sociology, Tel Aviv Univeristy) Professor Harpaz is a tenured Senior Lecturer ...
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Les Conférences francophones: « Le jury terroir et la roue des arômes du Comté: goûter la diversité »
S’il vous plaît, étant donné qu'une dégustation est impliquée, il est important de s'inscrire à la conférence ci-dessous. (Sinon, nous ne pourrons pas garantir qu'il y aura suffisamment de fromage pour tout le monde... et ce serait dommage. ...
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Perspectives on Academic Freedom: USA & Europe
Join the AUP Center for Critical Democracy Studies for a symposium on the contemporary challenges and threats to academic freedom in the United States and Europe. Keynote address: Robert C. Post | Professor of Law, Yale Law School Participants Olivier ...
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Vernissage: "Drawings, Something Old, Something New" by Joe Neill
REGISTRATION REQUIRED The AUP community is warmly invited to the vernissage for "Drawings, Something Old, Something New" by Joe Neill in the Combes Fine Arts Gallery. Please fill out the form below to register. The exhibition runs from May 22- ...
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Increasing Accountability and Reducing Polarization through Evaluative Voting with Dr. Pierre Etienne Vandamme
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies presents: Increasing Accountability and Reducing Polarization through Evaluative Voting with Dr. Pierre-Etienne Vandamme (UC Louvain). Abstract: Outside of social choice theory, philosophical reflection on voting ...
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Public Memory and the Shoah
‘ The efficacy of memory practices for social betterment is most often taken axiomatically and uncritically as an established fact. This interdisciplinary workshop launched a discussion with scholars and practitioners from multiple disciplines and perspec ...