Dror Ladin, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union and one of the leading civil liberties lawyers in the United States, will give a talk and lead a discussion at AUP. Most recently, Dror's work was instrumental to the release of Mohamedou Slahi, who was held without charge or trial at Guantanamo Bay for 13 years and endured psychological and physical torture.Â
Currently, Dror is suing two psychologists contracted by the CIA, and paid 81 million dollars, to design, implement,...
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies is pleased to announce that Justice Stephen Breyer will be returning to AUP on May 3 to speak about his new book on international law, The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities.
The timing of his visit could not be more opportune. The recent death of Justice Scalia and the current battle between the US Senate and the President over the...
For many admirers Foucault's thought provides recourses for resisting neoliberalism incursions that have dismantled or attacked the welfare state since the 1980s. Some of Foucault's critics, however, suggest just this opposite: Foucault's thinking on governmentality and anti-humanism led him by the late 1970s to political views eerily similar to those held by neoliberals. This conference brings together a number of leading Foucault scholars to discuss the debate over Foucault's relationship...
Professor Jeannie Whayne of the University of Arkansas will give a talk entitled, "Forging a New South Empire: The Consequences of the Plantation Model of Development."
This lecture will examine the implications of the plantation model of development by focusing on one planter in the environmentally challenging Lower Mississippi River Valley in the post-Civil War era. Wilson’s plantation empire began under the auspices of his father in 1848 and remained in the hands of the Wilson...
This February AUP is celebrating Black History Month with an excellent line-up of guest speakers and events! Join us for the fifth event of this incredible program for "An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates," author of Between the World and Me, a #1 New York Times Bestseller & Winner of the National Book Award. This event is sponsored by AUP's Centre For Critical Democracy Studies and professors Stephen Sawyer and Michelle Kuo will be conducting the Q & A session.
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This February AUP is celebrating Black History Month with an excellent line-up of guest speakers and events! Join us for the fourth event of this incredible program for "An Evening with Thomas Chatterton Williams." This event is sponsored by AUP's Centre For Critical Democracy Studies and professors Stephen Sawyer and Michelle Kuo will be conducting the Q & A session.
Biography:
Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool: Love, Literature and a...
This February AUP is celebrating Black History Month with an excellent line-up of guest speakers and events! Join us for the third event of this incredible program for "A Book Forum on Gary Wilder's "Freedom Time: A Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke, 2015) at Reid Hall. This event is sponsored by the AUP Center for Critical Democracy Studies and Columbia’s Global Center in Paris.
Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire...
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies invites you to a conference with Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer.
Thomas Piketty—whose  pushed inequality to the forefront of public debate—wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic inequality over time. This concise text has...
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies presents "Decoding the COP21" with expert speakers from UNEP, the French Senate and the Fondation Nicolas Hulot.
A bilingual discussion about what the COP 21 accomplished, or didn't, from a french perspective. ALL ATTENDEES must RSVP through our webform below or write to criticaldemocracy...
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies presents :
What is Critical Democracy? And why is it so important?
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Professors Cynthia Fleury and Stephen Sawyer will discuss Critical Democracy and answer students’ questions.
Submit your questions before the event! Email them to: a92292
aup.edu...