@ccds-aup.bsky.social
The Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris fosters an interdisciplinary approach to questions of democracy. Website: aup.edu/critical-democracy Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hufc6n
Dec 11β12: The CCDS & Center for Transcultural Studies host the inaugural βLaw, State, and Democracyβ Symposium: the inaugural event of a new initiative exploring the relationship between law, democracy, and the administrative state.
aup.edu/ccds/lsd
What are the challenges and opportunities of cross-border citizen participation?
This is one of the questions being studied by Anja RΓΆcke at the Franco-German border.
She is a 2025-2026 Alfred Grosser Chair Professor at the CEE, visiting from @uni-saarland.de.
Read her interview ‡
Join our seminar on "Care and the Social Contract: Toward a Reconstructive Critique of the Modern", w/Stephen Sawyer.
This lecture is part of the Care & Democracy Seminar Series.
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November 20, 18:15
π’ Room Q-609
β Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSSawyer
Reposting this new post from last night.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/10/the-...
Join the CCDS Seminar on "Thinking Democracy after Marx and Empire" with Iain Stewart (@ucl.ac.uk).
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β²οΈ : Tuesday, November 3, 18:30
π’ : Room Q-609, 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007, Paris
β : tinyurl.com/CCDSStewart
βΉοΈ : www.aup.edu/news-events/...
This is exactly right from @joshtpm.bsky.social
There Is No Democratic Future Without Supreme Court Reform talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/there...
Charles Waltonβs (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social)
lecture on the history of social rights and capacity to diffuse future wealth to be generated by AI, provided much food for thought on the tensions between theories of abundance and redistribution.
More on his views: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Join the CCDS Seminar on "Social Rights in the Longue DurΓ©e: Between Redistribution and Theories of Abundance" with
Charles Walton (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social).
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Oct. 7, 17:00
π« Room Q-609
βοΈ tinyurl.com/CCDSWalton (in person or via Zoom)
π° aup.edu/news-events/...
Join us for a seminar on "Constitutional Right to Truth?
How to Protect the Right to Information and the Right to Privacy Today" w/Marcin Kilanowski (Nicolaus Copernicus U).
ποΈ Sep 22, 12:10
π’ Room C103, 6 Rue de Colonel Combes
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSKilanowski
More info: tinyurl.com/KilanInfo
Join us for the Care & Democracy Seminar Series: "The Crisis of What Binds Us" with Sandra Laugier (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) and Zona ZariΔ (AUP)
ποΈ: Sep 18, 18:15
π : 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, Paris
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSLaugierZ...
π’ We're hiring a Post-Doc in Critical Democracy at AUP for the 2025-2026 academic year! Join our Horizon-Europe project on resilient social contracts (www.co3socialcontract.eu) + help launch a βLaw, State & Democracyβ initiative. π Apply by Sept 1, 2025 π CCDS@aup.edu
#Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Law
Join Stephen W. Sawyer for a lecture on "Demos Unbound: The French Revolution, 1770-1830" in Seoul, South Korea.
Time: 16:00-18:00 (KST), 20 July 2025
Place: 32416, Sungkyunkwan University
Organized by Minchul KIM, Global Intellectual History Unit
gihu.page/2025/07/16/1...
The CCDS goes to Korea!
Join Stephen Sawyer and @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social at the @ipsa.org World Congress on July 12-16 presenting their work on the #CO3 project.
www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
Congratulations, @Jaeger-bombe and @espol-lab.bsky.social! We are absolutely delighted to celebrate this richly deserved milestone of our brilliant postdoc Research Fellow!
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[Workshop on Cities]. If you are in Paris, or interested by the topic and want to join us via zoom, we are organizing a two-day international workshop in @ccds-aup.bsky.social on the 12-13 of June, on the Autonomy of Cities: sites.google.com/view/worksho....
16.05.2025 16:51 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Are racist jokes funny or dangerous? Can they be both? My new blog on ECtHR's inadequate analysis of satirical hate speech: satire is a vital political instrument, but courts must be mindful of humor's ability to propagate and legitimize prejudice and bigotry. Based on my article: tinyurl.com/humrz
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Yesterday at @ccds-aup.bsky.social, the workshop on "Autonomy and the Law", was a very insightful and stimulating event, with great colleagues.
@rzinigrad.bsky.social
Do not hesitate to join the next one in June on Cities' Autonomy (sites.google.com/view/worksho...)
We thank all participants & guests of the "Autonomy and the Law" workshop featuring extraordinary works on CLTs, moral autonomy of the person, typology of the right to housing, meaning of home, condition of the interpreter, child's autonomy in education, and consumer protection.
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Attend our interdisciplinary workshop on βAutonomy and the Lawβ on May 13, with a focus on the right to housing, the concept of autonomy in law, child autonomy, and digital markets.
Program and registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSAutLaw
Organized by Marc Goetzmann & @jaeger-bombe.bsky.social
Une première, je viens d'enregistrer un podcast d'une heure et demie sur le thème de la vulnérabilité en philosophie politique (avec l'aide de collègues à AUP pour la technique). J'espère que ce sera disponible dans les prochaines semaines. Quels autres thèmes vous intéresserait?
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A fantastic, eye-opening lecture by @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) on the role of mainstream media, security crises, and public opinion in the normalization of far-right politics in Germany.
(Followed by commentary by Friederike Windel (AUP) and moderated by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social)
How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates? @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) will discuss βMainstreaming the Far Rightβ on Friday, April 18. Discussant: Friederike Windel (AUP).
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSVolker
Stephen Sawyer, the CCDS Director, will deliver the 2025 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture at @Stanfordβs Dept. of French & Italian.
π April 10, 2025
π 5:15 PM
π Title: Toward a Genealogy of the Modern Demos: Democratic Society and the Problem of Public Authority in the 19th Century
Starting Deleuze in Philosophy of Film today.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/04/beco...
A fantastic presentation by Claudia Wiesner on her latest book analyzing the French & German national discourses that shape or undermine the formation of EU identity(ies). With incisive commentary by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social & Johannes Karremans @espol-lab.bsky.social on the looming EU crisis.
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Claudia Wiesner (Fulda U) will present her recent book on "Politicisation, Democratisation and EU Identity" (Routledge, 2024), followed by commentary by Johannes Karremans (@espol-lab.bsky.social) and @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social (AUP). Join us on April 3!
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSWiesner
The anti-fascist novel, βThe Aesthetics of Resistance,β by Peter Weiss, is now out in English in its entirety. Join us on April 4 to celebrate the publication of volume III in English. With the translator, Joel Scott & commentary by Charlotte Thiessen.
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSResistance
