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Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS)
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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
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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.

📅 November 20, 18:15
🏢 Room Q-609
✍ Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSSawyer
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Join the CCDS Seminar on "Thinking Democracy after Marx and Empire" with Iain Stewart (@ucl.ac.uk).

📅 ⏲️ : Tuesday, November 3, 18:30
🏢 : Room Q-609, 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, 75007, Paris
✍ : tinyurl.com/CCDSStewart
ℹ️ : www.aup.edu/news-events/...
October 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Charles Walton’s (@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...
October 8, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Join the CCDS Seminar on "Social Rights in the Longue Durée: Between Redistribution and Theories of Abundance" with
Charles Walton (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social).
📅 Oct. 7, 17:00
🏫 Room Q-609
✏️ tinyurl.com/CCDSWalton (in person or via Zoom)
📰 aup.edu/news-events/...
September 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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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).
🗓️ Sep 22, 12:10
🏢 Room C103, 6 Rue de Colonel Combes
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSKilanowski
More info: tinyurl.com/KilanInfo
September 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Join us for the Care & Democracy Seminar Series: "The Crisis of What Binds Us" with Sandra Laugier (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) and Zona Zarić (AUP)
🗓️: Sep 18, 18:15
🏠: 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, Paris
Registration: tinyurl.com/CCDSLaugierZ...
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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📢 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 “Law, State & Democracy” initiative. 🗓 Apply by Sept 1, 2025 👉 CCDS@aup.edu
#Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Law
July 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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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...
July 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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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.
May 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Attend our interdisciplinary workshop on “Autonomy and the Law” 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
May 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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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)
April 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates? @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) will discuss “Mainstreaming the Far Right” on Friday, April 18. Discussant: Friederike Windel (AUP).
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSVolker
April 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Stephen Sawyer, the CCDS Director, will deliver the 2025 Michel Serres Distinguished Lecture at @Stanford’s Dept. of French & Italian.
🗓 April 10, 2025
🕔 5:15 PM
🎙 Title: Toward a Genealogy of the Modern Demos: Democratic Society and the Problem of Public Authority in the 19th Century
April 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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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.
April 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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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
March 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The anti-fascist novel, “The Aesthetics of Resistance,” 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
March 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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For those interested in the intersection of Admin Law and Democracy, and are at the Yale Law School on March 28: Stephen Sawyer (AUP, @europeatharvard.bsky.social) will be launching his new book, “Demos Rising” (UCP, 2025) at the Yale European Law Association. Commentary by Susan Rose-Ackerman.
March 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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We are excited to welcome Stina Bergman Blix (@uu.se), who will speak on March 31 about "Feelings in Law: An International Comparison of Legal Decision-making."
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSBlix

For more details: www.aup.edu/news-events/...
March 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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“Explaining Gender Gap Variation in Political Science Knowledge Production”, a new article by Daniel Stockemer (U Ottawa) & Stephen Sawyer (AUP) in Political Science & Politics.
Read it in open access here: doi.org/10.1017/S10490…
March 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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"Whose Problem was Small Change?" Join our seminar with @rlspang.bsky.social (Indiana U) for a comparative analysis of 18th-century Britain & the Qing Empire in the production of small-denomination coin.
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSSpang
March 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Excellent presentation and Q&A on @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social’s new research project on the meaning and impact of European “human values”, based on the @evs-values.bsky.social platform.
February 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Join us on March 18, at 17:00, for a seminar on "Parallel Lines: Marx, Spinoza, Deleuze" by Jason Read @usouthernmaine.bsky.social & commentary by Étienne Balibar @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social .
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSRead
(Co-organized with Sive Natura)
February 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Join us on February 19, for a lecture by @mirjamdageforde.bsky.social, on "The Conflict of Human Values in Europe", examining the alarming developments and normative foundations of Western democracies.
Registration: jculp@aup.edu
February 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The paperback ed of "Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History" (@cambridgeup.bsky.social) is now available for purchase. See esp. ch. 6: "Of Rights and Regulation: Technologies of Socioeconomic Governance in a Revolutionary Age" by Stephen Sawyer (AUP) & William J. Novak (UMich).
February 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Join our webinar to discuss the #AbidjanPrinciples on the regulation of private education in international law, with @rzinigrad.bsky.social and other experts on the right to education.
Feb. 20, 10:00 (Paris time).
Register here: bit.ly/4jMRhhS.
February 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM