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This is an archive of past events at AUR - you can filter these by 'associated academic program' using the drop-down list above.

Rula Jebreal: Guardians of the Truth

Rula Jebreal is an award-winning journalist, author and foreign policy analyst who has received accolades for her groundbreaking work in Italy,

5 Feb 2019, 19:00
Via Michelangelo Caetani, 32
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China's Digital Dream: Developments in the age of Artificial Intelligence

China is developing at fast speed leapfrogging some of the traditional stages advanced countries went through. Investments in the digital sector are changing the nature of the country, its economic perspectives, and social features. Dr.

5 Feb 2019, 19:00
Via Pietro Roselli, 16
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Voices from the Casilina

You are invited to an exhibition curated by the graduate students of Sustainable Cultural Heritage at the Auriana Auditorium (via Pietro Roselli 16), The American University of Rome on 6th December, 6.30-8pm.

6 Dec 2018, 18:30
Via Pietro Roselli, 16
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Syria and Iraq: The (Post) Conflict Scene

Lorenzo Trombetta is a Beirut-based scholar and international journalist whose research focuses on Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.

26 Nov 2018, 19:00
Via Pietro Roselli, 16
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Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy, with Dr. Paolo Gerbaudo

From the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain, from the Five Star Movement in Italy to Jean-Luc Mélenchon's France Insoumise, and the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in UK, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political

21 Nov 2018, 19:00
Via Pietro Roselli, 16
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Social Change in the Data Society, with Dr. Doug Specht

This lecture explores the risks of uncritical approaches to data on issues of social change with a focus on how it is harnessed in images.

20 Nov 2018, 19:00
Via Pietro Roselli, 16
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Faith and Politics: Russia - Georgia - Ukraine

Grdzelidze is a graduate of Tbilisi University in Georgia, St Vladimir’s Theological Seminary in the United States, and Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

12 Nov 2018, 19:00
Via Pietro Roselli, 16
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A Chronicle of Food and Hunger. Guest presentation by Mario Arvelo

An audio-visual review of the daily search for sustenance from the perspective of social anthropology and the history of human cultures, including present-day challenges to food security and adequate nutrition.

6 Nov 2018, 19:00
Via Pietro Roselli, 16
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Movements of the squares in the Mediterranean: from Facebook to Telegram, with Dr. Anastasia Kavada

We're very pleased to invite all of you to join the 2nd event of our lecture series "The Internet and Social Change". Our guest speaker, Dr. Anastasia Kavada, is senior lecturer at the University of Westminster, London.

6 Nov 2018, 12:30
Via Pietro Roselli, 16
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Lecture by Professor Lorenzo Nigro: Excavations at Mozia, Sicily

Mozia is a very small island close to Marsala at the Western cape of Sicily. A Phoenician trade port since the 8th century BCE, Mozia was connected to the Elymi and the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia. From the 6th to the 4th century BCE, Carthage took advantage of Mozia’s strategic position; thereafter Sicily became totally Roman after the Punic Wars. Professor Nigro’s excavations have brought to light the city walls, a Tofet burial site, and recently the sacred area of Kothon.

24 Oct 2018, 19:00
Via Pietro Roselli, 16
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