More upcoming events in the IR Department!
Dear all, This is a busy period for the IR Department, but for all the right reasons: we have a series of events coming up, to which you are of course all welcome! Tomorrow, Wednesday November 9, at...
View ArticleIR evening on Egypt right now!
Egypt and the Arab spring: Rebuilding a post-revolution state B204, Wednesday November 16, 18.40 pm In the nearly ten months since Egyptians took to the streets on January 25, Egypt has faced...
View ArticleOff to Brussels...and soon New York!
Hi all, Going on fieldtrips is a big part of the AUR experience. The IR Department runs a series of fieldtrips to hotspots of international conflict and to major world cities that house important...
View ArticleThe Touch of Life: Prof Crocchiolo presents his newest book Wednesday evening
Dear all, The IR Department continues its series of semester events, related to global politics, student learning and faculty research. This Wednesday evening it is Professor in Ethics and...
View ArticleTalk by Father Lapsley on Remembering Apartheid starts the IR semester....
Dear all, Welcome to the Spring 2012 semester, which is bound to be an exciting one for the IR Department. We have a still growing number of degree-seeking students, joining us from all corners of the...
View ArticleWHAT is going on in Egypt?
Read recent AUR graduate, Sallie Pisch’s latest reflection from Egypt, where the situation isbecoming increasingly dramatic. Sallie posted this blog Friday (read more on...
View ArticleUniting Global Communities through Aid - an IR graduate story
Hi all, A growing number of students are graduating from the IR department - and they keep reporting back to us with stories about their lives and careers, living and worning across cultures in a...
View ArticleProf Walston on Italian politics, economics and finance in the euro crisis.
Dear all, As you have noted, we are developing this blog with stories about what we do in our department, as teachers, scholars and students. The current crisis situation in Italy, Europe and beyond...
View ArticleAUR on its way to Model United Nations in New York!
AUR on its way to Model United Nations in New York By Marielle Lunde Berntsen, IR student On March 31st, the AUR Model United Nations (MUN) Delegation makes their way to the Big Apple...
View ArticleMali: political and military chaos
Il Mali nel caos politico e militareDear all, this time a blog in Italian - after all, this is where we live! Below you find a link to a Italian national radio program aired just 2 hours ago, where...
View ArticleWhen the grading is finished… or even before
The end of the semester is always a hectic period with assignments and finals to be graded with students’ procrastinations adding on to my own. Zoe de Smet, the registrar, despairs as she has to...
View ArticleCall to battle. Assist (or attack) prof. Salgó in the Battle of Ideas!
Prof. Salgó has been invited to a public debate organized by the Institute of Ideas which will take place in London on 20th-21st October. The Battle of Ideas http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/ is an...
View ArticleCall for Papers - Italian Elections Conference 8-9 March 2013
Call for Papers Italian Elections 2013 – Conference 8-9 March 2013 The American University of Rome’s Department of International Relations will be holding its usual Italian Elections Conference. This...
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Ghana 2013 - Blog 1
Ghana 2013 - Blog1 After a year’s respite, AUR’s Ghana program with the Kokrobitey Institute began its 2013 course on 4 January. The main group with Prof. James Walston left Rome for Accra via...
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Ghana 2013 Blog 2 - Midterm
Hard work in trying surroundings for the Ghana program doing their midterm exam. Noise of ocean breakers very distracting.
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Ghana 2013 Blog 3 - Wetlands
On our second day we took a trip to the nearby wetlands. After arriving at the port in the next village from Kokrobite, Bortianor, we took off in a canoe with our guide, Rasta, who took us through...
View ArticleJames Walston leads seminar on Italian Foreign Policy
Chair of the IR Department, James Walston has been invited to the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionali (ISPI), the prestigious Milan foreign affairs think tank. On Wednesday January 23 at...
View ArticleAUR to screen "Girlfriend in a Coma"
Friday 22 February at 3 pm, in the AUR Auriana Auditorium, Via Pietro Roselli 16, Bill Emmott and Annalisa Piras will present their controversial new documentary in its Italian version. The film is...
View ArticleConference - Understanding the Italian Elections
Now more than ever before, there is a need to analyze and understand the issues and results of the Italian elections. The Department of International Relations has organized conferences on the...
View ArticlePaolo Crocchiolo - Homo Sapiens: an updated report on our origins
AUR Auditorium, 18.40-20.00 17 April According to recent findings, the present worldwide distribution of Homo sapiens is the ultimate result of the third "out of Africa" migration wave of Hominidae,...
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