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 On September 29th, Larry Kilman hosted the first AGS Wine and Cheese Evening of the semester, on the theme of information, media, and democracy.
Larry Kilman is Associate Director for Communications at the Institute for Media Strategies and Assistant Professor of NGO Management at the American Graduate School in Paris. He is the former Secretary-General ...
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 This semester the NGO course started with an inspiring account by Ahmed Samy Lotf, who was invited by Professor Ruchi Anand to talk to his fellow students about his experience interning with a refugee relief NGO in Greece.
As part of his Master’s program at AGS, Ahmed devoted his summer to helping refugees from Syria and other ...
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 On July 15, Professor Ruchi Anand invited AGS alumna Laura-Lee Smith to give a guest lecture in the JSA summer course on International Relations that she teaches at Princeton University.
Ms. Smith gave an overview of NATO’s origins, its expansion over time, and its future, evaluating five different possible scenarios and discussing critical considerations regarding burden-sharing of ...
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 The American Graduate School in Paris graduation ceremony took place on June 4th in the French Senate in Paris. H.E. Lawrence Cannon, Canada’s Ambassador to France and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, was the commencement speaker. Graduates from the US, India, Egypt, Nigeria and Norway were awarded a Master’s degree in International Relations and ...
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 Robert Clarke, AGS Class of 2018, was invited to present a paper at the 18th International Conference on Education to be held in Athens, Greece on May 16-19, where he will represent the government of Liberia. Hosted by the Athens Institute for Education and Research, this annual conference brings together scholars and graduate students from all ...
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 On April 21-22 the American Graduate School in Paris is holding its 11th annual graduate student conference on the theme “The Complexity of Religion in International Politics: Theoretical, Legal, and Geopolitical Perspectives.” Taking place in Paris, the conference will gather academics, graduate students, and professionals from ten countries to discuss the growing importance of religion in ...
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 For its first meeting of the Spring semester on March 17th, The AGS Middle East Society was honored to welcome British-Iranian journalist Sanam Shantyaei to talk about the political situation of Iran in the international political landscape.
A specialist of Iran and the Middle East, Sanam Shantyaei has more than a decade of experience as a foreign ...
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 On Tuesday, March 1st Professor Yates organized his yearly thematic tour of "Legal London and the Magna Carta" with his students from the Law School of Cergy Pontoise, AGS's partner school offering the dual program "LL.M. in French and European Union Law and Business Ethics". The excursion consists of a one-day trip to London, with ...
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 By Dr. Manlio Graziano, Assistant Professor of Geopolitics and Geopolitics of Religion at AGS
Colin Gray, one of the most important strategic thinkers of the 19th century, wrote that geopolitics deals with “the important and enduring, as opposed to the trivial and the transient”. The ongoing crisis in the Middle East has shed a light on some ...
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 The AGS Middle East Society is resuming its activities for the Spring. The first meeting of the semester will be held on March 17th. The theme of the talk and discussion will be the situation of Iran in the Middle East and in the international political landscape, with a particular focus on the upcoming Iranian elections ...
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I aim to help my students prepare for life beyond "the groves of academe" - especially how to ask the right questions to work out what is really going on out there. Along the way, they practice writing lucidly and succinctly. It is stimulating teaching such a lively crew. I hope they also find it fun being challenged to analyse the facts without prejudice and to think originally