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Peace Studies program hosts screening of 'Mother Fortress'

On the evening of February 6th, 2020, the American University of Rome and its Peace Studies graduate program hosted a screening of the celebrated documentary, Mother Fortress.

AUR's Rula Jebreal at Sanremo 2020

Rula’s monologue

-Were you wearing underwear that night? 
   
-Do you remember searching the internet for the name of a birth control that morning?
 
-Do you find men in jeans sexy?
   

AUR Alum Fighting Art Crime

The unit, set up by DA Cyrus Vance in 2017, is the first of its type and was created to deal with the increase in looted antiquities that are flooding the art market in New York, mostly as a result of conflicts in the Middle East.
 

Gabriel Battista, 1944-2020

Gabriel Battista, 1944-2020Just to say the name, Gabe, conjured up an image in our community. He was our leader and our friend, but far more.

Graduate School to offer part-time Master's programs starting Fall 2020

The Graduate School of The American University of Rome is pleased to announce that from Fall 2020 its three Master's degree programs - Food Studies, Peace Studies, and Sustainable Cultural Heritage - will be offered on a part-time basis in addition to the current full-time programs.

The Climate Crisis and AUR. A letter to the President.

In mid-2019, the AUR community formed a committee of volunteers (The AUR Environmental Action Group) to address how the university as an institution and the AUR community (both en masse and individually) could play its part in addressing the urgent issues around climate and sustainability that cu

Launching 'Food for the Future' at AUR

Graduate students of the Food Studies Master’s Program recently struck up a topical and tantalizing new initiative, ‘Food for the Future’, which will establish weekly meetings centered around the dilemma we are all faced with: how to live more sustainably.

The Anthropocene Scholarship

Anthropocene Scholarship

Guest lecture on Peace and Food Security by Marcela Villarreal

Since 2015, the number of food-insecure people has increased due to conflict, climate change, and downward trends in economic growth. To add perspective, Dr.

George Soros and the inauguration of CEU’s Vienna campus

I first met George Soros in Tirana 20 years ago. His Open Society Foundations had little short of a holy status among young Albanians. The OSF had supported capacity building, and young Albanian professionals grasped the opportunity and started careers that were taken for granted in the West.