The events consist of a series of group discussions, round-tables, teach-ins, interviews and screenings. These events offer foremost a platform for students to talk about their experiences, ask questions or share their readings. All of the activities are aimed to understanding the current world a bit better.

AUC core faculty members and external experts with expertise in specific political domains will lead and/or support the diverse activities, which all seek to be analytical, respectful and to address multiple perspectives.

In addition, a special Who’s in Town lecture series labeled “What in the World” has been set-up. On Monday 31 March, Dr. Peter van Krieken will lead the kick-off discussion “From Kosovo to Crimea and beyond: The fate of the right to self-determination”.

Dr. Peter van Krieken teaches international law, human rights as well as refugee law and migration issues, formerly at Webster, now at HHS/Hague University and AUC. He is the holder of the prestigious (Webster-) Kemper award for excellence in teaching.  Dr. Krieken has a long list of publications (150+) to his credit on subjects such as asylum, migration, torture, hijacking, statelessness, family reunification, migration, health, terrorism and repatriation. In particular his books Terrorism and the International Legal Order (2002) and The Hague, Legal Capital of the World (2005) have been widely acclaimed. 

On 1 April, only one day after the above-mentioned Who's in Town seminar, AUC lecturer Dr. Maxim Kupovych will hold 'Nationalism Movie Night'. The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film based on occurrences during the national liberation war (1954–62) against the French government in North Africa, will be screened during the event. Directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and shot in a newsreel style- in black and white with documentary-type editing- this movie has been widely acclaimed as a masterpiece of cinematic art. It was also used during the war in Iraq by the Pentagon in training American military personnel. Indispensable for anyone interested in the issues of nationalism, colonialism, and terrorism.

Dr. Maxim Kupovych teaches Classical and Modern Sociological Theory and Comparative Modern Societies at AUC. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. Before joining AUC, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Leiden, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. His teaching and research interests include classical and contemporary sociological theory; science studies; sociology of media, art and cinema; history and theory of nationalism and empire; and the social and political history of Russian/Soviet human sciences and intellectuals.