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    From Cultural Heritage to Global Access: AAU Alumnus Maximilian Colloredo-Mansfeld on Building Kollektor

    AAU alumnus Maximilian Colloredo-Mansfeld was recently featured in an interview with Hospodářské noviny, where he discussed entrepreneurship, cultural heritage, and his efforts to make private collections more accessible through his startup Kollektor. Colloredo-Mansfeld, CEO and co-founder of Kollektor and a graduate of AAU’s Visual Arts Studies program, moved to Prague to pursue his interest in […]

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  • Meet AAU’s New Student Literary and Art Magazine: Margins

    This semester marked the launch of a new club at AAU, Margins Magazine, dedicated to showcasing AAU’s creativity, from sketches, to poetry, to ceramics, to short stories, and beyond, and publishing each semester. The executive team—Genevieve, Ander, Hadley, Herta and Laura—saw an outlet for artists missing and decided to forge one themselves.  “So many people […]

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    AAU Visual Art Studies Students Present Interactive Final Exhibition

    Students from AAU’s Visual Art Studies (VAS) program transformed the Art Studio into an interactive exhibition space, inviting visitors not only to observe artwork, but actively participate in it. The Final Interactive Art Show, organized by the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (SAHSS), showcased student projects exploring themes of nostalgia, healing, identity, and […]

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    New SAHSS Dean and Author Zuzana Říhová Reads from her Book Playing Wolf

    Zuzana Říhová—AAU’s new Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Dean and Associate Professor of Czech and Comparative Literature—read from her novel Playing Wolf (Catapult) as part of many literary nights held at AAU’s library to highlight special guests and AAU faculty, moderated by Seth Rogoff. This horror fiction centers around a couple in a failing marriage […]

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