01 FEB 2016 16:00 Presentation
“Green Spaces in Beirut: Public Gardens and Parks”
Maha Melki Wehbi (Agricultural Engineer, Head of Public relations Department Municipality of Beirut)
West Hall, AUB
Women’s League
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01 FEB 2016 17:00 Book Launch and Seminar
“Knowledge Production in the Arab World: The Impossible Promise”
Authors:
Sari Hanafi (Professor of Sociology, American University of Beirut)
Rigas Arvanitis (Senior Researcher at the Centre Population et Développement-IRD and Director, Institut Francilien Recherche Innovation Société )
IFI Auditorium, AUB
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
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02 FEB 2016 15:00 Conférence
“Les romans du «séisme syrien» : 2012-2015″
Nabil Suleiman (romancier et critique littéraire syrien)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut Français du Liban
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02 FEB 2016 17:30 Lecture
“Trajectories of Fear in Syria”
Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
West Hall, AUB
Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
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02 FEB 2016 18:00 Conférence
“Les abords maritimes de Byblos antique”
Nicolas Grimal (Orientaliste/égyptologue, membre de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres et Professeur au Collège de France)
Martine Francis-Allouche (Archéologue terrestre et sous-marin, chercheur associé au Collège de France)
A l’Ecole Supérieure des Affaires
Les « Rendez-vous » de l’Ifpo
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02 FEB 2016 19:30 Conférence
“الموهبة النبويّة في الكتاب المقدّس وأثرها في حياة المؤمنين”
الأب جوزف نفّاع
Campus des sciences humaines, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Faculté des sciences religieuses
محاضرة في إطار سلسلة محاضرات «ثلاثاء الكليّة» في كليّة العلوم الدينيّة
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03 FEB 2016 12:00 Lecture
“The Old Architecture in Lebanon and its Contemporary Revival”
Bassam Lahoud (Photography Instructor)
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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03 FEB 2016 17:00 Lecture
“Nothing is More Utopian than Reality”
Antonello Ghezzi (art collective)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Fine Arts and Foundations Studies
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03 FEB 2016 18:00 Lecture
“Issam Mahfouz Between Poetry and Theater”
أَيَّ “غودو” كان ينتظر؟ – هنري زغيب
مسيرتُهُ في مجلة “شِعر” – عبده وازن
لا… لم يكُن عبثياً – عبيدو باشا
قراءات من قصائده – جهاد الأَطرش
سكتش “أُمّ عبدالله” – نضال الأَشقر و رفيق علي أَحمد
عصام محفوظ كما أتذكّره – نضال الأَشقر
West Hall, AUB
برنامج أَنيس المَقدسي للآداب – الجامعة الأَميركية في بيروت
مركز التراث اللبناني – الجامعة اللبنانية الأَميركية
مسرح المدينة – بيروت
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04-06 FEB 2016 Workshop
“The Oracle of Beirut”
Antonello Ghezzi (art collective)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Fine Arts and Foundations Studies
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07-17 FEB 2016 Projection d’un film
“Bonjour Beyrouth”
Documentary film by Georges Salibi
Empire Metropolis, Sofil
Un événement présenté par : Service de la vie étudiante et de l’insertion professionnelle
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08 FEB 2016 17:00 Talk
“Sustainable Public Intellectualism: Engagement and Student Scientist-Activists”
Jesse Priest (PhD ABD, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
West Hall, AUB
Department of English
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08 FEB 2016 17:30 Lecture
“Frontiers of Modernity: American Representations of Zionist Modernization after WWII”
Asma Al-Naser (Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University)
Building 37, AUB
CASAR
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10 FEB 2016 12:00 Lecture
“The New Arab Wars and the Future of US Policy”
Marc Lynch (George Washington University)
IFI Auditorium, AUB
Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
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10 FEB 2016 17:30 Discussion
“Citizenship and civil society in Syria today and tomorrow”
Part 1: Syrian Civil Society Today
Discussion facilitator: Fateh Azzam (Director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University in Beirut)
Discussant:
Dr. Hassan Abbas (Director of the Syrian League for Citizenship)
Ms. Majdoulin Hassan (Associate General Coordinator of the Syrian Women’s Initiative for Peace and Democracy)
Dr. Miya El Rahbi (researcher in women’s issues, Director of Mousawat (Equality) Center for Women Studies)
IFI Auditorium, AUB
Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship
The Syrian League for Citizenship
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11 FEB 2016 Discussion
“Yemen: Five Years of Revolution, One Year of War”
April Longley Alley (senior Arabian peninsula analyst for the International Crisis Group)
Farea Al-Muslimi (visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center)
Mustapha Noman (former deputy foreign minister of Yemen)
Moderator: Maha Yahya (senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut)
Carnegie Middle East Center
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11 FEB 2016 12:00 Seminar
“Confronting Fragmentation! Impact of the Syrian Crisis: Launching the SCPR’s Report”
Opening Notes: Nasser Yassin (Director of Research, AUB Policy Institute)
Speakers:
Authors:
Rabie Nasr (Researcher at the Syrian Centre for Policy Research)
Zaki Mehchy (Researcher at the Syrian Centre for Policy Research)
Discussants:
Jad Chaaban (Associate Professor of Economics, American University of Beirut)
Samir Aita (President of the Forum of Arab Economists)
IFI Auditorium, AUB
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI)
Syrian Centre for Policy Research (SCPR)
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11 FEB 2016 16:00 Concert
“Mawlid concert”
by the Lebanese Heritage Band
Assembly Hall, AUB
Lebanese Heritage Club
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11 FEB 2016 17:00 Talk
“Cartographies of Translation: Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love Between English and Arabic”
Dr. Dima Ayoub (Georgetown University)
West Hall, AUB
Department of English
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12 FEB 2016 12:00 Presentation and discussion
“The Never-Ending American Presidential Election: How it works, what is at stake and what do Americans think about it all?”
Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss (Assistant Professor of Political Science & International Affairs)
Beirut / Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Social Sciences
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12 FEB 2016 18:00 Talk
“Moral and Cognitive Failures”
Bana Bashour (AUB Professor)
West Hall, AUB
Philosophy Department
Philosophy Student Society
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15-26 FEB 2016 Exhibition
“The war as I see it”
Jafet Library, AUB
International Center for Transitional Justice, Lebanon
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Communications
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15 FEB 2016 17:30 Lecture
“The Future Nature of Conflict: How War Will Evolve”
Major General A.D. Gawn, MBE (Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO))
IFI Auditorium, AUB
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI)
Program in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) – PSPA Department
Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES)
Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR)
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15 FEB 2016 17:30 Lecture
“Negritude or Arabism? Egypt at the Crossroads of Blackness”
Sophia Azeb (PhD candidate in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California)
Building 37, AUB
Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR)
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16 FEB 2016 12:00 Lecutre
“Ceramics”
Samar Mogharbel (ceramics artist)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Fine Arts and Foundation Studies
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16 FEB 2016 18:00 Public book presentation
“On priests and modes. Or how the author finally got to understand Byzantine chant theory and praxis”
Amine Beyhom (musician and a composer)
OIB
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16 FEB 2016 17:00 Talk
“Translation as a Tool for Synchronization Since the Age of Globalization: The Case of the Arab Nahda”
Dr. Rana Issa (University of Oslo)
West Hall, AUB
Department of English
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16 FEB 2016 18:00 Conférence
“Histoire et génocide”
Monsieur Henry Laurens (Professeur au Collège de France)
Campus des sciences humaines, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
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16 FEB 2016 18:30 Discussion
“The Government and Politics of Turkey”
with Jana Jabbour (lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and a research associate at Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI) and Institut de Recherches sur le Moyen-Orient (IREMMO))
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer:
Department of Social Sciences
Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution
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17 FEB 2016 12:00 Lecture
“Democracy, Human Rights and Justice: Development and Maldevelopment in our Globalized World”
Haider A. Khan (John Evans Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver)
IFI, AUB
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
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17 FEB 2016 14:00 Lecture
“The Actor Beyond Words: Developing Intercultural Performance”
Michael Devine (Actor, director, playwright, and essayist)
West Hall, AUB
Theater Initiative at AUB
Department of Fine Arts and Art History
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17 FEB 2016 16:00 Workshop
“Middle Eastern Music”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Communication Arts at the School of Arts and Sciences
Followed by the concert “Musical Confluence of East and West”
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17 FEB 2016 17:30 Discussion
“Citizenship and civil society in Syria today and tomorrow”
Part 2
المواطنة في سوريا اليوم وغداً
Discussion facilitator: Dr. Hassan Abbas (Director of the Syrian League for Citizenship)
Discussant:
Fateh Azzam (Director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University in Beirut)
Ms. Sabah al-Hallaq (Syrian Women’s League, the Syrian League for Citizenship)
West Hall, AUB
Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship
The Syrian League for Citizenship
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17 FEB 2016 20:00 Concert
“AUB Zaki Nassif Ensemble for Arabic Music”
Conductor and Orchestration: R. General Georges Herro
Choir Direction: Manal Bou Malhab
Assembly Hall, AUB
Zaki Nassif Program for Music Festival
Celebrating AUB’s 150th and Zaki Nassif’s Centennial
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18 FEB 2016 12:00 Lecture
“Palestinian Refugees and the International Community: Future Challenges in Light of Regional Developments”
Prof. Mick Dumper (University of Exeter)
IFI, AUB
Program in Public Policy and International Affairs – PSPA Department
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
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18 FEB 2016 12:30 Lecture
“The Old Architecture in Lebanon & Its Contemporary Revival”
Bassam Lahoud (Photography Instructor)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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18 FEB 2016 18:00 Presentation
“Fashioning a New Aesthetic”
Simeon Morris (pattern cutting expert)
Beirut campus, LAU
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18 FEB 2016 18:30 Table ronde
“L’art, l’histoire, la mémoire”
avec
Nayla Tamraz (Chef du département de lettres françaises; USJ)
Ghassan Salhab (Cinéaste)
Sandra Iché (Artiste)
Modératrice: Rita Bassil
Campus de l’innovation et du sport, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Presses de l’Université Saint-Joseph
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18 FEB 2016 18:30 Conférence
“L’équilibre contractuel dans le nouveau droit français des contrats”
Monsieur Christian Larroumet (Professeur émérite de l’Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II))
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Faculté de droit et des sciences politiques
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19 FEB 2016 17:00 Lecture
“Shakespeare and Music”
Prof. Julie Sanders (Lecturer, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University)
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, Maamari Auditorium, AUB
Al Bustan Festival Lecture
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22 FEB 2016 16:30 Workshop
“The Importance of Municipal Elections”
by the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: International Affairs Club, LAU
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22 FEB 2016 17:30 Lecture
“From the American People: Aid and Its Fragmentary States in Palestine”
Lisa Bhungalia (Ohio State University)
Building 37, AUB
CASAR
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22 FEB 2016 17:45 Lecture
“Local Challenges as Resource”
Torunn Golberg (Jenson Skodvin Architects)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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22 FEB 2016 20:30 Concert
“MOZULUART”
Assembly Hall, AUB
Al Bustan Festival
In celebration of AUB’s 150th anniversary
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23 FEB 2016 09:30 Discussion
“The Comparative Work of UN Organizations in Lebanon and Other Countries”
with Philippe Lazzarini (UN resident coordinator)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer:
Department of Social Sciences
Institute for Social Justice and Conflict Resolution
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23 FEB 2016 17:00 Talk
“Pitch Accent, Focus & Lexical Stress: Experimental Evidence from Norwegian (and Welsh)”
Niamh Kelly (University of Graz, Austria)
West Hall, AUB
Department of English
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23 FEB 2016 18:00 Conférence
“Alep, de la fin de l’Empire à la guerre civile”
Thierry Boissière (Anthropologue, chercheur à l’Ifpo)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut Français du Liban
Les « Rendez-vous » de l’Ifpo
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23 FEB 2016 18:30 Talk
“Science is a god of facts and myths”
Dr.Joshua Norton
West Hall, AUB
Philosophy Department
Philosophy Student Society
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23 FEB 2016 19:00 Conférence
“مسيحيّو الشرق رهائن الأمم”
الدكتور سمير خوري
Campus des sciences humaines, USJ
Un événement présenté par :
Centre de Recherches et de Publications de l’Orient Chrétien
Faculté des sciences religieuses
Institut de lettres orientales
محاضرة في إطار اللقاءات الثقافيّة التي يُنظمها معهد الآداب الشرقيّة ومركز الشرق المسيحيّ للبحوث والمنشورات
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24-25 FEB 2016 Roundtable
“League of Arab States Engagement with Civil Society”
College Hall, AUB
Asfari Institute
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24 FEB 2016 14:00 Lecture
“Getting Banned From India”
David Barsamian (Investigative Journalists – Broadcaster)
West Hall, AUB
Media Studies Program
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24 FEB 2016 17:30 Lecture
“La sépulture des Patriarches: Abraham, Isaac et Jacob à Hebron en Palestine; Mythes et Réalités”
Monsieur Daniel Drocourt (Archéologue, Architecte Conseil Honoraire – Ville de Marseille)
Post Hall, Archaeological Museum, AUB
Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum
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24 FEB 2016 18:00 Talk
“The Creation of a Season: Sensuality, Sensibilities, and the “Summer” in Lebanese Tourism”
Jared McCormick (Harvard University)
Building 37, AUB
Media Studies Program
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24 FEB 2016 19:00 Conférence
“Aux sources des opérations-suicides au féminin : des origines à aujourd’hui”
Avec : Carole André-Dessornes (Membre associé du Cadis (laboratoire d’analyses de l’EHESS) – Chargée d’enseignement à l’Institut Catholique de Paris)
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Institut des sciences politiques
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25 FEB 2016 17:00 Talk
“Similarity and the Organization of the Mental Lexicon”
Dr. Kevin Schluter (New York University, Abu Dhabi)
Nicely Hall, AUB
Department of English
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25 FEB 2016 17:30 Lecture
“American Empire Comes Home: The Domestic Impacts of American Policies in the Middle East”
Alexander Barder (Florida International University)
West Hall, AUB
Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES),
Program in Public Policy & International Affairs (PPIA),
Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR)
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25 FEB 2016 20:00 Concert
“Middle Eastern Musical Dialogues”
a Jazz concert by
Stefano Maurizi (piano)
Mohamed Abozekry (oud)
Luciano Biondini (accordion)
Assembly Hall, AUB
Italian Cultural Institute in Lebanon
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26-27 FEB 2016 Colloque
“La relation médecin-malade”
Campus des sciences humaines, USJ
Un événement présenté par :
Faculté de médecine
Faculté des sciences religieuses
Institut supérieur de sciences religieuses
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