01 DEC 2010 14:30 Atelier
“Atelier d’initiation au Singhalais et à la culture de Sri Lanka”
Fida Bizri (INALCO, Paris)
Institut Français du Proche-Orient
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02 DEC 2010 16:00 Lecture
Iman Al-Ghafari (Tishreen University, Syria)
“The Lesbian Existence in the Arab Culture: Between Visibility and Invisibility”
Organizer: Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (LAU)
Beirut campus, LAU
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02-03 DEC 2010 Colloque international
“Les liaisons dangereuses : langues, traduction, interprétation”
Un événement présenté par : École de traducteurs et d’interprètes de Beyrouth
En collaboration avec :
Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
Ambassade de Roumanie au Liban
Ambassade d’Espagne
Parlement Européen
Campus des sciences humaines, Université Saint-Joseph
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08-10 DEC 2010 International Symposium
“Inhitat — Its Influence and Persistence in the Writing of Arab Cultural History”
Organized by the Exzellenzcluster “Religion and Politics”at the University of Muenster, the History and Archaeology Dept at the Amercian University of Beirut, and the OIB
Venue: College Hall, AUB
08 DEC
Chair: Mangred Sing (OIB)
Suzanne Kassab (Independant Scholar, Lebanon) “Inhitat, Nahda, ‘Ajz: From one turn of century to another”
Tylor Brand (AUB) “Selling Themselves Short: The Illusion of Decline in Arab Nationalist Discourse”
Chair: Alexis Wick (AUB)
Nadia Bou Ali (Univ. of Oxford, GB) “Progress and History in the works of Butrus al Bustani”
Ines Weinrich (OIB) “Writing Arab Music History: Contradictions between Theory and Practice”
Chair: Stefan Leder (OIB)
Geert Jan van Gelder (Univ. of Oxford, GB) “Good Times, Bad Times: Opinions on fasād al-zamān, “the Corruption of Time””
Tarif Khalidi (AUB) “On Progress and Decline in Ibn Khaldun”
09 DEC
Chair: Leila Fawaz (Tufts Univ., USA)
Thomas Bauer (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Germany) “The Aesthetics of Mamluk Literature”
Marek Dziekan (University of Lodz, Poland) “‘Asr al-Inhitat in Arabic Culture: Traditional Views versus an Attempt of New Interpretation”
Chair: John Meloy (AUB)
Syrinx von Hees (OIB) “Meaning and function of ´aja’ib in Mamluk historiographical writing”
Abdallah Kahil (LAU) “Late Mamluk Architecture”
Chair: Anne Troadec (IFPO, Saint-Joseph Univ.)
Elias Muhanna (Harvard University, USA) “Mamluk Encyclopaedias as Tokens of Decadence and Renaissance”
Sonja Brentjes (Univ. of Sevilla, Spain) “
Chair: Malek Sharif (AUB)
Dahlia Gubara (Columbia Univ. USA) “The Spaces of Modern Time: al-Azhar and its Environs in the “Age of Decline”?”
Khaled Rouayheb (Harvard University, USA) “The Logical Writings of Ahmad b. ‘Abdulfattâh al-Mallawî (d.1767)”
10 DEC
Chair: Samir Seikaly (AUB)
Dana Sajdi (Boston College, USA) “New Voices from the Street: The Levantine-Eighteenth Century Reconsidered”
Ahmad Dallal (AUB) “The Eighteenth-Century Islamic Enlightenment Thesis and the Persistence of the Paradigm of Decline”
Chair: Stefan Knost (OIB)
Ralf Elger (Martin-Luther-Universität, Germany) “The question of decadence in 18th century Middle East: Contemporary German sources”
Ertuğrul Ökten (Sabanci University, Turkey) “The creation of cultural icons and intellectual icons and their persistence”
Chair: Leila Fawaz
Himmet Taşkömür (Harvard University, USA) “Legal and political pamphleteering in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries”
Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University, USA) “Ottoman Debate on Ottoman Decline in the long Seventeenth Century”
Chair: Abdul-Rahim Abu-Hussayn (AUB)
Christoph Herzog (Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Germany) “Ottoman visions of decline: Do we need a revision of the revision?”
Engin Akarlı (Brown Univ. USA) “Paradigmatic Implications of the ‘inhitat’/’decline’ discourse in Ottoman historiography”
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09 DEC 2010 16:00 Pioneer study launch
Jinan Usta (LAU) and Christine Sylva Hamieh (LAU)
“The Effects of Socialization on Gender Discrimination and Violence Case Study: Lebanon”
Organizer: Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Outreach and Civic Engagement office
Beirut campus, LAU
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09-10 DEC 2010 Event
“NGOs Forum 2010″
Organizer: Community Service Office and the Human Rights Club (NDU)
Auspices: Minister of Social Affairs
NDU
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09-15 DEC 2010 Exhibition
Iman Bekdash’s Art Exhibition
Al Moltaqa Bldg. BAU
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14 DEC 2010 19:00 Lecture
Gabriel Reynolds (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)
“An Islamic Account of the Bible’s Composition: ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s «Critique of Christian Origins»”
OIB
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15 DEC 2010 18:00 Lecture
Cindy Menassa (LAU, architect)
“Continuities and Discontinuities”
Organizer: School of Architecture and Design – Department of Architecture and Interior Design (LAU)
Byblos campus, LAU
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17 DEC 2010 17:00 Lecture
Hassan Hallak (BAU)
“How to Benefit from History to Build the Present and the Future”
Abdel Nasser Hall, BAU
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17-30 DEC 2010 Exhibition
Arthur K.
“Phoenician Kings and Queens”
Matossian Gallery, Haigazian University
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19-21 DEC 2010 Conférence internationale
“Les Émotions dans un monde transculturel : Le rôle des émotions dans les cultures arabes et européennes et
dans leurs rélations”
organisée par :
Freie Universität Berlin (Cluster Languages of Emotion, CIC, Faculté science de l’éducation)
Orient Institut Beyrouth
La Commission Allemande pour l’UNESCO
les Chaires UNESCO de Philosophie des Universités de Tunis et de Paris 8
Venue: OIB
19 DEC
1. Réligion et foi
Abou Yaareb Marzouki (Tunis) “La fondation de l’émotionalité humaine dans le coran”
Christina von Braun (Berlin) “De l’image et de la relation entre l’homme et la femme dans les trois ‘Religions du Livre’ :
Judaïsme, Christianisme, Islam”
Mustapha Laarissa (Marrakech) “Conversion et émotion”
Mehrez Hamdi “Émotions dans l’Islam”
Thomas Scheffler (Beyrout) “La plus grande richesse est de ne pas convoiter les biens d’autrui”
2. Litérature, art et cinéma
Oliver Lubrich (Berlin) “La rhétorique des émotions”
Rachida Triki (Tunis) “L’expérience esthétique et le partage du sensible”
20 DEC
Stefan Leder (Beyrouth) “La philosophie de l’émotion: litérature et amour et leurs fonds conceptuels”
Winfried Menninghaus (Berlin) “Aesthetic Enjoyment of Negative Emotions/Le plaisir esthétique des émotions négatives”
Gertrud Koch (Berlin) “Ciné-ma-mort. L’angoisse de mort et répétition méchanique au cinéma”
3. Société et éducation
Anwar Moghith (Caire) “L’histoire du conflit Occident – Orient entre analyse rationnelle et explication emotionnelle”
Fathi Triki (Tunis) “A qui appartiennent les émotions?”
Benmeziane Bencherki (Oran) “Les émotions et la vie communautairle”
Antoine Seif (Beyrouth) “Les émotions dans le context arabe. Analogies et contradictions”
Ines Weinrich (Beyrouth) “Contemporary Mourning Rituals of the Lebanese Twelver Shia”
21 DEC
4. Mondialisation et Diversité Culturelle
Christoph Wulf (Berlin) “La création mimétique des émotions. Une étude de cas”
Jacques Poulain (Paris) “La mondialisation des émotions”
Hassan Wahbi (Agadir) “Beauté innombrable”
Reyes Mate (Madrid) “Pour une éthique de la compassion”
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20 DEC 2010 18:00 Séminaire
“Les leçons oubliées de Bab Tebbaneh/Jabal Mohsen”
Intervenante : Sahar Atrache (International Crisis Group)
En présence de Nahla Chahal (Arab Reform Initiative)
Institut Français du Proche-Orient
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28 DEC 2010 20:00 Concert
Ahmad Kaabour
“Beyond the Song”
Abdel Nasser Hall, BAU
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