01 NOV 2011 17:00 Conférence
Éric Verdeil (CNRS)
“Beyrouth et ses urbanistes. Une ville en plans (1946-1975)”
Salle Chéhadeh au Biel
IFPO
Conférence suivie d’une signature et d’un vin d’honneur sur le stand de l’Ifpo à 18h00.
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02 NOV 2011 13:00 Lecture
Linda S. Pagani (Associate Professor in the School of Psychoeducation at the Universite de Montreal, Canada)
“From Poverty to High School Dropout”
Nicely Hall, AUB
Organizer: Center for Behavioral Research, AUB
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02 NOV 2011 16:30 Lecture
Professor Christian Lequesne (Director of the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po in France)
“The European Union and the Arab Spring”
Beirut campus, LAU
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02 NOV 2011 17:00 Conférence
Abdelahad Sebti (Professeur à l’Université Mohamed V – Agdal, Rabat)
“L’historien et la question de l’événement à propos de l’expérience marocaine”
IFPO
Conférence en langue arabe
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03 NOV 2011 20:00 Concert
“Czech Organ Music”
Organ: Maestro Tomas Jerabek
Mezzo-soprano: Austrian Ambassador Eva Maria Ziegler
Assembly Hall, AUB
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04 NOV 2011 09:00 Lecture
Mr. Ghassan Moukheiber (Member of Parliament)
“The Work of Parliament and Human Rights Conditions in Lebanon”
Beirut campus, LAU
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04 NOV 2011 12:30 Lecture
Dr. Ziad Nahas (Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, AUB)
“Brain Stimulation and Blood-Brain Barrier Transporters”
Diana Tamari Sabbagh Building, AUB
Organizer: Basic medical sciences departments and the Department of Biology
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04 NOV 2011 17:30 Conférence
M. Jean-Julien Xavier Rolai
“La présomption d’innocence en droit comparé – FDSP”
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Un événement présenté par: Centre d’études des droits du monde arabe, Faculté de droit et des sciences politiques
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05 NOV 2011 17:00 Conférence
M. Antoine Compagnon (Professeur du Collége de France)
“L’état présent de la culture française”
Lieu: BIEL
Un événement présenté par: Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines, USJ
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09 NOV 2011 15:00 Lecture
Dr. Sateh El-Arnaout (Senior Urban and Regional Development Specialist at the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa Region)
“The Tripoli Special Economic Zone: Piloting Public Private Partnerships for Economic Growth in Lebanon”
College Hall, AUB
Oraganizer: IFI and Masters program in Urban Planning and Policy
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09 NOV 2011 17:30 Round Table
“Ugarit and his Kingdom from its Origins to Destruction/Gabriel Saade”
Moderators:
Dr. Leila Badre (Director of the AUB Archeological Museum)
Dr. Marguerite Yon (La Maison de l’Orient et de la Mediterranee, Lyon, France)
Dr. Marc Griesheimer (Institut francais du Proche-Orient)
Dr. Michel al-Maqdissi (Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums, Damascus, Syria)
Archeological Museum, AUB
Oraganizer: Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum
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09 NOV 2011 20:00 Concert
Piano concert by Haley Kallenberg and Vladimir Kurumilian
Assembly Hall, AUB
Oraganizer: Vladimir Kurumilian in coordination with the Office of Communications at AUB
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10-11 NOV 2011 International Symposium
“Architecture and the Political”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Department of Architecture and Design in the School of Architecture and Design
10 NOV
Keynote Speech:
David Cunningham
“Metropolitics and the ‘Emblematic Significance’ of Architecture”
Session 1
Libero Andreotti “Politicizing History: The International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus”
Graham Cairns “Imaging the Political Through Architecture”
Xavier Costa “Moments and Situations”
Session 2
Donald Kunze “Four Concepts of Virtuality to Reconstruct the Civic in Architecture”
Lidia Klein “From Postpolitical to Agonistic: Warsaw Urban Space since 1989″
Michał Murawski “The Scale of Ideology in Post-Political Warsaw”
Session 3
Uta Gelbke “Urban Zero Points – Re-politicizing El Raval”
Georgios Karatzas “The making of the historic core of the Greek capital city”
Luisa Pastore “Sustainable Social Housing Policy: the challenge of Brazil”
Session 4
Adrià Carbonell “Towards a Political Urbanism: Architecture and Democratic Objectives”
Zehra Tonbul “Politics of Renovation: Urban Regeneration: The Case of Tarlabaşı, İstanbul”
Francesco Marullo “Notes on Generic Architecture”
11 NOV
Session 5
Nadir Lahiji “Is Building the Practice of Dissensus? Architecture Between Aesthetics and Politics”
Kimberly Sims “The Subject as Object: Reification and Design in the Age of the Post-Political”
Kenton Card “Between Ethical and Police Architects: Interpreting an Ethnography on Ethical Architects with Rancière’s Politics”
Session 6
Dorita Hannah “Constructing Barricades: Politics of the Event and ‘Weak Architecture’”
Beshir Kenzari “Those who had no part”
Koen Van Synghel “Bylex’ Tourist City or Utopia as the Prefiguration of Architecture & Politics”
Aurel von Richthofen “Muscat Capital Area – Urbanism at the intersection of politics and space”
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11 NOV 2011 12:30 Lecture
Layal Hamdar (Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology, AUB)
“Novel Assisted Reproduction Techniques in Improving Pregnancy Outcomes”
Diana Tamari Sabbagh Building, AUB
Organizer: Basic medical sciences departments and the Department of Biology
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11 NOV 2011 20:00 Concert
Fayha Choir
Assembly Hall, AUB
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11-13 NOV 2011 International Conference
“Healing the Wounds of History: Addressing the Roots of Violence”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Centre for Lebanese Studies (Oxford) and Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace
in partnership with the Institute of Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation
11 NOV
Plenary 1: Keynote Address
Dr. Vamik Volkan (Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA)
“Shared Trauma, Trans-Generational Transmission and Societal Well Being”
Plenary 2: Cycles of Violence in Lebanon: A Historical Overview
Dr. Leila Fawaz (Founding Director, Fares Centre for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University)
“War and Society: The Experience of War and Civil War in Historical Perspective”
Plenary 3: Psycho-Social Approaches to Healing Cycles of Violence
Plenary 4: Narratives of Historical and Transgenerational Healing
Plenary 5: Share learning from the day and Preparation for the next day
12 NOV
Plenary 6: Deep/Historical Memories, Trauma and Identities
Plenary 7: Share learing from the day
13 NOV
Plenary 8: Addressing the Roots of Violence
Final Plenary: Inspiration for Future Resolve
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14 NOV 2011 15:30 Lecture
George Ghanem (Director of News and Political Programs at LBC)
“Lebanese Independence Day”
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: Women’s League
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14 NOV 2011 18:00 Lecture
Kees van Rooijen (Director of the IHS, the International Institute of Urban Management of the School of Economics (ESE) and the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
Carley Pennink (Head of International Projects and Advisory Services at IHS)
“Making Cities Work”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Design
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15 NOV 2011 13:00 Lecture
Jillian Wallis (senior lecturer, and graduate program coordinator of the Master of Landscape Architecture at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Australia)
“Landscape Architecture and the Design of the Civic”
Nicely Hall, AUB
Organizer: Center for Behavioral Research, AUB
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15 NOV 2011 18:00 Conférence
Ray Jureidini (Professor of sociology at the Lebanese American University, Institute for Migration Studies)
“The role of the state in human rights violations of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon”
IFPO
Conférence en langue anglaise
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16-18 NOV 2011 International Conference
“Performing Religion: Actors, contexts, and texts”
OIB
16 NOV
Thomas Gugler “Imitatio Muhammadi: Making Tradition an Activity”
Emi Goto “Thoughts, Moments and ‘Repentant Artists’”
Jeanine Dağyeli “Texts in the Interstices of Scriptural Knowledge, Orality and Performance: The Central Asian Crafts’ risāla”
Songül Karahasanoğlu “Mobilizing Religious Sentiments by Music”
Martin Zillinger “Dissolving the Semantics of Sanctified Orders: Text and Performance among the ʽĪsāwa of Morocco”
Jan Scholz and Max Stille “Indeterminacy in Ritual: Inayat Khan’s ʽurs in Delhi from the Perspective of Reception Theory”
17 NOV
Marion H.Katz “Ṣalāt: Textual and non-Textual Models”
Sabine Dorpmüller “From Text to Performance and From Performance to Text: Preaching in Medieval Christianity and
Islam”
Roxane Haag-Higuchi “Woe, A Hundred Woes! 19th Century Muharram Elegies in Iran as Performative Poetry”
Ines Weinrich “Between Poem and Ritual: The Burda of al-Būṣīrī (d. 1292-98)”
Paola Abenante “The Virtue of Sound: An Ethnography of Praise Singing in Contemporary Cairo”
David Thurfjell “Conjuring the Pious Mood: Using Sense and Sound to Deter Sin in Shiism”
Susanne Enderwitz “Modern Arabic Literature and Traditional Islamic Practice”
18 NOV
Emrah Yildiz “Venerating Bodies, Desiring Bodies: Some Reflections on Pilgrimage, Pain and Pleasure on Hajj-e
Fuqara between Iran and Syria”
Nour Farra-Haddad “Shared Rituals through ziyārāt in Lebanon. Christian and Muslim Practices”
Gebhard Fartacek “Holy Places and the Transmission of baraka – A: Conformity of Social Norms”
Lorenz Nigst “Holy Places and the Transmission of baraka – B: Break with the Everyday World”
Prof. Dr.Stefan Reichmuth “The Accumulation of Blessing: The Use of Sufi salāsil in the Writings of Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī (d. 1791) ”
Patrick Franke “Ritual Prayer and madhhab Identity in Mecca at the Turn of the 17th Century: Some Texts by the
Hanafi Scholar ʿAlī al-Qārī”
Alberto F. Ambrosio “A Text as a Spiritual Master”
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17 NOV 2011 16:00 Lecture
Jillian Wallis (senior lecturer, and graduate program coordinator of the Master of Landscape Architecture at the Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Australia)
“The Politics of Aesthetics: A Critique of the Barangaroo Headland Park, Sydney Harbour”
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management Department
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17 NOV 2011 18:00 Lecture
Anthony Shadid (foreign correspondent for the New York Times)
“Imagining Otherwise: Covering the Arab Revolts from Tunisia to Bahrain”
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, AUB
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17 NOV 2011 18:30 Rencontre
Dr May HAZAZ
“Des femmes dans le contexte de la guerre libanaise : Etude du concept d’empowerment”
Campus des sciences médicales et infirmières, USJ
Un événement présenté par: École libanaise de formation sociale, USJ
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18 NOV 2011 12:30 Lecture
Maha Mouteirek (Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology, AUB)
“Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors”
Diana Tamari Sabbagh Building, AUB
Organizer: Basic medical sciences departments and the Department of Biology
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21 NOV 2011 16:00 Lecture
Gerardo Mendoza (Temple University, USA)
“The zeta function of elliptic operators on manifolds with conical singularities”
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Mathematics
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21 NOV 2011 18:00 Lecture
Sven Ehmann (creative director based in Berlin/Germany)
“A Passion for Print”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Design
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23 NOV 2011 14:00 Séminaire
Nadim Damluji (Thomas J. Watson Fellow)
“Following Tintin’s Footsteps: Reconciling Hergé’s Orient with the Middle East of Arab Comics”
Discutante: Caecilia Pieri (Observatoire urbain)
IFPO
Conférence en langue anglaise
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23 NOV 2011 18:00 Lecture
Mr. Hazem Jamjoum (Palestinian writer and researcher)
“Palestine 101″
Beirut Campus, LAU
Organizer: Palestinian Cultural Club
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23 NOV 2011 18:30 Lecture
Medine Altiok (German-Turkish architect)
“Mapping Mittelmeerland: An Urban Mediterranean”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Design
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23 NOV 2011 20:00 Concert
Concert honoring the late Walid Gholmieh, director of the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music
Lebanese National Arabic Oriental Orchestra and the chorale of the Conservatory
Assembly Hall, AUB
Organizer: Zaki Nassif Music Program
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24 NOV 2011 11:00 Séminaire
M. Yves Gonzalez-Quijano (Maître de conférence à l’Université Lyon 2, Chercheur à l’IFPO et chercheur résident au CEMAM, membre de l’UIR Web Science)
“Le printemps arabe et ses racines numériques, et maintenant, on va où ?”
Campus des sciences humaines, USJ
Un événement présenté par: Centre d’études pour le monde arabe moderne, USJ
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24 NOV 2011 16:00 Lecture
Gerardo Mendoza (Temple University, USA)
“Classification and embedding theorems for manifolds with R-action”
Bliss Hall, AUB
Organizer: Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences and Department of Mathematics
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24 NOV 2011 16:00 Lecture
Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer (visiting professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences of AUB)
“Testing for HIV: Global debates and new evidence from a multi-site study”
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
Organizer: CRPH
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24 NOV 2011 17:00 Lecture
Steven Salaita (associate professor of English at Virginia Tech)
“Israel’s Dead Soul in the Age of Revolution”
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: CASAR
The lecture will be followed by a book signing
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24 NOV 2011 17:30 Conférence
“سياسة الآجور بين الواقع والقانون”
الرئيس شكري صادر ـــ رئيس مجلس شورى الدولة
الأستاذ نقولا شماس ـــ رئيس جمعية تجار بيروت
الأستاذ نعمه محفوض ـــ نقيب المعلمين في لبنان
يدير الندوة البروفسور جورج خديج ـــ مدير مركز الدراسات الحقوقية للعالم العربي
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Un événement présenté par: Centre d’études des droits du monde arabe, USJ
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24 NOV 2011 19:00 Concert
Stock the Wood (60′s-70′s music by local musicians)
Hostler Outdoor Amphitheater, AUB
Organizer: Ibsar (Nature Conservation Center for Sustainable Futures at AUB)
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24-30 NOV 2011 Photo Exhibition
“Indonesia through the eyes of Bassam Lahoud”
Beirut Campus, LAU
Organizer: LAU’s School of Architecture and Design, Department of Fine Arts and Foundation Studies, in association with the Embassy of Republic of Indonesia
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25 NOV 2011 18:30 Lecture
Sahel Al Hiyari (principal architect at Sahel Al Hiyari Architects)
“Exploring the Margins”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
The Department of Architecture and Design
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25 NOV 2011 12:30 Lecture
Ghina El Nounou (Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology, AUB)
“Organ Synthesis and Regeneration: The Science behind the Myth”
Diana Tamari Sabbagh Building, AUB
Organizer: Basic medical sciences departments and the Department of Biology
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29 NOV 2011 13:00 Lecture
Andrew Arsan (Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University)
“A Global Age of Reform: Putting the Nahda in Transnational Perspective”
Nicely Hall, AUB
Organizer: Center for Behavioral Research
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29 NOV 2011 17:00 Lecture
George Helou (Executive Director of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, NASA, USA)
“Infrared Astronomy: A Golden Age of Space Observatories”
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: Physics Department, in collaboration with CAMS and Diwan Ahl-al-Qalam
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30 NOV 2011 15:00 Lecture
Jane Harrigan (Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London)
“The Economics of Food Security in Lebanon”
Agricultural Lecture Hall, AUB
Organizer: Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences (FAFS)
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