01 DEC 2011 12:30 Lecture
Ashfaq Munshi (a successful entrepreneur from Silicon Valley)
“Creating a successful startup in Silicon Valley”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Industrial and Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering
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01 DEC 2011 16:30 Lecture
Prof. Conny Rijken (Tilburg University)
“Combating Human Trafficking: Looking Beyond Law Enforcement”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at LAU and the Netherlands Institute for Academic Studies in Damascus
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01 DEC 2011 15:30 Lecture
Dr. Muhammad Hajj (department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech)
“Role of Wing Morphing in Birds Flight”
The Department of Biology, AUB
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01 DEC 2011 11:00 Seminar
“Worker Protection Systems: The Role of Wage Policy, Pensions, Unemployment Benefits, and Health Insurance”
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: FAFS, Lebanese Economic Association and World Bank Group
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01 DEC 2011 18:00 Lecture
Dr. John A. Shepherd (Hologic, Inc.)
“New Obesity Phenotypic Body Shape and Volume Descriptors from Whole Body Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry Scans”
Agriculture 102 Lecture Hall, AUB
Organizer: Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
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01 DEC 2011 18:30 Lecture
Prof. Jane Harrigan (University of London)
“The Political Economy of Aid Flows to the Arab World”
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (AUB)
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01 DEC 2011 20:00 Concert
“ARTON” String Quartet
Assembly Hall, AUB
Organizer: the Romanian Embassy in coordination with the Office of Communications at AUB
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02 DEC 2011 Discussion
“Back to Tahrir? Egypt’s Ongoing Crisis”
Participants:
Hossam Bahgat (founder and director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights)
Kenneth Roth (executive director of Human Rights Watch)
Anthony Shadid (the Beirut bureau chief of the New York Times)
Moderator: Ibrahim Saif (Carnegie Middle East Center)
Carnegie Middle East Center
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02 DEC 2011 12:30 Lecture
Walid Yassin (Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology)
“It takes Tau to Tangle: An Alzheimer’s Disease Hypothesis”
DTS, AUB
Organizer: Basic medical sciences departments and the Department of Biology
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03 DEC 2011 10:00 Seminar
“London meets Beirut: Innovation in the design industry”
Maamari Auditorium, OSB, AUB
Organizer: The Department of Architecture and Design
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03 DEC 2011 20:30 Concert
“The Invisible World”
Wissam Boustany (flute)
Aleksander Szram (piano)
Assembly Hall, AUB
Organizer: New Horizon
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04 DEC 2011 20:00 Concert
“ARPEGIO ARMONICO”
Josep Bassal (Gagliano Cello)
Wolfgang Lehner (Stradivari Cello)
Assembly Hall, AUB
Organizer: Instituto Cervantes in coordination with the Office of Communications
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07 DEC 2011 15:00 Film screening
“The Last Picture: While crossing…”
documentary by Wadad Halwani (the president of the Committee of Families of the Persons Kidnapped or Disappeared in Lebanon)
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies Department and ACT for the Disappeared
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08 DEC 2011 16:00 Lecture
Francesco Chiacchio (Universita di Napoli Federico II)
“Szegv-Weinberger type inequalities in Gauss space”
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: Centre for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (AUB)
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08 DEC 2011 18:00 Lecture
Issam Khazem (a professional graphic designer, practitioner and teacher)
“Today’s Calligraphy”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Graphic Design Department
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09 DEC 2011 09:00 Lecture
Dr. Ibrahim Najjar (former Minister of Justice and Professor of Law)
“Prospect of Independent Lebanese Judiciary and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Dr. Imad Salamey
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09 DEC 2011 12:30 Lecture
Maya Fadia El Sabban (Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology)
“Exosomes: A Novel Mechanism for Intercellular Signaling”
DTS, AUB
Organizer: Basic medical sciences departments and the Department of Biology
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09 DEC 2011 18:30 Lecture
Ziad Jamaleddine (architect)
“Architecture Hurts: Species of Political Spaces, Lebanon”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Design
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11-14 DEC 2011 International Conference
“18th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems”
Crowne Plaza Hotel in Beirut
Organizer: LAU and the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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12 DEC 2011 Discussion
“Human Rights and Social Media”
Speakers:
Maya Mansour (member in the Board of Human Rights Center at BAU)
Fateh Azzam (the regional representative of The High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Middle East)
BAU
Organizer: The Human Rights Center at Beirut Arab University, in collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Middle East
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12 DEC 2011 15:30 Lecture
Father Paul Faghali
“The Spirit of Christianity in the Presence”
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Women’s League
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12 DEC 2011 17:00 Lecture
Prof. Connie Weaver (Purdue University)
“Vitamin D recommendations: General public vs. individual treatment”
Agriculture 102 Lecture Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
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12 DEC 2011 17:00 Séminaire doctoral
“Terrains croisés”
Communications:
Miriam Stock (doctorante en anthropologie)
“The construction of urban space beyond its borders- what is the surplus of looking at Beirut when studying Arab Fast Food in Berlin? (en anglais)”
Discutant: Omar Dewachi (assistant professor à l’AUB)
Fatiha Kaoues (doctorante en sociologie, IFPO)
“Terrains comparés du Pentecôtisme: Liban et États-Unis (en français)”
Discutant : Vincent Geisser (chercheur à l’IFPO)
IFPO
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12 DEC 2011 18:30 Seminar
Danielle Kheirallah
“Go: A Japanese Game, For the Brain”
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: AUB Japanese Cultural Club
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13 DEC 2011 17:00 Lecture
Prof. Bill Mullen (Purdue University)
“Du Bois, Palestine and the Riddle of Black Internationalism”
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: CASAR
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14 DEC 2011 14:00 Lecture
Dr. Theodor Hanf (German Institute for International Educational Research)
“Power-Sharing Revisited: the Lebanese case and beyond”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: The Department of Social Sciences and the International Affairs Club
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14 DEC 2011 16:00 Lecture
Dr. Vahe Kehyayan
“Correlates and Predictors of Residents’ Quality of Life in Long Term Care Facilities in Canada”
Jaroudi auditorium, AUB
Organizer: Rafic Hariri School of Nursing and Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society
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14 DEC 2011 17:00 Lecture
Prof. Connie Weaver (Purdue University)
“Biomarkers Developed for Use in Experimental Nutrition”
Agriculture 102 Lecture Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
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14 DEC 2011 17:00 Lecture
“Exploring the Perception and Impact of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Countries of Intervention”
Speakers:
Bruno Jochum (General Director MSF)
Carolie Abu-Sada (Research Unit Coordinator, MSF)
Omar Al-Dewachi (Assistant Professor, Public Health, AUB)
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
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14 DEC 2011 18:00 Conférence
Caecilia Pieri (Responsable de l’Observatoire urbain, Ifpo)
“Bagdad 1910-2010: Architecture, espace urbain et patrimoine modernes : de l’expansion à la fragmentation”
Discutant: Robert Saliba (Architecte, urbaniste, professeur associé à l’Université américaine de Beyrouth)
IFPO
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14 DEC 2011 20:00 Concert
Organ concert by Simone Vebber
Assembly Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Italian Cultural Institute, the Office of Communications
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15 DEC 2011 Discussion
“Islam and protection of the Vulnerable”
Speakers:
Dr. Omar Houri (the director of the Human Rights Center at BAU)
Dr. Nayla Tabbara (the director of the research studies division at Adyan Foundation)
Dr. Mohammad Mattar (the director of the Protection Center at Johns Hopkins University)
BAU
Organizer: The Human Rights Center at Beirut Arab University and Adyan Foundation in collaboration with the Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University
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15 DEC 2011 15:00 Lecture
Jacques lafontaine (University of Montpellier, France)
“An introduction to isosystolic inequalities”
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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15 DEC 2011 16:00 Lecture
Romain Gicquaud (University of Tours, France)
“Conformal compactification of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds”
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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15 DEC 2011 17:00 Lecture
Prof. Connie Weaver (Purdue University)
“Discoveries at the Food Science and Nutrition Interface”
Agriculture 102 Lecture Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
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15 DEC 2011 17:00 Lecture
Tithi Bhattacharya (Associate Professor, South Asian History at Purdue University)
“Their Violence and Ours: Poverty, Imperialism and the Rebirth of Globalism”
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: CASAR
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15 DEC 2011 18:00 Lecture
Paolo Tassinari (Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan)
“Letter by Letter”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Graphic Design Department
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16 DEC 2011 Conférence
“Cannabis – Etat des lieux”
Campus des sciences médicales et infirmières, USJ
Un événement présenté par: Faculté de médecine
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16 DEC 2011 10:45 Symposium
“Weaving the Arab Spring”
West Hall, AUB
First panel “Literature from the Arab World”
Participants:
Maged Madhaji (author, Yemen)
Mohammed Shinnawi (comic artist, Egypt)
Sahi Sahli (communication arts, LAU)
Yasser Jeradi (performer, Tunisia)
Second panel “The Lebanese Scene”
Participants:
Farah Kobeissi (activist and blogger)
Hisham Jaber (performer)
Ibrahim Shrara (editor, Shabab Assafir)
Jasika Khazrik (live performer)
Mohammed Hdeib (performer)
Sara Abu Ghazal (editor, Sawt Al Niswa)
Organizer: Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AUB)
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16 DEC 2011 12:00 Conference
“Social Media Changing Lives”
Issam Fares Hall, AUB
Organizer: Online Collaborative at the American University of Beirut
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16 DEC 2011 12:30 Lecture
Omar Sarkis (Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology)
“The Cancer Epigenome: Insights into Histone Deacetylase Inhibition”
DTS, AUB
Organizer: Basic medical sciences departments and the Department of Biology
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16 DEC 2011 13:00 Panel discussion
“A Future with Opportunities to End Violence Against Women with Youth in Lebanon”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World
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16 DEC 2011 15:00 Lecture
John Cerone (Director of the New England School of Law’s Center for International Law and Policy)
“The Politics of International Justice”
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: IFI and Al-Akhbar Research Unit
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16 DEC 2011 19:30 Concert
“MusiColors”
audiovisual multimedia concert by Jamal Abul-Hosn (composer and multimedia artist)
Assembly Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Beirut Seaside Lions Club
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16-17 DEC 2011 Conference
“Meeting on Differential Geometry”
Fanar Campus, Lebanese University
Organizer: The Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences II at the Lebanese University
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19 DEC 2011 10:00 Lecture
Stephane Sabourau (University of Paris Criteil, France)
“Critical isosystolic surfaces”
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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19 DEC 2011 13:00 Panel discussion
“Understanding the Arab… Spring? Uprising? Revolution? Awakening? Citizen revolt?”
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
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19 DEC 2011 16:00 Lecture
Nicolas Ginoux (University of Regensburg, Germany)
“Index-theoretical examples of Dirac-harmonic maps”
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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19 DEC 2011 20:30 Concert
“Meen, Lebanese Rock”
Assembly Hall, AUB
Organizer: LeMSIC-SCORA, in coordination with the Office of Communications
World AIDS Day fundraising concert
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19-22 DEC 2011 Exhibition
“Who’s Who”
Byblos campus, LAU
the works from the Graphic Design III, Advertising Design and Motion Design classes
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20 DEC 2011 12:00 Panel discussion
“Was There Any Progress at the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations in Durban?”
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: IFI
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20 DEC 2011 13:00 Lecture
Estella Carpi (University of Sydney)
“Ethnography of Everyday Life in Southern Suburbs of Beirut: Local Responsiveness to Humanitarian Intervention”
Nicely Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Center for Behavioral Research (CBR)
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20 DEC 2011 15:00 Panel discussion
“Security and Development: International Norms and Radicalization of Aid”
with Penelope Larzilliere (Visiting Scholar)
Van Dyck Conference Room, AUB
Organizer: IFI
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20 DEC 2011 16:00 Lecture
Dr. Ahmad Kabbani (chairperson of the Department of Natural Sciences)
“From Door to Window Pollution Track: Environmental Awareness Based on Basic Chemistry and Physics”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Mohammad Al-Zein
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20 DEC 2011 19:00 Lecture
Prof. Dr. Ken Seigneurie (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
“The Languages of Liberation in Lebanon and in the Arab Spring”
OIB
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21 DEC 2011 12:00 Lecture
Ziad Abichaker (multi-disciplinary engineer)
“A Case Study in Recycling at the Communal Level”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Social Sciences and the International Affairs Club
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23 DEC 2011 14:00 Seminar
Dr. Bassem Bassil (Jacobs university, Germany)
“Transition Metal-containing Heteropolytungstates”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Natural Sciences
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