01 MAR 2012 18:00 Seminar
Professor Ali Mokdad (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington)
“Global Burden of Disease 2010: Reflections on Lebanon”
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
The Faculty of Health Sciences
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02 MAR 2012 11:00 Lecture
Mark Zeitoun (Water Security Research Centre, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK)
“The Struggle for Control of the Upper Jordan: Narratives, Discourses and Hydro-hegemony”
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
IFI (AUB)
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02 MAR 2012 12:00 Lecture
Wissam Amil (IP protection specialist at Ministry of Economy and Trade)
“Intellectual Property Protection In Lebanon”
College Hall, AUB
The Office of Grants and Contracts (OGC)
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02 MAR 2012 12:30 Lecture
Dana Bazzoun (Biology Dept., AUB)
“Context Dependent Role of Connexin-43 in Breast Carcinogenesis”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments and the Department of Biology
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02 MAR 2012 15:30 Seminar
Martin Bright (Department of Mathematics)
“An overview of the arithmetic of surfaces”
College Hall, AUB
Centre for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (AUB)
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05 MAR 2012 12:00 Discussion
“Challenges ahead: women, activism, social media and the Arab Spring”
Asmaa Mahfouz (Egypt)
Hanaa Al-Sayaghi (Yemen)
Mona El Tahawi (Egypt)
Fatma Riahi (Tunisia)
Moderator: Diana Moukalled (journalist and author)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (LAU)
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05 MAR 2012 15:30 Lecture
Afifa Dirani Arsanios (President of the Board of Directors of SOS Children’s Villages in Lebanon)
“A Tribute to Motherhood”
West Hall, AUB
The Women’s League (AUB)
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06 MAR 2012 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
The Center for Behavioral Research (AUB)
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07 MAR 2012 9:00 Discussion & lecture
Dr. Mark Farha (Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in Doha)
“The Arab Revolts: Local, Regional and Global Catalysts and Consequences”
Beirut campus / Byblos campus (videoconference), LAU
Organizers: The School of Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences Department, and the faculty and students of Political Sciences and International Affairs
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07 MAR 2012 12:00 Lecture
Dany Badran, Ph.D.
“Rhetoric and Democracy in the Arab World”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizers: Dept. of Humanities
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07 MAR 2012 12:00 Lecture
Brian K. Barber (University of Tennessee)
“Studying youth and political conflict: Learning lessons in resilience”
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
Faculty of Health Sciences and Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
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07 MAR 2012 15:00 Seminar
Lara Nasreddine (PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences)
“Dietary exposure to selected pesticide residues in Lebanon: A total diet study approach”
Hariri School of Nursing, AUB
Hariri School of Nursing Research Committee
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07 MAR 2012 17:00 Panel Discussion
“Women’s citizenship rights in Lebanon”
Panelists:
Judge John Al-Azzi, Maya Mansour, Sarah Abou Aad, Paola Daher and Lama Naja
College Hall, AUB
The Human Rights Project at the Issam Fares Institute
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07 MAR 2012 17:30 Lecture
Professor Viktor Kremenyuk (deputy director at the the Institute for the USA and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences)
“Russian Federation and the Arab Spring”
Beirut campus, LAU
Dr. Imad Salamey’s graduate seminar on the Arab Spring
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07 MAR 2012 18:30 Séminaire
Monica Balda-Tillier (Chercheuse associée à l’Ifpo)
“La prose amoureuse arabe pré-moderne : de l’isnād traditionnel aux sources livresques”
Centre Louis Pouzet, Bibliothèque Orientale
Séminaire commun d’études médiévales (Ifpo, Centre Louis-Pouzet, Université Saint-Joseph)
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08 MAR 2012 17:00 Séminaire
Hisham el-Achkar (Université Libanaise, Institut des Beaux-Arts, Département d’urbanisme)
“The role of the State in initiating gentrification: the case of the neighbourhood of Achrafieh, Beirut”
Discutant: Léon Telvizian (professeur, Université Libanaise)
IFPO
Etudes contemporaines
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09 MAR 2012 16:00 Seminar
Dr. Todd Kuffner (Department of Mathematics)
“An introduction to analytic methods in small-sample asymptotics for parametric inference”
College Hall, AUB
Centre for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (AUB)
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09 MAR 2012 17:00 Lecture
Dr. Fawwaz Traboulsi
“Bahrain’s Position in the Arab Uprisings”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: LAU International Affairs Club
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09 MAR 2012 18:30 Lecture
Jacob van Rijs (one of the co-founding directors of MVRDV, Netherlands)
“MVRDV”
Issam Fares Hall, AUB
The Areen Architecture Series at the Department of Architecture and Design
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09-12 MAR 2012 Contest
“The 5th Open Arab Robotics Championship (OARC)”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizers: The School of Engineering
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09-31 MAR 2012 Exhibition
“The Exhibition of Caricaturist Arman Homsi”
BAU
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12 MAR 2012 15:30 Panel Discussion
“Writing in a Time of Revolutions”
Panelists:
Ahdaf Soueif (Egypt)
Kamel Riahi (Tunis)
Khaled Khalife (Syria)
Nadia al-Kokabany (Yemen)
Ali al-Jallawi (Bahrain)
chaired by Elias Khoury
West Hall, AUB
the Office of the Provost, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office and the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (AUB)
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12 MAR 2012 18:00 Séminaire
“Archéologie maritime au Liban”
Ali Badawi (DGA) et Zeina Haddad (UL) “The harbour of Iskandarouna in the region of Tyre, history and function”
Michel el-Hélou (UL) “Les rampes maritimes d’Enfeh au Liban-Nord”
Martine Francis-Allouche (associée Collège de France) et Jeanine Abdul Massih (UL) “Nouvelles archéologiques à Jbeil/Byblos”
Bibliothèque d’archéologie de l’Ifpo
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12 MAR 2012 19:00 Event (poetry evening)
“An Evening with Venus Khoury-Ghata”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Center for Lebanese Heritage
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14 MAR 2012 16:00 Talk
Professor Suad Joseph (University of California)
“Family and state in the Arab World: Re-framing inquiries”
College Hall, AUB
The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
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14 MAR 2012 18:00 Lecture
Luca Barello (architect)
“La vision du marcheur”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: The Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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15 MAR 2012 13:00 Lecture
Ahmed Kanna (Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies in the University of the Pacific, California)
“Biopolitics of Arab Gulf worker protests in the year of uprisings”
West Hall, AUB
Organizer: The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, the Issam Fares Institute and the Department of Architecture and Design
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15 MAR 2012 16:00 Conference
“Education on citizenship and coexistence in Lebanon”
Issam Fares Hall, AUB
Adyan Foundation School Education on Coexistence Department
Under the Patronage of His Excellency the Minister of Education and in partnership with FAS
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15 MAR 2012 18:00 Lecture
Javier Alvarez (composer and musician)
“Dawn and sunset: A panorama of Mexican music in the 20th and 21st centuries”
West Hall, AUB
Al Bustan Festival
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15 MAR 2012 18:00 Lecture
“Maker of Realities”
a collaboration between a visual artist and a poet
Artworks presentation by Mohammad El Rawas
Simultaneous French poetry by Antoine Boulad translated into English and read by Mishka Mojabber-Mourani
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
The Department of Architecture and Design
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16 MAR 2012 10:30 Lecture
Dr. Adel Afifi (Professor of Neurology, University of Iowa)
“Esoteric Bits and Pieces, the Babinski Sign, the Reflex Hammer, and Other Toys for the Neurologist”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments and Biology Department
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16 MAR 2012 16:00 Lecture
Dr. Istvan Lagzi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
“Combination of nonlinear chemical dynamics and nanoscience”
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences and Graduate Program in Computational Science
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16 MAR 2012 17:00 Lecture
Professor Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton (Idaho University, USA)
“The difference difference makes”
West Hall, AUB
The Education Forum
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19 MAR 2012 18:00 Lecture
Juan Lspez-Aranguren Blazquez
“Basurama ‘In & Out’ ten years on tour”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
The Department of Architecture and Design
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20 MAR 2012 12:30 Seminar
Dr. Paul Nancarrow (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
“Ionic liquids: Designer materials for sustainable process engineering”
Rizk Conference Room, AUB
The Chemical Engineering Program
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20-21 MAR 2012 Symposium
“The Arab Uprisings: Sociological perspectives and geographical comparisons”
West Hall, AUB
Sponsored by
- Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies (SOAM)
- Lebanese Sociological Association (LSA)
- Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (Lebanon)
- International Sociological Association (ISA)
- Qatar University
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21 MAR 2012 12:00 Lecture
Taisto Makela (chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Colorado in Denver)
“One Hundred Years of Finnish Architecture”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: The Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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21 MAR 2012 16:30 Lecture
Dr. Scott Slovic (professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada)
“Toward Consilient Ecocriticism: Science, Literary Criticism, and the Quest for Meaningful Interdisciplinarity”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Graduate Program in Comparative Literature in the Department of Humanities
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21 MAR 2012 17:30 Lecture
Jean- Pierre Sodini (Universiti de Paris, La Sorbonne)
“Byzantine churches in Syria and Phoenicia”
AUB Museum
The Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum
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22 MAR 2012 19:00 Lecture
Professor Seta B. Dadoyan
“Rethinking the Armenian Experience in the Near East”
Haigazian University
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23 MAR 2012 12:00 Lecture
Dr. Ziad Gabriel Habib
“Introduction to Waste Incineration: Associated Pollutants & Reduction Techniques”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: The Industrial and Mechanical Engineering Department
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23 MAR 2012 12:30 Lecture
Dr. Hala Darwish (Abu-Haidar Neuroscience Institute and Rafic Hariri School of Nursing, AUB)
“Learning and memory post traumatic brain injury: a rat model”
DTS, AUB
Organizer: Basic medical sciences departments and Biology Department
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23 MAR 2012 16:00 Lecture
Abbas Alhakim (Department of Mathematics)
“Generation of De Bruijn Sequences”
Alhakim will present various generalizations of de Bruijn
College Hall, AUB
Organizer: Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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23-24 MAR 2012 International Conference
“Sharia and Globalization. Islamic Legal Theory Reconsidered”
OIB
23 MAR
Panel 1: Change and Changeability of Islamic Law
Respondent: Prof. B. Dupret (Director of the Centre Jacques Berque for Studies in Social and Human Sciences in Morocco)
Sheykh M. Nokkari (Judge at the Sharia Court in Beirut, USJ) “L’évolution du statut personnel sunnite au Liban depuis les ottomans”
Attorney J. Kambeck (OIB) “The Compatibility of Sharia and Adequate Dispute Resolution. A Methodological Approach”
Panel 2: Globalization and the Concept of Sharia
Respondent: Dr. T. Scheffler (OIB)
Prof. B. Dupret “The Radical Epistemological Change of the Concept of Sharia”
Prof. M. Eldenawy (Al-Azhar University) “The Islamic Jurisprudence in the Age of Globalization”
Panel 3: Authority in Modern Islamic Law – Between Ijtihad and the Rule of Law
Respondent: Prof. E. Longuenesse (IFPO)
Prof. A. Emon (University of Toronto) “Sharia, Rule of Law, and Authority: Reflections Across Disciplines”
Prof. M. Mouaqit (Université Hassan II, Casablanca) “L’ijtihad et modernité”
24 MAR
Panel 4: Consensus and Dissent in Islamic Law in a Globalized World
Respondent: Attorney J. Kambeck
Prof. Z. Hammad (Al-Azhar University) “Understanding Juristic Differences in Islamic Law”
Dr. B. Jokisch (University of Hamburg) “Iǧmā‘ in a Globalized World. Challenging the Cornerstone of
Uṣūl al-fiqh”
Panel 5: Sharia Reconsidered in North Africa and East Asia
Respondent: Dr. B. Jokisch
Prof. A. Salim (Aga Khan University, London) “In Search of a New Methodology of Islamic Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia”
Prof. M. Ben Jémia (Université de Cartage) “Women and Sharia in Tunesia”
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26 MAR 2012 17:00 Lecture
Professor James M. Jasper (City University, New York)
“Thinking-Feeling in Protest Movements: Lessons from the Arab Spring”
West Hall, AUB
CAMES and Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies
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27 MAR 2012 17:00 Lecture
Francois Burgat (Director of IFPO)
“Political Islam through Arab revolutions”
West Hall, AUB
IFI and Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies
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27 MAR 2012 18:00 Lecture
Maria Dolores Gonzalez-Ripoll (Spanish High Council for Scientific Research)
“The Spanish Constitution of 1812″
West Hall, AUB
Instituto Cervantes, in coordination with PSPA Department and Office of Communications
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27 MAR 2012 18:00 Séminaire
“La céramique : modes de production et usages”
Johnny Samuele Baldi (Ifpo) “Entre hommes et tessons : pour une traduction d’une langue matérielle. L’exemple des céramiques chalcolithiques en Mésopotamie du Nord”
Sarah Vilain (Ifpo) “Investigations sur l’origine dune production : la céramique White Slip Ware importée au Levant à l’âge du Bronze Récent”
Samer Amhaz (Université Libanaise) “Aperçu de Saïda à l’âge du Fer d’après sa poterie”
Julie Bonnéric (Ifpo) “Approches technique, fonctionnelle et symbolique des lampes employées dans les mosquées médiévales à l’époque classique”
Bibliothèque d’archéologie de l’Ifpo
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28 MAR 2012 10:00 Séminaire
Marlène Chahine (Université Libanaise, Institut des Beaux-Arts, Département d’urbanisme, Section Ville et Paysage)
“Fontaines ou « Mnémosynes » d’une capitale ? Les temporalités de l’eau dans le paysage urbain à travers une lecture d’aménagements à Beyrouth”
CEMAM, USJ
Séminaire commun Temps et temporalités au Moyen-Orient, Ifpo, CEMAM/USJ et Université de Balaman
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28 MAR 2012 17:30 Lecture
Danielle Garbe (U.S. Embassy in Lebanon)
“U.S. Foreign Policy and the Arab Spring”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The School of Arts and Sciences and the International Affairs Program
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28 MAR 2012 18:00 Lecture
Professor Reinoud Leenders (Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam)
“Collective Action and Popular Mobilization in Dar’a: An Anatomy of the Onset of Syria’s Popular Uprising”
College Hall, AUB
Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, Netherlands Institute in Beirut
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29 MAR 2012 12:00 Lecture
James Tulsky, MD (Director, Center for Palliative Care, Duke University, USA)
“Good communication is not magic: An empirical approach to talking with seriously ill patients”
AUBMC
Ethics Matters Initiative of Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program
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29 MAR 2012 18:00 Lecture
Karin Wilkins (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)
“Wearing Shades in the Bright Future of Digital Media: Limitations of US Narratives of Media Power in Egyptian Resistance”
West Hall, AUB
CASAR
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30 MAR 2012 10:00 Lecture
Ian Condry (associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Comparative Media Studies)
“Anime as Social Media: Collaborative Creativity between Professional Creators and Fans”
Architecture Building, AUB
The Department of Architecture and Design
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30 MAR 2012 12:30 Lecture
Dr. Mike Osta
“Host-Parasite Interactions in Mosquito Vectors of Disease: What Have We Learned?”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments and Biology Department
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30-31 MAR 2012 18:00 Festival
“Festival Shiir de poésie contemporaine”
Lieu: Crypte de l’Eglise Saint-Joseph des Pères Jésuites Quartier jésuite
Un événement présenté par: Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines, USJ
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