02 APR 2012 16:00 Seminar
P. R. Kotiuga (ECE Department, Boston University, USA)
“The Necessity of Abstraction: How the blind can help the sighted with 3-D visualization issues associated with Stokes Theorem”
College Hall, AUB
CAMS
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02 APR 2012 17:00 Séminaire doctoral
Giacomo Galéno (Étudiant en master 2 à l’université Ca’ Foscari de Venise)
“Mouvements civils au Liban pour la laïcisation”
Discutant : Marie Noëlle Abiyaghi (Université Paris I Sorbonne /CRPS)
IFPO
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02-05 PAR 2012 18:00 Event
“Alumni Film Festival”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Alumni Relations Office and the LAU Alumni Filmmakers in collaboration with the Department of Communication Arts, School of Arts and Sciences
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03 APR 2012 12:00 Lecture
Sahel Al Hiyari (architect)
“Transitions”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
The Department of Architecture and Design
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03 APR 2012 13:00 Lecture
Zeina Fathallah (Senior Social Specialist at the Cultural Heritage and Urban Development Project at the Council for Development and Reconstruction)
“More work and network-building on abortion in Lebanon”
Nicely Hall, AUB
The Center for Behavioral Research (AUB)
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04 APR 2012 Discussion
Sinan Ülgen (Carnegie Europe)
“From Inspiration to Aspiration: Turkey in the New Middle East”
Moderator: Paul Salem (Carnegie Beirut)
Carnegie Middle East Center
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04 APR 2012 Lecture
Professor Demitrios Mavrakis (Director of the Energy Policy & Development Center at National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
“The Challenges of Energy Development”
BAU
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04 APR 2012 09:00 Lecture
Muzammil M. Hussain (the University of Washington)
“The Digital Scaffolding of Civil Society: Information Infrastructure as Politics”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The International Affairs program
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04 APR 2012 12:30 Lecture
Dr. Christine Pullar (Associate Professor, Department of Cell Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Leicester)
“Modulation of Dermal Fibroblast Differentiation and Function by B2 Adrenergic Receptor Signaling: Implication in Skin Wound Healing and Scarring”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments
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04 APR 2012 18:00 Lecture
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting (the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French)
“Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women Expatriates in Jazz Age Paris”
West Hall, AUB
The Center for American Studies and Research (AUB)
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04 APR 2012 18:30 Lecture
Carlos Jimenez Cenamor (architect)
“Architectural Experiments and Other Academic Species”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
The Department of Architecture and Design
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04 APR 2012 18:30 Séminaire
Dr Syrinx Von Hess (Research Associate, Orient Institut, Beyrouth)
“Medicine and Old Age during the Mamluk Period. Perceptions an Realities”
IFPO
Séminaire commun d’études médiévales (Ifpo, Centre Louis-Pouzet, Université Saint-Joseph)
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10 APR 2012 18:00 Conférence
Mounir Corm (diplômé de Sciences po Paris et HEC)
“Pour une IIIe République libanaise. Étude critique pour sortir de Taëf”
Salle de conférences de l’Institut Français du Liban
IFPO
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10 APR 2012 19:00 Event
“A Poetry Evening with Salah Stetie”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Center for Lebanese Heritage
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11 APR 2012 16:00 Lecture
Professor Samir Zard (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
“A Quest for New Reactions: Some Adventures in Organic Chemistry”
The Chemistry Department, AUB
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11 APR 2012 17:00 Séminaire
“L’histoire urbaine au péril de l’effacement : Écrire l’histoire de la ruine du Caire et de Damas vers 1400″
Julien Loiseau (Institut universitaire de France, univ. Montpellier III)
Élodie Vigouroux (Ifpo, chercheur associé)
IFPO
Séminaire: Histoire urbaine du Proche-Orient médiéval et moderne
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12 APR 2012 Forum
“Creativity”
BAU
The Faculty of Science
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12 APR 2012 15:30 Lecture
Professor Peter Coveney (Director of the Centre for Computational Science)
“Computational Biomedicine: An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century”
College Hall, AUB
The Program in Computational Science
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17 APR 2012 15:00 Lecture
Wissam S. Yafi (International Development Practitioner, and Technologist)
“Inevitable Democracy in the Arab World: the Dynamics and Role of Technology”
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
the Arab Uprisings Lecture Series
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17 APR 2012 16:00 Lecture
Walid Abou Salem (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
“Resonant tunneling of fast solitons through large potential barriers”
College Hall, AUB
The Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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18 APR 2012 12:00 Lecture
Dr. Ray Mouawad (assistant professor of history at LAU)
“Emirs and Palaces, 16-19th Century Lebanon”
Beirut campus, LAU
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18 APR 2012 16:00 Lecture
Walid Abou Salem (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
“Adiabatic evolution of coupled surface and internal waves”
College Hall, AUB
The Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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18 APR 2012 17:00 Lecture
Dr. Charbel Nahas
“The future of employees and workers in Lebanon”
Issam Fares Hall, AUB
The Human Rights and Peace Club at AUB
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18 APR 2012 18:00 Lecture
Francesca Chessa (illustrator)
“The Art of Color”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: School of Architecture and Design
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19 APR 2012 18:00 Séminaire
Daniel Meier (Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Lebanese Studies Middle East Centre – St Antony’s College – Oxford University, Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID) – Genève)
“Mleeta : le Hezbollah en musée”
IFPO
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19 APR 2012 18:00 Lecture
Prof. Dr. Benjamin Fortna (SOAS/London)
“Out of Empire: Education and Change in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Periods”
OIB
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19-21 APR 2012 International Workshop
“Education in Lebanon during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Catalyst for Multiple Modernities?”
OIB
Funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
Conveners: Julia Hauser (University of Göttingen/Germany), Valeska Huber (German Historical Institute London/UK), Christine Lindner (University of Balamand/Lebanon), Esther Möller (Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz/Germany)
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20 APR 2012 12:30 Lecture
Dr. Hala Darwish (Abu-Haidar Neuroscience Institute and Rafic Hariri School of Nursing)
“Learning and Memory Post Traumatic Brain Injury: A Rat Model”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments and Biology Department
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20 APR 2012 13:00 Lecture
Ilana Feldman (Associate Professor, Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University)
“UNRWA’s long-term humanitarianism: The politics of living in a Palestinian refugee camp”
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
IFI
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20 APR 2012 16:00 Lecture
Tobias Muehlenbruch (Fern Universitdt in Hagen, Germany)
“From period polynomials to period functionsm”
College Hall, AUB
The Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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20 APR 2012 17:30 Lecture
Dylan Evans (AUB visiting professor, writer and entrepreneur)
“Risk Intelligence”
Maamari Auditorium, AUB
The Psychology Department and the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business (AUB)
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20 APR 2012 17:30 Lecture
“Trusted sources, Hassan Khan and Angela Harutyunyan in conversation”
College Hall, AUB
The Department of Fine Arts and Art History
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20 APR 2012 18:00 Séminaire
“Archéologie chrétienne et byzantine”
Marc Griesheimer (Ifpo) : « Monuments du culte chrétien dans le Massif calcaire (Syrie) »
Frédéric Alpi (Ifpo) : « Inscriptions chrétiennes de Jiyeh (Liban) »
Abdallal Alaeddine (UL) : « Late 6th – Early 7th century AD pottery deposit from Bey 004 »
Julie Bonneric et Mathilde Gelin (Ifpo) : « Églises de Faïlaka (Koweit) et Cyrrhus (Syrie) : études de cas »
IFPO
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20 APR 2012 18:30 Lecture
Professor Reinhard Kratz (University of Gottingen)
“The Aramic Version of the Achiqar-Story: The Literature of the Jewish Diaspora in Ancient Egypt”
Archaeological Museum, AUB
2012 memorial lecture by Anis Makdisi Program for Literature (AUB)
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23 APR 2012 11:00 Lecture
Martyn Egan (the European University Institute, Florence)
“Bourdieu in Beirut: the effects of Wasta on social capital in Lebanon”
Byblos/Beirut campus, LAU
Organizers: The Social Sciences Department
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24 APR 2012 13:00 Lecture
Belinda Walzer (the University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
“Narrative Possibilities: Rhetorical Approaches to Gender and Human Rights in Contemporary Literature and Cultural Studies”
Nicely Hall, AUB
Center for Behavioral Research (AUB)
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24 APR 2012 16:00 Lecture
Dr. Ramez Maluf (associate professor of communications arts at LAU)
“Review of the Literature: Judeo-Christian Influences on Islam”
Beirut campus, LAU
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24 APR 2012 16:00 Lecture
Rami Zurayk (Professor at the department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, AUB)
“The Uprisings through an Agrarian Lens”
West Hall, AUB
Arab Uprisings Lecture Series by The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (AUB)
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24 APR 2012 18:00 Conférence
“La violence contre les femmes : Du silence à la justice”
Marie Zalzal (Avocate et auteur de plusieurs études sur la violence contre les femmes)
Faten Abou Chacra (Coordinatrice de la campagne, Pour la protection des femmes contre la violence familiale, Association Kafa)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut français
IFPO
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24 APR 2012 18:30 Lecture
Ron Senkowski (Hollywood film producer)
“Things Lead to Things: From Batman to Gibran”
Charles W. Hostler Student Center, AUB
OSB (AUB)
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25 APR 2012 12:00 Debate
“On Death Penalty in Lebanon”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Outreach and Civil Engagement Unit
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25 APR 2012 18:00 Discussion
“The Arabised Musical Notation by Shafiq Geha”
Participants:
Nidaa Abou Mrad (the Antonine University)
Reverend Habib Badr (Near East School of Theology)
Father Badeeh Hajj (USEK)
Moderator: Akram El-Rayyes
West Hall, AUB
Zaki Nassif Music Program and Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AUB)
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25 APR 2012 17:30 Lecture
Samir Rebeiz (Architect-Conservator)
“Carpets in Islamic Art: Symbolism and Interpretation”
AUB Museum
The Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum
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25 APR 2012 18:30 Lecture
Stephan Exsternbrink (architect, professor)
“Beyond the Void”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
The Department of Architecture and Design
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26 APR 2012 16:30 Table ronde
“Le statut personnel libanais: Approche évolutive”
Lieu: 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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26 APR 2012 17:00 Workshop
“Reading for All”
Maamari Auditorium, OSB, AUB
organized by the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service,
in collaboration with the Lebanese Board on Books for Young People and Inclusion network
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26 APR 2012 17:30 Séminaire
Jennifer Casagrande (Doctorante en Géographie et Histoire Urbaine, Majal IUA-ALBA / LIVE(CNRS)-UdS Strasbourg)
“Peut-on assimiler la banlieue nord-est de Beyrouth à une « entre-ville » ?”
Discutant: Serge Yazigi (architecte, professeur, MAJAL)
IFPO
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26 APR 2012 17:30 Lecture
Mohammad Nuruzzaman (Associate Professor for International Relations, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait)
“Post-2003 Geopolitical Rivalries, Conflicts and Prospects of Cooperation between Iran and the Gulf Arab States”
College Hall, AUB
CAMES and PSPA
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27 APR 2012 12:30 Lecture
Dr. Carl Saab (Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University)
“Brains Suffer from Pain”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments and Biology Department
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27-28 APR 2012 Colloque
“Figures du dialogue: Problématique, grands pionniers et perspectives comparées”
Lieu: Campus des sciences humaines, USJ
Un événement présenté par: Faculté des sciences religieuses, Institut d’études islamo-chrétiennes
En collaboration avec: Fondation Georges Frem
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30 APR 2012 12:00 Lecture
Hicham Kharroub
“Author vs. Translator: Traduttore Traditore”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Graduate Program in Comparative Literature at the Department of Humanities
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30 APR 2012 17:00 Lecture
Goong Chen (Texas A&M University)
“Computation and Visualization of Solutions of Nonlinear Schrvdinger Equations by OpenFOAM”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
The FAS Program in Computational Science
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30 APR 2012 18:00 Lecture
Shahira Fahmy (architect)
“The Places in Between”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
The Department of Architecture and Design
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