04 JUN 2012 12:00 Lecture
Mandy Turner (social scientist)
“Peacebuilding as Colonial Practice in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
UN in the Arab World Program at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
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05 JUN 2012 19:00 Lecture
Waheed Hamed (Egyptian Writer and Screenwriter)
“The Arab Spring Today”
West Hall, AUB
the Samir Kassir Foundation, as part of its 2012 Beirut Spring Festival
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07 JUN 2012 17:30 Lecture
Ali Jaber (General Manager, MBC Television Group)
“Arab Satellite TV as Disruptive Innovation? Reflections from the Trenches on Managing”
Maamari Auditorium, OSB, AUB
Darwazah Center
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08 JUN 2012 10:00 Séminaire doctoral
Mathilde Chèvre (Doctorant en littérature arabe, Université de Provence Aix-Marseille/IFPO)
“La création arabe en littérature jeunesse depuis 1967, projet et reflet des sociétés (Égypte, Syrie, Liban)”
Discutant : Sonja Mejcher Atassi (assistant professor à l’AUB) et Yves Gonzalez-Quijano (chercheur CNRS/Ifpo)
IFPO
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08 JUN 2012 12:00 Lecture
Gustavo E. Scuseria (Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA)
“Theoretical and Computational Methods for Materials Design”
Physics Building, AUB
The FAS Program in Computational Science
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11 JUN 2012 19:00 Event
“Remembering Omar al-Ounsi (painter, 1901-69)”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: LAU’s Center for Lebanese Heritage
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12 JUN 2012 Discussion
“The Chinese Economic Model: Policies and Best Practices”
Matthew Ferchen, Paul Salem
Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut
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12-16 JUN 2012 Exhibition
“Armenian Embroidery”
Matossian Gallery, Haigazian University
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13 JUN 2012 17:00 Séminaire
Mathieu Eychenne (Ifpo) & Élodie Vigouroux (Ifpo)
“Un document inédit pour servir à l’histoire urbaine de Damas. L’inventaire des biens waqfs de la Mosquée des Omeyyades (1413)”
IFPO
Séminaire Histoire urbaine du Proche-Orient médiéval et moderne
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14 JUN 2012 09:00 Conference
“Droit et propriété au Liban : explorations empiriques / Law and Property in Lebanon : Empirical Investigations”
Organisation : Centre Jacques Berque / Ifpo
Venue : IFPO
Session 1 : Propriété foncière et transformations politiques : perspectives historiques
Vanessa Guéno (IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence)
« Régime foncier et notion de propriété: histoire d’une pratique juridique (XIXe-XXe siècle) dans le Bilâd As-Shâm »
Said Chaaya (Doctorant, EPHE, Paris)
« Un concept d’appartenance ou une vision d’identité. La problématique des « terres » au Liban au XIXe siècle »
Zouhair Ghazzal (Loyola University, Chicago)
« La politique économique de la propriété sous un régime de patrimonialisme fiscal au XIXe siècle »
Session 2 : Droit et propriétés religieuses : le waqf entre instrument juridique et institution politique
Marwan Sakr (Avocat aux barreaux de Beyrouth et de Paris ; Université Saint Joseph Beyrouth)
« Droit de propriété, wakfs, fiducie et trust anglo-saxon. Convergence et divergence »
James Casey (PhD Candidate – Princeton University)
« Politics of PiousProperty: reassessing the colonial encounter in Mandate Lebanon through Islamic endowments »
Session 3 : Droit et infrastructures: biens publics, ressources privées, enjeux politiques
Simon Jackson (European University Institute, Florence)
« Making concessions: the legal politics of infrastructural property in Mandate Lebanon, 1919-1939 »
Roland Riachi (CREG, Université Pierre Mendès France Grenoble II)
« Entre barrages et aquifères: les droits d’usage des ressources hydriques du “Château d’Eau du Levant” »
Stéphane Cartier (CNRS PACTE Grenoble, LIBRIS)
Annie Tabet (Département de sociologie, Université Saint Joseph Beyrouth, LIBRIS)
« Statut immobilier et appropriation de la vulnérabilité sismique à Beyrouth, transmettre l’ouvrage et son danger, exprimer ou taire le droit à la sécurité »
Session 4 : La propriété à l’épreuve de l’ambition ethnographique : terrainsbeyrouthins
Karim El-Mufti (Enseignant-Chercheur, Beyrouth)
« La gestion de copropriété dans un quartier multicommunautaire de Beyrouth (Moussaitbeh): ethnographie d’une citoyenneté locale »
Nada Moumtaz (City University of New York)
« Contesting Publics: Public Utility and Religious Interest in Contemporary Beirut »
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15 JUN 2012 Lecture
Ghazi Al Aridi (Minister of Public Works and Transport)
“Tripoli Port and its Role in the Economic Development”
Tripoli Campus, BAU
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15 JUN 2012 12:30 Lecture
Dr. Yehia Mechref (Texas Tech University)
“Probing the Glycomic and Glycoproteomic Signature of Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments and Biology Department
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15 JUN 2012 17:00 Lecture
Dr. Jean Watson
“Caring Science: Disciplinary Foundation for Nursing, Past and Future”
Hisham Jaroudi Auditorium, AUB
Hariri School of Nursing and its newly established Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society (STTI)
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15 JUN 2012 17:30 Seminar
Andy Young (Architect Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners)
“GREEN IS GREAT: Lebanon and UK Experiences in Sustainable Architecture”
Charles W. Hostler Student Center Auditorium, AUB
the WAAAUB Engineering and Architecture Chapter and the British Embassy in Beirut
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19 JUN 2012 Conférence
Anis Chaaya (Chercheur à l’Ifpo)
“L’Évolution du Château de Saint-Gilles de Tripoli depuis sa fondation”
Palais Nawfal, Tripoli
Conférence organisée par l’Institut français du Liban
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20 JUN 2012 Discussion
“Algeria: Political and Security Challenges”
Abdennour Benantar, Yezid Sayigh
Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut
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20 JUN 2012 18:00 Séminaire de l’Observatoire Urbain
Bruno Marot (Doctorant à l’Université McGill, Montréal, Canada, Chercheur associé à l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris)
“Beyrouth, 20 ans après : un modèle de reconstruction à l’origine de futurs troubles politiques ?”
Discutante: Sophie Brones (Anthropologue, chercheuse associée au Laboratoire d’Anthropologie urbaine, IIAC/LAU, EHESS/CNRS)
IFPO
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20-21 JUN 2012 Workshop
“Towards a History of Political Theory in Islamic Tradition”
OIB
20 JUN
Panel 1: Political Science
Aziz al-Azmeh (Central European University, Budapest), “God’s Caravan”
Nasr Arif (Zayed University, Dubai), “Challenging the Conventional Islamic Political Theories: Uncovering New Resources and New Approaches”
Ridwan as-Sayyid (Beirut)
إسهام كتب مرايا الأمراء في الفكر السياسي الوسيط
Panel 2: Political Terms
Stefan Leder (Martin Luther University, Halle / Orient-Institut Beirut) “Legitimation of Power in Political Thought”
Jennifer Viehl (Martin Luther University, Halle) “Government and Governance in Political Advice Literature”
Panel 3: Perspectives and Interests
Yaser Kansoh (Tanta University)
الآداب السلطانية: عندما ينصب المفعول به الفاعل
Ahmed al-Zoabi (Beirut)
نماذج مجهولة من كتاب المرايا في العصر الوسيط
21 JUN
Panel 4: Persian Tradition
Mohsen Zakeri (Georg-August-University, Göttingen) “Futuwwa-namas as Mirrors for Princes? Courtly futuwwa and its ethicpolitical literature”
Mohamed Taghi Karami (Tehran)
من يمتلك حق التأويل: الصراع بين الاخباريين والأصوليين
فی أصول التشريع وماهية السلطة الشرعية عند الشيعة الإمامية
Haydar Bozar Jamhar (Tehran/Beirut)
محاولة ايضاح تاريخ الفکر السياسي من العصر الصفوي حتی العصر
الحديث اي مجيی الحکم القاجاري فی ايران
Panel 5: Particular Issues
Mohamed Helmy (Cairo)
جدالات الشريعة والشرعية في الفكر السياسي الإسلامي
Ahmed Salem (Tanta University)
أثر العرق في تأصيل الآداب السلطانية في الثقافة العربية
Panel 6: Books and Authors
Syrinx von Hees (Orient-Institut Beirut) “Political Advice Literature as Mirrors of “Court Society” –the Example of Ibn Nubāta”
Fouad Abdelmunim (Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, Riyad)
الماوردي وابن الجوزي ودورهما في التراث السياسي الإسلامي
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21 JUN 2012 Discussion
Mohamed Tawfik (Egyptian Ambassador of Lebanon)
“Egypt After the Revolution”
Beirut campus, LAU
in Drs. Imad Salamey (Associate Professor of Political Science) and Tamirace Fakhoury’s (assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences) class “Arab Spring and Political Systems”
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22 JUN 2012 Discussion
“Egypt’s New President: Political and Economic Challenges”
Zainab Abul-Magd, Tewfik Aclimandos, Omar Ashour, Hala Mustafa, Ibrahim Saif, Yezid Sayigh, Amr Shalakany, Samer Soliman
Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut
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22 JUN 2012 12:30 Lecture
Dr. Samia Khoury (Director, MS Center, Director, Abu-Haidar Neuroscience Institute)
“Galectin-1: Gatekeeper in CNS Inflammation”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments and Biology Department
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22 JUN 2012 18:00 Séminaire
Jean-Paul Thalmann (Université de Paris I-Sorbonne) et Barbara Chiti (Ifpo)
“L’architecture domestique à l’âge du Bronze au Liban et en Syrie : regards croisés”
IFPO
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25 JUN 2012 17:00 Séminaire doctoral
Monika Halkort (Doctorante affiliée à l’université de Belfast)
“Taming the Insurgent city. On the role of information technology in rebuilding Nahr el Bared, a Palestinian refugee camp in North Lebanon”
Discutant : Nicolas Puig (Chercheur à l’IRD, Associé au Cemam (Usj))
IFPO
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27 JUN-10 JUL 2012 Exhibition
“Architecture & Design End of Year Exhibition”
Byblos campus / Beirut campus, LAU
The LAU’s Department of Architecture and Design
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29 JUN 2012 Discussion
“Perceptions and Realities of Turkey’s Role in a Changing Arab World”
Mustafa Alani, Muhittin Ataman, Jihad El Zein, Maria Fantappie, Timur Goksel, Sabiha Gündoğar, Wassim Kalaajieh, Sadan Kardaş, Nadim Koteich, Mesut Özcan, Can Paker, Paul Salem
Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut
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29 JUN 2012 12:30 Lecture
Dr. Hayat Harati (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics)
“Galactosylceramide as Potential Treatment for Juvenile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments and Biology Department
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29 JUN 2012 13:00 Lecture
Dr. Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk (University of Maryland’s School of Medicine, Baltimore)
“Candida and Candidiasis”
Beirut campus / Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Natural Sciences
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