03 OCT 2012 Discussion
“Social Safety Nets in the Middle East and North Africa”
Victoria Levin, Ibrahim Saif, Haneen Sayed
Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut
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03 OCT 2012 17:00 Séminaire
Stefan Knost (OIB), Astrid Meier (Univ. Halle)
“La géographie religieuse de la ville ottomane. Fondations waqf d’Alep et de Damas”
IFPO
Séminaire d’Histoire urbaine du Proche-Orient médiéval et ottoman
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04-08 OCT 2012 International Congress
“Inverted Worlds: Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region”
OIB
04 Oct
OIB
Keynote Lecture: Elias Khoury
05 OCT
Sound Messages: Popular Music and Social and Political Transformation (Part 1) at Bibliothèque Orientale
Yves Gonzalez-Quijano (Université de Lyon) “Arab Rap: a Culture of Revolution and a Revolution in Culture”
Jackson Allers (Cultural writer and film maker) “Arab Hip Hop – Rhymes and Revolution”
Nicolas Puig (URMIS/CEMAM, USJ) “Critical Sounds from the Periphery: Palestinian Electro in Lebanon”
Mark LeVine (University of California, Irvine) ““Scripting” the Revolution: Music, movement, and the Arab Spring’s Auratic Momentum”
Linear and Non-Linear Narratives in the context of Arab Revolutions (Part 1) at Theatre Monnot
Matthias Kispert (D-Fuse and University of the Arts, London) “Debates on Social Media and Revolution”
Hassan Choubassi (European Graduate School/Lebanese International University) “The Masses: From the Implosion of Fantasies to the Explosion of the Political. From Actual to Virtual to
Augmented”
Monika Halkort (Queen’s University Belfast) “Counting versus Narration. The Database as Political Form”
Lev Manovich (University of San Diego) “How to See One Million Images”
“Inverted Worlds – A Night of Independent Arab Short Films” at St Nicolas Stairs, Gemmayzeh
06 OCT
Gulbenkian Theatre
Linear and Non-Linear Narratives in the context of Arab Revolutions (Part 2)
Marwan Kraidy (University of Pennsylvania/AUB) “Walls of Contention: Virality, Remix and Self-Reflexivity in Revolutionary Graffiti in Beirut and Cairo”
Lotte Fasshauer (Freie Universität Berlin) “Revealing by Concealing: Lyrical Narratives and Performative Immediacy in the Video Works of Ghassan Salhab”
Roula Haj-Ismail (Phd Candidate at EGS, amateur teacher and artist) “The Non-Linearity in Transdisciplinarity and/or Let’s Sweat it Out Instead”
Amal Khalaf (Center for Possible Studies – Serpentine Gallery London) “Circles to Squares: Bahrain’s digital public sphere”
Sahar Mandour (Assafir Newspaper, Beirut)
قصة الامس
Sound Messages: Popular Music and Social and Political Transformation (Part 2)
Ines Dallaji (University of Vienna) “Tunisian Rap Music and the Arab Spring: Revolutionary Anthems and Post-Revolutionary Tendencies”
Stephan Prochazka (University of Vienna) “The Voice of Freedom – Egyptian Revolution Pop: Provocation or Encouragement”
Azza Madian, Nadia Abu Ghazi, Nihal Ragab (Cairo University) “Protest Chants and Popular Music in the Arab Spring: the Case of Egypt” (presented by Azza Madian)
Simon Dubois (Université Lumière Lyon II) “Street Songs from the Syrian Protests”
07 OCT
Beirut Art Center
Open Rebellion; Hidden Scripts (Part 1)
Sinisa Sikman (OTPOR! and Canvas, Serbia) “Nonviolent Movements are Dictators’ Worst Nightmares”
Ahmed Maher (April 6 Movement, Egypt) “After the Revolution in Egypt”
Ala’a Shehabi (Economics lecturer and co-founder of Bahrain Watch) “Configuring Dissent; Youth Resistance Movements in Bahrain in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings”
Reinoud Leenders (University of Amsterdam/King’s College London) “The Onset of Syria’s Popular Uprising: Opportunity, Networks, and Framing”
Humour, Suffering and Resistance (Part 1)
“Alaa Awad explains to Mona Abaza his Art” – a film by Rudolf Thome presented by Mona Abaza
Alaa Awad (Graffiti artist, Cairo) “Mohammed Mahmud Street – Between Ancient Egyptian Tradition and The Modern Epic”
Mohamed Anwar and Hicham Rahma (Tok Tok Magazine, Cairo) ““Do You Like What is Happening?! The Country is Falling Down!””
Nader Srage (Lebanese University): “Degages – Out – ارحل” A Password that Transcends Arab Countries
Hip Hop Concert: Khat Thaleth at Metro Al Madina
08 OCT
Orient-Institut Beirut (Zokak el-Blat)
Humour, Suffering and Resistance (Part 2)
Mona Abaza (AUC) “Cairo’s Murals and Graffiti: Memorial Spaces or Sardonic Resistance?”
Sara Binay (University of Halle) “Jokes – Indicators of Social and Political Change”
Khaled El Ekhatyar (Syrian blogger and activist) “Once Upon a Time There was a Homsi… The Seventeen Revolutionary Muscles in the Syrian Intifada”
Lisa Wedeen (University of Chicago) “Humour in Dark Times”
Open Rebellion; Hidden Scripts (Part 2)
Sinisa Sikman (OTPOR! and Canvas) “Building Civil Society Structures”
Abdulnabi Alekry (Bahrain Transparency Society, Bahrain) “Bahrain: The Aftermath of 14 February Uprising”
Faraj Najem (Libya specialist, Libya and UK) “The State of the Media just before and during the Libyan Revolution: Impact, Violation and Challenges”
Yezid Sayigh (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Beirut) “Whose Army is it Anyway?”
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05 OCT 2012 12:00 Lecture
Ken Brummel Smith (MD, Charlotte Edwards Maguire Professor and Chair, Florida State University of Medicine)
“Patient Centered Care Versus Guideline-Driven Care: How to Resolve Conflicts?”
AUBMC
The Ethics Matters Initiative of the Salim El Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program
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05 OCT 2012 12:30 Lecture
Dr. Joseph Nassif (Obstetrics/Gynecology, AUBMC)
“Minimally Invasive Gynecological Surgery: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow!”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments and Biology Department
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05 OCT 2012 16:00 Seminar
Nassif Ghoussoub (FRSC Scientific Director, Banff International Research Station, University of British Columbia)
“A symmetric Monge Kantorovich theory and applications”
College Hall, room 416, AUB
CAMS
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06 OCT 2012 Conference
“Ethics and Medical Reliability”
Golden Tulip Hotel,
The Ethics Matters Initiative of the Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program in joint sponsorship with Cleveland Clinic
and in collaboration with the Lebanese Order of Physicians
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09 OCT 2012 16:15 Seminar
Professor Khalil Bitar (Department of Physics, AUB)
“What about the Higgs?”
College Hall, AUB
CAMS
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10 OCT 2012 16:00 Seminar
Mohammad El-Dakdouki (Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Beirut Arab University)
“Magnetic Nanoparticles as a Platform for Anticancer Drug Delivery and Tumor Imaging”
Chemistry, 101, AUB
Chemistry Department
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10 OCT 2012 17:00 Séminaire
Marie-Odile Rousset (CNRS-Gremmo)
“De Chalcis à Qinnasrīn, évolution de la ville, de l’époque hellénistique à l’époque islamique”
Organisation : Ifpo / Centre Louis Pouzet-USJ
Salle de conférences de l’Institut Français du Liban, Beyrouth
Archéologie et architecture islamiques du Bilād al-Šām
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16 OCT 2012 12:00 Lecture
Kjell Kallenberg (PhD, Professor of Theology, University of Uppsala, Sweden)
“Spiritual and Existential Issues in Palliative Care”
AUBMC
The Department of Internal Medicine and
the Ethics Matters Initiative of the Salim El Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program
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16 OCT 2012 18:00 Seminar
Dr. Ahmed Abd-Elsalam (OIB, Cairo)
“المؤسسة العدلية عند البدو – تحولات اجتماعية وتاريخية”
OIB
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18 OCT 2012 09:00 Table ronde internationale
“Quartiers aristocratiques et quartiers populaires dans les villes du dār al-islām médiéval”
Organisation : Mathieu Eychenne & Vanessa Van Renterghem (Ifpo, DEAMM)
Salle de conférences de l’Institut Français du Liban, Beyrouth
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18-19 OCT 2012 Conference
“The Local Histories of Lebanon Revisited”
OIB
18 OCT
Panel I: Lebanese Historiography Re-visited
Chair: Stefan Knost
Tony Nawfal “Obstacles On the Road to A History of Lebanon: Concepts, Definitions, Orientalism”
Masud Daher
المنهج التاريخي في توىصيف الكيان اللبناني كبيت بمنازل كثيرة
Candice Raymond “Ottoman Lebanon Contested. On the Social and Epistemological Conditions of an “Ottoman Turn” in Lebanese Historiographies”
Panel 2a: Pre-Twentieth Century Themes, and Questions
Chair: Tony Nawfal
Ilyas Kattar
نقد بعض الاساطير او الحكايات المؤسسة للتاريخ الماروني
Stefan Winter “Elements for a Reappraisal of the Shihabi Emirate (1697-1840)”
Panel 2b: Pre-Twentieth Century Themes, and Questions
Leila Fawaz “The Eastern Mediterranean and the End of an Ottoman Era, ca 1900-1914″
Malek Sharif “Local, Imperial and Global intersections in the Late Ottoman Period”
19 OCT
Panel 3: Modern Lebanon: the nation and its fragments
Chair: Mohamad Rihan
Abdel-Raouf Sinno
لبنان الفدرالي: مشروع حلّ أم تقسيم
Mohamad Rihan “An Intimate Account of a Shiʻi family During the Formation of Modern Lebanon: the Brothers al-Amine”
Youssef Choueiri “Rewriting the Histories of Lebanon: Theoretical Strategies and Narratives”
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23 OCT 2012 16:00 Seminar
Dr. Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer (CRPH Director, and the MATCH study group)
“Innovative Approaches to the Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative Data on HIV testing and counseling in Africa”
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
CRPH
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23 OCT 2012 16:00 Lecture
Atef Said (human rights activist)
“The US Empire in the Egyptian Revolution: Ethnographic Notes from Tahrir and Beyond”
West Hall, AUB
IFI and CASAR
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23 OCT 2012 18:00 Seminar
Prof. Dr. Stefan Winter (Université du Québec à Montréal)
“The ‘Alawis of Syria under Ottoman Rule: Sectarian Taxes and the Politics of Notables”
OIB
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24 OCT 2012 18:00 Conférence
Michel al-Maqdissi (Directeur du Service des fouilles, DGAM-Syrie)
“QATNA. Trésors d’une capitale en Syrie Centrale à l’âge du Bronze”
Salle de conférence de l’Institut français du Liban
IFPO
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26 OCT-04 NOV 2012 Event
“The 20th Francophone Book Fair, Beirut”
BIEL
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30 OCT 2012 16:00 Lecture
“The Power of Concentrated Mind; that is the point”
West Hall, AUB
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University
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30 OCT 2012 17:00 Lecture
Jennifer Holt (University of California Santa Barbara)
“A View from the Cloud: Watching Television in the Digital Era”
West Hall, AUB
CASAR
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30 OCT 2012 18:00 Lecture
Maath Al Alousi (architect, writer, and artist)
“Nostos, A Tale of a Street in Baghdad”
West Hall, AUB
The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature
The lecture will be in dialogue with Nader El-Bizri (Civilization Sequence Program) on homecoming, memory, and reflections on the being of place and time.
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31 OCT 2012 18:00 Lecture
Teresa Barger (Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director, Cartica Capital)
“Creating Culture: The Power of Corporate and National Governance to Shape Culture”
Maamari Auditorium, AUB
OSB and Hawkamah
Rami Makhzoumi Chair in Corporate Governance Lecture Series
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