01 NOV 2012 12:30 Lecture
Mohammad Watfa
“IDESK: Revolutionary New Concept in Education”
Hostler Auditorium, AUB
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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05 NOV 2012 13:00 Lecture
John Karam (De Paul University)
“The Arab Americas: Renegotiating National and Hemispheric Orders”
Nicely Hall, AUB
Center for Behavioral Research (AUB)
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05 NOV 2012 14:00 Lecture
Emma Hayward (University of Pennsylvania)
“States and the Devolution of Judicial Power: A Comparison of Egypt and Lebanon”
West Hall, AUB
Department of Political Studies and Public Administration
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05 NOV 2012 16:00 Lecture
talk by Papou Lahoud Saade on her journey with fashion design
West Hall, AUB
Women’s League (AUB)
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05 NOV 2012 19:00 Lecture
Dr. Antoine El-Khoury Harb
“Lebanon: Dialect of the Name and Entity over 4000 years”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Center for Lebanese Heritage (LAU)
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06 NOV 2012 12:00 Presentation
Dr. Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss (LAU)
“The US Presidential Elections”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Social Sciences
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06 NOV 2012 17:00 Debate
“Religious Authorities and Nature: Preserving or Exploiting the Environment of Awqaf (Land Endowments)?”
Guest speakers:
Judge Abbas Al-Halabi (President of the Endowment Committee in the Confessional Council of the Druze Community)
Sheikh Wael Shbaro (Representative of the General Director of the Islamic Waqf in Dar Al Fatwa)
Souad Slim (Associate Professor, Cultural Studies Program, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Balamand)
Father Charbel Makhlouf (Representative of the Maronite Waqf in Bcharre)
Moderator: Dr. Charles Harb (Associate Professor, Department of Psychology)
West Hall, AUB
AUB Nature Conservation Center
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06 NOV 2012 18:30 Conférence
Madame Liliane BUCCIANTI -BARAKAT
Monsieur Henri CHAMUSSY
“Le Liban : Permanances et fragilités”
Bibliothèque Orientale, USJ
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07 NOV 2012 12:00 Lecture
Salah D. Salman (MD, formerly AUBMC and Harvard Medical School and member of the CCNLE)
“Failures of Medical Education and Good Old Policing in Healthcare”
AUBMC
The Ethics Matters Initiative of the Salim El Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program
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07 NOV 2012 15:00 Discussion
“Understanding the US Presidential Elections”
Building 37, Conference A, AUB
CASAR and IFI
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07 NOV 2012 18:00 Lecture
Halla Ayla
“Introduction to the Enneagram of Personality Types-Discovering New Pathways to Success”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Alumni Relations’ office
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07 NOV 2012 18:00 Séminaire
Bruno Paoli (Ifpo)
“Écrire l’histoire médiévale des Alaouites de Syrie: lecture du Kitāb ḫayr al-ṣanī‘a du cheikh Ḥarfūš (1890-1959)”
IFPO
Séminaire d’Histoire urbaine du Proche-Orient médiéval et ottoman
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07 NOV 2012 18:30 Conférence
M. le Professeur Salim Daccache et M. le Professeur Bernard Rey
“Recherche, Education et Société”
Campus de l’innovation et du sport, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Ecole Doctorale – Sciences de l’homme et de la société
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08 NOV 2012 17:00 Lecture
Professor Marvin Carlson (the City University of New York)
“Contemporary Arab and Islamic Theatre: A Global Perspective”
College Hall, AUB
English Department, CASAR and Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature
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10-18 NOV 2012 Exposition
“Transfigurations”
M. Mahmoud ZIBAWI
Crypte de l ‘Eglise Saint-Joseph des Pères Jésuites, Achrafieh
Bibliothèque Orientale, USJ
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12 NOV 2012 17:30 Lecture
Dr. Youssef El Khalil (Senior Director of the Financial Operations Department at the Central Bank)
“Lebanon and the global financial crisis”
College Hall, AUB
The University for Seniors, three-lecture series on finance
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13 NOV 2012 17:30 Lecture
Akram Rayyes (authority on Arabic music and art)
“Zaki Nassif (1916-2004): A music biography”
College Hall, AUB
The University for Seniors and the Zaki Nassif Program for Music
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13 NOV 2012 19:30 Conférence
Docteur Monira Al Qadri (artiste Koweitienne, spécialiste de l’art Japonais)
“Neo-Japonisme : The Evolution of the Japanese Contemporary Image”
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Centre académique japonais
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14 NOV 2012 15:30 Lecture
Mohamed Elagati (director of the Arab Forum for Alternatives)
“The Emerging Political Landscape in Egypt – New players and the Constitutional Debates”
West Hall, AUB
IFI and CAMES
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14 NOV 2012 16:00 Seminar
Roger Nakad (Notre Dame University)
“Isometric immersions into complex space form”
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences (AUB)
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14 NOV 2012 16:30 Lecture
Professor Christian Klingenberg (Wurzburg University, Germany)
“How Numerical Simulations Help to Understand the Evolution of the Universe”
Beirut /Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Computer Science and Mathematics
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16 NOV 2012 12:00 Lecture
Marya Aziz (Mcgill University)
“In-Situ Biosynthesis of Natural Flavors by Yarrowia Lipolytica”
Beirut /Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Natural Sciences
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16 NOV 2012 17:00 Lecture
Dr. Charles Elachi (director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
“Curiosity: the challenge and excitement of landing on Mars”
Beirut campus, LAU
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17 NOV 2012 09:00 Research Workshop
“Workers organisations, social demands, and public policies”
Organized by the OIB in cooperation with IFPO
Venue: OIB
Keynote speaker: Elisabeth Longuenesse (Director, Department of Contemporary Studies, IFPO)
Panel 1: Trade unions in post-war Lebanon
Ghassan Slaiby (Sub-Regional Secretary, Arab Countries, Public Service International)
Castro Abdallah (President of FENASOL, Federation of Lebanese Workers Unions)
Abdel Amir Najde (President of Federation of Public Cars Drivers for Land Transport Unions)
Panel 2: Niqabat and rawabit: Workers’ demands and social issues
Adib Bou Habib General Secretary of Printing Press Employees Union and President of the Lebanese Trade Union Training Centre)
Hanna Gharib (President of Public Secondary School Teachers League)
Georges Hajj (President of the Federation of Bank Workers Union)
Kamal Mawlud (President of the Union of North Lebanon Water Establishment Workers)
Farah Kobaissy (Lebanese Observatory for the Rights of Workers and Employees)
Panel 3: Egyptian Experiences
Tarek Moustafa (General Secretary, Real Estate Tax Authority Union, Cairo)
Hussein El Masry (Training Coordinator, Centre for Trade Union Services, Helwan)
Ghassan Slaiby
Panel 4: New actors in the Lebanese workers’ movement
Bassem Chit (Socialist forum – al Muntada al-Ishtiraki, Beirut)
Lubnan Makhoul (President of Electricity Workers League)
Samir Tawk (Spinneys Workers Union)
Mohammad Mansour (Public Sector Cooperative Workers)
Mohammad Boukhari (Hariri Hospital Workers)
Ziyad Abdel Samad (Executive Director Arab NGO Network for Development)
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19 NOV 2012 13:00 Lecture
Nadia Bou Ali (University of Oxford)
“In the Hall of Mirrors: The Arab Nahda, Nationalism, and the Question of Language”
Nicely Hall, AUB
Center for Behavioral Research (AUB)
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19 NOV 2012 17:30 Lecture
Dr. Youssef El Khalil (Senior Director of the Financial Operations Department at the Central Bank)
“Development economy in Lebanon”
College Hall, AUB
The University for Seniors, three-lecture series on finance
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19 NOV 2012 18:30 Lecture
Dahna Abourahme (filmmaker)
“The Kingdom of Women: Creating the Visual Language”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Department of Architecture and Design
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20 NOV 2012 18:00 Seminar
Berenike Metzler (OIB research fellow)
“How to deal with God’s Word – The Kitāb Fahm al-Qur’ān of al-Muḥāsibī (781-857)”
OIB
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21 NOV 2012 18:00 Séminaire
Pierre Moukarzel (professeur, Université libanaise)
“Beyrouth dans les récits de pèlerinage des XIVe et XVe siècles”
Bibliothèque Orientale, USJ
Organizer: Le Centre Louis Pouzet (USJ) and IFPO
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26 NOV 2012 13:00 Lecture
Fadi Fayyad (Center for Innovation and Technology – Industrial Research Institute (CIT))
“Innovations Vouchers”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Natural Sciences
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26 NOV 2012 17:30 Lecture
Dr. Youssef El Khalil (Senior Director of the Financial Operations Department at the Central Bank)
“Personal investment”
College Hall, AUB
The University for Seniors, three-lecture series on finance
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27 NOV 2012 17:00 Disccusion
“Author Meets Interlocutors: Elena Glasberg’s Antarctica as Culture Critique”
Panelists: Patrick McGreevy, MonaFawaz, LisaHajjar, Munira Khayyat, and Amira Solh
Moderator: Jasbir Puar
Building 37, AUB
CASAR
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27 NOV 2012 17:00 Conférence
“La liberté d’opinion et la liberté d’expression entre le prohibé et le permis”
Avec :
R.P. Professeur Salim Daccache (Recteur de l’Université Saint-Joseph)
SE M. Walid Daouk (Ministre de l’Information)
SE M. Nazem El Khoury (Ministre de l’Environnement)
Professeur Hassan Tabet Rifaat
Professeur Georges Kadige (Directeur du CEDROMA)
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Centre d’études des droits du monde arabe
En collaboration avec : Faculté de droit et des sciences politiques
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28-30 NOV 2012 Exhibition
“The Disappeared in Lebanon: 30 Years Later”
presented by ACT for the Disappeared
West Hall, AUB
Department of Political Studies and Public Administration
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28 NOV 2012 13:00 Lecture
Dr. Aimee N. Karam (Balamand University)
“Treating Anxiety Disorders and Depression Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy”
Beirut / Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Social Sciences
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28 NOV 2012 17:00 Lecture
Michaeljohn Raftopoulos (a founding partner at AREA – Architecture Research Athens)
“The Dialectical City”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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28 NOV 2012 17:30 Lecture
Leila Badre (Director, AUB Museum)
“Recent Discovery of the First Phoenician Temple in Tyre”
Archaeological Museum, AUB
Society of the Friends of the Museum (AUB)
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29 NOV 2012 17:30 Lecture
Dr. Beth Bailey (Temple University)
“America’s Army: Citizenship, the Market, and the All-Volunteer Force”
West Hall, AUB
CASAR
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29-30 NOV 2012 Conference
“Religion and Democracy in Europe and the Arab World”
Byblos campus, LAU
in collaboration with Adyan foundation and Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Amman office)
29 NOV
1- Religion and Democracy: Redefining the Relation from European and Arab Perspectives
Panel Chair: Dr. Makram Ouaiss (Chair of Department of Social Sciences, LAU)
Dr. Hadi Adanali (Senior Advisor to the Office of Prime Minister, Turkey) “Religious Argument for Democracy vs. Argument for Religious Democracy”
Prof. Muhammad al Muhammadi al Mady (Director, Research center, Cairo University; Founding member of Freedom and Justice Party, Egypt) “The mutual relation between Democracy and Religion: case study of Egypt (Arabic)”
Dr. Michael D. Driessen (Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs John Cabot University, Italy/ USA) “Religious Democracy in the Mediterranean? Reflections on the Unsecular in Catholic and Muslim Societies”
H.E. Hassan Abou Nimah (Former ambassador – Jordanian Foreign Office, Jordan) “The complex relation between religion and democracy (Arabic)”
2- Democracy in the scope of religions
Panel Chair: Prof. Fadi Daou (Chairman of Adyan Foundation)
Prof. Muhammad A. Sharkawi (Head of Department of Islamic Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Cairo University) “The Relationship between Democracy and the Islamic Reference of the state in Egypt (Arabic)”
Rev. Archimandrite Nikodemos Anagnostopoulos (PhD candidate at Heythrop College, University of London) “The mutual influences between Religion, State and Democracy under a Theological point of view”
Shaykh Dr. Chafic Jradi (Director of Sapiential Knowledge Institute, Lebanon) “Islamic popular sovereignty or religious democracy (Arabic)”
Dr. Radwan Masmoudi (President of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), Tunisia) “Islam and the Future of Democracy in the Arab World”
3- Religion in the scope of secular democracies
Panel Chair: Dr. Tamirace Fakhoury (Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, LAU)
Prof. Wolfram Reiss (Professor of the Study of Religions, Department of Protestant Theology, University of Vienna, Austria) “Religion and Transformation in Europe – a source of civic social capital and conflicts in Western democracies”
Prof. Wajih Kanso (Professor of Philosophy at the Lebanese University) “Transformation of religious movements towards democracy: occasional or authentic? (Arabic)”
Shaykh Muhammad Abou Zayd (Lecturer in law at al Jinan University, Lebanon) “Integrative interpretation of Shari’a in Europe: Sheikh Faysal al Mawlawi’s example (Arabic)”
Ms. Fatima Tofighi (PhD candidate- Glasgow University, Scotland) “Secularism: Universal or Western?”
30 NOV
4- Religious State versus Civil State?
Panel Chair: Prof. Harald Suermann (Director of Institute of Missiology-Missio)
Prof. Ridwan as-Sayyed (Professor of Islamic Studies at Lebanese University) “Religion, Religious State and Islam after the revolutions (Arabic)”
Mr. David Warren (PhD candidate, University of Manchester, UK) “The Arab Spring and the Emergence of the Islamic Civil State: An Examination of Recent Changes in the Political Discourses of Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Rashid alGhannushi”
Prof. Farag Elkamel (Professor of Sociology and Communication and Chairperson at Cairo University) “What a Civil State means for Egyptians”
Mr. Kassem Qassir (Researcher, writer and Executive Director of Shou’oun Janoubiyya, Lebanon) “Civil State in the current discourse of Islamic Movements (Arabic)”
5- Islamist Regimes After the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity or Threat for Interreligious and International Relations?
Panel Chair: Prof. Mohammad Sharkawi
Judge Abbas Halabi (Member of the Lebanese National Dialogue Committee, General Secretary of the Arab Group for Muslim Christian Dialogue, Lebanon) “Muslim – Christian relations in the context of Islamic rule in the post-uprising Arab countries (Arabic)”
Dr. Abdallah Shamri (Representative of the Center of Turkish Studies, Riadh, KSA) “The impact of the success of Political Islam in getting to power in the Arab spring countries on the competition over political Islamic leadership between Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey (Arabic)”
Prof. Amel Grami (Professor of Arabic Literature and Chairperson at Mannouba University, Tunisia) “The system of values to the test of the political experience: the example of Ennahda party (Arabic)”
Dr. Stacey Gutgowski (Lecturer conflict & post-conflict studies, Kings’ College London) “Re-envisioning the ‘sacreds’ of liberal and Islamist democratic forms: prospects for UK/US-MENA relations”
6- Religious Pluralism and inclusive Democracies in Contemporary European and Arab World
Panel Chair: Mr. Frank Heinrich (Deputy at the Bundestag)
Dr. Salim Sayegh (Director of Cadmus Center, Sagesse University- Former minister of social affairs in Lebanon- Member of the political bureau of Lebanese Kataeb Party, Lebanon) “Religious diversity and democracy in the Arab world: a Lebanese perspective (Arabic)”
Prof. Ajmi Lourimi (Vice-President of Ennahda Party, Tunisia) “Ennahda Party and the Tunisian inclusive democracy (Arabic)”
Prof. Stefan Schreiner (Professor of Religious Studies at Tubingen University, Coordinator at European Abrahamic Forum, Germany) “Islam in Germany: inculturation through religious education?”
Prof. Massoud Daher (Professor of History at the Lebanese University) “The Problematics of the religious and the political in Lebanon: a critical reading (Arabic)”
7- Value-based versus Identity-based Politics? : The Democratic Role of the Public Sphere
Panel Chair: Dr. Selim Sayegh
Mr. Frank Heinrich “Religion in the public sphere as values-based politics: the CDU experience”
Prof. Mouchir Aoun (Professor of Philosophy at Lebanese University) “The status of religious values in the contemporary human city (Arabic)”
Prof. Said Ghraiouid (Professor, Director of Research Group on Migration and Culture at Mohammad V University, Morocco) “The democratic role of the Public sphere after the Arab uprisings”
Prof. Georges Tamer (Professor and Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) “Islam and Civil Society”
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30 NOV 2012 10:00 Lecture
Khaled Merehbi and Tarek Hanquir (the Environmental and Scientific Lebanese Diving Team)
“Diving and Marine Life in Lebanon”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Natural Sciences
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30 NOV 2012 12:00 Lecture
Dr. Alain Maasri (the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University)
“Ecological Insights from Mongolia: Recent Changes Affecting the Land of Nomadic Empires”
Beirut / Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Natural Sciences
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30 NOV 2012 17:00 Debate
“Herbal Remedies in Lebanon: A Well-Regulated Business?”
Guest speakers:
Mohamad Alameddine (Assistant Professor, Health Management and Policy Department, FHS, AUB)
Dr. Christelle Jalkh (Inspector at the Order of Pharmacists in Lebanon)
Dr. Rabiaa Bhamdouni (Executive Member of the Herbal and Dietary Supplements Committee, Ministry of Public Health)
Hisham Ramadan (General Manager of Omicron Pharmaceuticals)
Moderator: Farah Naja (Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences)
West Hall, AUB
AUB Nature Conservation Center
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