03 DEC 2012 16:00 Seminar
Dr. Barry Castleman (Sc.D. Environmental Consultant and Activist)
“The Role of Corporations in Occupational and Environmental Health: Investigations of Toxic Corporate Crime”
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
FHS
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03 DEC 2012 17:00 Lecture
Dr. David Farber (Temple University)
“The American Conservative Tradition and the 2012 Presidential Election”
West Hall, AUB
CASAR
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03 DEC 2012 17:00 Conférence
Mme Carine KASSIS (enseignante au département de Physique à la Faculté des sciences de l’USJ)
“Cycle de conférences et de films”
Campus des sciences et technologies, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Faculté des sciences
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03 DEC 2012 18:15 Lecture
“SMALL TALK | Censorship”
Speakers:
Semaan Khawam (Graffiti artist, Poet)
Mona El Hallak (Architect, Preservation Activist)
Ayman Mhanna (Samir Kassir Eyes, Mamnou3 webseries)
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Architecture and Design Department
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03 DEC 2012 19:00 Lecture
Dr. Antoine Messarra (the Constitutional Council and a founding member of the “Lebanese Foundation for Permanent Civil Peace”)
“The Civil Memory of the War in Lebanon”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Center for Lebanese Heritage (LAU)
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04 DEC 2012 17:30 Lecture
“Right to Work for Palestinians in Lebanon”
Former Minister HE Charbel Nahas, Dr. Sawsan Abdulrahim and Dr. Aziza Khalidi
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
IFI in collaboration with the Right to Work Campaign
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04 DEC 2012 19:30 Conférence
Georges Bohas (Professeur à l’ENS – Lyon)
“Présentation du 10e volume de la recension damascène du Roman de Baybars”
BIEL
à l’occasion du 56e Salon international arabe du livre
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04 DEC 2012 19:30 Conférence
Mme Yuka ITSUKI
“Umeshu – the wonderful Japanese traditional liquor : History, properties, production method”
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Centre académique japonais
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05 DEC 2012 10:00 Lecture
Dr. Mostefa Ouki (Vice President, Energy and Chemicals, at Nexant)
“Middle East Energy Prospects: Will there be a ‘Golden Age for Gas?”
Engineering Lecture Hall, AUB
Munib and Angela Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources
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05 DEC 2012 12:00 Lecture
Fadi Moghaizel (JD, PhD, Moghaizel Law Office)
“The ‘new’ Lebanese Code of Medical Ethics: A small step forward”
AUBMC
Ethics Matters Initiative of Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program
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05 DEC 2012 17:00 Séminaire
“L’armée libanaise. Symbole d’une nation réconciliée ?”
Avec la participation de :
de Nayla Moussa (IEP de Paris)
du Général Elias Farhat
du Général Jean Nassif
et du Général Fouad Aoun
Discutant : Yezid Sayegh (Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut)
IFPO
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05 DEC 2012 17:00 Séminaire
Georges Bohas (Professeur à l’ENS – Lyon)
“Quelques conséquences de l’exploration du niveau submorphémique en arabe et en anglais”
IFPO
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05 DEC 2012 18:00 Lecture
Alessandra Cianchetta (AWP)
“Towards a Climate Strategies for Multi-Scalar Projects”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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05 DEC 2012 18:00 Conférence
Dr. Maya Haïdar Boustani
“Labwé le plus vieux village néolithique au Liban”
Musée de préhistoire libanaise, USJ
Un événement présenté par :
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Musée de préhistoire libanaise
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06 DEC 2012-04 JAN 2013 Exhibition
“Books donated by Amin Al-Mumayiz (BS ’33)”
Jafet Library, AUB
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06 DEC 2012 12:00 Lecture
Dr. Amr El-Shoubaki (Director of the Arab Forum for Alternatives-Egypt and a member of the Egyptian Parliament)
“The role of research institutes in Egypt”
West Hall, AUB
IFI
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06 DEC 2012 17:00 Lecture
Kelly McEvers (National Public Radio)
“Blowback: The US Drone War in Yemen Stories from the Field”
College Hall, AUB
CAMES and IFI
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07 DEC 2012 18:30 Lecture
Mazen Kerbaj
“Anti-vegetarian music”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Department of Architecture and Design
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07 DEC 2012 12:30 Seminar
Wafaa Sweidan (MS student in Physiology)
“Nurr1 Targeted degradation in Parkinson’s Disease-Related Mutant a-Synuclein in the Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons”
DTS, AUB
Department of Physiology
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10 DEC 2012 14:00 Lecture
Olga Kavran (Head of the Outreach and Legacy Section of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon)
“International criminal adjudication and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL)”
Moderator: Nidal Jurdi (Lecturer in International Law and Organizations at PSPA)
West Hall, AUB
Department of Political Studies and Public Administration
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10 DEC 2012 16:00 Lecture
Dr. Miriam Cooke (Duke University)
“Tribal Modern”
Beirut / Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Humanities
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10 DEC 2012 18:30 Event
Vanessa Bassil (journalist)
“Peace Journalism”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Humanities
TEDxLAU Salon V.3.0: on Humanity
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11 DEC 2012 18:00 Séminaire
Maher Charif (Professeur et chercheur, IFPO)
“Qu’est-ce que le salafisme ? Dans quel sens le réformiste ‘Abdel Rahman al-Kawakibi était-il « salafiste » ?”
IFPO
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12 DEC 2012 12:00 Lecture
Dr. Michel P. Nawfal
“Depression: Unipolar or Bipolar? Diagnostic Pearls A Clinical Approach”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: The Psychology Program in the Department of Social Sciences
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12-19 DEC 2012 Exhibition
“DAID’s Traveling Studios Exhibition”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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12 DEC 2012 14:00 Conférence-débat
Christine Delphy (Directrice de recherche émérite à l’EHESS – ParisO)
“Femmes et pouvoir en France et au Liban : le patriarcat en débat”
Avec des contributions de Jean Makdissi, Elham Kallab, Marina Calculli
Institut des Sciences Politiques, Campus des Sciences Sociales, USJ
Organisation:
L’Institut des Sciences Politiques à l’USJ (ISP)
L’Institut Français du Proche Orient (Ifpo)
La Commission Nationale de la Femme Libanaise (CNFL)
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12 DEC 2012 16:00 Lecture
Dr. Nizar Dalloul
“Social Media and Telecom: Future Opportunity”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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12 DEC 2012 16:00 Lecture
Wissam Raji (Department of Mathematics, AUB)
“Quadratic Polynomials, Period Polynomials and Hecke Operators”
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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13 DEC 2012 16:00 Lecture
Magdi M. Amin (Manager of Investment Climate Advisory Services in the Middle East and North Africa for the International Finance Corporation)
“Social Justice, Jobs and Competitiveness: Searching for a Post-Revolution Private Sector Development Agenda in MENA”
West Hall, AUB
CAMES, IFI and Department of Economics
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13 DEC 2012 18:30 Conférence
Joël Candau (Professeur au Département de Sociologie-Ethnologie, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
“Tragédie, mémoire et métamémoire”
Campus des sciences humaines, USJ
Organisation: Département de sociologie et d’anthropologie, Département d’histoire and IFPO
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14 DEC 2012 09:00 Table ronde
“Fragrances et pestilences : histoire et anthropologie des odeurs en terre d’Islam à l’époque médiéval”
IFPO
Joël Candau (LAPCOS, Sophia Antipolis) “L’anthropologie des odeurs, un état des lieux”
Jean-Charles Ducène (ULB, EPHE) “L’usage de l’encens et des parfums à brûler dans le Proche-Orient médiéval”
Sterenn Le Maguer (Paris I, CEFAS) “Une archéologie des odeurs : l’étude des brûle-parfums et de leurs contextes archéologiques”
Jean-Charles Coulon (Paris IV) “Fumigations et rituels magiques. Le rôle des encens et fumigations dans la magie arabe médiévale”
Pauline Koetschet (IFAO) “Les vertus de la violette. Parfums et odeurs dans la médecine arabe médiévale”
Monica Balda-Tillier (IFAO) “Les odeurs qui « font le moine » : hommes et odeurs dans la littérature”
Bruno Paoli (IFPO) “Le lexique arabe des odeurs”
Julie Bonnéric (IFPO, EPHE) “Des mosquées, des bonnes odeurs et du sacré”
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14 DEC 2012 12:30 Lecture
Joanna Barrak (MS student at the Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiology, AUB)
“Parkinson’s disease and cancer: two wars, one front”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments and the Department of Biology
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14 DEC 2012 12:30 Lecture
Rita Sakr (IFI)
“Irish Peacekeeping in Lebanon: A Historical, Political and Socio-Cultural Study”
West Hall, AUB
IFI United Nations in the Arab World Program
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14 DEC 2012 18:00 Event
Poetry reading for Suzanne Alaywan
College Hall, AUB
Anis K. Makdisi Program in Literature
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14 DEC 2012 18:30 Lecture
Wael El Awar
“Behind the Scenes”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Department of Architecture and Design
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17 DEC 2012 11:00 Lecture
Alan Shihadeh and Najat Saliba (IFI)
“Electric power rationing and diesel generators in Beirut: Cancer in the air?”
College Hall, AUB
The Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World program at IFI
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17 DEC 2012 18:30 Lecture
Tania El Khoury and Abir Saksouk
“Why This Sea is Mine?”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Department of Architecture and Design
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18 DEC 2012 12:30 Lecture
Michel Klimos (Attorney at Law)
“Constitutional Gaps in the Lebanese President’s Role and Prerogatives”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Social Sciences, the Institute of Diplomacy and Conflict transformation, and the International Affairs Club
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18 DEC 2012 17:00 Film screening
“Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists”
Director: Dr. Bruce Robbins (Columbia University)
West Hall, AUB
CASAR
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18 DEC 2012 18:00 Seminar
Prof. Dr. Ken Seigneurie (Simon Fraser University, Surrey, Canada)
“Literariness and World Literature”
OIB
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18 DEC 2012 18:00 Séminaire
Sylvia Chiffoleau (Chercheur, IFPO)
“Quand la modernité s’empare du pèlerinage à la Mecque”
IFPO
Séminaire de recherche en études contemporaines
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18 DEC 2012 19:00 Conférence
M. Bruno Nassim Aboudrar (professeur et directeur du département de médiation culturelle à Paris3, Sorbonne nouvelle)
“Le voile en tant qu’image: Paradoxes et subversions”
Théâtre Béryte
Un événement présenté par : Département de lettres françaises
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19 DEC 2012 12:00 Lecture
Elie Akl (Associate Professor of Medicine)
“The World Health Organization and the Development of Global Guidance”
Van Dyck Amphitheater, AUB
FHS
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19 DEC 2012 16:00 Lecture
Dr. Jeremy Menchik (Postdoctoral Research Associate, PSPA)
“Lessons from Indonesia for the Arab Spring”
West Hall, AUB
PSPA
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19 DEC 2012 16:00 Lecture
Ahmad Sabra (Department of Mathematics, Temple University, USA)
“Reflector Problem And the Inverse Square Law”
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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19 DEC 2012 18:00 Lecture
Niloufar Afnan (artist)
“Everyday Surrealism”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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19 DEC 2012 18:00 Séminaire
Jean-Charles Ducène (Directeur d’études à l’EPHE, Paris)
“Les Turcs dans le Kitâb al-buldân d’Ibn al-Faqîh al-Hamadhânâ : entre réalité et fiction”
IFPO
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20 DEC 2012 15:00 Lecture
Dr. Ahmad Hammoud
“Women In Islam”
West Hall, AUB
Lebanese Heritage Club
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20 DEC 2012 16:00 Lecture
Professor Mariusz Wodzicki
“Mathematics and Beauty”
College Hall, AUB
Department of Mathematics and Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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20 DEC 2012 18:00 Lecture
Rima Majed (Oxford University)
“From a political protest to sectarian tension: A Sunni-Shia split in Lebanon?”
T-Marbouta Cafe, Hamra
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, Monthly Sociology Cafe
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21 DEC 2012 12:30 Lecture
Rosalyn A. Jurjus (MD, PhD, the George Washington University, USA)
“Assessing the Impact of Cultural Beliefs of Medical Students on the Cadaveric dissection at George Washington University”
DTS, AUB
Basic medical sciences departments
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