01 MAR 2013 12:00 Lecture
“Contentious Politics and the Arab Uprisings”
John Chalcraft (Reader in the History and Politics of Empire/Imperialism at the London School of Economics)
West Hall, AUB
CAMES and IFI
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01 MAR 2013 17:00 Design Talk
“Rethinking Design through Cross-Cultural Collaboration”
The topics :
Design & Gender Discrimination (by Elena Habre)
Design & Personal Finance (by Dima Boulad & Rawad Hajj)
Design & Electricity Consumption (by Karim Badra)
Design & Sustainable Consumerism (by Marwa Boukarim & Mary Rizk)
Design & Creative Education (by Tatiana Toutikian)
Beirut campus, LAU
Graphic Design department
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01 MAR 2013 18:30 Lecture
“An Overview of Transportation Engineering: Case Studies in Lebanon”
Dr. John El Khoury
Beirut campus, LAU
School of Engineering, the Alumni Association
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03 MAR 2013 09:00 Student Conference
“Conflict Reporting and Social Media”
Beirut campus, LAU
Nada Torbey (Advancement Communication Manager) in collaboration with the School of Arts and Sciences
Panel discussion on the practical and ethical aspects of conflict reporting
chair : Yasmine Dabbous, Emilie Sueur (L’Orient Le-Jour)
“Conflict reporting”
Sami Ketz (AFP Beirut)
“Role of new media and social media in covering conflict”
Jim Muir (BBC Beirut)
“How to meet the aspirations of the people of the region?”
HE Ambassador Angelina Eichhorst
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04-31 MAR 2013 Exhibition
“Dar El Fata Al Arabi and Mohieddine El Labbad”
Jafet Library, AUB
Archives and Special Collections at Jafet Library
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04 MAR 2013 16:00 Event
“Japanese Girls’ Festival”
West Hall, AUB
Women’s League
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04 MAR 2013 17:00 Event
“ARCHIVING THE CIVIL WAR: UMAM’s Memory at Work ‘Peace and War’ Database”
by UMAM Documentation and Research,
with Lokman Slim, Kelly Stedem and Ghandi Mouhtar
West Hall, AUB
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies
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04 MAR 2013 18:00 Séminaire doctoral
“Inégalité d’accès à l’éducation au Liban, Comparaison d’expériences universitaires d’étudiants défavorisés issus de différentes régions”
Maissam Nimer (Doctorante en sociologie à l’Université de Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines)
Discutants :
Therese el-Hachem (professeure à la Faculté de Pédagogie de l’Université Libanaise)
Vincent Geisser (chercheur CNRS – IfpoSalle de lecture de la Bibliothèque Orientale)
IFPO
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04 MAR 2013 19:00 Lecture
“Lebanese Women in Publishing”
Dr. Elham Kallab Al Bsat
Beirut campus, LAU
Center for Lebanese Heritage
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05 MAR 2013 16:00 Event
“Words Without Borders”
Marylin Hacker
West Hall, AUB
CASAR, English Department
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06 MAR 2013 12:00 Lecture
“Misery Beyond the War Zone: Life for Syrian Refugees and Displaced Populations in Lebanon”
Fabio Forgione (Head of Mission in Lebanon of Medecins Sans Frontieres)
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
FHS
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06 MAR 2013 12:00 Lecture
“Identity and Space Acupuncture”
Helena Casanova and Jesus Hernandez (principals of Casanova + Hernandez)
Byblos campus, LAU
Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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06 MAR 2013 13:00 Lecture
“Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict: Lessons from the South Caucasus”
Dr. Ohannes Geukjian (AUB)
Moderator: Dr. Selim Deringil (Visiting Professor at the Department of History)
West Hall, AUB
PSPA
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07 MAR 2013 18:00 Lecture
“Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of Reproduction in Israel/ Palestine”
Dr. Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University)
Building 37, AUB
CASAR
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07 MAR 2013 18:30 Séminaire
“Pour un observatoire de la neige au Liban : l’eau face au changement climatique”
Amin Shaban (Docteur en hydrologie, chercheur au Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique au Liban)
Janine Somma (Responsable du Laboratoire de Télédétection, Université Saint-Joseph)
Laurent Drapeau (Chercheur associé à l’Institut de Recherche et Développement)
IFPO
Séminaire de l’Observatoire urbain de l’Ifpo
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08 MAR 2013 18:00 Panel discussion
“Feminism, Social/Political Change and Activism in Lebanon”
Nadine Moawad, Gulnar Wakim
Beirut campus, LAU
Human Rights Club
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11 MAR 2013 Lecture
“The Youth, UNESCO, and the Challenges of the Times”
Dr. Zahida Darwish (Secretary General of UNESCO in Beirut)
BAU
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11 MAR 2013 17:00 Lecture
“The Lebanese diasporic life-world: between universality and specificity”
Ghassan Hage (Professor of anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne)
College Hall, AUB
SOAM and PSPA
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12 MAR 2013 12:00 Lecture
“CIRAD in the Mediterranean: A cooperation built on food security”
Jean-Francois Tourrand (Head of the Mediterranean Mission – CIRAD)
FAFS, AUB
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12 MAR 2013 17:00 Lecture
“Security, Stateness, Popular Sovereignty: Locating New Political Theory in Contentious Egypt”
Paul Amar (Associate Professor in Global Studies at the University of California)
College Hall, AUB
CAMES and IFI
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12 MAR 2013 18:30 Lecture
“The Curve of American Power and Israel’s View of the Arab Uprisings”
Seif Dana
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
IFI, in collaboration with CASAR and the Palestinian Cultural Club
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13-15 MAR 2013 Conference
“Sexual Sovereignty: Citizenship, Governmentality, Territory”
College Hall, AUB
CASAR, CAMES, Office of the Provost and FAS Dean’s Office
13 MAR
Keynote “Savage Sexualities, Hawaiian Indigeneity, and the Politics of State Sovereignty”
J Kehaulani Kauanui (Wesleyan University)
Moderator/Respondent: Alex Lubin (Direnctor, CASAR, AUB)
“Nation Building”
Moderator/Respondent: Sarah Bracke (KU Leuven)
“Pinkwashing and Settler Sovereignty”
Scott L. Morgensen (Queen’s University)
“Let Them See Us, If Only Just Briefly: Homonationalism in Times of Post-Communist Transformations”
Weronika Rogula (York University, Toronto)
“Homosexuals to Baku!: Protecting Armenia from Enemies of the Nation”
Tamar Shrinian (Duke University)
“A Terrific Emblem of Death: Settler Colonialism, the Erotics of Value, and the Racialization of Native American Difference”
Adam John Waterman (English, AUB)
“Disciplining Sex”
Moderator/Respondent: Elena Glasberg (CASAR, AUB)
“Rape by Deception and the Jerusalem Lynching: Policing the Intimate in Contemporary Israel”
Sarah Emilia Garcia (University of Texas)
“A word I had not heard in thirty years. On honor, embodied relatedness, and antisovereignty politics in the Palestinian community in Tyre”
Sylvain Perdigon (SOAM, AUB)
“Life During Wartime: Sexual Consent and the Ethno-Sexual Logics of Global Governance”
Rana M. Jaleel (New York Yniversity)
“Learning sexuality in Iran: An inter-generational study”
Nafiseh Sharifi (SOAS)
Keynote “Politics of Rightful Killing: Iranian Transgender Refugees and the Promise of Freedom”
Sima Shakhsari (Wellesley College)
Moderator/Respondent: Omar Dewachi (Public Health, AUB)
14 MAR
“Sexual Lawfare”
Moderator/Respondent: Lisa Hajjar (CASAR, AUB)
“The Pink Agenda: questioning and challenging European Homonationalist Sexual Citizenship”
Francesca Romana Ammaturo (Goldsmiths, University of London)
“Are You Going to Pride? Secularism, Law, and Controversy in Lebanon”
Maya Mikdashi (New York University)
“Transexuals, Clones and Gametes: Adjudicating Bodily Difference in Iranian Islamic Jurisprudence”
Emily J O’Dell (History, AUB)
“Alignments of International Refugee Law, Political Liberalism and Sex/uality on the Road: Iranian Asylum Seekers through the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Turkey”
Emrah Yildiz (Harvard University / Bogazici University)
Keynote “How the Mormons Became White: Polygamy, Indigeneity, Sovereignty”
Peter M Coviello (Bowdoin College)
Moderator/Respondent: Adam John Waterman (English, AUB)
“Remaking Kinship”
Moderator/Respondent: Munira Khayyat (SOAM, AUB)
“Sex, gender, and kinship in the timber plantations of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A Minor Otherwise”
Thomas Cousins (Stellenbosch University)
“Contested Desires: Allowance and Mobility of Attracted Male Bodies to Beirut”
Jared McCormick (Harvard University)
“Skyscrapes of Abdeen, Cairo: Pigeons, Men and Alternative Socialities”
Nadia Dropkin (American University of Cairo)
“Anglo-American Sovereignty and the Anglophile Containment of Queer Desire [The Dark Knight Rises]”
Joshua David Gonsalves (English, AUB)
Keynote “Sovereign Disciplines, Queer Objects”
Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University)
Moderator/Respondent: Jasbir Puar (CASAR, AUB)
15 MAR
“Political Movements”
Moderator/Respondent: Nadia El-Cheikh (History, AUB)
“Arab Women in the Revolution: Struggles and Victories in the Palestine Liberation Organization and Lebanese National Movement Alliance”
Jennifer Mogannam (UC, San Diego)
“National Narratives of Sexual Deviance and Sacrificial Bravery: the 2011 Israeli-Hamas Prisoner Exchange”
Shaira Vadasaria (York University/SOAS)
“Homophobic Seculars and Confessional Queers: the Formation of “Movements” in 2006-2012 Lebanon”
Ghiwa Sayegh (English, AUB)
“Local/Lebanon”
Moderator/Respondent: Nadya Sbaiti (Smith College)
“Stepping out of bounds in a globalizing world: Sri Lankan domestic migrant workers in Lebanon, same-sex desire and transgenderism”
Monica Smith (National University of Singapore)
“Funnelbutts and Hymens: Moral panics, gay rights, and Homonationalism in Lebanon”
Rasha Moumneh (activist and independent scholar)
“Gender Violence and the Lebanese Public Sphere”
Nicole Khoury (English, AUB)
Keynote “Popular Sovereignties versus Counterrevolutionary Sexualities in Today’s Egypt”
Paul Amar (UC Santa Barbara)
Moderator/Respondent: Mona Fawaz (Architecture and Design, AUB)
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13 MAR 2013 13:00 Lecture
“Work in Context”
Cindy Menassa (architect)
Byblos campus, LAU
Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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13 MAR 2013 18:00 Séminaire
“Ibn Khaldun, a late historian of Byzantium”
Nadia El Cheikh (Professeur à l’American University of Beirut)
Salle de lecture de la Bibliothèque Orientale
Séminaire conjoint USJ Centre Louis Pouzet, Ifpo, Bibliothèque orientale
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13 MAR 2013 18:30 Lecture
“Scenography – The Art of Making Architecture Talk”
Uwe R. Bruckner
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Department of Architecture & Design
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14-21 MAR 2013 Painting Exhibition
“Tales and Heritage” by Daad Abi Saab
BAU
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14 MAR 2013 12:00 Lecture
“Hidden curriculum’s impact on physicians’ ethical development”
Dr. Peter Katsufrakis
AUBMC
Ethics Matters Initiative of Salim El-Hoss Bioethics and Professionalism Program
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15 MAR 2013 18:00 Conférence
“Le Roman d’Alexandre à Tombouctou”
Georges Bohas (professeur à l’ENS, Lyon)
IFPO
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15 MAR 2013 18:30 Lecture
“The New Safety Regulations in Building Permits”
Elie Bsaibes (President of the Order of Engineers and Architects)
Charles W. Hostler Student Center Auditorium, AUB
WAAAUB Engineering and Architecture Alumni Chapter
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18 MAR 2013 16:00 Lecture
“A parabolic flow of balanced metrics”
Luigi Vezzoni (University of Torino, Italy)
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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18 MAR 2013 17:00 Lecture
“Arab Workers and the Popular Uprisings of 2011″
Joel Beinin (Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History)
College Hall, AUB
CAMES and IFI
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18 MAR 2013 18:00 Lecture
“A Capitalism for People”
Luigi Zingales (Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)
Maamari Auditorium, OSB, AUB
OSB and Hawkamah
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18 MAR 2013 18:30 Lecture
“From Individual to Collective Action”
Santiago Cirugeda
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Department of Architecture & Design
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19 MAR 2013 15:00 Lecture
“Spin Geometry: Introduction and Applications”
Oussama Hijazi (Univeristy of Lorraine, Nancy, France)
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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19 MAR 2013 16:00 Lecture
“Lorentzian geometry, old and new”
Jacques Lafontaine (Univeristy of Montpellier, France)
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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19 MAR 2013 18:00 Lecture
“Gender Camouflage, Sexual Abuse and the Paradox of Being a Female Soldiers”
Dr. Winddance Twine (UC Santa Barbara)
Building 37, AUB
CASAR
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20 MAR 2013 12:00 Lecture
“Uncertainty and Communication in Traumatic Contexts’”
Dr. Walid Afifi (UC Santa Barbara)
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
FHS
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20 MAR 2013 12:00 Lecture
“Soccer: A Middle Eastern and North African Battlefield”
James M. Dorsey
West Hall, AUB
PSPA
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20 MAR 2013 15:00 Lecture
“Introduction to minimal surface theory”
Laurent Hauswirth (Universiti de Marne-la-Vallie, France)
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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20 MAR 2013 16:00 Lecture
“Kissing numbers for surfaces”
Hugo Parlier (University of Freiburg, Switzerland)
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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20 MAR 2013 17:00 Lecture
“After Babel: Dialogue and Cosmopolis”
Fred Dallmayr (Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame)
College Hall, AUB
CAMES, PSPA and the Arts and Humanities Initiative
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20 MAR 2013 17:30 Lecture
“Alexandre ou la demesure”
Monsieur Francois Farhat
Archaeological Museum, AUB
Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum
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20 MAR 2013 18:00 Conférence
“Le « baptistère » médiéval de Jbeil : un joyau de l’art franco-oriental revisité”
Patricia Antaki Masson
Bibliothèque Orientale, USJ
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20 MAR 2013 18:00 Lecture
“The Spacio-Politics of Urban Conflicts”
Dr. Wendy Pullan (director of the Martin Centre, University of Cambridge)
Byblos campus, LAU
Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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21 MAR 2013 17:00 Lecture
“The International Circulation of Palestinian Kufiyas”
Ted Swedenberg (Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas)
College Hall, AUB
CAMES
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22 MAR 2013 11:30 Lecture
“Data Locality In High-performance Computing”
Nodari Sitchinava (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
College Hall, AUB
Computer Science Department and Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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25 MAR 2013 16:00 Lecture
“Diffusion process on a flow of Riemannian manifolds”
Hiba Abdallah (Universiti Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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26 MAR 2013 17:00 Lecture
“Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights”
Lisa Hajjar (Visiting Associate Professor from the University of California – Santa Barbara)
West Hall, AUB
IFI and CASAR
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26 MAR 2013 18:00 Seminar
“Complaints by loyal subjects about evil officials in late Ottoman Africa”
Dr. Henning Sievert (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
OIB
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26-28 MAR 2013 Journées doctorales (études contemporaines)
IFPO
26 MAR
Lieu : Salle de conférence de l’Institut Français du Liban
Roundtable “Cities at War”
Moderator : Mona Harb (Associate Professor, American University of Beirut)
“Destruction-in-progress: researching the Syrian conflict” Leïla Vignal (Lecturer in Geography, Rennes-2 University/ CNRS Research Unit: ESO-Rennes, France)
“Cities at war in Libya : dealing with war fields operation” Arthur Quesnay (PhD candidate, Ifpo-Erbil, Irak)
“Architectures of Power: Sectarian-Based Segregation Walls in Baghdad” Mona Damluji (PhD, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
“Working in and on Baghdad: complementary approaches to address urban fragmentation” Caecilia Pieri (Head of the Urban Observatory, Ifpo-Beirut)
Conférence débat “Le Liban électrique”
Éric Verdeil (géographe, chercheur au CNRS)
Pierre Khoury (ingénieur, Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation)
Farah Kobeissy (activiste, Observatoire Libanais pour les Droits des travailleurs)
Discutante : Marie-Noëlle Abi Yaghi (Université Paris 1)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut Français du Liban
Conférence dans le cadre du cycle Quel État pour quels citoyens
27 MAR
Lieu : Salle de conférence de l’Institut Français du Liban
“L’engagement à risque”
Isabelle Sommier (Professeur de sciences politiques à l’Université de Paris I)
“La sympathie pour la cause : un obstacle à l’objectivité sociologique ?
Retour sur des expériences d’enquête auprès des militants arabes en exil”
Nicolas Dot-Pouillard (Ifpo)
Vincent Geisser (Ifpo)
“La question transnationale dans le mouvement altermondialiste”
Isabelle Sommier (Professeur de sciences politiques à l’Université de Paris I)
Modérateur : Nicolas Dot-Pouillard (chercheur à l’Ifpo)
28 MAR
Lieu : Ifpo
Conférence “Où en sont les « Révolutions arabes », état du débat”
Fawaz Trabulsi (Historien, Professeur, LAU/AUB, Rédacteur en chef de la revue Bidâyât)
Présentations des travaux des doctorants :
“Représentation politique de groupes ethniques et recomposition des espaces sociaux : le cas de Kirkouk”
Arthur Quesnay (Doctorant à l’Université de Paris I)
Discutants : Hosham Dawod (Ifpo), Sylvia Chiffoleau (Ifpo)
“Les mondes de l’art contemporain palestinien : anthropologie des artistes plasticiens en Territoires Palestiniens (Ramallah, Gaza, Jérusalem-Est), entre politisation, internationalisation et libéralisation”
Marion Slitine (Doctorante à l’EHESS)
Discutant : Caecilia Pieri (Ifpo), Sonja Mejcher (AUB)
“L’altermondialisme au Liban : un militantisme de passage”
Marie-Noelle AbiYaghi
Discutants : Vincent Geisser (Ifpo), Christophe Varin (USJ)
“Négociations et négociateurs palestiniens, retour sur les deux décennies de la Palestine d’Oslo”
Xavier Guignard (Doctorant à l’Université de Paris I)
Discutant : Nicolas Dot-Pouillard (Ifpo)
“Les relations entre cause et droit en Jordanie : aborder des avocats engagés, comprendre la cause des détenus politiques”
Yves Mirman (Doctorant à l’IEP d’Aix en Provence)
Discutant : Isabelle Sommier (Paris I), Elisabeth Longuenesse (Ifpo)
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27 MAR 2013 16:00 Lecture
“Introduction to Turing’s Formula”
Prof. Zhi Zhang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
Lectures on Turing’s Formula and Its Applications to Statistics and Information Theory
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27 MAR 2013 17:00 Lecture
“Pax Syriana: Elite Politics in Postwar Lebanon”
Rola el-Husseini (City University of New York)
College Hall, AUB
CAMES
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28 MAR 2013 16:00 Lecture
“Statistical Implications of Turing’s Formula”
Prof. Zhi Zhang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
College Hall, AUB
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
Lectures on Turing’s Formula and Its Applications to Statistics and Information Theory
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28 MAR 2013 17:00 Film screening
“Beirut Photographer” (documentary)
Q&A by George Azar (photojournalist)
West Hall, AUB
Media Studies Program and Outlook Newspaper
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