10 SEP 2013 18:00 Public research seminar
“To whom belong the streets? The tramways of Damascus as an example for the production of public space in late Ottoman times”
Till Grallert (OIB doctoral research fellow)
OIB
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10 SEP 2013 20:00 Concert
Duo Viola/Piano
by
Ribal Molaeb (Viola)
Jeanine Mouawad (Piano)
Assembly Hall, AUB
The Zaki Nassif Program for Music
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13 SEP 2013 13:00 Discussion
“How Does America Go to War?”
“America and the International Community”
Dr. Vijay Prashad (Edward Said Chair of American Studies, CASAR)
“Securing the ‘Homeland’”
Dr. Alex Lubin (Director, CASAR)
“What Happens When the Majority of Americans Oppose a War?”
Dr. Lisa Armstrong (Senior Lecturer, CASAR)
Building 37, AUB
CASAR
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18 SEP 2013 11:00 Lecture
“Water Resources in Lebanon”
Dr. Fadi Comair (Director General of Hydraulic and Electrical Resources, Ministry of Energy and Water)
Agr. Room 205, AUB
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18 SEP 2013 17:30 Lecture
“Nouvelles données sur les monuments religieux de la Phénicie du Nord (Plaine de Jablé)”
Dr. Michel al-Maqdissi (ex Directeur des Fouilles en Syrie)
Archaeological Museum, AUB
The Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum and the Department of History and Archaeology
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19 SEP 2013 20:00 Concert
A MUSICAL EVENING FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF ARABIC AND FRENCH SONG
Featuring:
Leila Baalbaki (voice)
Eid Eid (voice)
Abboud Homsi (voice)
Elie Rizkallah (voice)
John Fayyad (piano)
Assembly Hall, AUB
AMAR International Charitable Foundation and Institute for Development Research Advocacy and Applied Care (IDRAAC) in coordination with the American University of Beirut
All proceeds will go towards supporting IDRAAC and AMAR’s work on drug awareness.
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24 SEP 2013 12:30 Seminar
“Oil and Gas from Exploration to Production and Export”
Moussa Madi, PhD (General Coordinator of the Drilling Committee of the Arabian Gulf National Oil Companies, Drilling Groups; and Head of Training Unit in Kuwait Oil Company)
Rizk Conference Room, Bechtel, AUB
The Chemical Engineering Program
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24 SEP 2013 15:30 Lecture
“University-based Policy Research: An Institutional Experience in Jordan”
Dr. Musa Shteiwi (Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan)
Van Dyck 117G, AUB
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
Director’s Policy Series lecture
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25 SEP 2013 16:00 Lecture
“Determining group structure from the sets of character degrees”
Kamal Aziziheris
College Hall, AUB
Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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26 SEP 2013 13:00 Panel discussion
“Global Powers, Regional Powers, and the War in Syria”
Moderators:
Rami Khouri (Director, IFI)
Karim Makdisi (Associate Professor of Political Studies)
Speakers:
Anthony Billingsley (IFI Affiliated Scholar)
Paul du Quenoy (Associate Professor, History and Arachaeology, AUB)
Alex Barder (Assistant Professor, Political Studies, AUB)
Room 103, Regional External Programs (REP) Building, AUB
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26 SEP 2013 17:00 Lecture
“Emigration and revolt in Arab countries – A theoretical framework”
Philippe Fargues (Director of the Migration Policy Centre, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI))
Building 37, AUB
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies, AUB and IFPO
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27 SEP 2013 13:00 Lecture
“America Protects the World: the UN Doctrine of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and Humanitarian Intervention”
Vijay Prashad (Edward Said Chair of American Studies at AUB) will moderate a discussion with:
Coralie Hindawi (Assistant Professor, Political Studies, AUB)
Karim Makdisi (Associate Professor, Political Studies, AUB)
Building 37, AUB
CASAR
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28-29 SEP 2013 International conference
“Whither the nation? National identity in the twentieth-century”
Orient- Institut Beirut and Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, AUB
Conference venue: American University of Beirut (AUB), Auditorium B1, College Hall
28 SEP
Keynote “Nationalism, Sentimentality, and Judgment”
Lisa Wedeen (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Ghassan Hage
Panel I
“Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea”
Faisal Devji (University of Oxford)
“Hindutva’s war and the battlefield of India”
Shruti Kapila (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Tareq Tell
Panel II
“Dislodging the Iranian Nation from the Islamic Umma: Iranian Nationalists and Gobineau”
Reza Zia-Ibrahimi (King’s College London)
“Writing Space, using and confronting the state: Hizbullah’s politics of legitimacy”
Bashir Saade (American University of Beirut)
“The Islamic Umma vs the Political Umma: Islamic politics, apostasy, and the non-Muslims”
Karim Sadek (Oxford Center for Islamic Studies)
Discussant: Faisal Devji
TALK 1 “The Specters of the Nation”
Marc Nichanian (Sabancı University Istanbul)
Discussant: Lisa Wedeen
29 SEP
Panel III
“More Islamic than the Khalif (Egyptian anti-colonial Nationalism)”
Hussein Omar (University of Oxford-NYU)
“Neither Visitors, nor Colonial Victims: Muslim Political Activities in Interwar Europe”
Umar Ryad (Leiden University)
“The Arab Nahda and the Nation Form”
Nadia Bou Ali (American University of Beirut)
Discussant: Shruti Kapila
Panel IV
“Expressive sovereignty”
Monika Halkort (Lebanese American University)
“Turkish Nationalism and the Crisis of the State”
Tim Jacoby (University of Manchester)
“Revisiting the National Paradigm: Bahrain Workers’ Movement in the Early 20th Century”
Ahmed Daleimi (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Angela Harutyunyan
Panel V
“War and Peace in Lebanon ”
Rohit Goel (University of Chicago)
“The Dialectic of Betrayal and Fidelity of the Armenian Avant-Garde”
Angela Harutyunyan (American University of Beirut)
Discussant: Ghassan Hage
Talk 2 “Beirut Open City”
Walid Sadek (American University of Beirut)
Discussant: Ghassan Hage
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29 SEP 2013 20:00 Concert
Rima Khcheich
Assembly Hall, AUB
The AUB Zaki Nassif Program Music Festival “In Celebration of a Musical legacy”
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