02 DEC 2013 19:00 Lecture
“Lebanon’s History through Old Photos”
Dr. Antoine Masarra
Beirut campus, LAU
The Center for Lebanese Heritage
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03 DEC 2013 Seminar
“Women’s Rights: Challenges and Opportunities for Gender Equality in Lebanon”
Beirut Arab University
Human Rights Center
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03 DEC 2013 12:30 Lecture
“Indigenous Personality Structure in the Levant: A quantitative and qualitative study of the personality lexicon”
Dr. Lina Daouk-Oyry and Pia Zeynoun
College Hall, AUB
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03 DEC 18:00 Public research seminar
“Disciplines of Knowledge, Disciplines of the Self: Re-reading Azhari Reform”
Dahlia Gubara (OIB)
OIB
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03 DEC 18:30 Conférence
“Où sont les universitaires arabes dans la vie publique libanaise ?”
Sari Hanafi (Professeur, Université Américaine de Beyrouth)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut français
IFPO
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04 DEC 2013 Lecture
“Heart Surgery between Reality and Imagination”
Dr. Bassem El Chab
Beirut Arab University
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04 DEC 2013 16:00 Seminar
“Free surface versus free interface flows”
Professor David Lannes (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
College Hall, AUB
Centre for Advanced Mathematical Sciences and Department of Mathematics
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04 DEC 2013 16:00 Seminar
“Spacing Laws, Fractal Structure and Entropy in Rhythmic Precipitation Systems”
Professor Rabih Sultan (AUB)
Chemistry Building, AUB
Chemistry Department
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05 DEC 2013 17:00 Debate
“Social Media and the Environment”
West Hall, AUB
Nature Conservation Center
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05-06 DEC International conference
“The Occult Sciences in Pre-modern Islamic Culture”
OIB, CAMES at AUB
Venue: College Hall, AUB
05 DEC
Panel 1 – Chair: Nader El-Bizri (AUB)
“Is Firāsa a science? Reflections on the Firāsa of Fakhr al-dīn al-Rāzī”
Muhammad Ali Khalidi (York University, Toronto) and Tarif Khalidi (AUB)
“A science for kings and masters: firāsa at the crossroad between natural sciences and power relationships”
Antonella Ghersetti (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)
Panel 2 – Chair: Stefan Leder (OIB)
“The occult in numbers: The arithmology of the Brethren of Purity”
Nader El-Bizri
“Letter magic and sacral kingship in early modern Iran and India”
Matthew Melvin-Koushki (Princeton University)
Panel 3 – Chair: Eva Orthmann (Bonn University)
“Doing Egyptian in medieval Arabic culture: The long-desired fulfilled knowledge of occult alphabets by Pseudo-Ibn Wahshiyya”
Isabel Toral-Niehoff (Aga Khan University, London)
“The khawāss in alchemy and in pharmacology: failure of reason or triumph of magic?”
Emma Gannagé (Georgetown University)
Panel 4 – Chair: Tarif Khalidi
“The occult technology of Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Būnī (d. 622/1225?): An inquiry into the art and science of talismans in the Corpus Bunianum”
Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad (American University in Cairo)
“Advance seven steps forward with your torch and your incense: The role of magic in Arabic treasure-hunter manuals ”
Christopher Braun (The Warburg Institute, London)
06 DEC
Panel 5 – Chair: Stefan Leder
“Which ʿAlī was Haly? Astrological prognostications from comets”
George Saliba (Columbia University, New York)
“Predictions of natural disasters in astro-meteorological handbooks”
Kristine Chalyan-Daffner (Heidelberg University)
Panel 6 – Chair: Nader El-Bizri
“Astral magic and divine names: the kitāb al-Jawāhir al-khams of Muḥammad Ghauth Gwāliyārī”
Eva Orthmann
“Formations of orthodoxy and the everyday life of the occult in the eighteenth century”
Dahlia Gubara (Orient-Institut Beirut, Columbia University)
Panel 7 – Chair: Tarif Khalidi
“Causality in Islamic occult thought and its reception in early modern Europe”
Liana Saif (The British Museum, London)
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05 DEC 18:30 Séminaire
“Le quartier de Fustat au Caire : développement local et patrimoine ?”
Zara Fournier (Doctorante, université de Tours, diplômée de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon)
IFPO
L’Observatoire Urbain
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06 DEC 2013 08:30 Conference
“Big Data, Big Computing & The Oil Industry: Opportunities for Lebanon & The Arab World”
Bechtel Engineering Building, AUB
Munib and Angela Masri Institute of Energy and Natural Resources
Computational Science Program at AUB
Center for Computational Science at University College London
“Big Data & Big Computing: Aiming for Leadership in Science, Technology & Commerce”
Professor Peter Coveney (Director of Centre for Computational Science University College London)
“The Growing Importance of Technology in the Oil & Gas Industry: Big Data and Advanced Automation”
Stefano Martinotti (Partner, McKinsey & Company)
“Big Data in Oil & Gas: Unleashing its Full Potential”
Dr. Hany Azzam (Application Platform Technical Lead at Microsoft MEA Centre of Expertise Microsoft)
“Big Data: A New Form of Oil or Soil?”
Dr. Moustafa Ghanem (Research Fellow at the Deptartment of Computing, Imperial College London)
“Big Data-Driven Business: Finance, Retail and E-Healthcare”
Dr. Sebastian Del Bano Rollin (Senior Research Fellow, Center for Financial Computing & Analytics, University College London)
Panel Discussion 1 “Oil & Gas Applications”
Moderated by Stefano Martinotti
Panelists:
Prof. Ali Yassine (FEA, Engineering Management)
Prof. Hassan Artail (FEA, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Assistant Prof. Fouad Azizi (FEA, Chemical Engineering)
Assistant Prof. Joanna Doumar (FAS, Geology)
Mr. Nasser Hoteit (Head of Technical & Engineering Dept, Lebanese Petroleum Administration)
Panel Discussion 2 “Big Data, Big Computing: From Education to Innovation”
Moderated by Prof. Peter Coveney
Panelists:
Prof. Mazen El-Ghoul (FAS, Chemistry)
Prof. Fadl Moukalled (FEA, Mechanical Engineering)
Associate Prof. Haitham Akkary (FEA, Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Assistant Prof. Shady Elbassouni (FAS, Computer Science)
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09 DEC 2013 12:00 Lecture
“Korean Contemporary Fashion and Industry”
Kim Hong Ki (fashion curator, journalist and art director)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Fashion Design Program
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09 DEC 2013 12:30 Lecture
“100 Social Innovations From Finland”
Dr. Ilkka Taipale (member of the Helsinki City Council) and Dr. Vappu Taipale
College Hall, AUB
IFI
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09 DEC 2013 17:00 Lecture
“Silk Road Rising”
Jamil Khoury and Malik Gillani (co-founders of Silk Road Rising)
Nicely Hall, AUB
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09 DEC 2013 18:00 Lecture
“Autocracy and the Common Good: Political Concepts of Sultanic Rule”
Stefan Leder (OIB)
West Hall, AUB
Anis Makdisi Program
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10 DEC 2013 – 07 JAN 2014 Exhibition
“To the memory of Dr. Yusuf Quzma Khoury (1930-2013)”
Jafet Library, AUB
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10-31 DEC 2013 Exhibition
“Arab Cinema Collection, 1940s-2010″
Jafet Library, AUB
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10 DEC 2013 12:30 Lecture
“100 Social Innovations From Finland”
Dr. Ilkka Taipale (member of the Helsinki City Council)
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Humanities
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11 DEC 2013 12:00 Seminar
“The Era of Next Generation Sequencing: Wonderful News but at what Cost to Public Health? An Ethical Perspective”
Rami Mahfouz, MD, MPH (LabM) (IFCAP Associate Professor, Director Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
FHS
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11 DEC 2013 16:00 Seminar
“Non-smooth Dynamical systems: Existence and Stability”
Dr. Hassan Saoud (Department of Pure Mathematics, Lebanese University, Fanar)
College Hall, AUB
Centre for Advanced Mathematical Sciences and Department of Mathematics
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12 DEC 2013 13:00 Lecture
“Why Libya, Tunisia and Egypt Face Different Obstacles to Democratization: Parties, Polarization and Political Transition”
Ellen Lust
West Hall, AUB
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
Yale Arab Alumni Association
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12 DEC 2013 20:00 Concert
“Heritage and originality” by Ghada Chbeir
Beirut Arab University
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12-14 DEC International conference
“DiverCities: Contested Space and Urban Identities in Beirut, Cairo and Tehran”
Jointly organized by the Orient-Institut Beirut and Goethe-Institut Beirut
12 DEC (Location: Warehouse)
Panel I: Claims and Agency
“The Emergence of Urban Activism in Cairo since the 2011 Revolution”
Roman Stadnicki (CEDEJ, Cairo)
“A Coup or a New Revolution? Competing narratives inscribed on Cairo’s urban landscape”
Omar Nagati (CLUSTER, Cairo)
“Beirut’s Geographies of the ”War Yet to Come””
Hiba Bou Akar (Hampshire College)
Discussant: Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj (Urban planner)
“Tehran Urban Space, Under the Rationale of Sales Price”
Maryam Amiri / Esmaeil Izadi (University of Tehran)
“Practices of Commoning: Public utility and religious interest in the waqfs of contemporary Beirut”
Nada Moumtaz (The Ohio State University)
Discussant: Mona Fawaz (AUB)
Panel discussion
“What does Beirut’s urban future look like?”
Bilal Hamad (Mayor of Beirut)
Amira Solh (Senior Urban Planner, Solidere)
Omar Abi Azar (Zoukak Theatre Company)
Moderator: Rami G. Khouri (Issam Fares Institute, AUB)
Performance
“Bus Cemetery”
Dictaphone Group
“Masar Theatre”
LABAN
13 DEC (Location: Zico House)
Panel II: Between Public and Private
“A Gender-Divided City? An inquiry into the spatial politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran”
Nazanin Shahrokni (Harvard University)
“Expanding Queer Spaces in Beirut: Mobile communications technologies and contestations to heteronormative space”
Mathew Gagné (University of Toronto)
“Tehran’s Soundscape and the Public Sphere”
Nahid Siamdoust (University of Oxford)
“Public Sounds, Private Spaces: Towards a Fairouz museum in Zoukak el-Blat”
Mazen Haidar (Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts)/ Akram Rayess (Arab Music Archiving and Research)
Discussant: Robert Saliba (AUB)
Performance
“This Sea is Mine”
“Why the Sea is Mine?”
Dictaphone Group
14 DEC (Location: Mansion)
Panel III: Open Air Spaces of Gathering: Norms and Practices
“Strolling in Enemy Territory: Contested spaces and spatial practices in downtown Cairo, a historical analysis”
Lucie Ryzova (Universit of Oxford)
“Red-lights in Parks: A social history of Park-e Razi”
Soraya Batmanghelichi (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research)
Discussant: Anton Escher (University of Mainz)
“Olympic Garden 2009-2011″
Rana ElNemr (artist, image researcher)
“The ”Gulfization” of the Cairo Downtown ”Corniche”: Behind Differentiating Social Practices?”
Maïa Sinno (Sorbonne University, CEDEJ)
“Contesting National Authority in the Construction of Public Space: The making of communal spaces in Beirut”
Abir Saksouk-Sasso (architect, urbanist)
“Rethinking Public Space in Beirut since the Ta’if Agreement: From the reconstruction-reconciliation discourse to “sphere-building””
Konstantin Kastrissianakis (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Mona Harb (AUB)
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13 DEC 2013 09:30 Seminar
“Supply Chain Management in the Middle East- Chains of Opportunities and Challenges”
Beirut Arab University
Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration
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13 DEC 2013 14:00 Workshop
“Disputed Words: Palestine, Language, and Political Discourse”
West Hall, AUB
Department of Socilogy, Anthropology and Media Studies
Institute for Palestine Studies
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13 DEC 2013 17:00 Lecture
“The Empirical Strikes Back: Zuhd and Mujun Revisited”
Michael Cooperson (Professor, Department Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA)
West Hall, AUB
CAMES
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13 DEC 2013 17:00 Lecture
“Tactics Serving Strategies: How strategic plans are influenced by military actions on land”
General Elias Farhat
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: International Affairs Club
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13-14 DEC Colloque international
“La lumière dans les religions du Livre : une approche pluridisciplinaire”
Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
Institut français du Proche Orient
Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée
Université de Balamand
Institut français
13 DEC (Salle de conférence de l’Institut français)
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Présidente de séance : Nadine Panayot
“Le luminaire médiéval religieux au Proche-Orient : l’apport de l’archéologie, de l’iconographie et des textes”
Patricia Antaki-Masson (Université de Poitiers)
“Le rôle de la lumière dans les peintures murales des églises de la Vallée de la Qadisha et de la région de Koura”
May Hajj (Université Libanaise)
“La lumière dans l’abbaye de Belmond et les églises médiévales de l’époque franque au Liban”
Anis Chaaya (Université Libanaise)
“Lumière naturelle, architecture religieuse et musique dans l’Occident médiéval, de Centula-Saint-Riquier à Cluny III”
Nicolas Reveyron (Université Lumière – Lyon 2 et Mom)
“Douze fenêtres de synagogue. Usages de la lumière du Sud tunisien à Jérusalem”
Dominique Jarrassé (Université de Bordeaux 3)
“Spatialités lumineuses des medersas du Maghreb”
Azeddine Belakehal (Université de Biskra et Abdelwahab Ziani, Université de Bechar)
“La lumière dans les mosquées pré-mameloukes en Égypte et dans le Bilād al-Šām : gestion pratique et portée symbolique”
Julie Bonnéric (Ifpo)
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Présidente de séance : Julie Bonnéric
“Artificial light sources of Antiquity. An Evaluation of their performance”
Lambros T. Doulos, Dorina Moullou et Frangiskos V. Topalis (Hellenic Open University et National Technical University of Athens)
“L’archéologie de la lumière à la croisée des disciplines”
Xavier Roulet (Université de Poitiers)
14 DEC (Université de Balamand)
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Présidente de séance : Souad Slim
“L’Esprit Saint comme lumière et feu dans les 50 homélies spirituelles du Pseudo-Macaire”
Pablo Aragárte (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz)
“Let There Be Light”
Nicolas Abou Mrad (Université de Balamand)
“The light of Transfiguration in the Hezychastic Controversies of the 14th century: The Contribution of Saint Gregory Palamas”
Porphyrios Georgi (Université de Balamand)
“La prophétie médiévale dans le Royaume de France : Lumière divine et ténèbres humaines”
Anne Meriaux (Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre)
“La lumière (φῶς) sur les inscriptions d’églises proto-byzantines en Phénicie et Palestine : exégèse, théologie et liturgie”
Frédéric Alpi (Ifpo)
Président de séance : Bruno Paoli
“Light in Mediaeval Christian and Muslim Spirituality: A Comparison of the Teachings of Grosseteste and al-Suhrawardī”
Janis Esots (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London)
“Le symbole de la lumière dans le Coran et dans les sources d’Islam médiéval”
Nora Afif (Université de Paris-Ouest – Nanterre)
“The Concept of Light in Ismaili Philosophy”
Arzina Lalani (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London)
“Le symbolisme lumineux dans le Kitāb al-Kašf, entre chiisme et ismaélisme”
Farès Gillon (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
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16 DEC 2013 12:00 Lecture
“On the ‘Disconnected’ Syrian or the ‘Muselmannisation’ of the Syrian: Reflections on the Biopolitics of the Siege of Damascus”
Abdulhay Sayed, PhD (Syrian lawyer)
College Hall, AUB
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies
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16 DEC 2013 16:00 Lecture
“Jurji Zaydan and the Televised Abbasids”
Michael Cooperson (Professor, Department Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA)
West Hall, AUB
CAMES
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16 DEC 18:00 Conférence
“Aperçu historique de l’Islam jihadiste en Syrie”
(لمحة تاريخية عن الإسلام الجهادي في سوريا)
Tarek Aziza (Écrivain et chercheur syrien)
IFPO
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17 DEC 2013 18:00 Conférence
“Un lieu de culte solaire à Byblos au IIIe millénaire : le temple en L”
Julien Chanteau (Chercheur associé à l’Ifpo)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut français
IFPO
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18 DEC 2013 12:30 Seminar
“Global Migration Governance in Theory and Practice”
Paul Tacon (ESCWA)
Byblos / Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Social Sciences, Institute for Migration Studies
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18 DEC 2013 16:00 Seminar
“M-theory and twisted generalized cohomology”
Hisham Sati (Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, USA)
College Hall, AUB
Centre for Advanced Mathematical Sciences and Department of Mathematics
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19 DEC 2013 12:00 Lecture
“About Those Curves: Arabic type design”
Kristyan Sarkis (type and graphic designer)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Design
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20 DEC 2013 10:00 Lecture
“Shariah Law and American Courts: Myth and Reality”
Dr. Ihsan Alkhatib (Murray State University)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Dr. Imad Salamey
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20 DEC 2013 12:00 Panel discussion
“The World Bank: Any Lessons Learned from the Arab Uprisings?”
Ferid Belhaj (World Bank Director for Middle East Region)
West Hall, AUB
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
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23 DEC 2013 12:00 Seminar
“DRESS (Distributed Replication-based Exact Simple Storage) Code for Cloud Storage”
Dr. Salim El-Rouayheb (Electrical and Computer Engineering at the IIT, Chicago)
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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