03 FEB 2014 17:00 Lecture
“Old People are not Revolutionaries! Labour Struggles and the Politics of ʾIstiqrār (Stability) in Egypt”
Dr. Dina Makram Ebeid (post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany)
West Hall, AUB
CAMES
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03 FEB 2014 19:00 Lecture
“History of Lebanese Cinema through its Posters”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Center for Lebanese Heritage
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05 FEB 2014 Discussion
“Uncertain Future: Are U.S.-Gulf Relations in Crisis?”
Frederic Wehrey (Carnegie)
Moderator: Yezid Sayigh (Carnegie)
Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut
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05 FEB 2014 18:00 Séminaire
“Arabic adventures of Telemachus : reappropriations of a myth and auto-exoticism”
Claire Savina (Doctorante Ifpo – Université Paris IV Sorbonne)
Peter Hill (Doctorant associé Ifpo – Oxford University)
IFPO
«Ta‘rīb et taġrīb : Questions de traduction et de réécriture»
Séance inaugurale
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06 FEB 2014 17:00 Lecture
“Manufacturing Tastes in Late Ottoman Beirut”
Dr. Toufoul Abou-Hodeib (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo)
West Hall, AUB
CAMES
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06 FEB 2014 18:00 Panel discussion
“Civil society in Syria before and during the uprising”
Hassan Abbas (researchers and professor in IFPO)
Mohamed Attar (writer and drama practitioner)
T-Marbouta, Hamra Square
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies (AUB) and the Center for Lebanese Studies
Monthly sociology cafe
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07 FEB 2014 14:30 Talk
“On the Other Side of Impatience”
Walid Sadek (conceptual artist, writer and associate professor at AUB)
Nicely Hall, AUB
Department of Fine Arts and Art History
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07 FEB 2014 18:30 Lecture
“Kahn in the tropics”
Zainab Faruqui Ali
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Department of Architecture and Design
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10 FEB 2014 14:00 Lecture
“Mahmoud Mukhtar: Sculpting Modern Egypt”
Alex Dika Seggerman (doctoral candidate in the History of Art Department at Yale University)
Nicely Hall, AUB
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10 FEB 2014 17:00 Lecture
“Relationship between Religious Affiliation and Acceptance of Biological Evolution in Lebanon and Egypt”
Dr. Saouma BouJaoude (Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Department of Education, AUB)
West Hall, AUB
Association for the Study of Mind
Education Forum
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11 FEB 2014 18:00 Conférence
“Du royaume des Sidoniens au royaume de Tyr : une histoire, deux royaumes”
Maroun Khreich (Université libanaise)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut français
IFPO
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12 FEB 2014 12:00 Seminar
“Implementing a nationwide school-based waterpipe use prevention intervention: Challenges and lessons learned”
Rima Afifi, PhD, MPH (Associate Dean and Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Community Health, AUB)
Dima Bteddini, MS (Senior Research Assistant, Department of Health Promotion and Community Health, AUB)
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
Faculty of Health Sciences
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12 FEB 2014 16:00 Seminar
“The Chemistry of Tobacco Smoke and Tobacco Product Regulation”
Dr. Ghazi Zaatari
Chemistry Building, AUB
Chemistry Department
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13 FEB 2014 18:00 Lecture
“Empire State of Mind: Race, Music and Democracy Promotion”
Dr. Hisham Aidi (Columbia University)
West Hall, AUB
CASAR
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17 FEB 2014 12:00 Lecture
“Why Reforms Fail: Understanding Political and Administrative Challenges in Lebanon and Libya”
Carmen Geha (PhD candidate at the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews)
Moderator: Dr. Coralie Hindawi (Assistant Professor of Political Studies and Acting Chair of PSPA)
West Hall, AUB
Department of Political Studies and Public Administration
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17 FEB 2014 16:00 Lecture
“Contemporary Arab-American Drama and Performance”
Dr. Marvin Carlson (City University of New York)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Humanities Department
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17 FEB 2014 18:30 Lecture
“The Nature of the City”
Ricardo De Osots (architect)
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Department of Architecture and Design
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17-21 FEB 2014 Formation doctorale
“Histoire des textes arabes anciens”
Coordination : Bruno Paoli (Chercheur MAEE, Directeur du département scientifique des Études arabes, médiévales et modernes)
En partenariat avec l’Institut Français du Proche-Orient, l’Orient Institut Beirut, l’Université de Balamand, l’Université Libanaise, l’Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik, l’Université Saint-Joseph (Bibliothèque orientale), l’Université Catholique de Louvain, l’Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (CNRS), le Laboratoire d’Études sur les monothéismes (CNRS), le Centre Jean Pépin (CNRS), le Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle de l’Ambassade de France au Liban, et l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie
17 FEB (IFPO)
“Les manuscrits arabes subsahariens, de Tombouctou et d’ailleurs”
Georges Bohas (ENS-Lyon)
“Les manuscrits de Tombouctou : édition du roman d’Alexandre”
Georges Bohas (ENS-Lyon)
18 FEB (BO, USJ)
“Méthode de présentation d’un texte édité, l’exemple d’un traité de Yahya ibn Adi (Epitomé d’une question sur l’adresse du Seigneur à son Père mentionnée dans le Saint Évangile)”
Nadine Abbas (USJ)
“Les manuscrits florilèges des monastères”
Souad Slim (Balamand)
19 FEB (USEK)
“Les reliures syriaques et leurs caractéristiques”
Deacon Youssef Dergham (USEK)
“L’héritage hagiographique antiochien et sa transmission : présentation générale”
Hassan Khairallah
20 FEB (UL)
“Étudier les inscriptions arabes en tant que sources historiques : l’exemple de l’épigraphie fatimide (Égypte, Syrie, Liban, Palestine)”
Johannes den Heijer, Manhal Makhoul, Perrine Pilette (UCL)
21 FEB (Balamand)
“Les traditions manuscrites arabes du Lectionnaire : un état des lieux”
Elie Danaoui (Balamand)
“Les manuscrits apocryphes de la légende d’Adam et Eve et la caverne des trésors”
Marlene Kanaan (Balamand)
Ateliers:
17-21 FEB
“L’Histoire des Patriarches d’Alexandrie : exercices en collation de manuscrits et en documentation linguistique”
Johannes den Heijer, Manhal Makhoul, Perrine Pilette (UCL)
17-18 FEB
“Le roman de Baybars : édition d’un livret”
Georges Bohas (ENS-Lyon)
19-21 FEB
“L’héritage hagiographique antiochien et sa transmission”
Hassan Khairallah
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18 FEB 2014 15:30 Lecture
“Shifting Pages: Printed Arabic Books and Scribal Practices in Nineteenth-Century Beirut”
Auji (Islamic art historian, UCLA)
Nicely Hall, AUB
Department of Fine Arts and Art History
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18 FEB 2014 17:00 Lecture
“Streets, Squares, And Strollers: The Performative City”
Marvin Carlson (City University of New York)
West Hall, AUB
Department of Fine Arts and Art History
English Department
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18 FEB 2014 18:00 Conférence
“L’économie syrienne après trois ans de conflit”
Jihad Yazigi (Rédacteur en chef de The Syria report)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut français
Cycle de conférences « Les rendez-vous de l’Ifpo »
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18 FEB 2014 18:00 Discussion and book launching
“لبنان الطوائف في دولة ما بعد الطائف : إشكاليات التعايش والسيادة وأدوار الخارج”
Prof. Dr. Abdel Raouf Sinno (OIB Advisory Board)
OIB
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19 FEB 2014 16:00 Lecture
“Fractional diffusion models, Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods”
Kassem Mustapha (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals)
College Hall, AUB
Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences
Department of Mathematics
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20 FEB 2014 12:00 Lecture
“Cognitive Reasoning, the Study of Bureaucracy, and the Importance of Public Administration”
Dr. Joseph J. Kaminski (Ph.D. Political Science, Purdue University)
Moderator: Dr. Tania Haddad (Assistant Professor in Public Administration)
West Hall, AUB
Department of Political Studies and Public Administration
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20 FEB 2014 12:30 Lecture
“Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Cognitive Approach”
Dr. Michel Nawfal M.D. M.A. (mental health specialist, and psychology instructor at LAU)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Social Sciences
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20 FEB 2014 18:00 Séminaire
“Prospections Archéologiques”
Salle de conférence de l’Institut français du Liban
« Prospection : méthodologie appliquée à Enfeh »
Nadine Panayot Haroun et Lucie Semaan (Mission de l’Université de Balamand)
« Prospections archéologiques dans le Liban méridional »
Wissam Khalil (Université Libanaise)
« Prospections dans la zone de Tyr »
Zeina Haddad (Université Libanaise)
Séminaire commun : Ifpo/Département Archéologie et Histoire de l’Antiquité et Université Libanaise/Département d’Art et d’Archéologie
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20 FEB 2014 18:00 Séminaire
«”État” de santé au Liban : une médecine à deux vitesses ?»
Rouham Yamout (Médecin en santé publique, American University of Beirut)
Alissar Elias (Docteure en géographie de la santé, experte auprès d’une ONG)
Filippo Marranconi (Doctorant en anthropologie à l’Ifpo)
IFPO
Cycle : «Liban, quel État, pour quelle(s) citoyenneté(s) ?»
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21 FEB 2014 09:00 Lecture
“Seeking Consensus in Education Reform During Transition”
Mr. Batuhan Aydagül (Director of the Education Reform Initiative (ERI))
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Social Sciences
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21 FEB 2014 12:00 Discussion and book launch
“Malcolm X, the Arab World, and Geographies of Liberation”
Dr. Alex Lubin (AUB)
Building 37, AUB
CASAR
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24 FEB 2014 17:00 Lecture
“The Growing Russian Role in the MENA Region”
Alexander Zasypkin (Russian Ambassador)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: International Affairs Club
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24 FEB 2014 18:00 Conférence
“Entre poésie et prose”
Abbas Beydoun (écrivain)
Nasawiya cafe, Beirut,
IFPO
Cycle de conférences les lundis littéraires de l’Ifpo
Expérience de l’écriture et écriture de l’expérience
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24 FEB 2014 18:30 Lecture
“Architecture and Public Sphere”
Stefano Boeri (architect)
Charles W. Hostler Student Center Auditorium, AUB
Department of Architecture and Design
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25 FEB 2014 17:00 Lecture
“Crossroads of Crisis: Yarmouk, Syria, and the Predicament of Syrian Refugees”
Filippo Grandi (Commissioner-General, UNRWA)
New IFI Building, AUB
IFI
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25-26 FEB 2014 Conference
“Sociology in Iraq: The centennial celebration of Ali Al-Wardi”
College Hall, AUB
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies
International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IJCIS)
International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IACIS)
International Association of Middle Eastern Studies (IAMES)
International Centre for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies (ICCMES)
Arab Council for Social Science (ACSS)
25 FEB
Session 1: Roundtable: Reflections on a Mentor
Chair: Tareq Ismael (University of Calgary)
Session 2: Al-Wardi’s Thoughts and Contributions
Chair: Walid Kazziha (American University in Cairo)
“Value Orientation for Double Iraqi Personality”
Khaleel Ibrahim (University of Baghdad)
“The Public in Al-Wardi’s Discourse: A Reading in the Analysis of Discourse”
Salih Zamil (Mustansirya University)
“Substance of Power & State in the Thoughts of Ali Al-Wardi”
Ammer H. Fiadh (Al Nahrain University)
“Ali Al-Wardi: The Sociologist Historist: An Attempt to Reconsider His Perspective & Methodology in Accordance with his “Preachers of Sultans” & “Social Aspects””
Mahmoud A. Al-Qaysi (University of Baghdad)
Session 3: Al-Wardi’s Philosophy and Methodology
Chair: Thabit Adbullah (York University)
“The Philosophical Side in the Thoughts of the Iraqi Sociologist Ali Al-Wardi”
Mohammed G. Al-Farhan (New Philosophical Papers Journal)
“The Critique of Ali Al-Wardi on Aristotle’s Logic”
Faisal G. Majhoul (University of Baghdad)
“Ali Al-Wardi and Critique of Human Mind”
Ibrahim Al-Haidari
Session 4: Al-Wardi: Debating Societal Issues
Chair: Ali Mousawi (Lebanese University and Lebanese Sociological Association)
“From Group to Society: Al-Wardi and the Dream of Iraqi Nation”
Haider Saed (Al-Aalem, Amman, Jordan)
“Questions that ran Ali Al-Wardi between Ends and Means”
Hussain Shaban (University of Non-Violence (AUNOHR) in Beirut)
“The Relationship between Al-Wardi & Ibn Khaldoun”
Faleh A. Jabar (Iraqi Studies Center)
26 FEB
Session 5: Al-Wardi and the World
Chair: Walid Khadduri (Middle East Economic Survey)
“Writing sociology in Iraq and Arab world: knowledge production through Idafat, the Arab Journal of Sociology” Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut)
“Ali Al-Wardi and Academic Sociology: Austin, Texas, 1950″
Elizabeth Bishop (Texas State University)
“Al-Wardi in a Critical Perspective”
Lahay A. Hussein (University of Baghdad)
“Al-Wardi and Other Arab Thinkers: A comparative study”
Annie Tohme (Saint-Joseph University of Beirut)
Session 6: Al-Wardi Explaining Iraq
Chair: Seteney Shami (The Arab Council for the Social Sciences)
“Al-Wardi’s Disdain: Debating Democracy in Ba’thist Iraq”
Achim Rohde (Philipps University Marburg)
“Ali Al-Wardi’s Contribution to America’s Understanding of Iraq”
Dan Tschirgi (American University in Cairo)
“Iraqi Personality in light of Ali Al-Wardi’s Works: A Critical Review”
Hamied G.M. Al-Hashimi (International Colleges of Islamic Sciences, London)
“How Al-Wardi understand Democracy and its Possibility in Iraq”
Sherzad A. Ameen Al-Najjar (Salahaddin University-Erbil)
Session 7: Al-Wardi’s Thoughts on Today’s Iraq
Chair: Samir Khalaf (American University of Beirut)
“Al-Wardi and Sectarianism: Its application to today’s Iraq”
Ali Radhi (University of Calgary)
“Iraq Today in the Thoughts of Al-Wardi: The rule of the preachers”
Tareq Y. Ismael and Jacqueline S. Ismael (University of Calgary)
“Ali Al-Wardi and his Critic of Sectarianism in Iraq”
Fouad J. Kadhem (Exeter University, IAIS)
“The Structure of Iraqi Society after 2003 in View of Al-Wardi’s Socio-Historical Works”
Murtadha Al-Naqeeb (University of Baghdad)
“Ali Al-Wardi and the symptoms of Modernity”
Omar Al-Dewachi (American University of Beirut)
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26 FEB 2014 16:00 Seminar
“The Davis-Beirut Reaction”
Professor Makhluf J. Haddadin (Chemistry Department)
Chemistry Building, AUB
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27 FEB 2014 08:30 Seminar
“Architecture, Society and Politics: Seminar about the Social and Political Dimensions in Architecture and Planning”
Organizer:
Department of Architecture and Interior Design
Institute of Urban Planning
Institute of Diplomacy and Conflict Transformation
Byblos campus, LAU
Block I: Social Dimension in Architecture
“Citizens’ Organizations in Urban Political Fields”
Dr. Mario Diani
“Guidelines for the Urban Strategy of Porto Metropolitan Area”
Dr. Avelino Oliveira (Fernando Pessoa University)
“Consumerist Vernacular and Stillborn Structures”
Dr. Richard Douzjian (LAU)
“The social meaning of public space: conflicts and complexity, in search for identity and livability”
Dr. Luisa Bravo (University of Bologna)
“Emergency Architecture, Refugee Shelters Project, Wandering Library and Growth of the Urban Fabric and the 1975 Demarcation Line” Students from the department of Architecture
Block II: Political Dimension in Architecture
“Regional Technical Offices: Empowering Local Governance, Enhancing Planning Capacities”
Ms Marwa Boustani (UN)
“Normalizing the City: Urban Politics and the Planning of the City of Aleppo”
Mr. Omar Abdlaziz Hallaj
“Urban Transformation: Inequality between hard and soft infrastructure”
Dr. Rachid Chamoun (LAU)
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27 FEB 2014 12:00 Lecture
“The Youth, the Economy and Social Justice in the Arab Region”
Dr. Mary Kawar (ILO)
Dr. Zafiris Tzannatos (ILO)
IFI New Building, AUB
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
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27 FEB 2014 12:00 Lecture
“Control of the Upper Jordan river flows and the Lebanon-Israel-Syria political conflict”
Dr. Mark Zeitoun (Reader in the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK, and Director of the UEA Water Security Research Centre)
Moderator: Dr. Karim Makdisi (Associate Professor of International Relations in PSPA)
West Hall, AUB
Department of Political Studies and Public Administration
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27 FEB 2014 16:00 Lecture
“Edge of Empire: the Social Origins of Mandatory rule in Trans-Jordan 1921-46″
Tariq Tell (political economist, CAMES)
College Hall, AUB
CAMES
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27 FEB 2014 18:00 Lecture
“Sufism and the State in Central Asia”
Dr. Emily O’Dell (Visiting Assistant Professor in the Civilization Sequence Program at AUB)
Building 37, AUB
Anis Makdisi Program in Literature
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27 FEB 2014 19:00 Lecture
“Arabic Literature Today, Reality and Prospects”
Dr. Sabry Hafez
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Program in Arabic Literature and Language
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27-28 FEB 2014 Workshop
“Social Sciences at Arab Universities: Opportunities and Constraints”
Concluding workshop for the Arab-German research project “Local, Regional and International ‘Borrowing and Lending’ in Social Science Departments at Egyptian and Lebanese Universities”
OIB
27 FEB
“People’s Struggle for Human Dignity and the Dissemination of Humanities”
Dr. Elizabeth Kassab (Center for Advanced Study, Bonn/Germany)
“Social Scientists at the American University in Cairo and at October 6th University: Opportunities and Constraints”
Dr. Ramadan Nassar (Ain Shams University, Cairo)
“Lebanese Social Scientists in their Scientific Community”
Dr. Jonathan Kriener (Ruhr University of Bochum/Germany)
Comment: Prof. Melhem Chaoul (Lebanese University, Beirut)
Panel:
“Different Planets? Arab Social Sciences and Humanities at National and Foreign Institutions”
Prof. Ridwan as-Sayyid (Lebanese University and Higher Institute for Islamic Studies, Beirut
Prof. Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut
28 FEB
“Social and Epistemological Dimensions of Producing Scientific Knowledge at Egyptian Universities”
Dr. Ahmad Moussa Badawi (Sociologist, Banha/Egypt)
Comment: Dr. Khaled Abdel Fattah (Helwan University, Cairo)
Panel:
“Academic Networking among Arab Social Scientists: the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, Shamaa, and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences”
Prof. Adnan El Amine (Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, Beirut)
Prof. Sari Hanafi (Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Beirut)
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28 FEB 2014 19:00 Lecture
“On the Poets, Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov”
Dr. Marina Sarieddine (director of the Russian Cultural office at the Safadi Cultural Center in Tripoli)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer:
School of Arts and Sciences
School of Architecture and Design
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