01 MAY 2014 09:00 Conference
“Social Media Changing Lives”
Issam Fares Hall, AUB
AUB, Haigazian University
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02 MAY 2014 12:00 Lecture
“Turkish Politics and Policy in the Region: Moving in Which Direction?”
Dr. Ömer Taşpınar (professor of National Security Strategy at the U.S. National War College)
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Social Sciences
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02 MAY 2014 12:00 Lecture
“Understanding Time and Place”
Simone Garagnani (architect)
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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02 MAY 2014 14:00 Lecture
“Remembering the Nakba in Syria”
Anaheed Al-Hardan (Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies)
Building 37, AUB
Arts And Humanities Initiative
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04 MAY 2014 18:00 Concert
“Music from Lebanon and the world”
By GARGATCH Children Choir of Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society
Artistic Director and Conductor: Maestro Zakar Keshishian
Pianist: Kamila Keshishian
Assembly Hall, AUB
Zaki Nassif Program Music Festival “In Celebration of a Musical Legacy”
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05 MAY 2014 11:00 Lecture
“Defining the Meaning of “Good” in the Quran: An Analysis and Synthesis”
Ahmad Obeidat (the University of Virginia)
College Hall, AUB
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
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05 MAY 2014 12:00 Lecture
“The Comparative International Relations”
Jong Il Choi (Ambassador of the Republic of Korea)
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Social Sciences
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05 MAY 2014 17:00 Panel Discussion
“Remembering Nizar Mroue: His legacy as a critic, musicologist, and writer”
Assembly Hall, AUB
The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature
The Zaki Nassif Music Program
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05 MAY 2014 17:30 Lecture
“Spanish Mission to Lebanon and Bilateral Relations”
Milagros Hernando (Ambassador of Spain)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer:
Department of Social Sciences
Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World
The lecture will be given as part of Dr. Imad Salamey’s Lebanese Politics class
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05 MAY 2014 19:00 Conference
“The Lebanese House through the Years”
Dr. Antoine Lahoud (School of Architecture and Design)
Professor Antoine Fishfish (Université Saint-Esprit De Kaslik)
Bahaa Rifai (architect)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Center for Lebanese Heritage
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06 MAY 2014 12:00 Lecture
“The Making and Reclaiming of Communal Spaces in Beirut: The Story of the Dalieh”
Abir Saksouk-Sasso (architect)
IFI Auditorium, AUB
IFI
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06 MAY 2014 18:00 Conférence
“Luttes sociales au Liban : au-delà du clientélisme, du confessionnalisme et du sécuritarisme ?”
Marie-Noëlle Abi Yaghi (Docteur en sciences politiques, chercheuse associée à l’Ifpo, et co-animatrice de l’ONG Lebanon Support)
Leah Boukhater (Doctorante à la SOAS, University of London)
Michele Scala (Stagiaire Ifpo, auteur d’une enquête sur le conflit social « Spinneys »)
IFPO
Cycle : « Liban, quel État, pour quelle(s) citoyenneté(s) ? »
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06 MAY 2014 17:00 Table ronde
“قانون الايجار بين المفهوم والحسنات والسيئات”
المحامي الاستاذ ناضر كسبار ، عضو مجلس نقابة المحامين في بيروت
السيد جوزف زغيب، نقيب مالكي العقارات والأبنية المؤجرة في لبنان
المهندس أنطوان كرم، رئيس لجنة دعم حقوق المستأجرين
منسق الندوة : جورج خديج، مدير مركز الدراسات الحقوقية للعالم العربي
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Un événement présenté par :
Centre d’études des droits du monde arabe
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06 MAY 2014 19:00 Conférence
“ماذا علي أن أفعل كي أنجو من الشرير؟”
الأب إدغار الهيبي
Campus des sciences humaines, USJ
Un événement présenté par :
Faculté des sciences religieuses
Institut supérieur de sciences religieuses
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7-10 MAY 2014 Colloque international
“Vatican II et les Eglises orientales”
Un événement présenté par :
Centre de Recherches et de Publications de l’Orient Chrétien
Faculté des sciences religieuses
Lieu : Campus de l’Innovation et du sport, USJ
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7 MAY 2014 Public conference
“Tripoli From the Brink? Addressing the Underlying Challenges”
1.Background on Tripoli
Samer Annous
Sahar Atrash
Fawaz Hamdi
Rashid Jamali
2.Sectarian Dynamics of the Conflict
Lama Fakih
Raphaël Lefèvre
Yezid Sayigh
3. State Response and Policy Options
Ahmad Al Ayoubi
Adib Eit
Khaldoun El Sharif
Chamseen Mohammad
Nabil Sari
Nadim Houry
Carnegie Middle East Center
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07 MAY 2014 12:00 Discussion
“Electoral Reforms in Lebanon”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Human Rights Club
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07 MAY 2014 15:00 Lecture
“Counting the infinity: at the crossroad of algebra and analysis”
Sylvie Paycha (University of Potsdam, Germany)
College Hall, AUB
Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS)
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07 MAY 2014 16:00 Lecture
“Systole of hyperbolic manifolds”
Matthieu Gendulphe (Sapienza Universita Di Roma, Italy)
College Hall, AUB
Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS)
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08 MAY 2014 13:00 Panel discussion
“The Changing Order and Disorder in the Arab Region”
“Regional Securitizations and normative Power in the aftermath of the Uprisings and the War in Syria”
Helle Malmvig (Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) – Copenhagen, Denmarkt)
“Revisiting narratives about regional order in a ‘new Middle East’”
Morten Valbjørn (DIIS)
“Developments in Security Politics in the GCC after the Arab Revolts”
Lars Erslev Andersen (DIIS)
IFI Auditorium, AUB
IFI
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08 MAY 2014 13:00 Seminar
“Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Data Analysis Using Varying Coefficient Models”
Shireen Assaf, MS, PhD (University of Padova, Italy)
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
Faculty of Health Sciences
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08 MAY 2014 15:00 Lecture
“On Affine manifolds”
Fatma Muazez Simsir (University of Hitit, Turkey)
College Hall, AUB
Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS)
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08 MAY 2014 16:00 Lecture
“Spectral geometry of convex Euclidean domains”
Alessandro Savo (Sapienza Universita Di Roma, Italy)
College Hall, AUB
Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS)
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08 MAY 2014 16:00 Seminar
“A Radical Solution to an Old Problem. Some New Perspectives for Organic Synthesis”
Professor Samir Zard (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Chemistry Building, AUB
Chemistry Department
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08 MAY 2014 16:00 Lecture
“Literature and Visual Art”
Dr. Elham Kallab (writer)
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: The Arabic Language and Literature Program in the Department of Humanities
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09-10 MAY 2014 Conference
“Differential Geometry”
The Centre for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS)
The Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences II, Lebanese University
Venue: Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences II, Lebanese University
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09 MAY 2014 12:00 Lecture
“Orphans and Orphanages During the Genocide: The Turkification of Armenian Orphans in Lebanon”
Selim Deringil (faculty member)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer:
Armenian Club
Department of Humanities
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09 MAY 2014 13:00 Lecture
“Learning From Detroit”
Mosè Ricci (professor, University of Genoa)
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture & Interior Design
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09 MAY 2014 19:00 Conférence
” المطر والورد وجدليّة العلاقة بين الدين والأدب”
الدكتور جوزف لبُّس
Un événement présenté par :
Institut de lettres orientales
Lieu : Campus de sciences humaines, USJ
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12 MAY 2014 09:30 Conference
“Reading Milton through Islam”
Building 37, AUB
Department of English
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12 and 15 MAY 2014 16:00 Lecture
“Witten deformations and foliations”
Ken Richardson (Texas Christian university, USA)
College Hall, AUB
Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS)
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13 MAY 2014 10:00 Seminar
“Next generation sequencing related software and kits”
Dr. Chaulet, PhD in medical and biological sciences
Diana Tamari Sabbagh Building, AUB
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13 MAY 2014 15:30 Panel discussion
“Nutritionists in the Media: The effects of media on nutrition beliefs and choices”
West Hall, AUB
Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
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13 MAY 2014 18:00 Public research seminar
“Dismember remember: The anatomical theatre of Lina Saneh and Rabih Mroué (Public book presentation) ”
Monique Bellan (OIB Research Associate)
Discussant: Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (AUB)
OIB
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14-16 MAY 2014 Conference
“Armenians of Lebanon (II)”
Armenian Diaspora Research Center at Haigazian University
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14 MAY 2014 14:00 Lecture
“Race, Space, and Coalitional Politics”
Dr. Gaye Johnson (UCSB)
Building 37, AUB
CASAR
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15-29 MAY 2014 Exposition
“Les Jésuites et la guerre de 1914-1918 au Liban”
Un événement présenté par :
Fédération des associations d’anciens de l’USJ
Lieu : Crypte de l’église Saint-Joseph
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15-17 MAY 2014 Conference
“Wittgenstein’s Contemporary Relevance”
West Hall, AUB
Department of Philosophy
Speakers:
Dr. Saleh Agha (AUB): ‘Family Resemblance and Focal Meaning’
Professor Paul Boghossian (NYU): ‘Intuitions’
Dr. William Child (Oxford): ‘Self-Ascriptions, Other-Ascriptions, and the Univocality of Mental Terms’
Professor Hannah Ginsborg (Berkeley): ‘Must I Know What I Mean?’
Professor Paul Horwich (NYU): ‘The Case Against A Priori Philosophical Theories’
Professor Stephen Schiffer (NYU): ‘The Untapped Significance of Family Resemblance in the Theory of Meaning’
Professor Barry Smith (School of Advanced Study, University of London): ‘Wittgenstein on Description and Explanation’
Professor Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins): ‘Wittgenstein and Skepticism’
Professor Meredith Williams (Johns Hopkins): ‘Wittgenstein on Learning and Reference’
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15 MAY 2014 16:00 Lecture
“Hip Hop and Global Culture”
Chuck D (Public Enemy)
IFI Auditorium, AUB
CASAR
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15 MAY 2014 18:00 Conférence
“Les poids du Proche-Orient gréco-romain : Objets archéologiques et témoignages historiques”
Pierre-Louis Gatier
Amphithéâtre Laila Turqui, Bibliothèque orientale
Organisation : Université Saint-Joseph, Ifpo, Musée de la préhistoire libanaise
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15 MAY 2014 19:00 Performance
“Web Experimental Music and Performance”
LAU Mosaic Ensemble directed by faculty member Dr. Martin Loyato
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Communication Arts
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16-17 MAY 2014 Colloque
“Littérature, art et monde contemporain : récits, histoire, mémoire”
la faculté des lettres et des sciences humaine de l’USJ
Lieu : Campus des sciences humaines, USJ
16 MAY
conférence inaugurale : « Les historiens et la guerre du Liban, une mise en récit ».
Henry Laurens (professeur au Collège de France)
panel 1 : « Face à l’événement : donner à voir »
modérateur : Dima Samaha (département de lettres françaises, USJ)
« Anima ou comment dire l’indicible »
Sandra Barrère (Institut français du Liban)
« Poétique des ruines et traces de l’histoire : sur Quatre heures à Chatila de Jean Genet. »
Claire Lozier (études françaises, Université de Leeds)
« Les enjeux du théâtre au Liban »
Katia Haddad (chaire Senghor de la francophonie, département de lettres françaises, USJ)
« Dernières nuits au Holiday Inn »
Gregory Buchakjian (ALBA)
panel 2 : « Les pratiques artistiques au prisme de l’événement »
modérateur : Amanda Abi-Khalil (critique d’art et curatoriat USJ, ALBA)
« D’un événement à l’autre. Autopsie de Beyrouth »
Claudia Polledri (littérature comparée, Université de Montréal)
« Unhinging Time : Narrative Disruption in the Films of Ghassan Salhab ».
Muhannad Hariri (Philosophy, AUB)
« Nature, histoire et guerre civile »
Fares Chalabi (critique d’art et curatoriat USJ, ALBA, AUB)
panel 3 : les pratiques artistiques au prisme de l’événement (suite)
modérateur : Ghalya Saadawi (critique d’art et curatoriat USJ, AUB)
« Documentary and Artistic Practices : Tammam Azzam’s Syrian Museum »
Sonia Atassi (Civilization Sequence, AUB)
« The Artwork as Event : Towards a politics of form »
Angela Harutyunyan (Department of Fine Arts andArt History, AUB)
« Représenter la guerre civile en Algérie (1991-2001) : analyse de la production symbolique face à la violence politique »
Fanny Gillet (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
17 MAY
panel 4 : « La question de la mémoire »
modérateur : Maya Hage (critique d’art et curatoriat, USJ)
« Une mémoire collective dans le cinéma libanais. Réflexions sociologiques »
Bruno Péquignot (arts & médias, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3)
« Mémoire individuelle, mémoire collective et histoire dans les pratiques artistiques contemporaines au Liban »
Amanda Abi-Khalil
panel 5 : Les écritures de la mémoire
modérateur : Dima Samaha (département de lettres françaises, USJ)
« Up and Down the Rue de Damas : Interrogating Memory »
Claire Launchbury (University of Chester, University of Leeds)
« L’imaginaire du territoire dans le cinéma du Moyen-Orient »
Gérard Bejjani (UPT, département de lettres françaises, USJ)
« Lectures et appropriations imaginales de l’histoire : blessures et sublimations ».
Yamilé Ghebalou (Université d’Alger, École nationale supérieure de sciences politiques d’Alger)
« L’exil : une mémoire fragmentée dans Des hommes dans le soleil de Ghassan Kanafani »
Mohammad Radi (Université al-Hussein Bin Talal)
panel 6 : Les écritures de la mémoire (suite)
modérateur : Ghalya Saadawi (critique d’art et curatoriat USJ, AUB)
« Replicas and the Narration of a Future Oriented Past »
Judith Naeff (University of Amsterdam)
« Disparition/Apparition, clôture du récit et irruption du fantastique dans les pratiques artistiques contemporaines au Liban »
Ghada Sayegh (Iesav, USJ)
panel 7 : Ruine, monument, figure et préfigure : les détours de l’histoire
modérateur : Pierre Abi-Saab (journal al-Akhbar, critique d’art et curatoriat, USJ)
« Le monde médiéval comme métaphore du contemporrain chez Youssef Chahine et Amin Maalouf »
Thomas Richard (Université d’Auvergne)
« Pour une lecture de la ruine dans Berytus de Rabih Jaber et Attempt 137 to Map the Drive de Jalal et Graziella Toufic ».
Nayla Tamraz
« Commémoration, généalogies, monuments photographiques : ruines de la mémoire collective et trajectoires individuelles au présent »
Cécile Camart (département de médiation culturelle de l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3)
« The Ruin to Come; Spelling Survivor ».
Walid Sadek (Department of Design and Architecture, AUB)
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16 MAY 2014 10:00 Lecture
“Teaching about Peace and Justice with Ambassadors and Cartoonists”
Hester Somsen (Dutch Ambassador)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Social Sciences
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16 MAY 2014 11:00 Lecture
“In search of the Qur’anic context”
Emran El-Badawi, PhD (Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Director, Arabic Program)
College Hall, AUB
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages
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16 MAY 2014 12:00 Lecture
“Reflections from the 20th TESOL Arabia International Conference”
Samira A. Shami (English instructor)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of English Language Instruction
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19 MAY 2014 18:00 Lecture
“Presidential Elections in Lebanon”
Karim Pakradouni (former minister of state)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: International Affairs Club
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20 MAY 2014 17:00 Lecture
“The Politics and Ethics of Humanitarianism”
Didier Fassin (James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
Faculty of Health Sciences
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20 MAY 2014 19:30 Conférence
“Le Liban et le Génocide arménien”
Conférence-débat et projection du film documentaire Le génocide arménien, de Laurence Jourdan
la projection du film est suivie d’un débat animé par :
Christine Babikian Assaf
Lévon Nordiguian
Roland Tomb
Lieu : Campus des sciences médicales et infirmières, USJ
Un événement présenté par :
Faculté de médecine
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
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21 MAY 2014 09:00 Conference
“Building the Case for Sustainable Transportation in the Arab World”
IFI Auditorium, AUB
IFI
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21 MAY 2014 15:00 Lecture
“Defense and Illustration of Ethnography”
Didier Fassin (Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton)
West Hall, AUB
Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies (SOAM)
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21 MAY 2014 17:00 Séminaire
“Le sac de Kisrawān et l’apport des sources chrétiennes”
Professeur Joseph Moukarzel (Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik)
IFPO
Séminaire « Conflits de sources, sources de conflits »
Troisième séance consacrée à l’histoire et l’historiographie des expéditions contre le Kisrawān à l’époque mamelouke
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21 MAY 2014 17:30 Presentation
“Museum Collections Make Connections”
Salim Edde (President – Mineral Museum)
Archaeological Museum, AUB
Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum
On the occasion of the International Museum Day
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22 MAY 2014 15:30 Lecture
“Terminology: From Theory to Practice”
Dr. Andree Affeich
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Humanities
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22 MAY 2014 17:30 Lecture
“The Politics of Space and Protest”
Julia Tierney (University of California in Berkeley)
Beirut campus, LAU
In the framework of the graduate course on “Popular Uprisings and Social Movements” (INA 814G) taught by Dr. Tamirace Fakhoury
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22 MAY 2014 17:30 Conférence
“Le sort des sentences arbitrales annulées dans leur pays d’origine”
Ibrahim Fadlallah (Professeur émérite de lUniversité Paris X)
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Faculté de droit et des sciences politiques
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22 MAY 2014 19:00 Séminaire
“Les fontaines traditionnelles dans le Mont Liban”
Elie Abi Antoun (Doctorant en archéologie : Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne – Université Libanaise)
“Aspects militaires de Byblos cananéo-phénicienne d’après l’analyse des données archéologiques”
Ziad Jalbout (Doctorant en archéologie : Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et Université Libanaise)
“La figure de Bacchus, son cortège et ses attributs sur les sarcophages en plomb de la région de Tyr”
Sarah Mady (Université Libanaise)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut Français du Liban
Séminaire commun : Ifpo/Département Archéologie et Histoire de l’Antiquité et Université Libanaise/Département d’Art et d’Archéologie. Séminaire doctoral
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23 MAY 2014 Conference
“Gender Based Violence”
Haigazian University
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23 MAY 2014 18:00 Conférence
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“What history for children in Palestinian refugee camps?”
Rosemary Sayigh (Professor at the American University of Beirut)
“Narrative Wars and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: Three ways of dealing with the past (or not)”
Nadim Khoury (Professor at Al-Quds Bard Honors College)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut Français du Liban
Conférence en langue anglaise organisée par l’Ifpo, avec le soutien du projet ERC-WAFAW
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27 MAY 2014 18:00 Conférence
“Damas 2011, paysages urbains : État des lieux photographique avant conflit”
Jean-Christophe Ballot (Architecte, photographe, cinéaste)
Discutante : Caecilia Pieri (Responsable de l’Observatoire urbain du Proche-Orient)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut Français du Liban
Cycle de conférences « Les Rendez-vous de l’Ifpo »
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28 MAY 2014 18:00 Séminaire
“Traduire les Mu‘allaqāt. Texte, contexte, intertexte, paratexte”
Bruno Paoli (Directeur du département d’études arabes, médiévales et modernes (DEAMM) – Ifpo)
IFPO
Quatrième séance du séminaire Ta‘rīb et taġrīb – Questions de traduction et de réécriture organisé par Claire Savina (Paris IV, doctorante Ifpo) et Peter Hill (Oxford University, doctorant associé Ifpo pour le DEAMM).
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28 MAY 2014 18:15 Lecture
“Decolonizing Embodiment, Derivative Socialities”
Randy Martin (New York University)
College Hall, AUB
CASAR
English Department
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30 MAY 2014 Public conference
“Roadmap to National Dialogue: What Can Syria Learn From Regional Experiences?”
Majid Almadhaji (researcher and human rights activist)
Darine El Hage (USIP Center for Middle East and Africa)
Wesam Jalahej (Syrian League for Citizenship)
Oussama Safa (ESCWA)
Moderator: Romy Nasr (Carnegie)
Carnegie Middle East Center
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