March 2015

02-06 MAR 2015 Conference
“Digital Humanities Institute – Beirut 2015″
Building 37, AUB

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02 MAR 2015 12:00 Presentation
“Books in Transition: The Interchange of Islamic Scribal Traditions & Nineteenth-Century Arabic Printing Practices”
Prof. Hala Auji (Dept. Fine Arts and Art History, AUB)
IFI, AUB
CAMES
Civilization Studies Program (CVSP)

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02 MAR 2015 12:00 Panel Discussion
“The Impact of the Syrian Crisis on Neighboring Countries”
Dr. Şaban Kardaş (Middle East Strategic Research Center (ORSAM) – Turkey)
Dr. Ferhat Pirinççi (ORSAM)
Oytun Orhan (ORSAM)
IFI Auditorium, AUB
IFI

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02 MAR 2015 17:30 Lecture
“Everyone’s a Target: NSA’s Mass Surveillance and Cyber Warfare in the Middle East”
Dr. James Bamford (journalist, documentary producer)
College Hall, AUB
CASAR
CAMES

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02 MAR 2015 18:00 Conférence
“Ce que le dialogue peut faire. Liberté d’expression et reconstruction démocratique”
Christian Nadeau (Professeur de philosophie politique, Université de Montréal)
Discutante : Karam Karam (Politiste Directeur des recherches au Common Space Initiative, chercheur associé à l’Ifpo)
IFPO

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02 MAR 2015 18:00 Lecture
“May Ziade is remembered by her country”
Souhail Matar (Notre Dame University)
Geryos Ziade
<Recitation of Ziade's work>
Jihad Atrash
Jihad Al-Andari
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Center for Lebanese Heritage

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03-04 MAR 2015 International Conference
“Health and Illness: A Psychological Perspective”
BAU
Faculty of Arts

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03 MAR 2015 11:00 Lecture
“Tapping Into Lebanon: The NSA, Edward Snowden, and Eavesdropping on the Middle East”
James Bamford (journalist)
Beirut / Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer:
Department of English Language Instruction
Department of Communication Arts
Department of Humanities
Department of Social Sciences

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03 MAR 2015 17:00 Lecture
“Tell el-Dabca and Byblos and their place in history”
Dr. Karin Kopetzky (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology, Austria)
West Hall, AUB
Department of History and Archaeology

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03 MAR 2015 19:30 Conférence
“آنيّة سلام أتٍ من فوق – مقاربة لاهوتيّة”
Pr Antoine FLEYFEL (Chercheur, Maître de conférences en théologie et philosophie à l’Université Catholique de Lille)
Campus de sciences humaines, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Faculté des sciences religieuses

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04-06 MAR 2015 Debate
“MUPP-MUD CITY DEBATES 2015: Other Gentrifications: Urban Change beyond the Core”
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
The Graduate Programs in Urban Planning, Policy and Design (MUPP-MUD)
Department of Architecture and Design
AUB Neighborhood Initiative

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04 MAR 2015 Lecture
“The Importance of the Accounting Sector in Lebanon”
Hasan Alameddine
Tripoli Campus, BAU
Faculty of Business Administration

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04 MAR 2015 11:00 Event
“Japanese Day”
Beirut Campus, BAU
Public Relations Department

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04 MAR 2015 13:00 Lecture
“Something Went Missing”
Roula Wehbe
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design

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05 MAR 2015 17:00 Lecture
“Architecture as a Dialogue of Cultures”
Dr. Kazimierz Butelski (Faculty on Architecture, Krakow University of Technology, Poland)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
As a part of opening of an exhibition “Proposals for the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Beirut”

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05 MAR 2015 18:00 Public research seminar
“The archaeology of reading in Ottoman Bilād al-Shām”
Boris Liebrenz (Universität Leipzig)
OIB

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05 MAR 2015 18:00 Lecture
“Just War, Citizen Responsibility, and Public Intellectuals”
Prof. Christian Nadeau (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Montreal)
College Hall, AUB
Asfari institute

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05 MAR 2015 18:30 Conférence & spectacle de conteur
“La vie de Baybars selon la recension damascène: Sept siècles de transmission, quinze ans d’édition”
Iyas Hassan (chercheur à l’Ifpo et coéditeur de la Sîrat al-Malik al-zâhir Baybars)
Lecture théâtralisée d’un extrait de la Vie de Baybars selon la recension damascène
Chadi al Hallak (Conteur)
Café T Marbouta, Beyrouth

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06-07 MAR 2015 Colloque
“وهب الأعضاء والمسؤوليّة الدينيّة – التعاليم والطقوس والعادات : من الثوابت الإيمانيّة إلى التحوّلات الاجتماعيّة”
Campus de sciences humaines, USJ
Un événement présenté par :
Institut d’études islamo-chrétiennes
Institut supérieur de sciences religieuses
En collaboration avec :
Commission Episcopale pour la Pastorale des Services de la Santé au Liban
National Organization for Organ and Tissues Donation and Transplantation (NOOTDT)

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06 MAR 2015 15:00 Round-table meeting

“Barcelona, from successful urban design to gentrification”
Xavier Casanovas (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, REHABIMED)
“Gentrification mitigations and gentrification driven by the poor”
Eric Huybrechts (Institut français d’urbanisme)
“Strategies to respond gentrification. Case studies: Mar Mikhaïl, Zoqaq el-Blat, Beirut.”
Serge Yazigi (MAJAL, ALBA)
Discutants:
Caecilia Pieri (Observatoire urbain, Ifpo)
Habib Debs (Urbi)
Architecture Lecture Hall, AUB
Table ronde organisée par l’Observatoire urbain et MAJAL (ALBA) dans le cadre des City Debates (Université américaine de Beyrouth)

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06 MAR 2015 15:30 Lecture
“Jim Clancy at LAU Beirut”
Jim Clancy (journalist)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Communication Arts

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06 MAR 2015 17:00 Lecture
“[En]Visioning the Interior: Photography as a Way of Unfolding Space”
Laura J. Padgett (visual artist)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design

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09-10 MAR 2015 Workshop
“Establishing a framework for scholarly editing and publishing in the 21st century”
OIB

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09 MAR 2015 12:00 Lecture
“Creative Deactualization”
Chahid Akoury (School of Architecture and Design)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Fine Arts and Foundation Studies

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09 MAR 2015 13:15 Lecture
“Forced Migration: An Overview”
Prof. Dawn Chatty (Oxford University)
Political Science Institute, USJ
“Syrian Refugee Crisis Week”
In collaboration with:
The Oxford Refugee Studies Center
UNHCR

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09 MAR 2015 16:00 Lecture
“Was Ibn Rushd a Realist?”
Malik Mufti (Professor & Chair, Political Science Department, Tufts University)
College Hall, AUB
CAMES

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09 MAR 2015 17:00 Panel
“Are Refugees a Humanitarian or a Political Issue?”
Prof. Georges Corm (Institut des Sciences Politiques)
Prof. Susan Akram (Boston University)
Prof. Dawn Chatty (Oxford University)
Khalil Gebara (Ministory of Interior)
Jonathan Mclovr (Siren Associates)
Political Science Institute, USJ
“Syrian Refugee Crisis Week”
In collaboration with:
The Oxford Refugee Studies Center
UNHCR

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09 MAR 2015 17:30 Lecture
“Life and Death in Guantanamo: The Challenges of Defending a Death Penalty Case in a US Military Commission at Guantanamo”
Richard Kammen (criminal defense lawyer)
Building 37, AUB
CASAR

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09 MAR 2015 18:00 Lecture
“Unhealed Wounds of World War I: Armenia, Kurdistan and Palestine”
Prof. Rashid Khalidi
West Hall, AUB
Arts and Humanities Initiative

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10 MAR 2015 Panel discussion
“The Armenian World, 100 Years After the Genocide”
Thomas de Waal (Carnegie)
Reverend Dr. Paul Haidostian (president of Haigazian University)
Moderator: Maha Yahya (Carnegie)
Carnegie Middle East Center
in partnership with Haigazian University

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10 MAR 2015 17:00 Lecture
“Living between languages as a poet / translator”
Marilyn Hacker (poet)
Building 37, AUB
Department of English

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10 MAR 2015 18:00 Conférence
“Minorités et construction nationale : l’exemple syrien mis en perspective historique”
Nadine Méouchy (Historienne – Ifpo)
Institut français du Liban
Les Rendez-vous de l’Ifpo

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11 MAR 2015 12:00 Lecture
“Implications of Widening Access to Higher Education in the Arab World: Implementing a Holistic Lifelong Learning Policy”
Dr. Dina Kiwan (Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, AUB)
IFI Auditorium, AUB
IFI

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11 MAR 2015 14:00 Workshop
“Global forced migration-overview, legal frameworks, positive and negative trends”
“A comparison of humanitarian responses in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan”
“The Role of the EU and Access to Protection”
Political Science Institute, USJ
“Syrian Refugee Crisis Week”
In collaboration with:
The Oxford Refugee Studies Center
UNHCR

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11 MAR 2015 17:00 Lecture
“Illustration as a Form of Urban Intervention”
Joan Baz (visual artist)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Design

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11 MAR 2015 18:30 Conférence
“L’idée de Syrie depuis le 19eme siècle jusqu’au lendemain de la grande guerre”
Professeur Henry Laurens
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Un événement présenté par : Institut des sciences politiques
En collaboration avec : Département d’histoire

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12 MAR 2015 11:30 Lecture
“The role of regional and international courts in refugee protection”
Prof. Cathryn Costello (Oxford University)
Political Science Institute, USJ
“Syrian Refugee Crisis Week”
In collaboration with:
The Oxford Refugee Studies Center
UNHCR

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13 MAR 2015 13:00 Seminar
“International Criminal Court after Palestine signed and ratified Rome Statute”
راجي صوراني، محام متخصص في حقوق الإنسان في قطاع غزة في فلسطين
IFI Auditorium, AUB
IFI
Asfari Institute

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16 MAR 2015 13:00 Meeting
“Safeguarding of the Syrian cultural heritage concerning Syria-Japan Cooperation”
Organizer: University of Tsukuba, Japan
Support:
Agency for Cultural Affair, Government of Japan
Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Patronage: Directorate-General of Antiquities of Lebanon
Venue: JaCMES, Beirut
Participants:
<Syria>
Prof. Maamoun Abdulkarim (Director-General, DGAM)
Dr. Ahmad Deeb (Director, Museum Affairs, DGAM)
Ms. Lina Kutiefan (Director, Site Management & Foreign Cooperation, DGAM)

<Japan>
Prof. Akira Tsuneki (University of Tsukuba)
Dr. Kiyohide Saito (Archaeological Institute of Kashihara, Nara Prefecture)
Prof. Hidemitsu Kuroki (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Prof. Shin’ichi Nishiyama (Chubu University)

<Lebanon>
Dr. Sarkis El Khoury (Diector-General, DGA, Lebanon)

<Invited Excavation Teams working in Syria>
Prof. Jeanine Abdul Massih (Lebanese University)
Dr. Nadine Panayot Haroun (Balamand University)
Dr. Maya Haidar Boustany (Saint Joseph University)
Dr. Leila Badre (American University of Beirut)

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16 MAR 2015 14:00 Lecture
“Does The Nation-State Have a Hymen? The State of Sexual, National, and Gendered Regulation in Lebanon”
Dr. Maya Mikdashi (Rutgers University)
West Hall, AUB
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies

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16 MAR 2015 16:00 Lecture
“Lux Redux: Understanding and Activating Luxury Brands”
Manal Khater and Lara Akkari (Leo Burnett)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Fashion Design Program

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16 MAR 2015 17:00 Lecture
“Rhythms”
Carme Pigem (architect)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design

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16 MAR 2015 18:00 Séminaire
“Le Liban Sud : lieux symboliques et discours pluriels”
Zara Fournier (Université de Tours)
Discutante: Caecilia Pieri (Responsable de l’Observatoire urbain)
IFPO
Séminaire de l’Observatoire urbain

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17 MAR 2015 12:00 Lecture
“The Geopolitics of Iran’s Nuclear Program”
Vijay Prashad (IFI’s Senior Research Fellow)
IFI Auditorium, AUB
IFI

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17 MAR 2015 13:00 Lecture
“Scales of Intention: Reflections on Craft, Interaction and Shared Space”
Ahmad Khouja (architect, interior designer)
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design

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17 MAR 2015 17:00 Lecture
“From Rasht with Love: A U.S.-Iranian Cold War Story”
Cyrus Schayegh (Princeton University)
College Hall, AUB
CAMES
Department of History and Archaeology

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17 MAR 2015 18:00 Conférence
“La langue, enjeux et idéologies : le cas des Arméniens dans le contexte libanais”
Anaïd Donabedian (Docteur en Sciences du langage)
Salle de conférence, Institut français du Liban
Les Rendez-vous de l’Ifpo

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18 MAR 2015 Panel discussion
“Amr Hamzawy on the Plight of the Arab Nation-state”
Hazem al-Amin (al-Hayat)
Amr Hamzawy (professor of political science at Cairo University, professor of public policy at AUC)
Moderator: Lina Khatib (Carnegie)
Carnegie Middle East Center

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18-22 MAR 2015 International conference
“The Protestant Reformation and the Middle East”
Faculty of Religious Sciences, USJ
Near East School of Theology (NEST)
National Evangelical Church of Beirut (NECB)
Evangelische Gemeinde zu Beirut (EGB)
Akademische Forum Beirut-Berlin (AFBB)
in collaboration with
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lebanon

19 MAR
NEST
Keynote address “Reformation and Politics”
Prof. Margot Käßmann (Ambassador for the Reformation Anniversary in 2017 on behalf of the Council of the EKD)
Respondent: His Grace Bishop Munib Younan (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land; President, World Lutheran Federation)

20 MAR

USJ

Panel A: The Reformation in a Historical Perspective
Discussant: Dr. Thomas Scheffler (Research Associate, Orient-Institute Beirut)
“The Pilgrim Martin Luther in Rome”
Mr. Ermano Meichsner (Former Adviser Reformation Jubilee, German Foreign Ministry)
“Six Years of Systematic Dialogue Between Tübingen and Constantinople”
Mrs. Frieda Haddad Abs (Lecturer in Social Work and Sociology- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Haigazian University, Beirut)
“A Turk by Any Other Name: Michael Sattler, Luther and the Radical Reformation”
Prof. Eugene Sensenig Dabbous (Chair of the Departments of Political Science, Public Administration, and International Affairs Notre Dame University; Secretary, AFBB)

Panel B: In the Beginning was the Word
Discussant: Mrs. Frieda Haddad Abs
“L’amour pur chez Luther”
Prof. Jad Hatem (Professor of Philosophy, Literature and Religious Sciences at Saint Joseph University)
“Religion and Violence”
Prof. Miroslav Volf (Director, Center for Faith & Culture, Yale Divinity School, New Haven Connecticut USA)
“La croix et le ‘Principe protestant’ entre Luther et Tillich”
Mr. Raymond Asmar (PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)

Panel C: Religion and Politics
Discussant: Eugene Sensenig Dabbous (Chair of the Departments of Political Science, Public Administration, and International Affairs Notre Dame University; Secretary, AFBB)
“Religion as a Factor of Solving Conflict”
Prof. Margot Käßmann
“Imperial Protestantism and the Middle East: Emperor Wilhelm II, Ottoman Islam and Oriental Christianity”
Dr. Thomas Scheffler
“Politique et religions aujourd’hui : la duperie”
Prof. Antoine Messarra (Membre du Conseil Constitutionnel, Chaire UNESCO d’études comparées des religions, de la médiation et du dialogue, USJ)
“Religion and State in Contemporary Middle Eastern Theological Documents: «Kairos» & «From the Nile to the Euphrates.»”
Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb (Pastor of the Nativity Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, Founder and President of the Diyar Consortium)

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18-28 MAR 2015 Play
“The Rape”
Major AUB theatre production in collaboration with LAU
Credits:
Written by Saadallah Wannous
Produced by AUB and Robert Myers
Directed by Sahar Assaf
Translated by Nada Saab and Robert Myers
Irwin Theatre, LAU

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18 MAR 2015 12:00 Seminar
“Unequal and Unprotected Women’s Rights under Lebanese Personal Status Laws”
Lama Fakih, Nadim Houry, Nayla Geagea (Human Rights Watch)
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
Faculty of Health Sciences

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18 MAR 2015 16:00 Seminar
“الجمهوريّة ورئاستها: بين ممارسة الأمس والتطلّع إلى الغد”
فخامة الرئيس العماد ميشال سليمان
Charles W. Hostler Student Center Auditorium, AUB
IFI

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18 MAR 2015 17:00 Presentation
“Palestinian Economic Development and the Future of Two-States Solution”
Leila Farsakh (associate professor in political science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston)
College Hall, AUB
Institute for Palestine Studies

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19-25 MAR 2015 Art Exhibition
“East to West, Modern to Postmodern”
Haigazian University Art Center

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19 MAR 2015 09:00 Conference
“Youth Marginalization and Radicalization Amid the Syrian Crisis”
Maha Shuayb (director, Center for Lebanese Studies)
Kamel Kosbar (president, Sidon Syrian Relief Union)
Nizar Saghiyeh (director, The Legal Agenda)
Haneen Al Sayyed (coordinator, World Bank Human Development Program)
Mazen Ezzi (journalist and editor, Almodon)
Mario Abou Zeid (research analyst, Carnegie Middle East Center)
Lars Erslev Andersen (senior researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies)
Tobias Gemmerli (senior researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies)
Lina Khatib (director, Carnegie Middle East Center)
Jørgen Ilum (police commissioner, East Jutland Police district, Danish National Police)
Carnegie Middle East Center
in partnership with the Danish Institute in Damascus and the Center for Lebanese Studies

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19 MAR 2015 12:00 Lecture
“From Humans to Animals: Animal Models in Schizophrenia”
Dr. Liesl Jones (assistant professor in the department of biological sciences in the City University of New York)
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Natural Sciences

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19 MAR 2015 12:00 Lecture
“Typographic Masonry: Building Communities, a City and the Palace”
Richard Niessen (artist)
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Design

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19 MAR 2015 12:00 Lecture
“Syria and the Responsibility to Protect Refugees”
Tendayi Achiume (Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA)
IFI Auditorium, AUB
IFI

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19 MAR 2015 18:00 Public lecture
“The Urban Roots of the Arab Spring”
Ellis Goldberg (Professeur au département d’études politiques à l’Université de Washington – Seattle)
Salle de conférence, Institut français du Liban
Les Rendez-vous de l’Ifpo

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19 MAR 2015 18:00 Public lecture
<Arab Uprisings Reconsidered from Lebanese and Japanese Points of View>
“Arab Uprisings of 2011 vis-à-vis the History of Arab States”
Massoud Daher (Lebanese University)
“Thawra and Nation State System in the Arab World”
Eiji Nagasawa (University of Tokyo)
JaCMES
JaCMES Lecture Series: The Middle East and Japan No. 10

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19 MAR 2015 18:00 Lecture
“Before Bandung: The 1949 Pan-Asian Anti-Imperialist Women’s Conference”
Lisa Armstrong (Smith College)
College Hall, AUB
CAMES

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20 MAR 2015 09:45 Panel Discussion
“Economics of Climate Change: The Cost of Doing Nothing”
Speakers:
Eduardo Amaral Haddad (Full Professor, Department of Economics; Director, Regional and Urban Economics Lab (NEREUS), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Michael Lahr (Research Professor, Edward J Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, USA)
Flavio Vilela Vieira (Associate Professor, Economics Institute, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brasil)
Nadim Farajalla (Program Faculty Research Director, IFI, and Associate Professor of Faculty of Agricultural Food Sciences, AUB)
Lebanese Ministry of Environment – Climate Change Unit: TBC
IFI Auditorium, AUB
Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World Program at IFI

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20 MAR 2015 18:00 Conférence
“La découverte du monastère de Saint-Hilarion à Tell Umm el-’Amr, Bande de Gaza”
René Elter (Archéologue, co-directeur de la mission de coopération archéologique de Tell Umm el-’Amr, Bande de Gaza )
Institut français du Liban
Les Rendez-vous de l’Ifpo

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23 MAR 2015 12:00 Lecture
“Political Interests Trump Humanity: the British Government and the Armenian Genocide of 1914-1923″
Katia Peltekian (LAU)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer:
School of Arts and Sciences
Armenian Club

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23 MAR 2015 13:30 Conférence
“Beyrouth au prisme des pratiques ludiques de la classe moyenne chiite pieuse”
Mona Harb (Professeur associée à l’Université américaine de Beyrouth)
Salle de conférence, Institut français du Liban
Organisation : Institut français du Liban et Institut français du Proche-Orient

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23 MAR 2015 18:00 Lecture
“Expat/Expert Camps: Rethinking “Labor” within Gulf migration and development”
Neha Vora (Lafayette College)
College Hall, AUB
CAMES

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26 MAR 2015 17:00 Lecture
“Searching for the Barbarians”
Elias Khoury (novelist and critic)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Humanities

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27 MAR 2015 18:00 Panel Discussion
“Arab Comic Arts”
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Design

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31 MAR 2015 Panel discussion
“Citizenship, Justice, and Political Transitions in Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen”
Gouda Abdel Khaleq (former minister of Solidarity and Social Justice, Egypt)
Jihad Azour (former minister of finance, Lebanon)
Ridha Saidi (former minister of economy, Tunisia)
Houriya Mashour (former minister of human rights, Yemen)
Moderator: Maha Yahya (Carnegie)
Carnegie Middle East Center

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