01 JUN 2015 18:00 Lecture
“Lebanon’s Silk Glory Days”
“كيف غير الحرير وجه لبنان الاجتماعي والاقتصادي”
Dr. Boutrous Labaki
“الحرير في لبنان مرفق إنمائي”
Prof. Michel Layoun
“الحفاظ على الحرير تراثا لبنانيا: متحف بسوس نموذجا”
Prof. George Asilly
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Center for Lebanese Heritage
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02 JUN 2015 17:30 Lecture
“Building civil peace after forty years and Lebanon’s role in the inflamed area”
Dr. Melhem Khalaf (USJ)
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
University for Seniors
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02 JUN 2015 18:00 Lecture
“الشعر المنثور : الشعر المجهول”
برفسور شربل داغر، جامعة البلمند
OIB
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04 JUN 2015 16:00 Séminaire
Séminaire de restitution des résultats de la recherche :« Toxicomanie et politique sociale au Liban : mesures et pratiques, limites et perspectives »
Campus des sciences humaines, USJ
Un événement présenté par : École libanaise de formation sociale
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04 JUN 2015 16:00 Seminar
“On the Hardy-Schrodinger operator with a singularity on the boundary”
Dr. Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia, Canada)
College Hall, AUB
Department of Mathematics
Centre For Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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04 JUN 2015 18:30 Talk
“Fashion Talks: Beirut Design Week at LAU”
Kevin Kramp (knitwear designer)
Stefan Siegel (founder and CEO of Not Just a Label)
Bong Guerrero (founder and CEO of Fashion Forward)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Design
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05 JUN 2015 13:00 Lecture
“Conscious Concepts?”
Dara McPhee (architect)
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: School of Architecture and Design
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06 JUN 2015 10:00 Event
“Open Day: the Archives and Special Collections Department at the AUB Libraries”
Jafet Library, AUB
The International Archives Day, June 6, 2015
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08-11 JUN 2015 International Conference
“Upholding Gendered Peace at a Time of War: Academics and Activists Speak Out on the Shifting Places of Women in the Arab World”
Organizer: Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, LAU
The opening session for the conference will take place at:
Adnan Kassar School of Business, Beirut Campus, Lebanese American University
All other conference sessions will be held at:
Crown Plaza Hotel, Hamra Main Street, Beirut
08 JUN
Keynote Speech “Women, War and Revolution”
Dr. Nawal El-Saadawi (Founder of The Arab Women’s Solidarity Association, Egypt)
Panel 1: Gender and Armed Conflict
Moderator: Dr. Carol Mann (Director, Women in War, Paris)
“Gendered Borders and the Arab Uprisings”
Dr. Jennifer Skulte Ouaiss (Lebanese American University, Lebanon-USA)
“Gender and the Globalization of War”
Dr. Awatef Ketiti (University of Valencia, Spain)
“Gender Reforms and Anti-Colonial Peace-Building”
Maliha Chishti (Former Director of the Hague Appeal for Peace, Canada)
“Quel avenir pour les femmes sous l’emprise de l’Islam radical”
Dr. Khedija Arfaoui (University of Tunis, Tunisia)
Panel 2: Lebanon: Women, War, and Displacement
Moderator: Dr. Evelyne Accad (University of Illinois, USA)
“J’ai déposé les armes”
Régine Sneifer (writer, Lebanon)
“The Persistence of Gendered Narratives in Times of War &Displacement: Syrian Women Refugees in Lebanese Public Discourse”
Adriana Qubaia (Central European University, Hungary)
“From “Invisibility” to “in visibility””
Tracy Chamoun (Lebanon)
“The Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis on Lebanese Host Communities’ Security Perceptions Across the Country: A Gendered Angle”
Lana Khattab (International Alert, UK)
Panel 3: Radicalism: The Many Faces of Religious Extremism
Moderator: Dr. Sami Baroudi (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)
“On Yazidi Women”
Dr. llham Hammadi (University of Saint-Joseph, Lebanon)
“War, Religious Fanaticism, and Gender: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina”
Nermina Trbonja (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
“From Comrades to Casualties: Women, Transformation, and Conflict in the North Caucasus”
Khalida Nurmetova (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany-Azerbaidjan)
“Femmes françaises djihadistes en Syrie et en Irak”
Dr. Armelle Le Bras-Chopard (Université de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, France)
09 JUN
Keynote Speech “Explaining Divergent Outcomes of the Arab Spring: The Significance of Gender and Women’s Mobilizations”
Professor Valentine Moghadam (Northeastern University, USA)
Panel 4: Fundamentalism: Its Many Facets and Faces
Moderator: Alia Ibrahim (Al-Arabiya News, Lebanon)
“The Psychology of Terror and the Active Role of Women Within it”
Dr. Hussein Sharah (Mutah University, Jordan)
“Quelle révolution pour les femmes tunisiennes: printemps féministe ou hiver islamiste?”
Dr. Najet Limam-Tnani (University of Tunis, Tunisia)
“Islamic Feminism in Iraq”
Dr. Nahla Al Nadawi (University of Bagdad, Iraq)
“Femmes Africaines et Fondamentalisme (Boko Haram au Nigeria, Ansar Dine et Mujao au Mali)”
Dr. Catherine Vidrovitch (University Paris Diderot, France)
Panel 5: The Decentering of the Intimate Sphere
Moderator: Dr. Azza Sharara Beydoun (Lebanese University & Bahithat, Lebanon)
“Temporary Marriage in Sunni and Shia Islam: Comparative Case Studies of Iran and Egypt after the Arab Spring”
Dr. Atieh Asgharzadeh (CADIS, France-Iran)
“La condition de la femme syrienne après le printemps arabe”
Dr. Afraa Ismael (Tishreen University, Syria)
“Women in Libya: The Ongoing Armed Conflict: Political Instability and Radicalization”
Asma Khalifa (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
“Addressing the Needs and Supporting the Roles of Widow Victims of the Conflicts in the Middle East”
Dr. Margaret Owen (Widows for Peace, UK)
Panel 6: Female Fighters During Armed Conflicts
Moderator: Dr. Samira Aghacy (Director, IWSAW, Lebanese American University)
“The Women’s Revolution in Rojava”
Meral Cicek (Kurdish Women’s Relations Office REPAK, Kurdistan-Iraq)
“Women as Active Participants in Armed Conflict: Muslim and Non-Muslim Female Suicide Bombers”
Dr. Joseph Alagha (Haigazian University, Lebanon)
“Forgotten Actors? Women-Soldiers in a ComparativePerspective (the cases from Armenian-Azerbaijani Armed
Conflict for Karabakh and PKK Movement)”
Dr. Nona Shahnazaryan (National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia)
Panel 7: Screenings
“Abounaddara, Le Cinéma pour Réinventer la Syrie”
Chourouq Nasri (University of Mohammed I, Morocco)
“Mission Rape – A Tool of War”
Dr. Connie Christiansen (University of Roskilde, Denmark)
10 JUN
Panel 8: Displacement Through Occupation or Exile
Moderator: Samira Atallah (ESCWA)
“Palestinian and Kurdish Women in Occupied Areas, Conflict or Post-Conflict Areas in Different Countries in the Middle East”
Maria Hagberg (Lund University, Sweden)
“The Kurdish Women’s Movement: Challenging Gendered Militarization and the Nation-State”
Meral Duzgun (University of Westminster, UK)
“Syrian Women and LGBTI Refugees in Istanbul: In the Middle of Legal and Structural Violence”
Dr. Zeynep Kivilcim (Istanbul University, Turkey)
“Gender, Conflict and Development in Yemen”
Dr. Connie Christiansen (University of Roskilde, Denmark)
Panel 9: Sexual Violence in Conflict
Moderator: Ghida Anani (ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality, Lebanon)
“Gender-Based Violence: Rape as Weapon of War”
Lydia Farah (AUB, Lebanon)
“I Will Teach My Daughter How She Can Defend Herself: Fighting Back Against Street Sexual Harassment and Assault in Post-Revolution Egypt”
Susana Galan (Rutgers University, USA)
“Blood, Bodies, and Violence: Women’s Bodily Experiences and Symbolic Meaning in the Egyptian Arab Spring”
Katherine Van Den Bogert (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
“De la femme kamikaze au djihad du sexe: une guerre faite sur le corps des femmes”
Dr. Iqbàl Al-Gharbi (University of Zeytouna, Tunisia)
Panel 10: Cyberactivism and Journalism
Moderator: Diana Mukalled (Asharq Al-Awsat, Lebanon)
“Digital Activism for Women’s Rights in the Arab World”
Aline Sara (journalist and researcher, USA)
“Women’s Digital Activism and the Changing Nature of Politics in the Middle East”
Dr. Annabelle Sreberny (SOAS, UK)
“Women, War and the Media: Women’s Online Activism and the Gender Digital Divide”
Samina Kabir (SOAS, UK-Afghanistan)
“The One Per Cent Syrian Women in Media and Journalism”
Reem Maghribi (Director of Sharq CIC, Lebanon)
Panel 11: Creativity in Times of Conflict
Moderator: Emilie Mansour (Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
“Writing for Gaza Textual (Dis)Embodiment, Dissident Creativity and Social Justice in Arab Women’s Writing”
Dr. Brinda Mehta (Mills College, USA)
“Sawtuha ‘ali min zaman: Arab Female Musicians’ Collaborative Revolution”
Alejandra Aguero and Angela Williams (University of Illinois, USA)
“Representing Violence Against Women Since 2012″
Dr. Miriam Cooke (Duke University, USA)
“Song and Survival for Syrian Women and Children Living as Refugees in Northern Jordan”
Karen Boswall (SOAS, UK)
11 JUN
Panel 12: Legal Accountability, International Instruments, and Peace-Building
Moderator: Former Minister Wafa Dika Hamzeh (Lebanon)
“On Legal Accountability and Peace Building initiatives in Egypt”
Ambassador Moushira Khattab (Egypt)
“Legal Accountability for Sexual Violence in Syria: Taking Charge of Future Prosecution”
Aarif Abraham (International Legal Accountability Unit, UK)
“Why the Arab World Needs more Female Decision-Makers : Evaluating the Effectiveness of UN Resolution 1325 and the UN’s Subsequent Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security, Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights”
Senator Mobina S.B. Jaffer (Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, Canada)
“Violence, War and Accountability: Gendered and Sexualized Dynamics of the 2014 Israeli Assault on Gaza”
Dr. Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi (San Francisco State University, USA)
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09 JUN 2015 18:00 Conférence
“Mission archéologique française au Kurdistan d’Irak (2012-2015) : Carte archéologique du Gouvernorat de Soulaimaniah”
Jessica Giraud (Archéologue, Ifpo-Erbil)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut Français du Liban
Conférence. Les rendez-vous de l’Ifpo
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10-14 JUN 2015 Event
“The 17th International University Theater Festival”
Beirut campus, LAU
10 JUN 21:00
Opening Performance by Ziad Rahbani and the band
Organizer: Department of Communication Arts
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11 JUN 2015 09:30 Panel Discussion
“Challenges to Financing Middle-Income Countries Facing Crises”
IFI Auditorium, AUB
Panelists:
Sigrid Kaag (United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon)
Rayya El Hassan (Former Lebanese Minister of Finance)
Erik Solheim (Chair of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD)
Ferid Belhaj (World Bank Regional Director for the MENA Region)
Nasser Saidi (Former Minister of Economy & Trade and Minister of Industry & First VG of BDL)
Moderator: Nasser Yassin (IFI Director of Research and Professor at AUB’s Faculty of Health Sciences)
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
in collaboration with the United Nations in Lebanon
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16 JUN 2015 Panel discussion
“Iran’s and Russia’s New Calculations in Iraq and Syria”
Khaled Hamade (managing director at the Regional Forum for Consultancy and Studies)
Lina Khatib (director of the Carnegie Middle East Center)
Nikolay Kozhanov (nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Center)
Renad Mansour (visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center)
Carnegie Middle East Center
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16 JUN 2015 18:00 Public Lecture
“Uprisings in the Arab world: the consecration of counterrevolutions?”
Frédéric Vairel (Associate professor of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, and co-author of Soulèvements et recompositions politiques dans le monde arabe, PUM, 2014)
With discussant: Mariam Younes (PhD candidate, University of Roskilde in Denmark)
Introduction by Vincent Geisser (Ifpo/CNRS/WAFAW, “The revolution has just started”)
Lebanon Support’s office, Beirut
The talk organised by the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo) and Lebanon Support, with the support of WAFAW, will be held in English, with possibility of discussion in Arabic.
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16 JUN 2015 18:30 Exhibition
“Architecture Student Exhibition”
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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19 JUN 2015 10:30 Seminar
“Faster DB, a Catalogue for Alternative Splicing in Human and Mouse Genomes”
Dr. Hussein Mortada
Beirut/Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Computer Science and Mathematics
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29 JUN 2015 12:00 Lecture
“Communism, Radicalism, and Social Justice in the Eastern Mediterranean”
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi (Associate Professor of Middle East and World History at Northeastern University, Boston)
Sana Tannoury Karam (Ph.D. Candidate in Middle East and World History at Northeastern University)
IFI, AUB
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29 JUN 2015 16:00 Conférence
“Les mariages précoces au Liban : enquête sur les Libanais et les réfugiés syriens”
Un événement présenté par : Institut des sciences politiques
En collaboration avec : Ambassade du Canada
Campus des sciences sociales, USJ
Sous le parrainage de l’Ambassade du Canada au Liban
L’Institut des Sciences Politiques de l’Université St Joseph de Beyrouth
a le plaisir de vous convier à l’annonce des résultats de l’enquête menée par l’ISP sur
Les mariages précoces au Liban : enquête sur les Libanais et les réfugiés syriens
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30 JUN 2015 16:00 Séminaire doctoral
“Sarcophages ornés de figures de défunts au Proche-Orient romain : Production, diffusion, contextes de réception et modes de représentation”
Bilal Annan (Doctorant à l’Ifpo)
“Mercure Héliopolitain : Nouvelles problématiques”
Georges Doumet (Doctorant à l’UL)
Salle de conférence de l’Institut Français du Liban
IFPO
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