03 SEP 2015 16:00 Seminar
“The Thousand and One Isotopes: Stellar Explosions and Nuclear Astrophysics”
Prof. Jordi Jose (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain)
College Hall, AUB
Department of Physics
Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences
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08 SEP 2015 Discussion
“Kurdistan’s Ruling Elites: A Sultanistic System”
Kawa Hassan (visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center)
Sam Dagher (senior correspondent at the Wall Street Journal)
Moderator: Maha Yahya (Carnegie)
Carnegie Middle East Center
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09 SEP 2015 14:00 Screening
“Image Upon Request”
documentary about Women’s image in Lebanese media and Ads
by Fe-Male (non-profit, civil, non-sectarian Lebanese organization founded in 2012)
IFI Multipurpose Seminar Room, AUB
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10 SEP 2015 17:00 Lecture
“Urbicide and the Arrangement of Violence in Syria”
Deen Sharp (CUNY)
College Hall, AUB
Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
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14 SEP 2015 10:00 Lecture
“Agriculture in Germany And Common Agricultural and Rural Development Policy of the European Union”
Dr. Reiner Doluschitz (Food Security Center at the University of Hohenheim, Germany)
FAFS Building, AUB
Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences
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14 SEP 2015 17:00 Lecture
“Uncivil Rights: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom”
Dr. Steven Salaita (Edward Said Chair of American Studies, CASAR, AUB)
West Hall, AUB
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research
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15 SEP – 13 OCT 2015 Exhibition
“We Exist / نحن هنا”
Young creative expressions from the Palestinian camps in Lebanon
Jafet Library, AUB
Palestinian Oral History Archive Project, IFI
University Libraries
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15 SEP 2015 11:00 Conférence
« les droits sociaux des réfugiés palestiniens au Liban »
Excellence Monsieur l’Ambassadeur Samir Khoury
USEK
Faculté de droit
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16 SEP 2015 14:00 Lecture
Media Brown Bag by Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Stockholm)
historical forms of media participation that emerged in the context of large-scale economic crises
IFI Multipurpose Seminar Room, AUB
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17 SEP – 30 DEC 2015 Exhibition
“The 1990s – Jayce Salloum: كان يا ما كان There Was and There Was Not [redux/fragments]”
(installation)
AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery
AUB Art Galleries and Collections
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17 SEP 2015 Discussion
“Can Climate Change and Hydrocarbons Policies Live Together in the Middle East and North Africa?”
Lea Kai Abou Jaoude (project officer, United Nation Development Program’s Climate Change Unit, Lebanon)
Sami Atallah (executive director, Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, Lebanon)
Wassim C. Bou-Ghanem (adviser, Saudi Ministry of Economy and vice president, Energy and Environment, Lebanon)
Lord Howell of Guildford (former secretary of state for energy and current president of the U.K. Energy Industries Council and chair of the Windsor Energy Group, United Kingdom)
Ricardo Khoury (managing partner and head of the Environmental Services Division, Environmental Services Division at Earth Link & Advanced Resources Development, United Arab Emirates)
Roula Majdalani (director, Sustainable Development and Productivity Division, UN-ESCWA, Lebanon)
Toufic Mezher (professor of engineering systems and management, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates)
Carole Nakhle (nonresident scholar, Carnegie Middle East Center, Lebanon)
Radia Sedaoui (energy expert and senior adviser of strategy and economy, Sonatrach, Algeria)
Carnegie Middle East Center
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17 SEP 2015 12:30 Design Talk
“Curiosity (Story Telling in the Digital Age)”
Ghassan Fayad and Ralph Dfouni of Kngfu
Byblos campus, LAU
Organizer: School of Architecture and Design
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17 SEP 2015 17:30 Lecture
“Lebanese migrants to French West Africa: Political Visions and Everyday Strategies”
Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge)
Ada Dodge Hall, AUB
Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
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18 SEP 2015 12:00 Discussion
“Lifted by the Great Nothing”
Karim Dimachkie (novelist)
College Hall, AUB
Rusted Radishes
Department of English
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18 SEP 2015 12:00 Lecture
“Human Development and the Arab Spring – Five Years On”
Randall Kuhn (Associate Professor, University of Denver)
IFI Auditorium, AUB
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs
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21 SEP 2015 17:00 Lecture
“Understanding the Human and Civil Rights Consequences of US Border Militarization”
Mitra Ebadolahi (attorney, American Civil Liberties Union)
Building 37, AUB
CASAR
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22 SEP 2015 11:00 Discussion
“Solid Household Waste Treatment Plan”
IFI Auditorium, AUB
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22 SEP 2015 16:30 Architecture Lecture
“Living in Buenos Aires”
Héctor Lostri and Brenda Gimenez
Followed by the opening of the exhibition
Beirut campus, LAU
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Interior Design
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22 SEP 2015 17:00 Lecture
“Star-Planet Interactions: Why do we care?”
Dr. Rim Fares (Research Fellow, INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, ITALY)
Physics Building, AUB
Physics Department
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23 SEP 2015 18:30 Lecture
“Islamism and Communal Identity”
Geneive Abdo (research fellow at the Stimson Center’s Middle East program)
Beirut campus, LAU
As part of Dr. Imad Salamey’s seminar on “Post-Arab Spring Communitarianism”
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28-29 SEP 2015 Symposium
« Explorez le Liban dans les archives ottomanes »
Centre Phoenix pour les Études Libanaises, USEK
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28 SEP – 09 OCT 2015 Exposition
« Explorez le Liban dans les archives ottomanes »
Musée Archéologique, USEK
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28 SEP 2015 18:00 Lecture
“Anfeh (70 km north of Beirut) Unveiled”
Dr Nadine Panayot Haroun (Director of the Research Department of Archaeology & Museology, Chairperson of the Department of Museum Studies & Cultural Heritage Management, University of Balamand)
Van Dyck Hall, AUB
Anis Makdisi Program in Literature
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29 SEP 2015 11:00 Activités culturelles
“Archives de l’auteur Emily Nasrallah”
Bibliothèque Orientale, USJ
Opening Ceremony
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30 SEP 2015 14:00 Lecture
Media Brown Bag by Jackson Allers (music journalist, filmmaker, and broadcaster)
IFI Multipurpose Seminar Room, AUB
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30 SEP 2015 17:00 Talk & Workshop
“Not Quite What It Is”
Saeed Ensafi (designer)
Beirut campus, LAU
Department of Graphic Design
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30 SEP 2015 18:30 Lecture
“Cultural Light: The Instinctive and the indigenous”
Charles Stone II
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, Maamari Auditorium, AUB
Department of Architecture and Design
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