Year 2003-2004:

• A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Post-World II America
  Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, December 11, 2003

• The Human Rights Dilemma of the US: Why the US finds it so hard to participate in the International System
  Dr. Stanley Katz, December 15, 2003

• Compassion and Terror
  Dr. Martha Nussbaum, December 16, 2003, co-sponsored with Dept. of Philosophy

• Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: The Formtion of American Middle East Policies in the Post World War II Period
  Dr. Richard Bulliet, March 16, 2004

• Is there a Conflict between Religion and Science?
  Dr. Richard Rorty, April 14, 2004, co-sponsored with Dept. of Philosophy

• Inverse Migrations: Paul Bowles, Edward Said, the U.S. and the Arab World
  Dr. Allen Hibbard, April 20, 2004

• The Racialization of Arab-Americans in the Contemporary United States: Context and Consequences
  Dr. Alia Malek, April 26, 2004

• Judicial Review of Administrative Decision-Making in American Law: The Case of Telecommunications Regulation
  Mr. Justin Connor, April 29, 2004

• Stars in the Water: Art, Nature and Nation on the Erie Canal
  Dr. Patrick McGreevy, May 4, 2004

• U.S Media Coverage of the Middle East: Perspectives of American Journalists
  Roundtable discussion with a panel of American journalists, May 14, 2004

• A Hemispheric Approach to the History of the Americas
  Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, May 17, 2004

Year 2004-2005:

• The 2004 U.S. Presidential Election and Its Implications
  Mr. Robert Saldin, October 19, 2004

• The Portrayal of the Palestinian Intifada in Daily Newspapers in the U.S.
  Dr. Ghazi-Walid Falah, October 26, 2004

• Democratization versus Stability: US Foreign Policy since September 11
  Dr. William B. Quandt, October 28, 2004, co-sponsored with the PSPA dept.

• How the Next US Administration is likely to View the Middle East?
  Dr. William B. Quandt, November 4, 2004

• The American Ideal at AUB: The Administration of Bayard Dodge
  Dr. Betty Anderson, January 6, 2005

• Community Engagement in a Changing America
  Dr. Robert D. Putnam, January 17, 2005, co-sponsored with the PSPA dept.

• Diversity and Community in a Post-September 11 World
  Dr. Robert D. Putnam, January 18, 2005

• American Secularism: An Anthropological Approach
  Dr. John Borneman, January 27, 2005

• Arabs and the Second Bush Administration
  Dr. Manar El Shorbagy, February 15, 2005

• The Siege of Baghdad: Imperial Tall Tales and History in Miniature
  Dr. Djelal Kadir, February 22, 2005, co-sponsored with Anis Makdisi Program for Literature (AMPL) at AUB and the humanities division at LAU

• Terrorism: A Plea for the Willing Exercise of Disbelief
  Dr. Djelal Kadir, February 22, 2005, co-sponsored with Anis Makdisi Program for Literature (AMPL) at AUB and the humanities division at LAU

• East of the Sun (West of the Moon): The Harmonic History of African American Islam
  Dr. Mustafa Bayoumi, March 24, 2005

• American Teenagers, Consumerism, and "World" Culture
  Dr. Murray Milner, March 29, 2005

• The Role of AUB and AUC in the development of the Modern Middle East
  Dr. John Munro, April 26, 2005

• Concert: Haydn and His American Contemporaries with the Great Organ Mass
  AUB Choir and Choral Society, March 5, 2005, co-sponsored with Fine Arts & Art History Dept.

• Enduring Freedom: US Political Warfare and Public Diplomacy from Cold War to the War on Terror
  Dr. Scott Lucas, May 5, 2005

• American Christian Evangelicals, Popular Culture, and the Middle East
  Dr. Melani McAlister, May 9, 2005

• New Blues for Piano: A lecture-recital on the International Blues project with Musical Examples from America and Beyond
  Mr. Marcel Worms, May 24, 2005

• The Armenian Genocide and the America's Philanthropic Engagement
  Dr. Peter Balakian, May 26, 2005

• Two Pathologies of Liberal Democracy
  Dr. Talbot Brewer, May 30, 2005

• The Politics of Blame: The Failure of Camp David II and the Bush Administration's Role in the Peace Process
  Ms. Stacie Pettyjohn, June 2, 2005

Year 2005-2006:

• Following Casablanca: Disorienting America's Maghreb
  Dr. Brian T. Edwards, September 28, 2005

• Ten Themes of Islamophobic Discourse in the US
  Dr. Hussein Ibish, October 4, 2005

• U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East: A Conversation with Juliet Wurr and Joshua Landis
  Mrs. Juliet Wurr and Dr. Joshua Landis, October 13, 2005

• Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States
  Dr. Alan Wolfe, October 20, 2005

• Contemporary Urban Theater in the US
  Dr. Arlene Crewdson, March 16, 2006

• African-American Muslims in the Age of the Arab Cold War
  Dr. Edward E. Curtis, March 20, 2006

• Race and Empire in the Logic of US World Power
  Dr. Nikhil Singh, March 28, 2006

• What is a Global Market Place? The Politics of Cotton Exchange and Production in Egypt, Turkey and the US
  Dr. Koray Caliskan, April 6, 2006

• The Clash that Cashes: Unpacking the relationships between Power, Knowledge and Culture in US Representations of the Arabs
  Dr. Khadija Fritsch El-Alaoui, April 18, 2006

• Zizek!
  Ms. Laura Hanna & Ms. Martina Radwan, April 26, 2006 

• America before Anti-Americanism
  Dr. Ussama Makdisi, May 3, 2006 

• The Great Soul of Power*
  Dr. Noam Chomsky, May 9, 2006*

• Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, and Evolution*
  Dr. Noam Chomsky, May 10, 2006*

• Picture (Im)Perfect of the Global Family of Man: Photography, National Narrative, and U.S. Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War Berlin
  Dr. Susanne Wiedemann, May 18, 2006

• The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism
  Dr. Timothy Marr, May 22, 2006

• UnAmerican Acts
  Dr. Kathleen Cleaver and St. Clare Borne, May 26 & 27, 2006, co-sponsored with CVSP Dept.

Year 2006-2007

• Terrorism, Shared Rules and Trust: A Moral Framework for an American Response to Terrorism*
  Dr. Matthew Smith, Yale University, October 19, 2006

• American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania*
  Dr. Hilton Obenzinger, Stanford University, October 31, 2006 (Text)

• Back to the Think-Tank: Humiliation Awareness, Non-Violence and Counter-Terrorism*
  Dr. Victoria Fontan, UN Mandate University for Peace, November 9, 2006
  Co-sponsored with Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs (IFI)

• Dark Margins: Invisibility and Obscenity in the Works of Thomas Pynchon*
  Dr. Paul Jahshan, Notre-Dame Univeristy, November 16, 2006

• The Arab Street: Tracking a Political Metaphor*
  Dr. Muhammad Ali Khalidi, AUB, November 28, 2006

• Writing and Identity in Suheir Hammad's Born Palestinian, Born Black*
  Dr. Sirene Harb, AUB, December 5, 2006

• The Paradox of Tolerance: How Religious Groups are Undermined and Empowered by American-Style Liberalism and Constitutional Values*
  Dr. Nomi Stolzenberg, University of Southern California Law School, March 1, 2007

• Promised Land Propaganda: Jewish American Education and the Zionist Lobby in the US*
  Dr. Marcy Newman, CASAR, AUB, March 6, 2007

• Love, Hate, Envy or Respect? Recent Trends in Arab and American Public Opinion*
  Mr. John Zoghby, Zoghby International, March 19, 2007
  co-sponsored with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI)

• American and Arab Identities in Tension*
  Dr. John Munro, Independent Media Consultant, April 12, 2007

• After the Collapse: Disengagement in the Middle East*
  Dr. Robert Fisk, The Independent Newspaper, April 26, 2007

• Which Iran? Memoirs of the Iranian Diaspora*
  Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, University of Tehran, May 3, 2007

• Race and Militarization on the US Home Front*
  Dr. Catherine Lutz, Watson Institute for International Studies & Brown University, May 8, 2007

• The US, Israel, and the Myth of National Insecurity*
  Dr. Ira Chernus, University of Colorado, May 15, 2007

Year 200 7-2008

• Contradictions of the Industrial Production of Culture: Nineteenth Century American Baseball and the Rise and Fall of the 1890 Players' League*
  Dr. Robert Ross, American University of Beirut, November 13, 2007

• Pretexts, Paranoia, and Public Space: Rethinking the Right to the City After 9/11 *
  Dr. Donald Mitchell, Syracuse University, December 11, 2007.

• Political Consequences of American Romanticism*
  Dr. Isis Leslie, Texas Tech University, December 13, 2007

• The Great Unraveling: US Foreign Policy in the post-Cold War Middle East*
  Dr. Juan Cole, University of Michigan, December 18, 2007

• Are Lives a Substitute for Livelihoods? Terrorism, Security, and U.S. Bilateral Imports
  Dr. Daniel Mirza, University of Rennes l (France), December 18, 2007

• Understanding America's Addiction to Prisons
  Dr. Ruth Gilmore, University of South Carolina in Los Angeles, February 19, 2008

• Partners in Progress: The Arabian American Oil Company, Corporate Diplomacy, and the American Modernization in Saudi Arabia
  Dr. Chad Parker, Indiana University, March 11, 2008
  co-sponsored with the Department of History and Archaeology

• Democracy and Conflict Reflections on American Politics and the Prospects for Democracy in the Arab and Muslim World
  Dr. Lawrence Hatab, Old Dominion University, March 11, 2008
  Video of Lecture

• The "War on Terror" between the Sacred and the Profane
  Dr. Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University, March 13, 2008

• American Foreign Policy toward Palestine before 1948: Reflections on Palestine Self-Determination Today
  Dr. Hisham Ahmed, St. Mary's College, March 18, 2008
  Video of Lecture

• Urban Anchors, Models of Engagement
  Mr. Omar Blaik, President and CEO of U3 Ventures, April 1, 2008
  co-sponsored with The Neighborhood Initiative (Office of the President) and The Department of Architecture and Design
  Video of Lecture

• After Bush: Will US Policy Towards the Middle East Change?
  Dr. Ali Abunimah, University of Chicago, April 3, 2008
  Video of Lecture

• The Lebanese Abroad: Leaving and Locating the Levant in Mexican History
  Dr. Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, Sonoma State University, April 16, 2008

• Hollywood's Reel Bad Arabs: Problems and Prospects
  Dr. Jack Shaheen, Southern Illinois University (Emeritus), April 22, 2008
  Video of Lecture

• Beauty Without Borders and (Other) Feminisims
  Dr. Malini Johar Scheuller, University of Florida, May 6, 2008

• Memorials to the Second Civil War
  Dr. Dell Upton, University of Virginia, May 22, 2008

• God as a Running Mate: Religion and the 2008 American Elections
  Dr. Maureen Fiedler, The Quixote Center, May 26, 2008

Year 2008-2009

• Real Change? A Forum on the U.S. Elections
  Dr. Patrick McGreevy, Dr. Karim Makdisi, and Dr. Markus Marktanner, American University of Beirut, October 30, 2008.

* Audio of lecture is available at CASAR. Please contact us by email at casar@aub.edu.lb