May 2013

May 10: "An Interview with Shereen El Feki," an event co-sponsored with the Hay Festival Organization and AMPL.
May 9: "An Interview with Joe Sacco," an event co-sponsored with the Hay Festival Organization and AMPL.
May 8: "An Interview with Philip Mansel," an event co-sponsored with the Hay Festival Organization and AMPL.
May 7:"Arab Americans: The New Black" by Dr. Cynthia Young from Boston College.

April 2013

March 2013

March 19: "Gender Camouflage, Sexual Abuse and the Paradox of Being a Female Soldiers" by Dr. Winddance Twine from UC Santa Barbara.
March 7: "Disabled Diaspora, Rehabilitating State: The Queer Politics of Reproduction in Israel/ Palestine", a lecture by Dr. Jasbir Puar.
March 5: "Words Without Borders", a lecture co-sponsored by the English Department by Dr. Marilyn Hacker.

February 2013

February 25: Screening of the movie "United in Anger: A History of Act Up". The event was followed by a discussion with producers Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman.
February 12: "Invisible and Proxy Detention in Counterinsurgencies: Khiam and Salt Pit", a lecture co-sponsored with CAMES by Dr. Laleh Khalili from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
February 5: "Lawfare and Armed Conflict: Comparing Israeli and US Targeted Killing Policies and Challenges against Them" a lecture co-sponsored with IFI presented by Dr. Lisa Hajjar, visiting professor at CASAR, AUB. [Watch Video]

January 2013

• January 29: "I Was The Voice of Democracy", a lecture by Dr. Brian Herrera from Princeton University.

December 2012

18 December 2012: "Some of My Best Friends Are Zionists", a documentry film directed by Dr. Bruce Robbins from Colombia University.
3 December 2012: "The American Conservative Tradition and the 2012 Presidential Election", a lecture by Dr. David Farber from Temple University. [Watch Video]

November 2012

29 November 2012: "America's Army: Citizenship, the Market, and the All-Volunteer Force", a lecture by Dr. Beth Bailey from Temple University. [Watch Video]
27 November 2012: "Author Meets Interlocutors: Elena Glasberg’s Antarctica as Culture Critique" , a discussion forum by Dr. Elena Glasberg. [Watch Video]
14 November 2012: "Why Are We Here? AUB and International Education in Personal and Historical Context", a forum  presented by Professors and students from AUB.
8 November 2012: "Contemporary Arab and Islamic Theatre: A Global Perspective", a lecture by Professor Marvin Carlson from the City University of New York.
7 November 2012: "Understanding the U.S. Presidential Elections" a forum presented by several scholars from CASAR and IFI.

October 2012

30 October 2012: "A View from the Cloud: Watching Television in the Digital Era" a lecture by Dr. Jennifer Holt, professor at the University of California.
24 October 2012: "Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism", a book launch event by Dr. Nadine Naber, professor at the University of Michigan. [Watch Video]
• 23 October 2012: "The U.S. Empire in the Egyptian Revolution: Ethnographic Notes from Tahrir and Beyond" a lecture by Atef Said, a  Human Rights Lawyer from the University of Michigan.
• 16 October 2012: "Occupied Fantasy: Literary Enclosures in the Age of Finance Capital" a lecture by Dr. Jordana Rosenberg from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [Watch Video]
• 9 October 2012: "Connecting the Dots of 1982: The Dynamics of the Global Left and Right and their Contemporary Legacies" a lecture by Dr. Les W. Field from the University of New Mexico. [Watch Video]

• 24 April 2012: "The New English Empire: The Domestic Political Role of the Early American Missions Movement," a lecture by Dr. Sam Haselby, Visiting assistant professor at CASAR- AUB.
• 4 April 2012: "Bricktops Paris: African American Women Expatriates in Jazz Age Paris," a lecture by Professor Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French and the Director of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University.  

• 29 March 2012: "Wearing Shades in the Bright Future of Digital Media: Limitations of US Narratives of Media Power in Egyptian Resistance", a lecture by Professor Karin Wilkins, director of Media Studies, Associate Director with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Chair, Global Studies Bridging Disciplines Program at the University of Texas at Austin. [Watch Video]
• 15 March 2012: "American Studies on Ice: Recycling Narratives and Hard Limits in Antarctica," a lecture by Dr. Elena Glasberg, from the Expository Writing Program at New York University. [Watch Video]
  
• 14 March 2012: "Translating Islam", a lecture by Dr. Joseph Masaad. This lecture was co-sponsored by the Palestinian Cultural Club and the History and Archaeology department.  
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• 13 March 2012: "Homonationalism Gone Viral: Discipline, Control, and the Affective Politics of Sensation," a lecture by  Jasbir Puar, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers Univesrity. [Watch Video] [Read Abstract]
• 6 March 2012: "U.S. Media Regimes, Democracy and the New Information Environment,"  a lecture by Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication, Professor Michael Delli Carpini. [Watch Video]

February 2012

• 28 February 2012: "Plato's Digital Cave? The Arab Uprisings as Battles of Represenation,"  a lecture by Edward Said Chair of American Studies, Professor Marwan M. Kraidy. 
• 16 February 2012: "Poems and Comments on Arab American Literature," a lecture by Poet Lisa Suhair Majaj. This lecture was co-sponsored with the English Department. [Watch Video]

December 2011

• 15 December 2011: "Their Violence and Ours: Poverty, Imperialism and the Rebirth of Global Armed Struggle," a lecture by Associate Professor of South Asian History at Purdue University, Dr. Tithi Bhattacharya. 
• 13 December 2011: "W.E.B. Du Bois, Palestine and the Riddle of Black Internationalism," a lecture by Dr. Bill Mullen, Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University.  

November 2011 

• 24 November 2011: "Israel's Dead Soul in the Age of Revolution," a lecture by Dr. Steven Salaita from Virginia Tech. "Israel's Dead Soul explores the failures of Zionism as a political and ethical discourse. Steven Salaita argues that endowing nation-states with souls is a dangerous phenomenon because it privileges institutions and corporations rather than human beings. Asserting that Zionism has been normalized—rendered "benign" as an ideology of "multicultural conviviality"—Salaita critiques the idea that Zionism, as an exceptional ideology, leads to a lack of critical awareness of the effects of the Israeli occupation in Palestinian territory and to an unquestioning acceptance of Israel as an ethnocentric state. Salaita's analysis targets the Anti-Defamation League, films such as Munich and Waltz with Bashir, intellectuals including Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson, gay rights activists, and other public figures who mourn the decline of Israel's "soul." His pointed account shows how liberal notions of Zionism are harmful to various movements for justice."

October 2011

• 18 October 2011: "Memorial Mania: Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America," a lecture by professor and chair of American Studies at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Illinois, Dr. Erika Doss.