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- Ongoing:
No Ongoing Events, Check back soon
- Previous Workshops and Conferences:
- Friday, April 20, 2007
Andrea Stanton (Columbia)
“Peasants into Palestinians: Better Citizenship through Radio Listening?”
- Friday, April 13, 2007
Samir Khalaf (AUB)
American Missionaries in the Levant: Precursors to Soft Power and High Culture
- Friday, March 23, 2007
Bill Coombe
“ International English Language Communication in the Arab World.”
- Friday, March 9, 2007
Sari Hanafi (AUB)
“ Spacio-cide: State of Exception in the Israeli Colonial practices.”
- Friday, February 23, 2007
Lebanese Basketball and Social Values
Seven international conferences were hosted on topics such as: “Science Technology and Society,” “Building City and Nation,” “Arab Provincial Capitals in Late Ottoman Empire,” “Tribute to Edward Said,” “Sexuality in the Arab World.” They brought together over three hundred scholars, many of them for the first time to Lebanon. Virtually all conferences were organized jointly or in collaboration with other centers, hence drawing support from supplementary and alternative sources of funding (IDRC of Canada, Ford, Chiha Foundation, Oxford, Columbia, Orient Institute etc…).
Perhaps the most visible events were the 6-8 public lectures we hosted every year. Not all, naturally, were of the rock-star quality of Edward Said. We did though attract altogether about fifty eight notable speakers of the likes of: Rashid Khalidi, Peter Rowe, Miguel Morationos, Johan Galtung, John Waterbury, Tony Tanner, Adonis, Mary Ann Glendon, Hrant Khatchadorian, Anthony King, Lucette Valensi, Georgi Mirsky, Mary Wilson, Walter Wallace, Augustus Norton, Saud Joseph, Ghassan Hage, Eugene Rogan, Fawaz Gerges, Brain Street, Frank Wisner, John Keane, Peter Johnson, Fadlou Shehadi, Yasir Suleiman etc… Many attracted large turnouts and press coverage.
The success of our “Brown Bag” bi-weekly sessions, largely the outcome of the initiative generated by visiting fellows and graduate students, have gone beyond our initial expectations. After a modest beginning they started to attract a devoted audience of participants. Thus far, we have had a total of about one hundred sessions. They have been particularly effective in at least two ways: graduate students were exposed to presentations and discussions of work-in-progress; they also extended the contacts of the Center to other comparable groups (i.e. CERMOC, Goethe, USJ & LAU). |
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