American Univesity of Beirut

Skip Navigation LinksHome > Faculty of Arts and Sciences > Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies > Events

Events

Miriam Cooke
Duke University
Tuesday February 19 | 5.30pm | College Hall B1
Cosponsored by the Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages and the Women and Gender Studies Initiative at AUB

​​​Professor Robert Carter
UCL Qatar
​Friday, February 22, 2019 | 5:00 PM | Auditorium B, West Hall

CAMES LECTURE SERIES: Maintenance, decay and deliberate debris: Implicating matter in contests over dwelling in Beirut
Samar Kanafani
American University of Beirut & Arab Council for Social Sciences 
Tuesday March 19th, 2019 at 17:30 | Building 37 (Behind the old Lee Observatory)
This lecture is part of the CAMES lecture series: Assembling the Middle East: Materiality, Ecology and Infrastructure​.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: The Middle East in 1958: Reimagining a Revolutionary Year
March 22-23, 2019​

CAMES LECTURE SERIES: Confessionalism and Urban Smellscapes: The Case of the Rum Orthodox in Beirut
Roxana Maria Aras
American University of Beirut & University of Michigan
Tuesday March 26th, 2019 | 17:30 in Building 37 (Behind the old Lee Observatory)
This lecture is part of the CAMES lecture series: Assembling the Middle East: Materiality, Ecology and Infrastructure​.​
 
CAMES LECTURE SERIES: “Buying passports”: Becoming a European citizen in Cyprus
Theodoros Rakopoulos
University of Oslo 
Co-organized with SOAM, AUB
Wednesday April 3rd, 2019 | 17:30 in Building 37 (Behind the old Lee Observatory)
This lecture is part of the CAMES lecture series: Assembling the Middle East: Materiality, Ecology and Infrastructure​.​

CAMES LECTURE SERIES: The “Unliveable City”: materiality, politics and the everyday urban experience
Alice Stefanelli
Durham University
Co-organized with SOAM, AUB
Tuesday April 23rd, 2019 | 17:30 in Building 37 (Behind the old Lee Observatory)
This lecture is part of the CAMES lecture series: Assembling the Middle East: Materiality, Ecology and Infrastructure​.​

​PANELS & CULTURAL EVENTS: Anis Frayha: Personality of the Year 2019
The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (AUB) in collaboration with the Institute for Lebanese Thought (Notre Dame University) is organizing a series of academic panels and cultural events​ throughout 2019 in honour of the late Professor Anis Frayha (Syriac and Semitic Languages, AUB 1938-1967).


​To subscribe to the CAMES email list for events, please send us a blank email​.​

Email CAMES for a list of previous events.​

Contact Us

For various questions, please try contacting us via social media first!
read more

Privacy Statement

We take data privacy seriously and adhere to all applicable data privacy laws and regulations.
read more

Copyright and Disclaimer

Written permission is needed to copy or disseminate all or part of the materials on the AUB website.
read more

Title IX, Non-Discrimination, and Anti-Discriminatory Harassment

AUB is committed to providing a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment to all members of its community.
read more