Events

LECTURE: Nazira Zeineddine, a pioneer of Islamic Feminism

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

LECTURE: The Archaeology of Beth Qatraye: New Evidence on Eastern Christianity in the Arabian Gulf during the First Centuries of Islam

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

Poster | Facebook Event Page

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).

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