The circulation of
knowledge and globalisation of knowledge systems: a sociological question - Rigas Arvanitis
A lecture sponsored by SOAM and Lebanese Sociological
Association, organized by Dr. Sari Hanafi.
October 30, 2019 at 5:00 pm - IFI Auditorium
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Viability as an Anthropological Problematic - Dr. Ghassan Hage
A talk sponsored by SOAM, and organized by Dr. Sylvain Perdigon.
October16, 2019 at 6:00 pm - West Hall (Auditorium B)
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Border Lives: An Ethnography of a Lebanese Town in Changing Times - Michelle Obeid

September 5, 2019 at 5:00 pm - Auditorium A (West Hall)
Co-organized by CAMES and organized by Dr. Elizabeth Saleh.
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“The Unliveable City": Materiality, Politics and everyday urban Space - Alice Stefanell

April 23, 2019 at 5:30 pm - Building 37
Co-organized by CAMES as part of the Assembling the Middle East: Materiality, Infrastructure and Ecology Lecture Series, organized by Dr. Elizabeth Saleh.
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“Building Islamic Modernity: Pilgrimage, Space and Power in Post-Revolutionary Iran - Alex Shams

April 16, 2019 at 5:30 pm - Conference room, 4th floor at IFI.
Co-organized with CAMES as part of the Assembling the Middle East: Materiality, Infrastructure and Ecology Lecture Series, organized by Dr. Elizabeth Saleh and Dr. Kouross Esmaeli.
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“The Religious in Transition in the Mediterranean and the Middle East"
Workshop co-sponsored by SOAM and CAMES, co-organized by Dr. Sylvain Perdigon, Thierry Boissiere, Yoann Morvan.
April 15 and 16, 2019 - Building 37
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"Steps to an ecology of refuge (along with a manifesto for the Environmental Humanities at AUB)" - Dr. Sylvain Perdigon
April 5, 2019 at 12:00 noon - Building 37
Co-organized with Center of Arts and Humanities
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"'Buying Passports': Becoming a European Citizen in Cyprus" - Dr. Theodoros Rakopoulos
April 3, 2019 at 5:30 pm - Building 37
Co-organized with CAMES as part of the Assembling the Middle East: Materiality, Infastructure and Ecology Lecture Series, organized by Dr. Elizabeth Saleh.
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“America's Wars and Refugees' Wars: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins," - Dr. Marcia Inhorn

March 21, 2019 at 5:00 pm - West Hall, Auditorium A
Co-organized with CASAR and FHS
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"Mystical Bodies: Sufi Ritual and Embodiment in Pre-War Aleppo." - Dr. Paulo Pinto
March 20, 2019 at 12:30 pm - Nicely 204
Part of a SOAM Brown Bag series. Organized by Dr. Sylvain Perdigon.
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March 19, 2019 at 5:30 pm - Building 37
Co-organized by CAMES as part of the Assembling the Middle East: Materiality, Infrastructure and Ecology Lecture Series
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“Research Priorities in Islamic Studies"
February 9-10, 2019
Workshop co-sponsored by SOAM and Nouhoudh Studies for Research and Publications, organized by Dr. Sari Hanafi.
"Relating to Islam in Iraqi Kurdistan: Beyond the Piety of Sufis and Islamists" - Dr. Andrew Bush
February 6, 2019 at 6:00 pm - Nicely 103
Part of a series of Job Talks. Organized by Dr. Livia Wick.
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"Of Vineyards and Scrapyards: Markets as Social Experiments"- Dr. Elizabeth Saleh
February 5, 2019 at 5:00 pm - Building 37
Part of a series of Job Talks. Organized by Dr. Livia Wick.
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"Psychiatry's cultural authority: Diagnosing and debating the women patients of Asfouriyeh hospital" - Dr. Lamia Moghnieh
February 1, 2019 at 5:00 pm - Building 37
Part of a series of job talks. Organized by Dr. Livia Wick.
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"Feeling like an activist: an ethnography of experience in Beirut" - Dr. Fuad Musallam
January 31, 2019 at 6:00 pm - Building 37
Part of a series of job talks organized by Dr. Livia Wick.
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Beyond the Anthropocene - Bernard Stiegler

November 28, 2018
Building 37 at 5:00 pm
"Shadows of the Syrian Disappeared: Testimonies of Female Relatives Left with Loss and Ambiguity ."
November 13, 2018
One day seminar. Co-sponsored by SOAM, Dawlaty, Women Now for Development, co-organized by Dr. Muzna Masri and Dr. Livia Wick.
"W. E. B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter" - Dr. Aldon Morris
November 7, 2018 at 5:00 pm - West Hall, Auditorium B
Part of the Making and Unmaking of the Social World Lecture Series, Organized by Dr. Anaheed Al-Hardan.
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"Post-2011 female citizenship under varieties of authoritarian rule in MENA," - Dr. Rania Maktabi.
October 10, 2018 at 5:00 pm, Nicely 105:
Part of the SOAM brown bag series, organized by Dr. Sari Hanafi.
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