AUB Calendar

Tuesday 26, 6:30 pm - Architecture Lecture Hall
* "Heritage in Practice"
(see box below).

Tuesday 26, 8:00 pm - Assembly Hall
* Organ Concert by Matthias Krella. Program includes Dietrich
Buxtehude, Jean-Sébastien Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Théodore
Dubois, Johannes Matthias Michel. Organized by Kulturzentrum in
collaboration with AUB. All are welcome.

Friday 29
* Good Friday (Holiday).

Monday May 2
* Easter and Labor Day (Holiday).

Call for Papers

"America in the Middle East/The Middle East in America," an interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at AUB, will be held on December 18-21,
2005. Taking the current tense encounters between America and the Middle East as a starting point, the conference invites papers that explore these encounters through contextualization and questioning.
Send abstracts (500 words or less), along with a short CV, to casar@aub.edu.lb by June 1, 2005. All paper presenters will be subsidized. Further information is available on the CASAR website:
http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~webcasar/index.html.

Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
Department of Architecture and Design
City Debates 2005 Masters in Urban Planning and Urban Design (MUP/MUD)

URBAN HERITAGE & THE POLITICS OF THE PRESENT
Perspectives from the Middle East
Wednesday, April 20, 6:30 pm, Architecture Lecture Hall THE POLITICS OF THE PRESENT
- Ayfer Bartu Candan (Bogaziçi University): "Rethinking Heritage Politics in a Global Context: a view from Istanbul."
- Walid Sadek (AUB): "Knock, Knock, who's there? Fascinating Returns."
- Simon Ricca: "The Reconstruction of Jerusalem Jewish Quarter, an example of politically-driven heritage planning?"
Tuesday, April 26, 6:30, Architecture Lecture Hall
HERITAGE IN PRACTICE
- George Arbid (AUB): "Inherited Modernism."
- Stefan Weber (Orient Institute): "Mn'ido mitl ma kan: The Question of Authenticity."
- Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj (GTZ): "Economic and Cultural Constraints of Conversation; case studies from Aleppo, Syria and Shibam, Yemen."

Dated Events

Saturday 16, 2:00 pm - West Hall
* Annual AUB Chess Championship. Organized by the Athletics
Department. All are welcome.

Monday 18, 4:00 pm - West Hall
* Open debate on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the war. Speakers Wadad Halawani & Bassam Kintar. Organized by SRC-FAS.

Monday 18, 6:00 pm - Assembly Hall
* Lecture on improvisation in music, with a demonstration through
performance by internationally-known musician Wade Mathews. All Are Welcome.

Tuesday 19, 12:00 pm - Nicely 203
* Lecture by George Arbid (FEA): "Modernism and Architecture in
Lebanon in the 1950s and 1960s." Organized by CBR.

Wednesday 20, 4:00 pm - Issam Fares Hall
* Lecture: "The Nursing Profession in Lebanon: Current Achievements and Future Challenges" by Mr. Elie Aaraj, president of the Order of Nurses. Organized by School of Nursing, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.

Wednesday 20, 5:30 pm - AUB Museum
* Illustrated Lecture by Dr. Pierre Zalloua, Assistant Professor,
Internal Medicine - AUB: "The Use of DNA in Tracing Genetic Links
between Ancient and Modern Populations." Organized by Friends of the AUB Museum.

Wednesday 20, 6:00 pm - West Hall Auditorium B
* Lecture: "Modernity: Beirut and what's beyond" by Dr. Samir Kassir.
Organized by the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AMPL) and as
part of the Fikr in Crisis series.

Wednesday 20, 6:30 pm - Architecture Lecture Hall
* "The Politics of the Present" (see box below).

Wednesday 20, 6:30 pm - West Hall
* The AUB Premier Speakers - Toastmasters Club will be holding a
meeting. If you are interested in improving your public speaking
skills, please feel free to join us.

Thursday 21
* Prophet's Commemoration (Holiday).

Thursday 21- Saturday 23, West Hall
* Conference: "Secularism, Religious Nationalism and the State:
Visual Practices and Public Subjects." Organized by CAMES and
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). Contact Dr. Aliya Saidi:
as33@aub.edu.lb

Rafic B. Hariri
In Memoriam

A memorial ceremony for Prime Minister and AUB Trustee Rafic B.
Hariri will be held at Assembly Hall on Wednesday, April 27, at 6:00
pm. By invitation, and to the AUB community. Faculty, staff and
students should show their ID at the door.

Twelfth Annual Science, Math and Technology Fair
April 22-24, 2005

The Education Students Society and the Science and Math Education
Center are organizing the Twelfth Annual Science, Math and Technology
Fair on the weekend of April 22-24, 2005, at AUB. The Fair provides
students from schools throughout Lebanon with the opportunity to
share scientific, mathematical and technological projects with their
peers from other schools.
The Fair will be held in different rooms in West Hall, on Friday 22,
Saturday 23, and Sunday 24 April, 2005. For further information or
for registration, contact the following members of the Education
Students Society or SMEC:
Dr. Win O'Toole 01-374374 ext 3058 e-mail: wo02@aub.edu.lb
Monya Berjawi 03-306157 e-mail: mab31@aub.edu.lb
Rayana Saad 03-636982 e-mail: rfs08@aub.edu.lb