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Opening Ceremony for
Academic Year 2006-07
Monday, October 2, 2006
12:00 noon, Assembly Hall
Address by President John Waterbury
No classes will be held between 12:00 noon and 1:00 pm.
All are welcome.
"Travelling Traditions:
Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures"
The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AMPL) and "Europe in the Middle
East - the Middle East in Europe" program are convening an international
academy on 2-13 October 2006: "Travelling Traditions: Comparative
Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures".
Public Lectures, Discussions and Film
The academy is chaired by Professor Friederike Pannewick and Dr. Samah
Selim and is held in cooperation with the Orient Institute and the
Heinrich Boll Foundation - Middle East Office.
The program will include specialized and public sessions. The public
sessions are listed below:
- Monday, October 2, 20.30, Bathish, West Hall: (Keynote Speech)
Professor Peter Heath (AUB): "Foundations and Meta-Practice: Genealogy,
Metonymy, and Analogy as Principles for Organizing Literary Study".
- Tuesday, October 3, 20.30 Bathish, West Hall:
Professor Radwa Ashour (Ain Shams University, Cairo): "The Road Not
Taken: A Reassessment of Chidiac's Adventures of Fariac".
-Wednesday, October 4, 10.00 Aud B, West Hall:
Reading: Mourid Barghouti (Palestine): "I Saw Ramallah".
- Wednesday, October 4, 20.30 Bathish, West Hall:
"About Baghdad", a film by In-Counter Production. Followed by a
Discussion with the co-author and co-producer Sinan Antoon (Baghdad /
New York).
- Thursday, October 5, 20.30 Bathish, West Hall:
Dr. Samah Selim: "Pharaoh's Revenge: Translation, Literary History and
'The Colonial Difference'".
- Friday, October 6, 10.00 Aud. B, West Hall:
Professor Fawwaz Taraboulsi (LAU): "The Representation of Social
Problems in the Musical Theatre of the Rahbani Brothers and Fairuz".
- Friday, October 6, 20.30 Bathish, West Hall:
Poetry Evening with Abbas Beydoun (Beirut) and Mourid Barghouti
(Palestine). Moderation: Assad Khairallah.
- Monday, October 9, 20.30 Bathish, West Hall:
Professor Sabry Hafez (SOAS, London): "Translation and Popular
Traditions in Arabic Narrative: The Case of Mahfouz". Moderation: Radwa
Ashour.
- Tuesday, October 10, 20.30:
Professor Friederike Pannewick (Oslo University): "The Performative
Potential of Tradition"
LOCATION: Orient Institute Beirut, Hussein Beyhum st., Zokaq el-Blat.
- Wednesday, October 11, 20.30 Bathish, West Hall:
Panel Discussion: Samir Khalaf, Elias Khoury, Jean Said Makdisi, Fawwaz
Taraboulsi:
"Beirut. City of Vernacular Cosmopolitanism".
Moderation: Stefan Weber.
- Thursday, October 12, 10.00 Aud B, West Hall:
Professor Angelika Neuwirth (Free University Berlin): "Ink vs. Blood:
Biblical and Qur'anic Mnemonics in the Martyr Discourse reflected in
Near Eastern Literature and Art".
AUB Planner 2006-2007
Get the new AUB planner. It runs from October 2006 to December 2007 and
is packed with useful info. Contact Ibrahim Khoury at: ifkhoury@aub.edu.lb
for further information.
Contents
The AUB Planner includes the AUB mission statement, words of the Alma
Mater, the University Calendar, essential University telephone numbers,
monthly planners for 2006 and 2007, an address section, semester
schedule, world time, Hejira calendar, addresses of alumni branches
around the world and a small building-coded map of the University.
Specifications
The AUB Planner is 8.5 x 16.5 cm in size. It comes in six different
cover designs: creative, or plain leatherette in black, blue, green,
havana or tan embossed with the AUB logo.
Where to buy it
Buy the AUB Planner from the AUB Bookstore or order it from the Supply
Department.
Beirut Marathon 06: For
the love of Lebanon
Sunday November 26, 2006
Register with us as a volunteer and be part of the Beirut Marathon team
to deliver a great event for the love of Lebanon. For more details:
www.beirutmarathon.oror by e-mail: adb00@aub.edu.lb
Register in Your Favorite
Club
All new and current students are invited to register in clubs and
societies of their choice. The registration will start on October 2,2006
in West Hall-Room 103.
Mission and activities of each club: Check our website to know the
mission and activities of each club at
http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~websao/act/org/clubs.html.
What is the procedure? Visit the Department of student activities in
West Hall
Room 103-between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm. Pick up a membership application.
Fill in the application; pay the membership fee of 5000 at Cashier's
office. Submit to Department of Student Activities in West Hall.
Is there a deadline?
To be a voting member you should register before December 20, 2006. For
further information, you can check the clubs' by-laws at: http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~websao/act/forms/forms.html
Student Clubs
Animal Welfare Club
Arab Heritage Club
Art Club
AUB Folk Dance Club
Back To Roots Club
Book Club
Camping & Hiking Club
Ciné Club
Civic Welfare League Club
Communication Club
Cultural Club of the South
Debate Club
Drama Club
Egyptian Cultural Club
Environmental Club
Finance Club
Freedom Club
Gulf Club
Health Education Club
Heliopolis Club
Human Rights Club
IMUN Club
International Students Club
Jordanian Cultural Club
Latino Dance Club
Lebanese Armenian Heritage Club
Lebanese Mission Club
Lebanese Red Cross Club
Makassed Alumni Club
Music Club
Palestinian Cultural Club
Photography Club
Poetry Club
Raising Global Awareness Club
Social Support for Special People Club
Space and Science Club
Syrian Cultural Club
Toastmaster Club
UNSECO Club
Women's Right Club
Yoga Club
Youth Club
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