July 2006
June 26 - July 14 - Jafet Library
Exhibition of Honorary Doctorates in Humane Letters - Jafet Library is holding a display about the five recipients of Honorary Degrees in Humane Letters conferred by AUB. Highlights from their lives and works are on view. The recipients for 2006 are Nasser Al-Kharafi, Mohammad Yunus, Robert Fisk, Zaha Hadid and Said Khoury.
The duration of the exhibit is from June 26 until July 14, 2006 during library hours. The location is the Exhibition Gallery on the first floor. For more information, contact the Information Services Department at Ext. 2629 or e-mail: libinfo@aub.edu.lb

June 30 - July 2
Class Reunion (1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001)

July 17 - 24
Orientation for new students

June 2006
Thursday 1, 6:00 pm - West Hall, Room 400
Opening of photo exhibition by President John Waterbury.

Friday 2, 10:00-11:00 am, West Hall Bathish Auditorium
Seminar to mark the launch of the Business Information Academy by the Olayan School of Business at AUB in cooperation with the Reuters Foundation. A select group of business leaders, analysts, journalists and other specialists is invited for the occasion.

Friday 2, 5:00 pm - AUB Museum
Inauguration of the renovated AUB Archaeological Museum.

Saturday 3, 8:00 pm - Green Oval
President's Club Gala Dinner.

Saturday 24, 12:00 noon -Assembly Hall
Honorary Degrees Ceremony.

Saturday 24, 5:00 pm- BIEL
AUB's 137th Commencement Exercises.

Wednesday 28 - Assembly Hall
Concert: Bliss St. Blues Band (Graduates of 1970-1975). Organized by AUB Alumni Association.

Thursday 29 - Assembly Hall
Honoring Ceremony (1981-1956) - Silver and Gold Jubilee, by AUB Alumni Association.

May 2006
Tuesday 2, 8:00 pm - Assembly Hall
Brazilian Popular Music Guitar Concert by Trio Baru. Organized in cooperation between AUB and the Brazilian Embassy. All are welcome.

Wednesday 3, 5:00 pm - West Hall, Bathish
Lecture by Usama Makdisi: "America before Anti-Americanism". Organized by CASAR.

Wednesday 3, 8:00 pm - Assembly Hall
Musical workshop: "The Paths of Brazilian Music". Organized in cooperation between AUB and the Brazilian Embassy. All are welcome.

Thursday 4 and Friday 5, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm - West Hall, Green Oval and Student Cafeteria
Annual Job Fair - Exhibition 2006. For further information on how to prepare a professional resume along with a cover letter please visit the link below: http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~websao/cps/skill/resume.html For further information on how to prepare you for the job fair event visit: http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~websao/cps/place/prep_fair.html Or call Dr. Maryam Ghandour, Career and Placement Services Ext: 3172.

Saturday 6, 10:00 am, AREC (Beqaa)
FAFS and AREC (AUB farm) students cordially invite you to participate in this year's AGGIE OLYMPICS. Come and enjoy the glory of nature and animal life. Transportation will be available from the sea gate at 8:30 am.

Monday 8, 8:00 pm precisely - Assembly Hall
Celebrating the anniversaries of W. A. Mozart (1956-1791) and Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) with part songs, and Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339. Paul Meers, Conductor; Gertraud Steinkogler Wurzinger, soprano; Sonja Maria Napetschnig, contralto; Ziad Nehme, tenor; Samer Badr, baritone. Organized by the Zaki Nassif Music Program and Fine Arts and Art History Department at AUB, the AUB Choir and Choral Society with the Lebanese National Chamber Orchestra. All Are Welcome. Supported in part by the Embassy of Austria in Lebanon.

Tuesday May 16, 6:00 P.M. Auditorium B, West Hall
Lecture: "The New Global Economy and the Political Economy of Islamic Movements" by Professor Joel Beinin, Stanford University, the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies.

Wednesday May 17- Thursday 18, 2006 - Fifth FEA Student Conference - Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
This annual conference provides a forum at which engineering, architecture, and graphic design students can exchange their technical views and present their projects and research. The program will include technical sessions, where oral presentations of accepted papers will be held, and exhibitions highlighting the work of FEA students, including Final Year Projects (FYP), will be held. In addition, distinguished plenary speakers will be invited to participate in the conference.
For more information, please visit www.aub.edu.lb/fea/feasc

Wednesday 17 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Ramlet El Baydah
Beach Sculpture (sand)day AUB Students from the Fine Arts and Art History Department will be participating in the event. For more information call Miss Inas Zeineddine ext. 3800.

Thursday 18, 5:00 pm - West Hall room 204
Lecture by Dr. Susanne Wiedemann. Organized by CASAR.

Thursday 18, 6:00 pm - Engineering Lecture Hall
Fourth Student - Faculty Concert. Works by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Skryabin, Pierre Azoury. Guest performer: Abir Nehme, soprano.

Thursday May 18 - June 1, Architecture Building Faculty of Engineering
Exhibit for the winning design and competing schemes in the limited international design competition for the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture District and Irani Oxy Engineering Complex. From 10 am - 7 pm weekdays, 10 am - 5 pm weekends. For more information contact FPDU +961 1 350000, ext. 2100.

Friday 19 till Monday 21, West Hall room 204
Conference: "Arabic Prose Poetry". Opening on Friday at 7:00 pm.
with an opening address by Ounsi El-Hajj. The conference will conclude on Sunday May 21, 6:30 pm with an address by Abbas Beydoun.
Organized by Anis Makdisi program for Literature (AMPL).

Sunday 21, 6:00 pm - Green Oval
33rd Annual Folk Dance Festival. Info: Ms. Wadad Husseini ext. 3197.

Monday 22, 5:00 pm - West Hall
Lecture by Dr. Timothy Marr: "The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism." Dr. Timothy Marr is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Organized by CASAR.

Monday 22, 8:00 pm - Assembly Hall
Concert by Duo Nota Bene: Eva Steinschaden (violin) and Alexandre Vavtar (piano). Program includes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bohuslav Martini, and Cesar Bresgen. Organized by Kulturzentrum.

Tuesday 23, 5:00 pm - IC field
Come and cheer your favorite team! The match is a traditional football game between Arts and Sciences and Engineering.

Wednesday 24, 6:00 pm - West Hall, Bathish Theater
Lecture by Dr. Charles El-Achi (Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- California Institute of Technology): "Excitements and Challenges of Space Exploration". A reception will follow in West Hall. Organized by Faculty of Arts and Sciences in coordination with Diwan Ahlul-Qalam.

Friday 26 and Saturday 27 - Nicely 409
The CVSP Forum and the Center for American Studies and Research announce their second "UnAmerican Acts" workshop on the Legacy of the Black Power Movement. For more details call CASAR ext. 4195.

April 2006

Wednesday 5, 6pm - West Hall Auditorium B
Centennial Khalil Takieddine. Organized by Anis Makdisi Program in Literature.

Wednesday 19, 6:00 pm - West Hall, Auditorium B
Meeting with novelist Iman Hmeidan Yunis, (with Valery Crusoe). Organized by Anis Makdisi program in Literature.

April 18 to May 26 on Mondays and Wednesdays from 16:00-19:00 - CASAR offer a special intensive course, AMST 276C: "The History of AUB" taught by Dr. Betty Anderson from Boston University .


March 2006

Wednesday 1, 4:00 pm - West Hall, Bathish Auditorium
Seminar: "Corporate Social Responsibility" organized by the Suliman Olayan School of Business, AUB and Coca-Cola, in celebration of the establishment of the Coca-Cola Chair in Marketing at the School.

Wednesday 1, 6:00 pm - West Hall Auditorium B
Lecture by Julia Genz: "Comparative Literary Perspectives of Europe, Germany and Lebanon". Organized by Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AMPL).

Thursday 2, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm - Assembly Hall
Public Piano Master class by Waleed Howrani, internationally recognized concert pianist. All are welcome.

Saturday 4 Workshop: "UnAmerican Acts" with participation by Dr. Mark LaVine, Armory Starr and Ghassan Makarem. Presented by the CVSP Forum Workshop, co-sponsored with the Office of the Provost and sponsored by CASAR.

Tuesday 7 and Tuesday 14, From 4:00 to 6:00 pm - College Hall B1 Education Forum: "Developing and Agenda for Research in Higher Education to Promote Sustainable Development". Organized by Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Education Department.

Tuesday 7, 6:00 pm - West Hall, room 204 Lecture by Dimitri Gutas: "Greek, Arabic, Latin. History and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Medieval Mediterranean". Organized by Anis Makdisi Program in Literature.

Thursday 9, 6:00 pm - West Hall, Auditorium B Lecture by Dimitri Gutas: "The Triumph of Reason: The Absence of Mysticism in the Philosophy of Ibn Sina". Organized by Anis Makdisi Program in Literature.

Monday 13, 6:00 pm - West Hall, Auditorium B Lecture by Akram Najjar: "The Short Story Experience". This is a discussion of issues related to short stories as well as readings by Akram Najjar of some of his work. Organized by Anis Makdisi Program in Literature.

Thursday 16, 5:00 pm - Architecture 204 Lecture by Arlene Crewdson: "Contemporary Urban Theatre in The US ". Organized by CASAR. Wednesday 15, 12:00 noon - Van Dyck Amphitheater Seminar: "The Clinical and Public Health Worlds: Can't We Just Get Along?" by Dr. Ali Mokdad, Chief of the Behavioral Surveillance Branch, Division of Adults and Community Health at CDC in Atlanta. Organized by Faculty of Health Sciences.

Wednesday 15, 5:30 pm - AUB Museum Illustrated Lecture in French by Dr. Yasmine Makaroun Bou Assaf, Architect - Archaeologist: "L'architecture traditionelle au Liban: Methodes de rehabilitation et enjeux". Organized by Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum . Parking available in Old Alumni Tennis Court.

Thursday 16, 5:00 pm - Architecture Lecture Hall 204, Architecture Bldg Lecture by Arlene Crewdson (Executive Director of the Pegasus Players Theater in Chicago since 1978): "Contemporary Urban Theatre in the US ". Organized by CASAR.

Thursday 16, 5:00 pm - West Hall, room 204 Lecture by Salwa Bakr: "My novel-writing experience". Organized by Anis Makdisi Program in Literature.

Thursday 16, 6:30 pm - West Hall Bathish Auditorium Lecture by Dr. John Newmann (Batza Chair, Art & Art History - Colgate University ): "On Sculpture". Organized by Faculty of Arts & Sciences.

Monday 20, 5:00 pm - West Hall Auditorium B Lecture by Dr. Edward Curtis: "African-American Muslims in the Age of the Arab Cold War". Organized by CASAR. Dr. Edward Curtis is Millennium Scholar of the Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Monday 20, 6:00 pm - West Hall, Common Room Opening of the Exhibition: "40 years in the life of a viewfinder". A Retrospective Exhibition by Fine Art Photographer Marc Nader. The exhibition will run from March 21 to 31, 2006, Monday to Friday, 10:00 am to 7:00 pm and Saturday and Sunday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. It is organized by the Office of Information and Public Relations and the Department of Photography.

Thursday 23, 6:00 pm - West Hall Auditorium B Lecture by Robin Ostle: "Excellence in Modern Arab Literature". Organized by Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AMPL).

Friday 24, 6:00 pm - West Hall Auditorium B Lecture by Merlin Holland (Oscar Wilde's grandson): "Confounding the Critics; Surviving the Scandal; The Remarkable Reputation of Oscar Wilde". Organized by AMPL.

Friday 24, 8:00 pm precisely - Assembly Hall Concert: Folk, classical, and contemporary music from Armenia , by Zakar Keshishian, shevi, (Traditional Armenian flute), and Kamila Keshishian, (piano and organ). Organized by the department of Fine Arts and Art History at AUB. All are welcome.

March 27 to April 28, inclusive at Jafet Library Exhibition: From Marquand House to College Hall - A Gallery of AUB Presidents.
In celebration of AUB's 140 th Anniversary, University Libraries Information Services in collaboration with Archives and Special Collections have organized this special exhibition displaying photos and publications of AUB presidents spanning 140 years.

Tuesday 28, 5:00 pm - West Hall Auditorium B Lecture by Dr. Nikhal Singh: "Race and Empire in the Logic of US World Power". Organized by CASAR.


February 2006

140th Anniversary Website Launched The Office of Information and Public Relations in collaboration with Computing and Networking Services (CNS) announce the creation of a new website to commemorate AUB's 140th year.
To reach the site: Click on the specially-designed logo on AUB's homepage. Stay tuned to the site to know about future events. If you have an event which comes under the 140th umbrella, please contact us to advertise it on the site. For further information contact ifkhoury@aub.edu.lb.

February 1-5, Rotana Hotel Beirut First annual .AUB-Johns Hopkins Review of Internal Medicine. course, presented by the Dept. of Internal Medicine at AUB and the Johns Hopkins University.

February 2 - 6, 2006 Excellence in Teaching and Learning Workshop
Regional External Programs presents Faculty Workshop on Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

February 3 at 5pm . Assembly Hall Special commencement ceremony marking the graduation of the first EMBA group. Organised by OSB.

February 3-5, 9am-5pm Regional Workshop: Biodiversity as Food, organized by the Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science at AUB along with ESDU, IBSAR and IDRC.

February 7, 4pm, Nicely Hall Lecture: Combating Money Laundering .Issues and Challenges by Dr M Baasiri (a special investigation commission secretary and MENA financial action task force president at the Banque du Liban)

Thursday 16, 4:00 pm - SB101 Lecture: "Quality of Care: Obligations of the Healthcare Provider" by Dr. Hussein Tahan, DNS, RN, CNA Executive Director, International Health Services. Organized by School of Nursing.

Sunday 19, 5:30 pm . Assembly Hall Constantinople in Concert. Organized by AUB in collaboration with Foreign Affairs . Canada, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres . Quebec.

Monday 20 - College Hall, B1 The X Lectures, Mathematics and Society: Past, Present and Future. Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of CAMS. Chaired by Sir Michael Atiyah.

Monday 20, 12:00 noon - Auditorium B Lecture by Ali Hocine Dimerdji: "Towards a Concept of Democracy: Plane of Understanding, le politique vs. la politique.. Organized by Anis Makdisi Program in Literature.

Tuesday 21, 3:00 pm - West Hall, Auditorium B Seminar: "Future Leaders of the Middle East" Keynote Speaker Mr. Demyanos Kattar, Former Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry. Round Table: Dr. Khalil Bitar, Dean of Faculty of Art and Sciences, AUB; Mr. Raja Haddad Managing Director of Starmanship & Associates; Moderator: Mr. Ricardo Karam Broadcaster, Future TV. Jointly organized by the AUB Career and Placement Services with Leader's Digest.

Tuesday 21, 5:00 pm - College Hall, Auditorium B1 Lecture by Sir Michael Atiyah (University of Edinburgh, Abel Prize, Benjamin Franklin Medal 1993, King Faisal International Prize for Science in 1987, Feltrinelli Prize in 1981 and the Fields Medal in 1966): .Mathematics and Society in the Twenty-First Century.. Organized by Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Center of Advanced Mathematical Sciences (CAMS).

Wednesday 22, 4:30 pm Bathish Auditorium, West Hall Lecture by John N. King (Distinguished University Professor, Ohio State University): "Godly Rule: Religious Controversy and Art During the Era of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I". Sponsored by the URB, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of English.

Wednesday 22, 5:30 pm - AUB Museum Illustrated lecture by Dr. Leila Badre Director, Archaeological Museum: .Sumur, Capital of the Amurru Kingdom: Excavations of the AUB Museum at Tell Kazel.. Organized by Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum.

Wednesday 22, 6:00 . West Hall Panel Discussion: .The Women.s Encyclopedias.. Organized by Anis Makdisi Program in Literature.

Friday 24, 8:00 pm - Assembly Hall Concert from Germany by Friedemann Pardall (cello), and Annette Volhamer (piano). Organized by Kulturzentrum.


January 2006

Thursday 12 Rana Issa: "A Feminist Reading of Edward Said" organized by the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AMPL).

Thursday19, 3:00 pm - West Hall - Auditorium B SMEC Research Colloquium. Dr. Barend Vlaardingerbroek and Ms. Yasmine El-Masri present their research: "The Status of Evolutionary Theory in Lebanese Undergraduate Biology Programmes: A Comparative Study..

Thursday19, 6:00 pm - College Hall, B1 Lecture: "The Primordial Covenant and Human History in the Qur'an" by Prof. Wadad Kadi. Organized by the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic.

Thursday 19, 7:00 pm - West Hall Bathish Auditorium. In response to public demand, the film "Memories of Ras Beirut: Wish You Were Here" by Mahmoud Hojeij, is screened for the second time. The event is organized by Center for Behavioral Research (CBR) with the support of the European Union.

Wednesday 25, 5:30 pm - AUB Museum Illustrated lecture: .Gold and Lapis for the Sultans: The Painted Mosques of Yemen (13 - 15th c.) by Dr. Noha Sadek - Mermier Art Historian - Universit St Joseph. Organized by Society of the Friends of the AUB Museum.

Wednesday 25, 6:00 pm, West Hall Auditorium B Lecture: Andreas Pflitsch (Berlin), Idwar al-Kharrat and the Involuntary Autobiography. Organized by Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AMPL).

Thursday January 26, from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm - College Hall - B1 The World Development Report 2006 - Equity and Development.
AUB, The Issam Fares Center for Public Policy and International Affairs in collaboration with The World Bank present the seminar The World Development Report 2006 - Equity and Development. Chaired by AUB President John Waterbury and presented by Dr. Giovanna Prennushi, World Bank Lead Economist, Poverty Reduction Group.


December 2005

Monday 5, 2005 - 12:00 noon, Assembly Hall Founders' Day Ceremony with speaker: H.E. Najib Mikati. The program includes the announcement of the winner of the Founders' Day Student Essay Contest. The theme of the contest this year is "AUB and Democracy."

Thursday 15 and Friday 16, 8:00 pm - Assembly Hall Christmas Concert 2005, by the AUB Choir and Choral Society, to benefit the International Red Cross for earthquake relief. Featuring Music of Thomas Tallis (b. 1505) and Daniel Pinkham's Christmas Cantata (1957). With traditional carols and the lighting of the campus Christmas tree. Paul Meers, Director; Kamila Keshishian, organ and piano Brass ensemble from the Lebanese National Orchestra.

Sunday 18-Wednesday 21, 2005 Conference: "America in the Middle East/The Middle East in America". Organized by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Center for American Studies & Research (CASAR).