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The School of Humanities and Social Sciences Monthly Newsletter
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NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER 2011
School of Humanities and
Social Sciences
December Events
Art
Animation Exhibition: “Tracing Visions”October 24 -December 8, 2011An experimental animated short videos produced by students in AUC’s Department of Performing & Visual Arts. This multimedia exhibition features the work of students in ARTV 370 Experimental Animation.
Curator: Dr. Shady NoshokatySharjah Art GalleryAUC Center for the Arts,AUC New Cairo.
Gallery HoursSunday-Monday-Wednesday-Thursday:11:00-05:00Tuesday-Friday-Saturday: Closedwww.sharjahgallery.orgwww.aucegypt.edu/huss/pva
TheatreTheatre Production: “Mad Forest”Opening December 1, 2011 at 7:00 pmBy Caryl ChurchillDirected by: Frank BradleyThe play discusses The Romanian Revolution in 1989 with its political and social repercussion on the people. The director believes that as Egypt continues to forget its path following last February's overthrow of the former government, ‘Mad Forest will sound hauntingly familiar to Egyptian audiences.’ Performances of Mad Forest are:December 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 at 7 PM.December 3 at 5 PM. The Malak Gabr Arts TheaterAUC Center for the ArtsAUC New Cairo.
Tickets are available on December 20 at the AUC Theatre Box Office, Center for the Arts, New Cairo, and at the AUC Bookstore, AUC Tahrir Square. Ticket prices are LE 20.
ArtMeet Your Professors Lecture Series:From November 2 to December 14, 2011Sharjah Art GalleryAUC Center for the Arts,AUC New Cairo.
Gallery HoursSunday-Monday-Wednesday-Thursday, 11:00-05:00Tuesday-Friday-Saturday, Closedwww.sharjahgallery.orgwww.aucegypt.edu/huss/pva
December lectures:December 4, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pm Lecture by Fadhil Hussein and Aissa Deebi: My Dreams Have Destroyed My Life
December 5, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pm Lecture by Bruce Ferguson: Curating and Exhibitions
December 7, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pm Lecture by Xenia Nickolskaya
December 11, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pm Lecture by Susi Weber: Talk about her artwork
December 12, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pm Lecture by Bahia Shehab: In Archaeological Pursuit of a Typeface
December 14, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pm Lecture by Nathalie Roman: How to do an art history research in the medieval period? Methodological Issues.
MusicDecember 7, 2011 Bill Evenhouse, Performing on the Chapman StickAt 1:00pmMalak Gabr Arts Theater,AUC New Cairo
December 7, 2011AUC Disney concertStudents at AUC perform Disney favoritesAt 8:00pmEwart Memorial Hall, AUC Tahrir Square
December 11, 2011Music Major RecitalMajors in music performance in a solo recitalAt 5:30pmMalak Gabr Arts Theater,AUC New Cairo
December 12, 2011Student ShowcaseStudents in voice, piano, guitar and other instruments in a solo recitalAt 5:30pmMalak Gabr Arts Theater,AUC New Cairo
December 13, 2011AUC Chamber SingersMusic in many styles sung by an AUC student ensembleAt 5:30pmMalak Gabr Arts Theater,AUC New Cairo
December 14, 2011Arab Music EnsembleModern and Classical Arab music sung and playedBy an AUC student ensembleAt 5:30pmMalak Gabr Arts Theater,AUC New Cairo
December 15, 2011 Guitar EnsembleWestern, Arab, and Contemporary music performed by AUC student guitaristsAt 5:30pmMalak Gabr Arts Theater,AUC New Cair
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November 27, 2011
Book Talk by Gavin Rae, Visiting Assistant Professor 1:00 -2:00 pm. C135 HUSS
Dr. Gavin Rae is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the department of Philosophy. The author of numerous journal articles on various figures (Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Marcuse) and themes (ontology, ethics and faith, aesthetics, and social relations) in the history of post-Kantian philosophy, Dr. Rae has just published his first book entitled Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being (Palgrave Macmillan: 2011). A first in the English-speaking world, the book provides a much needed sustained, comparative analysis of Hegel’s and Sartre’s thinking on freedom, alienation, and the relationship between the two; an engagementthat discusses the nature of human being, social relations, ethics, individual-society relations, constitutional structures, poverty, and
For more information, contact The Philosophy Department.Tel. 20.2.26153646, email [email protected]
November 29, 2011 at 6:00pm Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir SquareLecture by Michael Burawoy, Department of Sociology, Berkley University.
For more information please contact SAPE tel 20.2.2615.1837, e-mail [email protected]
November 17, 2011 1:00 pm -2:00 pmThe Literature club cordially invites you to the following two lectures
"Assia Djebar: Narrative Unveiling"By Midlred MortimerProfessor of French Literature University of Colorado, Boulder November 21, 20111:00 pm -2:00 pm."Hamlet on the Barricades: Global Shakespeares, Arab Dreams." by Margaret Litivin, Assistant professor of Arabic and comparative Literature at Boston University(author of Hamlet's Arab Journey [Princeton UP, 2011])
Location: ECLT conference room (HUSS 1104)For more information please contact English and Comparative Literature Department tel.2615/ 1628, e-mail [email protected],
Thursday November 17, 2011 from 1:00- 2:00pm, C140 HUSS
“Mondo Civile. Some Remarks on
the Philosophical Interest
in Culture” , a discussion by Alessandro Topa.
The Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to the first brown bag lunch talk for the Academic year 2011-2012. Dr. Alessandro Topa is Assistant Professor in AUC’s Department of Philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität in Bonn, Germany. He is the author of “Die Genese der Peirce’schen Semiotik“. His current research interests are focussed on Immanuel Kant’s and Charles S. Peirce’s conceptions of rationality and their meth-odological implications for contemporary debates on emerging philosophical disci-plines such as the Philosophy of Media, of Technology and of Culture.
The talk will sketch a brief history of the philosophical reflection on culture, identify a common outlook in the thought on culture of key figures such as Vico, Schiller, Hegel and Cassirer, in order to finally tentatively tackle the crucial question, whether there is something like a genuine philosophical interest in and methodological approach to the understanding of what culture is.
Contact: [email protected] Tel.: 2615.3646
November 30, 2011 at 8:00pmCairo Choral Society Brahms RequiemEwart Memorial Hall, AUC Tahrir Square
For more information please contact Performing and Visual Arts Department tel 20.2.2615-1240, e-mail [email protected]
Wednesday 16 November 2011The Department of History and the European Studies Program invites you to: A lecture by Professor Klaus Larres "Imperial and Financial Overstretch: Nixon and Obama - Lessons Learned from the 1970s”From 1:00 pm-1:50 pmWaleed Building PO71, AUC New Cairo Professor Klaus Larres is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Library of Congress, and Visiting Professor, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (Washington, DC) For more information please contact History Department, tel. 26154831 e-mail. [email protected]
October 24 -December 8, 2011The Sharjah Art Gallery presents experimental animated short videos produced by students in AUC’s Department of Performing & Visual Arts. This multimedia exhibition features the work of students in ARTV 370 Experimental Animation.Curator: Dr. Shady NoshokatySharjah Art GalleryAUC Center for the Arts,AUC New Cairo.
Gallery HoursSunday-Monday-Wednesday-Thursday, 11:00-5:00Tuesday-Friday-Saturday, Closedwww.sharjahgallery.orgwww.aucegypt.edu/huss/pva
Animation Exhibition: “Tracing Visions”
“ American Orientalism after Edward Said” Edward Said Memorial LectureTuesday November 1, 2011 at 6:00 pm, Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square
“Arabia Fantasia: U.S Literary Culture and the Middle East”Wednesday November 2, 2011 at 5:00pm , Waleed Hall PO71, AUC New Cairo
For more information please contact English and Comparative Literature Department tel.2615/ 1628. e-mail [email protected]
Distinguished Visiting Professor John Carlos Rowe will be giving two Lectures.
John Carlos Rowe is USC Associate Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California.
Art: Meet Your Professors Lecture Series From November 2 to December 14, 2011Sharjah Art GalleryAUC Center for the Arts,AUC New Cairo.
Gallery HoursSunday-Monday-Wednesday-Thursday, 11:00-05:00Tuesday-Friday-Saturday, Closedwww.sharjahgallery.orgwww.aucegypt.edu/huss/pva
November lectures:November 2, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pm Lecture by Mary (mel) McCombie: Beauty standards in Egypt and the US and marketing multinational beauty projects.
Novemer 3, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pmLecture by Adam Miller: Web Design or Music
November 13, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pmLecture by Osama Dawod
November 14, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pmLecture by May Il Ibrashy: What a building wants to be.
Novemeber 16, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pmLecture by Nada Shalaby: Strangers in the land: Studio Haret el Yahoud, Chicago
November 17, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pmLecture by Shady El Noshokaty
November 21, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pmLecture by Youssef Ragheb: Comics, Reinventing the medium
November 23, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pmLecture by Ayman El Semary: The Place….its role in forming one’s identity and visual arts
November 30, 2011 at 1:00-2:00 pmLecture by Yomna Sorour: “A Designed Life”
For further information, please contact Performing and Visual Arts Department e-mail [email protected]., tel 20.2.2615-1215Nadine Nour el Din, Sharjah Art Gallery Assistant by phone at +202 2615 1281 or email [email protected]
THE ART PROGRAM / SHARJAH ART GALLERY / AUC CENTER FOR THE ARTS / THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO AUC AVENUE, P.O. BOX 74NEW CAIRO 11835, EGYPT
GALLERY HOURSSUNDAY / MONDAY / WEDNESDAY / THURSDAY
11:00 AM - 5:00 PMTUESDAY - FRIDAY - SATURDAY - CLOSED
WWW.AUCEGYPT.EDU/HUSS/PVA
Wednesday November 2, 2011MARY (MEL) MCCOMBIE
Thursday November 3, 2011ADAM MILLER
Sunday November 13, 2011OSAMA DAWOOD
Monday November 14, 2011MAY IBRASHY
Wednesday November 16, 2011NADA SHALABY
Thursday November 17, 2011SHADY NOSHOKATY
Monady November 21, 2011YOUSSEF RAGHEB
Wednesday November 23, 2011AYMAN EL SEMARY
Wednesday November 30, 2011YOUMNA SOROUR
Sunday December 4, 2011FADHIL HUSSEIN & A.DEEBI
Monday December 5, 2011BRUCE FERGUSON
Wednesday December 7, 2011XENIA NICKOLSKAYA
Sunday December 11, 2011SUSI WEBER
Monday December 12, 2011BAHIA SHEHAB
Wednesday December 14, 2011NATHALIE ROMAN
Lec tu re Se r i es / 1 : 0 0 - 2 : 0 0 P M
SHARJAH ART GALLERY / THE ART PROGRAMAUC CENTER FOR THE ARTS
November 2, 2011 at 1:00pmWessam Ahmed, OboeMalak Gabr Arts Theater, AUC New Cairo
For more information please contact Performing and Visual Arts Department e-mail [email protected]/ [email protected] tel 20.2.2615-1240
Closing night of Touqous Al Asharat Waal Tahawalat (Rituals of Signs and Transformations)
By Saadallah WannousDirected by Effat YehiaGerhart Theatre, AUC New Cairo
For more information please contact Performing and Visual Arts Departmenttel 20.2.2615-1240, e-mail [email protected]
November 1, 2011 at 7:00 pm
International WorkshopIn the ‘middle’ of society: social transformations and appearance of new ‘middling’ groups in the urban space of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt.Orient-Institute Beirut in Cairo and American University in Cairo organizing a 2- day workshop to address the question of transformations in the Middle East urban societies in the early modern and modern period.November 11 and 12, 2011 from 10:00am to 4:00pm Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square
For more information please contact Department of Arab and Islamic Civilization Department, email [email protected] or tel 2615.1787
Brown Bag Lunch series"Palestine Solidarity After the Revolution: The Case of Egypt"Lecture by: Sherene Seikaly and Amr ShalakanyFrom 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmHistory Department, Conference Room ( HUSS 2144)AUC New Cairo
Monday 14 November 2011
Burying the BelovedMarriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern IranAmy Motlagh Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature
Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernityregarding women's rights and social status. The book reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism to challenge and re-imagine notions of "the real." It examines seminal works that foreground acute anxieties about female subjectivity in an Iran negotiating its modernity from the Constitutional Revolution of 1905 up to and beyond the Islamic Revolution of 1979. For more information please contact English and Comparative Literature Depart-ment tel.2615/ 1628, e-mail [email protected]
Three Stories From Cairo by Gretchen McCulloughRhetoric and Composition Senior Instructor
Gretchen McCullough's "3 Short Stories from Cairo" is a bilingual publication with stories in English inspired by her life in Cairo, translated into Arabic by the Egyptian poet, Mohamed Metwalli .The books are available at bookshops in Cairo and will also be available in August on www.amazon.com
There will be another book signing for her book in Maadi on November 22, 2011 at 7p.m.at the bookstore al-Kotob Khan in 3/1 Lasilky Road. New Maadi.
For more information please contact Rhetoric and Composition DepartmentTel.: +(202)-2615-2033. Email <[email protected]
Waqf: “Held In Trust”By Dr. Pascale GhazalehPhD, Assistant professor, History Department
The book discusses the “Waqf”: a very important institution from the early Islamic period until the 20th century. Historians have long known the importance of Waqfs in the political, economic, and social history of the Arab and Islamic world. As service-providing institutions, Waqfs were a major source of education, health care, and employment. As urban landmarks, they shaped the city and contributed to the upkeep of religious edifices. “Held In Trust” is an edited work. Dr. Gazaleh wrote the intro-duction, and selected and edited the chapters, which are contrib-uted by several scholars in a seminar organized by the depart-ment of Arab and Islamic Studies (ARIC) in 2005 at AUC, “The Uses of Waqf: Pious Endowments, Founders, and Beneficiaries.”
For more information please contact History Department, tel. 26154831 e-mail. [email protected]
“Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being”
the nature of freedom.