American University of Beirut

​​​Fall 2025

> PIERRE BOURDIEU'S POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BEING

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> TOWARD AN ARAB SPATIAL LITERARY STUDIES

> REVOLUTIONARY DISAPPOINTMENT AND PERSISTENCE

SPEAKERS

> RESISTANCE FILM FESTIVAL

> AFFECTIVE REGIMES OF DISILLUSIONMENT: TRAUMA, MEMORY, AND THE AFTERLIVES OF REVOLUTION IN TUNISIA​

Spring 2024 

• IS THERE A STRUCTURE TO REVOLUTIONS IN EXISTENTIAL WORLDVIEW & ULTIMATE PRIORITIES? 
  
  

   Thursday, May 2, 2024 - at 5:00 PM Beirut Time
   Asfari Center, Room 313
  
   Speaker: Thomas Moynihan​
  
   
  
  
• ​PERSPECTIVE ON EXTINCTION: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PANNEL ​

    - Panel 2:

     Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - at 1PM-3PM Beirut Time 

     Panelists:  Ali Haidar, Raymond Brassier, Sylvain Perdigon, Mohammed Al-Zein

 

• NEGATIVITY AND CONSTRUCTION: FOR A CRITICAL ARABIC STUDIES 

    Zoom link: click here

   - Erasure and a Vanishing Global  II

    Friday April 12 th, 2024 - at 4pm-5:30pm Beirut Time 

    Zoom link: click here

   - Theoretical Mediation

    Saturday April 13th, 2024 - at 3pm-5pm Beirut Time 

    Zoom link: click here

    

• DESIGN PROPOSITIONS IN LEGAL EPISTEMOLOGY: CREATING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE FOR CONTEMPORARY JURISPRUDENCE

Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - at 5:00pm                           
ASFARI M01

Presenter:  Antonio-Martin Porras Gomez University of Barcelona

• CALL FOR SUBMISSION

NEGATIVITY AND CONSTRUCTION:
FOR A CRITICAL ARABIC STUDIES
السلبية والبناء: نحو دراسات عربية نقدية

Presenter: Philippe Khoury

 Fall 2023 

• CHLA Talk Series - Panel 7                    

FOR PALESTINE ANALYZING SETTLER COLONIALISM AND THE RETURN OF FASCISM

Friday, December 15, 2023 - at 5:00pm                            ​

Presenter: Vivienne Badaan
American University of Beirut

Presenter:  Barnabay Raine
Columbia University

•  CHLA Talk Series - Panel 6
  

​FOR PALESTINE ANALYZING SETTLER COLONIALISM AND THE RETURN OF FASCISM

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - at 5:00pm                    

Presenter:  Toufic Haddad
Council for British Research in the Levant. Kenyon Institute

Presenter: Sai Englert
Leiden University

Presenter:  Sobhi Samour
Al-Quds University – Bard

•  CHLA Talk Series - Panel 5

FOR PALESTINE ANALYZING SETTLER COLONIALISM AND THE RETURN OF FASCISM

Thursday, November 30, 2023 - at 6:00pm                        

Presenter: Tareq Baconi
Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network

Presenter: Amahil Bishara
Tufts University

•  CHLA Talk Series - Panel 4

FOR PALESTINE ANALYZING SETTLER COLONIALISM AND THE RETURN OF FASCISM

Monday, November 27, 2023 - at 5:00pm                        

Presenter: Sabrina Fernandes 
Alameda Institute

Presenter:  Bruno Huberman 
Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Presenter:  Greg Burris 
American University of Beirut

• ​ CHLA Talk Series - Panel 3

FOR PALESTINE ANALYZING SETTLER COLONIALISM AND THE RETURN OF FASCISM
Thursday, November 23, 2023 - at 5:00pm  

Presenter:  Rafif Ziadah
Politics and Public Policy King's College London

Presenter: Brenna Bhandar
Peter A. Allard School of Law. University of British Colombia

•  HORROR AND THE DESIRE FOR POLITICS: ON IDEOLOGY AND FORM IN GHALEB HALASA'S THE QUESTION (1979)            

Wednesday, November 17, 2023 - at 5:00pm   
ASFARI CENTER, CONFERENCE HALL 113

 Presenter: Philip Raad
Currently working on a PhD in Arabic language and literature at AUB

• ​​​FOR PALESTINE ANALYZING SETTLER COLONIALISM AND THE RETURN OF FASCISM

Tuesday, November 16, 2023 - at 5:00pm  

Presenter:​ Mudar Kassis 
Philosophy And Cultural Studies. Bizeit University - Palestine

Presenter: Lena Meari 
Department Of Social and Behavioral Science. Bizeit University - Palestine

Presenter: Abaher El-Sakka 
Department Of Social and Behavioral Science. Bizeit University – Palestine

• FOR PALESTINE​ ANALYZING SETTLER COLONIALISM AND THE RETURN OF FASCISM

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 - at 5:00pm  

Presenter:  Alberto Toscano
Simon Fraser University / Goldsmiths

Presenter: Abdel Jawad Hamayel
Bizeit University

 

• FRAGMANTATION AND INTENSIFICATION: ON THE CAPITALIST PRODUCTION OF FASCIST CULTURE

Monday, October 23, 2023 - at 5:30pm 
ASFARI CENTER, CONFERENCE HALL 113

Presenter: Shaun Terry - PhD student in UC – Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness program

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SCREENING OF THE FILM CALABOUÇO AND THE RAZING WHEN I DIE AND THEREAFTER OF THE FILM JORDÃO

September 18, 2023 - at 5:30pm  
West Hall, Auditorium B

Followed by a brief discussion with George Azar and the director of these films Gian Spina​

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• SCREENING OF THE FILM NO BANDITS

September 19, 2023 - at 5:30pm  
West Hall, Auditorium B​

Followed by a brief discussion with Robert Myers and the director of the film Gian Spina​

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​ Spring 2023 

• NEGATIVE AESTHETIC IN AI VISION

Friday May 9, 2023 - at 5:30pm  
Online AUB / WEBEX

Part of the Critical Humanities for the Liberal Arts
Gladys Krieble Delmas Lecture Series 2022-2023

A Talk By: Luciana Parisi - Duke University

 

 

•  ​SOCIAL WORDS AND THE LOGIC OF PERIPHERIZATION

Thursday May 4, 2023 – at 5:00pm
Building 37 – Conference room 113

Part of the Critical Humanities for the Liberal Arts
Gladys Krieble Delmas Lecture Series 2022-2023

A Talk by: Gabriel Tupinamba
Alameda Institute: Subset Of Theoretical Practice

• KANT:THE IDEAL OF AUTONOMY AND ITS LIMITS

• IDEOLOGY, CONSPIRACY, AND THE FREEDOM TO LIE: TRUMP'S AMERICA REVISITED

 Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - at 5:00pm
 Building 37, Conference Hall 113
 
 Part of the Critical Humanities for the Liberal Art Gladys Krieble Delmas. Lecture Series 2022-2023

A talk by: Lisa Wedeen

• THE GLADYS KRIEBLE  DELMAS LECTURE SERIES 

•  VOICE: A REFLECTION OF WHO WE ARE

• A CELEBRATION OF RICHARD SAUMAREZ SMITH (1945-2023)

 
THE CVILIZATION STUDIES PROGRAM (CVSP) AND THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND MEDIA STUDIES (SOAM) CORDIALLY INVITE FORMER COLLEAGUES, STUDENTS AND THOSE WHO KNEW HIM TO A CELEBRATION OF PROF. RICHARD SAUMAREZ SMITH'S LIFE, WORK, AND CONTRIBUTION TO AUB.
 
 
First event: September 18, 2023 5:30pm  West Hall, Auditorium B

Second event: September 19, 2023 5:30pm West Hall, Auditorium B

SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH (CASAR)   & CO-SPONSORED BY THE CRITICAL HUMANITIES FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS (CHLA)

• ​​THE BIRTH OF THEORY

January 2023​

Speaker: Andrew Cole - Princeton University

Fall 2022​

• RETHINKING PEACE IN A STATE OF PERMANENT WAR

FRIDAY, November 25,​ 2022 -  5:00 PM
BUILDING 37, CONFERENCE ROOM 113

Speaker: Francoise Verges - Independent scholar and curator

• ​PERVERSE DISAVOWAL & THE RHETORIC OF THE END Gladys Krieble Delmas Annual Lectures in the Humanities

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2022 -  5:00 PM
BUILDING 37, CONFERENCE ROOM 113
 
Speaker:  ALENKA ZUPANČIČ
Institute of Philosophy at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and the Arts, European Graduate School
 
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