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Bobst-AUB 2025 Virtual Research Day
Thursday, January 29 at 5:00 pm Beirut time / 10:00 am EST

Wednesday, February 4 at 5:00 pm Beirut time / 10:00 am EST

This will be an internal Bobst event of progress on research and peer learning about the work of the fellowship of the 2025 Research Grant Awardees.

Thursday, January 29 at 5:00pm Beirut/ 10:00am EST

Sara Mourad presents - Ghalya Saadawi comments, “The Skull in the Attic: An Intimate History of Debt and Inheritance in Postwar Lebanon”
Elizabeth Saleh presents - Maya Gonzales comments, “Assembling the Middle East: Markets as Social Experiments”
Ghazi Ghaith presents - Ali Abboud comments, “A Phenomenological Investigation of Epistemic Cognition and Reading Comprehension”
Rana Sukarieh presents - Ghazi Ghaith comments, “Solidarity Economy Initiatives and Social Imaginaries at Times of Severe Crisis”
Rola Katerji on behalf of Rima Akkari Karami presents - Doyle Avant comments, “Evaluating the Impact of Interschool Collaboration among TAMAM Jordan Hub Schools around Improving Arabic Teaching”

Wednesday, February 4 at 5:00pm Beirut/ 10:00am EST

Ghalya Saadawi presents - Zeina Tarraf comments, “Between October and November”
Maya Gonzales presents - Sara Mourad comments, “Transnational Feminist Strategies to Combat Gender Inequality: Wages for Housework and Universal Basic Income Demands in the Post-Pandemic Era”
Ali Abboud presents - Elizabeth Saleh comments, “Stated and Revealed Choices: Evidence from Boycott during War on Gaza”
Doyle Avant presents - Rana Sukarieh comments, “Zero68 – The Black Box Session”
Zeina Tarraf presents - Rola Katerji on behalf of Rima Akkari Karami comments, “Public Feeling and Perpetual Crisis: Mediating Lebanon's Affective Histories”

Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 5:00 pm Beirut time / 9:00 am EST: register here

Wednesday, February 4 2026 at 5:00 pm Beirut time / 9:00 am EST: register here

Cancer, Collapse and Everyday Conversations in Beirut

Wednesday, April 15 at 4:30 pm EST

Dr. Livia Wick, Professor of Anthropology in the Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies Department will give a talk at the Bobst Center as part of the Bobst-AUB Faculty Exchange Program.

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