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 safinaz.saad@aucegypt.edu

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 imansh@aucegypt.edu

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 eclinfo@aucegypt.edu,

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: safinaz.saad@aucegypt.edu 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 pva@aucegypt.edu

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. nevien@aucegypt.edu

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 eclinfo@aucegypt.edu

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 pva@aucegypt.edu., tel 20.2.2615-1215Nadine Nour el Din, Sharjah Art Gallery Assistant by phone at +202 2615 1281 or email sharjah.art@aucegypt.edu

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GALLERY HOURSSUNDAY / MONDAY / WEDNESDAY / THURSDAY

11:00 AM - 5:00 PMTUESDAY - FRIDAY - SATURDAY - CLOSED

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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

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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 pva@aucegypt.edu/ music@aucegypt.edu 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 pva@aucegypt.edu

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 nahnouha@aucegypt.edu 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 eclinfo@aucegypt.edu

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 <dalia.gaafar@aucegypt.edu

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. nevien@aucegypt.edu

“Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre, and the Alienation of Human Being”

the nature of freedom.