Graduate studies committee
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- Khouzama Knio Chairperson THE PRINCE ALWALEED BIN TALAL BIN ABDULAZIZ ALSAUD CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH
- PERSONNEL Faculty Members
- Graduate Assistants
- TEACHING Number of Graduating Majors
- Student Enrollment in Courses
- Total 115
- Courses Summer ‘14 Fall Spring
- Total 36
- Anjali Nath
- Steven Salaita “Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine” (book forthcoming in October). OTHER STAFF ACTIVITIES
- PUBLICATIONS Lisa Hajjar
- Anjali Nath Anjali Nath "Touched from Below: On Drones, Screens, and Navigation” Visual Anthropology, Vol. 23, Issue 2. Steven Salaita
- Lisa Hajjar Director CENTER FOR ARAB AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS
G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT The department started implementing some of the recommendations provided by external reviewers of Biology. The department is still in the process of reviewing the current PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology program and finding ways to change it into PhD in Biology, which will be more inclusive. As of Fall 2015-16, Bioinformatics replaced Cellular Biophysics as a requirement for the PhD program. The Department recruited a Plant Restoration Ecologist and offered three new courses in a new field. The Department also identified a suitable candidate for the Molecular Virology position. The Department will continue to work on optimizing the use of existing space, with the possibility of adding a fourth floor to the building. Results of the PLO and CLO analysis from previous years will be shared with the faculty and discussed in departmental meetings. Meanwhile, one research lab was renovated into a modern common research lab and a new cell culture facility. Moreover, renovation of the classroom in the basement is underway. The Department will continue to find ways to advertize the graduate programs to students coming from universities other than AUB and from the region. This year, the department also participated in ‘Keystone Academic Solutions’ which runs a website to match students across the world with appropriate programs and universities to increase the visibility of our graduate program worldwide. However, the pool of applicants has not been significantly affected by this. Under the umbrella of the FAS 150th Anniversary, the Department hosted Dr. June Nasrallah, a prominent Plant Cell and Molecular Biologist from Cornell University and an alumna of the department. Dr. Nasrallah presented a seminar and met with the graduates in Biology. She will be visiting the department next Fall 2016-17, and giving lectures in various courses. Khouzama Knio Chairperson THE PRINCE ALWALEED BIN TALAL BIN ABDULAZIZ ALSAUD CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH
The Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) fosters scholarship about the United States in the Arab world through its academic programs, lecture series, and research. CASAR offers a minor program and an MA in Transnational American Studies beginning Fall 2013. In January 2016, CASAR organized its Sixth International Conference on “Fragments of Empire after the American Century,” with over 90 American Studies Scholars coming from 15 countries. CASAR also hosted a vibrant lecture series bringing American Studies scholars to AUB to talk about their areas of research to students, faculty and community members. In Spring 2016, the first cohort of graduate students in Transnational American Studies graduated and another two will be graduating in Spring 2017. During this year, CASAR was governed by a director (Dr. Lisa Hajjar), an AUB Executive Committee (Dr. Sirene Harb, Dr. Waleed Hazbun, Dr. Adam Waterman, Dr. Anjali Nath, Dr. Hatem El Hibri), and an international advisory board (Dr. Moustafa Bayoumi, Dr. Amy Kaplan, Dr. Marwan Kraidy, Dr. Alex Lubin, Dr. Mounira Soliman).
2. Number of Majors
3. Courses'>Student Enrollment in Courses
4. Number of Credit Hours Offered
Lisa Hajjar 1. In Defense of Lawfare: The Value of Litigation in Challenging Torture. In Scott A. Anderson and Martha C. Nussbaum, editors, Confronting Torture: Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today. Volume is in production with University of Chicago Press. 2. Lawfare and Armed Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and US Targeted Killing Policies and Legal Challenges against Them. In Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan, editors, Life in the Age of Drones. Volume is in production with Duke University Press. 3. Prescience and Principles: Richard Falk’s Contributions to the Study and Practice of Human Rights. In George Andreopoulos and Henry Frank Carey, editors, Justice and World Order: Reassessing Richard Falk’s Scholarship and Advocacy. Volume is under contract with Routledge. Anjali Nath 1. Anjali Nath, “Stoner, Stones, and Drones: South Asian Transnational Visuality from Above and Below” in Life in the Age of Drones (Duke University Press, Forthcoming 2017), editors, Caren Kaplan and Lisa Parks. 2. “Redacted Visualities: Military Detention and the Archival Trace” (book manuscript).
Lisa Hajjar 1. Drone Warfare and the Superpower’s Dilemma, Jadaliyya, September 21, 2015. 2. How to Not Know about the CIA’s Targeted Killing Program, Jadaliyya, July 7, 2015. 3. How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Aided the CIA’s Torture Program, The Nation, May 7, 2015. 4. The CIA Didn’t Just Torture, It Experimented on Human Beings. The Nation, January 5, 2015. 5. Teaching about Human Rights through the Lens of the Us “War on Terror.” American Sociological Association Section on Human Rights Quarterly Newsletter, Winter 2014. 6. The Long Shadow of the CIA at Guantanamo. Middle East Report 273 (Winter 2014). 7. Comparing Israeli and American Ways of War. Social Text/ Periscope, June 10, 2014.
Lisa Hajjar “Is Targeted Killing War?” and “A Sociological Intervention on Drones and Targeted Killing,” two chapters in Bradley Jay Strawser, editor, Opposing Perspectives on the Drone Debate. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Anjali Nath Anjali Nath "Touched from Below: On Drones, Screens, and Navigation” Visual Anthropology, Vol. 23, Issue 2. Steven Salaita “Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom.” G. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT CASAR had another transitional year in terms of hiring a new director for the center as well as an assistant professor and an Edward Said Chair. Efforts are still in progress to seek approval for another line for a second assistant professor. Our first cohort of graduate students graduated this spring and another two will be graduating in Spring 2017. CASAR also revised the structure of its minor program and developed a series of professional academic workshops for its graduate students which will continue to be offered in coming years. Lisa Hajjar Director CENTER FOR ARAB AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES A. SUMMARY OF PROGRAMS In 2015-16, CAMES completed a program review. The external reviewers report and the internal assessment confirmed the program’s success and its plans for further improvement. The sharp decline in applications to the MEST program in spring 2015 appears to only have been a temporary dip. While the program has stepped down from adding 20 new students a year a decade ago, to adding around 15 a year 5 years ago, it has now appears to be leveling off at admitting about 5-10 new students a year including both MEST and ISLM. Retaining these numbers will require a maintaining a substantial allocation of GA funding from both CAMES and FAS resources (as FAS currently does not allocate to CAMES any GA funding). Seven new students enrolled in the MEST MA program during 2015-2016, bringing the total number of registered students to 20. Four MEST students defended their thesis or project and graduated. Of the 22 MEST applications for the Fall 2016-2017 semester, 15 students were accepted. The MA program in Islamic Studies, managed by ISLM coordinator Dr. El-Bizri remained small, with four students currently enrolled but no new students planning to join the program in Fall 2016, in part due to limited GA funding. The first Islamic Studies student defended a thesis and graduated in Spring 2015-2016. In the summer of 2015, CAMES ran another season of its intensive Arabic program. The program had 59 students attending out of 98 applicants. The program received 70 applications for the Summer Arabic Program 2016, and expected attendance will be about 50 students. The Summer Arabic Program in 2016 will offer eight levels of Modern Standard Arabic: Introductory, High Introductory, Low Intermediate, Intermediate, High Intermediate, Advanced, High Advanced and Superior. The program will also offer an intensive Colloquial Lebanese Arabic program that will run parallel at the Intermediate level only. The program in 2016 will be headed by two co-directors appointed from the pool of visiting summer faculty with longstanding experience with the program. CAMES organized and took part in the following activities: Workshops: “1916/2016 - Human Catastrophe, Then and Now: Social Trauma and its Political Consequences" to be held June 1, 2016. Doctoral Dissertation Summer Workshop: Researching Lebanon The Arab Studies Institute (ASI) and AUB’s Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) will hold a Lebanon-focused Doctoral Dissertation Summer Workshop, to be held 13-24 June, 2016. The program aims to provide a framework for facilitating and advancing rigorous inter-disciplinary doctoral dissertation research on Lebanon.
غياب: استحضار الغائب وتجليات الحضور ABSENCE: The Manifestations of a Recollected Presence Poetry reading and conversation in Arabic (selected poems in English translation), May Muzaffar, December 8, 2015, [Co-sponsored by The Department of English & The Anis Makdisi Program in Literature (AMPL)] Conferences: BOOKS in MOTION: Exploring Concepts of Mobility in Cross-Cultural Studies of the Book, May 5-7, 2016 [Organized by The Department of English and the Department of Fine Arts and Art History and co-sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Arts and Humanities, the Archives and Special Collections Department, University Libraries, in addition to the Orient-Institut Beirut, Max Weber Foundation]
Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, Exeter Anis Makdisi Program in Literature, AUB Center for Arab & Middle Eastern Studies, AUB Civilization Studies Program, AUB Jafet Library Archives, AUB Panel Discussions and Book Launches: Memories of Palestine and the Syrian Present: Two Book Launches Yusif Sayigh: Arab Economist, Palestinian Patriot. A Fractured Life Story, edited by Rosemary Sayigh Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities, by Anaheed Al-Hardan May 30, 2016 [co-organized by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs]
Chaired by John Meloy (History, AUB) Speakers: Alexis Wick (History, AUB) Nikolas Kosmatopoulos (PPIA-PSPA/Anthropology, AUB) Patrick McGreevy (Dean, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, AUB) Ali Yaycıoğlu (History, Stanford University)
Eberhard Kienle, Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), Beirut Discussant: Waleed Hazbun, Political Studies, AUB Moderator: Sari Hanafi, Sociology, AUB January 28, 2016 [Co-organized with the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies (SOAM)] Majãlis in Islamic Studies research forum: Qur’an and Zoroaster in Kurdistan: Authority and Attraction in Muslim Ethics J. Andrew Bush, New York University-Abu Dhabi, October 21, 2015, [Organized by the Program in Islamic Studies at CAMES as part of the Majãlis in Islamic Studies research forum]
Do Good Politics make Good Translations? Problems in Arabic to English Literary Translation, Michelle Hartman, McGill University, April 28, 2016, [Co-organized by the Department of English] Ottoman Print Culture and the Rise of the Image: Everyday Life and the Historical Past in Ottoman Illustrated Journals, Ahmet Ersoy, Boğaziçi University, April 21, 2016, [Co-organized by the Department of Fine Arts and Art History] Picturing the square, the streets, and the denizens of Istanbul: Practices of Urban Space and Shifts in Visuality, Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Boğaziçi University, April 20, 2016, [Co-organized by the Department of Fine Arts and Art History (FAAH) & the Department of Architecture and Design] Political Transformation in Egypt since the Revolution: Drawing the big picture while looking at small things, Cilja Harders, Freie Universität Berlin, April 13, 2016, [Co-organized by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI)] An Erotic Occupation: Selfies, Soldiers, and the Semiotics of Participatory Zionism, Nicole Sunday Grove, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, April 13, 2016, [Co-organized by Media Brown Bag] Drawing Blood: Art, Politics and Journalism, Molly Crabapple, April 11, 2016, [Co-sponsored by Graphic Design, Media Studies, English, and the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR)] The Iran-Iraq War and the Question of Nation and Sect in Iraq, Dina Rizk Khoury, George Washington University, April 6 at 5:30 PM “I came to ease things for you and to teach you”: The Depiction of the Prophet Muhammad as Teacher in Hadith-and Sira-Literatures, Jens Scheiner, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, April 6, 2016, [Co-sponsored by the Department of History and Archaeology] The Sea is Our Life: Seaborne Exploration in Medieval Islam, Dionisius A. Agius, Al Qasimi Professor of Arabic Studies & Islamic Material Culture, University of Exeter, April 5, 2016, [Public lecture in the context of the AUB-Exeter panels held 4-5 April, 2016] The Ikhwan al-Safa’and their Rasa’il, Ian Richard Netton, Sharjah Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, April 4, 2016 [Public lecture in the context of the AUB-Exeter panels held 4-5 April, 2016] Order of Volatility: Power, Wealth and Death in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1850, Ali Yaycioglu, Stanford University, March 23, 2016, [Co-sponsored by the Department of History and Archaeology] A State without Citizens: The Tragedy of Syrian History, Kevin Martin, Indiana University, March 15, 2016 The Politics of Human Rights and Western Foreign Policy in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings, Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, Middle East and North Africa Division, March 15, 2016 [Co-organized with the Program in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA-PSPA), the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, and the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR)] Normalized Abnormal: The Construction of Post Conflict Lebanon, Najib Hourani, Michigan State University, March 10, 2016. American Empire Comes Home: The Domestic Impacts of American Policies in the Middle East, Alexander Barder, Florida International University February 25, 2016, [Co-organized with the Program in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA-PSPA) & the Center for American Studies and Research] Palestinian refugees and the international community: Future challenges in the light of regional developments, Michael Dumper, University of Exeter, February 18, 2016, [Co-organized with the Program in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA-PSPA)] The Future Nature of Conflict: How war (and the technologies of war) will evolve, Major General Arthur David Gawn (New Zealand), United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), February 15, 2016, [Co-organized with the UN in the Arab World Program at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs and the Program in Public Policy & International Affairs (PPIA-PSPA)] The New Arab Wars and the Future of US Policy, Marc Lynch, George Washington University, February 10, 2016. Trajectories of Fear in Syria, Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University, February 2, 2016. Yemen’s Civil Wars: Geneses, Actors and Possibilities, Adam Baron, European Council on Foreign Relations & Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, December 2, 2015, [Co-sponsored by the Program in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA-PSPA)] War Remains: Southern Counterpublics, Literature and Memory in Lebanon, Yasmine Khayyat, Rutgers University, November 27, 2015, [Co-sponsored by The Department of English] Region, Security, Regional Security: ‘Whose Middle East?’ Revisited, Pinar Bilgin, Bilkent University, November 12, 2015, [Co-sponsored by the Program in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA-PSPA)] Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11, Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Rutgers University, October 28, 2015 The Politics of International Intervention and Limits of Western Conceptions of Peace: The Case of Palestine, Mandy Turner, Kenyon Institute (Council for British Research in the Levant), October 26, 2015, [Co-sponsored by the Program in Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA-PSPA)] تأصيل الشكل الأوروبي للمسرح في العالم العربي: مصر نموذجاً The Canonization of the European Form of Theater in the Arab World: The Case of Egypt, Joseph Zeidan, Ohio State University, October 12, 2015, [Co-sponsored by the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Chair of Arabic] Lebanese migrants to French West Africa: Political Visions and Everyday Strategies, Andrew Arsan, University of Cambridge, September 17, 2015 Urbicide and the Arrangement of Violence in Syria, Deen Sharp, CUNY, September 10, 2015 Yüklə 2,8 Mb. 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