Lecture/Talk/Seminar | The American University in Cairo

Authoritarian Tendencies in European and US Constitutionalism

Learn more about authoritarian structures and trends from Günter Frankenberg of Goethe University, Mostafa Kamel El Sayed of Cairo University and Ibrahim Awad of AUC

Mar

Everyday Choices: The Role of Competing Authorities and Social Institutions in Politics and Development

12:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Learn about the arenas of authority associated with various communities and how the social institutions within them affect politics and development.

Feb

Cryptocurrency expansions during the last decade: What should central banks do?

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join Tong Wang of the University of Edinburgh as he offers a comprehensive review of the meteoric rise of cryptocurrency and its potential perks and drawbacks

Feb

New Approaches to Teaching Political Science Workshop

Feb 11 – Feb 12

9:30 am

AUC New Cairo

A call for applications for a workshop on New Approaches to Teaching Political Science at AUC.

Feb

Doubling Down on Human Development in Times of Crises

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join this interesting presentation on the human development report and its main findings with Mamta Murthi, Vice President for Human Development at The World Bank, followed by a panel discussion with: Hana Brixi, Global Director, Gender - The World Bank Hoda Rashad, Professor and Director, Social Research Center - The American University in Cairo Dina Abdel Fattah '08, Assistant Professor an...

Feb

Writing Across Genres

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Take part in this talk series about creative writing in English and engage in a conversation with award-winning writer and translator Mai Serhan about prose, poetry and literary translation.

Feb

Development in a Time of Crisis

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

A discussion to probe how international development can be thought of at a time of global economic and political crises.

Mar

Edward Said Memorial Lecture “On Writing a Biography of Edward Said: The Personal, the Impersonal and Back Again”

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Join Timothy Brennan, cultural theorist, professor of literature, and activist, as he unravels the methods used in writing Edward Said's biography.

Mar

Humans and Things Recent Literary and Cultural Theory

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

A lecture by Timothy Brennan Cultural Theorist, Professor of Literature, and Activist

Mar

World Cinema and World Literature in Dialectical Perspective

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join Keya Ganguly, professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, as she discusses world cinema and world literature from a dialectical perspective.