Lecture/Talk/Seminar | The American University in Cairo

The Pursuit of Stability (ʾistiqrār): Kinship, Class and the Making of Value in an Egyptian Steel Town

Explore how Egypt’s Iron and Steel Company shaped workers’ dreams of stability, where contracts, kinship and class intertwined on the factory floors of Helwan.

Mar

Attention and Memory in Early Development: Evidence from Face Processing

3:15 pm – 4:15 pm

AUC New Cairo

Discover how infants build cognitive foundations with neuroscientist Aslı Bursalıoğlu, giving insights into face perception and multisensory learning.

Feb

Film Talk Series: Recovered Images—A Gaze of Restitution

12:30 pm

AUC New Cairo

A lecture-performance by Mohanad Yaqubi exploring the intersections of inventories, transcripts, and kinships, examining how archives, documentation, and personal histories shape collective memory and cultural narratives. Through a combination of critical reflection and performative elements, the talk engages with questions of preservation, translation, and relationality across time and place.

Feb

Implicit Learning and the Detection of Sequential Patterns in a Random Background

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

How does the brain detect meaningful sounds in noisy environments, such as following a conversation in a crowded room? In this talk, Dr. Kocsis explores how the brain separates important sounds from background noise using EEG recordings. She will also show how implicit learning allows listeners to detect repeating sound patterns more quickly and accurately, even days later, demonstrating how th...

Mar

Contesting the State: Political Theology in Modern Egypt

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Prof. Eltantawi will examine how competing understandings of religion and the state since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Khedivate informs political theology in Egypt's contemporary period.

Feb

They Are Bleeding Us: Following Water Through Infrastructure, Value, Scarcity and Protest in Jordan

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

AUC New Cairo

Speaker: Fred Wojnarowski, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics This talk develops the central argument of my book project through an ethnographic journey that follows water across the infrastructures and moral worlds it links. It takes the titular claim - made by a farmer-activist in the poor, marginalised rural district of Dhi...

Feb

Far-Right Terror, the Securitization of Refugees and Transnational Geopolitics in the EU

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) invites you to an engaging lecture on: Far-right terror, the securitization of refugees, and transnational geopolitics in the EU Date: February 12, 2026 Time: 6:00-7:30 PM Location: Oriental Hall, Tahrir Campus, American University in Cairo (AUC). About the talk Following th...

Feb

Revisiting the Local Turn in Migration and Diversity Governance

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) invites you to an engaging lecture on: Revisiting the Local Turn in Migration and Diversity Governance. Date: February 10, 2026 Time: 7:00-8:30 PM Location: American University in Cairo (AUC), Tahrir Campus, Hill House, Room 602 – 6th Floor In this seminar, Professor Zapata-Barrero will explore t...

Feb

Can a Dialogue Be a Work of Art?

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

AUC New Cairo

This talk introduces the concept of an aesthetics of conversation, focusing on the creative, formally sensitive, and freely inventive dimensions of dialogue beyond its functional, social, or informational purposes.

Feb

قانون حرية المعلومات: تشريع منتظر وشائعات لا تنتظر I Freedom of Information Law: Awaited Legislation and Unchecked Rumors

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

قانون حرية المعلومات... تشريع منتظر وشائعات لا تنتظر تنادي الجماعة الصحفية منذ سنوات عديدة بإصدار قانون يضمن حرية تداول المعلومات لما في ذلك من ضمان لحق المجتمع في المعرفة وكذلك لمواجهة الشائعات والأخبار المغلوطة. والحكومة من جانبها أيضا تؤكد على أهمية إصدار مثل هذا القانون، ولكن رغم اتفاق الجميع، فإن التشريع المنتظر لم يخرج إلى النور بعد. تناقش هذه الندوة أهمية سن قانون لتنظيم تداول المعلوما...