18 Nov Meditative Breathing to Release Stress 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm AUC New Cairo Interactive workshop that helps participants to learn and experience different meditative breathing techniques to reduce stress and anxiety and boost their overall mental, physical and spiritual wellness.
30 Sep Physical Wellbeing: Living a More Mindful and Healthy Life (Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise) 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm AUC New Cairo Focusing on the concept of mind-body integration and its impact on students' physical, mental and emotional wellbeing; covering wellness aspects related to nutrition, exercising, sleeping, mindfulness and meditation.
25 Sep AI and Ethics in Research: Perspectives from the Think Tank Sector 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AUC New Cairo This talk will explore the novel and complex ethical questions, limitations and challenges that AI raises in the research environment. Building on perspectives from the think tank sector in the UK, the talk will touch on both the importance of ethics and how the think tank sector navigates and safeguards complex ethical questions. It will further explore the potential uses of AI in researc...
25 Sep Women in the US Naval Academy: Past, Present and Future 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AUC New Cairo Join us to hear from our international AUC students who are also female midshipmen at the US Naval Academy. They will share their ambitions, challenges and career aspirations in the US Navy and Marine Corps.
25 Sep An Empirical Study of Blockchain-Driven Transparency in a Consumer Marketplace 12:45 pm AUC New Cairo By understanding how utilizing structural estimation helps understand how consumers assess product attributes and quality, the seminar discusses blockchain technology’s impact on consumer marketplaces and highlights that consumer responses (and welfare effects) vary in sophistication and size based on their prior experience with the product category. Additionally, the seminar will establish tha...
25 Sep Ensemble Aventure Performs Leqaát, Encounters 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm AUC New Cairo Ensemble Aventure is a Freiburg-based contemporary music ensemble of Egyptian and German composers renowned for its concert series, international collaborations as well as numerous premieres. This concert program focuses on the encounters between oriental cultural traditions and contemporary music of Western influence. This is particularly evident in the new works by composers Amr Okba, Hossa...
25 Sep Prompt Engineering 101: How I Stopped Worrying and Let AI Do the Heavy Lifting 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm AUC New Cairo This workshop offers an engaging, hands-on introduction to harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in day-to-day work through effective prompt engineering. Participants will gain a solid understanding of how free AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot can be used to drive productivity and innovation. The session is designed to shatter the fears of using AI and break down ...
29 Sep Egypt’s 1919 Revolution: Searching for Women’s Autobiographical Writings in the Archive 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AUC New Cairo Don't miss this interesting talk with Dina Heshmat of AUC as she shares memoirs, articles, poems, short stories and unpublished letters of nationalist and feminist activists of the revolution of 1919.
22 Sep (What is) Feminist Metaphysics? 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm AUC New Cairo “What is metaphysics?” is a question highly debated and not easy to answer. In contemporary philosophy, metaphysics is often understood as the area of the discipline that asks (and tries to answer) “what is x?”-questions, that is, questions that target the nature, definition or “essence” of things broadly construed (i.e., objects as well as ideas and concepts). We tend to think that trying to a...
27 Oct The Ordinariness of Ethics and the Extraordinariness of Revolution: Ethical Selves and the Egyptian January Revolution at Home and School. 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AUC New Cairo In the article, Dr. Ramy Aly presents experiences of Egyptians who were too young to have taken part in the street protests and movement of the 2011 revolution. Today in their early twenties, they narrate their experiences during the early months of the uprising. None claimed to be revolutionaries then or now, yet they are animated by it in complex and long-lasting ways. The January revolution ...