School of Humanities and Social Sciences | The American University in Cairo

Critical Cultural AI-Studies: Towards a New Interdisciplinary Paradigm for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Join Alessandro Topa of AUC as he examines how artificial intelligence is transforming culture, communication and our very sense of self through an interdisciplinary lens.

Oct

History Hash Outs: How Studying History Has Influenced My Career

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Hear AUC alumna Mayar Kotb trace her journey from history graduate to NYU doctoral candidate, reflecting on heritage research, arts management and lessons learned along the way.

Sep

A Trade In Dreams : Book Launch and Exhibition

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Discover how Egyptian print advertising shaped ideas of modernity and identity at the launch of Professor Bahia Shehab's A Trade in Dreams.

Sep

History Hash Outs | Cairo and the African Revolution: The Making of an Anti-Colonial Hub

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join Sara Hussein of the University of California as she examines mid-twentieth-century Cairo as a global hub for Afro-Arab liberation networks.

Oct

History Hash Outs | Governing Muslims: Law and the Making of Russian Imperial Rule in Crimea, 1783–1850

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Discover how Russian imperial rule reshaped Muslim Crimea from 1783 to 1850, with Dilyara Agisheva of AUC.

Oct

History Hash Outs | Building the Future: Cold War Development in Egypt and the Gulf

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Learn how Egyptians imagined future development between decolonization and neoliberal globalization with Masha Kirasirova of New York University Abu Dhabi.

Oct

History Hash Outs | Out of the Phoenix’s Ashes: Valentine de Saint-Point and the Eastern

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Trace the incredible post-World War I journey of French writer Valentine de Saint-Point to Cairo with historian Mariam Elashmawy.

Nov

History Hash Outs | Alexandria Again: Islamic Philosophy and Decolonisation in Mid-20th Century Egypt

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Discover how modern Egyptian philosophers reclaimed Alexandrian cosmopolitanism for an independent Egypt, with Simon Conrad of the Orient-Institute Beirut.

Sep

History Hash Outs | History as a Creative Practice: Making the Past Public

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Explore history as a creative practice beyond academia with Yasmine El Dorghamy, founder of Rawi Publishing

Jun

Artozium | Hekaya Bel Maqloub Play

Jun 22 – Jun 24

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Explore equality, classism and gender roles in this interactive Forum Theatre play, where you're invited to step in, switch roles and shape the outcome.