Workshops and Events

Every Wednesday during the month of March the Department of Political Science will be hosting a career information session.

• Wednesday, March 9, 2022, Pursuing a Career in Development 
• Wednesday, March 16, 2022, Embarking on a career in Academia
• Wednesday, March 23, 2022, Pursuing a Career in Diplomacy or International Agencies, click here 
• Wednesday, March 30, 2022, Working for the Government

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Tim Sullivan Lounge

For more information, click here.

Celebrating the winners in a student essay competition on the significance of International Women's Day.

Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall, P071
Audience: AUC community

For more information, click here.

The Politics of Gender Equality

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

9:00 am - 7:00 pm

School of Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HUSS)

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, P071

For more information, click here.
For inquiries, send an email.
Members of the AUC community can attend in person.

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Join us on Tuesday, March 1, to explore the various majors and minors.

Location: AUC New Cairo campus
Time: 9:00 am - 1:30 pm

For registration, click here.
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A ceremony for the Political Science students who graduated from the Honors program during spring 2020 and 2021. 

Date: November 30, 2021
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
Location: Library Garden

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Are you wondering about your career opportunities when you graduate with a degree in political science?

Every Wednesday during March, the Department of Political Science will be hosting a career information session. Guest speakers will be discussing and answering questions regarding their experiences following the successful completion of degrees in political science and their journeys into various related fields.

For more information, click here.

Grounding Political Science in a Time of Upheaval

Annual Conference of the Political Science Department at the American University in Cairo

February 26 - 28, 2021

For the conference agenda, click here.
For the conference flyer, click here.
To register for the conference by February 25 at the latest send an email.
Note: Only registered individuals will be admitted to the conference.

Speaker: Heba Taha
Title: A lecturer of International Relations, Leiden University 
Date: February 14, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm 
Zoom link: https://aucegypt.zoom.us/j/91242540645 
Meeting ID: 912 4254 0645 

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Speaker: Paul Lenze
Date: February 14, 2021
Time: 2:00 pm
Zoom link: https://aucegypt.zoom.us/j/95689473034
Meeting ID: 956 8947 3034

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Speaker: David Peyton 
Date: February 15, 2021
Time: 10:00 am 

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Join our Graduate Studies Virtual Open House, February 18 – 20, 2021. You will learn about the political science program and the Comparative Middle East Politics and Society (CMEPS), as well as financial aid and fellowship opportunities to finance your education. 

Political Science Information Session

Date: February 19, 2021 
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm 
Zoom link: https://aucegypt.zoom.us/j/94115810650

For free registration, click here. 

Every Monday during the month of March the Department of Political Science will be hosting a career information session. Special guest speakers will be discussing and answering questions regarding their experiences following the successful completion of degrees in political science and their journeys into a variety of related fields.

Dates: Mondays March 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2020
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall, Sullivan Lounge
Audience: POLS students - AUC community

Celebrating the winners in a student essay competition on the significance of International Women Day.

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall, P071
Audience: AUC community

For more information about the award ceremony, click here.

Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Location: School of Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Sullivan lounge
Audience: AUC community 

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Date: Thursday, February 20, 2020
Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: Mansour Group Lecture Hall

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Speakers: 
Harry Verhoeven
Georgetown University

Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Room CP75, HUSS
Audience: Open to AUC community

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Date: Monday, February 10, 2020
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Room P022, CVC
Audience: Open to AUC community 

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Speaker:  

Sophie Haspeslagh
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Date: Thursday, February 6, 2020
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Room P020, CVC
Audience: Open to AUC Community

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Date: October 28, 2019
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: P071 Hall, El Waleed Building
Speaker:

Gamze Cavdar
Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Political Science Department, Colorado State University

Audience: AUC community

For more information, click here

Date: October 12-13, 2019
Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: P071 Hall, El Waleed Building

Speakers include:

• Sarah Parkinson - Johns Hopkins University
• Mona Harb - American University of Beirut
• Sophie Richter-Devroe - Hamad Bin Khalifa University
• Dana Olwan - Syracuse University
• Melanie Richter - Montpetit - Sussex University
• Walid Hazboun - Alabama University
• Oliver Schlumberger - Tübingen University

Audience: AUC community

For more information, click here.
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Speaker:

Ahdaf Soueif
Writer and novelist

Date: Tuesday, April 7,  2020 
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Audience: Open to the Public

Postponed until further notice.

This is a forum where faculty and graduate students present their research and get feedback from peers. It will be advertised and open to faculty and graduate students of HUSS as well as PhD candidates and faculty from the political departments of national universities. The purpose of this activity is to help establish an academic community of social scientists with AUC at the lead.

Location: POLS department meeting room 2004
Date: Monthly Event: First Wednesday of the month
Time: 1 - 2 pm
Audience: HUSS faculty and graduate students

Postponed until further notice.

Date: Thursday, June 4, 2020 
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Location: Sullivan Lounge, HUSS building 
Audience: By Invitation

Postponed until further notice.

The department of political science will be holding its first summer school for the training of junior faculty from universities across Egypt. Through an open call, fifteen of the most promising Egyptian faculty members were selected to attend this training. The fifteen candidates will be mentored by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field, including Nathan Brown from George Washington University, Tarek Masoud from Harvard University, and Anthony Lang from the University of St. Andrews. The school comes as part of AUC's continuous commitment to providing knowledge and service to the research and scholarly community in Egypt and the region.

Date: June 16 - 17, 2019 
Location: AUC Tahrir Square campus

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Date: November 3 - 4, 2018
Location: Sullivan Lounge, HUSS Building

Speakers:
Lisa Anderson - Columbia University
Melani Cammett - Harvard University
Eva Bellin - Brandies University
Andrea Teti - University of Aberdeen
Lisa Wedeen - University of Chicago
Ellen Lust - University of Gothenburg
Jack Goldstone - George Mason University

Moderators: Various Political Science faculty members.
Audience: Open to AUC Community Only

News@AUC Article: "Community of Scholars: A New Political Science for a Changing World" about the recent Political Science workshop with International scholars."

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In the memory of Samer Soliman, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science.

Date: November 26, 2018
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Location: P071 Waleed Hall

Speakers: 

Wael Gamal, Economic Journalist and Commentator
Mohamed Fahmy Menza, Assistant Professor, Core Curriculum
Amr Adly, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

For more information, click here.

This is a forum where faculty and graduate students present their research and get feedback from peers. It will be advertised and open to faculty and graduate students of HUSS as well as PhD candidates and faculty from the political departments of national universities. The purpose of this activity is to help establish an academic community of social scientists with AUC at the lead.

Location: POLS department meeting room 2004
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Date: Monthly event, first Wednesday of the month (except in May 2019 when it will be on a Sunday)
Audience: HUSS faculty and graduate students

In celebration of Black History month, the political science department will be commemorating the struggle against racial discrimination by showing a number of documentaries. Every Monday throughout the month of February, we will be showing an internationally acclaimed movie followed by an open discussion.

Documentary Movies

Dates: February 4, 18, and 25, 2019
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Moataz Al-Alfi Hall, New Cairo campus
Audience: AUC community

For more information, click here

Celebrating the winners in a student essay competition on the significance of International Women Day.

Date: March 7, 2019
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: P071 Al Waleed Hall 
Audience: AUC community

For more information about the competition, click here.
For more information about the award ceremony, click here.
AUC TV report, click here.

Speaker: Shourideh Molavi
Date: March 28, 2019
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: Oriental Hall, Tahrir Square campus
Audience: Open to the Public

Are you wondering about your career opportunities when you graduate with a degree in political science?

Every Sunday during the month of March the Department of Political Science will be hosting a career information session. Special guest speakers will be discussing and answering questions regarding their experiences following successful completion of degrees in Political Science and their journeys into a variety of related fields.

Embarking on a Career in Academia: March 3, 2019
Nesrine Badawi and Andrew Delatolla 

Starting your own NGO or Leading a Non-Profit: Sunday, March 10, 2019
Marwa Daly            

Entering the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Sunday, March 17, 2019
Karim Haggag

Applying for Careers in Government: Sunday, March 24, 2019
Samia Moussa

Working for the United Nations: Sunday, March 31, 2019
Gielan El-Messiri

Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: Sullivan Lounge, Al Waleed building
Audience: AUC community

Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science AND the Film Program of the Department of the Arts

Event 1

Title: Social Justice Film Series screening of Nostalgia for the Light
Event type: Film screening
Place: AUCCA Room P013 (The Screening Room)
Date: March 27, 2019
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Contact: Shourideh Molavi
shourideh.molavi@aucegypt.edu

Audience: AUC Community only

In this 2010 documentary, Chilean director Patricio Guzmán (The Battle of Chile; The Pinochet Case) travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars and where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th-century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, "disappeared" by the Chilean army after the military coup of September 11, 1973. While astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains women, surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here, continue to search for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families histories. Melding the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the women, Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la Luz) is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey. Dr. Shourideh Molavi will introduce the film and conduct questions and answers afterward.

Event 2

Title: Social Justice Film Series screening of The Pearl Button
Event Type: Film screening
Place: AUCCA room P013, The screening room
Date: April 4, 2019
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Contact: Terri Ginsberg
terri.ginsberg@aucegypt.edu

Audience: AUC community only

In this 2015 documentary, Chilean director Patricio Guzmán takes us on a journey into the water and ocean of Southern Chile. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons that were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains, and glaciers. In it are the voices and languages of the Patagonian indigenous peoples and their tragic history, and also those of Chile's political prisoners the "disappeared" of the Pinochet dictatorship. Some say that water has memory. This film gives it a voice. Using both rarely seen archival images and breath-taking new footage, The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar) navigates different periods of history and geography in a gripping and lyrical tale of the world in which we live. Ginsberg will introduce the film and conduct questions and answers afterward.