Workshops and Events
Upcoming Events
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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.
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Dates:
Wednesday, March 10 Topic: Joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Wednesday, March 17 Topic: Pursuing a Career in Development (For the lecture's audio, click here )
Wednesday, March 24 Topic: Working for the United Nations (For the lecture's audio, click here)
Wednesday, March 31 Topic: Embarking on a Career in Academia (For the lecture's audio, click here)
For more information, click here
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Grounding Political Science in a Time of Upheaval
Annual Conference of the Political Science Department
at the American University in Cairo (AUC)February 26 - 28, 2021
For the conference agenda, click here
For the conference flyer, click here
To register for the conference by February 25th at the latest through this email: polisci@aucegypt.edu
Kindly note that only registered individuals will be admitted to the conference.
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Speaker: Heba Taha
A lecturer of International Relations, Leiden University
Time: 1:00 pm
Date: February 14, 2021
Zoom Meeting: https://aucegypt.zoom.us/j/91242540645
Meeting ID: 912 4254 0645
For more information, click here
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Speaker: Paul Lenze
Date: February 14, 2021
Time: 2:00 pm
Zoom Meeting https://aucegypt.zoom.us/j/95689473034
Meeting ID: 956 8947 3034
For more information, click here
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Speaker: David Peyton
Date: February 15, 2021
Time: 10:00 am
Zoom Meeting https://aucegypt.zoom.us/j/96145400350
Meeting ID: 961 4540 0350
For more information, click here
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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:
February 19, 2021
From 1:00-2:00 pm
Zoom link: https://aucegypt.zoom.us/j/94115810650
For free registration, click here.
Past Events
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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 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: 1-2 pm
Location: Sullivan Lounge, Al-WALEED building
Audience: POLS Students - AUC community
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Celebrating the winners in a student essay competition on the significance of International Women Day.
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Time: 1-2 pm
Location: P071 WALEED Hall
Audience: AUC Community
For more information about the competition, click here
For more information about the Award Ceremony, click here
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Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Time: 5-7 pm
Location: Sullivan lounge, HUSS building
Audience: AUC community
For more information, click here
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Date: Thursday, February 20, 2020
Time: 10:00am – 2:00pm
Location: Mansour Hall
For more information: click here
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Speaker:
Harry Verhoeven
Georgetown University
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Time: 1- 2 pm
Location: Room CP75, HUSS
Audience: Open to AUC community
For more information: Click here
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Date: Monday, February 10, 2020
Time: 1- 2 pm
Location: Room P022, CVC
Audience: Open to AUC community
For more information: click here
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Speaker:
Sophie Haspeslagh
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2020
Time: 1- 2 pm
Location: Room P020, CVC
Audience: Open to AUC Community
For more information: click here
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Date: October 28, 2019
Time: 1-2 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
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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
For photos: Click here
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Speaker: Dr. Ahdaf Soueif
Writer and novelist.
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Time: 6–9 pm
Audience: Open to the Public
STATUS: postponed until further notice
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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 Ph.D. 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
Faculty
Date
Topic
Amr Adly
October 2, 2019
“Egypt's Shattered Oligarchy and Big Business Autonomy”
Sean Lee
November 6, 2019
"How Bashar al-Asad learned to stop worrying and love the war on terror."
Marco Pinfari
December 4, 2019
“Regional Problems for Regional Solutions? The Ideational Context of Regional Mediation in Arab Africa”
Shouridah Molavi
February 12, 2020
‘Interrogating the Citizen and the Israeli Logic of Exclusion”.
Nesreen Badawi
March 4, 2020
"Sovereign Acts and the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court"
Chris Barker
April 1, 2020
"Liberalism Imperialism: The Arguments for and Against"
Mostafa Henfy
May 6, 2020
'Counting, Interpretation, and Collective (in)Action in Politics'
STATUS: postponed until further notice
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Date: Thursday, June 4, 2020
Time: 2-4 pm
Location: Sullivan Lounge, HUSS building
Audience: by Invitation
STATUS: postponed until further notice
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POLS Activities
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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 Campus
For photos click here
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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 UniversityModerators: 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. For Photos click here
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In the memory of Samer Soliman, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science.
Date: November 26, 2018
Time: 1-3 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 Dept.
For more information, click here
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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 Ph.D. 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: 1-2 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 studentsFaculty
Date
Topic
Nadine Sika
October 3, 2018
Political Participation and Trust in the Middle East and North Africa
Shourideh Molavi
November 7, 2018
The Use of Military Herbicides in Gaza
Andrew Delatolla
December 5, 2018
International Politics of Sexuality: Race, Gender, and Capitalism from the 19th to the 21st Centuries
Mostafa Hefny
February 6, 2019
On the Concept of Political Autonomy
Canceled
Marco Pinfari
March 13, 2019
The Iconography of Martyrdom and the Construction of Coptic Identity in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
Javed Maswood
April 10, 2019
Economic Globalization and De-globalization
Amr Adly
May 5, 2019
State-Business relations in Egypt
Postponed
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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: 1-2 pm
Location: Moataz Al-Alfi Hall, New Cairo Campus
Audience: AUC Community
For more information: click here
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Celebrating the winners in a student essay competition on the significance of International Women Day.
Date: March 7, 2019
Time: 1-2 pm
Location: P071 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
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by Dr. Shourideh Molavi
Date: March 28, 2019
Time: 6-8 pm
Location: Oriental Hall, Tahrir Campus
Audience: Open to the Public
For more information: click here
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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
Dr. Nesrine Badawi and Dr. Andrew Delatolla
Starting your own NGO or Leading a Non-Profit: Sunday, March 10, 2019
Dr. Marwa Daly
Entering the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Sunday, March 17, 2019
Ambassador Karim Haggag
Applying for Careers in Government: Sunday, March 24, 2019
Ms. Samia Moussa
Working for the United Nations: Sunday, March 31, 2019
Ms. Gielan El-Messiri
Time: 1-2 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
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: 5-7 pm
Contact: Dr. Shourideh Molavi < shourideh.molavi@aucegypt.edu>
Audience: AUC Community only
Description: 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 qusetions and answers afterward.
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- 7pm
Contact: Dr. Terri Ginsberg < terri.ginsberg@aucegypt.edu>
Audience: AUC Community only
Description: 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. Dr. Terri Ginsberg will introduce the film and conduct questions and answers afterward
