Workshops and Events

POLS Events and Activities

Academic Year 2021-2022
  • 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.

  • 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

    Panel 1: Masculinity and Militarism in North Africa  9:30 - 11:00 am
    Panel 2: Sex, Sect, and the Nation 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
    Panel 3: Defining and Redefining Feminism 2:00 - 3:00 pm
    Panel 4: Gendered Violence and Strategies of Resistance 3:45 - 5:15 pm

    Keynote Speech 
    Nadje Al-Ali, Brown University

    5:30 - 6:30 pm

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

    For photos, click here.

  • 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.
    For more information, click here. 

  • 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

    For photos, click here.

POLS Activities

Academic Year 2020-2021
  • 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.

    1:00 - 2:00 pm
    Wednesday, March 10, 2022  Joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Wednesday, March 17, 2022 Pursuing a Career in Development. For the lecture's audio, click here
    Wednesday, March 24, 2022 Working for the United Nations. For the lecture's audio, click here
    Wednesday, March 31, 2022 Embarking on a Career in Academia. For the lecture's audio, click here

    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 

    For more information, click here.

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

    For more information, click here.

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

    For more information, click here.

  • 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

POLS Activities

Academic Year 2019-2020
  • 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 

    For more information, click here.

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

    For more information, click here.

  • 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

    For more information, click here.

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

    For more information, click here 

  • 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

    For more information, click here 

  • 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.
    For photos, click here.

  • 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

    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

    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.

POLS Activities

Academic Year 2018-2019
  • 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

    For photos, click here.

  • 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."

    For photos, click here.

  • 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

    Faculty

    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

    Cancelled

    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

  • 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.