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English Department Newsletter, April 2016

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ورشة عمل عن 2

أهمية االشتراك في المؤتمرات

3 عرض كتاب مقدمة في

علم النفس النقدي

12-2

قاعة المؤتمرات

4 حوارات اآلداب في قاعة مجلس الكلية

5 Dept. Council: 10-12 PM Seminars: 12:30-2 PM Symposium Meeting: 2-3 PM

6 7 The Third Academic Research Conference In the Conference Hall 10-4 PM

9 10 Faculty Students’ Conference

11 12 Graduate Students Conference @ AUC

13 14

Helwan University Conference (12-14 April)

16 The Fifth Quarterly Linguistics Seminar @Conference Hall 4-8 PM

مؤتمر المشاركة 18 17

والتسامح والتحول الديموقراطي

19-18قاعة المؤتمرات )

إبريل(

19 20 Faculty Council

21

حوارات اآلداب: اللغة والهوية قاعة المؤتمرات

23 Shakespeare Day: 2-5 Film Screening 6-9 Live Performance

24 25 Sinai Liberation Day Off

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30 1 Labour Day &

Easter

2 Sham El Nesseem

Calendar

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Important

Announcement


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The 13th International Symposium on

Comparative Literature

(15-17 November 2016)

Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2016

(No abstracts will be accepted after the deadline)

Replies: 1 June 2016

The Symposium seeks to address, but is not limited to, the following sub-topics:

Literatures of Africa/Africa in Literature

Language variations in Africa

The Cultural Heritage of Africa

African theatre and performance

Popular Culture(s) in Africa

Re-visiting African history

African Rituals and Mythologies

Power Relations in Africa

Music, film, and visual arts of Africa

African handicrafts

Exile and refugee issues

South/North Relations

South/South Relations

The Yoke of the Colonial past

Gender Issues

Paradigms of change

Travel Narratives

Silence and silencing

Please complete the application form http://goo.gl/forms/Bw63w1yRyp

For any inquiries, send an email to [email protected]

Symposium website: https://edcusymposium.wordpress.com/

CFPs

http://goo.gl/forms/Bw63w1yRyp

mailto:[email protected]

https://edcusymposium.wordpress.com/

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Contest

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TRAINING TO ENGAGED TRANSFORMATIVE RESEARCH:

PROPOSAL WRITING AND RESEARCH DESIGN SEMINARS IN

SOCIAL SCIENCES

FOR JUNIOR FACULTY IN EGYPTIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES

FALL 2016 – SPRING 2018

ARAB FAMILIES WORKING GROUP http://arabfamilies.org

Lead Presenter: Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis

APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 15, 2016 DATE FIRST SEMINAR: October 13, 14, 15, 2016

LOCATION FIRST SEMINAR: Flamenco Hotel, Valencia Room, Cairo, Egypt

This seminar will train junior faculty (recent PhD’s or MA level) in the

social sciences from national public universities in Egypt in engaged

transformative research, with four intensive seminars over a two-year period.

The first seminar is October 13, 14, 15, 2016; the second in Spring 2017; the

third in Fall 2017; the fourth in Spring 2018. The seminar includes training

in proposal writing and research design; data collection; data analysis;

writing for reports/dissertation/publication. Approximately 20-25

participants will be admitted to the seminar. They will be asked to make a

commitment to the two-year training. Successful participants will be funded

for a seed project. In addition to the four seminars, each participant will be

assigned an individual mentor to work on the assignments required between

seminars. The final product of the seminar is a publishable or near

publishable report or article from the research carried out. Applicants for the

seminar need to be advanced graduate students or junior faculty from

Egyptian national public universities in the social sciences or

scholars/activists in Egyptian national NGO’s. The seminar is carried out by

the Arab Families Working Group and is funded by the Ford Foundation,

Cairo. The lead presenter of the seminar is Distinguished Professor Suad

Joseph, the University of California, Davis.

Seminar in Engaged Transformative Research.

Flamenco Hotel, Cairo, Egypt. October 13, 14, 15, 2016

http://arabfamilies.org http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu


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