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

Awful Anthropology: On the Pains of Doing Anthropology that Breaks your Heart

Hear Professor Maryam Fouad on the affective and ethical burdens of fieldwork, exploring how anthropology's power lies in bearing witness.

Oct

Cartoons as Political Critique in Ghana – a Close Look at the Work of Bright Ackwerh

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

The lecture focuses on the activist work of Ghanaian political cartoonist Bright Ackwerh. Bright is an artist who describes himself as a “pseudo-historian,” someone who responds to the gatekeeping practices of elite-owned and state-influenced media, by telling stories that media agencies are too afraid to tell. Bright’s political cartoons bring to the surface the unspoken and unseen worlds of e...

Oct

Forensic Linguistics: Can Language Contribute to Justice?

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

Join Neveen Al Saeed, lecturer in linguistics at the Department of English Language and Literature, Ain Shams University, to learn more about forensic linguistics as a growing multidisciplinary field that brings together language, law and social impact.

Dec

Women of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Women’s Social Power in the First 11 Dynasties

12:45 pm

AUC New Cairo

This lecture challenges the traditional focus on elite male narratives in ancient Egyptian history by examining the evolving social power of women from the Early Dynastic Period to the First Intermediate Period (Dynasties 1–11). Using Michael Mann’s Social Power Domains as a theoretical framework, the study analyzes women’s biographical inscriptions—mainly from funerary monuments—to map changes...

Nov

Yasser Arafat at the United Nations, 1974: Palestinian Nationalism on the World Stage

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join Michael Reimer, professor of history, for a talk that reflects on the text and context of the speech, focusing on Arafat's interpretation of Zionist history and his comments about the nature of the conflict over the land of Palestine.

Oct

Alchemy of the Soul: Jungian Depth Psychology, Spirituality and the Transformation of Psyche

5:00 pm – 6:15 pm

AUC New Cairo

This lecture examines the convergence of Jungian depth psychology, spirituality, and alchemical symbolism as frameworks for transformation such as healing, integration, and individuation. The session discusses therapeutic implications of these traditions for contemporary psychology and mental health practice.

Oct

The Marketization of Economic Informality: Rooftops, Housing and Private Property in a Cairo Neighborhood

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

By Amr Adly, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science The talk explores market making under conditions of widespread economic informality, applying it to a segment of Cairo’s housing market. I draw on rich ethnographic work involving a group of small developers who had actively engaged in building extra housing units on rooftops of already existing buildings in a middle- class ne...

Oct

Mainstreaming the Margins and Marginalizing the Mainstream in Contemporary Egyptian Culture

Oct 26 – Oct 28

9:30 am

AUC Tahrir Square

Bringing together practitioners and scholars working on entertainment, arts, literature and language, this interdisciplinary conference is devoted to the complex relationship between mainstream and margin in contemporary Egyptian culture. Egypt’s cultural industries have undergone profound transformations in recent years. How are these transformations serving to unsettle boundaries between ‘hig...

Oct

Public Finance Challenges: Debt, Public Spending and the Budget Deficit

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Don’t miss this timely talk with Egypt's Minister of Finance Ahmed Kouchouk ’99, tackling Egypt’s fiscal reforms, debt and spending priorities.

Sep

What Time Is It Now?

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Join Steffen Stelzer as he reflects on his lifelong journey as both a student and teacher of philosophy.