Events

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2017 Time: 04:30 pm till 06:00 pm Location: Adnan Kassar School of Business Building, Room 903, Lebanese American University-Beirut Campus Humanitarianism in a different key? Principled pragmatism for long term refugee crises.    Contemporary refugee movements have increased self-reflection among humanitarian actors operating in ‘non-traditional’ environments in urban contexts, in Europe, along routes over land and sea, and on borders and in borderlands. Current refugee movements add to an increasing number of refugees who are stuck in long-term situations of...

Training Workshop for Young People on Inclusive Design Beirut Lebanon August 2017 Venue: LAU Beirut   Deadline for applications 9th of July In the framework of the NET-MED Youth Project (UNESCO/EU), and in collaboration with The Centre for Lebanese Studies, this project aims to promote a more inclusive society through empowering young women and men, both with and without disabilities, on advocacy and leadership for the rights of PWDs in Lebanon, with focus on also promoting the concept of inclusive design and the important role of youth in this process. “Inclusive design” is a new way of...

The Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) in collaboration with the Lebanese American University (LAU) and the Centre for International Teacher Education in South Africa (CITE)    cordially invites to an open seminar    Teacher Education in Lebanon and South Africa: Current approaches and challenges   1st of October 2015   Lebanese American University, Beirut Irwin Hall Auditorium 8.30 am to 1.30 pm    Event is English. Unfortunately simultaneous translation is UNAVAILABLE.    Registration at 8am For registration please send an email to   rbahous@lau.edu.lb or call: Tel. 00 961 1 786456 (ext. 1116...

  The Centre for Lebanese Studies, The Carnegie Middle East Center, and  the Danish Institute in Damascus cordially invite to a one day conference entitled:   Youth Marginalization and Radicalization Amid the Syrian Crisis     EVENT DETAILS DATE Thursday, March 19, 2015 TIME 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. LOCATION Carnegie Middle East Center, Emir Bechir Street, Lazarieh Tower, Bldg. No. 2026 1210, 5th flr., Downtown Beirut SPEAKERS Mario Abou Zeid, Haneen Al Sayyed, Lars Erslev Andersen, Tobias Gemmerlie, Lina Khatib, Kamel Kosbar, Nizar Saghiyeh, Maha Shuayb CONTACT...

The Lebanese Association for History, the Centre for LebaneseStudies, and the Department of History and Archeology at theAmerican University of Beirut cordially invite you to a lecture The Strife for the History Curriculum:The Case of Lebanon and England Presenters:Dr. Christine Counsell, University of CambridgeHistory Teachers as Curriculum Makers: the Shaping ofEngland's National Curriculum for History, 1991 to 2014 Dr. Simon Abdel Massih, Lebanese UniversityThe Making of the Lebanese History Curriculum in Lebanonduring the Transitional Period March 26 ,2015 from 4:00 to 6:00 pmCollege...

The Lebanese Association for History in collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands,                        the Center for Applied Research in Education at Notre Dame University-Louaize,               and the Centre for Lebanese Studies has the pleasure of inviting you to the launching of   « Developing History Teachers’ Capacity to Foster Historical Thinking » that provides a one year intensive training  by international experts, support sessions by LAH team, and peer mentoring to support history teachers in promoting historical thinking in classrooms   The ceremony will take...

The Centre for Lebanese Studies,  Cordially invites you to a round table to discuss the results of its recent study entitled:     Widening Access to Quality Education for Syrian Refugees: The role of private and NGO Sectors in Lebanon 1st December 2pm to 5pm    The round table will bring together representatives of private schools and NGOs  providing education to syrian refugee children to discuss their experiences and challenges of providing access to quality and certified education. The meeting will also invite academics and education specialists as well as representatives of...

  The Lebanese Association for History, EUROCLIO, and Notre Dame University In collaboration with the Centre for Lebanese Studies and the Finnish Institute in the Middle East cordially invites you to a workshop Towards a responsible and disciplinary approach to history education in the Mediterranean Region -Empowering educators to use multi-perspective approaches and historical thinking concepts in the history classroom May 3-6 2014 The seminar will be hosted by Notre-Dame University (NDU) and will involve 30 participants coming from 5 Arab countries (Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Tunisia and...

The Lebanese association for History        in association with the embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands and in collaboration with  Centre for Lebanese Studies   has the pleasure of inviting you to its workshop   What does it mean to ‘do’ history? An introduction to historical enquiry and secondary concepts, with focus on continuity and change”   December 20 & 21, 2013 Friday 20: from 2:30 – 6:00 p.m. Saturday 21: from 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. At the Center for Lebanese Studies, Hamra street, Domtex Building, 4th floor    Places are limited. For participation, please fill the  application...

New Visions for Refugee Education in the Middle East 22,23,24 May 2014 Jordan The Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) in collaboration with UNESCO, are pleased to invite you to participate in the its forthcoming conference on “New Visions for Refugee Education in the Middle East”. This event aims to bring together practitioners, researchers, funders, and policymakers from national, regional and international NGOs, UN agencies, government agencies, Ministries of Education, teachers unions, and academic institutions to present and discuss their research or work on  education of the refugees. The...