Orient-Institut Beirut & American University of Beirut
September, 29 to October 01, 2022
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 (AUB - IFI, 4th floor)
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| 5.00-5.20 | Registration |
| 5.20-5.30 | Greeting Prof. Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut) |
| 5.30-6.00 | Introduction Prof. Birgit Schaebler (OIB, AUB, Erfurt University) |
| 6.00-7.15 | Keynote Prof. Hartmut Rosa (Max Weber Center, Erfurt Universty) Love and Friendship from the Perspective of Resonance Theory |
| 8-00 | Dinner |
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 (OIB)
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| 10:00-10:30 | Prof. Birgit Schaebler (OIB, AUB, Erfurt University) Challenges of the Modern Social Relation -by Example of Love and Friendship- and by Discipline |
| Psychoanalysis | |
| 10:30-11.30 | Prof. Amanda Holmes (University of Applied Arts Vienna) The Trouble with "Relation": A Reading of Lacan's Seminar IV "The Object Relation" |
| History | |
| 11.30-12.30 | Prof. G. Arunima (Director, The Kerala Council for Historical Research) Political Pasts, Political Futures: Situating the Term Comrade within a Lexicon of Political Solidarities |
| 12.30-1.00 | Coffee Break |
| Political Science/International Relations | |
| 1.00-2.00 | Prof. Oleg Kharkhordin (European University at St Petersburg) Interpersonal Friendship and Political Friendship: Can One Inform Another? Lessons from the Russian Past and Present |
| 2.00-3.00 | Lunch Break |
| Theology | |
| 3.00-4.00 | Prof. Nayla Tabbara (Director Adyan Foundation, Universite Saint Joseph) Towards a Theology of Friendship Between Religions |
| 6.30 | Reception, Dinner, Farewell |
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 (AUB - IFI, 4th floor)
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| Sociology II | |
| 10.00-11.00 | Prof. Gennaro Iorio (University of Salerno) Prof. Silvia Cataldi (Sapienza University of Rome) Different and Together: The Potential Critique of Social Love |
| 11.00- 11.30 | Coffee Break |
| European Philosophy | |
| 11.30-12.30 | Emily Laurent- Monaghan (Newcastle University) Was Descartes Anxious (About Love)? |
| 12.30-1.30 | Lunch Break |
| Islamic Philosophy | |
| 1.30- 2.30 | Hussein Ibrahim (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich) Philosophy of Love and Friendship in Islam: a Contemporary Reading of Classical Accounts |
| 2.30- 3.00 | Closing Remarks |
| 6:30 | Dinner |
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