# American University of Beirut

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## Program

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| ​ Tuesday, October 3 | | |
| ​​10-11:00 am | Meet and Greet Breakfast (by invitation only) | West Hall, 2nd Floor |
| 11:00-12:00 pm | Campus Tour | AUB Visitors Bureau |
| 4:00-5:30 pm | Public Lecture: Leadership & Participation of Women in Political Transformations by Professor Amrita Basu | Issam Fares Institute Conference Room, 4th Floor​ |
| 4:00-5:00 pm | Public Lecture: Chemical Story of Olive Oil: Tales from the Groves Followed by olive oil tasting  Patricia O'Hara, Amanda and Lisa Cross Professor of Chemistry, and Richard Blatchy, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Keene State College | Hostler Center Auditorium​ |
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| Wednesday, October 4 | | |
| ​1:00-2:00 pm | Sociology and Anthropology Lecture  Psychiatry in Ruins: Loss and the Future of Disaster in Turkey  Christopher Dole, Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College | Nicely 103 |
| 4:00-5:00 pm | From Quantum Dots to Proteostasis: A Research Sampler from Chemistry at Amherst College Chem.  Pat O'Hara, Amanda and Lisa Cross Professor of Chemistry, Amherst College | Room 101 |
| 7:00 pm | Welcome Dinner (by invitation only) | **TBD** |
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| Thursday, October 5 | | |
| 11:00 am-4:00 pm | AUB Study Abroad Fair | West Hall, Common Room |
| 12:30- 1:45 pm | Arab Culture and Society (SOAM 237)     Christopher Dole, Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College | Nicely 417 |
| 4:00-5:30 pm | Panel: Building Community - and Agency - through Storytelling; Voices of Women in Academia | Issam Fares conference room |
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| ​ Friday, October 6 | | |
| 11:00 am-12:00 pm | Amherst College Information Session | West Hall, auditorium C |
| 12:00-5:30 pm | AREC visit | AREC |
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| Monday, October 9 | | |
| 5:30-6:30 pm | Closing Ceremony (by invitation only) | Masri building rooftop​ |