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The Path to City Resilience International Conference

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MSA University - Resilience International Conference

Introduction:

All cities are vulnerable to severe impacts from a range of shocks and stresses that can be both natural and human made. Resilience challenges could be a result of rapid urbanization, climate change, political or economical instability. Resilience is the ability of urban systems to maintain continuity through all pressures and strains while positively adapting and transforming towards sustainability. A resilient city assesses, plans and acts to prepare to absorb, respond to and recover from all hazards, either sudden or slow-onset, expected or unexpected while maintaining its essential functions, structures and identity and adapting to continual changes. Consequently, resilient cities have the ability to protect and enhance people’s lives, secure development gains, foster an investible environment, and drive positive change. Unplanned cities are more vulnerable to shock as they often have pre-existing stresses. In cities that are not prepared or unable to recover, shocks can intensify existing stresses and create a flow of negative impact that compromise city functionality and put people at risk. The fundamental aspect is how cities should protect their cultural and natural heritage to adapt to climate change without losing their identity.

Main Themes:

CONFERENCE PURPOSE:

This conference will be a chance to find new solutions and innovations in the resilient urban systems. These creative inventions can be a motive to dynamic, desirable and healthy communities. “The Path to City Resilience” conference is a fertile ground for architects, engineers, city planners, social and political scientists who able to consider new concepts and adapt them according to technological innovations and human desires.

1- Urban Resilience:

Urban resilience is the measurable ability of any urban system, with its inhabitants, to maintain continuity through all shocks and stresses, while positively adapting and transforming toward sustainability. Cities and city inhabitants are facing additional challenges as a result of rapid urbanization, a changing climate and political instability. A resilient city assesses, plans, and acts to prepare for and respond to all hazards; sudden and slow-onset, expected and unexpected. As risks and urban population are increasing, urban resilience has gained greater importance in international development discourse and has emerged as one of the core principles of sustainable urban development in the global development frameworks and targets, including sustainable development goals, new urban agenda and agreements on climate change: - Pathways towards implementing resilience.
- Innovation in the realm of urban resilience. New challenges require new solutions. How can innovations in the resilient urban systems be a motive to dynamic, desirable and healthy communities.
- Building cohesive, healthy and resilient community.

2- Resilience Planning:

Resilience planning is a holistic approach that takes into consideration future economic, social and environmental developments including climate change. Planning for resilience empowers diverse stakeholders to evaluate plans, set strategic policies, and implement projects that will enable communities to adapt and succeed when faced with challenges. Resiliency planning can include updating land use codes, zoning, development standards, incentive programs, and other plans or policies to better prepare for shocks and stresses while also developing measures that allow for action in the face of uncertainty or unexpected events.

3- Resilience and Heritage:

Historic cities, monuments, archaeological sites, museums and cultural landscapes are increasingly affected by threats both natural and manmade. The progressive loss of these places as a result of floods, mudslides, fire, earthquakes, civil unrest has become a major concern. Heritage contribute to social cohesion, sustainable development and psychological wellbeing. Protecting heritage promotes resilience. There is a considerable wealth of experience exists in protecting heritage form disasters and in harnessing the potential of a well-maintained historic environment to strengthen the resilience of communities. The initiative and commitment of national and local governments, businesses and communities around the world is increasingly apparent. Their efforts need to be further encouraged. UN Agencies, NGO’s and a wide range of universities and technical institutions have been organizing additional support and guidance. Nevertheless, efforts to protect heritage from disaster risk remain fragmented and efforts to draw on heritage as an instrument for building resilience remain inconsistent. It is essential for cities to protect their cultural and natural heritage to adapt to climate change without losing their identity.

4- Environmental Resilience:

- Climate change is aggravating the intensity and frequency of natural disaster worldwide. How are cities should be ready to cope with environmental risks.

- Examining the ability of natural systems to recover from disturbances and to tolerate or adapt to changing climate.

- Improving our understanding of the risks facing both natural and managed systems as a result of global change factors, such as climate change, land-use change and nutrient pollution.

5- Landscape Resilience:

- Landscape resilience is the ability of a landscape to sustain desired ecological functions, healthy natural biodiversity, and critical landscape processes over time, under changing conditions, and despite multiple stressors and uncertainties. Landscape resilience identifies the factors that create options and alternative for species and processes within places places. The attributes of resilience differ depending on whether the focus is on species and ecosystems or on enduring physical landscape. It is essential to explore the factors that allow a landscape and a geophysical setting to sustain ecological function and maintain a diverse array of species places as the climate changes. Those places with inherent properties that built resilience will be natural strongholds for species and nature into the future. The seven main principles of landscape resilience are setting, process, connectivity, diversity and complexity, redundancy, scale and people.

6- Infrastructure Resilience:

Infrastructure systems are important when considering infrastructure resilience. Resilience is not just related to individual infrastructure elements, but it shows how these work together as energy, transport, water and sanitation, ITC networks – and affect each other. - Climate Change:
- Understanding climate change implications for infrastructure resilience.
- Best practices in infrastructure resilience and enhancing capacity.
- Critical consideration of the role of planning in resilience. - Emergency Planning:
- Understanding acute events and their implications for infrastructure resilience.
- Understanding emergency planning’s role in infrastructure resilience.
- Best practices in emergency planning. - Hard Infrastructure:
- Understanding the fundamentals of infrastructure resilience.
- Best practices in infrastructure resilience and enhancing capacity.
- Critical consideration of the role of planning in resilience.
- Natural areas and cities. - Soft Infrastructure:
- Understanding the fundamentals of infrastructure resilience.

7- Resilience in Systems:

System resilience is an ability of the system to withstand a major disruption within acceptable degradation parameters and to recover within an acceptable time. - Innovative methodologies, smart technologies, techniques and solutions to resilience challenges.

8- Innovative Smart Technologies and Resilience

Innovative applications of smart technologies make cities stronger, improving resources allocation, strengthening communication and social cohesion and generally making life easier for everyone living in the city.

9- Resilience in Education System:

Education resilience involves identifying risks and assets, protecting the assets in schools, universities and communities, and aligning education system commitment to a resilience approach. Resilience matters in education because learning and education can be the vehicle to overcome shocks and stresses.

10- National Policy Frameworks on Resilience:

Collaboration with other levels of government is one of the key drivers to ensure a coherent and integrated approach to resilience. Many national governments have plans for reinforcing their countries’ resilience. Of the 45 national policy frameworks on resilience, 39 mention the role of cities or subnational governments for building national resilience in the national policy frameworks on resilience. They refer to the importance of local actions for resilience by emphasizing that local authorities are primarily responsible for building resilience. Some frameworks on resilience include very specific roles and missions for cities.

Contact Us

Address: MSA University, 26th July Mehwar Road Intersection with Wahat Road, 6th of October City, Egypt.

Tel: +202-383-71114/5/6

Fax: +202-383-71543

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Translating Cultures: Theory and Practice

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MSA University - Translating Cultures: Theory and Practice

Call for Papers:

The Faculty of Languages, MSA University is pleased to launch its first international conference “Translating Cultures: Theory and Practice” in October 2019.

The conference offers an engaging platform for academicians, theorists, artists and practitioners from different backgrounds to share their ideas on how languages and narratives can be diversely understood across different cultures and contexts.

The conference aims to highlight the role of cultures and/or cultures in translation in enlightening people and transmitting diverse values, narratives and histories. This enlightenment contributes to a level of understanding that leads to appreciation, tolerance, acceptance and inter/cross-cultural communication.

Publication Opportunity

Dear Colleagues

Please be advised that there would be a publication opportunity for the BEST 15 to 20 papers in a book adopted from the conference which will be published by Cambridge Scholar Publishing within a year after the end of the conference.

The Deadline for sending abstracts is thereby extended to June 30, 2019

Topics of Interest:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

1- Challenges of Cultural Translation
2- Transnationalism
3- Intercultural Encounters
4- Performing Cultures
5- History and Culture in Literary Texts
6- Translating History between Theory and Practice
7- Translation and Media
8- Culture and Education
9- Culture and Arts
10- Localization and Globalization
11- Language and Cultural Transformations
12- Multiculturalism and identity
13- Sociocultural Contexts in Teaching EFL
14- Digital Humanities
15- Cyber Culture

The Agenda

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If you cannot view the below document, please click here | Download The 58th Annual ESPET Conference's Agenda.

Download The 58th Annual ESPET Conference's Agenda.

Payments Details

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Conference Fees (Attendance/ Poster/ Oral presentation):

Participation fees for the Conference have been set at 400 LE for non-members of the Society and 300 LE for members. We therefore urge you, if you are not yet a member of the Society, to join by filling in an ESPET application form online or on site at the Conference. The fees will be reduced to its half value for all the T.As and L.As and will be only 100 LE for the students. Payment methods:
- Vodafone cash: 01062690226 *** Please confirm your payment by sending a picture of the receipt to email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CPR training course Fees:

CPR training course will be held as a workshop at the conference. For the CPR course, a certification from the Egyptian college of critical care physicians affiliated to the Egyptian medical syndicate will be given. The CPR course fees for staff and grads will be: 250 LE and only 150 for studentswho will register at the conference as well. Payment methods:
- Vodafone cash: 01097768772
- Ahly Cash: 01554679429 *** Please confirm your payment by sending a picture of the receipt to email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Stem Cell Workshop Fees:

Fees: 700 L.E and only 400 L.E for students who will register at the conference as well (Certificate, Hand-out Materials and Coffee break are included) ***Number of attendees is limited! Payment methods:
- Vodafone cash: 01093265018
- Bank Transfer: EG Bank, Account No.: 252133 *** Please confirm your payment by e-mail or phone call. Finally, for more information please contact us via:
Phone No.: 002 01093265018
WhatsApp: 002 0111 0719785
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Abstract & Poster Guidelines

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Abstract & posters guidelines:

Each abstract should include the following elements: title, author names with professional affiliations (position, dept., faculty and University or research center), background, aim of the study, methods, results, conclusions and keywords (3 to 5). It should be written in Times New Roman (Font: 12 pt) with word count from 200-250 words. Kindly, underline the name of the presenter. The posters should be presented as portrait with Size: A0 following the outline of the abstract (background, aim of the study, Methods, Result and Conclusions) and using figures and tables to present the results. Kindly, print your poster in good time and bring it with you to the Conference.

Registration Form:

The 58th Annual ESPET Conference - workshop

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CPR Training Course:

CPR training course will be held as a workshop at the conference. For the CPR course, a certification from the Egyptian college of critical care physicians affiliated to the Egyptian medical syndicate will be given. The CPR course fees for staff and grads will be: EGP 250 and only EGP 150 for students who will register at the conference as well (registration link to the course: https://goo.gl/forms/f2xcn6vujLqZZauT2). For any queries and more details, please don’t hesitate to contact Amany El-brairy (email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Mohamed T. Khayyal (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). We are looking forward for your active participation.

Stem Cells Workshop:

Duration: (1 day) 20 April 2019, From 12:00 PM to 03:00 PM. Course content: Theoretical part:
- What Stem Cell is?
- History of Stem Cell therapy
- Different types of Stem Cell.
- Mesenchymal Stem Cell
-Applications of Stem Cell. Practical Session:
- Dissecting out femur and tibia of mouse.
- Aspiration and culturing of bone marrow aspirates.
- Culturing of Stem Cell.
- Stem Cell Counting.

Workshop instructors:

Stem Cells Workshop Registration Form:

Invited Speakers

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Dr. Mahmoud Adel

Dr. Mohamed Khalifa

Dr. Mohamed Salah

Dr. Naglaa Bazan

Dr. Sameh Shabaan

Invited Speakers

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Prof. Dr. Hussein Khaled

Prof. Dr. Nadia Zakhary

Prof. Dr. Taher Zanaty

Dr. Mohamed Salah

The 58th Annual ESPET Conference

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MSA University - 58th Annual ESPET Conference

About:

The 58th annual conference of the Egyptian Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ESPET) will be held this year at the premises of the Modern Science and Art University (MSA) for all the pharmacologists and pharmacy students. The meeting will take place on Saturday April 20, 2019. The main theme of the conference is “Novel Trends in pharmacology” covering mainly autoimmune diseases and oncology in addition to a wide range of critically important sessions. The conference will invite leader speakers in the mentioned themes, providing you with the most recent advances in their field of specialization. A pleasant surprise to pharmacology T.As and A.L in any governmental university or research centers
we offer you 50 free registrations to attend the egyptian society of pharmacology conference, offered by Dr. Abdelfatah Marie (professor of pharmacology, faculty of medicine, cairo university)
this offer is for the 1st 50 registrees so hurry up and go to the conference website for registration.

Registration Form (Attendance/ Poster/ Oral Presentation):

Sponsors:

MSA University - 58th Annual ESPET Conference Sponsor

MSA's 3rd Annual International Conference In Higher Eduacation

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MSA's 3rd Annual International Conference In Higher Eduacation

You are invited to attend our MSA-Greenwich third annual international collaborative conference on Higher Education. The conference is titled Student engagement, inclusivity and well-being in the digital era and takes place at MSA University (SSB Halls & B206), Egypt, on Wednesday 3rd April, 2019 at 9 am - 3 pm. There are participants from UK (our partner University of Greenwich) and Egypt (MSA University). Our one-day conference will explore the challenges, opportunities, and transformations that are shaping how we respond to determining the future of Higher Education in Egypt, and globally, in ways that enables all students to succeed at university and in their future careers. In our intensifying technological environments, does technology hinder or help us to teach inclusively? Academic staff are increasingly employing technologies in their curriculum design and teaching to stimulate and encourage learning and provide an enhanced, and hopefully, more inclusive student experience. Educators’ roles are changing and it is a good time for us to critically reflect how we can best support all students throughout their higher education journey: what are the unintended consequences of introducing technology, how can we help all our students to thrive in the digital world? Where can technology create distinctive opportunities and support diverse groups of students across the subjects we teach? Where might it benefit students to stop using technology? What role might students play in determining their experience? Through examining the practices that take place in physical and virtual learning spaces, we provide a platform to share and contextualise our own experiences with colleagues from MSA and our UK partner institutions. The five conference sub-themes are: 1. Maximising student learning (curriculum design & delivery, transition, internationalising the curriculum, metrics and analytics)
2. Well-being and resilience (international student transition, enriching the student and staff experience, strengthening personal tutoring and academic support)
3. Inclusiveness (exploring innovative pedagogies and sustainable approaches that increase access and participation, supporting differentiation and personalisation.
4. Using students as agents of change, (student representation, student voice, student experience, virtual and physical spaces for improved staff-student interaction).
5. Engaging employers (designing for employability, work placements & internships, alumni).

Conference Schedule:

Click here to view or download the Conference Schedule

Previous conferences:

https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/msa/msa2018
https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/msa/msa2017

Conference Organizers:

Dr. Heba Mohamed Adel (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Dr. Maan Gailani (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Dr. Shahira Ezzat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Dr. Islam El-Shaarawy (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Dr. Mohamed Khalil (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Dr. Gihan Hammad (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)