Weekly Event Highlights

• International Business School (IBS) Speakers Forum        
  This spring, IBS is hosting a number of local, national and world CEOs and entrepreneurs. Next week's speakers include the author of The Triple Bottom Line and the president of Loyalty Factor. These presentations are open to all.
  

• Focus on East Asia: Japan, China, and Korea
  
  Japan Studies Colloquium Series: Re-imagining Tokyo
  Thur. 1/31, 4:30 p.m., Lown 2
  The Japan Studies Colloquium Series, devoted to "Re-imagining Tokyo," begins with a lecture on the nature of fire in the city by Professor Jordan Sand, Georgetown University.
  
  Contemporary China Series: Justice and Injustice
  Thur. 1/31, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., Schneider G1, Heller
  Professor Martin King Whyte (Harvard University) speaks on "Popular Attitudes Towards Inequality and Issues of Distributive Justice and Injustice in Contemporary China."
  
  Korean Night 2008: From Seoul to Pyongyang
  Sat. 2/2, 7:00 p.m., Levin Ballroom
  Annual student cultural show showcases the dance, music, and martial arts of Korea.

• Trade and Sustainable Development
  Fri. 2/1, 12:15 p.m., Schneider G3, Heller
  Part of the Sustainable International Development (SID) Friday Speaker Seriers. David Boyer, Heller Lecturer and Coordinator of the Trade Knowledge Network at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, discusses transnational networks for monitoring and researching trade.
  

• Around the World in a String Quartet
  Sat. 2/2, 7:00 p.m. talk, 8:00 p.m. concert
  Slosberg Recital Hall
  The winter concert of the Lydian string quartet features music from the Ukraine, Iran, and Germany, including a pre-conference talk with Iranian composer Reza Vali.

News & Features

• Global Brandeis Fund: Request for Proposals
  The fund is designed to support innovative efforts that stimulate a future-oriented, collaborative approach to the global dimension of Brandeis.
  

• South African Ambassador Welile Nhlapo to visit Brandeis
  Save the date for the annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture, Feb. 11, 5:30 p.m., entitled "South Africa's Time Has Come: Achievements and Prospects."
  
  
• Breakthrough research turns the tide on waterborne pathogen
  Brandeis and University of Georgia discover promising approach to treating cryptosporidiosis, a major cause of disease and malnutrician around the globe.
  

• MLK Jr. and the Global Quest for Peace
  Professor Mark Auslander and staff member Mangok Bol speak at a local celebration for MLK Jr. Day.

• Brandeis University Orchestra to tour Germany and Austria
  The project, largely student funded, is the first international tour of any student music ensemble at Brandeis.
  
  
• Brandeis-Al-Quds Partnership participant Jessica Kent '09 discusses her interfaith work on Good Morning America
  

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