Weekly Event Highlights

• Obama Phenomena: Changing Ideas of Race
  Mon. 3/3, 7:00 p.m., Goldfarb Rapaporte Treasure Hall
  A forum to analyze the Senator's impact on racial-identity politics at home and abroad.
  
  
• Asian-Pacific Heritage Month Opening Ceremonies
  Mon. 3/3, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m., Sherman Function Hall
  A free dinner and show featuring comedian Eliot Chang, live music, and student speaker Jinah Kim.
  

• Is it Important for Jews to Visit Germany? ...
  A Jewish-German Dialogue
  Tues. 3/4, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb
  Travel to Germany continues to present a dilemma for many American Jews. This Center for German and European Studies Forum explores perceptions and experiences.
  
  
• Crown Center Brown Bag Lunch Seminar - The Middle East: Is Secular Nationalism in Decline?
  Wed. 3/5, 12:15 - 1:45 p.m., Heller-Brown 163
  Join the Crown Center for a lunch seminar led by Professor and Senior Fellow Asher Susser.
  
  
• Re-imagining Tokyo: "Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction"
  Thur. 3/6, 4:00 p.m., Shiffman 216
  Part of the Japanese Spring Colloquium Series, Professor Eve Zimmerman (Wellesley College, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures) discusses her recent book.
  
  
• The Challenge of Global Health
  Thur. 3/6, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m., Shapiro Atrium
  This faculty-student dialogue discusses the factors leading to disparities in healthcare worldwide. Hosted by the Foundation for the International Medical Relief of Children and the Brandeis Pluralism Alliance.
  
  
• The Sexuality of History
  Thur. 3/6, 5:00 - 6:15 p.m., Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb
  This annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture features Professor Susan Lanser's exploration of the impact of female relations on social structures and beliefs early modern Europe.
  
  
• SID Friday Speaker Series: Didier Jacobs
  Fri. 3/7, 12:15 - 1:45 p.m., Heller G3
  Mr. Jacobs is an expert on global democracy and public policy. He will speak about his new book, Global Democracy: The Struggle for Political and Civil Rights in the 21st Century.
  
  
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Global News

• A Spring Journey to China
  In March, Brandeis hosts Chinese instrumentalists Jiebing Chen and Yangqin Zhao in the MusicUnitesUS World Music Series, as well as in The Brandeis Theater Company's original adaptation of The Orphan of Zhao.
  
  On March 29th, MusicUnitesUS also presents a photography exhibit series on the travels of study abroad students in China.
  
  MusicUnitesUS and the Lydian String Quartet were recently covered by the Daily News Tribune.
  
  
• Revisiting the 1960s in Germany, Europe and the U.S.
  The Center for German and European Studies will host a March symposium in the hopes of demystifying the 1960s and to help assess the successes and failures of the revolutionary movements on both sides of the Atlantic.
  
  
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