Comparative Histories

• Tomboy
  Tues. 3/18, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Epstein WSRC Lecture Hall
  Marjorie Attignol Salvodon and Jehanne-Marie Gavarini read from their translation of Nina Bouraoui's novel about a girl who feels that Algeria is a country of men.
  
  
• Revisiting the 1960s in Germany, Europe, and the U.S.
  Tues. 3/18, 2:30 - 5 p.m., Goldfarb Rapaporte Treasure Hall
  This symposium will assess the successes and failures of the 1960s movements from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective in a conversation with revolutionary politician/publicist Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
  
  
  
• Artist and Anti-Semite: Dostoevsky's Provocation
  Tues. 3/18, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m., Shiffman 219
  The Martin Weiner Lecture Series presents Susan McReynolds Oddo, Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Northwestern University.
  
  
• Opening Reception: A Thousand and One Inventions
  Tues. 3/18, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., Kniznick Gallery, Epstein
  This exhibit expands on the themes in Lynne Avadenka's book, which imagines a conversation between Queen Esther, the heroine of Purim, and Scheherazade, the teller of a thousand and one tales.
  
  
• Harambee for Peace in Kenya
  Wed. 3/19, 5:30 - 9:00 p.m., Heller Zinner Forum and G4
  A $10 fundraiser dinner and performance in support of the Internally Displaced People of Kenya. All donations will go to support the work of the Red Cross.
  

• IBS CEO Forum
  Mon. 3/17, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Lemberg Lee Lecture Hall
  Speaker: Eddie Chernoff '73, President, Motors & Armatures, Incorporated
  
  
• Whither the Liquidity Effect
  Tues. 3/18, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m., IBS Alumni Common Room
  Ruth Judson (Board of Governors, DC) speaks on the impact of Federal Reserve open market operations in recent years.
  

• The Intellectual and Competitive Evolution of the Strategy Consulting Field
  Wed. 3/19, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m., Lemberg Academic Center
  Speaker: John Clarkeson, Chairman Emeritus, Boston Consulting Group
  

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Global News

• Visitors from Copenhagen
  On March 13, forty students and three professors from the University of Copenhagen paid a visit to Professor Jytte Klausen's class on Islam in the West (POL 145). The Danish students came to hear Professor Klausen speak about the Danish cartoons that set off world-wide Muslim protests two years ago, and recently had an unexpected sequel when Danish newspapers reprinted one of the cartoons in reaction to the revelation of a murder plot against one of the cartoonists. Twenty Brandeis students attended the class. They and the visitors debated for three hours the balance between free speech and religious toleration, and why many Muslims found the cartoons offensive.
  
  
• On the Horizon: Nobel Peace Prize winners Shirin Ebadi and Jody Williams to visit Brandeis; Schusterman Center for Israel Studies to hold inaugural conference marking the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel; IBS to hold Annual Forum on Business, Ethics and Society; New adaptation of "The Orphan of Zhao" dramatizes traditional Chinese story of hope and survival
  
  
• The National Center for Jewish Film announces Jewishfilm.2008
  
  
• Millennium Campus Conference to take place at MIT in April
  
  
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