GLOBAL CAREER CORNER >view all study and work abroad resources
Above: Liana Langdon-Embry '11 interns in Venezuela on a Louis D. Brandeis Legacy Fund for Social Justice Award.
Over the next few months, we're pleased to be partnering with the Hiatt Career Center on a Global Career Corner, intended to promote and disseminate information on opportunities for the summer and beyond. Look for future posts this spring on the right-hand side bar.
Funding for Summer Internships from the Hiatt World-of-Work (WOW) Program
Deadline March 13, 2009; notification April 1, 2009; 55-60 awards available
Get hands-on experience and explore your passions in the summer internship of your choice with funding from the Hiatt WOW program. Programs include the Universal WOW, the Louis D. Brandeis Legacy Fund for Social Justice, and the Judith Cossin Berkman '59 Endowed Internship Fund for social work internships. First year students, sophomores, and juniors are eligible to apply.
NACE 2009 International Virtual Career Fair
Open through June 1
Search online for jobs with employers interested in hiring international students. If you're an international student at Brandeis, follow link for eligibility guidelines and to register.
Social justice on wheels
Liana Langdon-Embry '11 finds global and local connections in Venezuela.
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GLOBAL EVENTS >view all global events
Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet
Mon. 2/9, 3:30 p.m.
Lown 315
Author Nili Scharf Gold (Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania) will be talking about her book, "Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel's National Poet".
Symposium, The Artist and the Architect: Hofmann and Sert
Mon. 2/9, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Rose Art Museum
In 1950, at the invitation of gallerist Samuel Kootz for the exhibition "The Muralist and the Modern Architect," Hans Hofmann created nine painting studies for a series of murals for the rebuilding of the city of Chimbote in Peru.
Brown Bag Seminar: Can Erbil and Elif Sisli Ciamarra
Wed. 2/11, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Lemberg Academic Center, Alumni Common Room
Follow above link for more information on this and other International Business School events.
Darwin's Doubles: Evolution, Art, and the Politics of Representation
Thurs. 2/12, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (time to be confirmed. Please contact mbol@brandeis.edu)
Rose Art Museum
An interdisciplinary roundtable in honor of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin. Works under discussion range from novels and works of "high art" to zombie flicks and video games.
 Fighting AIDS in Africa: Public Health vs. Human Rights, Keynote Address
Thurs. 2/12, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Usdan International Lounge
Once exiled from his native South Africa, Dr. Brian Williams has worked
in Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa. In this address, he explores how policymakers, donors, scientists, and service providers might
work together more effectively to prevent and treat disease.
Follow above link for more information on other events in this series, starting Feb. 11th.
Justice and Evil: A Holocaust Dilemma
Thurs. 2/12, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Lown 315
Part of the
Jewish Studies Colloquium sponsored by The Tauber Institute for the
Study of European Jewry and The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic
Studies. Professor Berel Lang of Wesleyan University presents.
Siddhartha: A Jungian Fantasy in Three Movements with Prelude
Playing Feb. 5 - Feb. 15.
Laurie Theater, Spingold Theater Center
The Brandeis Theater Company production of "Siddartha" continues this week, exploring Hermann Hesse's story of young Siddhartha's journey into manhood and
enlightenment. Follow the link above for date, time, and ticket information.
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GLOBAL NEWS >view all news
Brandeis students honor rabbi, extend ties to India (Boston Globe)
Revive Mumbai, a student group formed in the aftermath of the November 2008 attacks, looks to form a scholarship for social justice.
2009 Ethics Center Student Fellows named
Six students have been selected to participate in independent summer
internships abroad, addressing issues of peacebuilding and social
justice. Destinations include Yemen, Jamaica, Lesotho, Peru, New
Mexico, and Rwanda.
"Hitting Close to Home: Art and Human Rights from Slavery to Guantanamo" (video)
Michael Ratner '66, president of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights
(CCR), speaks at the Feb. 2-3 symposium.
Student News: Getting to know the Intercultural Center
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