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Healing the world. The annual Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts comes to Brandeis on Wednesday, featuring artists and art from around the world. Click the link for a full schedule.
Obama's 100 Days and foreign policy
Apr. 19, 7:30 p.m.
Hassenfeld Conference Center
Join a dialogue on President Obama's first 100 days in office with
experts on foreign policy, economics, and health care. Featuring Charles Dunbar, former Ambassador to Qatar and Yemen, and others.
Earth Week 2009:
Fostering Social Change Through Film: Women's Narratives on Environment, Social Justice & the Arts
Apr. 21, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Women's Studies Research Center
Explore the power and promise of women making movies and building
communities in this conversation highlighted by film, with award-winning
filmmaker Judith Helfand.
Earth Week 2009
Cooked: Blueprint for Disaster or Transformation?
Apr. 21, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Golding Auditorium
Judith Helfand screens and discusses her
documentary-in-progress, about heat, life, death, green jobs
and the politics of crisis in an American city.
Holocaust Remembrance Day: Yom Hashoa
Apr. 21, 7:30 p.m.
Usdan International Lounge
Yehuda Bauer, a pioneer in the field of Holocaust studies, will speak
on "Holocaust and Genocide: A Historian's Viewpoint".
The program will
be streamed live on the Brandeis website. Music at Noon with the Lydian String Quartet
Apr. 22, 12:00 p.m.
Rose Art Museum
Program of Beethoven Quartets. Free and open to the public.
Crown Center Brown Bag Seminar:
Change we can believe in? The June Presidential Elections in Iran
Apr. 22, 12:15 - 1:45 p.m.
Heller 163
This talk by Crown Center Assistant Director of Research Naghmeh Sohrabi places the upcoming elections in the context of the electoral
history in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Spring into Activism on Earth Day
Apr. 22, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Great Lawn (rain location: Castle Commons)
Students for Environmental Action (SEA), Positive Foundations, and many other activist clubs on campus come together for an activism fair and an afternoon of campus clean-up.
Male Wives and Female Husbands: Reconfiguring Gender within the Tablighi Jama'at in The Gambia
Apr. 22, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
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Marloes Janson,Visiting DAAD Scholar and Lecturer in Anthropology
and the Center for German and European Studies, delivers the
8th Annual Saler Lecture in Religious Studies.
Martin Weiner Lecture: Takayuki Tatsumi
Apr. 22, 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Olin-Sang 124
Prof. Tatsumi is the foremost Americanist in Japan and a leading
authority on Japanese science fiction.
WSRC Salon of the Arts 2009: Cairns
Apr. 23, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Epstein Kniznick Gallery
Cairns have a rich and diverse history as monuments or astronomical or
supernatural constructions. The work exhibited here explores this ancient concept literally and conceptually.
Connecting the Personal and the Sociological: Reflections on the '7-UP' Documentary Film Series
Apr. 23, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Intercultural Center Multipurpose Room
The Department of Sociology presents Professor Barrie Thorne, Brandeis
Sociology Ph.D '71, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, UC
Berkeley.
"A Love Surpassing Women: The Homme-eroticism of Torah Study"
Apr. 26, 7:30 p.m.
Goldfarb Library Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Keynote lecture of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Roundtable on Gender
and Jewish Thought. HBI presents Daniel Boyarin, Taubman Professor of
Talmudic Culture in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and
Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.
RSVPs are encouraged: hbi@brandeis.edu with names and number of
guests.
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GLOBAL NEWS >view all news
Partnerships for change. The first joint academic conference of the Brandeis University/Al-Quds University Partnership takes place on the Al-Quds campus (above) in Abu Dis, East Jerusalem, on May 3.
Announcing the conference "Women, Leadership, State, and Society"
On May 3, Al-Quds University will host an international conference that explores the role of women in government and civil society; plenary speakers include Brandeis University's Anita Hill and Mari Fitzduff. Please click the link above for a full conference schedule.
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GLOBAL CAREERS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL EVENTS
CEO Forum: Robert Goodoff, Vice President, Loomis Sayles
Apr. 20, 6:30 p.m., Sachar International Hall
CEO Forum: Andy Teich, President, Commercial Vision Systems within FLIR
Apr. 21, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., Sachar International Hall
Brown Bag Seminar: Preeta Banerjee
Apr. 22, 12:00 p.m., Lemberg Alumni Common Room
CEO Forum: Richard E. Goldman, Author and former Executive Vice President of Men's Wearhouse
Apr. 22, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., Lemberg Lee Lecture Hall |
OPPORTUNITIES & RESOURCES Undergraduate Admissions Seeks International Ambassadors
Help new international undergraduates connect with Brandeis before they arrive. Contact: Katy
West, kwest@brandeis.edu
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WORKSHOPS & INFOConquering the First Year of Law School
4/21, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Hiatt Conference Room, Usdan
Fulbright Info Session
4/21, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Student Financial Services Conference Room, Usdan
Nuts & Bolts of a Law School Application
4/22, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
International Lounge, Usdan
Earning Credit for Your Summer Internship
4/22, 3:30 - 4:15 p.m.
Hiatt Conference Room, Usdan
Workshop: Refining your interviewing skills(signup required)
4/23, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Lemberg Alumni Common Room
Applying to Graduate School
4/23, 3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Hiatt Career Center, Usdan
Workshop: Answering those difficult interview questions(signup required)
4/30, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Lemberg Alumni Common Room
DEADLINES
Deadline 4/17
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Study and Work Abroad
Internships at Brandeis
International Students & Scholars Office
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Environmental Studies: EARTHNOTES
Internships
CALENDARS
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BLOGS, WIKIS, & NEWSLETTERS
Global Studies Working Group
Gender and International Development initiatives (GAIDI)
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