Working Through a Nazi Childhood
10/12 | 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Faculty Club Lounge
Ursula Mahlendorf will discuss her latest work, "The Shame of Survival: Working through a Nazi Childhood." RSVP to cgees@brandeis.edu
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Middle East Politics: Present and Future
10/14 | 8:30 - 2:15 p.m.
Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Learn about regional
conflicts in the Middle East with
internationally renowned analysts and scholars from Brandeis, the
region and around the world.
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Report from Guantanamo: Has President Obama Really Redefined the War on Terror?
10/14 | 12:15 - 2:00 p.m.
Heller School
Leonard Goodman will draw on his experiences representing a Guantanamo Bay detainee to
discuss the Obama Administration's anti-terrorism policies.
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Lecture Series on Israeli Society: Alex Weingrod
10/14 | 5:10 - 6:30 p.m.
International Lounge, Usdan
The first of a three-part lecture series on "Re-Viewing the Nation: Memory, Membership, and Ethnicity." Anthropologist Alex Weingrod speaks on "Bones, Burials and Forming the Nation."
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Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North - Film and Discussion with the Filmmaker
10/14 | 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Lown 315
Katrina Browne discovers her
New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S.
history. She and nine fellow descendants set off to retrace the
Triangle Trade.
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Film Screening of "Exil Shanghai" by German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger
10/14 | 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Wasserman Cinematheque
With fascinating details and rich with dry humor, the film tells
the life stories of six German, Austrian and Russian Jews whose lives
intersect in exile in Shanghai.
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Deputy Prime Minister of Israel Dan Meridor
10/15 | 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Dan Meridor is the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence
and Atomic Energy.
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Music by Women of the Americas from Three Centuries: A CD Release Celebration
10/16 | 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall
Composers Ruth Lomon and Beth Denisch join musicologist Liane Curtis in discussing their works included on this new CD, recorded by the Lydian String Quartet of Brandeis University.
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Economic Outlook: Policies and Prospects
10/16 | 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Lee Lecture Hall, Lemberg Academic Center
The Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance at IBS hosts this timely look at the global economic crisis with leading economists.
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The Heller School's 50th Anniversary
10/16 - 10/18
Heller
The entire Brandeis community is invited to join faculty, staff,
students and alumni of The Heller School for Social Policy and
Management as it celebrates its 50th Anniversary.
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Filmed by Yitzhak
10/18 | 7:00 p.m.
Wasserman
A special screening in commemoration of the 14th Anniversary of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.
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| Lectures & Panels by Region/Department |
Meet the Majors
10/15 | 5:00 p.m.
Lown 315
Meet the majors of NEJS, Hebrew, Arabic, IMES, and Yiddish language and culture.
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Bio-food, Bio-fuels and Bio-fiber: Can the Earth provide them all?
10/14 | 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Tufts University
Behrakis Auditorium, Jaharis Family Center for Biomedical and Nutrition Sciences
A talk by William Moomaw, Director Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at The Fletcher School.
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The Obama Administration's Global Development Policy: Enhancing
Coherence and Effectiveness
10/14 | 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Weil Town Hall
Belfer L-1 at the Harvard Kennedy School
A panel will discuss the potential for policy change stemming from Obama's Presidential Study Directive, which authorized a government-wide review of U.S. global
development policy.
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Darfur/Darfur: The Crisis, The Exhibit
10/15 | 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
MIT Stata Center, MIT Bldg 32, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge
DARFUR/DARFUR is a traveling exhibit of digitally-projected images that provide visual education about
the richly multi-cultural region while exposing the horrors of the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
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Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Meridor to visit Brandeis
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On Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel Dan Meridor will speak in Rapaporte Treasure Hall (see event listing, left). Also Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy, Meridor has served in the Israel Knesset as a member of the Likud Party since 1982, with a six-year hiatus as co-founder of the Center Party.
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Wangh Lab collaborating on $2.2m Smiths Detection grant for flu pandemic testing
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| Prof. Larry Wangh (Biology) has worked for years with the U.K.-based Smiths Detection on technology to analyze multiple flu strains at point-of-care. Read More.
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Měi guó: beautiful country
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| International Business Student Leo Marcus affirms his patriotism. Read More.
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Peace Corps Information Table
10/15 | 10:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Usdan Lobby
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Peace Corps Information Session
10/15 | 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Hiatt Career Center
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Summer Internship Proposal Writing Workshop
10/15 | 5:15 - 6:15 p.m.
Levine Ross, Hassenfeld Conference Center
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Sorenson Application Due
11/2 by 5 p.m.
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Study Abroad Notification Deadline
11/6 by noon
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Teach for India Second Deadline
11/22
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NSEP Boren Undergraduate Scholarship - Internal Campus Deadline
12/11
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External Funding and Opportunities
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Clinton Global Initiative University - Early Decision Deadline
11/20
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Global Health and Social Entrepreneurship Idea Incubator Workshop - New Haven, CT
11/6 - apply now
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