Education and Development --
Starting Up a Development Foundation in Indonesia
10/26 | 12:15 p.m.
Heller 163
Heller SID alum, Jiway Tung '05, shares his experience founding The Learning Farm, an organic farm providing training in life skills to disadvantaged youth in Indonesia.
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New England-Israel Life Sciences Summit
10/27 | 8:30 - 5:00 p.m.
IBS
The Summit features 15 Israeli
life sciences companies that offer cutting edge technologies in areas
such as pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, medical devices and
healthcare IT.
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20 Years after the Fall of the Wall:
Revealing the Truth -
Concert and Conversation with
Wolf Biermann and Marianne Birthler
10/27 | 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Shapiro Center Atrium
Marianne Birthler heads the government office that manages the archives of the former East German secret police. Wolf Biermann, singer and song writer, was the most radical critic
of the party dictatorship of the GDR. He has won every major German literary prize.
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Blasphemy, Censorship, and Scholarship: 'The Cartoons That Shook the World' and Also Shook Academe
10/27 | 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
International Lounge, Usdan Student Center
A discussion of Professor Jytte Klausen's investigation of rioting in
the Muslim world protesting publication in the West of editorial
cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and of Yale University Press'
subsequent censorship of images from the book.
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Global Affairs Table: Liberia
10/28 | 12:45 p.m.
Alumni Lounge, Usdan Student Center
As a follow-up to the film Pray the Devil Back
to Hell this discussion will address issues of democratization and
development in Liberia since the end of the civil war and the advent of
the Johnson-Sirleaf Government.
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| Lectures & Panels by Region/Department |
The Reaper's Garden: Social Death and Political Life in the History of Slavery
10/27 | 4:00 p.m.
Olin Sang 207
The History Department presents Vincent Brown, Professor of American History at Harvard University.
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Anthropology Colloquium Series: Yoram Bilu
10/29 | 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Lown 301
Visiting Schusterman scholar Yoram Bilu speaks on "Making the Absent Rabbi Present: Iconophilia and Apparitions in Messianic Habad."
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Sociology Colloquium Series: Douglas Hartmann - "Public Sociology, From the Editor's Desk"
10/29 | 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Pearlman 113
Douglas Hartmann is Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.
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Jewish Colloquium Series: "The
Family Romance of Yiddish Literature: Business and Pleasure in the
Early Correspondence between Sholem Aleichem and Mendele the Book
Peddler"
10/29 | 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Lown 315
Olga Litwak of Clark University will briefly review her work, followed by a question and answer session.
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Creative Empowerment of Marginalized Youth in Refugee Camps: Experiences and Lessons from the West Bank
10/26 | 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Harvard University
Barker Center, Room 133
A presentation on art as intervention in refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Film Screening: A Walk to Beautiful
10/28 | 7:00 p.m.
MIT Campus Room 6-120
The inspiring stories of five Ethiopian women who journey to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in search of a cure for ostracizing childbirth injuries.
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Obama and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Interim Report Card
10/21 | 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
MIT, E46-496
A presentation on Israeli and Palestinian perspective on current state of affairs.
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Burmese Monks Speak Out
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Three Burmese monks who participated in the 2007 Burmese Saffron Revolution addressed the Brandeis community on Wednesday night to discuss the lack of civil rights and democracy in Burma.
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Global Affairs Symposium
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The Office of Global Affairs is pleased to announce a second Global Brandeis Symposium entitled "New Knowledge Spaces and Places" on Nov. 2 and 3. Dr. Kris Olds, Professor of Geography,
University of Wisconsin-Madison is the featured guest speaker. Please RSVP to oga@brandeis.edu.
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| Brandeis in the World |
Jacob Bockelmann '09, blogs about his travels through Southeast Asia and his experience with Typhoon Ketsana in Vietnam.
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Marci McPhee, Associate Director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis, is on leave from Brandeis volunteering as an English teacher in the Marshall Islands.
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Study Abroad Information Session: University of Sydney, Australia
10/26 | 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Usdan 122
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Study Abroad Information Session: CIEE Dominican Republic Service Learning Program
10/27 | 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Usdan 122
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Study Abroad Information Session: Israel Focus
10/29 | 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Usdan 122
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Jane's Travel Grant for Latin American Studies Application Deadline
11/2 by 9 a.m.
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Sorensen Application Due
11/2 by 5 p.m.
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International Dissertation Research Fellowship Deadline
11/3
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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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Clinton Global Initiative University - Early Decision Deadline
11/20
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