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Vickery

Mutton Dressed as Lamb: Dressing for Middle Age in Georgian England 

 

Lecture by Amand Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London.  

 

 

10/19 | 4:00 pm | Olin-Sang 207        

 

Vanderveen

Double Vision: Opposition and Inversion in Taino Representational Art 

 

Lecture by Jay VanderVeen, Assistant Professor, Indiana University South Bend.  The Taino, the indigenous population of the Dominican Republic, made pottery that symbolized several ideas at one time, depending on the viewer's perspective. They combined representations of life and death, earth and sea, and male and female in one ceramic vessel or stone figure. Yet it is the interplay between the oppositions that seemed to be important to them. 

 

10/21 | 4:00 - 5:00 pm | Brown 316       

 

Peacebuilding

Peacebuilding and the Arts Weekend Intensive - Community Cultural Development 

 

This event is designed for organizers, artists, cultural workers, students, educators and policy-makers in the fields of peacebuilding, the arts, and sustainable community, youth, women's, and economic development.  The program opens on Friday evening with a multi-media presentation by Jane Sapp, a cultural organizer and musician based in Atlanta, Georgia, which is free and open to the public.  

 

Open Presentation: 10/21 | 7:00 - 9:30 pm | Slosberg Recital Hall        

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Biotech, Healthcare & Science Forum 

10/18 | 6:00 - 9:00 pm | Sherman Function Hall       

 

Explore careers in science and health-related organizations through direct exposure and discussions with current professionals in related fields.  The forum will feature an expert panel presentation followed by round table networking sessions for students, alumni, and employer guests.

 

 

BAASA The Jubilee Project 

10/21 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm | Olin-Sang       

  

Jubilee Project will show a few shorts, debut their 30 minute featurette about college life and speak about important issues affecting us today, how to tackle them, and share a little bit how being Asian American has influenced their lives and talk about their own college experiences.

    

 

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Blog Stories and Profiles

babi yarReflections on a Mass Murder: Seventy Years after Babi Yar 

 

In the first half of the symposium, the speakers dealt with the event by examining it through the lenses of the current level of knowledge about what happened prior to and during the main massacre, as well as how it was discussed in Yiddish press in the following years and decades.  

 

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Brandeis-India Reception celebrates India Initiative Fellows 

 

Students and faculty gathered in the Mandel Center for the Humanities last Monday evening, enjoying a delicious Indian buffet and catching up with friends and colleagues while Brandeis-India Initiative Fellows shared stories from their summers abroad in India.

van burenGlobal Brandeis Profile: Sarah Van Buren '13 

 

"[My three] passports are kind of a metaphor for me: every single place I go, every single person I meet, they put like a stamp on me, and it imprints and develops how I am."

 

 

 

   

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NEWS HEADLINES
Bringing business savvy to health care

It was while serving as assistant to the head of a New Orleans community health clinic that IBS alum Muhammad Bagana realized that if he wanted to help change international health care, he would need to learn more about management and how businesses operate.

German dynamo powers innovative energy course 

    

Barbknecht's on-campus talk and guest lecture last year stimulated so much interest that he offered to teach a three-week seminar this fall revolving around international gas markets and related issues of energy and sustainability.

Fighting for immigrant rights 

    

On Sept. 26, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education approved a policy change allowing illegal immigrants access to in-state tuition if they have attended high school within the state for at least three years.

 

 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

HBI Scholar-in-Residence Alumna Ruth Ellen Gruber Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of Poland

The award, presented by President Bronislaw Komorowski, is presented each year to a foreigner for outstanding service to the Polish nation. Ruth has been involved in documenting the history of the Polish people for more than 30 years.
DEADLINES
10/28: Giddon Grant for Research on Women and Health
11/1: Sorensen Fellowship 2012 Application
11/2: Jane's Travel Grant (Winter/Spring)
11/4: Ethics Center Cosponsorship

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