Past Events
Previous major events initiated by the Center include:
10 Years of Innovative Approaches to Global Coexistence and Justice
Acting Together on the World Stage
Pieces of the Coexistence Puzzle
9/11 – Reflections Five Years Later
For round-ups of other past events, see our News section or use the "Search" function above to search for a specific event or topic.
Cosponsorship guidelines
For information about Ethics Center cosponsorship of your campus event, click here.
Upcoming Events
* = Event coordinated by the Ethics Center
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| kayla dinces, sorensen fellow 2010, in india |
Thursday, September 16, 2010 (this is one of two info sessions - see September 21)
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Location: International Lounge, Usdan Student Center
Given the chance, how would you change the world? Here's your opportunity to work for coexistence, peace, social justice, gender rights...the list goes on. Come learn about the following internship funding opportunities for summer 2011:
Sorensen Fellowship
Davis Projects for Peace
Eli Segal Citizen Leadership Fellowship
Louis D. Brandeis Social Justice WOW Fellowship
Hiatt Career Center World of Work (WOW) Fellowships
Rapaporte Foundation Internship Grants
All are welcome! For more information, contact ethics@brandeis.edu.
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| Marci Mcphee in the marshall islanDS |
*Go Far, Stay Long, Look Deep: Reflections on a Year in the Marshall Islands
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Location: International Lounge, Usdan Student Center
What’s it like working as an American volunteer in a developing Pacific nation? What challenges and dilemmas did they face?
Panelists: WorldTeach volunteers 2009-10
Marci McPhee (Associate Director, Ethics Center), Elayna Tekle, Liz Wellen
Moderator: Helen Claire Sievers, Executive Director of WorldTeach
Open to all. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact ethics@brandeis.edu.
Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times, Paul LoebThursday, September 16, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Shapiro Campus Center Theater; reception to follow in Shapiro Multipurpose Room, second floor
How do we keep working for change in tough political and economic times, and overcome the political demoralization and frustration that so many people are feeling? Paul Loeb, author of the bestselling books on citizen involvement, Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times and The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, will explore how ordinary citizens can make their voices heard and actions count in a time when we're told neither matter. He'll talk about how people get involved in larger community issues and what stops them from getting involved; how they burn out in exhaustion or maintain their commitment for the long haul; and what we can learn from the citizen movements of the past.
This event is organized by the Experiential Learning Program and is part of the Social Justice Leadership Series. It is cosponsored by the Department of Community Service, Office of the Dean of Arts and Scienes, Office of Graduate Student Affairs, Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies, and the Social Justice and Social Policy Program. For more information email Audra Grady.
Guberman Lecture: Dr. Philip Reilly, Bioethicist and Geneticist
Monday, September 20, 2010
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: TBA
Dr. Philip Reilly is the director of clinical genetics and former chairman of the board and CEO of Interleukin Genetics. He has board certification in internal medicine and clinical genetics and is also a member of the Massachusetts Bar. Reilly has held teaching positions at Tufts University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Brandeis University . Twice the president of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Reilly has served on the board of directors of the American Society for Human Genetics. He is a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics and the author of six books, and frequently speaks about genetics, the future of medicine, and bioethics. He holds an A.B. from Cornell, a J.D. from Columbia, and an M.D. from Yale.
This event is part of the Social Justice Leadership Series. For more information, contact Claire Pavlik Purgus.
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| kayla dinces, sorensen fellow 2010, in india |
*Summer Internship Funding Session
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 (this is one of two info sessions - see September 16)
Time: 5:00-6:00 pm
Location: Abraham Shapiro Academic Complex (ASAC) Atrium, across loop road from Heller School
Given the chance, how would you change the world? Here's your opportunity to work for coexistence, peace, social justice, gender rights...the list goes on. Come learn about the following internship funding opportunities for summer 2011:
Sorensen Fellowship
Davis Projects for Peace
Eli Segal Citizen Leadership Fellowship
Louis D. Brandeis Social Justice WOW Fellowship
Hiatt Career Center World of Work (WOW) Fellowships
Rapaporte Foundation Internship Grants
All are welcome! For more information, contact ethics@brandeis.edu.
*Acting Together on the World Stage - launch of documentaryThursday, September 23, 2010
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Location: La MaMa, ETC, New York
The documentary film, Acting Together on the World Stage: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, a collaboration between the Center's Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts and Theatre Without Borders, will be launched at the beginning of a conference on Theatre and Peacebuilding in Conflict Zones, presented by La MaMa ETC in New York City. The documentary was created by Cynthia Cohen with filmmaker Allison Lund. It features the stories and performances of courageous and creative theatre artists and peacebuilders working to resist violence, build bridges across differences, and support reconciliation in conflict regions around the world.
Click here to see a trailer of the documentary and link to the conference website. To reserve a place at the launch and/or the conference, email conference@theatrewithoutborders.com. For further information, click here.
*Sorensen Fellowship: We give you $4000, You change the worldPreliminary Internship Proposal Due (optional, but strongly recommended)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Time: by midnight
Conserve the rainforest. Help fight AIDS. Spread literacy. Teach art to orphans. Given the chance, how would you change the world? Sophomores and juniors can apply to be a Sorensen Fellow and spend next summer working on issues that matter to you in the international organization of your choice.
Although not required, submitting a Preliminary Internship Proposal for review is strongly recommended so you can get useful feedback on your ideas. For more information, view the Sorensen Fellowship application materials.
Muslims and Jews in France: identities across ethnic and historical boundaries
Monday, October 11, 2010
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
Location: TBA
Dr. Hannah Taïeb, Resident Director for the CIEE Paris Center for Critical Studies-Contemporary French Studies, will lead a workshop as an extension of FREN 147a, Jewish Identities in France since 1945. Taïeb's research focuses on women and identity, and her fieldwork has been based in a rural center in Morocco. She settled in France in 1992, where she co-edited the multilingual, multidisciplinary review, Mediterraneans. At the CIEE she runs yearly seminars on religious diversity in France and teaches a class on cultural métissage, or mixing in popular culture.
All are welcome to attend. This event is hosted by Edward K. Kaplan, Kevy and Hortense Kaiserman Professor in the Humanities in the department of Romance Studies. For more information, please contact Ellen Rounseville.
*Proposal Writing Workshop
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Time: 5:15-6:15 pm
Location: Levine Ross, Hassenfeld Conference Center (upper Sherman)
Applying for a fellowship? Need help writing your proposal? This workshop will offer specific suggestions about how best to present your ideas and write in a compelling way. The workshop is particularly aimed at those who have submitted a Sorensen Fellowship Preliminary Internship Proposal (see above), but all are welcome.
For more information, contact ethics@brandeis.edu.
Anna Badkhen, war-zone correspondent and author of Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library
Badkhen will describe the intimate but fleeting friendships (and ordinary pleasures) that carried her through danger, deprivation, and the strange experience of bearing public witness to extreme forms of suffering. While her book focuses on food and those with whom she shared intimate meals with, its spotlight is on the goodness of ordinary people celebrating the joys of life while in the midst of disaster and death.
Badkhen now lives in Massachusetts. Her reporting has appeared in The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, Frontline/World, and other publications.
This event is part of the SoJust Leadership Series. For more information, contact Claire Pavlik Purgus.
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| hannah janoowalla, 2008 fellow |
Final Application Due
Monday, November 1, 2010
Time: by 5:00 pm
Conserve the rainforest. Help fight AIDS. Spread literacy. Teach art to orphans. Given the chance, how would you change the world? Sophomores and juniors can apply to be a Sorensen Fellow and spend next summer working on issues that matter to you in the international organization of your choice.
Visit the Sorensen Fellowship application materials.