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12/6: Study Abroad Funding Workshop
11:00 - 12:00 pm, International Lounge, Usdan
Mandatory for all students applying to study abroad in Fall 2012/Spring 2013 with financial aid
12/6: Study Abroad Info Session
4:00 - 5:00 pm, International Lounge, Usdan
Mandatory for all students applying to study abroad in Fall 2012/Spring 2013
12/6: Chamber Music Recital
7:00 - 8:00 pm, Slosberg Recital Hall
Students of MUS116 - Chamber Music Ensemble - perform in the culminating performance of the semester. Directed by Judith Eissenberg.
11:00 - 12:30 pm, Alumni Lounge, Usdan
Join the students in the Immigration Support Services Practicum, taught by Marci McPhee, as they share their learnings from a semester of working with organizations in Waltham supporting immigrants.
12/7: Anthropology Fieldwork Presentation
12:00 - 1:00 pm, Brown 224
Anthropology graduate student Xingyi Wang will present on her fieldwork about grassroots and civil society in Puli, Taiwan. MaryCate Brower '10, an anthropology master's student and recipient of a Jane's Travel grant, will speak on her summer research project: "Capoeira, Gender, and Community Empowerment: A Pilot Study" (Brazil).
12/7: When we were partners': Aspects of Israel-Iran relations during the 1948-68 period
12:15 - 1:45 pm, Shapiro Campus Center 313
Professor Uri Bialer, Maurice B. Hexter Chair in International Relations - Middle Eastern Studies at the Department of International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Visiting Professor at Brandeis University, presents in this Crown Center Brown Bag Lunch.
12/7: Close Looking: "Della trasportatione dell'obelisco vaticano et delle fabriche di Nostro Signore papa Sisto V"
3:30 - 5:00 pm, Rapaporte Treasure Hall
From the Bern Dibner Collection in the History of Science, this piece from 1590 will be discussed in depth by Charles McClendon of the Fine Arts and Mary Baine Campbell of English, Comparative Literature, and WGS.
12/8: Movie Screening: Paris, Je t'aime
8:00 pm, Mandel G12
Made by a team of contributors as cosmopolitan as the city itself, this portrait of the city is as diverse as its creators' backgrounds and nationalities. With each director telling the story of an unusual encounter in one of the city's neighborhoods, the vignettes go beyod the 'postcard' view of Paris to portray aspects of the city rarely seen on the big screen.
12/8: Movie Night: Der Untergang (Downfall)
8:15 pm, Mandel Center G03
Join the Center for German and European Studies and watch the movie "Downfall," about Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, who tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
12/11: Power to the Pious
3:00 - 3:50 pm, Slosberg Recital Hall
The voices and instruments of the Brandeis Early Music Ensemble perform music from the homes and chapels where the reformation flourished in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and England.
12/11: Music and Dance of Ghana
7:00 pm, Slosberg Recital Hall
Join the Fall 2011 87A class as they perform dance and music from Ghana. An experiential learning course incorporating musicality, performance, learning, and multi-culturalism, the course is truly unique and the performance is not to be missed.
Events of the Month
December 2011
12/13: Voices in Solidarity: Six Friends Reaching for Healing Across the World
12:00 - 1:30 pm, Alumni Lounge, Usdan
12/13: The Argument - A Fiction Reading
12:30 - 2:00 pm, Epstein Lecture Hall
12/13: Annual Messiah Sing
4:00 - 5:00 pm, Shapiro Campus Center Atrium
Yearly Event Highlights
11/2: Sorabjee Lecture in South Asian Studies: Jyoti Puri
Drawing upon fieldwork among police in New Delhi, this presentation explores the enforcement of sodomy law, or Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. It analyzes the discourses through which Delhi police name some groups as consistently queer and criminal even while allowing for the possibility of the decriminalization of homosexuality.
12/1 - 12/2: Just Performance: Enacting Justice in the Wake of Violence
This two-day symposium will explore the performative dimensions of justice-seeking in the aftermath of violence, with a focus on Cambodia, Peru and the United States. Keynote by Dr. Salomón Lerner Febres, President of Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2001-2003).
Master performers virtuosically reunite two historically kindred stringed instruments through the common language of raga and tala. Artists include Homayun Sakhi, Afghan rubâb; Ken Zuckerman, sarod; Salar Nader, tabla.
3/19: Soli Sorabjee Lecture in South Asian Studies: Bina Agarwal
Agarwal is a prize-winning feminist economist who studies gender, development, and agriculture in India and throughout South Asia. She writes about changing the framework of traditional economics to include women and implicit power relationships in decision making found in patriarchical societies.
Spring 2012: Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts
The Festival of the Creative Arts at Brandeis was founded in 1952 by the brilliant composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Each spring, the Brandeis campus blooms in a celebration of creativity and community, with work by national and regional artists as well as Brandeis faculty and students.