Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rw8mw
This BBC radio program explores the legacy of Abraham Maslow, the founding chair of the Psychology Department at Brandeis. The BBC series MindChangers premiered Friday, April 17, with this program on Maslow. At Brandeis from 1951-1969, Maslow studied the fulfillment of human potential and introduced the idea of a Heirarchy of Needs, which he modeled as a pyramid with fundamental physiological needs at the base and the highest human aspirations at the pinnacle. Lawrence Fuchs, recently deceased, who knew Maslow, was interviewed to provide commentary on the broad impact of these ideas in social science practice and theory; Margie Lachman analyzes the threads of his ideas which survived empirical scrutiny and emerged as modern Psychological theory; Verna Regan, his administrative assistant, provides a view of Maslow’s working style.
May 10th, 2013
Professor Jytte Klausen’s POL 160, The War on Global Terrorism, will host two special guest speakers this Spring. Both events are open to the campus and will take place from 2:00-3:20pm in Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G03.
April 9
Nasser Weddady, Civil Rights Outreach Director, The American Islamic Congress will speak on American Muslims and civil liberties after 9/11.
NASSER WEDDADY is a native of Mauritania and grew up in Libya and Syria, traveling extensively through the Middle East, before coming to the U.S. seeking asylum in 2000. A few days after the September 11 attacks, the FBI falsely detained Nasser because of his ethnic appearance. Nasser’s engagements with AIC reflect his background in anti-slavery activism in his homeland. Nasser has organized conferences for young activists across the Middle East that offer budding activists the leadership skills to pursue their own human and civil rights campaigns. Most recently, he spearheaded a series of workshops to launch AIC’s Tunisia Bureau. As one of the few activists working not only in the MENA region, but in the U.S. as well, Nasser has developed a unique perspective on the global struggle for human and civil rights. He has been published in the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and Baltimore Sun; appeared on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera, and Radio Liberty; and testified to Congress’ Human Rights Caucus. Fluent in five languages, Nasser has lectured at the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and diverse interfaith settings. Nasser currently is the chair of AIC’s New England Council. On February 16 The New York Times published Weddady’s Op-Ed on “How Europe Bankrolls Terror” linking ransom payments by European governments to Islamist militants to the ongoing destabilization of the Sahel.
About the course:
Terrorism is defined as violent acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public (1994 UN General Assembly Resolution 49/60). Islamist extremism has emerged over the past decades as the deadliest of all modern terrorist movements. Al Qaeda’s attacks against US targets on September 11, 2001, marked a turning point in American history. Nearly 3,000 people died that day. The fight against Al Qaeda motivated two wars: the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 as part of Operation Enduring Freedom in cooperation with NATO allies and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Since then, 7,000 US and NATO soldiers and an unknown number of civilians have died as casualties of war against Al Qaeda and allies. “Homegrown” terrorism linked to Al Qaeda continues to present a threat here at home and in Europe, and has stirred a backlash against Muslims.
March 20th, 2013
Are you considering graduate school after Brandeis? Many students have the same questions about the application process, paying for graduate school, and deciding whether to go at all. Regardless of the advanced degree you are seeking, this event will address many of your questions! Please join us on March 13, 2013 at 5:45 p.m. to hear from and pose your questions to staff from our own Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The Heller School, The Rabb School of Continuing Studies, International Business School and the Hiatt Career Center. The event will be held in Kutz 130. Please RSVP in B.hired>Events>Workshops so that we can plan seating for the students attending.
March 11th, 2013
Thursday March 14
3:30-5:00 PM
Location: Pearlman Lounge
Doug Harper, Professor of Sociology, Duquesne University
(PhD Brandeis University ’76)
Title: Seeing Society: The Long and Winding Road
March 7th, 2013
March 20, 2013, 5:00 p.m., in Mandel G03
The Suppressed Desires of Mabel Dodge Luhan: Sex, Syphilis, and Psychoanalysis in the Making of Modern American Culture
Lois Rudnick
Lois Rudnick is professor emerita of American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, where she taught American literature and culture for 36 years, 26 of which she chaired the American Studies Department. She has published numerous books and articles on modern American culture, and the artists and writers colonies of Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, including her multiple award winning Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture (1996).
This talk is sponsored by the American Studies Program and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program
March 6th, 2013
Latin American and Latino Studies was founded in the Spring of 1963, becoming the first interdisciplinary studies interdepartmental program at Brandeis. It has come a long way since, and to mark the occasion of our 50th anniversary we have organized a panel featuring three remarkable Brandeis alumni as speakers. They represent different disciplines and career paths that together exemplify the extent and significance of Latin American and Latino studies inside and outside academia. We would like to extend a special invitation to the Brandeis community to celebrate and reflect together on the present and future of area studies, interdisciplinary studies, and the Latino and Latin American presence inside and outside academia.
The event will take place on Wednesday March 13th at 4:30pm at the Shapiro Admissions Center conference room.
As director of the National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project and of the Cuba Documentation Project, Peter Kornbluh ‘78 has been writing and researching on U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and beyond for decades. Frances Hagopian ‘75 is the Lemann Visiting Associate Professor for Brazil Studies at the Department of Government at Harvard and theFaculty Chair of the Brazil Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). Professor Hagopian is the author of numerous books on the comparative politics of Latin America, with emphasis on democratization, political representation, political economy, and religion and politics. Our most recent guest-speaker alum is Jeff Arak ‘07, an up-and-coming documentary filmmaker who lives in New York and has just finished his film Life on Death Beach, about a group of volunteer lifeguards in a town on the cost of Oaxaca, Mexico.
March 5th, 2013
Professor Jytte Klausen’s POL 160, The War on Global Terrorism, will host two special guest speakers this Spring. Both events are open to the campus and will take place from 2:00-3:20pm in Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room G03.
March 12
Guermantes Lailari, Lt. Colonel, USAF (ret.) will speak to the class about counter-terrorism and technology with special focus on hijackings and the use of an airplane as a weapon.
GUERMANTAS LAILARI is a Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) defense contractor specializing in the provision of support for Research & Development in irregular warfare. He is a former US Air Force officer working in counterterrorism and irregular warfare. He has lived and served for nine years in the Middle East and North Africa, and for another six years in Europe. He directed training and courses at the US Air Force Special Operations School and served as a US Air Force Attaché in the Middle East. Lailari holds advanced degrees in International Relations and Strategic Intelligence, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in public policy at George Mason University. He was written on the modeling of terrorism and counter-terrorism and on the Israeli-Hezbollah War and is contributing author of chapters to Influence Warfare: How Terrorists and Governments Fight to Shape Perceptions in a War of Ideas, edited by James J. F. Forest (Praeger 2009) and Hybrid Warfare and Transnational Threats, edited by William Natter et al. (CENSA 2011).
March 5th, 2013
Wednesday, March 6th
12:00 (noon) – 1:00pm
Location: Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Mandel Center for the Humanities
Interested in volunteering, researching, studying, or interning in India? Come learn more about possible funding opportunities to support your project! The Brandeis-India Initiative is offering a new round of up to 10-12 fellowships ranging from $500-$2,000 for projects that will take place this summer and the next academic year. The deadline for applications is March 22, 2013.
Representatives from the Office of Study Abroad, the Hiatt Center’s WOW program, and the Brandeis-India Initiative will be there to provide information and answer your questions. RSVP on Facebook!
For more information about the Brandeis-India Fellowships, please visit http://www.brandeis.edu/globalbrandeis/india/index.html or contact kcswan@brandeis.edu / (781) 736-5240.
A light lunch will be served.
March 4th, 2013
Wednesday, March 6th, 2 pm in Schwartz 106
Anthropology Colloquium Series: Susan Gillespie
“The Entanglement of Jade and the Rise of Mesoamerica”
The rise of complex societies across Mesoamerica in the Middle Formative period (c. 900 -500 BC) coincided with the establishment of fundamental organizing principles for socio-cosmic order that were widely shared and set a trajectory for future developments. This “Formative Revolution” was materially enabled by public architecture, monumental sculptures, and new media of wealth, particularly jade. Jade, understood here as “social jade” to include various minerals (principally jadeite and serpentine), was valued for its utilitarian affordances of hardness and durability, but human-jade interactions revealed other “enchanting” qualities that were caught up in human-jade interdependencies, contributing to ideas of social difference and hierarchy.
How jade became a “shaper of civilizations” has not previously been investigated holistically. Scholarly attention has focused instead on certain shared “symbolic” meanings of jade as these were expressed in pan-Mesoamerican cosmology. A genealogy of jade is required to understand how jade reached a pinnacle of value in Mesoamerican thought and practice that was never superseded, not even by gold. Theories drawn from studies of “materiality”–in particular, the notion of entanglement–provide a comprehensive framework to examine how jade and humans were drawn into interdependent relationships.
This presentation sketches different aspects of the entanglement as they may have developed in the Early and Middle Formative Periods, emphasizing the physical qualities of jade and jade-working, their salient effects in human-jade interdependence, and the innovated temporalities and subjectivities that resulted.
Susan Gillespie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. Her research interests include archaeology, ethnohistory, iconography, and epigraphy of Mesoamerica (focusing on Aztecs, Mayas, and Olmecs); kinship, kingship, and socio-political organization; cosmology and political ideologies; symbolic, structural, and semiotic anthropology; archaeological and social theory; the anthropology of history; the anthropology of art and technology. Gillespie’s book, The Aztec Kings: The Construction of Rulership in Mexica History (1989), won the 1990 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize awarded by the American Society for Ethnohistory.
March 4th, 2013
The Rahv, Hughes, Manuel and Marcuse Memorial Lecture Series and the History Graduate Program invite you to a lecture given by CYRUS SCHAYEGH, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies @ Princeton University
Thursday, March 14, 2013 @ 4:00 p.m. in Olin Sang 207
“OTTOMAN TWILIGHT: The Middle East’s 1920s – and what it can tell us about the post-war world”
All are invited to attend.
March 4th, 2013
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