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A voice from the back of the theater emerged and Nyah Macklin ’16 walked down an aisle singing “Take Me to the Water,” by Nina Simone. Simultaneously, Brontë Velez ’16 danced down the center aisle, and the sound of a violin accompaniment came as Priya DeBerry ’17 walked down the opposite side. The audience remained transfixed, and eyes followed the trio as they made their way towards the stage.
Levin Ballroom was jam-packed last Tuesday night with students anxiously awaiting the start of the 16th annual Liquid Latex show. The Liquid Latex show is an extremely popular event that showcases groups of Brandeis students performing pieces on a variety of themes without any clothes on, covered only in latex body paint. The show this year was titled “Peace, Love and Latex.”
Janet Mock, a contributing editor for Marie Claire, a transgender rights activist and the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, & So Much More,” came to campus last Tuesday for a conversation with Professor Jasmine Johnson (AAAS) about her memoir. She spoke of the challenges she faced while writing and the important questions her memoir poses about growing up multiracial, poor and trans in America. “Redefining Realness” addresses the process in accepting oneself while at the same time understanding how to coexist with and accept others.
“Brandeis Bridges is an on-campus organization that was founded a few years ago that seeks to create dialogue between the Black and Jewish students on campus. It’s just kind of a way to create connections between people and to form friendships,” said Divanna Eckels ’18. Eckels, double majoring in History and African and Afro-American Studies with a minor in Sexuality and Queer Studies, heard about Brandeis Bridges as a first year.
Filiality — the relationship between a parent and child — is undergoing a resurgence in modern China, argued Angela Zito, associate professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at New York University in her lecture, “China Dreams: Of Filial Values in the Persuasive Form of Social Propaganda,” on Friday.
The search for the new Chief Operating Officer, Chief Diversity Officer and Dean of the Heller School will begin shortly, according to a March 11 email to the community from Interim University President Lisa Lynch and Interim Provost Irving Epstein.
On Sunday evening, the Lydian String Quartet performed in Slosberg Recital Hall, along with assorted guests, for a performance titled “Gabriel Fauré: A Chamber Music Retrospective,” as part of Fauré Festival Weekend. The Lydian performance was the culmination of a two-day celebration of renowned French composer Gabriel Fauré.
This week, JustArts spoke with Jacqui Parker, the director of Brandeis Theater Arts’ “Intimate Apparel,” which was staged in the Laurie Theater of Spingold and ran from March 3 through 6.
Returning to campus on Thursday for the first time since her 1995 visit to the University for her acceptance of the Brandeis Alumni Achievement Award, Margo Jefferson ’68 led a discussion on the intersection of class, race and gender with Prof. Jasmine Johnson (AAAS), centering the event around Jefferson’s highly acclaimed memoir “Negroland.”
The University is in the process of securing a grant from the Korea Foundation to be used in developing and enhancing its Korean language and culture programming.
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“She’s worth standing for,” laughed Kerry Washington as the packed Wasserman Cinematheque rose to their feet for the second time, welcoming University Professor Anita Hill (HS) into the room.
At the 88th annual Academy Awards last Sunday, Brandeis alumnus Michael Sugar ’95 stepped onto the stage at the Dolby Theater to accept the Academy Award for “Spotlight,” which won Best Picture as well as Best Screenplay that night.
In a Feb. 24 email titled “Update on diversity and inclusion efforts,” Interim President Lisa Lynch described the foundation of a new scholarship model for the coming year. In part, Lynch stated that the University would be establishing “a new pilot program based on the Posse Model [that] will offer a full-tuition scholarship and a $10,000 stipend to as many as five students per year” in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Lynch neither offered an explanation for the source of this funding nor elaborated whether this stipend would come with any stipulations.
Interim University President Lisa Lynch’s salary ranks in the lowest 7th percentile of comparable institutions, according to a presentation on executive compensation that Board of Trustees Chair Perry Traquina ’78 gave at Friday’s faculty meeting.
The University will begin its search for a new Chief Diversity Officer in the coming months, Interim University President Lisa Lynch announced in a Feb. 24 email to the community. The email also included various other diversity and inclusion policy changes that have occurred in the months following the Ford Hall 2015 sit-in.
“#FordHall2015”
Last semester, protests and rallies against racial inequity pervaded university campuses across the nation. At Brandeis, the Ford Hall 2015 movement demanded — among other things — that the University admit more students of color, hire more faculty of color and require yearly diversity and inclusion workshops for all members of the staff and faculty.
Three screens flashing facts about the United States’ involvement in wars over the past two decades. A bar with audience members seated behind it. Cast members wandering through the aisles, offering drinks to the 40 or so attendees. From these details alone, the audience could tell that “Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?” would not be a typical play.
On Wednesday, civil rights lawyer, songwriter and jazz tap dancer Germaine Ingram delivered the ’DEIS Impact keynote address, an unconventional artistic presentation titled “The Law and the Stage: Platforms for Pursuing Social Justice." The speech, which took place in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater, focused on the limited capacity of the legal system to consider the complex narratives that offer real insight into people’s lives, as well as on art as a means of filling that void.