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Hafiz Karmali, an acclaimed international theater director and resident director at the University this semester, spoke on Islamic performing arts on Wednesday afternoon. He discussed various art styles, including theatre and dance, and how he incorporated them into his version of Jean-Claude Carriere and Peter Brook’s production of The Conference of the Birds, which premieres this weekend.
JustArts: What motivated you to join the production of Spring Awakening?
The women’s basketball team entered the quarterfinals of last year’s Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament as underdogs against Emmanuel College, seeded eighth in the eight-team tournament and matched up with the top seed. Looking to secure a winning season, the women upset the top squad 64-55 and clinched their first winning record since the 2009 to 2010 season.
The New England Revolution advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday night in emphatic fashion, routing the Columbus Crew 7-3 on aggregate.
ON A HIGH NOTE: On Saturday night, the Lydian String Quartet, joined by new violist, performed three quartets to a full house.
If you’ve turned on the TV lately, chances are you’ve come across a superhero. Superheroes are not restricted to the movie screen. New additions Gotham and The Flash have joined current hits Arrow and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this season.
justArts: What motivated you to join the Lydian String Quartet?
Yesterday evening, William J. Leahy, a former Massachusetts public defender and a former adjunct professor in Legal Studies at Brandeis, asserted his conviction that “the death penalty is always and everywhere morally indefensible” at a talk he gave as part of the 30th anniversary Joshua A. Guberman Lecture series.
The first official Board of Trustees meeting for this academic year began on Oct. 29. One issue was at the forefront of discussion from students and trustees alike. On Wednesday, a group of students participated in the Carry That Weight day of action, a national event showing solidarity with Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz. Some demonstrators gave University President Frederick Lawrence a sign stating why they participated. The Board of Trustees meeting was at the same time that the demonstrators planned to give Lawrence the sign, so the demonstrators used the opportunity to ask trustees for support of their cause.
Whether or not you are a fan of Top 40 radio, it’s pretty remarkable that in today’s digital culture, we still have radio stations that the majority of people tune in to on a regular basis. Yes, many of us stream our favorite stations on the Internet now, but the concept of the radio station still seems to be the same.
Brandeis hosted the 17th annual Heskel Gabbay Award Lecture, titled “Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas9,” yesterday.
A large crowd flocked to Slosberg Music Center on Sunday evening to honor the late Erwin Bodky, the first professor of music at Brandeis. An erudite teacher, composer, pianist and musicologist, this concert featured mostly his own compositions, interspersed with speaches about his work as a teacher and a lecture about his life. Spurred by an interest in the late professor’s compositions, Prof. Daniel Stepner (MUS) set forth the idea for this concert, inviting pianist and fellow faculty member Prof. Evan Hirsch (MUS) to join him in performing this long forgotten work.
PRESSING AHEAD: Defensman Josh Hacunda ’16 joins the attack during the Judges’ win over Carnegie Mellon University on Friday.
Sunderland A.F.C.’s misery grew deeper this weekend as they slid to a jaw-dropping 8-0 defeat against Southampton F.C. in the Barclay’s Premier League on Saturday.
Brandeis students are more likely to be stressed, depressed or anxious than students from similarly sized universities across the nation, according to the National College Health assessment conducted last year. This survey also revealed that Brandeis students participate in more extracurricular activities and tend to feel lonelier.
Profs. Sacha Nelson and John Lisman (BIOL) have received research grants from the National Institutes of Health under President Barack Obama’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, Initiative, according to an Oct. 7 BrandeisNOW article.
As this year marks the centennial anniversary of the start of World War I, the History department hosted historian Adam Hochschild of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism to speak about his research on the war yesterday.
In Naomi Wolf’s famous 2002 work, The Beauty Myth, she asks a startling question—where are women at elite universities going? Women finally make up half of the student population, so why are they choosing to quietly fade into the background? Twelve years later, the same question should be asked. Although women in the developed world today have more say over their reproductive rights, have overtaken men in higher education enrollment and are catching up in the labor force, few women make it to the top in business or politics. Of 197 heads of state, only 22 are women. Of the top 500 companies by revenue, only 21 are headed by women. In politics, women hold just 19 percent of congressional offices.
In 2012, when Eric Haavind-Berman ’15 and James Hayward ’16 arrived on campus, Haavind-Berman as a transfer and Hayward as a first- year, they were disappointed to find that their favorite sport, lacrosse, did not have a club team. Haavind-Berman and Hayward both played lacrosse in high school and wished to continue in college. Hoping to find a few players to join them on the field, they put up flyers around campus.
Igor Berman ’17 joined club lacrosse in the spring of 2014.