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Ukrainian national identity is a complex notion, containing relationships with Russia, ethnicity and civic duty, according to Carnegie junior fellow Matthew Kupfer ’12, who returned to Brandeis on Tuesday night to share his research findings on what it means to be Ukrainian in the modern era.
I think it’s safe to say that no one at Brandeis has ever laughed so hard at a giant, fake, people-eating plant.
A crowd packed into Levin ballroom on Saturday night to see “MELA 2015: Nazrana.” Presented by the South Asian Students’ Association, MELA is an annual celebration of South Asian culture and heritage. The show featured a varied line-up of acts including several dance performances, singing acts and even a fashion show, exhibiting richly-decorated Indian apparel.
As a budding experimental physicist, a question I am often posed is, “Why would one spend so much money studying subatomic realms when one could spend the money …” The suggestions for where the money could or should be directed are endless; starving populations, war-stricken nations, charity, or even Wall Street. Now, before I go any further, I’d like to make it clear that while I am defending the spending of billions on esoteric physics research, I am not condoning the diversion of money from the more humanitarian causes across the planet.
Brandeis students exhibit talent in all areas — including music. With a trek to Slosberg Music Center, a night at Chomondeley’s Coffee House or a walk by the chapels, that becomes clear. Students sing, play instruments or rap, but until now, nothing has connected these young musicians to each other or to the outside musical community. Avi Hirshbein ’19 seeks to change that with the establishment of Brandeis’s own record label: Basement Records.
A “Shidduch,” traditional Jewish matchmaking, is less of a commandment and more of a cultural custom, argued Jewish and historical scholar Mirjam Zadoff in a lecture on Tuesday. The talk, titled “Mapping Affections: Shiduchim, Networks, and Love Stories in Modern Judaism,” was part of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry’s annual colloquium.
“The themes — the human pain, suffering, passions and desires that we have in our world — are the very same ones that the ancient Greek and Romans had,” Professor Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (CLAS) explained in an interview with the Justice. As the chair of the Classical Studies Department at Brandeis, where she has worked for over 30 years, Koloski-Ostrow’s passion for the subject runs deep. She believes that there is a lot to be learned from examining the ancient world and encourages her students to engage in open discourse when learning about the past.
On Veterans Day, students and faculty packed into the Rapaporte Treasure Hall in Goldfarb Library to commemorate the launch of the Civil War Letters Project, a joint exhibition website created with Wellesley College. Brandeis professors Abigail Cooper (HIST) and John Burt (ENG) and Associate Curator of Special Collections at Wellesley College Mariana Oller spoke about the importance of these letters and their significance to the documentation of the Civil War and the preservation of history.
Rabbi David Ellenson analyzed three Jewish feminist thinkers and their understanding of Jewish Law during last Tuesday’s 52nd-annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture.
A fully packed room in Mandel 303 on Thursday evening saw a dramatic one-woman performance and a featured talk back with actress Nancy E. Carroll and Prof.Shulamit Reinharz (SOC). Carroll read a translated adaptation of Savyon Liebrecht’s play, “The Strawberry Girl.”
The Judges got off to a successful start this season at the New England Fall Collegiate Championship, or “the Big One,” at Smith College on Saturday. The fencers took home three medals between the men and women in their first competition of the season. On the women’s side, Caroline Mattos ’16 utterly dominated her competition. In pool play, she only surrendered two touches in six bouts, propelling her to the top seed in the direct elimination round. In that round, she defeated her three opponents by a total combined score of 45-9.
Brandeis Ensemble Theater challenged patriarchal society and rape culture in their production of “The Love of the Nightingale” in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater this past weekend. The play was written by Timberlake Wertenbaker in 1989 and is a retelling of an Ancient Greek myth about the rape of the Athenian princess Philomela (Keturah Walker ’18) by her brother-in-law Tereus (Andrew Hyde ’17), the king of Thrace.
On Monday, the University welcomed media critic Anita Sarkeesian for a lecture on sexist and anti-feminist tropes in video games. The lecture had initially been planned for February, but it had to be rescheduled due to major snowfall that caused travel problems.
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On Friday night, a crowd gathered in the Lois Foster Gallery of the Rose Art Museum where the walls were adorned with several oil paintings depicting the female body.The audience was awaiting Mallory Ortberg, a writer and comedian who would review “The Brood,” an exhibition currently on display in the gallery that surveys the most defining creative moments from 25 years of painting by American artist Lisa Yuskavage.
The National Basketball Association season tipped off last week as a new era of players was ushered into the league. Players who have previously dominated the court, such as Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett and Dwayne Wade, are now handing over the reigns to younger, healthier and more versatile players. The new face of the NBA is quickly transitioning to the forefront of league performance and play.
Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” was performed in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater this past weekend, put on by Brandeis’s Shakespeare and classical theatre company Hold Thy Peace. It was set in modern Boston and western Massachusetts rather than in medieval France. The production gave a comedic, if somewhat confusing performance.
As part of a panel of experts from multiple backgrounds and universities, Rabbi David Ellenson — the director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies — participated in a debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Boston University on Wednesday. The debate was one part of an event titled “Yitzhak Rabin & the Legacy of Oslo: Prospects for Mid-East Peace Twenty Years After the Assassination.”
This week, JustArts spoke with Barbara Spidle ’16, who was the director for Hold Thy Peace’s “As You Like It.” This telling of Shakespeare’s classic had several modern twists.
The majority of the burden from global warming — both environmental and economic — falls to the lower classes and minorities, author and climate justice activist Wen Stephenson argued in a lecture on Thursday. Stephenson also prescribed a more radical and unified movement to combat climate change.