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(11/10/15 7:49am)
Interim President Lisa Lynch announced at last Wednesday’s town hall forum that the University will not make a decision on whether to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry until after the next University president is selected. She also addressed rumors about the future of Usen Castle, saying that the University will most likely have to take down part of the building, as the renovations required to preserve it for the next 20 years would most likely be prohibitively expensive.
(11/10/15 7:35am)
Kim Conaty, the assistant curator of drawings and prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was appointed curator for the Rose Art Museum on Nov. 3. Conaty will plan exhibitions, interpret the Rose’s collection and evaluate potential exhibitions for the museum, when she joins the Rose’s staff in December.
(11/10/15 6:50am)
In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s Nov. 4 assassination, three Brandeis scholars lectured on and later discussed his legacy as a peacemaker.
(11/10/15 6:47am)
Professors and administrators raised concerns with the ongoing faculty unionization movement at Friday’s faculty meeting. Other topics included the results of the sexual assault climate survey and campus sustainability initiatives.
(11/10/15 6:04am)
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal in April of this year crushed entire villages and left hundreds of thousands homeless — but a few structures in Nepal were still standing after the natural disaster.
(11/10/15 4:52am)
Henry and Lois Foster Director of the Rose Art Museum Christopher Bedford announced on Friday that collector, businessman and author Stephen M. Salny has promised to donate 48 works to the museum.
(11/10/15 3:53am)
Kim Conaty has been appointed Curator for the Rose Art Museum. The announcement came last Tuesday in a press release, which stated that Conaty will begin her role in December. The position of curator is new at the Rose. Exhibitions are currently overseen by a variety of players, including Curator-at-Large Katy Siegel, who works remotely from New York, where she teaches at Hunter College, CUNY. Conaty will be on the museum premises on a daily basis.
(11/10/15 3:53am)
JOINING THE ROSE: Kim Conaty has been appointed as the Curator of the Rose Art Museum. She plans to pursue education initiatives and a collection evaluation.
(11/10/15 3:50am)
The walls of the Kniznick Gallery of the Women’s Studies Research Center are now embellished with black-and-white photos of elements from nature and pedestals topped with earth-colored abstract sculptures.
(11/03/15 8:02am)
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.
(11/03/15 8:00am)
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Kinan Azmeh, a Syrian composer and clarinetist, and Kevork Mourad, a Syrian-Armenian painter and visual artist, completed their weeklong residency this weekend. The artists were on campus as part of the MusicUnitesUs Intercultural Residency series, directed by Prof. Judith Eissenberg (MUS). As a culmination of the residency on Saturday evening in Slosberg Recital Hall, Kenan and Mourad performed “Home Within,” their new hour-long audio-visual project. The piece is an abstract telling of the themes and effects of Syria’s revolution and delves into recent events of the revolution. The Lydian String Quartet also performed a world premiere work by Azmeh and Khalil Younes, written specifically for the Brandeis visit.
(11/03/15 5:39am)
Stories — we all have them. Whether inspired by life or by a creative muse, everyone has a story to share, and Adriana Gleaton ’17 seeks to facilitate the exchange of these stories through the Faculty and Student Fall Storytelling Event. Organized by Gleaton in her capacity as director of programming for the Student Union, the event will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 4, in the International Alumni Lounge from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.
(11/03/15 5:15am)
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.
(10/27/15 8:19am)
On Saturday morning, Interim University President Lisa Lynch welcomed parents to the annual Fall Fest activities by delivering the State of the University Address. In her address, Lynch highlighted what she believes sets Brandeis apart from other universities.
(10/27/15 8:13am)
The Office for Study Abroad will run the inaugural year of a two-course economics program in partnership with the Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark during the Summer 2016 term, the University announced in an email on Tuesday. The program will run for five and a half weeks from early July through the middle of August.
(10/27/15 5:45am)
On Saturday afternoon, the Brandeis community bestowed the highest form of university recognition upon two alums: social justice activist Roy DeBerry ’70, MA ’78, PhD ’79, and founding editor in chief of Lilith magazine Susan Weidman Schneider ’65.
(10/27/15 5:14am)
In the former Yugoslavia, Ariele Cohen ’99 engaged directly with the study of ethnic conflict during the summer entering her senior year at Brandeis. She was a member of the inaugural class of Sorensen Fellows, and during this time abroad she cultivated skills such as the art of listening and withholding preconceptions of others. On Oct. 22, Cohen returned to Brandeis to share her experiences in Yugoslavia and the lessons that she has carried forward in her life and career.
(10/27/15 4:16am)
This week, justArts spoke with three of the four executive-board members of the newly-conceived Brandeis Architecture Club, which had its first meeting last Wednesday. The club hopes to expand the number of opportunities for students interested in architecture.
(10/20/15 5:39am)
Nationally renowned storyteller, poet and multicultural motivational speaker Bobby Gonzalez was the featured guest at AHORA’s, Brandeis’s Hispanic and Latino Organization, coffee talk on Hispanic identity, coordinated by AHORA Event Coordinator Alana Alves ’17. In celebration of the conclusion of Hispanic Heritage Month, Gonzalez took the floor to discuss the importance of recognizing Hispanic identity as a blend of cultures and heritage that should be inclusive for everyone.
