Full Calendar of Events, 2013-2014

Full Calendar of Events

Fall, 2013

Wednesday, October 2, 3:30-5:00PM
Close Looking
The Roman Forum Model with Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow (Classics) and Charles McClendon (Art history).
Goldfarb Library Mezzanine.

Thursday, October 3, 1:00-6:00PM
Print Culture Symposium*
“Print Culture: Past, Present, Future”
Organized by Lori Cole (Fine Arts)
MCH, 303

Wednesday, October 9, 12:00-12:45PM
Jazz at the Mandel Center
Bob Nieske, bass
Billy Novick, clarinet
Mandel Atrium

Thursday, October 10, 5:00-6:30PM
Welcome Reception for the Mandel Center for the Humanities
Mandel Atrium

Wednesday, October 16, 3:30-5:00PM
Close Looking
Andy Warhol's "Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century" with Ellen Smith (NEJS) and Tom Doherty (American Studies)
Rose Art Museum.

Thursday, October 17, 12:00-1:00PM
Faculty Lunch Symposium
Ilana Szobel (NEJS): “Rethinking Power: Prostitution and Nationalism in Hebrew Literature at the Turn of the Century”
MCH 303

Thursday, October 24, 12:00-1:00PM
Bridging the Two Cultures: Science and the Humanities Faculty Lunch Symposium*
“How Good is Good Enough? Understanding Animal to Animal Variability in Nervous System Function”
Eve Marder (Biology)
Mandel Reading Room, 303

Monday, November 4, 4:00-5:30PM
Faculty Lunch Symposium*
Anna Celenza (Music, Georgetown University): "Jazz in Translation: Popular Music in Fascist Italy"
MCH, 303

Thursday, November 14, 4:00-8:00PM
Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Symposium
Mellon-Sawyer Mini-Seminar and Symposium: “People in Revolution” Kathleen DuVal (UNC), Amy Freund (TCU), Emma Rothschild (Harvard/Cambridge

Thursday, November 21, 12:00-1:00PM
Faculty Lunch Symposium
Chad Williams(African and Afro-American Studies): "World War I in the Historical Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois”
MCH 303

Wednesday, December 4, 12:00-1:30PM
Music at Mandel
Music and Dance Ghana Ensemble
Faith Conant, director
Mandel Atrium

Wednesday, December 4, 3:30-5:00PM
Close Looking
Al Loving's "Self-Portrait #23" presented by Susan Lichtman (Fine Arts) and Faith Smith (English)
Rose Art Museum

Thursday, December 5, 12:00-1:00PM
Bridging the Two Cultures: Science and the Humanities Faculty Lunch Symposium*
“How to Build a Virus”
Michael Hagan (Physics)
Mandel Reading Room, 303


Spring, 2014

Thursday, January 23, 12:00-1:00PM
Bridging the Two Cultures: Science and the Humanities Faculty Lunch Symposium*
“Bayesian Biology”
Douglas Theobald (Biochemistry)
Mandel Reading Room, 303

Wednesday, January 29, 12:00-1:30PM
Music at Mandel
Improv Collective with Tom Hall
Mandel Atrium

Thursday, February 6, 12:00-1:00PM
Faculty Lunch Symposium
"The Genre that Wouldn't Die: The Short Story's First Two Centuries"
John Plotz (English)
MCH 303

Thursday, February 27, 4:00-8:00PM
Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Symposium
Mellon-Sawyer Mini-Seminar and Symposium: “Limits of Revolution” Speakers: Susanne Desan (Wisconsin), Christopher Leslie Brown (Columbia), Malik Ghachem (Maine)

Thursday, March 6, 12:00-1:00PM
Faculty Lunch Symposium
"From Taugenichts to the Nazis to the Greens: The Evolution of German Environmental Activism"
Sabine von Mering (German, WGS)
MCH 303

Wednesday, March 19, 12-12:45PM
Music at Mandel
Lydian String Quartet
Mandel Atrium

Thursday, March 20, 12:00-1:00PM
Bridging the Two Cultures: Science and the Humanities Faculty Lunch Symposium*
“Making and Breaking Connections in the Developing Brain”
Suzanne Paradis (Biology)
Mandel Reading Room, 303

Thursday, April 3, 12:00-1:00PM
Faculty Lunch Symposium
"Bach and the Gospel of John"
Eric Chafe (Music)
MCH 303

Thursday, April 7, 4:30-6:00PM
Mandel Lectures in the in the Humanities*
“Divine Spark of Syracuse” “Plato in Syracuse”
Ingrid Rowland (University of Notre Dame)
Mandel Auditorium

Thursday, April 8, 12:30-2:00PM
Mandel Lectures in the in the Humanities*
“Divine Spark of Syracuse”
Ingrid Rowland (University of Notre Dame)
MCH, 303

Wednesday, April 9, 12-12:45PM
Music at Mandel
Early Music Ensemble
Mandel Atrium

Thursday, April 9, 4:30-6:00PM
Mandel Lectures in the in the Humanities*
“Archimedes in Syracuse”
Ingrid Rowland (University of Notre Dame)
Mandel Auditorium

Thursday, April 10, 4:30-6:00PM
Mandel Lectures in the in the Humanities*
“Caravaggio in Syracuse”
Ingrid Rowland (University of Notre Dame)
Mandel Auditorium

Thursday, May 1, 5:00-8:00PM
Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Symposium
Mellon-Sawyer Mini-Seminar Revolutionizing Scholarship: Presentations of Research

These events are open only to members of the faculty; all other events are open to the entire Brandeis community


For questions about the calendar please contact:
Mangok Bol
Program Administrator
mbol@brandeis.edu; 6-5900