Samuels Center for Community Partnerships and Civic Transformation (COMPACT)

Upcoming Events

COMPACT's Official Google Calendar (includes events and deadlines)

COMPACT's Upcoming Events

What Gets Rewarded Flyer
Updating Tenure and Promotion Guidelines for Today’s Academy

Thursday, April 11, 2024

12:00 - 3:00 PM | Mandel 303

A workshop sponsored by The Dean of Arts and Sciences, The Mandel Center for Humanities, and COMPACT featuring:

  • Stacy Hartman - Former Director the PublicsLab at The Graduate Center, City University of New York
  • Noe Montez - Associate Professor of Performance Studies, Tufts University
  • Ropam Risam - Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College
  • Elizabeth Son - Associate Professor of Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Community-Engaged PHDs Conference Flyer
Community Engaged PhDs Conference

Wednesday, April 12, 2024

9:00 AM - 4:30 PM | Mandel 303

A conference highlighting the collaborative, experimental, and transformative possibilities of PhD research. Sponsored by Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and COMPACT. Funded by the American Council of Learned Societies.

Please join us for a one-day conference on community-engaged and/or public-facing PhD research. Organized by Professor Jonathan Anjaria, the conference will feature ten Boston-area PhD students--including Brandeis Anthropology's Moriah King, Gowthaman Ranganathan, and Kalie Jamieson--who will share their ongoing work that is collaborative, innovative and experimental in both content and form.

See the Conference Schedule and More information

Featuring:

  • Jessi Brewer - Co-creating stories that transform public ideas of women's incarceration
  • Tieanna Graphenreed - An interactive digital map of overlooked Boston Black intellectual life for educators and local Boston communities
  • Mac Irvine - Producing, performing and participating in Austin's queer nightlife
  • Moriah King - Collaborating with Black farmers in Georgia to tell visual stories of land stewardship through family archives
  • Claire Lavarreda - Indigenous oral history and archiving using Omeka-S
  • Savita Maharaj - Partnering with Boston Public Schools to create curricular resources on early Black Boston
  • Gowthaman Ranganathan - Collaborative programming with a trans-led organization working for gender and sexuality rights in Sri Lanka
  • Jo Rezes - Co-producing a social media cooking show with AIDS activists, historians and chefs about chronic illness, taste and humor
  • Anca Wilkening - Historical research with Indigenous nations in service of cultural revitalization efforts
Present and Defend Flyer
Present and Defend - Brandeis ENACT students advocate for Massachusetts legislation

Tuesday April 16, 2024

10:00 - 11:15 AM | Alumni Lounge, Usdan Student Center

Join us Tuesday, April 16 from 10:00-11:15 AM in Alumni Lounge in the Usdan Student Center at Brandeis University for “Present and Defend” and exercise your right to influence public policy! The students of the Brandeis University ENACT course “Advocacy for Policy Change” (LGLS 161b) will try to persuade you to vote for their bills, which are currently being considered by the Massachusetts State Legislature. Bill topics include data privacy, gun violence, immigrant rights, juvenile justice, menstrual equity, mental health education, childhood poverty, pregnancy care, sex education, and water resources management.

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A Deepest Blue

Thursday, April 18th, 2024

7:00 - 8:00 pm | Laurie Theater in Spingold Theater Building

Prumsodun Ok, Khmer classical dance choreographer, dancer, educator and scholar and LGBTQ+ rights activist and founder and artistic director of Cambodia’s first and only all-male gay classical dance company, will perform his most recent work, A Deepest Blue, accompanied by four musicians from Japan. A Deepest Blue explores humanity's multifaceted relationship with water, focusing on origin stories from both Cambodia and Japan.

Prum and the musicians will be in residence – rehearsing and visiting classes – from Friday, April 12 through Thursday, April 18.

For inquiries, contact Toni Shapiro-Phim.

COMPACT Coffee Connect Series Flyer
COMPACT's Coffee Connect Series

AY 24

COMPACT's monthly coffee hour series for community partners featuring a 10-minute turbotalk to connect them to resources at Brandeis and each other.

Spring Dates & Locations:

  • Friday, January 19th, 2024 - "What does it mean to partner with Brandeis on a research project?"

    • Location: Cafe on the Common - 677 Main Street, Waltham MA, 02452

    • Special Guests:

      • Sara Shostak (Professor of Sociology and Health: Science, Society, and Policy (HSSP) & Director of COMPACT),

      • Laura Hibbler (Associate University Librarian for Research, Instruction, and Public Services), and

      • Natalie Susmann (Digital Scholarship Librarian)

  • Friday, February 16th, 2024 - "What does it mean to partner with a Brandeis class?"
    • Location: WATCH CDC - 24 Crescent St. Suite #201, Waltham, MA 02453
    • Special Guest: Rachel B. Kramer Theodorou (Senior Lecturer in Education and Assistant Director of Elementary Education)
  • Friday, March 15th, 2024 - "Why does COMPACT administer surveys and annual reports?"
    • Location: Waltham Museum - 25 Lexington St., Waltham, MA 02452
  • Friday, April 19th, 2024 - Reflection on AY 24 / Looking forward to AY 25
    • Location: Gore Place - 52 Gore St, Waltham, MA 02453