Upcoming Events
August 8, August 22, and Sept 5
This summer USDAC is hosting a free, three-part series of online video calls to learn about the policy, science, and strategy behind a Green New Deal—and to dream into the role of cultural workers, community artists, and creative activists in making it real!
The Green New Deal is an ambitious proposal for a decade of policy that flips our fear of climate change on its head—a proposal rooted in a broad vision of social, economic, and racial equity that turns this emergency into an opportunity to revitalize our own society and infrastructure, build the foundation of true sustainability, and address longstanding inequalities.
“Join us as we de-wonkify the Green New Deal with artists, farmers, organizers, researchers, and community leaders who are translating this big vision into concrete, local actions. Come with questions, curiosity, and ideas. Leave with inspiration and more comrades to collaborate with! You can join for the whole series, or any of the individual calls.”
September 13, 2019
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Location: Fellows Garden (rain location: Shapiro Campus Center atrium)
Read more about Fall 2019 CAST elective courses and events!
September 17, 2019
Meet the Undergraduate Program Representatives and current CAST Minors:
Time: 5:30-7:00 pm
Location: Alumni Lounge in Usdan
Read more about Fall 2019 CAST elective courses and events!
November 5, 2019
Time: 5:30-7:00 pm
Location: TBA
Read more about Fall 2019 CAST elective courses and events!
Sophiline Arts Ensemble Performing Phka Sla; Choreography by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro
Photo Credit: Sophiline Arts Ensemble
October 22, 2019
Time: 2:00 - 4:50 pm
Location: Shapiro Campus Center Theater
Members of the Cambodia-based Sophiline Arts Ensemble will present a lecture-demonstration about choreography in post-genocide Cambodia, and the relationship between legacies of violence and contemporary expressive culture. They'll perform an excerpt from a recent piece developed as an official "reparations" project of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal -- the international court trying Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes against humanity and genocide.
This event is sponsored by the Minor in Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation (CAST). For more information, please contact ethics@brandeis.edu. All are welcome!
October 30, 2019
Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Location: Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library
Join the Brandeis community in welcoming the 2019 Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize recipient, John Paul Lederach.
Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame, Lederach has worked extensively as a practitioner in conciliation processes. Lederach is widely known for the development of culturally appropriate approaches to conflict transformation and the design and implementation of integrative and strategic approaches to peacebuilding. The Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize was created by the late Professor Joseph B. Gittler to recognize outstanding and lasting scholarly contributions to racial, ethnic and/or religious relations.
November 7, 2019
Time and Location: TBA
Professor Edward Paulino, CUNY/John Jay College, transforms his scholarship on the 1937 massacre of Haitians on the Haitian/Dominican border into a theatrical production exploring borders, race, sovereignty, oral histories, archives and the theater.
Michelle Ortiz
November 19, 2019
Time: 2:00 - 4:50 pm
Location: Alumni Lounge, Usdan
Visual artist, muralist, community arts educator and immigrant rights activist Michelle Ortiz will introduce her Familias Separadasproject -- a series of public art installations in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, about the horrific impact of family separations.
This event is sponsored by the Minor in Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation (CAST). For more information, please contact ethics@brandeis.edu. All are welcome!
November 20, 2019
Time: 2:00- 3:20 pm
Location TBA