Other Past Events
For more past events, see our News pages and newsletters.
Past Events
A sampling of previous major events initiated by the Center include:
Words of Survivors: Cambodian Genocide (12/7/20)
Your Healing is Killing Me – Virginia Grise (11/18/20)
Rights, Rules and Rhetoric: Exploring Language for and about Migrants in Australia, Europe and North America (11/17/20 – 11/18/20)
Voices of Comedy (11/14/20)
Bodymaps and Women’s Agency (11/12/20)
Catherine Filloux Works with ENG 170b (10/19/20)
Introduction to Creative Approaches to Transitional Justice (9/24/20)
Social Deis-tance DIY (9/11/20)
Catherine Filloux Works with CAST 150b (Fall 2020)
Present and Defend (4/28/20)
Young Political Leadership - An ENACT Forum (3/10/20)
Voting and Democracy in 2020 & Beyond (3/9/20)
Advocacy for Policy Change: Present and Defend (5/1/19)
ENACT Forum on Women's Political Engagement (4/8/19)
"The Trials of Richard Goldstone" (3/18/19)
Notes from the Field Screening (3/14/19)
Countering & Preventing Violent Extremism: A Panel Discussion on Counter-Extremism and Islamophobia (2/27/19)
Sampled: Beats of Muslim Life Featuring Su'ad Abdul Khabeer (2/7/19)
The War Crimes That Disappeared: A Talk by Jeanne Guillemin, PhD '73 (9/25/18)
Bringing Together Peacemakers, Cultural Artists, and Brandeis Students (9/4/18)
Impact Design Lab (8/31/18 – 9/3/18)
ENACT – Advocacy for Policy Change: Present and Defend (4/18/18)
ENACT Forum on Women’s Political Engagement (4/9/18)
Ethics Center 20th Anniversary (3/12/18)
Decolonizing Approaches to Arts-based Peacebuilding (3/6/18 – 3/12/18)
‘DEIS Impact: A Weeklong Festival of Social Justice (Feb 2012 - Feb 2018)
Documentary Film Screening of ‘Never Again: Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity’ (10/4/17)
Advocacy for Policy Change: Present and Defend (5/1/17)
The Immigrant Experience. Our Experience. (12/7/16)
How Are We Talking about Immigration in the Election? (10/5/16)
Advocacy for Policy Change: Present and Defend (4/19/16)
Negotiating Meaning: Translating at a War Crimes Tribunal (2/9/16)
Pilgrim Father/Illegal Son: Story of Two Immigrants (11/18/15)
Ariele Cohen ’99 in Mini-Residency (10/22/15 - 10/23/15)
One Rock, Three Religions (9/3/15)
Advocacy for Policy Change: Present and Defend (4/28/15)
Homo Sapiens 2.0: Genetic Enhancement, Ethics, and the Future of Humanity featuring Jamie Metzl (3/10/15)
The Responsibility to Protect at 10: The Challenge of Protecting the World's Most Vulnerable Populations (3/8/15 - 3/9/15)
Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa (9/11/14)
Advocacy for Policy Change: Present and Defend (4/29/14)
Exploring Global Justice: Perspectives from Young Scholars and Practitioners (4/3/14)
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Nicole De Silva (center) with Nelly Schläfereit ’15 and Hannah Young ’15 (l-r) at “Exploring Global Justice: Perspectives from Young Scholars and Practitioners” speaker series. |
Rule of Law and Development in Africa (3/27/14)
The International Criminal Court and the Politics of Justice in Africa (2/24/14)
Parallel Paths: Journeys, Explorations, and Reflections (12/10/13)
Immigrant Support Services Practicum Presentation: Learnings from a Semester in the Community (12/4/13)
Professors in the Courtroom (10/22/13)
International Justice Internships Symposium (10/7/13)
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Brandeis students discuss their internship experiences at the international justice internships symposium |
Bahrain/Brandeis: Ulafa'a Reconciliation Art Project Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and Arts (4/14/13 - 4/20/13)
Gideon at 50: The Future of the Right to Counsel (3/18/13)
The Rule of Law Comes Home: Can the UN Live Up to its Own High Standards? (3/11/13)
Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein at Brandeis (1/30/13)
Tracing Roots: Uncovering Realities Beneath the Surface (12/13/12)
Exposures: Photography and the Politics of Looking (10/31/12)
Expert Dialogue Facilitator in Residence at Brandeis: Farhat Agbaria (9/19/12 - 9/30/12)
Year Abroad, Queer Abroad (9/19/12)
Playback Theatre and Desert Roots: Journey of an Iranian Immigrant Family (9/7/12)
Social Justice and the University: Perspectives from the U.S. and Abroad (3/13/12)
Just Performance: Enacting Justice in the Wake of Violence (12/1/11 - 12/2/11)
Peacebuilding and the Arts Weekend Intensive: Community Cultural Development (10/21/11 - 10/23/11)
9/11: How It Has Changed Our Thinking (9/7/11)
SoJust Leadership Forum: Journeys in Social Justice, Beyond Brandeis (9/6/11)
Peacebuilding and the Arts Documentary Film Screening, Acting Together on the World Stage (4/12/11)
The Consequences of Blogging (4/4/11)
Peacebuilding and the Arts Weekend Intensive: Core Concepts and Principles (4/1/11 - 4/3/11)
Religion and the Quest to Contain Violence (3/14/11)
After War Crimes Can There be Justice? Screening of Documentary War Don Don (2/15/11)
Career Paths in International Justice and Human Rights (2/3/11)
Building Haiti Back More Justly: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Earthquake Response (12/2/10)
A Small Act Documentary Screening – Social Justice Leadership Series (11/17/10)
Year Abroad, Queer Abroad (10/5/10)
Acting Together on the World Stage Film Launch (9/23/10)
Changing People in a Changing Climate? The Ethical Implications of Climate Disruption (3/23/10)
Building Pathways to Sustainable Peace in Sudan: Why We Can’t Wait (3/22/10)
Distinguished Visiting Practitioner Residency – The Green Canvas: The Artist as Environmental Activist – Hoseob Yoon, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea (2/8/10 - 2/11/10)
South American Judicial Colloquium: El Valor del Derecho Internacional Respecto de los Sistemas Legales Nacionales (The Value of International Law for National Legal Systems) (11/4/09 - 11/7/09)
Pray the Devil Back to Hell Film Screening (10/21/09)
TMI: Social Justice in the Age of Facebook (9/10/09 - 9/11/09)
Presentation on Liberia (11/24/08)
What Can International and Domestic Judges Learn from One Another? – North American Judicial Colloquium (11/6/08 - 11/8/08)
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Louise Arbour gives keynote address at north american judicial colloquium |
Master’s Program Conference (4/30/08 – 5/2/08)
The Challenges of Promoting Gender Rights in Africa: The Case of Senegal (4/16/08)
Film Series Highlighting Immigration Issues in the U.S. (4/1/08 – 4/3/08)
The Next Ten Years: The Ethics Center Looks Ahead (3/13/08)
HIV/AIDS and the Gender Politics of Social Care (2/12/08)
Translations: Six Stories of (Mis)Understanding (12/10/07)
ECSF Extravaganza (10/26/07 – 10/27/07)
Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life (10/11/07)
Acting Together on the World Stage: Setting the Scene for Peace (10/4/07 - 10/8/07)
Pieces of the Coexistence Puzzle: Democracy, Human Rights, Gender and Development (3/15/07 - 3/16/07)
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Senator Mobina Jaffer delivers keynote address at Pieces of the Coexistence Puzzle conference |
Bioethics and Armed Conflict: Moral Dilemmas of Medicine and War (3/1/07)
Distinguished Visiting Practitioner Residency – Saving Species, Saving Lives: Balancing Biodiversity and Human Needs in Sub-Saharan Africa - Dr. Mohamed Bakarr (2/12/07 - 2/15/07)
9/11: Brandeis Reflections Five Years Later (9/11/06)
Al-Quds University Administrators Visit Brandeis (5/1/06 – 5/5/06)
Al-Quds University Graduate Students Visit Brandeis (3/20/06 – 3/30/06)
The Long View: World Leaders Focus on Problems We Ignore to Our Peril (3/9/06)
Ethics at Work (11/9/05)
Justice & Security: An Israeli Supreme Court Judge Speaks (11/8/05)
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Israeli Supreme Court Justice |
Telling the Story: Power and Responsibility in Documenting Human Rights Violations (9/15/05 - 9/16/05)
Coexistence Community Reception (9/8/05)
Creative Approaches to Coexistence and Reconciliation: Iranian, Israeli, and American Playwrights’ Collaboration (9/6/05 – 9/9/05)
Justice Across Cultures (3/8/04)
Literary Responses to Mass Violence (9/16/03 - 9/18/03)
Both Sides of the Bench: New Perspectives on International Law and Human Rights (4/1/03 - 4/3/03)
The Rock: Jerusalem’s Sacred Space (3/3/02)
After September 11: The View from Abroad (11/13/01)
Catholics, Jews, and the Prism of Conscience (1/22/01)
Intervention and Prevention: The Lessons of Kosovo (12/12/00)