Events

Are you interested in cost-effective, high impact strategies? Are you ready to find experienced professionals to strengthen your organization? Do you want to join a network of established nonprofits? Become an Atlas Corps Host Organization! We will be kicking off our recruitment cycle with an informational Conference Call on January 10, 2012 at 3:00pm EST! Please join us or pass along the info to other organizations that might be interested in learning more about Atlas Corps, please register here https://bitly.com/atlascorpsinfocall Atlas Corps is an international network of nonprofit leaders and organizations that promotes innovation, cooperation, and solutions to address the world's 21st century challenges.

With the recent awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to three women leaders, policymakers are beginning to acknowledge that women are essential to peace and security. How have women worldwide mobilized, before and after this historic event, to convince those in power to heed their voices and ensure their participation? How can decision-makers draw on the underutilized resources and skills that women bring to the table?

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) of Western Massachusetts is having it’s 28th annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday on Monday, January 16, 2012! Our theme is Non-violent Youth Organizing, to tie together events from MLK’s life to present day actions like the Occupy movement. This year’s event will begin at 9:00am at the Sojourner Truth statue (intersection of Pine and Park Streets) in Florence with Steve Strimer who will lead a walk of the homes of Sojourner Truth, Basil Dorsey, and David Ruggles.

Justin Reich, Berkman Center Fellow

The explosion of open education content resources and freely available collaboration and media production platforms represents one of the most exciting emerging trends in education. These tools create unprecedented opportunities for teachers to design and personalize curriculum and to give students opportunities to collaborate, publish, and take responsibility for their own learning.  Many education technology and open education advocates hope that the widespread availability of free resources and platforms will disproportionately benefit disadvantaged students, by making technology resources broadly available that were once only available to affluent students.

We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely on. But as knowledge is absorbed by our new digital medium, it's becoming clear that the fundamentals of knowledge are not properties of knowledge but of its old paper medium. Indeed, the basic strategies of knowledge that emerged in the West addressed a basic problem: skulls don't scale. But the Net does. Now networked knowledge is taking on the properties of its new medium: never being settled, including disagreement within itself, and becoming not a set of stopping points but a web of temptations. Networked knowledge, for all its strengths, has its own set of problems.

Meet the artist and enjoy refreshments. All are welcome. Naoe Suzuki, Senior Program Coordinator for the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at the Ethics Center, exhibits her most recent drawings and works on paper. Suzuki's psychologically complex drawings reference imagery from circus animals and water to medical abnormalities and scientific technology. For more information, click here. Questions? Contact ethicsbrandeis [dot] edu.

Thinking about Peace Corps? Have questions about the application process? Want to pick up some literature? Interested in speaking with someone who has been there? Come have a cup of coffee and a one-on-one chat with Kristin Sulewski, Harvard Graduate Student and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Benin, 2008-2010) Kristin will be at Peets Coffee and Tea from 2:30pm-5:30pm ready to answer your questions and provide you with information about the Peace Corps. This event is very informal, no appointment necessary, just drop in when it’s convenient for you! Just look for the Peace Corps Sign at Kristin's Table.

Join Massachusetts Peace Action for our annual meeting as we review our progress in 2011 and chart the path for our work in 2012. We’ll elect new board members, discuss plans for work towards a nuclear-free world, and learn organizing skills in workshops on the 2012 elections and on passing tow...n resolutions. Neta Crawford, co-director of Brown University’s Cost of War Project, will talk about the continuing tragedy of US militarism and the lives and dollars we are losing in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Judith LeBlanc, National Organizer for Peace Action, will update us on Peace Action’s national campaign to Move the Money from the military to human needs and discuss building coalitions with human service, labor, and community groups.