Events

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.

North-South-South Cooperation to Maintain Ecosystem Functions and Promote Sustainable Livelihoods in the Brazilian Cerrado and Similar Ecosystems in South America and Africa.

Donald Sawyer, Lemann Visiting Scholar, DRCLAS; Professor, Center for Sustainable Development (CDS), University of Brasília (UnB); Associate Researcher, Institute for Society, Population and Nature (ISPN)

A Brazilian lunch will be served.

This seminar is part of the DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program's Lemann Fellow Seminar Series.

For much of the world, hiking, canoeing, and growing your own crops is a reality of daily life. To a traveler, the air smells different, the light is different, the new views can be spectacular! Every day in the Peace Corps is an adventure. Come to the Appalachian Mountain Club Headquarters in Boston to hear about the Peace Corps adventure - from new sights and strange foods, to mountain ridge and desert hikes, and coffee with people from another culture. A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served in the mountains of Guatemala will talk about her experience and answer questions about Peace Corps Service.

A global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy and even the character of democracy in the 21st century. Many commentators have debated whether the Internet is ultimately a force for freedom of expression and political liberation, or for alienation, and repression. It is time to stop arguing over whether the Internet empowers individuals and societies, and address the more fundamental and urgent question of how technology should be structured and governed to support the rights and liberties of all the world’s Internet users.

Guest Speaker: Kyle Peterson, Managing Director, FSG

The Ethics Center and the Brandeis Student Union present the first weeklong "festival of social justice." Clubs and academic departments have planned dozens of events throughout the week, featuring talks, performances, exhibits, discussions -- even a Tae Kwon Do workshop that will include a speaker about gender violence.

The Ethics Center and the Brandeis Student Union present the first weeklong "festival of social justice." Clubs and academic departments have planned dozens of events throughout the week, featuring talks, performances, exhibits, discussions -- even a Tae Kwon Do workshop that will include a speaker about gender violence.

The Ethics Center and the Brandeis Student Union present the first weeklong "festival of social justice." Clubs and academic departments have planned dozens of events throughout the week, featuring talks, performances, exhibits, discussions -- even a Tae Kwon Do workshop that will include a speaker about gender violence.

The Ethics Center and the Brandeis Student Union present the first weeklong "festival of social justice." Clubs and academic departments have planned dozens of events throughout the week, featuring talks, performances, exhibits, discussions -- even a Tae Kwon Do workshop that will include a speaker about gender violence.

 Kátia Abreu, Brazilian Senator, Tocantins; President, Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA) A Brazilian lunch will be served. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil. 

The Ethics Center and the Brandeis Student Union present the first weeklong "festival of social justice." Clubs and academic departments have planned dozens of events throughout the week, featuring talks, performances, exhibits, discussions -- even a Tae Kwon Do workshop that will include a speaker about gender violence.

Join the Oxfam Action Corps to support women farmers, fight global hunger, and build a better food system!  You will meet great people and work together to change laws that can save lives, defend the rights of the world’s poorest farmers, and protect communities from rising food prices and climate change.  You will gain leadership skills, have fun, and change the world!Anybody can join the local effort!   All levels of experience are welcome.  You can also apply for Oxfam’s free four-day leadership training in Washington D.C. May 12 – May 15. Apply here http://www.oxfamactioncorps.org  by February 14.

Peace Corps is a 27 month, overseas, all expenses paid experience that will provide you with personal and professional growth. Volunteers serve in over 70 host countries around the world on projects in youth and community development, education, health, business, information technology, agriculture and environment. Qualifications are based on experience, education, and language skills. Peace Corps volunteers receive three months of training; round trip transportation overseas; a monthly living allowance; full medical/dental coverage; federal student loan deferment, 24 vacation days per year, a readjustment allowance of $7,425 (before taxes) at the close of 27 months of service, eligibility for federal jobs, and grad school benefits www.peacecorps.gov/gradschool.

Celebrate the spirit of Valentine’s day with your own floral creation by attending EcoLogic’s first-ever flower arrangement workshop with the wonderfully creative and inspiring Faxon Green.This evening is designed to stimulate your creative spirit. Even the simplest bouquets and arrangements can have flair and surprise. They can also be ecologically "pure." Faxon has a passion for natural beauty and the earth. She recycles, composts and there is no floral foam or plastic in her studio.

The lecture will discuss conceptions of human rights as moral, political, and legal imperatives, and their application to international migration and migrants. Cross-border migration poses the challenge of reconciling the universality of human rights with the current organization of political power through a system of territorial states. Illustrative examples will be drawn from the diversity of relevant international human rights regimes, including recent work of the UN Human Rights Committee.