Events
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.
Peter M. Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law at the Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law & Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Some say that universities are simply in the "knowledge business." Others contend that a liberal arts education should propel students to action, particularly in the realm of social justice. What is the right answer for Brandeis University? As Brandeis undertakes a comprehensive strategic planning process under new leadership, setting priorities for years to come, what models from the U.S. and abroad can inform our thinking? Join distinguished members of the International Advisory Board of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, including leaders in government, education, business, and law from Mauritania, Palestine, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Sri Lanka, the U.S., and Venezuela.
We are really excited by the opportunity of bringing Israeli theatre to young(er) American audiences, and will be performing a reading of Savyon Liebrecht's Apples from the Desert. The play was first performed at Beit Lessin in September of 2006, and won the Theater Award for best playwright of the year in 2006. The play tells the story of Rivka, a religious adolescent, whose father is trying to find her a match. Rivka, however, falls in love with Dubi, a kibbutznik, and runs away with him to his southern kibbutz. Her mother, aunt and father refuse to accept her new way of life and head south for a conflict between two worldviews, which are essentially two extremes of the Israeli society.
