The Middle East: a Lecture Series, Fall 2010

Naghmeh Sohrabi Brandeis University September 21, 2010 State, Politics, and Elections in Iran Kanan Makiya Brandeis University October 21, 2010 Reflections on the Post-elections Future of Iraq Vickie Langohr College of the Holy Cross November 18, 2010 Complicating the Question of Women\u27s Rights in the Middle Eas

Anne P. Carter: a Biographical Presentation

As a case study on the status of women in the economics profession, this article analyzes the fascinating career of Anne P. Carter. Prior to 1966 there were no women in the economics faculty at Harvard. In 1966 Carter became the first assistant professor of the Harvard Economics Department but, while she was permitted to offer seminars on topics of her choice and to advise students, she was never given any teaching assignments. Before that, while a Research Fellow at Harvard (1951-1955), she lectured at Smith College (1951-1953) and at Wellesley College (1954-1955). However, the 1970s were clearly a turn in the sense that Carter’s research interest were extended to energy and economic development issues, and that she left HERP (Wassily Leontief’s Harvard Economic Research Project) and Harvard in 1971 to move to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The situation of women at Harvard was still not encouraging. In 1967 she was one of the first women to become assistant professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard but she felt unwelcome. Hence, after two decades of ambiguous settlement at Harvard, Carter went to Brandeis University as visiting professor and accepted a full professorship in 1972. HERP was closed officially in 1973 and the HERP library and research materials were shipped to Brandeis. In contrast with Harvard’s “stifling constraints on women” (Carter), Brandeis offered many welcome opportunities. Carter’s career at Brandeis is dazzling: between 1972 and 1979 she directed the Brandeis Economic Research Center; she became Fred C. Hecht Professor of Economics in 1976, served as dean of the Faculty from 1981 to 1986, chair of the Department of Economics between 1987 and 1993, and was Acting Dean of Arts and Sciences 1999-2000. Carter greatly developed the department of economics at Brandeis, and in this respect her work with Peter A. Petri was crucial (see Carter and Petri 1977, 1979, 1980, 1986, 1989).women, economic profession, anne carter, biography, feminist, Harvard, Brandeis, input-output analysis, linear programming, technological change, environmental economics, energy issues,

Regulation of Dopamine Release by CASK-β Modulates Locomotor Initiation in Drosophila melanogaster

CASK is an evolutionarily conserved scaffolding protein that has roles in many cell types. In Drosophila, loss of the entire CASK gene or just the CASK- transcript causes a complex set of adult locomotor defects. In this study, we show that the motor initiation component of this phenotype is due to loss of CASK- in dopaminergic neurons and can be specifically rescued by expression of CASK- within this subset of neurons. Functional imaging demonstrates that mutation of CASK- disrupts coupling of neuronal activity to vesicle fusion. Consistent with this, locomotor initiation can be rescued by artificially driving activity in dopaminergic neurons. The molecular mechanism underlying this role of CASK- in dopaminergic neurons involves interaction with Hsc70-4, a molecular chaperone previously shown to regulate calcium-dependent vesicle fusion. These data suggest that there is a novel CASK- -dependent regulatory complex in dopaminergic neurons that serves to link activity and neurotransmitter release.Fil: Slawson, Justin B. Brandeis University; Estados UnidosFil: Kuklin, Elena A. Brandeis University; Estados UnidosFil: Mukherjee, Konark. Brandeis University; Estados UnidosFil: Pírez, Nicolas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquimicas de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Fundación Instituto Leloir; Argentina. Brandeis University; Estados UnidosFil: Donelson, Nathan C. Brandeis University; Estados UnidosFil: Griffith, Leslie C. Brandeis University; Estados Unido

Book Reviews

The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy (Joan M. Ferrante) (Reviewed by Richard H. Lansing, Brandeis Univeresity)Detours of Desire; Readings in the French Baroque (Mitchell Greenburg) (Reviewed by Michael Giordano, Wayne State University)Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (Michael Paul Rogin) (Reviewed by John Franzosa, Wayne State University)On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (Susan Stewart) (Reviewed by Herman Rapaport, University of Iowa)Erring: A Postmodern A/theology (Mark. C. Taylor) (Reviewed by Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Brandeis Univeresity

Structure and mechanics of active colloids

11 pages Acknowledgments MCM thanks Xingbo Yang and Lisa Manning for their contribution to some aspects of the work reviewed here and for fruitful discussions. MCM was supported by NSF-DMR-305184. MCM and AP acknowledge support by the NSF IGERT program through award NSF-DGE-1068780. MCM, AP and DY were additionally supported by the Soft Matter Program at Syracuse University. AP acknowledges use of the Syracuse University HTC Campus Grid which is supported by NSF award ACI-1341006. YF was supported by NSF grant DMR-1149266 and the Brandeis Center for Bioinspired Soft Materials, an NSF MRSEC, DMR-1420382.Peer reviewedPreprin

To Stand in the Brandeis Tradition - Senator Edmund S. Muskie Speaks at the Brandeis University Dinner

Boston, Massachusetts Date: November 14, 1971 Senator Edmund S. Muskie speaks at the Brandeis University Dinner. Discusses Louis Brandeis, Israel, the Supreme Court, Brandeis as a university and its role in politics.https://scarab.bates.edu/msp/1370/thumbnail.jp

Micro-movement and the memory of slavery

Ethan Geringer-Sameth is a student in the MSc Human Rights Programme at LSE and an alumnus of the African and Afro-American Studies Department at Brandeis University

By a Thread: The New Experience of America's Middle Class

Developed in collaboration with the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University, By a Thread: The New Experience of America's Middle Class looks at the financial security of the middle class using the innovative Middle Class Security Index, rating household stability across five core economic factors: assets, educational achievement, housing costs, budget and healthcare. The Index provides a comprehensive portrait of how well middle-class families are faring in each of these areas, with spotlight on the strengths and vulnerabilities of today's middle class

Book Reviews

Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning (Christina Britzolakis) (Reviewed by Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside) Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination (Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi) (Reviewed by Yael Halevi-Wise, Brandeis University) The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 (Laura Hinton) (Reviewed by Andrea Henderson, University of Michigan) The Life of Henry Fielding (Ronald Paulson) (Reviewed by John Stevenson, University of Colorado, Bolder

Reflections On Contributing To “Big Discoveries” About The Fly Clock: Our Fortunate Paths As Post-Docs With 2017 Nobel Laureates Jeff Hall, Michael Rosbash, And Mike Young

In the early 1980s Jeff Hall and Michael Rosbash at Brandeis University and Mike Young at Rockefeller University set out to isolate the period (per) gene, which was recovered in a revolutionary genetic screen by Ron Konopka and Seymour Benzer for mutants that altered circadian behavioral rhythms. Over the next 15 years the Hall, Rosbash and Young labs made a series of groundbreaking discoveries that defined the molecular timekeeping mechanism and formed the basis for them being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Here the authors recount their experiences as post-docs in the Hall, Rosbash and Young labs from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, and provide a perspective of how basic research conducted on a simple model system during that era profoundly influenced the direction of the clocks field and established novel approaches that are now standard operating procedure for studying complex behavior