Arriving to Brandeis Campus
Brandeis is located at 415 South St., Waltham, MA 02453.
The DSS conference will be held in the Mandel Center for the Humanities located at the top of Loop Road. Click here for an interactive map of Brandeis campus.
From outside the Boston area
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Amtrak operates the train services to Boston. If you are traveling by train then commuter rail, note that this is easiest if you are riding Amtrak’s Downeaster line to North Station. Most other trains arrive at South Station, and you will need to plan additional time to take the T (Boston's Subway) to North Station and catch the 8:35am or 11:30am commuter rail.
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If you are flying, you will need to fly to Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). Once you arrive in Boston, you may take the train (though there is no direct line from the airport to Brandeis), or may choose to use a shuttle van service. If you are coming from the airport on the day of the conference, plan extra time to arrive; it can take a while.
From the Boston area
Brandeis is accessible by public transportation, but the Sunday service is very limited.
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Bus (70 is the only one that runs on Sundays.) If you exit this bus at Tavern Rd & Weston St or Weston St. at Cederwood Ave. it will leave you with a four block walk thru a neighborhood to the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
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Commuter Rail. (Exit Brandeis/Roberts stop. Either the 8:35 am or the 11:30 am train will get you to campus in time for the conference.)
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Brandeis also has a free shuttle bus that picks up/lets off at Harvard Sq. and at Beacon/Massachusetts Ave.; it will drop off/pick up at the Brandeis bus stop next to the Mandel Center for the Humanities. (While the bus will not get you to the conference in time, it’s an easy way to get back to Cambridge or the city when it’s over.)
Accomodations
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Brandeis has a list of preferred hotels. Make sure you mention that you are coming for a Brandeis event to get the discount rate. Of these, Indigo Hotel is located near the Riverside T station (Boston's subway system) and is a short taxi ride to campus.
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Other hotels in the area can be located here. If you are trying to coordinate a hotel elsewhere in the city, feel free to ask us any questions you may have.
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As a tip, you may also want to check with your home institution because they may offer discounts that are available to you based on their own contracts with Hotel co-ops.
Places to Eat
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Click here for a list of on-campus dining options, including a kosher cafeteria at Sherman Hall. (Note, for a quick bite or coffe, Einstein Bros Bagels is located in the Shapiro Campus Center.)
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Other dining options near Brandeis can be found here. The closest is Prime Deli, about a five-minute walk south of campus, just past the railroad tracks.
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Most kosher restaurants are in Newton and Brighton.