CSSH News and Upcoming Events

Any undergraduate CSSH student who has conducted original research independently or in collaboration with a faculty member is eligible to participate. The research topic is open. Students may present results of research conducted in collaboration with faculty or independently. Presentations may emerge from class projects, research-based co-ops, thesis projects, honors in the major projects, capstone projects, etc. Works-in-progress—that is, the sharing of preliminary results—are welcome.

Learn more and submit a proposal by 2/28

RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS

Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing; Alison Stephens, Lecturer in English; and Neal Lerner, Professor of English, have published "Meaningful Writing Projects Among Multilingual Undergraduate Writers: Personal, Practical and Developmental" in Composition Studies.

EVENTS

"Realism pushed to its extreme limits": Digital Literary Mapping onto Victorian London

Tuesday, February 6

10:00 - 11:00 AM

Hurtig Hall 310

Boston campus

Attend via Zoom

Join NULab and Becca Hutcheon, University of South Wales, for a new reading of maps in relation to Sherlock Holmes’ London by working across multiple forms of mapping over time. Attendees will also engage with the explosion of different cartographic projects in the 1880-90s and the issue of cartographic realism in relation to the mapping of literary works.

Using AI Scribes in the Clinic

Thursday, February 8

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Hurtig Hall 310

Boston campus

Join the Health, Humanities, and Society Program for an event with Ian Huntington, MD from the Codman Square Health Center for his talk "Using AI Scribes in the Clinic."

Return to Seoul: A Film Screening & Conversation with Director Davy Chou

Monday, February 12

6:00 - 9:00 PM

ISEC 102

Boston campus

The World Languages Center and the Global Asian Studies Program are pleased to present a screening of Davy Chou's 2022 film Return to Seoul, Cambodia's Submission to the 95th Academy Awards. The film will precede a conversation with the director.

Douglass Day 2024

Wednesday, February 14

12:00 - 1:00 PM ET

Snell Library, 79 (Lower Level)

Boston campus

Attend in-person or via Zoom

Join the Digital Scholarship Group, Archives and Special Collections, the Women Writers Project, and NULab for a transcribe-a-thon in celebration of Douglass Day, an event honoring the life and birthday of Frederick Douglass.

Discussion on the Politics of Care

Wednesday, February 21

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

Renaissance Park 909

Boston campus

Join the Health, Humanities, and Society Program for an event with Rachel Adams, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Provost's Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar, Columbia University, as she discusses the "Politics of Care."

Ritual & Rupture: A Reading and Conversation with Funto Omojola

Thursday, February 22

12:00 - 2:00 PM

Curry Student Center 144

Boston campus

Join the English Department for a poetry reading and Q&A with Funto Omojola, poet, performer, and visual artist. They have worked with Dia Chelsea, the Poetry Project, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and their work has been supported by A.I.R Gallery, Cave Canem Foundation, MASS MoCA, and Millay Arts.

The Ultrasocial World, International Cooperation, and the Implications for Public Policy

Thursday, February 22

5:15 - 8:00 PM

Northeastern University Arlington Campus

1300 17th Street N #1500, Arlington, VA 22209

Join Mai’a Davis Cross, Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures and Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy; moderator Tracy Corley, Director of Programs, Arlington Campus, and Professor of the Practice in Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Esther Brimmer, Council for Foreign Relations; and Gloriela Iguina-Colon, C40 Cities, for a conversation about Professor Cross’s new book, International Cooperation Against All Odds: The Ultrasocial World.

My Life, My Story Project

Monday, February 26

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM

Hurtig Hall 310

Boston campus

Join the Health, Humanities, and Society Program for an event with Susan Nathan, MD, from the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System for their talk on the "My Life, My Story" project.