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WEEK OF APRIL 22, 2024

IN THE NEWS

Mai'a Cross, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures (CIAWC), and Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy, hosted the launch of the CIAWC's Leaders in Foreign Service speaker series with Karen Donfried, former U.S. assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs.


Read "2024 will prove a crucial year for EU, the Russia-Ukraine war, former State Department official says."

People are blaming cloud seeding for the Dubai flooding. But what is cloud seeding?

Northeastern Global News

Laura Kuhl

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs


Auroop Ganguly

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Affiliate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

From Donald Trump to Karen Read—how does jury selection proceed in high-profile cases?

Northeastern Global News


A Boston police officer’s body was found two years ago in a snowy yard. Now his girlfriend goes on trial for murder.

CNN

Daniel Medwed

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

Global Educator Award winner has built a career on opening the world to Northeastern students

Northeastern Global News

Denis Sullivan

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Graduate Programs Director for the PhD and MA

Taylor Swift keeps releasing different vinyl editions of “The Tortured Poets Department.” Is this wasteful?

Northeastern Global News

Catherine Fairfield

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

Iran’s strike on Israel can be seen as “declaration of war,” Northeastern expert says

Northeastern Global News

Max Abrahms

Associate Professor of Political Science

Playing God with the atmosphere

The Atlantic

Laura Kuhl

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs

Donald Trump scores win on abortion

Newsweek

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Department Chair

Coming soon: towers and a shopping plaza over the Pike in Back Bay

WBUR

Ted Landsmark

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

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RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS

Congratulations to the CSSH faculty and students recognized at the 14th Academic Honors Convocation! Learn more about the award winners in the Northeastern Global News article "14th Academic Honors Convocation recognizes Northeastern students and faculty for their scholarship, research, leadership and innovation."

Tiffany Joseph, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affair and Sociology Graduate Program Director, recently published the co-authored op-ed "Citizenship privilege harms science" in Nature.

Zinaida Miller, Professor of Law and International Affairs, published "The Impossible Necessity of Racial Justice in Transitional Justice," a review essay, in the International Journal of Transitional Justice.

Laura Kuhl, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs, has published "Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund" in Climate Policy.

Learn about the New England Consortium of Latina/o Studies (NECLS) and meetings held at NU in collaboration with Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies and director Isabel Martinez in the web post " New England Consortium of Latina/o Studies Comes to Northeastern" from Sociology PhD Student Julisa Fernandez-Rivera.

EVENTS

Poetics for the City: Africa, Extraction, and the Worlding of Literature


Tuesday, April 23

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM


Matthews Arena

Boston campus

Join the English Department for a lecture by Cajetan Iheka, Professor of English at Yale University specializing in African and Caribbean literatures, ecocriticism, ecomedia, and the environmental humanities. He also serves as Director of the Whitney Humanities Center, Chair of the Council on African Studies, and Head of the Africa Initiative at Yale.

Doctor of Philosophy Hooding and Graduation Ceremony


Monday, April 29

3:30 PM


RP 909

Boston campus


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Doctor of Philosophy candidates will be eligible to attend Northeastern's Doctor of Philosophy hooding & graduation ceremony.

2024 CSSH Celebration


Saturday, May 4

6:00 PM


Matthews Arena

Boston campus


Learn more

The Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities will lead a celebration of the achievements of 2024 Bachelor’s and Master’s degree graduates. This ticketed event will be followed by NU's commencement at Fenway Park on May 5th.

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