Center on Crime, Race, and Justice's 6th Annual David B. Schulman Distinguished Lecture Series

Monday, April 1

5:00 - 7:00 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

The present the Sixth Annual David B. Schulman Distinguished Lecture will feature special guest Shaun Gabbidon, Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg.  Professor Gabbidon will be giving a campus-wide talk from his recent book Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America. 

Stories As Medicine: Taino & African Healing & the Environment in Jamaica

Tuesday, April 2

12:00 - 1:30 PM

Egan 440

Boston campus

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This talk by Jamaican Taino chief Kasike Kalaan Nibonrix Kaiman will address “stories as medicine” in his home context, linking this to climate change, the disconnection with environmental cycles and possibilities for healing. This event is sponsored by Africana Studies and by the Arts & Humanities Social Action Lab.

Rape and Reproduction in the Holocaust

Wednesday, April 3

5:30 PM

Alumni Center Pavilion

Boston campus

Zoë Waxman, Professor of Holocaust History at the University of Oxford, will explore the testimonies of both the women who survived and those who did not survive the Holocaust, revealing that even under extreme conditions, gender continues to operate as an important arbiter of experience. This is the 31st Annual Robert Salomon Morton Lecture, part of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week.

AI and Bioethics

Thursday, April 4

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

Please join the Health, Humanities, and Society Program for an event with Marina DiMarco, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religion and Health Sciences, for a discussion on the use of AI in bioethics. 

Community-Driven Archiving

Empowering Preservation and Engagement

Thursday, April 4

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

RP 310

Boston campus

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Join the Northeastern Reckonings Project in conversation with Judith Opoku-Boateng, Archivist in charge of the J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, as she explores why and how the preservation of institutional and community heritage as well as collective memory is paramount.

2024 Boston Area Pedagogy Conference

Saturday, April 6

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Shillman Hall 105 & 220

Boston campus

Join the World Languages Center as it hosts BAPC 2024, Language Teaching in the Age of AI, which aims to explore the evolving relationship between technology and language teaching and learning. The conference will provide a platform for educators to explore the dynamic intersection of technology and best teaching practices.

Rethinking Korea Lecture Series: Dr. Gregg Brazinsky

Wednesday, April 10

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

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 The fourth and final lecture in the series "Rethinking Korea: New Perspectives on a Critical Region" will feature Gregg Brazinsky, Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University. His work focuses on U.S.-East Asian relations during the Cold War. He is the author of Nation Building in South Korea and Winning the The Third World.

Museums, Race and Reparative Justice: Reckoning with Africana Ancestral Entities

Friday, April 12

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Dockser Hall 40

Boston campus

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Join the Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) for a symposium with Kris Manjapra, Stearns Trustee Professor of History and Global Studies and CLEAR Faculty Fellow, and an international group of experts in discussion about the cultural mobilizations, institutional shifts, legal battles and reparative futures resulting from the “call” of ancestral entities held by museums.