WEEK OF FEBRUARY 12, 2024 | |
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Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Nicole Aljoe, Professor of English and Africana Studies; and Meredith Clark, Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies, all spoke at the third annual bell hooks Symposium in Boston. Another session of the symposium, with the theme "Education as a Practice of Freedom: The Black Feminist Classroom," is scheduled for Friday, March 22 at NU's Oakland campus.
Read "Third annual bell hooks symposium, ‘Black Feminist Worldmaking,’ helps kick off Black History Month at Northeastern."
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Kabria Baumgartner
Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies; Associate Director of Public History
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Gregory Zimmerman
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director of Big Data and Quantitative Methods Initiatives
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Call for Proposals for the Ninth Annual CSSH Undergraduate Research Forum
CSSH invites proposals for the upcoming Undergraduate Research Forum on March 20 and 21.
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.
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RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS | |
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Conversations with Public History Alumni
Monday, February 12
3:00 - 4:00 PM
RP 909
Boston campus
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Join the History Department for a conversation with alumni and faculty. Recent grads will speak about their experience job searching, working in the field, and much more. | |
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Return to Seoul: A Film Screening & Conversation with Director Davy Chou
Monday, February 12
6:00 - 9:00 PM
ISEC 102
Boston campus
Register to attend
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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. | |
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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
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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. | |
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Discussion on the Politics of Care
Wednesday, February 21
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Renaissance Park 909
Boston campus
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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." | |
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Ritual & Rupture: A Reading and Conversation with Funto Omojola
Thursday, February 22
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Curry Student Center 144
Boston campus
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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. | |
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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
Register to attend in-person or via livestream
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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. | |
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My Life, My Story Project
Monday, February 26
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Hurtig Hall 310
Boston campus
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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. | |
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Not Funny: The State of Latinos in U.S. Comedy
Monday, February 26
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Renaissance Park 909
Boston campus
Register to attend
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The Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies Program invites you to attend the fourth event of the 2023-24 Speaker Series, Latinxs and Comedy. Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a filmmaker, writer, scholar and professor at Columbia University, where she is also the founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activism Archive and the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities. | | | | |
