(Corrected FWIP Time: 12 pm EDT) CSSH Weekly News and Events

WEEK OF OCTOBER 6, 2025

Faculty Works in Progress | K.J. Rawson

Monday, October 6

5:00 – 6:00 PM BST

12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT

Devon House, Room 136

London campus

Attend via Zoom

Join the Humanities Center to hear faculty share their research and spark discussions that bridge history, identity, and societal change, followed by Q&A.

K.J. Rawson, Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, will present "The Digital Transgender Archive and UK Trans History."

Security and Resilience Speaker Series: 2025-2026

Thursday, October 9

3:00 – 4:30 PM EDT

909 Renaissance Park

Boston Campus

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The Resilience Studies Program hosts a speaker series annually. This session features Scott Knowles, Research Professor of History and Senior Director of Research for the Defense Industrial Base Institute (DIBI).

Reckonings Community Network Series: "Re-Mix, Re-Map, Re-Imagine: Activism in Boston Chinatown"

Tuesday, October 14

5:30 – 8:00 PM EDT

Northeastern’s Center for Design

Boston campus

How can we engage with the history of activism and make connections to a more just future? In this workshop, led by Lani Asunción and Joanna Tam, Reckonings’ Hidden Histories artists-in-residence, attendees will activate the language found in the printed materials published and used by grassroots organizations in Boston Chinatown, currently housed at the Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections. The gathering is part of the Reckonings Community Network Series.

Is International Cooperation Still Possible?

Thursday, October 16

9:00 – 10:30 AM CEST

3:00 – 4:30 AM EDT

Attend virtually

Join the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures and the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs for a livestreamed keynote address featuring Iver Neumann, Director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute. This seminar discusses the power and possibility for international cooperation with a focus on the role of transnational networks in galvanizing change.

Faculty Works in Progress | Ellen Cushman

Monday, October 20

12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT

310 Renaissance Park

Boston campus

Join the Humanities Center to hear faculty share their research and spark discussions that bridge history, identity, and societal change, followed by Q&A.

Ellen Cushman, Dean's Professor of Civic Sustainability and Professor of English, explores the way that stories are the foundation for Indigenous lifeways since time immemorial—as nourishing as land, as necessary as air, as warming as fire, and as sustaining as water.

Narratives of Trauma and Healing

Tuesday, October 21

10:00 – 11:30 AM EDT

909 Renaissance Park

Boston Campus

Join the Jewish Studies Program and Israeli novelist and clinical psychologist Ayelet Gundar-Goshen for a discussion of the impact of trauma in her literary work and the power of storytelling in her therapeutic work.

Reckonings Community Network Series: "What Keeps Us Up at Night!"

Tuesday, October 21

5:00 – 7:00 PM EDT

909 Renaissance Park

Boston Campus

Curated by Becca Berkey, Lecturer of Human Services and Senior Director of Integrative Engagement & Global Impact, and Dzidzor Azaglo, Community Partnership Coordinator, for the Reckonings Project, this session invites participants to reflect on and share the issues that “keep them up at night,” serving as a launching point for honest dialogue, mutual understanding, and collective problem-solving.