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WEEK OF FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Northeastern University Graduate Fair 2025


Monday, February 3

12:00 - 3:00 PM


Indoor Quad

Curry Student Center

Boston campus

Attend Northeastern's graduate fair and meet with representatives to explore graduate programs and our global campus network in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Learn about the Double Husky Scholarship—a 25% tuition discount on more than 120 eligible programs.

The Future of the Middle East Peace Process


Tuesday, February 4

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM


240 Egan Research Center

Boston campus


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This event is open to the Northeastern community; all registrants must use their NU email address to register to attend.

The Center for International Affairs and World Cultures will host Ghaith al-Omari of the Washington Institute's Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship, and Dennis Ross from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, as part of the Leaders in Foreign Service Speaker Series. The moderator is Denise Garcia, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs.

Reimagining the World: Black Girls, Play, and Photography as Agents of Change


Tuesday, February 4

4:00 - 6:00 PM


EXP, 8th Floor

Boston campus


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Join the Africana Studies Program for a conversation with this year's Africana Studies Artist in Residence, Scheherazade Tillet—Trinidadian and African American photographer, art therapist, and community organizer. As a curator and social documentary photographer, Tillet uses site-specific work to explore the themes of gendered vulnerability, racial invisibility, pleasure, and play. 

Coffee & Conversation with Jennie Stephens


Wednesday, February 5

12:00 - 1:00 PM


RP 909

Boston campus

Jennie Stephens, Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, will discuss her new book Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future For All about reclaiming the public good mission of higher education and restructuring universities for transformative climate justice.

Security and Resilience Speaker Series: Spring 2025


Thursday, February 6

6:00 - 7:30 PM


RP 909

Boston campus


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February's panel, on disaster risk reduction, features Daniel Aldrich Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Resilience Studies Program; Stephen Flynn, Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Global Resilience Institute; and Mikio Ishiwatari, Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo.

Black Feminism, Black Art


Friday, February 7

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM


East Village, 17th Floor

Boston campus


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The Africana Studies Program invites you to the fifth annual bell hooks symposium. This year's theme, Black Feminism, Black Art, explores the intersections of Black feminist praxis and art creation, critiquing, and interpretation, and discuss how Black feminism informs not only the making of art but also how we view and engage with it in today's world.

Black Feminist Book Club


Thursday, February 13

5:00 - 6:30 PM


Virtual event


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The Africana Studies Program is hosting their annual Black Feminist Book Club. Attendees will continue January's discussion on We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson.

Crossing Digital Fronteras: Rehumanizing Latinx Education and Digital Humanities


Tuesday, February 18

4:00 - 6:00 PM


RP 909

Boston campus


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Isabel Martinez, Associate Professor and Director of Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, will discuss her new book, Crossing Digital Fronteras: Rehumanizing Latinx Education and Digital Humanities (State University of New York Press). Crossing Digital Fronteras centers critical Latinx Digital Humanities to illustrate the ways college faculty and Latinx students harness digital tools in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Latinx Studies courses.

How a Northeastern professor is using big data to address urban inequities

Northeastern Global News

Dan O'Brien

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Boston Area Research Initiative

Should the Trump administration retire the US penny? There are ‘good economic arguments’ in favor, economists say

Northeastern Global News

Robert Triest

Professor of Economics

The 19th Explains: What sex trafficking is — and isn’t

The 19th

Amy Farrell

Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Are returning wildfire victims facing a hidden toxic threat? Northeastern health expert weighs in

Northeastern Global News

Phil Brown

University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences; Director, Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute

Advocate Health Care closing all 47 of its clinics inside Illinois Walgreens stores

Chicago Tribune

Timothy Hoff

Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems and Public Policy

3.8 magnitude earthquake rattles Maine to Boston — and should serve as ‘conversation starter for preparedness,’ expert says

Northeastern Global News


January 2025 Economist Snapshot: Los Angeles Wildfires Recovery Will Be Costly and Lengthy

Urban Land

Daniel Aldrich

Professor, Political Science and Public Policy; Co-Director of the Global Resilience Institute

Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies

The Berkshire Eagle

Joan Fitzgerald

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

How Popular Is Deporting Migrants? What Polls Show

Newsweek


Trump Has Two Years to Push Through Sweeping Change Before Likely Roadblock

Newsweek

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Breaking the Deadlock in the Plastics Negotiations

SDG Knowledge Hub

Maria Ivanova

Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Professor of Public Policy

U.S. walks away from clean world

Daily Tribune

Aleksandra Jakubowski

Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Economics

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