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Maria Ivanova
Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Professor of Public Policy
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Daniel Medwed
University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice
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Alicia Sasser Modestino
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Research Director, Dukakis Center
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Jack McDevitt
Professor of the Practice Emeritus in Criminology and Criminal Justice
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RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS | |
Tabitha Espina, Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English, has published “The Halo Halo ('Mix Mix') Generation” and “Writing and Identity in Three Generations of Chamorritas and Filipinas on Guam" (co-authored with Sharleen Santos-Bamba, CLASS Associate Dean at University of Guam) in A Marianas Mosaic: Signs and Shifts in Contemporary Island Life, published by Proa Publications and the Northern Marianas Humanities Council. | |
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INTRODUCING FIRST AND FOREMOST
First and Foremost is a journal of writing and art created and published by the first-gen, undocumented, and low-income community at Northeastern. The journal is advised by Caitlin Thornbrugh, Associate Teaching Professor in English and Director of the Writing Minor, and Kat Gonso, Teaching Professor in English and Director of the Writing Center.
First and Foremost is open for submissions until February 17, 2023. Students who identify as part of the first-generation, low-income, and/or undocumented community are invited and encouraged to submit creative pieces for this year’s edition.
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Improving Serious Injury Tracking and Reporting in New York City Jails
Thursday, January 19
5:00 PM
RP 909
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The Center on Crime, Race, and Justice presents "Improving Serious Injury Tracking and Reporting in New York City Jails," featuring keynote speaker Bart Baily, Director of Violence Prevention with the New York City Board of Correction.
This presentation will examine current injury reporting oversight work by the New York City Board of Correction, a civilian oversight agency. Using the New York City jail system as a case study, attendees can better understand the compound variables that contribute to injuries in a correctional setting, including violence, self-harm, excessive force, neglect, structural disrepair, and over-incarceration.
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Women Take the Reel Film Festival: Short Films on Feminists on the Politics of Crisis
Thursday, March 16
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Online registration TBA
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An evening of three short, feminist films on the politics of crisis. This event is both part of the Women Take the Reel Film Festival (hosted by the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality and its member institutions) and a precursor to the Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program's annual Women's History Month Symposium. | |
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Feminists on the Politics of Crisis: the Annual WGSS Women's History Month Symposium
Thursday, March 23
5:30 PM
Cabral Center
Online registration TBA
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The annual Women's History Month Symposium is a lively day of conversation among academics, activists, and writers. This year's theme brings feminist thinkers together to address the greatest crises facing us today—the climate emergency, reproductive justice in the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe, and censorship in education (banned books, critical race theory, "don't say gay" bills)—and to suggest feminist frameworks for solutions and strategies forward. | |
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English Department Skok Distinguished Visiting Writer: Kiese Laymon
Tuesday, March 28
6:00 - 7:30 PM
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Kiese Laymon, Skok Distinguished Visiting Writer in the English Department, will discuss his work. Originally from Mississippi, Laymon does battle with the personal and the political in his memoir Heavy, the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, and the novel Long Division. Laymon is the recipient of a 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship for "bearing witness to the myriad forms of violence that mark the Black experience in formally inventive fiction and nonfiction." | | | | |
