Remembering Hester Piozzi’s Streatham: Place and Sentiment in Eighteenth-century Letters

Monday, December 4

12:00 - 1:00 PM EDT

5:00 - 6:00 PM GMT

Attend via Zoom

Join NULab and Cassie Ulph, Digital Development Officer at the University of Leeds, to discuss her project to map sentiment in relation to place in the letters of the eighteenth century author and salonnière Hester Thrale Piozzi (c.1740-1821).

Policy School Open Classroom | Newsroom Confidential: Politics and Media 2023

Wednesday, December 6

6:00 - 7:30 PM

Shillman Hall, 105

Boston campus

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Public policy, politics, and media are closely intertwined. The Fall 2023 Open Classroom series brings together policy, honors, and journalism students, practitioners, and the general public to discuss these intersections and to learn from each other during the year before America’s next Presidential election. This week's session is titled "Covering Presidents…and Campaigns."

Comparative Colonialism and Decolonization: Differences and Relations

Friday, December 8

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT

Curry Student Center, 3rd Floor

Boston campus

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Join the History Department for an international conference on generative pathways in global and world history. Renowned scholars will debate relational and differential approaches to the comparative study of colonialism and decolonization, 1200s-2000s.

Studying and Teaching Academic Communication: After the Decolonial Turn

Monday, December 11

11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Raytheon Amphitheatre

240 Egan Research Center

Boston campus

Sponsored by the Department of English, the Writing Center, Writing Program, the Asian Studies Program, Northeastern's Humanities Center, the Department of Cultures, Societies & Global Studies, the International Affairs Program, and the Linguistics Program.

The presentation from Suresh Canagarajah, Professor of Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University, highlights the principles of embodiment and relationality as significant for Southern communities, and contrasts them with texts being treated as autonomous, individual, and instrumental in the European tradition.