My Teaching Routine Book Launch with Mark Martin

Wednesday, March 16

6:00 - 9:00 PM GMT

2:00 - 5:00 PM EDT

Attend via Zoom

“My Teaching Routine” is a teaching framework based on Mark Martin’s two decades of personal experience as an advance-skilled classroom teacher. The framework emphasizes the importance of reflective-metacognition, or considering one's own thoughts and processes, in teaching.

The panel discussion will include questions like:

• What ingredients do you need for great teaching?
• How will my teaching practice evolve post-pandemic?
• What is the correlation between my teaching style and my wellbeing and mental health?
• What makes great teaching in and out of the classroom?

PPE Film Screening and Discussion: GIRL TALK

Thursday, March 16

11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Egan 440

The Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program will host a screening of GIRL TALK, a documentary directed by the late Boston-area filmmaker Lucia Small. GIRL TALK tells the story of five girls on a diverse, top-ranked MA high school debate team as they strive to become the best debaters in the U.S. on their own terms.

Following the film there will be a Q&A session with Stephanie Sunata, Impact Producer of GIRL TALK, and Gaby Lewis, Tufts undergraduate and one of the film's subjects. The Q&A will be moderated by Katy Shorey, Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy, and Meg Heckman, Faculty Affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Assistant Professor of Journalism.

50 Years on from The Limits to Growth, What Did We Learn and What's Next? with Carlos Alvarez Pereira

Thursday, March 16

10:30 AM -12:00 PM PST

1:30 - 3:00 PM EST

Mills Campus, Northeastern University

Oakland, CA Campus

GSB 101

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Carlos Alvarez Pereira, Vice President of the Club of Rome and co-editor of the 50th Anniversary reappraisal of the Club of Rome’s original warning about the environmental dangers of unlimited industrial growth—Limits and Beyond: 50 Years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what's next?—offers a comprehensive perspective on the original intention of The Limits to Growth report and the Club of Rome’s current initiatives for responding to growing environmental crisis. An interdisciplinary collaboration between NU’s Oakland and Boston campuses foregrounding the collaboration of CSSH and Mills colleagues in a range of disciplines, the talk and associated workshop highlight the Club of Rome’s and Northeastern’s shared goal of transforming scientific and humanistic inquiry into social action.

Women Take the Reel Film Festival: Short Films on Abortion

Thursday, March 16

5:00 - 7:00 PM

ISEC 102

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Join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program for an evening of three short feminist films on abortion access and reproductive justice, spanning three generations.

This event is 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). The films include:

• Abortion and Women’s Rights 1970 by Jane Pincus, Catha Maslow, Mary Summers, and Karen Weinstein
• With A Vengeance: The Fight for Reproductive Freedom by Lori Hiris
• Abortion Helpline, This is Lisa by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, and Mike Attie

The screening will be followed by a moderated discussion with Margot Abels, Assistant Teaching Professor of Human Services and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Gloria Sutton, Faculty Affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History.

Refreshments will be served. 

9th Annual CSSH Undergraduate Research Forum

Wednesday, March 22

12:30 PM - 5:00 PM

RP 909

Livestream TBA

CSSH undergraduate students who have conducted research—independently or with faculty, for class or on co-op, completed or still in progress—will present their projects. Attendees are invited to stay for a portion or the entire event.

Feminists on the Politics of Crisis: the Annual WGSS Women's History Month Symposium

Thursday, March 23

5:00 - 6:30 PM

Friday, March 24

8:45 AM - 4:00 PM

Cabral Center

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The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program hosts its annual Women's History Month Symposium, 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—and to suggest feminist frameworks for solutions and strategies forward. 

Ethics Institute Speaker | Daniel Barbarrusa

Friday, March 24

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

RP 426, Philosophy Dept. Common Room

Daniel Barbarrusa is a visiting PhD student from the University of Seville, Spain. For his dissertation, “The Internet, Echo Chambers and Conspiranoia: Digital Challenges Through the Lens of Social Epistemology,” he tries to unpack how the new ways to socialize on the Internet may lead us to form distinct beliefs and theories.

English Department Skok Distinguished Visiting Writer | Kiese Laymon

Tuesday, March 28

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

ISEC 102

Kiese Laymon, Skok Distinguished Visiting Writer, will lead a reading and discussion of his work. In his observant, often hilarious work, Laymon does battle with the personal and the political: race and family, body and shame, poverty and place. He is the author of the award-winning memoir Heavy, the groundbreaking essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, and the novel Long Division. Laymon is a best selling author, social critic, and essayist. He 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."