PPE Speaker:

Sigal Ben-Porath

Monday, October 16

11:45 AM - 1:25 PM

909 RP

Boston campus

Sigal Ben-Porath is a Professor of Literacy, Culture, and International Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Her latest book, Cancel Wars, argues that the escalating struggles over “cancel culture,” “safe spaces,” and free speech on college campuses are a manifestation of broader democratic erosion in the United States. Ben-Porath sets out to demonstrate the role of the university in American society and, specifically, how it can model free speech in ways that promote democratic ideals.

The PPE Speaker Series is a student-centered lecture event. Speakers share a brief (30-minute) sample of their work and invite students to engage the material with questions and conversation. 

DH Office Hours: Speed Data-ing

Wednesday, October 18

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Virtual event

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Join NULab for the eighth annual “Speed Data-ing.” This virtual event brings together collaborators to discuss digital humanities and computational social science research questions, methodologies, and datasets. This year, Speed Data-ing is in collaboration with the Digital Scholarship Group as a part of the Digital Humanities Open Office Hours series.

Speed Data-ing will feature lightning talks by NU researchers, including several projects supported by NULab Seedling, Community Collaboration, and Travel Grants.

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

Wednesday, October 18

6:00 - 7:30 PM

West Village F, 020

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 "Gender, Trans and LGBTQ Issues and Media Coverage."

Rethinking Korea Lecture Series: Hajin Jun

Wednesday, October 18

4:00 - 6:00 PM

Renaissance Park, Room 909

Boston campus

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Rethinking Korea: New Perspectives on a Critical Region invites distinguished scholars of culture, transnational history, environment, and international relations to offer novel perspectives on Korea while situating its complex place within global developments. The first lecture in the series will feature Hajin Jun, James B. Palais Assistant Professor of Korean History in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She specializes in the history of modern Korea, the Japanese empire, and Christianity in East Asia. Professor Jun's talk is titled "Problem Kin: Ritual Reform and Wartime Mobilization in Colonial Korea."

Diversión and the Comedy of Race

Thursday, October 19

4:00 - 6:00 PM

Renaissance Park, Room 909

Boston campus

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The Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies Program invites you to attend the second event of the 2023-2024 Speaker Series. The second speaker in the series is Albert Laguna, Associate Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and American Studies at Yale University. His research and teaching interests include transnational Latinx literatures and cultures, comparative ethnic studies, performance studies, and popular culture studies.

17th Annual Black New England Conference: “I, Too, Sing: Art, Music, and Writing in BIPOC Communities”

Friday & Saturday, October 20 & 21

Fenway Center

77 St. Stephen Street

Boston campus

Conference and registration information

The 17th Annual Black New England Conference is an annual two-day gathering where scholars, artists, activists, and community members share insights and research on Black experiences, past and present, in New England and beyond. The Conference is both an academic conference and a celebration of Black life and history. "I, Too, Sing: Art, Music, and Writing" will also celebrate the success stories of the artists, scholars, individuals, and institutions that serve as beacons of hope for future generations. Conference participants include Uta Poiger, Special Advisor to the Provost on Humanics and Professor of History; Denise Khor, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Visual Studies and Associate Director of Asian American Studies; Dzidzor Azaglo, Community Partnership Coordinator; and Laurel Schlegel, MA student in Public History.

The Conference is collaboration of Northeastern University with the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire and the Reckonings Project.

After Men: Modernist Adventure and the Regendering of Work

Tuesday, October 24

11:45 AM - 1:25 PM

Barrs Room, 472 Holmes Hall

Boston campus

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The English Department will host a talk with Sam Waterman, Assistant Professor in English at Northeastern University London. Professor Waterman will give an overview of his monograph project on modernist adventure. Rather than reading the modernist period as one in which adventure romance reaches its terminal phase, this talk will argue that several authors of the period—amongst them E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and Elizabeth Bowen—appropriated the language of masculine adventure to give form to the workplace aspirations of women and queer subjects during a phase of workplace modernization.

Center for International Affairs and World Cultures Launch

Tuesday, October 24

5:15 - 6:30 PM

909 RP

Boston campus

Join the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures to celebrate the center's launch. The event will include upcoming event and program announcements featuring faculty books, and opportunities to meet and mingle.