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Faculty Works in Progress Series: Global Fellows Presentations
Monday, March 9
12:00 – 1:00 PM ET
909 RP
Boston campus
RSVP to attend in-person or virtually
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Three Humanities Center Global Fellows will present on their work as it relates to the topic of “Unsettling”:
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Odile Jordan | All Red Line: Southeast Asia and the Making of the Second British Empire
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Michael Thornton | Cultivating Empire: Colonial Urbanism on Japan’s Northern Frontier
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Qianqian Zhang- Wu | Unpacking the Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences of Asian American Women Scholars
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Reckonings Community Network Series | In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters and Conversation with the Filmmaker Leslie Askew
Monday, March 9
5:00 – 7:30 PM ET
350 Snell Library
Boston campus
RSVP to attend
| | | In this 250th anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence, view excerpts from the new documentary film In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters and hear from the filmmakers, Leslie Askew and Turlough White. Kabria Baumgartner, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, will moderate a conversation with the filmmakers and Nicole Aljoe, Professor of English and Africana Studies, on how they brought the inspiring story of America’s first published Black author and her life in Boston to the screen. | | |
Leadership in Sustainability (The Future We Design Seminar Series)
Tuesday, March 10
5:00 – 7:30 PM ET
East Village 17th Floor
Boston campus
RSVP to attend
| | | Cities, companies, and campuses are navigating complex transitions toward sustainable operations and governance. This session from the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs convenes municipal officials, corporate leaders, and campus administrators implementing ambitious climate and equity goals, demonstrating how policy innovation happens across sectors and scales. | | |
Film Screening of "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl"
Tuesday, March 10
6:30 – 8:00 PM ET
Cabral Center
Boston campus
RSVP to attend
| | | Join the Africana Studies Program for a free film screening of the 2024 film, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, directed by Rungano Nyoni. | | |
Pedagogy-in-Progress | Faculty Exchanges on GenAI (Session II)
Wednesday, March 11
12:00 - 1:00 PM ET
Attend virtually
| | | The second session of this interactive panel series features John Basl, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Layla Brown, Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Africana Studies, and Gustavo Vicentini, Teaching Professor in Economics. | | |
Economic Policy Forum:
Book Talk with Tim Wu
Wednesday, March 11
12:00 – 1:20 PM ET
108 West Village G
Boston campus
RSVP to attend
| | | Join the Economics Department and Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics John Kwoka for an Economic Policy Forum featuring Tim Wu of Columbia Law School and former White House official, who coined the phrase “net neutrality.” He will discuss his latest book, The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity. | | |
The Global and the Local: Power, Accommodation, and Resistance
Friday, March 13
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET
Cabral Center
Boston campus
RSVP to attend
| | | Join the Northeastern University History Graduate Student Association for its 18th Annual Conference: "The Global and the Local: Power, Accommodation, and Resistance," with keynote speaker Elisabeth Leake, Professor in Diplomatic History at Tufts University. | | |
Holocaust Legacy Foundation Gideon Klein Scholar Presentation featuring Melina Coy
Monday, March 16
3:00 – 4:00 PM ET
909 Renaissance Park
Boston campus
RSVP to attend
| | | Melina Coy is a fifth-year student majoring in Business Administration and Political Science. Through this project, she uses her great-grandfather Ralph Ettelson’s story to explore Holocaust history and Jewish life in the places he lived and immigrated through: Vilkaviškis, Lithuania, the Dominican Republic, and New York City. | | |
Melissa Michelson Book Talk: Party at the Ballot Box
Wednesday, March 18
3:00 – 4:15 PM ET
310 Renaissance Park
Boston campus
RSVP to attend
| | | Join the Political Science Department for a book talk featuring American political scientist Melissa Michelson. She will discuss her new book Party at the Ballot Box: Mobilizing Black Women Voters. | | |
Robert Salomon Morton Lecture featuring Professor Peter Hayes
Wednesday, March 18
5:00 – 6:30 PM ET
909 Renaissance Park
Boston campus
RSVP to attend
| | | Northwestern University Professor Emeritus Peter Hayes traces the ways Germany’s leading executives became deeply implicated in—and in many respects, indispensable to—“the normalization of barbarism.” | | |
Reckonings Community Network Series | We Are Boston: A Jam Session for Culture & Memory Keepers
Wednesday, March 18
5:30 – 9:00 PM ET
Bolling Building
2300 Washington Street
Roxbury, MA
RSVP to attend
| | | Join the Reckonings Project for an evening of meaningful connection with culture workers contributing to and preserving Boston community histories. This networking event brings together community historians, artists, storytellers, and collectors from across generations. Together, attendees will envision how honoring Boston’s rich community histories contributes to a more equitable future. | | |
Sustainability Innovation Week
Northeastern University Global Network
In-person and virtual programming | March 9-13, 2026
Celebrate a week of creativity, collaboration, and innovating technologies across Northeastern’s global network. Join students, faculty, staff, partners, and community members as we explore new ideas, showcase emerging research, and build transformative pathways toward a more sustainable future. Throughout the week, you’ll find a mix of hands-on demonstrations, research spotlights, student projects, conversations with experts, and global campus collaborations, including faculty from CSSH.
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Stephen Flynn
Professor of Political Science; Founding Director, Global Resilience Institute and Defense Industrial Base Institute
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Fang Fang
Associate Teaching Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
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Phil Brown
University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences; Director, Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute
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Matthew Ross
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics
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John Kwoka
Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics
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