CSSH Weekly News and Events

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2, 2026

Dos X: On the Crip Ethics of the "Misrecognitive"

Monday, February 2

4:00 – 6:00 PM Boston

RP 909

Boston campus

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The Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies Program presents a lecture event featuring Sony Coráñez Bolton, Associate Professor of English and Spanish and Chair of Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines.

Pedagogy-in-Progress: CSSH Faculty Exchanges on Gen AI

Wednesday, February 4

12:00 – 1:00 PM Boston

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CSSH faculty are invited to a Pedagogy-in-Progress event series. The first session of this interactive panel series features Natalie Bormann, Teaching Professor in Political Science; Roy Gernhardt, Visiting Lecturer in Economics; and Laurie Nardone, Teaching Professor and Director of the English Writing Program.

Economic Policy Forum: Health Care Spending and the American Dream with Zack Cooper

Thursday, February 5

3:00 – 4:20 PM Boston

135 Shillman Hall

Boston campus

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Join the Economics Department and health policy economist Zack Cooper, Associate Professor of Public Health and Economics at Yale University and Director of Health Policy at Yale's Tobin Center for Economic Policy, to examine what's driving health care spending growth and explore practical strategies for bringing costs under control. His research was instrumental in shaping the No Surprises Act of 2021, which protects consumers from unexpected medical bills.

Environment, Atmosphere, Feeling Keynote: Naomi Paik

Thursday, February 5

4:00 – 6:00 PM Boston

Alumni Center

Boston campus

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Join the Global Asian Studies Program for a guest lecture with Naomi Paik, University of Illinois, Chicago. Paik will examine migration through protected areas of the Sonoran Desert from the 1990s to the present. This talk works to bring migrant and environmental justice together under the framework of abolitionist sanctuary that would provide refuge to all lives.

Faculty Works in Progress Series: Global Fellows Presentations

Monday, February 9

12:00 – 1:00 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

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Three Humanities Center Global Fellows will present on their work as it relates to the topic of “Unsettling”:

Judith Bishop: Early Deaf Education and the Deafhood Movement as Unsettling Discourses
Nicholas Brown: Trail Relations: An Unorthodox Guide to the Pacific Crest Trail
Caleb Gayle: Heirs to a Stolen Harvest
Sophie Toff: Biopolitical of the Climate Crisis

A Litany for Survival: Black Studies, Black Students, and Black Scholars Today

Tuesday, February 10

4:00 – 6:00 PM

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Join the Africana Studies Program for a panel discussing the state of Black Studies today with CSSH panelists Kabria Baumgartner, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies; Caleb Gayle, Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Africana Studies; and Régine Jean-Charles, Chair of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, Director of Africana Studies, and Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice and Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and panelists Richard Harris, Director of Northeastern Program in Multicultural Engineering, College of Engineering, and Affiliated Faculty, Department of Africana Studies; and Adrianna Crossing, Assistant Professor, School Psychology Program, Bouvé College of Health Sciences.