WEEK OF FEBRUARY 23, 2026

6th Annual Race and Community Dialogue Series


Tuesday, February 24

3:30 – 6:00 PM ET


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Beyond Enforcement: Immigration, Belonging, and Community Safety and will focus on ICE enforcement and its impact on communities. The panelists are:

  • Jack McDevitt, Emeritus Professor of the Practice in Criminology & Criminal Justice and former Director of the Institute on Race and Justice
  • Pastor Mishella Etienne Campbell, Founder and CEO of Project TMI
  • Mario Paredes, Policy Advisor with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Advancement


The dialogue will be moderated by

Charlene Luma, Chief of Staff for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, and Olinka Briceño, Student Services professional and teacher with Boston Public Schools.

Daughters Impact Screening and Panel


Wednesday, February 25

6:30 – 10:00 PM ET


Blackman Auditorium

Ell Hall

Boston campus


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Co-hosted by the Africana Studies Program, the Center for Crime, Race and Justice, the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Community & City Engagement

Join the Africana Studies Program and community partners for a screening of the film Daughters. Daughters is a 2024 documentary which follows a group of incarcerated men and their daughters, four young girls preparing for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail.


Patrice Collins, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Cultures, Societies and Global Studies, and Matthew Alemu, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice, will host a panel discussion and audience Q&A with film's director Angela Patton, Executive Producer Chad Morris, and one of the incarcerated fathers in the film, Leonard Smith.  

Environment, Atmosphere, Feeling Series: GJ Sevillano


Thursday, February 26

4:00 – 6:00 PM ET


909 RP

Boston campus


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Join the Global Asian Studies Program as they spotlight Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Asian American Studies GJ Sevillano for the Environment, Atmosphere, Feeling lecture series. Sevillano will be delivering his lecture titled "Knows-to-Tale: Culinary Epistemologies and Filipino-American Gastropoetics."

Serena Alexander, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Environmental Engineering, has co-authored "Coordinating Transportation and Land Use Strategies Across Scales: Lessons from California’s Climate Action Planning Experience" in the book Climate Finance and Clean Energy - Global Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities in a Changing Landscape.

Jesse Jackson recalled for empathy, listening and Northeastern visits

Northeastern Global News

Margaret Burnham

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies


Ted Landsmark

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs


Richard O'Bryant

Director of the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute; Research Associate of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

Northeastern professors, students explore creative writing in the age of AI

Northeastern Global News

Juliana Spahr

Professor of English

Mills College

‘Something is building.’ Is the arrest of former Prince Andrew the first domino to fall?

Northeastern Global News


What is hawala? Ancient money transfer system now under federal investigation

Straight Arrow News

Nikos Passas

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director, Institute for Security and Public Policy

The US and Russia let ‘START’ nuclear arms treaty expire. Experts say it’s a dangerous move

Northeastern Global News

Stephen Flynn

Professor of Political Science; Founding Director, Global Resilience Institute and Defense Industrial Base Institute

Jousting is central to ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.’ But is it accurate?

Northeastern Global News

Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Professor of English

SAVE Act: Voter suppression or election integrity law?

Northeastern Global News

Nicholas Beauchamp

Associate Professor of Political Science

Does Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ lose the plot of the novel?

Northeastern Global News

Lori Lefkovitz

Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies; Director of Jewish Studies Program; Professor of English

Restored 1914 Asian American silent film added to the National Film Registry

NextShark

Denise Khor

Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Visual Studies and Associate Director of Asian American Studies

TACO or tactical? Trump’s threats risk obscuring his results

Washington Examiner

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Jessica Mitford: a fierce, unruly life

CAI/NPR

Carla Kaplan

Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature; Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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