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Cooperation Against All Odds: Transnational Networks and the Future of Global Order
Tuesday, October 20
5:30 - 6:45 PM
Register to attend virtually
| |  | This event showcases insights from “Transnational Political Networks and the Future of Global Order,” a multi-year research initiative funded by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation and led by Mai'a Cross, Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy; and Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures. The project’s core finding is that networks oriented toward the common good, operating at a global or regional scale, and pursuing transformational rather than transactional goals are consistently more likely to achieve cooperative breakthroughs. | | |
Economic Policy Forum: ‘Quasi-Markets’: Choice and Competition in Military Procurement in Ukraine
Wednesday, October 21
2:00 - 3:15 PM
Snell Engineering 168
Boston campus
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| | | Professor Sir Julian Le Grand of the London School of Economics will explain how his theory of decentralized “quasi-markets” has been adapted to solve a critical wartime procurement problem: developing and delivering drones quickly to front-line units in Ukraine. The talk will cover the economic logic behind the reform, the conditions required for it to succeed, and its implications for procurement design more generally. | | |
Advancing Resilience:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Constant Disruption
Thursday, October 22
8:15 AM - 3:00 PM
Curry Student Center,
2nd Floor Suites
Boston campus
Register to attend in-person or virtually
| | | This one-day hybrid conference from the Global Resilience Institute brings together leaders from cybersecurity, energy and environmental security, geopolitics, and personal resilience to ask a shared question: what does it take to keep functioning, not just recover, when disruption never fully stops? | | |
Digital Practice Workshop Series: KnightLab Tools
Tuesday, October 27
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Snell Library
Centers for Digital Scholarship, 369
Boston campus
| | | Learn about the potentials of open publishing using Knight Lab tools! This workshop, led by CDS Coordinator Colleen Nugent McLean and Digital Projects Archivist Shireen Zaineb, will cover the benefits of open source digital scholarship tools and provide detailed instructions on using Timeline JS, StoryMap JS, and Storyline JS. | | |
Open Classroom | “Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy" Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Tuesday, October 27
5:00 - 7:00 PM
East Village, 17th floor
Boston campus
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| | | The School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, in partnership with the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, invites the community to a special milestone event: an advance screening of Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy," a documentary chronicling former Massachusetts Governor and longtime Northeastern professor Michael Dukakis's lifelong dedication to public service. | | |
Jeffrey Burds Memorial Speaker Series
Wednesday, October 28
4:45 - 6:15 PM
RP 310
Boston campus
| | | The Department of History, in collaboration with CSSH, is proud to present the fall 2026 installment of the Jeffrey Burds Memorial Speaker Series, in honor of late Professor of History Jeffrey Burds. Peter Richardson of CPS will present, "No War, No Peace, No Incentives: Political, Economic & Strategic Inertia in Russian-Japanese Reconciliation in the Putin Era." | | |
Book Launch: INNER ZONE
Thursday, October 29
3:00 - 5:00 PM
RP 909
Boston campus
| | | Please join us to celebrate the release of INNER ZONE: The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged Sarajevo. Jelena Golubović, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and International Affairs, will be in conversation with Sasha Sabherwal, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Asian Studies, to discuss themes of victimhood, nationalism, and the challenge of telling contentious histories of violence. Copies of the book will be available for sale at a 30% discount. | | |
Speculative Worlds:
A Conversation with R.F. Kuang
Thursday, October 29
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Blackman Theater
Boston campus
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| | | Global Asian Studies hosts author R.F. Kuang to discuss the release of her new book, Taipei Story. Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, Katabasis, and Taipei Story. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. She is the Millard Distinguished Writer in Residence at the College of the Holy Cross. | | |
Policy on the Plaza (Oakland)
Thursday, October 29
5:00 - 6:30 PM PT
8:00 - 9:30 PM ET
Suzanne Adams Plaza
Oakland campus
| | | Graduate students from the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs will offer nonpartisan analyses of California state and local propositions on the November ballot. | | |
Pedagogy-in-Progress | Digital Integration into Teaching Initiative (DITI)
Thursday, November 5
3:00 - 4:00 PM
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| | | This virtual Pedagogy-in-Progress session will feature NULab’s Digital Integration Teaching Initiative, which partners with social science and humanities faculty to teach digital and computational methods. The DITI team will share new resources for teaching digital accessibility and critical applications of AI in graduate and undergraduate classrooms. | | |
AHTWeeks 2026 Is Here — Sept. 21 to Oct. 30
Northeastern's Arts, Humanities, and Tech Weeks return this fall for a season-long celebration of the intersection of creativity, scholarship, and technology. A collaboration spanning the Boston, London, and Oakland campuses, AHTWeeks brings together the Humanities Center, the Center for the Arts, Northeastern Library and Archives, the Center for Design, the NULab, the AHA Lab, the Reckonings Project, the Ethics Institute, the Mills Art Museum, and more for six weeks of talks, screenings, workshops, concerts, and performances.
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Digital Integration Teaching Initiative Spring Call for Partnerships
Northeastern is committed to teaching undergraduates the digital tools, skills, and methods that will enable them to be successful in today’s world. DITI was established to help CSSH faculty meet this goal. We collaborate with faculty across CSSH disciplines to help integrate digital methods and skills in a wide range of classes. The DITI team can also connect with faculty partners on classes that use digital tools and methods to help support learning focused on citizen science and community engagement.
Learn more on the DITI website and submit the DITI partnership request form by November 2, 2026.
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Dan O'Brien
Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Boston Area Research Initiative
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