CSSH Weekly News and Events

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 6, 2026

Faculty Works in Progress Series: Global Fellows Presentations

Monday, February 9

12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

909 RP

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: Biopolitics of the Climate Crisis

2026 Presidents' Day Lecture

Tuesday, February 10

1:30 – 3:00 PM ET

240 Dockser Hall

Boston campus

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Join the Department of Political Science for their Presidents' Day Lecture with Professor Jed Handelsman Shugerman from the Boston University School of Law. Professor Handelsman Shugerman will present “A Faithful President: The Founders vs. the Originalists."

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

Tuesday, February 10

4:00 – 6:00 PM ET

Cabral Center

Boston campus

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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.

Sovereignty, Security, and Coercion: U.S. Power from Venezuela to Greenland

Tuesday, February 10

5:00 – 6:15 PM ET

909 RP

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Join the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures for an examination of contemporary U.S. interventionism. The panel will analyze how U.S. actions in Venezuela and Greenland challenge principles of sovereignty and international cooperation, with implications for NATO alliances and global security architecture.

The panelists are Stephen Flynn, Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Defense Industrial Base Institute; Julie Garey, Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science; Zinaida Miller, Professor of Law and International Affairs and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Global Law & Justice; and Fernando Bizzarro, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College. Gretchen Heefner, Professor and Department Chair of History, will serve as moderator.

Douglass Day 2026

Friday, February 13

12:00 – 1:00 PM ET

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Join the Centers for Digital Scholarship, the Digital Scholarship Group, Archives and Special Collections, the Women Writers Project, and the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences for a transcribe-a-thon in celebration of Douglass Day, an event honoring the life and birthday of Frederick Douglass.

Zinaida Miller, Professor of Law and International Affairs, has published the chapter "Haunting Justice: Racing and De-racing through Transitional Justice" in the new book Race and Transitional Justice.

Tiffany Joseph, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, was awarded the Robin M. Williams, Jr. Lecturer Award from the Eastern Sociological Society. The Award was established in 1993 as part of the Eastern Sociological Society's effort to enhance the sharing of sociological ideas within and beyond the discipline.