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Keep Moving Forward: A Conversation about Social Movement Building Past and Present
Tuesday, January 20
4:30 – 5:30 PM
John D. O'Bryant African American Institute
Cabral Center
Boston campus
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| |  | Join Ted Landsmark, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Khaled and Olfat Juffali Director of the Social Impact Lab Rebecca Riccio for a conversation about social movement building, past and present. They will reflect on their experiences as social justice activists and share lessons about building social movements in challenging times. | | |
Ellen Cushman and Sarah Connell at King's College London
Thursday, January 22
10:30 – 11:30 AM Boston
7:30 – 8:30 AM Oakland
3:30 – 4:30 PM London
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Ellen Cushman, Dean's Professor of Civic Sustainability and Professor of English, will present "Translating Ecologies of Thought: The Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence (DAILP)." DAILP provides a reading and writing ecology for Indigenous language practice and documentation.
Sarah Connell, Associate Director for NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science, will present "'The Sciences Round about Me': Digital Methods for Investigating the Impacts of Early Modern Women on Scientific Discourse." This presentation will share insights from a new initiative studying the impacts of women on the sciences during the watershed period of the seventeenth century in Great Britain.
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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 Borman, Teaching Professor in Political Science; Roy Gernhardt, Visiting Lecturer in Economics; and Laurie Nardone, Teaching Professor and Director of the English Writing Program. | | |
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”:
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Judith Bishop: Early Deaf Education and the Deafhood Movement as Unsettling Discourses
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Nicholas Brown: Trail Relations: An Unorthodox Guide to the Pacific Crest Trail
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Caleb Gayle: Heirs to a Stolen Harvest
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Sophie Toff: Biopolitical of the Climate Crisis
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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. | | |
Call for Proposals for the 2026 BARI Conference
The BARI Conference 2026: Greater Boston's 10th Annual Insight to Impact Conference will be held on May 8, 2026 at Northeastern University's Boston campus. The BARI Conference is a unique forum for community leaders, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to share how they are leveraging the tools of research, scholarship, and design with and for the communities of Greater Boston—and how we can do even more through collective action. Share your work with Greater Boston's Civic Research and Data community!
Learn more about the conference and submit a proposal.
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Ted Landsmark
Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
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Julie Garey
Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science
Peter Fraunholtz
Assistant Teaching Professor in History and International Affairs
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Mai'a Cross
Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy; Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures
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Régine Jean-Charles
Chair, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Director of Africana Studies; Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice; Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Maria Ivanova
Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Professor of Public Policy; Co-Director of the Plastics Center at Northeastern
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Eric Piza
Lipman Family Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of Crime Analysis Initiatives
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