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Holocaust Legacy Foundation Gideon Klein Scholar Presentation: The Bigger Picture of Ralph Ettelson's Story
Monday, March 16
3:00 – 4:00 PM ET
909 Renaissance Park
Boston campus
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| |  | Melina Coy is a fifth-year student majoring in Business Administration and Political Science. Through this project, she uses her great-grandfather Ralph Ettelson’s story to explore Holocaust history and Jewish life in the places he lived and immigrated through: Vilkaviškis, Lithuania, the Dominican Republic, and New York City. | | |
Melissa Michelson Book Talk: Party at the Ballot Box
Wednesday, March 18
3:00 – 4:15 PM ET
310 Renaissance Park
Boston campus
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| | | Join the Political Science Department for a book talk featuring American political scientist Melissa Michelson. She will discuss her new book Party at the Ballot Box: Mobilizing Black Women Voters. | | |
Robert Salomon Morton Lecture featuring Professor Peter Hayes
Wednesday, March 18
5:00 – 6:30 PM ET
909 Renaissance Park
Boston campus
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| | | Northwestern University Professor Emeritus Peter Hayes traces the ways Germany’s leading executives became deeply implicated in—and in many respects, indispensable to—“the normalization of barbarism.” | | |
Reckonings Community Network Series | We Are Boston: A Jam Session for Culture & Memory Keepers
Wednesday, March 18
5:30 – 9:00 PM ET
Bolling Building
2300 Washington Street
Roxbury, MA
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| | | Join the Reckonings Project for an evening of meaningful connection with culture workers contributing to and preserving Boston community histories. This networking event brings together community historians, artists, storytellers, and collectors from across generations. Together, attendees will envision how honoring Boston’s rich community histories contributes to a more equitable future. | | |
Security and Resilience Speaker Series: Brian Falchuck
Thursday, March 19
3:00 – 4:30 PM
909 Renaissance Park
Boston campus
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| | | The Resilience Studies Program hosts a speaker series annually. This session will be led by Brian Falchuk, President and CEO of Property and Liability Resource Bureau. He will present "Is This the End of Insurance? How a Traditional Approach to Risk Must Change for the Global Economy to Function." | | |
Environment, Atmosphere, Feeling: Chetna Kuanr
Thursday, March 19
4:00 – 6:00 PM
201C Renaissance Park
Boston campus
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| | | Join the Global Asian Studies Program as they spotlight graduate student Chetna Kuanr for the Environment, Atmosphere, Feeling Lecture series. Kuanr will be delivering her lecture "Milk: Mothers, Mobility, and the Buffaloin Punjab." | | |
Women Take the Reel Film Screening: No One Asked You
Thursday, March 19
5:00 – 7:30 PM
105 Behrakis
Boston campus
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| | | Join Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for our Women Take the Reel festival screening of No One Asked You by Ruth Leitman. The film screening will be preceded by a discussion on the current state of abortion rights moderated by Suzanna Walters, Professor and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and featuring WGSS executive committee member and Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Sarah Lee Day and Claire Teylouni of Reproductive Equity Now. Professor Walters will moderate a Q&A with audience members after the film. | | |
ASL Festival
Friday, March 20
9:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Curry Center, 2nd floor suites and Blackman Auditorium
Boston campus
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| | | A one-day festival hosted by the American Sign Language & Interpreting Program. This festival features a combination of Deaf performers, various workshops, and Deaf-owned vendors. | | |
Teaching AI-Powered Research Tools in the First Year and Beyond
Friday, March 20
12:00 – 1:00 PM
SL-216 or via Teams
Boston campus
Attend virtually
| | | In this interactive workshop, CSSH faculty will learn from Snell librarians about effectively teaching AI-powered research tools across a range of disciplines. The workshop is framed around the affordances and limitations of generative AI on secondary research, compares Claude, Scopus, and Scite, and includes guidance on when these tools can best support student learning. With a focus on first-year courses, the workshop is recommended for all CSSH faculty or graduate student instructors with any AI curiosity level. | | |
Philip N. Backstrom Jr. Holocaust Survivor Lecture, featuring Suzanne Resnick
Friday, March 20
1:45 – 3:15 PM
909 Renaissance Park
Boston campus
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| | | Suzanne Resnick was born in Paris and experienced the German occupation of France, the arrest and deportation of her father, and the mass roundup of Jews. She survived the war in hiding with her mother. Ms. Resnick later taught bilingual education and foreign languages in the Boston and Newton, Massachusetts-schools and worked as a computer programmer and educational consultant. | | |
AI for Text Analysis with Python Using BERT and TensorFlow
Tuesday, March 24
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Boston
8:00 - 10:00 AM Oakland
3:00 - 5:00 PM London
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(For teaching faculty and staff)
| | | This workshop will teach participants how to use Python with modern deep learning approaches for AI and text classification, creating a human-machine relationship to process and classify textual datasets. Participants will also learn how to fine-tune BERT models and build neural network classification pipelines with TensorFlow and Keras (popular open source deep learning frameworks). | | |
Let's Talk About "Sinners"
Tuesday, March 24
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Cabral Center
Boston campus
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| | | Join the Africana Studies Program for a panel discussion with Layla Brown, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Africana Studies, and Korey Tillman, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, as they discuss Ryan Coogler's summer hit film, Sinners. | | |
CSSH Undergraduate Research Forum
Thursday, March 26
1:00 – 5:00 PM
310 Renaissance Park
Boston campus
| | | Students from across CSSH present independent research projects on faculty-moderated panels. | | |
Dominating the Domains: Great Power Competition in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
Thursday, March 26
5:00 – 6:15 PM
Alumni Center
Boston campus
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| | | This event is part of the Leaders in Foreign Service Keynote Speakers Series from the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures. The discussion will be led by Esther D. Brimmer, Former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs and James H. Binger, Senior Fellow in Global Governance at the Council of Foreign Relations, with Mai’a Cross, Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy; Director of the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures, moderating the conversation. The conversation will address intensifying great power competition in global domains. | | | | | |
David Lazer
University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences
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Serena Alexander
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Environmental Engineering
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Ann Thresher
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion and Public Policy and Urban Affairs
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Carla Kaplan
Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature; Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Eric Piza
Lipman Family Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Director of Crime Analysis Initiatives
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