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Roxbury-Dorchester Community Stories Showcase
Tuesday, April 22
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Grove Hall Branch of the Boston Public Library
41 Geneva Street
Boston, MA 02121
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| |  | This special event features an exhibit of compelling posters that bring local histories to life, alongside a dynamic showcase led by Freedom House Scholars and facilitated by The Reckonings Project. Through engaging team presentations, Scholars will share the insights of interview partners, connect them to their own journeys, and present their visions for the future. | | |
NULab Spring Conference 2025: Social Justice
Friday, April 25
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Snell Library 350 A/B
Boston campus
Register to attend in-person or virtually
Please RSVP by April 15 to join in-person
| | | The NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science will host its eighth annual spring conference, “Social Justice,” showcasing the work of faculty, students, and research collaborators. The keynote address will be delivered by Catherine Knight Steele, Associate Professor of Communications at the University of Maryland. | | |
Digital Futures of Health Humanities: Pedagogies, Practices, Publics
Monday, April 28
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday, April 29
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
RP 909
Boston campus
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| | | This symposium, hosted by the Health, Humanities, and Society Program, gathers an international group of scholars to take stock of the digital futures of health humanities—its pedagogies, its practices, and its publics—to envision together where we might go. Topics include humanities approaches to new health/healthcare technologies; the ethics, history, narrative and rhetorical framing of AI innovations in healthcare; digital humanities approaches to questions of health and healthcare past, present, and future; and many more. | | |
Jazz Square Celebration: International Jazz Day
Wednesday, April 30
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Union Church
485 Columbus Ave.
Boston, MA
Register to attend
| | | The Boston Jazz Foundation, in collaboration with the Reckonings Project, the Claremont Neighborhood Association, and Union United Methodist Church, will hold an International Jazz Day concert and historical exhibit. This celebration of jazz will feature performances by Jason Palmer, one of the most-in-demand trumpeters and composers of his generation and faculty at the New England Conservatory, and Amanda Shea, a renowned spoken-word and multidisciplinary artist, educator and activist residing in Boston. | | |
Reckonings Community Network Series: Facilitating Community Conversations
Wednesday, May 7
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Northeastern Crossing at NU Boston Campus
Register to attend
| | | Join Reckonings Project community partner JerriAnne Boggis, Executive Director of Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire, for a workshop on impactful community conversations. Boggis will give hands-on advice on how she designs and delivers Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire’s highly attended “Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks.” The Tea Talks, an annual community conversation program, center on thought-provoking topics, attract leading speakers, and spark generative community conversations. | | |
Reckonings Community Network Series: Connecting Generations and Memories through Interviews
Thursday, May 15
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Union Church
485 Columbus Ave.
Boston, MA
Register to attend
| | | Are you passionate about collecting community and/or family stories? Are you thinking about a project that involves youth interviewing elders in your community? Learn how to plan and create a multigenerational interview project, preserve stories, and make them publicly accessible. Join the Reckonings Project team and Kevin Williams, Senior Coach at Freedom House, to discuss the why and how of bringing different generations together in an oral history project. | | | | | |
Eli Curwin '25
Political Science and Journalism, BS
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Daniel O'Brien
Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Boston Area Research Initiative; Director, PhD in Public Policy Program
Kimberly Lucas
Professor of the Practice in Public Policy and Economic Justice
Theodore Landsmark
Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy
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John Kwoka
Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics
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Daniel Urman
Director of Hybrid and Online Programs in the School of Law; Director of the Law and Public Policy Minor
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Ellen Cushman
Dean's Professor of Civic Sustainability; Professor of English
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