The race to respond to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic and vaccinate eligible individuals has revealed important lessons about the role of community risk and resilience during a public health crisis. Neil Maniar, Bouvé́ College of Health Sciences, will explore the relationship between resilience and equity and what we can do now to strengthen our ability to respond to the next big public health challenge through the perspectives of local public health leaders.
Reimagining Together: A Conversation with Nana Nkweti
Please join the Africana Studies Program for the third event in the Reimagining Together series. Author Nana Nkweti will lead a conversation about African feminism, Afrofuturism, contemporary literature, the digital humanities, and more.
Open Classroom: Repairing a Divided America | Boston and America’s Racial and Ethnic Politics: Looking to 2022 and 2024
The fall 2021 semester’s Open Classroom series focuses on hate crimes, anti-Semitism, anti-Asian discrimination, and ways of bringing together disparate groups to address discrimination and reconciliation. Speakers for this session of Open Classroom are TBA.
Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research with colleagues, field questions, and foster discussion. Presenters include Suzanna Danuta Walters, Professor of Sociology and Professor and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Chris Parsons, Associate Professor of History; and Alanna Prince, English PhD candidate.
Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students | Book Launch & Conversation with Experts
The English Department is excited to announce a book launch party and conversation with experts for Professor Qianqian Zhang-Wu’s Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students.
In her book, Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing, takes a unique insider-outsider perspective and adopts digital ethnographic methods to examine the lived first-semester languaging experiences among 12 Chinese undergraduate students studying in American higher education.