CSSH News and Upcoming Events

WEEK OF APRIL 7, 2025

Border Zones of Global South Asia: Diaspora, Dispossession, and Decolonization

Monday, April 7

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Alumni Center

Boston campus

Join this symposium gathering scholars of Global South Asia to think through questions of obliterative and traumatic violence within border zones of the region including Kashmir, Punjab, and Bangladesh, among other geographies. Sahana Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Singapore, will speak about her new book, A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands.

Faculty Works in Progress- Final Panel Presentation

Monday, April 7

12:00 - 1:00 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

Join the Northeastern University Humanities Center to hear faculty share their research and spark discussions that bridge history, identity, and societal change, followed by Q&A.

This session features Isabel Martinez, Associate Professor and Director of Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Jelena Golubović, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and International Affairs; and Laura Forlano, Professor, Art + Design and Communication Studies and Distinguished Senior Fellow at The Burnes Center for Social Change.

The 32nd Annual Robert Salomon Morton Lecture

Tuesday, April 8

5:00 - 6:30 PM

ISEC 102

Boston campus

Join via livestream

Daniel Stone will present Missing Children: The International Tracing Service’s Child Search Branch after World War II. He is a Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at the Royal Holloway, University of London. His most recent book is The Holocaust: An Unfinished History.

This event is part of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week.

Pedagogy-in-Progress | Inclusive AI

Wednesday, April 9

3:00 - 4:00 PM

Attend via Zoom

Please note: Attendance is only open to Northeastern University students, staff, and faculty.

This interactive panel discussion from the Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning through Research features Vance Ricks, Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, and Lance Eaton, Senior Associate Director of AI in Teaching and Learning.

Colonial Histories of the Present: A lecture by Lisa Lowe

Thursday, April 10

4:30 - 6:15 PM

Snell Library 160

Boston campus

In this lecture, Lisa Lowe, Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University, examines the durability of imbricated colonial practices of enclosure, reproduction, and schooling, and the persistence of anti-colonial struggles against them.

Friends: India's Closest Strategic Partners

Thursday, April 10

5:00 - 6:15 PM

RP 909

Boston campus

Join the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures for the launch of Friends: India’s Closest Strategic Partners by Sreeram Chaulia with moderator Lauren MacLean, Professor and Department Chair of Political Science.

Youth Movements in Contemporary Asia: The Transnational Side of the Story

Thursday, April 10

1:30 - 2:45 PM

300 Mass Ave @ Northeastern Horticultural Hall

Boston campus

In this talk, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History at UC Irvine and specialist in Chinese and Hong Kong studies, will draw from stories and arguments in his forthcoming book, The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing.

Kellee Tsai, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, and doctoral candidate Shidai Zhang, were recently awarded the 2024 Best Paper Award for their article, "'One System, Two Shadows:' A Local Public Finance Perspective on China's Shadow Banking System" in China Economic Review.

Kabria Baumgartner, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, has been named a Shapiro Center for American History & Culture Fellow at the Huntington Library, an independent archival research center in California that supports and promotes humanities scholarship.

Professor Baumgartner has also received the 2025 Excellence in Consulting Award from the National Council on Public History.

Cassie McMillan, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Criminology, and Kaley Jones, Criminology & Justice Policy PhD Candidate, recently published "Friends forever? Correlates of high school friendship (in)stability from adolescence to young adulthood" in Social Networks.

Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing Qianqian Zhang-Wu's co-edited book Autoethnographic Explorations of Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences Among Multilingual Scholars: Looking Inward to Move Forward has been published by Multilingual Matters.

Fatuma Mohamed, International Affairs '24, MA was named a 2025-2026 Luce Scholar by the Henry Luce Foundation. The Luce Scholars Program is an experiential fellowship program that offers emerging leaders immersive professional placement in Asia tailored to their interests and aspirations.