On election day, Mississippi became the last state to remove the Confederate emblem from its state flag. Patricia Davis, Associate Professor of Communications Studies and Affiliate Associate Professor of Africana Studies, shares her thoughts on the change.
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David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, and Wendy Parmet, George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law, spoke with News@Northeastern on the possibility of a second economic stimulus via federal aid despite months of deadlock in D.C. |
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Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Director of Research for the Dukakis Center, was interviewed by The Washington Post on her research on the economic cost of the pandemic for women. |
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Tiffany Joseph, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, weighed in on the importance of places of worship in helping communities stop the spread of the coronavirus for an article in Deseret News. |
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Costas Panagopoulos, Professor and Department Chair of Political Science, shared his expertise with News@Northeastern on Biden's win and what that means for the country and the GOP. |
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Mai'a Cross, Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, also spoke with News@Northeastern on Biden's win, and its potential to repair a strained relationship between the U.S. and the European Union.
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Jennie C. Stephens, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, and Director of Strategic Research Collaborations for the Global Resilience Institute, and Madhavi Venkatesan, Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, both appeared on the radio show The Point on CAI, the local NPR station for the Cape, Coast and Islands. The episode focused on the link between climate change and racial justice. |
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Phil Brown, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences and Director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute, is quoted in a Medium article on COVID-19 long haulers—people who have lived with the symptoms of the virus for many months. |
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Deadline extended to Feb. 15, 2021
In 2020, community support is more important than ever. Let’s highlight the moments of creativity, resilience, and adaptability of the CSSH community with the 2020 Photo and Video Contest!
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Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020
Monday, November 16 - Sunday, November 22
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Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) is the largest celebration of innovators and entrepreneurs in the world. Through various programs and events held by businesses, organizations, and academic institutions, GEW stimulates the entrepreneurial spirit, inspiring people to create their own startup companies and giving existing entrepreneurs an opportunity to share their expertise. |
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NUImpact Presents: Rebuilding an Economy that Works for All
Monday, November 16 - Tuesday, November 17
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At this event, we will combine perspectives of speakers from academia, grassroots community organizations, and industry professionals to develop an understanding of the intersectionality of racial health disparities, climate change, and housing crises.
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative, will speak at the panel "A New Opportunity to Meet the Climate Crisis."
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Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE): Introduction and Inquiry
Monday, November 16
10:00 - 11:30 AM
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The Northeastern University Public Evaluation Lab (NU-PEL) and the Greater Boston Evaluation Network will be co-hosting a virtual event to discuss Culturally Responsive Evaluation. We will present and guide conversations on what CRE is, its history, and what it looks like in practice.
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Border Realities, Maquiladora Workers, and the Pandemic: A Virtual Tour of Resistance and Struggles in Tijuana
Monday, November 16
2:00 PM
Hosted by the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies.
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Interested in social justice? Learn first-hand about the current life and labor conditions in the border city of Tijuana, especially in the maquiladora industry. See what it looks like to live and work in an industrial border city and migration port from a worker's perspective. |
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Hear us, See Us, Understand us: Cultivating Community in Boston, Roxbury, and Other Neighborhoods of Color
Tuesday, November 17
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Hosted by the Africana Studies Program.
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A panel discussion rooted in nonprofit community work in Boston and its intersections with COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter Movement. |
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Lynching: Reparations as Restorative Justice
Tuesday, November 17
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Please join the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and Africana Studies Program at Northeastern University for this significant and timely conference on reparations as a form of restorative justice for the families of lynching victims. This event brings together scholars, lawyers and descendants of lynching victims to explore avenues for compensatory reparations and other forms of repair.
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Information Ethics Roundtable | On Retweeting
Wednesday, November 18
9:00 - 10:30 AM
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A small but growing literature in philosophy is devoted to the understanding of the retweet. What sort of responsibility do people have for their retweets?
This will be a "pre-read", discussion-oriented meeting, with only a short introduction by the speakers Rachel Sterken, Jessica Pepp, and Eliot Michaelson. Their manuscript will be circulated after registration. Participants are expected to pre-read the material.
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Composite Bodies Series | Vigilare: Visible Justice and the Active Image
Wednesday, November 18
12:00 - 1:00 PM
The Composite Bodies Series is a partnership between the Northeastern University Humanities Center and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.
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Guest speaker Max Houghton is a writer, curator and editor working with the photographic image as it intersects with politics, law and human rights. She runs the MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
The role of the image in determining personhood has a long and violent history; technologies of surveillance have shaped who is seen, how, and by whom. Through the process best described as visuality, certain bodies have been broken, brutalized, ignored, or rendered invisible. Such appearances and disappearances are the theme of this talk, which will take the form of a visual essay, or image-text.
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Myra Kraft Open Classroom | Pandemic Design: Creating Equitable, Healthy and Resilient Places
Wednesday, November 18
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Hosted by the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
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COVID-19, the BLM movement, and destructive fires and hurricanes in 2020 have illuminated the impact of increasing socioeconomic disparity, structural racism, and climate change on our country. What is the role of urban design and development in confronting these issues? Join Anne-Marie Lubenau of The Bruner Foundation and Phillip Barash of The Boston Foundation on how innovative design and placemaking practices are addressing challenges and engaging, connecting and strengthening communities in the process. |
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Data, Activism, and Intersectionality
Thursday, November 19
2:30 - 4:00 PM
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Please join NULab for a panel that will feature Khadijah Abdurahman of the We Be Imagining podcast; Faithe Day, Purdue University; Sureshi M. Jayawardene, San Diego State University; and Ángel Nieves, Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities, and Director of Public Humanities. |
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Data Histories of Health Panel
Friday, November 20
12:00 - 1:30 PM
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This panel features Joanna Radin, Associate Professor of History of Medicine and History at Yale University; and Dan Bouk, Associate Professor of History and University Studies at Colgate, in conversation with Dan Cohen, Dean of Libraries; Vice Provost for Information Collaboration; Professor of History .
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A discussion with Lisa Chute, Program Director at Brooke House – a community based residential reentry program for male returning citizens
Monday, November 23
2:50 - 4:30 PM
Lisa Chute, Program Director at Brooke House, will lead a virtual tour of a reentry facility in Boston. Lisa will discuss her career path in corrections, gender-responsive programming, how staff responded to COVID-19, and ongoing challenges the pandemic presents for staff and residents. All students, faculty, staff, and community members of Northeastern are welcome to attend.
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Race and School Police Relations | Race, Policing and the Community Dialogue Series
Tuesday, December 15
3:30 - 5:00 PM
The Institute on Race and Justice and its' Community Advisory Board Presents a Dialogue Series entitled "Race, Policing and the Community"—four panel discussions exploring important topics about the impact of race on policing in urban settings. The Race and School Police Relations event features panelists Lucinda Mills, District Social Worker at Boston Public Schools; Harry Harding, Children Services of Roxbury, Youth and Police Partnership; Lisa Thurau, Strategies for Youth: Connecting Cops with Kids. The event's moderators are Maddrey Goode, Mass Hire, Boston Career Center, City of Boston & IRJ Community Advisory Board Co-Chair, and Jack McDevitt, Professor of the Practice in Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Institute on Race and Justice.
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