This year's Gideon Klein Presentation features Zachary Richmond, 2021-2022 Gideon Klein Scholar. Zachary is a 5th year student in the Music Industry program in the College of Arts, Media and Design. He has focused his curriculum and co-ops on the field of music rights and representation. He is also a drummer and participates in various ensembles at NU such as Jazz Ensemble and Fusion Ensemble.

This lecture features Agnes Kaposi, MBE, RFEng. An advocate for social justice, anti-prejudice and equality, Dr. Kaposi is a Hungarian-born British engineer, educator and author. In 2020, she published her autobiography Yellow Star-Red Star about her life as a child in Hungary before and during the Second World War and under Communist rule, and her subsequent escape to Britain.

A Northeastern University Student Initiative, Sustainable U Productions was established in April 2021 with the goal of portraying important environmental issues in film and emphasizing the importance of individual action. This event will be hosted by Madhavi Venkatesan, Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, and attendees will hear from a panel of experts featured in the film as well as student filmmakers and environmental activists. While the film's premiere will be livestreamed, the panel and other special speeches will only be in-person.

Attend a presentation by Randall Evers, Economics ’22, about his late grandfather George, a Holocaust survivor, and listen to a recording of George telling his story in his own words. Refreshments will be provided.

Join the Humanities Center for an event with Olivia Banner, Associate Professor of Critical Media Studies and Emerging Media Studies, University of Texas at Dallas.

Open Classroom | Teaching to Transgress: Transforming Rape Culture in the Classroom and Community

The guest speakers for this Open Classroom session are Régine Jean-Charles, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, Director of Africana Studies, and Professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies; Casey Corcoran, Youth Sexual Violence Prevention Education Director, Boston Area Rape Crisis Center; and Kate Kemp, Student, Boston College.

Attend a guided visit to the Armenian Heritage Park, a memorial to the Armenian Genocide. We will meet at the Sculpture. The visit will be guided by Barbara Tellalian and Don Tellalian, the architects of the Armenian Heritage Park.

Refer to the MBTA maps here for directions. Please Note: Northeastern affiliates only.

Join the Humanities Center for an event with Laura Kolbe, Doctor and Medical Ethicist at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

The Global Studies and International Relations Program, the College of Professional Studies, and the Africa Global Initiative will host a session the Conversation with Collaborators across Continents series with guest speakers Richard Wamai, Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies, and Hellen Nyakundi, Program Manager, African Centre for Community Investment in Health.

Caffè Italiano is an intercultural language exchange event that takes place weekly on the Boston campus. Italian teaching faculty and students gather to practice speaking Italian using games and other fun activities to develop conversation skills and to learn about Italian culture. The idea is to practice with both native and non-native speakers of the language, to socialize and learn about our multicultural students.

Getting Something to Eat in Jackson by Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. uses food―what people eat and how―to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South. Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. examines how “foodways”―food availability, choice, and consumption―vary greatly between classes of African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi, and how this reflects and shapes their very different experiences of a shared racial identity.

The Robert Salomon Morton Lecture features Jan Grabowski, Professor of History, University of Ottawa.

Most of us are familiar with Holocaust denial. Pure and undiluted Holocaust denial is today, however, very much a fringe phenomenon. Unfortunately, denying the facts of the extermination of European Jews has recently been replaced with Holocaust distortion. In Poland, and in other countries of Eastern and Central Europe, it entails admitting that the Holocaust happened while denying, against the historical evidence, the wide-spread complicity of the members of one’s own national or ethnic community in the event.

This lunch is open to NU students, faculty, and staff and features Nicole Fox, author of After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda.

Faculty Works-in-Progress | Reckonings Fellowship 2021 – 2022

Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research with colleagues, field questions, and foster discussion. This week's presenters are Gavin Shatkin,

Director of the MS in Urban Planning and Policy and MA in International Affairs, and Professor of Public Policy and Architecture; N. Fadeke

Castor, Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies; Jessica Linker, Assistant Professor of History; and K.J.

Rawson, Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Coordinator of Digital Integration Teaching Initiative.