CSSH News and Upcoming Events

WEEK OF MAY 5, 2025

Reckonings Community Network Series: Facilitating Community Conversations

Wednesday, May 7

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Northeastern Crossing at NU Boston Campus

Join the 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

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.

Gretchen Heefner, Chair and Professor of History, has published the new book Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments, which explores how the U.S. military generated a new understanding of extreme environments and attempted to master them.