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This is a period of much pain and rightful outrage in our communities, a time in which we need to speak up and out and continue to look for ways to have a positive impact within Northeastern and beyond.
With all
classes suspended and administrative offices closed on Monday, June 8, we hope you will take this day to participate in the campus events highlighted below and engage in your own modes of reflection or action. Please know that CSSH will have additional opportunities to engage as a community of students, scholars, teachers, advisors, and staff.
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The CSSH
event calendar remains active and a source of engaging virtual
events. Please take a look below at what is coming up soon, including this week.
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Remaining Resilient
Jack McDevitt,
Professor of the Practice in Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Institute on Race and Justice
, spoke with News@Northeastern for "Here's how to reform policing in the U.S." His interview calls for specific structural changes to the current state of policing.
Madhavi Venkatesan
, Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, will host a radio show on WOMR every Friday at 9:00 am ET. The show is titled
Sustainable Practices, after the environmental advocacy organization founded by Professor Venkatesan, and will highlight environmental sustainability issues that impacts Massachusetts residents and also has global implications.
Tiffany Joseph,
Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs,
was cited in an article in The Atlantic.
"How Fear Spreads the Coronavirus"
explores the challenges in testing and treating immigrants for COVID-19 due to threat of deportation and incarceration from ICE and local police departments.
Theodora Christopher (Health, Humanities, and Society minor, '21) received a grant from Medical Health Humanities to conduct a historical public health research project on the relationship between water reservoirs and disease in colonial Boston.
Check out how our colleagues are shaping public discussions here
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Achievements and Awards
Alicia Sasser Modestino,
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Associate Director of the Dukakis Center,
has been selected as a Research Fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School for 2020-21. The appointment will support Professor
Modestino's
continued research on gender and seminar dynamics as well as new research on work and caregiving during COVID-19.
Natasha Frost,
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice,
is the 2020 recipient of the American Society of Criminology's Hebert Bloch Award. The Herbert Bloch Award recognizes outstanding service contributions to the ASC and to the professional interests of criminology.
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Virtual Events and Workshops
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Monday, June 8
11:00 AM
Online Vigil to Remember George Floyd and All African-Americans Whose Lives Have Been Brutally Taken From Us
The university will be showcasing art, poetry, and music created by Black artists, and in solidarity with them, in its Instagram story
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Presented by Northeastern University
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Monday, June 8
2:00 PM
Facebook Live screening of
Murder in Mobile with Margaret Burnham, Founder of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project
Presented by Northeastern University
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Wednesday - Friday, June 10 - 12
SCORAI (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative) Annual Conference
The 2020 SCORAI International Conference will convene scholars and practitioners from around the world who are engaged in work integrating issues of social justice and sustainable consumption as it relates to urban issues and social equity.
Jennie Stephens, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, will serve as co-chair along with Frances Fahy of the National University of Ireland.
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Thursday, June 11
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mapping Black London in World War II
This digital humanities project is led by Dr. Olly Ayers (Senior Lecturer, NCH at Northeastern) and generously supported by CSSH and the Digital Scholarship Group. Since January, the team, including History Experiential Doctoral Fellow Will Whitford,
has been using Geographic Information Systems to examine how wartime London shaped, and was shaped by, diverse groups of black people at a pivotal moment in global history. The project now has an online home as part of the
Digital Cities Research Network, a TIER 1-funded initiative that will build further links between Boston and London over the coming years.
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Friday, June 12
3:30 - 4:30 PM
The Smart, Equitable Commonwealth: Co-Creating the Society We Want
BARI's annual conference is a unique forum for greater Boston's civic data ecosystem -- spanning the public sector, private sector, non-profits, community leaders, and academia -- to explore how data and technology can be used to better understand and serve our communities. "Smart cities" should be about more than just efficiency and fancy new tools; it is about partnering across institutions and communities to collaboratively transform all of our cities and towns into the places we want them to be.
Presented by the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)
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Wednesday, June 17
3:00 - 4:15 PM
Digital Integration Teaching Initiative (DITI) Showcase
Faculty, DITI fellows, and graduate and undergraduate panelists from diverse CSSH disciplines will talk about the experience of working with DITI in a class setting and present the projects developed with DITI support.
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Tuesday, June 23
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Arsalan ul Haq Dissertation Defense
Arsalan ul Haq, a PhD candidate in Literature in the English Department will defend his dissertation titled "Graphic Acts: Narrative Desire and Design in Comics and Architecture"
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Later in June
History Repeats Itself: Yellow Peril
A virtual discussion for the northeastern Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander community during COVID-19.
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