President Aoun sat down with six students, including CSSH students Alyssa Pascoe, Gabriel Garcia, and Kaleem Ahmid, to talk about their NU experience and why they chose to return to the Boston campus this fall.
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Nicholas Beauchamp, Assistant Professor of Political Science, was interviewed by News@Northeastern on the final debate between Presidential nominees. |
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News@Northeastern reported on the final session of the Racial Literacy event series, which focused on community and policing with moderator Rod Brunson, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Chair of Public Life, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Political Science, and Director of Graduate Mentoring and Diversity Initiatives, and panelists Margaret Burnham, Professor of Law, Rebecca Riccio, Khaled and Olfat Juffali Director of the Social Impact Lab, and Lisa Laguerre, Associate Director of Community Relations in the Institute on Race and Justice. |
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David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, and other researchers from Northeastern, Harvard, Northwestern, and Rutgers shared findings with News@Northeastern from new research showing women over fifty years old are most likely to share pandemic-related stories on Twitter from websites that share fake news, and Republicans are many times more likely to share questionable material than Democrats. Professor Lazer co-authored an opinion piece published in The Washington Post on the impact of mail-in ballots in the election.
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Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Urban Affairs and Economics and Director of Research of the Dukakis Center, spoke with WGBH on the expiration of the eviction moratorium in Massachusetts and the positive effects an extension of the moratorium could have on residents still experiencing hardships due to the pandemic and economic decline.
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Isabel Sobral Campos, Associate Teaching Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center, has published a book-length poem with Blue Figure Press. How to Make Words of Rubble narrates maternal grief and anxiety, regurgitating the languid remains of abject motherhood from the depths of an Old English swamp. A hybrid between choral ode and musical score, the poem seeks a new horology, a resurrected capacity to inhabit time in the presence of disaster. |
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Richard Wamai, Associate Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies, has published an article in Lancet on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD)—a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health outcomes, a diverse set of risk factors, and health system responses. |
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Kirsten Bilas, Administrative Assistant in the History Department, recently appeared on the podcast All Things International Education to discuss international students' engagement & retention and its connection to their spouses' experience. |
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Since the beginning of 2020 many things have changed, and the support of community 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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Author Talk: Manal A. Jamal
Monday, October 26
12:00 - 1:00 PM
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Hosted by the International Affairs Program, Manal A. Jamal will speak about her new book, Promoting Democracy: The Force of Political Settlements in Uncertain Times. Jamal is a professor of Political Science at James Madison University. During the late 1990s, she worked as a researcher and journalist in the Palestinian Territories.
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Economics Department Research Seminar | Weathering an Unexpected Financial Shock: The Role of Cash Grants
Monday, October 26
12:00 - 1:15 PM
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The Department of Economics Seminar series encourages and explores the latest research by scholars. Assistant Professor Justin Gallagher, Montana University, will present on his work. |
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Race, Policing and the Community | Historical Injustices and Present-Day Policing
Tuesday, October 27
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Co-sponsored by Youth and Police Partnership, the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, and the College of Social Sciences and Humanities
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Please join moderators Jack McDevitt, Sam Williams, and panelists Margaret Burnham, Ted Landsmark, and Cambridge Police Department Commissioner Branville G. Bard, Jr. for this important conversation to examine the implications of historical racial injustices as they relate to present day community policing. This forum is part of a four-part series entitled, "Race, Policing and the Community", which will explore important topics about the impact of race on policing in urban settings.
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Composite Bodies Series | Entangled Nuclear Colonialisms, Matters of Force, and the Material Force of Justice
Wednesday, October 28
5:00 - 6:00 PM
The Composite Bodies Series is a partnership between the Northeastern University Humanities Center and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard.
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In the second event in this series, Karen Barad will expand upon their pathbreaking article which states that “quantum theory is shot through with the political.” Barad will outline the socio-political dimensions of their agential realist reworking of quantum physics and will briefly discuss the political nature of matter, followed by a discussion of the article and its implications for notions of justice. Barad’s lecture will provide the ground for a conversation with Daniela Gandorfer, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Santa Cruz working with Barad, and the co-founder of the Logische Phantasie Lab, a research agency that investigates injustices resulting from political, legal, economic, social, physical, and environmental entanglements. |
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Myra Kraft Open Classroom | The Degradation of American Democracy—and the Court
Wednesday, October 28
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Hosted by the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
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This week's session of MKOC will feature Dan Urman, Director of Hybrid and Online Programs in the School of Law and Director of the Law and Public Policy Minor in CSSH, Michael Klarman of Harvard Law School, and Robert Kuttner, Co-Editor of The American Prospect. |
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English MA Alumni Panel: Career Pathway
Thursday, October 29
3:00 - 4:00 PM
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Prospective and admitted English graduate students are invited to attend this webinar and hear from current MA and PhD students and graduate faculty in the department. Topics covered will include research opportunities, fields of study, experiential learning specific to English at NU, and the current student experience. |
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WGSS Annual Symposium | #Feminism: Gender & the 2020 Election
Friday, October 30
10:00 AM - 4:15 PM
Presented by the Northeastern Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and sponsored by the Northeastern Humanities Center
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Expert panelists and attendees of this interdisciplinary symposium will consider how gender and feminist activism should inform our thinking about the upcoming elections. They will look at how feminists might engage social movements, digital spaces, and broader communities in trying to effect social change. Panels will invite conversations about new forms of media in the hands of feminist activists, historical perspectives on gender and electoral politics (in celebration of the anniversary of suffrage), mainstream media coverage of elections through the lens of gender, and leveraging the unprecedented visibility of women (particularly women of color) in both electoral and grassroots politics. |
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CSSH Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium Series | Balancing Liberty and Public Health: Civil Liberties in a Time of Pandemic
Monday, November 2
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Please bring lunch & join us virtually as we listen to faculty presentations from Michael Tolley, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Claudia Haupt, Associate Professor of Law and Political Science, followed by an interactive Q&A!
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Tea on Tuesday Series | Illegal by Degree: Legal Exclusion and Crisis in Mumbai’s Slums
Tuesday, November 10
4:00 PM
Please join Liza Weinstein, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology, for “Illegal by Degree: Legal Exclusion and Crisis in Mumbai’s Slums.” This talk will highlight an international and interdisciplinary research collaboration currently underway in Mumbai, India, examining the impacts of notification status on informal settlements, both before and during the COVID-19 public health crisis.
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Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE): Introduction and Inquiry
Monday, November 16
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
The Northeastern University Public Evaluation Lab (NU-PEL) and the Greater Boston Evaluation Network (GEBN) will be co-hosting a virtual event to introduce Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE). To embed diversity, equity, and inclusion in evaluation and assessment practices, there is an increasing need to focus on the role of culture. We will present and guide conversations on what CRE is, its history, and what it looks like in practice. This is an open event.
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Lynching: Reparations as Restorative Justice
Tuesday, November 17
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Please join the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) 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 will bring 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
A small but growing literature in philosophy is devoted to the understanding of the retweet. The spur for this literature is a kind of puzzle in public discourse: on the one hand, there is a tendency to hold people responsible for their retweets, and to blame them for retweeting material considered offensive or otherwise inappropriate. On the other hand, there is a widely shared, if not universally-recognized feeling that, as the well-known disclaimer has it, "A retweet is not an endorsement." But if a retweet is not an endorsement, what is it? And what is wrong with retweeting offensive or misleading tweets? 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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Fall 2020 Economic Policy Forum | The Color of Money: The History and Creation of the Racial Wealth Gap
Wednesday, November 18
3:00 - 4:30 PM
The Fall 2020 Economic Policy Forum will conclude with Mehrsa Baradaran, Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Professor at University of California, Irvine School of Law. Baradaran is a leading scholar on financial services law and has developed a number of policies to address U.S. economic inequality and the racial wealth gap.
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