The NU Writing Center is thrilled to sponsor this writing workshop March 7-11 for NU faculty, staff, students, and the community at large. Workshops are free, open to the public, and welcome writers of all levels and disciplines.

Monday's workshop will be facilitated by Jessica Abughattas. She is a Kundiman fellow and a graduate of the Antioch University Los Angeles MFA in Creative Writing.

Women Take the Reel Film Festival: Passing

Join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program for a discussion of the film and novel Passing with Professor Carla Kaplan, Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Allyson Hobbs, Professor of African and African American Studies and History at Stanford University, on Monday.

The film, directed by Rebecca Hall, is based on the novel by Nella Larsen and tells the story of two Black women in Harlem in the 1920s. It deals with themes of race, gender, and belonging.

This event is part of the 2022 Women Take the Reel Film Festival, organized by the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality.

CSSH and the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures will host a panel to address the historical context behind Russian aggression, impact on European and global security, potential outcomes of the invasion, implications for refugees, and challenges for Ukrainian citizens, among other key issues. The speakers are Mai’a Cross, Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Serena Parekh, Professor of Philosophy; Simon Rabinovitch, Stotsky Associate Professor in Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies; and Ekaterina Botchkovar, Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

The film director Thato Mwosa will join the Africana Studies Department for a screening and discussion of her film Memoirs of a Black Girl. This event is also in celebration of International Women’s Day. Mwosa, who is originally from Botswana, is committed to lifting up the stories of Black girls and women all over the world.

Join the Department of Philosophy and Religion, the Politics, Philosophy and Economics Program, and the Northeastern University Law School's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy for a virtual discussion and Q&A with human rights advocates William Schulz and Sushma Raman. In their new book, The Coming Good Society, Schulz and Raman argue that rights must adapt to new realities or risk being consigned to irrelevance.

Open Classroom, Spring 2022 | Power to the People: Community Voices in Urban Decision-Making

This session of Open Classroom is "Participatory Modeling and Collaborative Decision-Making for Climate and Social Justice: From Potential to Realization." The panel features Moira Zellner, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science; Renee Wallace, Executive Director, Doers Edge; Dan C. Milz, Assistant Professor, University of Hawai’i Manoa; Miles McNall, Director for Community-Engaged Research, Michigan State University; and Leilah Lyons, Program Director, National Science Foundation.

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.

In the Ethics Institute Speaker Series, hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Religion, visiting scholars share their research with faculty and students alike. Intended to help build a stronger community of scholars, this series de-mystifies the research process by sharing works-in-progress. This event's speaker is Espen Stabell, a visiting scholar from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He engages in research in ethics and practical/applied philosophy.

Wednesday, March 23

3:00 – 5:00 PM

Thursday, March 24

2:00 – 3:30 PM

CSSH undergraduate students who have conducted research—independently or with faculty, for class or on co-op, completed or still in progress—will present their projects.