David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences (top right), was joined by colleagues across Northeastern and other universities for a presentation of their research, a series of nationwide surveys that gauge everything from the public’s support of a vaccine to people’s satisfaction with how the government has handled the crisis.
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Nikos Passas, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Co-Director of the Institute for Security and Public Policy, was highlighted by News@Northeastern for his work with colleagues from Northeastern and researchers from Boston University, and the University of Houston developing techniques to disrupt the global trade of counterfeit medicines and medical equipment.
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Costas Panagopoulos, Department Chair and Professor of Political Science, spoke with Tech Xplore about the increase of data collection and voter targeting by political campaigns using their own technology to circumvent restrictions imposed by social media platforms following the Cambridge Analytica scandal .
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Amílcar Antonio Barreto, Professor of Global Studies, Political Science and International Affairs, and Interim Chair of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies, was interviewed by News@Northeastern on the effects of multiple catastrophes on Puerto Rico.
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Moderator Nicole Aljoe, Director of the Africana Studies Program and Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies, and panelists Eunsong Kim, Assistant Professor of English, Gloria Sutton, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History (CAMD) and Faculty Affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Melissa Pearson, Assistant Teaching Professor in English, were featured in a News@Northeastern story on the third session of Racial Literacy on how culture, including art and fiction, shapes notions of race and racial hierarchies and creates possibilities for change in understanding race on a personal and systemic level.
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Patricia Illingworth, Professor of Philosophy , is quoted in a POLITICO story on the ethics of accepting donations from Jeffrey Epstein.
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Jennie Stephens, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy, and Director of Strategic Research Collaborations for the Global Resilience Institute, spoke with News@Northeastern on her newest book and the future of climate change reform efforts once the presidential election has been decided.
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Jessica Silbey, Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of English, was featured in News@Northeastern for her recent Klein Lecture, “Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age.”
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Sari Altschuler, Associate Professor of English, Associate Director of the Northeastern Humanities Center, and Director of the Health, Humanities, and Society minor, was featured in a recent COVID-19 forum of American Literature for her co-written article, “COVID-19: Pandemic Reading,” which speaks to reading practices for a pandemic time.
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Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Distinguished Professor of English and Co-Director of NULab for Text, Maps, and Networks, and alumna Kate Simpkins (PhD ’16), were featured in the COVID-19 forum of American Literature for their co-written article which explores alternative knowledge systems that help us to understand modes of human-environmental connection, semiotics of relation, and text networks of literature and oral history in the midst of the pandemic-induced knowledge crisis.
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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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Faculty Works-in-Progress Colloquium Series | The Pandemic and Digital Data Collection with Victoria Cain and Dan O'Brien
Monday, October 19
12:00 - 1:00 PM
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Please bring lunch & join us virtually as we listen to faculty presentations followed by an interactive Q&A!
Victoria Cain, Associate Professor of History, will speak on her involvement in "A Journal of a Plague Year: An Archive of Covid-19." Dan O'Brien,
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminal Justice, and Director, Boston Area Research Institute, will share findings from the
COVID in Boston Database.
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Virtual Information Ethics Roundtable Talk with Massimo Pigliucci
Monday, October 19
2:00 - 3:30 PM
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Massimo Pigliucci, City College of New York will present on "The Philosophy of Pseudoscience" and address what philosophers call “the demarcation problem,” concerned with the nature of science and pseudoscience.
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English MA & Undergrad Alumni Panel: PhD Pathway
Tuesday, October 20
5:00 - 6:30 PM
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This panel, open to all, explores career pathways following graduation from an undergraduate or masters-level English program. Alumni panelists Josh Krutchten, Kyle Oddis, and Rhya Moffitt Brooke will discuss how they navigated the job search and built their career paths.
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Racial Literacy: Community and Policing
Tuesday, October 20
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Presented by the Presidential Council on Diversity and Inclusion
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The history of policing in the U.S. is intertwined with the histories of slavery, voter suppression, and racial profiling, and yet effective policing strategies should and can contribute to the safety of communities. Against such a complicated back-drop, moderator Rod Brunson and panelists Margaret Burnham, Lisa Bailey-Laguerre, and Rebecca Riccio will offer nuanced analysis on how aggressive policing practices have produced negative effects on Black citizens’ perceptions of, and experiences with, the police.
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Myra Kraft Open Classroom | Climate and Energy Justice
Wednesday, October 21
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Hosted by the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
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English MA Alumni Panel: Career Pathway
Thursday, October 22
3:00 - 4:00 PM
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This event, open to all, explores career pathways following graduation from a masters-level English program. This panel, featuring alumni Leah Lapszynski, Brice Lanham, and Karla Gaitan, will serve as an opportunity to hear from alumni on how they navigated the job search and built their career paths.
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Author Talk: Manal A. Jamal
Monday, October 26
12:00 - 1:00 PM
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. She is a professor of Political Science at James Madison University and has held research fellowship positions at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and at U.C. Berkeley's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. During the late 1990s, she worked as a researcher and journalist in the Palestinian Territories.
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Race, Policing and the Community | Historical Injustices and Present-Day Policing
Tuesday, October 27
3:30 - 5:00 PM
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 it relates 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. It is 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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WGSS Annual Symposium | #Feminism: Gender & the 2020 Election
Friday, October 30
10:00 AM
Expert panelists and participants in 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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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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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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