The Africana Studies Program invites you for a conversation with Kim Janey, Mayor of the City of Boston. Mayor Janey will reflect on her experience as the first and only Black woman mayor of the city.

The fall 2021 semester’s Open Classroom series will focus on hate crimes, anti-Semitism, anti-Asian discrimination, and ways of bringing together disparate groups to address discrimination and reconciliation. Speakers for this session are TBA.

Join the Philosophy and Religion department for the PPE Speaker Series. This session will be led by Larry Blum, University of Massachusetts.

Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research with colleagues, field questions and foster discussion. Eunsong Kim, Assistant Professor of English, will present.

This informal event will feature a small panel of humanities students in CSSH speaking about their experiences with the Experiential PhD. Any student interested in an experiential fellowship is encouraged to attend; faculty who advise PhD students are also welcome.

Lior Tabansky, PROGRESS Cyber-Capability Maturity Model, will contrast the ends, ways, and means of American and Israeli national cybersecurity. The goal is to better position societies to benefit from the global digital transformation, not to judge who performs better. This event is sponsored by the Department of Political Science.

Join the Northeastern University Library and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs for a day of interactive keynote addresses, posters, and crowdsourcing data collection to measure the living cost in NU's neighborhood, as well as a mapathon to address issues of equity and social justice. View the event schedule online.

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Mehrsa Baradaran, University of California at Irvine Law School, will discuss banking law, financial inclusion, and racial inequality and her most recent book, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, which explores the history behind the racial wealth gap and the reasons why it has persisted for more than 150 years.

As our world calls for evaluation practices that honors the multiple truths from a range of communities, and serve equitable change, many evaluators are seeking to bridge theory and practice in their work. Mindelyn Anderson, Mirror Group, LLC, will lead an interactive learning session and provide a reflective and action-oriented environment. This is an open event, hosted by the Northeastern University Public Evaluation Lab (NU-PEL) and the Greater Boston Evaluation Network (GEBN), and continues the Culturally Responsive Evaluation series.

Please join the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs for a conference on policy approaches to redressing historical racial harms. The conference brings together lawmakers, academic experts, and advocates from across the country to explore legislative efforts to launch government-sponsored truth proceedings and reparations programs.