Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, was profiled by The Heights on her move from Boston College to Northeastern University.
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N. Fadeke Castor, Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies, served as moderator for the 2021-2022 First Pages event, held on September 8. Professor Castor was in conversation with author Yaa Gyasi on Transcendent Kingdom, her novel which explores the interlocking themes of religion, science, family, and mental illness. |
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Moira Zellner, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science in CSSH, was appointed as an Honorary Spokesperson for the City of Buenos Aires through Boston's Voceros Program after serving in that capacity in Chicago .
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Moira Zellner's co-authored article in Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, is helping guide the National Science Foundation's funding agenda for earth systems modeling. |
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John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics, and Tommasso Valletti, former Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission, have published an article in Industrial and Corporate Change that recommends the breakups of dominant firms as a viable option.
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Matthew Hunt, Professor of Sociology, has published an article on white Americans' attitudes toward reparations for slavery in Race and Social Problems. |
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Joan Fitzgerald, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, published op-eds in Planetizen and The Conversation on tangible ways that local legislation can address climate change and social justice. |
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Madhavi Venkatesan, Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, published an op-ed in Real Clear Policy on the adverse impact of plastics pollution. |
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Daniel Urman, Director of Hybrid and Online Programs in the School of Law and Director of the Law and Public Policy Minor , was interviewed by News@Northeastern on the new restrictions against abortion in Texas. |
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Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Director of Research in the Dukakis Center , spoke with Boston Herald on the continued effect of the pandemic on staffing needs and shortages in early education.
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A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado
Tuesday, September 14
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
This event is co-sponsored by NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University and the Culture and Politics Program in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, with support from a Georgetown Global Engagement Faculty Grant for the seminar series in Global Humanities & Public Infrastructures.
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Join NULab for the launch of a digital public humanities project that documents and interprets nuclear geographies and legacies of the Cold War. The Atlas allows users to explore the US nuclear complex and its many scales of operation, relational geographies, and troubling future.
Following an introduction and short demo by the editors, panelists including Gretchen Heefner, Associate Professor of History, will provide insight into their contributions. The event will conclude with a discussion on further expanding this material in educational, policy, and community settings.
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Fall 2021 Pop-Up Course - INPR 2183: Sustainability & Resilience at Northeastern University
Tuesday, September 14
5:00 - 6:30 PM
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This unique, interactive course and open seminar will feature guest speakers that explore the challenges and opportunities for implementing sustainable and resilient programs at NU. The class topics will include energy, recycling, ecology, resilience, sustainable food, and climate justice, as taught by Northeastern faculty and administrative staff. |
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How to End a Failing War
Tuesday, September 14
6:00 - 7:00 PM
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For a century, up until 1945, the United States won almost all its major wars. But since World War II, the country has endured a string of failures and stalemates in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The problem of ending an unwinnable war is the ultimate test of the resilience of the target country, the U.S. military, and even American society. Professor of political science at Swarthmore College Dominic Tierney will explain why the U.S. struggles on the battlefield, how Washington can resolve a failing war, and how America can return to the path of victory.
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Reflections on 9/11:
20 Years Later
Wednesday, September 15
1:45 - 2:30 PM
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Join Stephen Flynn, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Global Resilience Institute; Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religion; Max Abrahms, Associate Professor of Political Science; and moderator Costas Panagopoulos, Department Chair and Professor of Political Science, for a look at the lasting effects of the 9/11 attack. |
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Constitution Day Lecture
Thursday, September 16
10:30 - 11:30 AM
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Join the political science department for a presentation on Rightism with Jamal Greene of Columbia Law School. |
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Asia, America, and the World: Anti-AAPI Hate in the Time of COVID-19
Monday, September 27
4:00 - 5:30 PM
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Dr. Russell Jeung, Founder, Stop AAPI Hate, speaks on Anti-Asian American Pacific Islander hate in the time of COVID-19 COVID-19 as a part of the year-long speaker series “Asia America and the World.”
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