A Commitment to Engagement and Resilience

As we continue to monitor and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, CSSH will share relevant information as well as stories of resilience from members of our community. 

To submit  Good  News, follow the link after the " Good  News" section below.

The CSSH  event calendar remains active and a source of engaging virtual  events. Please take a look below at what's coming up soon, including this week.
GOOD NEWS
Remaining Resilient
 
Milton Posner, Journalism and Political Science '21, and Beza Zenebe, Political Science '21, connected the historical relevance of past racial justice protests to current protests in an op-ed titled   "It's Not the Spectacle of the Protests That Matters. It's the Substance" for NU Political Review.

Taraneh Azar, Journalism and Political Science '21, also contributed an op-ed to NU Political Review. "Context Collapse: The Fluidity of Memes and Evolution of Social Commentary" is an examination of the meaning of memes in popular culture and the way meaning can shift in line with social and political movements.

Rod Brunson, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Chair of Public Life and Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Department of Political Science, published "Protests Focus on Over-policing. But Under-policing is Also Deadly," an opinion piece in The Washington Post on the complex issue of over-policing versus under-policing.

Matthew Hunt, Professor of Sociology, co-authored an article published in Social Problems. "White Supervisor and Subordinate Beliefs about Black/White Inequality: Implications for Understanding and Reducing Workplace Racial Disparities" concerns the implications of white views of Black Americans for the perpetuation of workplace racial inequalities.   

Ted Landsmark, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, spoke with News@Northeastern for the new series, Voices of Northeastern. The series gives a forum to members of the NU community to share their stories in their own words.


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Achievements and Awards 

Colin Brown, Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science, Sarah Finn, Associate Teaching Professor in English, Melissa Pearson, Assistant Teaching Professor in English, and Katy Shorey, Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Religion have all be awarded Full-time Faculty Professional Development Funds from Northeastern's Provost's Office to advance their professional instruction training .

Loïza Nellec Miles, Assistant Academic Specialist in French, will retire from Northeastern on July 1, 2020, after eleven years as instructor of French in the World Languages Center. Loïza began teaching at Northeastern in the Modern Languages Department in 1985 and she gave her Northeastern students a unique insight into the underlying codes of language - including the structure of their own English grammar. Congratulations,  Loïza!
Virtual Events and Workshops

Tuesday, June 23
12:00 - 2:00 PM
Arsalan ul Haq Dissertation Defense
Email to RSVP

Arsalan ul Haq, a PhD candidate in Literature in the English Department will defend his dissertation titled "Graphic Acts: Narrative Desire and Design in Comics and Architecture"

Presented by the English Department

Tuesday, June 23
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Viral Inequality and Urban Climate Justice

Activist and journalist Julian Brave NoiseCat will discuss how Oakland is setting the agenda. Author and award-winning journalist Derrick Jackson will speak on green justice zones and related approaches to urban climate action. Climate author Joan Fitzgerald, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, will build on these cases with strategies for decarbonizing and revitalizing low-income neighborhoods to create opportunity. All three will reflect on building a national climate justice agenda to support cities. Ted Landsmark, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, will moderate and field audience questions.

Presented by the School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs
Thursday, June 25
9:30 - 10:30 AM

History Repeats Itself: Yellow Peril 
A virtual discussion for the northeastern Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander community during COVID-19.

Presented by Asian Studies and College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Friday, June 26 
3:30 - 4:30 PM

The Smart, Equitable Commonwealth: Co-Creating the Society We Want

BARI's annual conference is a unique forum for greater Boston's civic data ecosystem -- spanning the public sector, private sector, non-profits, community leaders, and academia -- to explore how data and technology can be used to better understand and serve our communities. "Smart cities" should be about more than just efficiency and fancy new tools; it is about partnering across institutions and communities to collaboratively transform all of our cities and towns into the places we want them to be.

Presented by the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)
Coming Up Soon
Friday, July 3 
3:30 - 4:30 PM

The Smart, Equitable Commonwealth: Co-Creating the Society We Want

BARI's annual conference is a unique forum for greater Boston's civic data ecosystem -- spanning the public sector, private sector, non-profits, community leaders, and academia -- to explore how data and technology can be used to better understand and serve our communities. 
Recorded Events to Watch
How Do We Restore Justice for George Floyd?
Watch the Recording

On June 8, Northeastern University hosted a documentary screening and discussion via Facebook Live with  Margaret  Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law, a bout civil rights and restorative justice. The event also included opening remarks from Dean Poiger and Charles Wallace-Thomas, IV, Economics Major, as a panelist for the discussion.