CSSH's Commitment to Engagement and Resilience

As we monitor the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the summer terms, CSSH will continue to share information about virtual  events as well as success stories that proliferate in our college. 

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 is coming up soon, including this week.
GOOD NEWS
Remaining Resilient
 
Madhavi Venkatesan, Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics,  published t he article,  "Teaching Introductory Economics to Promote Sustainability,"  in the academic journal  New Directions in Teaching and Learning . Professor Venkatesan also serves as lead author for chapter 18 of Sustainable Wellbeing Futures: A Research and Action Agenda for Ecological Economics.  

Sebastian Stockman, Associate Teaching Professor of English and Director of the Writing Minor, published a review of the new book  Notes from an Apocalypse from author Mark O'Connell in the  Boston Globe.

Summer Marion, PhD student in Political Science, wrote an article for inclusion in the special issue of the Global Health Governance journal. "Compartmentalized Crises? Understanding the Relationship Between Climate Change Discourse and Governance of Infectious Disease" is a  statistical analysis of infectious disease discourse and its effect on the global health policy agenda between 1990 and 2019.

The English Department has launched a weekly newsletter. It features book recommendations from faculty, writing prompts, and interviews curated by Sebastian Stockman and Laurie Edwards ,  Associate Teaching Professor in English.

Check out how our colleagues are shaping public discussions here : 
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Achievements and Awards 

Three graduate students in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs have been selected as fellows of the Civic Action Project and will be working in state government this summer.
  • Grecia White, studying Urban Informatics, will join the MBTA Financial Control Board.
  • Sky Olander, studying Law and Public Policy, will work in the office of Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka.
  • Elizabeth Biskar, studying Public Policy, will be in the Secretary's Office at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
Victoria Cain, Associate Professor of History, received a grant from the New England Humanities Consortium for  Journal of a Plague Year, an international digital archive that is crowdsourcing images, stories, videos, oral histories and ephemera related to the pandemic.

Arielle Ahrendts, International Affairs '21, and  Stacey Katz Bourns, Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies and Director of the World Languages Center, have been awarded a  PEAK Experiences Base Camp Award from the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships for their project entitled, "Histoires Modernes de Paris: Idealization vs. Reality." The project will critically analyz e  the cultural mythology surrounding Paris.
Virtual Events and Workshops
Tuesday, June 2 
1:45 - 3:00 PM

Canvas Walk-through and Discussion

Carolin Fuchs, Teaching Professor of German and English and Coordinator of Online Teaching and Learning, will lead a demonstration of Northeastern's new platform, and CSSH faculty presenters will share their experiences. Topics will include teamwork and feedback as engaged practices, as well as strategies for social presence and online community-building. There will be an opportunity to explore a completed  Canvas course, and learn from examples such as a virtual Dialogue and virtual  field trip. 

Presented by the Dean's Office
Friday, June 5 
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

Wednesday - Friday, June 10 - 12

SCORAI (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative) Annual Conference

The 2020 SCORAI International Conference will convene scholars and practitioners from around the world who are engaged in work integrating issues of social justice and sustainable consumption as it relates to urban issues and social equity. Jennie Stephens, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, will serve as co-chair along with Frances Fahy of the National University of Ireland.

Thursday, June 11
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mapping Black London in World War II
This digital humanities project is led by Dr. Olly Ayers (Senior Lecturer, NCH at Northeastern) and generously supported by CSSH and the Digital Scholarship Group. Since January, the team has been using Geographic Information Systems to examine how wartime London shaped, and was shaped by, diverse groups of black people at a pivotal moment in global history. The project now has an online home as part of the  Digital Cities Research Network, a TIER 1-funded initiative that will build further links between Boston and London over the coming years.

Wednesday, June 17
3:00 - 4:15 PM
Digital Integration Teaching Initiative (DITI) Showcase

Faculty, DITI fellows, and graduate and undergraduate panelists from diverse CSSH disciplines will talk about the experience of working with DITI in a class setting and present the projects developed with DITI support.
Later in June

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