The fifth installment of this pop-up seminar series explores sustainable food production and promoting healthy eating. This event features Christopher Bosso, Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Maureen Timmons, Director of Dining Services as guest speakers. 

Join the Political Science department for a conversation with Jacob Remes, Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies in New York University. The emerging field of critical disaster studies takes as a starting point that considering something a disaster is a subjective and political decision: a designation that some suffering is acceptable and normal and other suffering is unacceptable and abnormal.

The Ruffin Society presents the Convocation on Criminal Justice Reform: Here and Now. A distinguished group of judges, academics, law enforcement officials, and community leaders will convene to discuss race and criminal justice in America today. Opening remarks will be delivered by Roderick Ireland,

Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and speakers include Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley; Keith Ellison, Former U.S. Representative and Minnesota Attorney General; Yolanda Smith, Tufts University; Pamerson Ifill, Massachusetts Probation Service; and Branville Bard Jr., Johns Hopkins University.

Join the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs for The Latinx Experience with Amílcar Barreto, Professor and Chair, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Professor and Interim Director, International Affairs; Professor, Political Science; and Ángel Nieves, Professor of Africana Studies, History, and Digital Humanities; Director of Public Humanities.

Join the History Department; Northeastern Humanities Center; and the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies as they host historian Zoë Burkholder. She will analyze the longstanding debates over school integration versus separation among Black communities in Boston. This talk is the first of four in the "Savage Inequalities" series, which examines the history of activists' attempts to confront inequities in US education.

Susan Dynarski, Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, will discuss inequality in education. Professor Dynarski’s research strives to make higher education more accessible—particularly for low-income and first-generation students—by lowering or removing barriers at multiple stages of college admissions, including by improving application processes and simplifying enrollment. Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Director of Research, Dukakis Center, will facilitate.

The Institute on Race and Justice and its Community Advisory Board present the second annual Race and Community Dialogue Series. This series will consist of three panel discussions exploring important topics on race and communities of color amid the pandemic and considerations post Covid-19.