Faculty Works-in-Progress | Artificial Intelligence as Social Power

Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research with colleagues, field questions, and foster discussion. This week's presenter is Chad Lee-Stronach, Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Please join the Institute on Race and Justice and its Community Advisory Board for this important conversation to examine the dynamic of race, corrections, and re-entry from a mental health perspective.

The panelists are Romilda Pereira, Founder and CEO, Project Turnaround; Jeremy Thompson, Credible Messenger, Executive Office of Public Safety & Security, School of Reentry, Boston Pre-Release Center; Marshall Lane, Prison to Prosperity; Richard O'Bryant, Director, John D. O'Bryant African American Institute; and moderator Sam Williams, Executive Director, Concord Prison Outreach Inc. and Co-Director of the IRJ Community Advisory Board.

Open Classroom | Economic Justice: Investing in Local Communities for Transformation

The guest speakers for this Open Classroom session are Jennie C. Stephens, Director, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Nia K. Evans, Executive Director, Boston Ujima Project; Jock Payten, Interim Managing Director of the Ujima Fund, Boston Ujima Project; and Alex Papali, Director of Regional Economies, Center for Economic Democracy.

Thursday, March 31

10:00 - 11:30 AM

The Northeastern University Public Evaluation Lab and the Greater Boston Evaluation Network will co-host a virtual event to continue the Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) series. Dr. Mindelyn Anderson, founder of Mirror Group, LLC, will be leading a follow up webinar to the 90-minute interactive learning session that took place last November, where participants will be able to draft and practice creating tools for CRE.

Join the Humanities Center for an event with Suzanne Koven, MD, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Caffè Italiano is an intercultural language exchange event that takes place weekly on the Boston campus. Italian teaching faculty and students gather to practice speaking Italian using games and other fun activities to develop conversation skills and to learn about Italian culture. The idea is to practice with both native and non-native speakers of the language, to socialize and learn about our multicultural students.

Speaker Victor Ray, F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor

Ph.D. Duke University, will discuss the concept of racialized burdens. Racialized burdens are the experience of learning, compliance and psychological costs, which serve as tools to reinforce racial inequality.

NULab will hold its fifth annual spring conference, showcasing the work of our faculty, graduate students, and research collaborators. This year, the conference will have the theme “What now?” and will share research on taking stock of current events, envisioning possible futures, and living with the unexpected. The keynote will be delivered by Gabriela Baeza Ventura, associate professor of Hispanic literature, and Carolina Villarroel, Brown Foundation director of research for Arte Público Press, both at the University of Houston.

The conference will be virtual with an in-person lunch and social gathering in the "Central West" tent on the West Village Quad from 10:30am to 4:30pm. All are welcome to join! Bring your laptop and listen to the conference, catch up with fellow attendees, and enjoy lunch, breakfast, or a snack.

Rafal Urbaniak, Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Fellow, Philosophy & Religion, will present "Taking Uncertainty Seriously: A Bayesian Approach to Bias Estimation in Natural Language Processing."

A Northeastern University Student Initiative, Sustainable U Productions, was established in April 2021 with the goal of portraying important environmental issues in film and emphasizing the importance of individual action. This event will be hosted by Madhavi Venkatesan, Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, and attendees will hear from a panel of experts featured in the film as well as student filmmakers and environmental activists. While the film's premiere will be livestreamed, the panel and other special speeches will only be in-person.