Faculty Works-in-Progress | Reckonings Fellowship 2021 – 2022

Join CSSH faculty members as they share current research with colleagues, field questions, and foster discussion. This week's presenters are Gavin Shatkin,

Director of the MS in Urban Planning and Policy and MA in International Affairs, and Professor of Public Policy and Architecture; N. Fadeke

Castor, Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies; Jessica Linker, Assistant Professor of History; and K.J.

Rawson, Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Coordinator of the Digital Integration Teaching Initiative.

240 Dockser Hall

Hosted by NU School of Law, the annual Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture celebrates the memory of the late Valerie Gordon '93, a fierce advocate for human rights in the US and internationally. The lecture features outstanding lawyers, judges, scholars and advocates who share their experiences in advancing human rights. This year's speaker is Tiffany Joseph, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and Graduate Program Director for Sociology.

This event brings together four leading scholars and archivists for a conversation on anti-racist metadata practices in digital archives. The panelists are

Dorothy Berry, Harvard University; Zakiya Collier, Schomburg Center; Valencia Johnson, Princeton University; and Jessica Tai, Yale University. Following the panelists' presentations, there will be a dialogue on NU projects and institutions led by

Cailin Roles, The Women Writers Project; Alanna Prince, The Early Caribbean Digital Archive; Eamon Schlotterback, The Digital Transgender Archive; Amanda Rust, The Northeastern University Library; Vanessa Torres and Cassie Tanks of UNC Chapel Hill, Apartheid Heritages.

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.

The English department is proud to announce this semester's invited speaker for the Barrs Lecture Series: award-winning poet and librettist Douglas Kearney. Kearney will be in conversation with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Associate Professor of English, Africana Studies, and Art & Design, and Isabel Sobral Campos, Associate Teaching Professor in English and Director of the Writing Center.

The English department, Asian Studies program and Africana Studies program are pleased to host Kim Nguyen, Curator and Head of Programs, California College of the Arts Wattis Institute. She is a recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Emerging Curators in Contemporary Canadian Art and the Joan Lowndes Award from the Canada Council for the Arts for excellence in critical and curatorial writing. She is a member of the arts research collective Asian Brain Trust.

This event's speaker is 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.

The Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) Speaker Series is a lecture series specifically for undergraduate students. The event invites philosophers and scholars to present their academic work to a lay audience, making the process and results of their scholarship accessible to students.

This event's speaker is Justin Bruner, Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Moral Science, University of Arizona. Professor Bruner focuses on social and political philosophy as well as the philosophy of science.

In the Ethics Institute Speaker Series, hosted by the Philosophy and Religion department, visiting scholars share their research with faculty and students alike. Intended to help build a stronger community of scholars, this series demystifies the research process by sharing works in progress.