Join us for an evening of excellent food, great friends and exceptional Insights.

Universities are defined by many things — their faculty, their research, their students, their buildings and landscape. Nothing however, defines a University more than the knowledge, excellence and achievement that takes place in the synapses between these defining features.

Insights, a faculty lecture and dinner series, offers you an opportunity to be dinner guests with Northeastern's finest.

Each Insights evening, we will bring you award-winning and nationally-recognized faculty, staff, and researchers, engaging you in a discourse from multiple disciplines.

Cost:

Each dinner and lecture:
$39 per individual 
$62 per couple
All Insights lectures include a dinner and dessert reception.

$5 of your event registration fee will benefit The Northeastern Fund.

Insights Fall 2009 Program (Spring schedule coming soon!) 

America’s Battle against Human Trafficking in the U.S.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA

Public concern about the illicit movement of people across borders for exploitive commercial sex or labor has increased dramatically over the past two decades. Despite increased attention and significant resources aimed at its eradication, human trafficking has proven difficult to identify and combat because the trafficking of persons is a largely clandestine phenomenon. Professor Farrell will provide insight on new research in human trafficking to aid the U.S. and improve its ability to identify and respond to its fight against human trafficking.

Speaker:

Amy Farrell, PhD’01, Assistant Professor,
College of Criminal Justice, and the Associate
Director for the Institute on Race and Justice

Amy Farrell is an Assistant Professor in the College of Criminal Justice and the Associate Director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on the administration of justice with primary emphasis on measuring the effect of race and gender in police, prosecution, and sentencing practices.

Professor Farrell is conducting research on how law enforcement agencies respond to human trafficking and is also overseeing a project to collect national data on human trafficking cases identified by police for the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Professor Farrell has testified about law enforcement identification of human trafficking before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee and is a co-recipient of the National Institute of Justice’s W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship on crime justice and culture. Her research has recently been published in the Journal of Crime and Delinquency, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences and the Journal of Law and Social Inquiry.

Professor Farrell received her PhD in Law, Policy, and Society from Northeastern University, her master’s degree in sociology from the University of Delaware, and her bachelor’s degree in Government and Sociology from Beloit College.

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Boston: Nearly 400 Years of Troublemakers

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA

Boston is one of this country’s greatest cities, known for its fast-paced atmosphere, exquisite restaurants, wonderful architectural designs, and historical significance. Take a journey with Professor Clay McShane as he walks through history, outlining some of the well-known and little-known Bostonians who were responsible for important cultural changes to the world. Learn about Thomas Edison, who helped light up the world; Alice Thomas, who operated Boston’s first brothel in 1672; Ray Tomlinson, who helped people stay connected via e-mail; and many more. 

Speaker: 

Clay McShane, Professor,
Department of History,
College of Arts and Sciences

Professor Clay McShane, a Professor in the History Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a specialist in United States urban and social history. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on these topics as well as on the history of Boston and the history of technology. He is also an editor of the online discussion group, H-Urban. His monographs include The Automobile: A Chronology (1997) and Down the Asphalt Path: American Cities and the Automobile (1994). He is currently researching the usage of horses in 19th-century American cities, and has presented numerous conference papers in the United States and abroad.

Professor McShane received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1975.

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Will the Grassroots Effect Continue During Obama’s Presidency?

Thursday, November 12, 2009
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Northeastern Club of Boston, One Federal Street, 38th Floor, Boston, MA

President Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election on the strength of a grassroots campaign that had volunteers and local government officials flooding the streets of cities and towns across the United States. Will those outreach efforts continue to be an integral component as he and his administration confront the many social and economic issues affecting America? Former Massachusetts governor and Distinguished Professor of Political Science Michael Dukakis will examine whether President Obama will successfully employ his grassroots approach while tackling the longstanding debate over health care and other governmental reforms.

Speaker:

Michael Dukakis, Distinguished
Professor, Department of Political
Science, College of Arts and Sciences

Michael Stanley Dukakis was elected Governor of Massachusetts in November 1974, returned for a second term in 1982, and was reelected in 1986 to an unprecedented third four-year term. In 1986, his colleagues in the National Governors’ Association voted him the most effective governor in the nation and, in 1988, he was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States, losing to Republican George H.W. Bush.

After leaving political office, Dukakis became a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Health at the University of Hawaii. He taught courses in political leadership and health policy, and led a series of public forums on the reform of the nation’s health care system. Since June 1991, Dukakis has been a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University and visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at UCLA. His research has focused on national health care policy reform and the lessons that national policy makers can learn from state reform efforts.

He is a graduate of Swarthmore College (1955) and Harvard Law School (1960).

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