Events Archive
Fall 2010
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Forum: Healthcare Collaboration Across Historical and Cultural Landscapes
Thursday September 16, 3-4:30PM, 202 Columbus Place
Stephanie Boyle (History): "Medical Cosmopolitanism: Religion and Medical Collaboration in the Egyptian Delta City of Tanta in the late 19th Century"
Christopher Prener (Sociology): "Negotiation and Collaboration: The Contested Terrain of Emergency Medical Service Work"
"Memory, Trauma and Location" Lecture Series: "Remembering the Nameless: Egypt's Memorial to it's Unknown Soldiers" by Professor Yoram Meital
Monday September 27, 2PM, 90 Snell Library.
Narration of the Body and Embodied Narratives Working Group Meeting
Wednesday September 29, 9-10:30AM, 202 Columbus Place
Identities Working Group Meeting
Wednesday September 29, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Biography and Life Story Working Group Meeting
Wednesday October 6, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Meet the Author: Paul Harding
Tuesday October 12, 12-1:30PM, 90 Snell Library
The Humanities Center will co-sponsor a talk by Paul Harding, the author of Tinkers, with the Northeastern University Libraries.
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Forum: Ideologies in Education
Thursday October 14, 3-4:30PM, 202 Columbus Place
Heather Browne (Political Science): "Nationalism, Education Reform & Rational Choice in Egypt in the 19th & 20th Centuries"
Katrina Uhly (Sociology): "Loosening the Foundations for Action: Feminist Theory and Sociology in the Academy"
Callie Crossley Residency
October 18 - October 22. Sponsored by The Artists and Practitioners in Residence Program.
NU and Boston Community Partners Panel Discussion on Violence Prevention
Tuesday October 19, 2:50PM-4:50PM, 335 Shillman Hall
NEU Faculty, staff, students, and local community advocates will examine the impact of violence in the Boston community and beyond. Journalist and APRP Resident Callie Crossley will help the group examine this issue, exploring how fact and fiction about violence influence our perceptions of the safety and security of daily life. Refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by the Humanities Center’s Artists and Practitioners in Residence Program (APRP) and the Human Services Program.
Informal Discussion on Career Development with Callie Crossley
Tuesday October 19, 6-7:30PM, 108 West Village H
The Humanities Center's Artists and Practitioners in Residence Program will host media commentator, radio host, and film/television producer Callie Crossley in a student-run open discussion about career development in politics, history, journalism, television, radio, and film. Free DVDs of Crossley's documentary series, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 will be raffled at the event. Refreshments, including pizza, will be served. Free and open to the entire Northeastern community; students (both graduate and undergraduate) are especially encouraged to attend.
Narration of the Body and Embodied Narratives Working Group Meeting
Wednesday October 20, 8:30-10AM, 202 Columbus Place
Cosmic Evolution Theory and the Integration of Knowledge Working Group Meeting
Thursday October 21, 2:50-4:30PM, 202 Columbus Place
Urban Health Policy, Race, Gender Disparities, and the Law: A Panel Discussion
Thursday October 21, 5-7PM, 450 Dodge A-C
This panel will explore some of the current situations facing people of color and women locally, nationally, and globally relative to urban health policy, race/gender disparities, and the law. Panelists include award-winning news producer Callie Crossley and Northeastern faculty members: Dr. Gia Barboza, Dr. Richard Wamai, and Dr. Elmer Freeman. Co-sponsored by the Artists and Practitioners in Residence Program and African American Studies.
Identities Working Group Meeting
Wednesday October 27, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Biography and Life Story Working Group Meeting
Wednesday November 3, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Narration of the Body and Embodied Narration Working Group Meeting
Wednesday November 17, 9-10:30AM, 202 Columbus Place
Graduate Student Open House
Wednesday November 17, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Cosmic Evolution Theory and the Integration of Knowledge Working Group Meeting
Thursday November 18, 2:50-4:30PM, 202 Columbus Place
Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World
Wednesday December 1, 12-1:30PM, 440 Egan
Hester Eisenstein is a Professor of Sociology at Queens College and at the Graduate School and University Center in New York City. From February 1996 to December 2000 she served as the Director of the Women's Studies Program at Queens College. Her major publications include Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State (Temple University Press, 1996); Gender Shock: Practicing Feminism on Two Continents (Beacon, 1991); and Contemporary Feminist Thought (G.K. Hall, 1983). Professor Eisenstein's current teaching and research focus on gender and globalization in relation to the international women's movement. She combines teaching and activism in a fruitful synthesis and encourages such a blend in her students.
Sponsored by the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Humanities Center, and the Sociology and Anthropology Department. Refreshments will be provided following the lecture.
Identities Working Group Meeting
Wednesday December 1, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Forum
Thursday December 2, 12-1:30PM, 202 Columbus Place
Yingchan Zhang (Sociology): "The Experiences of Immigrant Nurses in Lowell, MA: A Case Study"
Joshua Sooter (History: "“We Must Know of Them”: Christian Missionaries’ Efforts to Know and Convert Chinese Muslims, 1910-1950"
Biography and Life Story Working Group Meeting
Wednesday December 8, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Cosmic Evolution Theory and the Integration of Knowledge Working Group Meeting
Thursday December 16, 2:50-4:30PM, 202 Columbus Place
Narration of the Body and Embodied Narratives Working Group Meeting
Wednesday December 22, 9-10:30AM, 202 Columbus Place
Spring 2010
Sexualities Working Group Meeting
Tuesday January 12, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Performance Arts and Social Engagement Working Group Meeting
Tuesday January 19, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Graduate Funding in the Humanities: a workshop/panel discussion for graduate students
Thursday January 21, 3-4:30PM, 202 Columbus Place
Featuring brief presentations by Professors Hilary Poriss, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, and Carla Kaplan, followed by discussion and refreshments.
On December 18, The New York Times provided the depressing (but not surprising) news that the jobs and funding in the humanities were “bleaker” because of the recession. The article went on to provide statistics that support the stories we all know anecdotally already: the humanities seem to get a smaller and smaller piece of the pie in the current academic climate. This workshop will address how graduate students can best compete for research and fellowship support during these difficult times.
Faculty members with experience in external funding will discuss such topics as:
How to find fellowships that are suitable to your interests and needs. What kinds of fellowships are available and why and when one should apply.
"10 things you need to know" to develop grant-writing success.
How to write a competitive grant or fellowship proposal; “selling” your project; what to say and what not to say.
Identities Working Group Meeting
Tuesday January 26, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Sexualities Working Group Meeting
Tuesday February 2, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Film Series: Film Biography, and Social Change - Thunder in Guyana (2003)
Thursday February 4, 2:50-3:40PM, 90 Snell Library
Thunder in Guyana (2003 documentary, 50 min.), directed by Suzanne Wasserman.
Synopsis: Thunder in Guyana is the remarkable tale of Janet Jagan, a young woman from Chicago who married Guyanese activist Cheddi Jagan, and set off for the British colony to start a socialist revolution. For more than fifty years, the couple fought tirelessly to liberate the country from colonial rule and exploitation—despite battering by the international press, imprisonment and the intervention of world figures including Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy. Free and fair elections were instituted in the early 90's, and Janet Jagan was elected president of Guyana in 1997, the first foreign-born and first woman to serve in the role.
Historian Suzanne Wasserman (Jagan’s cousin) creates a rich historical portrait combining interviews with friends and family, excerpts from Janet’s letters, archival photographs and footage, and video captured during Janet’s dramatic presidential campaign. The film illuminates the life of an extraordinary woman and the complex history of the little understood country of Guyana. (Courtesy of Women Make Movies.)
More »Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Forum
Thursday February 18, 3-4:30PM, 202 Columbus Place
David Smith (Political Science): "Perceived Threats and the Integration of National Minorities."
Stacy Fahrenthold (History): '"We Bring to America Our Great Heritage": The Syrian and Lebanese Civilizing Mission in the United States, 1905-1935."
Film Series: Film, Biography, and Social Change - Gunner Palace (2004)
Thursday February 25, 2:50-4:20PM, 90 Snell Library
Gunner Palace (2004 documentary, 86 min.), directed by Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker.
Introduction to screening by Seyda Aylin Gurses, Visiting Scholar in Women’s Studies.
Synopsis: American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the "Gunners," tell of their experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Holed up in a bombed out pleasure palace built by Sadaam Hussein, the soldiers endured hostile situations some four months after President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in the country. (Courtesy of imdb.com.)
More »Twenty-First Century Chain of Change
Friday March 26
The John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute and the Humanities Center at Northeastern University are pleased to announce the conference Twenty-First Century Chain of Change on Friday, March 26, 2010.
For a schedule of events and information about the speakers, click here. »More »
Wilson Lecture by Chinua Achebe
Co-sponsored with Wellesley's Newhouse Center for the Humanities.
Friday March 5, 7:30PM, Houghton Chapel at Wellesley College
More »The Northeastern University Humanities Center has been allocated a limited number of seats for "Celebrating Chinua Achebe: The 2010 Wilson Lecture," a FREE lecture hosted by the Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College. Reservations will be taken in the order received until allotted seats are filled.
Sexualities Working Group Meeting
Tuesday March 9, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Biography and Life Story Working Group Meeting
Wednesday March 10, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Film Series: Film, Biography, and Social Engagement - William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2009)
Thursday March 11, 2:50PM, 90 Snell Library
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2009, 85 min.), directed by Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler.
Synopsis: William Kunstler was one of the most famous lawyers of the 20th century. The New York Times called him "the most hated and most loved lawyer in America." His clients included Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Phillip and Daniel Berrigan, Abbie Hoffman, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Leonard Peltier. Filmmakers Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler explore their father's life, from middle-class family man, to movement lawyer. (Courtesy of imdb.com.)
More »Performance Arts and Social Engagement Working Group Meeting
Tuesday March 16, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Holocaust Awareness Week
March 23-26
The Holocaust Awareness Committee at Northeastern University annually and publicly remembers the Holocaust, not only as historical fact and as a memorial to its millions of victims, but also as a warning. Programs will be presented bearing witness to the Holocaust events and exploring issues arising out of the War of Extermination against Jews and other groups targeted by the Nazis, as well as applying lessons learned from the Holocaust to contemporary issues.
More »With Justice For All: Morton Lecture given by Morris Dees
Wednesday March 24, 11:45 – 1:30PM, Raytheon Amphitheater, Egan Center
Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center and human rights activist, will bring his message of tolerance and justice to Northeastern University. Mr. Dees and the SPLC have been at the forefront of the struggle against hate and intolerance and are internationally known for tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups, including white supremacists and neo-Nazis, and from winning landmark legal victories on behalf of the exploited, the powerless, and the forgotten.
This is a ticketed event. Tickets are free but must be obtained prior to the event. Tickets available at the Spiritual Life Center in 203 Ell, Interdisciplinary Studies office in 207 Lake, through the Holocaust Awareness Committee at 617-373-2728 or a.grenell@neu.edu or Women’s Studies office at l.wang@neu.edu. Photo ID will be required along with ticket. Reception to follow his talk. (Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center.)
Identities Working Group Meeting
Tuesday March 30, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Forum
The Environment: Representations and Realities
Thursday April 1, 3-4:30PM, 202 Columbus Place
Lisa Granquist (Law, Policy & Society): "Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and the Preservation of Massachusetts Coastal Communities."
Michael Dedek (English): "Human as Environment, Environment as Human: the Lyric Speaker in Gary Snyder's Early Poems."
If you would like to present at a future forum, email nuhumanities@neu.edu.
Sexualities Working Group Meeting
Tuesday April 6, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
New Faculty, New Perspectives: Sexuality Studies Now
Tuesday April 6, 5-6:30PM, 716 Columbus Ave, Room 212, Suite 202
A panel discussion featuring:
Dr. Linda Blum, Sociology: "Just Don't Use the Word 'Breasts': Studying Sexuality and Embodiment in Sociology."
Dr. Barry Chung, Counseling & Applied Educational Psychology: "Sexual Orientation in the Workplace."
Dr. Rachel Rosenbloom, School of Law: "Regulating Sexuality through Immigration Law."
Film Series: Film, Biography, and Social Change - My Israel (2008)
Wednesday April 7, 11:50-1:30PM, ***NEW LOCATION: 20 West Village F***
My Israel (2008, 90 min), directed by Yulie Cohen.
There will be a personal appearance by Yulie Cohen, April 8, 90 Snell Library 2:50-4:30 p.m., followed by a reception. Yulie Cohen’s visit is co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, Cinema Studies, Jewish Studies, Women’s Studies, International Affairs, the Middle East Center, Interdisciplinary Studies and Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Synopsis: Few filmmakers have probed issues of Israeli nationalism and Israeli-Palestinian relations more completely or intimately than Tel Aviv-born Yulie Cohen. In My Israel, Cohen revisits her acclaimed trilogy My Terrorist (2002), My Land Zion (2004), and My Brother (2007) with new footage, fresh perspective, and her trademark fearlessness. For Cohen, Israel is the land of her ancestors, the land her parents fought for during the 1948 war and the land she herself served as an Air Force officer during the Entebbe crisis. In 1978, working as an El Al stewardess, she survived a terrorist attack in London that killed a colleague and left her with shrapnel in her arm. Embarking on a difficult and emotional journey, she attempts to free the surviving terrorist who attacked her, to question the myths of the state that she grew up in, and to reconcile with her ultra-orthodox brother after 25 years of estrangement. My Israel is an account of remarkable courage and understanding set against the last turbulent decade of Israeli history. (Courtesy of Northeastern University Libraries.)
More »Biography and Life Story Working Group Meeting
Wednesday April 7, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Film Series: Film, Biography, and Social Change - Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight Los Angeles (2000) and The Loophole of Retreat (1992)
Thursday April 15, 2:50PM, ***NEW LOCATION: 20 West Village F***
Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight Los Angeles (2000, 97 min.), directed by Marc Levin.
Synopsis: This adaptation of Anna Deavere Smith’s powerful theater piece comes to PBS nearly 10 years to the day after the L.A. riots began. Smith’s stage method is something like theatrical journalism, collecting interviews from hundreds of participants, victims and bystanders and assembling them in a collage in which she plays all the parts. Levin adds a few documentary touches, including footage from 1992 and from 1999, when Smith went back to L.A. to do further interviews. (Courtesy of Sam Adams, Philadelphia Citypaper.)
Followed by The Loophole of Retreat (1992, 10 min), directed by Ellen Driscoll.
This film showcases “The Loophole of Retreat,” a mixed media, interactive installation that recreates the true experience of 19th century fugitive slave Harriet Jacobs. Its creator, Ellen Driscoll, currently the head of the sculpture department at Rhode Island School of Design, is a multi-media artist whose work explores resource consumption and material lineage. She has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among many others.There will be a discussion following the screenings.
More »Marking Time, a show at Gallery 360
April 20-May 11
An exhibition at Northeastern's Gallery 360 showcasing the paintings of Dorothy Braudy.
Meet the Author: Dr. Lisa Sanders, Every Patient Tells a Story
Wednesday, April 21, 12-1:30PM, 90 Snell Library
A public lecture and book signing by Dr. Lisa Sanders, focusing on Every Patient Tells a Story.
Dr. Sanders’s illuminating book, Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis (Broadway Books, 2009) puts readers on the front lines of medicine, offering an unflinching look at the combination of uncertainty and intrigue that doctors experience when confronting patients who are sick or dying. Through a series of fascinating real-life medical cases, she sheds new light on the intricate series of interactions between doctor and patient that constitute the diagnostic process, revealing how a small misstep by either one can lead to an incorrect or incomplete diagnosis. (Broadway Books.)
Sponsored by Northeastern University Libraries, the Northeastern University Humanities Center, the Artists and Practitioners in Residence Program, and the Northeastern University Bookstore.
Gallery Opening Reception for Dorothy Braudy's "Marking Time"
Wednesday, April 21, 2-4PM, Gallery 360
The Arts of Being: How We Tell Life Stories Now
Wednesday, April 21, 5-7PM, Amilcar Cabral Memorial Student Center at the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute, 40 Leon St., West Village F
A public event featuring biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook, sculptor Ellen Driscoll, cultural and film critic Leo Braudy, New York Times columnist Dr. Lisa Sanders, and Northeastern's own Dr. Kimberly Juanita Brown.
For more information about the panelists, click here.»An Informal Discussion on Career Development with Dr. Lisa Sanders
Wednesday, April 21, 6-7:30PM, 201 Mugar Life Sciences Building
Co-sponsored by The Northeastern University Humanities Center's Artist and Practitioners in Residence Program and the Bouve College of Health Sciences.
Dr. Shan Mohammed will host Dr. Lisa Sanders, the brains behind the TV show House, in an open discussion about career development: health care, medicine, journalism, television and education. Students may be interested in discussing how it may be possible to do more than one thing in a demanding career and thinking about creative career building “outside the box”. Free House DVDs, including the full series, will be raffled at the event.
Identities Working Group Meeting
Tuesday April 27, 5-7PM, 202 Columbus Place
Fall 2009
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Forum
October 1, 2009
Estye Fenton (Sociology): "Ideologies of Mothering and Women's Labor Force Participation"
Jen Sopchockchai (English): "The Textual Absence and Cinematic Presence of Romance in The Lord of the Rings and Prince Caspian"
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Forum
November 5. 2009
Tej Kumar Karki (Law, Policy, & Society): "Should Planners Join Politics?"
Julie Hall (Communication Studies): "Talkin' About My Regeneration: PUtting the People into Planning"
The Coltranes and Humanism: Spirituality, Music and Sound
November 13, 2009
Alice and John Coltrane have made important contributions to a multicultural American and global humanism. A diverse group of musicians and scholars assessed and discussed those contributions in the form of a roundtable of speakers, including the distinguished musician/scholar Yusef Lateef, joined by Professor Tammy Kernodle of Miami University in Ohio and Northeastern Professors Emmett Price and Leonard Brown. A conversation with the audience followed, addressing not only the Coltrane legacy, but also the relationship between music and Black America’s struggles for freedom and equality.
Sponsored by the Northeastern University Humanities Center, Women's Studies Program, Department of Music, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Department of African-American Studies, Department of Philosophy & Religion, and John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute.
In Memory & Legacy: The Interdisciplinarity of Civil Rights
November 19, 2009
This symposium brought together an interdisciplinary panel of academic-activists who focus on the challenges of research and pedagogy as they relate to the Civil Rights movement in the United States. Kimberly Juanita Brown (Department of English, Northeastern University), Peniel E. Joseph (Department of History, Tufts University), and Charissa Threat (Department of History, Northeastern University), who work within and beyond the parameters of the movement's ideology, engaged in a conversation about the different ways in which they enter the discourse of this historical, cultural, and political moment.
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Forum
December 3, 2009
Liana J. Pennington (Law, Policy, & Society): "Legal Consciousness in Juvenile Delinquency Court: Understanding the Experiences of Parents and Youth
Rachel Gillett (History): "Biguines and Banana Skirts: Race, Jazz, and Gender in Interwar Paris"
Spring 2009
A Forum Discussion: Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities
April 7, 2009
The Center's faculty working groups invited faculty and graduate students to join a conversation about the current role and future of interdisciplinary work. Facilitated by a set of scholarly publications and news articles, discussion topics included: the nature of interdisciplinary work in the humanities, the difference between interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and crossdisciplinary work, the challenges to interdisciplinary work and teaching, as well as how future university plans affect the work of interdisciplinarity.
Conversations @ 34: DNA and Identity
April 28, 2009
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