Spring 2025 Events

2:00pm – 4:00pm
300 Mass. Ave

5:00pm – 6:30pm
ISEC, Room 102
805 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02120

Livestream: https://packnetwork.com/mortonlecture2025

Dr. Dan Stone: “Missing Children: The International Tracing Service’s Child Search Branch after World War II”

At the end of World War II, the Allied occupation authorities discovered far more unaccompanied children than they expected in Germany. The newly-established International Tracing Service soon set up a Child Search Branch, both to assist these children in finding relatives and in helping those who were searching for missing children. This talk explains how they went about this process and, through a selection of case studies, tells the stories of some of the children involved.

For any questions, contact Grace Dolan at m.dolan@northeastern.edu.

3:00pm – 4:30pm
333 Curry Student Center

Dr. Michael Goebel, Einstein Professor of Global History at the Free University of Berlin:

“Contagion, Inevitability, and Teleology: Imperial Disintegration and Nation-State Formation in Global History”

5:30pm – 7:00pm
ISEC, Room 102
805 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02120

Livestream: https://packnetwork.com/gideonklein2025

Max Berger, Northeastern’s 2024-2025 Gideon Klein Scholar: “A Poetic Revolt: The Oyneg Shabes Archive and The Art of Written Resistance”

“Gideon Klein’s Lost Works and The Legacy of Czech Musical Modernism”: A performance by string trio Avery Morris (violin), Sameer Apte (cello), and Rachel Haber (viola).

The story of a heroic group who dared to document the Warsaw Ghetto’s realities, and the poetic verse that became a defining record and a critical mode of resistance. Through a digital exhibition, Max Berger unearths how the Ghetto’s underground preserved Jewish peoplehood and secured a distinctly Jewish vantage on the final chapter of Polish Jewry — a historic act of defiance.

Max Berger is Northeastern’s 2024-2025 Gideon Klein Scholar, and an undergraduate studying Business, Design, Policy, and Jewish Studies. He is the founder of Hatikvah Magazine and an independent researcher of cultural and political history.

For any questions, contact Grace Dolan at m.dolan@northeastern.edu.

4:00pm – 6:00pm
Renaissance Park, Room 909 (1135 Tremont Street)

Hoi Eun Kim, Texas A&M:

“You Are What You Eat: Hot Peppers, Colonial Gynecology, and the Construction of Female Frailty in Colonial Korea”

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rethinking–korea-lecture-series-dr-hoi-eun-kim-tickets-1222407576969

5:00pm – 6:30pm
ISEC 140
805 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA 02120

Dr. Nataliia Laas, Henry Chauncey JR. ’57 Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

“The Economy of Waste, Toxicity, and Environmental Citizenship in the Late Soviet Union”

4:00pm – 5:30pm
ISEC 102
Registration is required here.

The 2025 Morton E. Ruderman Lecture presents “Headwinds to Justice” with the Honorable Rosalie Silberman Abella:

A conversation about fairness, democracy, and equality with Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, the first Jewish woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Honorable Rosalie Silberman Abella was a judge on the Canadian Supreme Court for seventeen years and is currently the Judith Pisar Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Justice Abella was born in a Displaced Person’s Camp in Stuttgart, Germany in 1946 and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1950. She was the first refugee appointed to the bench in Canada. Over decades of legal practice and writing she became one of Canada’s most celebrated jurists, and among many honors she is a Lifetime Fellow the Royal Society of Canada and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

3:00pm – 4:30pm
489 Holmes Hall

Huskiana Press invites you to join a special printing event to celebrate Nowruz on Wednesday, March 26, 2025 between 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm. This event is organized by Melody Asaresh Moghadam — all are welcome to attend — those unfamiliar with the celebration are invited to come by and learn. Huskiana Press’ 19th -century printing press will be operational for guests to take a souvenir print — a Nowruz card. There will be traditional Iranian snacks, a beautiful Haft-Sin table, and other activities in Barrs room. Stay for as long or as little as you like — this is a drop in event. Please check the attached poster for more details!

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to Professor Jessica Linker (j.linker@northeastern.edu) and Professor Isabel Sobral Campos (i.campos@northeatern.edu).

Looking forward to seeing you there!

9:00am – 6:00pm
John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute, Cabral Center
40 Leon St, Boston, MA 02115

Joining via Zoom? Links are below
– Zoom link: https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/99360082960
– Meeting ID: 993 6008 2960
– Find your local number: https://northeastern.zoom.us/u/acrqqy2nP3

HGSA Conference Schedule, 2025

4:00pm – 6:00pm
Renaissance Park 909
1185 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02120

“Returning (to) the Land: Spatializing Gendered Nationalism at Omma Poom Park for Adoptees in Korea”

Register Here

This lecture will feature speaker Dr. Bridget Martin. She is an urban geographer and political geographer researching the US-Korea alliance through the lenses of land, territory, terrain, and sovereignty. Her research traces the logics, techniques, laws, and ambiguities that made widespread American militarized land dispossessions possible during the US military occupation of southern Korea and during the Korean War, and it critically examines the more recent process of US military land returns in the context of Korea’s highly commodified real estate environment. Her teaching interests are in Human Geography, Critical Security Studies, International/Development Studies, Political Ecology, Asian/American Studies, and Korean Studies. Students interested in working with Bridget should contact her directly. Bridget’s writings have appeared in journals such as the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Political Geography.

3:00pm – 5:00pm
Renaissance Park, Room 909 (1135 Tremont Street)

Max Bergholz, Associate Professor of History, Concordia University

“Uncomfortable Evidence: On the Challenge of Telling New Stories about Srebrenica”

5:00pm – 6:30pm
Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Ave.

From the Israel Studies Lecture Series: the journey of a Palestinian writer in Hebrew literature, journalism, and popular culture and the challenges of telling a Palestinian story to Israeli readers and viewers.

Speaker: Sayed Kashua

Register here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/5rvbst7

 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. EST
Location: Renaissance Park, Room 909 (1135 Tremont Street)

Kelly M. Rich, Wellesley College

“Configuring Kin: Adoption Archives, Literature, and the Possibility of Justice”

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rethinking–korea-lecture-series-dr-kelly-m-rich-tickets-1162652397619

489 Holmes Hall
11am – 1pm

Huskiana Press invites you to join a Basant Panchami printing event on Friday, January 31 between 11am and 1pm. This event is organized by our wonderful press assistant, Isha Banerjee — all are welcome to attend — those unfamiliar with the celebration are invited to come by and learn. We will have our 19th -century printing press operational for guests to take a souvenir print — Isha has translated a poem and composed a beautiful print. As always, we have snacks (in this case, appropriate to the festival!) and other activities in Barrs room. Stay for as long or as little as you like — this is a drop in event. We’d love to see students and faculty from history come by and join in.