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The Faculty Works-in-Progress Series is sponsored by the Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Northeastern Humanities Center. Faculty from all colleges have the opportunity to share their current research with colleagues and benefit from questions and discussions.

If you are interested in giving a Works-In-Progress presentation, please contact: Lori Lefkovitz (l.lefkovitz@northeastern.edu). Registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendees.

Spring 2024

IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFO: In-person attendance is ONLY open to Northeastern University students, staff, and faculty. Zoom is open to the general public. Once you register, you will immediately receive the Zoom link, as well as additional reminder emails prior to each event. Zoom and In-person registration are listed below.

April 8, 2024 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Humanities Center Fellows 2023-2024 | “World-Making/World-Building” Presentations

April 9, 2024 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Book Talk with Susan Ito, Mills Faculty and Award-winning Author of: I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

Previous Faculty Works-in-Progress

Discrediting Disinformation Sources: The Advantages of Highlighting Low Expertise

WATCH RECORDING HERE

Black Cambridgeport to the Future: Activating the Public Humanities for Anti-Gentrification at St Augustine’s African Orthodox Church

WATCH RECORDING HERE

Humanities Center Fellows 2023-2024 | “World-Making/World-Building” Presentations

WATCH RECORDING HERE

Humanities Center Fellows 2023-2024 | “World-Making/World-Building” Presentations

WATCH RECORDING HERE

Negotiating Intimate Partner Violence in Cuban NYC (A Case Study from 1914)

WATCH RECORDING HERE

In Plain Sight: 50-ish years of Latinx Stand-Up Comedy in New York City

WATCH RECORDING HERE

Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and the U.S. Labor Market

WATCH RECORDING HERE

Medieval Black London: Bioarchaeology, Black Feminist Methodology, and the Whitewashing of History

WATCH RECORDING HERE

A Tale of Datacovery: The Black Experience and Digital Public Record | Special Evening Event

WATCH RECORDING HERE

Humanities Center Fellows 2022-2023 | “Re-Forming/Re-Imagining” Presentations

Humanities Center Fellows 2021-2022 | “Re-Forming/Re-Imagining” Presentations

Black Marks and Bridgerton: ReThinking Race and Writing in Romantic-era England

Ending Plastic Pollution – The Role of Small States | Special Collaboration with D’Amore-McKim School of Business

WATCH RECORDING HERE

Humanities Center Fellows 2021 – 2022 | “Reckonings” Presentations

Artificial Intelligence as Social Power

Humanities Center Fellows 2021 – 2022 | “Reckonings” Presentations

Revolutionizing the City: Black Youth and the Fight for Civil Rights in Boston

Concluding Thoughts: Popular Economies and Pandemic Fraud in Indonesia

Humanities Center Fellows 2021 – 2022 | “Reckonings” Presentations

Democratic Resilience: What Today’s Backsliding Democracies Can Learn from 1970s India

COLLABORATIVE COMPLEX SYSTEMS MODELING FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES: AN INTERACTIVE DEMONSTRATION

WATCH RECORDING HERE

DARK PASTORAL: NAZIS AT THE ROUND TABLE AT WEWELSBURG CASTLE

WATCH RECORDING HERE

THE PANDEMIC AND DIGITAL DATA COLLECTION

BALANCING LIBERTY AND PUBLIC HEALTH: CIVIL LIBERTIES IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC

WATCH RECORDING HERE

“DISRUPTION AND DISPLACEMENT” FELLOWSHIP

WATCH RECORDING HERE

PRIVACY LAW AS PERFORMANCE

WATCH RECORDING HERE

SPATIAL HISTORIES OF ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVISM: THE SOWETO UPRISING AND CRITICAL DIGITAL PLATFORM MAKING

WATCH RECORDING HERE

“DISRUPTION AND DISPLACEMENT” FELLOWSHIP

WATCH RECORDING HERE

DISEASE, DIPLOMACY, AND SCIENCE IN THE COLD WAR: LESSONS FOR FUTURE PANDEMICS

WATCH RECORDING HERE