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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: Ángel David Nieves, Director of the Humanities Center (a.nieves@northeastern.edu). Registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendees.

Fall 2023

IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFO: Please Note: In-person attendance is ONLY open to Northeastern University students, staff, and faculty. Zoom Webinar 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.

September 25, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Medieval Black London: Bioarchaeology, Black Feminist Methodology, and the Whitewashing of History | Special Collaboration with Brandeis University

October 23 , 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and the U.S. Labor Market

October 30 , 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Negotiating IPV in Cuban NYC (1914)

November 13 , 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | In Plain Sight: 50-ish years of Latinx Stand-Up Comedy in New York City


Previous Faculty Works-in-Progress

April 12, 2023, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | A Tale of Datacovery: The Black Experience and Digital Public Record | Special Evening Event

WATCH RECORDING HERE

April 3, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | HC Fellows, “Re-Forming/Re-Imagining” Presentations

February 27, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | HC Fellows, “Re-Forming/Re-Imagining” Presentations

February 6, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | 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

Artificial Intelligence as Social Power

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

Concluding Thoughts: Popular Economies and Pandemic Fraud in Indonesia

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