Faculty Works-in-Progress Series

The Faculty Works-in-Progress Series is hosted by the Northeastern University Humanities Center and sponsored by the College of Social Sciences and Humanities Office of the Dean. Invited faculty share their research with staff, students, and faculty colleagues, followed by an interactive Q&A. light refreshments provided.

October 20, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST | RP 310 | “Storywork as Unsettling Knowledge”

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November 3, 2025 from 9:00 – 10:00 AM PT |Mills Hall 342 (Oakland Based Event) | “The Politics of Anti-Hospitality in Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum and Ananda Devi’s Ceux du large (Afloat)”

November 17, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST | RP 909 (Boston Based Event) | Digital Panopticon? Platform Authoritarianism in China

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Previous Faculty Works-in-Progress

October 6, 2025 from 5:00 – 6:00 PM GMT | Devon House, Room 136 (London Based Event) | The Digital Transgender Archive and UK Trans History

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September 15, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST | 909 RP | Neo-Luddism and the Cases for Resisting or Refusing Generative AI

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April 7, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Humanities Center Fellows 2024-2025 | “Erasure” Presentations

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March 24, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Moral Obligations in a World Afraid of Refugees

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February 24, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Humanities Center Fellows 2024-2025 | “Erasure” Presentations

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January 27, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM | New Destinations, Adolescent Friendship, and Substance Use: How Migration Inspires Network Revitalization

January 13, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Humanities Center Fellows 2024-2025 | “Erasure” Presentations

Tuesday, November 5 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Realizing the Potential of Digital Twins Through Community-led, Science-driven Participatory Modeling: A Case in Green Infrastructure Planning

Tuesday, October 8 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Ravens or Black Holes?: The Laboratory Ecology of a Precision Astrophysics Experiment

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

Discrediting Disinformation Sources: The Advantages of Highlighting Low Expertise

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

Learning from the Work of CSSH Multi-Generational Research Teams

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

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DARK PASTORAL: NAZIS AT THE ROUND TABLE AT WEWELSBURG CASTLE

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THE PANDEMIC AND DIGITAL DATA COLLECTION

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

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“DISRUPTION AND DISPLACEMENT” FELLOWSHIP

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“DISRUPTION AND DISPLACEMENT” FELLOWSHIP

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PRIVACY LAW AS PERFORMANCE

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

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“DISRUPTION AND DISPLACEMENT” FELLOWSHIP

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

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