April 19, 2024
9:30am–3:30pm Boston / 6:30am–12:30pm Oakland / 2:30pm–8:30pm London
On April 19th, the NULab will be hosting its seventh annual spring conference, “Digital Technologies for Community Collaborations” showcasing the work of faculty, students, and research collaborators.
The keynote address will be delivered by Karilyn Crockett, Assistant Professor of Urban History, Public Policy & Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required; please RSVP here. Zoom information will be emailed upon registration.
The conference will be hybrid. We will gather in person at the Alumni Center (716 Columbus Ave., 6th floor) on the Northeastern University Boston campus, and virtually on Zoom. All are welcome to join! We can accept RSVPs for the virtual conference up to the day of the event, but if you will be joining us in person for food, please RSVP by April 8.
Please note: We are committed to reducing food waste for this event. If you RSVP to join in person and are not able to attend please let us know by April 12 so we can update the lunch order.
Schedule
Times below are in Eastern.
- 9:30am: Light breakfast
- 9:45am: Welcome and opening
- Welcome, land acknowledgment, grounding exercise: Moira Zellner, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, College of Social Social Sciences and Humanities; NULab Co-Director
- Conference details: Sarah Connell, NULab Associate Director
- Opening remarks: Kellee S. Tsai, Dean and Distinguished Professor, College of Social Sciences and Humanities
- 10–11:30am: Civic Tech: Computing for Communities
- Moderator: Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga, College of Arts, Media and Design
- Sahar Abi-Hassan, Political Science, Mills College at Northeastern University
- Alex Cline, Northeastern University London
- Nabeel Gillani, College of Arts, Media and Design (Art + Design) and the D’Amore-McKim School of Business (Marketing)
- Christopher Le Dantec, Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Arts, Media and Design
- Moira Zellner, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, College of Social Social Sciences and Humanities; NULab Co-Director
- 11:30am–12:30pm: Lunch
- 12:30–1:45pm: Keynote by Karilyn Crockett, Assistant Professor of Urban History, Public Policy & Planning at MIT: “Hacking the Archive: The Quest for More Just Urban Futures <<1969-2069>>”
- Introduction by Claire Lavarreda, History
- 2–3:25pm: Digital Platforms to Reflect Communities
- Moderator: K.J. Rawson, English, College of Social Sciences and Humanities; NULab Co-Director
- Lisa Arellano, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Mills College at Northeastern University
- Dipa Desai, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Halima Haruna, History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Mario Hernandez, Sociology, Mills College at Northeastern University and Josh Lown, City to City: Policy Equity for All project
- Joy Zanghi, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project
- 3:25pm: Closing
- K.J. Rawson, English, College of Social Sciences and Humanities; NULab Co-Director
- Dan Cohen, Dean of the Library; Vice Provost for Information Collaboration; Professor of History
To make space for informal discussions and community building, this conference will not be recorded. We will be including automated live captioning for the Zoom call and have requested an ASL interpreter.
Keynote Abstract
This talk explores a Boston-based project that gamifies collective memory-driven social research and local knowledge sharing to anchor the intergenerational creation of future urban plans. Hacking the Archive (HTA) is a coalition of two dozen civic, faith-based and archival institutions advancing a novel data gathering and dissemination approach for populations underrepresented in the archive yet overrepresented in land-based battles for urban space. This talk focuses on HTA’s current work to examine past and present grassroots strategies for tackling economic justice.
Keynote Speaker Biography
Karilyn Crockett earned a a PhD from the American Studies program at Yale University, a Master of Science in Geography from the London School of Economics, and a Master of Arts and Religion from Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on large-scale land use changes in twentieth century American cities and examines the social and geographic implications of structural poverty. Her dissertation, “People Before Highways: Reconsidering Routes to and from the Boston Anti-Highway Movement,” investigates a 1960s-era grassroots movement to halt urban extension of the interstate highway system, and forms the basis of her book of the same name.
