The Resilience Studies program hosts a speaker series annually. This year’s series features speakers from in and out of the university on a variety of topics, and is held once a month on Thursdays at 3:00pm in Renaissance Park 909.
Contact Shannon Nyquist at [email protected] for more questions.
RSVP for any or all events in this series here.
September 17
Courtney Page-Tan
Indiana University, Indianapolis
Dr. Courtney Page-Tan is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Community Resilience at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Indianapolis. Dr. Page-Tan is dedicated to cultivating partnerships with practitioners, industry leaders, policy makers, community leaders, and academic institutions to build resilient ecosystems. She leverages her background in social capital, resilience, public policy, information communication technology, and GIS to explain how governments, NGOs, private sector entities, urban planners, and individuals can build resilience.
What Aggregated Metrics Miss: Resident-Documented Risk and Resilience in Indianapolis Eastside Communities
What does resilience look like in historically disinvested neighborhoods? Not absent, not abundant—unevenly distributed. In this community-based participatory study, Indianapolis Eastside residents documented 70 sites, surfacing what aggregated metrics miss: resilience and risk coexisting within the same blocks, distinguished not by the presence of assets but by the presence of sustained stewardship—or its absence, what one participant termed “unfinished intentions.” Join me to discuss how resident-generated evidence can reshape resilience policy.
October 15
Daniel Aldrich
Northeastern University
An award-winning author, Daniel Aldrich has published six books including Building Resilience and Black Wave, more than 125 peer-reviewed articles, and written op-eds for the New York Times, CNN, HuffPost, and many other media outlets. He is the Dean’s Professor of Resilience, the Director of the Resilience Studies Program, and the co-director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University. He has spent more than 6 years in Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Africa conducting fieldwork. His work has been funded by the Fulbright Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Abe Foundation, the Rasmussen Foundation, and the Japan Foundation, among other institutions.
Beyond Common Ground: How Everyday Places Solve Big Social Challenges
What if society could move past traditional “gray infrastructure” approaches like seawalls and prisons to address problems such as climate change, terrorism, and crime? Aldrich argues that social infrastructure—physical and virtual spaces including parks, libraries, and radio programs—offers a more effective alternative by fostering coproduction and multiple benefits.
November 12
Lauren MacLean
Northeastern University
Lauren M. MacLean is the Thomas P. O’Neill Chair of Public Life and Department Chair of Political Science at Northeastern University. She teaches POLS 1000, the Senior Capstone class, Politics of Developing Nations, Mixed Methods, and African Politics. She also does research on the politics of electricity access and the everyday practice of citizenship in Africa. She conducts fieldwork in Ghana and Kenya, collecting survey data from individuals, conducting focus group discussions, doing archival work, and carrying out qualitative interviews with politicians, policymakers, practitioners, and ordinary people. MacLean has published award-winning books and articles including: Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa (Cambridge, 2010), The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare in the Global South (Cornell, 2014), co-edited with Cammett, and Field Research in Political Science (Cambridge, 2015), coauthored with Kapiszewski and Read. Her research has been published in a wide range of journals and supported by grants, including NSF, SSRC, RWJ, Fulbright-Hays, and Carnegie. She was the recipient of the APSA QMMR 2016 David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award.
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December 10
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