“The time of the border” invokes the terrible urgency of our current moment: the distinct but also overlapping historical, geographical, and other contexts that bear on the displacements of our time; border-crossings that claim our attention and others that remain invisible; conceptual frameworks that have meaningful explanatory power, but also do harm. Panelists draw on…
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When did the old maid become the single woman? And why does it matter? While the fact that single women outnumber married in the US seems strikingly modern, this contemporary demographic fact is rooted in the seemingly unremarkable nineteenth-century old maid. As Victorians worked out the roles appropriate to a large population of single women…
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On October 3rd at 5:30 pm in 250 Dockser, the Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration (CPIAC) and the Black Law Student Association (BLSA) will co-sponsor a showing of the Oscar-Nominated Short Documentary Film Traffic Stop. Producer and Northeastern University School of Law alum, David Heilbroner, will be present to discuss the making and…
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Join the GCWS to recognize authors and their recently published books at their first Fall 2018 event! Come for the chance to ring in the start of the school year, meet other GCWS faculty and students, and learn about what has recently been published. Books that are compatible with the mission of GCWS and published…
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Drop in to meet and mingle with graduate students and faculty in the WGSS program and the editorial team of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture in Society while learning about exciting opportunities for graduate students at Northeastern, including research assistantships with the journal and its editors and the graduate certificate in WGSS. Refreshments will…
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Are you a new to either the community or Northeastern? Do you wish you knew more about the resources available to you both on and off campus? Join the LGBTQA Resource Center for the first ever NU Queer Orientation! They will be showcasing resources available to you both on and off campus, as well as talking about…
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The Office of Student Affairs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) invites Northeastern University faculty and students to attend this year’s Sexual Violence in Schools symposium! The Symposium will take place at the HGSE campus in Cambridge on Friday, September 21st from 12-7 pm. This event, which is offered by HGSE as a…
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On Monday July 23rd from 6:00-7:00 pm, The Cambridge Women’s Center will be hosting “Feminism: Past, Present, and Future,” an inter-generational conversation on how to reconcile with feminist movements of the past and how the fight for gender equity can move forward in the current political climate. The Women’s Center, located just outside of Central…
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Baseball is not just a beloved pastime for American boys and men. From 19th-century college teams formed at Vassar and Smith and the nationally celebrated Boston Bloomer Girls to the formation of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League when major male talent faced the WWII draft, women players have increasingly found ways to make…
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Join us for an open house and a one-day display celebrating milestones on the road to the end of slavery. Featured items explore the 1783 abolition of slavery in Massachusetts; celebrations within the African American community in Boston of the ending of slavery in the British West Indies in 1833; Garrisonian protest banners; and a…
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