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The twelfth annual Women in the Law Conference was presented by the Northeastern University School of Law. This conference provided career guidance and professional development growth to women attorneys and other professionals at all stages of their careers and brought together powerful decisionmakers from Massachusetts, Alaska, Canada, California, Illinois, New York, Washington, DC, and beyond. The keynote speaker was Michele Coleman Mayes, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for the New York Public Library.
This was a screening of two student presentations: The 2019-2020 Gideon Klein project, an original animated film by Yael Sheinfeld ’21, based on a children’s book, The Children’s Tree of Terezin; and a presentation by Jessie Sigler ’20 about her project to increase accessibility to the Northeastern Holocaust Awareness Archives, especially the trove of survivor testimonies. This was part of the postponed 2020 Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week presented by the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern.
During the coronavirus pandemic access to parks and nature became more important than ever for children, families, schools, and school nurses. Combining "physical distancing" and "being outside" were two key strategies to stop the spread of the virus, but what many didn’t know is that being outdoors–in a park, a forest, a garden, or walking on the beach has significant therapeutic value for our well-being and mental health. This webinar introduced participants to a wide range of benefits of being outdoors, gardening, and even finding green spaces in urban environments.
US-China relations are undergoing profound changes because of rising anti-globalization sentiment, rivalry between the two countries, and COVID-19. Attend the lecture to find out what may lie ahead! Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management at MIT-Sloan and an expert on China. The new China Lecture Series at the Center for Emerging Markets explores important topics about China and its role in the world.
The Northeastern University School of Law kicked off a new annual conference series celebrating the Public Interest Law Scholars Program. Each year, they will focus on scholarship related to a pressing public interest issue. The Battle for Voting Rights in 2020 virtual half-day conference covered several topics including voting purges, threats to polling locations, voter intimidation, machine malfunctions, and voter suppression.
The 2019-2020 "Authority and Subversion" Fellowship discussed whistleblowing with the speakers: Allison Stanger, Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, David Sanger, New York Times correspondent and author Lida Maxwell, Associate Professor of Political Science and WGSS at Boston University.
Inspired by the punk and zine culture in New York City, the cofounders of Vănguard traveled to Việt Nam in 2014 where they ignited a queer revolution using handmade zines. In this workshop, they will give a brief history of zines, reflect on their journey to Việt Nam, and show you technical skills to make your own digital zine masterpiece.
Microservices are an emerging class of workloads being run on cloud computing platforms. The core reason for current practices is “fear and anxiety of uncertainty” and “not lack of a more efficient solution”. In this talk, Dr. Tiwari will discuss a new principled, calm approach to control that fear and anxiety.
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