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Artist Rene Gómez creates street art as part of an August 2020 community street painting day sponsored by Rhode Island Latino Arts. One of many items shared with the Rhode Island COVID-19 Archive. Photo by Marta Martinez.

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In our fragmented and polarized world, we have few opportunities to talk to people beyond our immediate circle of family, friends, and work. And yet those rare conversations with others can have a positive impact on our society and ourselves. We’re joined by Cara Solomon, Executive Director and founder of Everyday Boston, to help us comprehend how community events and the stories we tell each other can make society more connected and compassionate.

Join Everyday Boston in their virtual event “Stories from the Cradle to Prison Pipeline” March 4th at 6PM EST.

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Since the dawn of the printing press, women have written and published works of prose, poetry, science, and philosophy, and yet these texts have almost always received less attention than books written by men. In the early years of the internet, one project sought to redress this imbalance, and to make women writers not only more visible, but available for students and researchers to study in entirely new ways. Julia Flanders and Sarah Connell, Director and Assistant Director, respectively, of The Women Writers Project.

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As listeners of popular music, we can’t help but wonder: What is it like to be up there on that stage, playing for thousands of fans? And what is the creative process like behind the scenes? We’re joined by a former reporter and editor at the Boston Herald, Larry Katz, who for decades interviewed some of the biggest names in pop music. Those interviews were condensed for the newspaper, but now the tapes of his original interviews have been donated to the Northeastern University Library’s Archives and Special Collections, offering an exciting and rare glimpse into music history.

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Our first episode of 2021 features the winners of the Three-Minute Thesis Contest at Northeastern University, sponsored by the Graduate Women in Science and Engineering and the Northeastern University Library. Our guests are Alicia Volmar, who discusses her work on a common protein and the origins of cancer; Theresa Davenport on how the shape of restored oyster reefs affects the ecology around them; and Hajar Owji on the “Optimization of Bioethanol Production in Colza,” otherwise known as canola oil.

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It is far too early to understand what happened in this historic year of 2020, but not too soon to grasp what we will write that history from: data—really big data. Dan was recently on an extremely relevant panel about Data Histories of Health, which aimed to understand what happened in 2020, and to see how much of what happened was recorded in new forms of data, and visualized in ways that affected public opinion and health and economic policy. This panel consisted Joanna Radin, an associate professor of history and the history of medicine at Yale, and Dan Bouk, an associate professor of history and university studies at Colgate. A big thanks to Sari Altschuler and Chris Parsons for organizing the panel, hosted by the Humanities Center and the Health, Humanities, and Society initiative at Northeastern University. This panel was Sponsored by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the Digital Health Humanities.

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There has been a notable change in the view of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and other queer people in the United States, with growing social acceptance. But there remain struggles with identity in the workplace, and for many young queer people, an uncertain pathway toward life and work fulfillment. Recently a new podcast has launched with stories about successfully navigating this passage. This first-ever podcast crossover features the hosts of the [I’M]Possible podcast.

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