Events

All Topics (October 4 through December 31)

3:00 PM The University after October 7In the aftermath of the attacks of October 7, 2023 and ongoing violence and suffering, what can academic disciplines contribute? How do we think about research, writing, and teaching in…
6:00 PM Book Talk: The Home I Worked to Make"An absolutely vital book, unflinching in its commitment to the testimony of people much of the privileged world has chosen to forget" - Omar El Akkad

11:30 AM CFD Fall Open HouseThe Center on Forced Displacement is pleased to welcome you to our Spring Open House! Come learn about our avenues for engagement, meet our new team members, eat lunch, and…

5:00 PM Reality and the American Dream: Embracing Young Immigrant Children and their Families to Create Belonging (Initiative for Early Childhood Well-being Keynote Lecture)Keynote Speaker: Alicia Lieberman, PhD, Irving B. Harris Endowed Chair in Infant Mental Health and Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco.
Struggling for Peace: Dialogue and Forgiveness Through the ArtsBased on years of work with Israelis and Palestinians, rival gangs in prison, and other conflicted settings, Dr. André de Quadros argues for dialogue as a process for developing shared…

10:00 AM Architecture of the Everyday and the Displacement of Widows in GazaJoin guest lecturer Salem Al Qudwa as he shares his work on architecture and built environment in Gaza and social transformation in the community, as well as his scholarship on…

5:00 PM Book Talk: Complicit Participation by Carrie PrestonJoin CFD Associate Director Carrie Preston as she discusses her recently published book, "Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice". Joining Carrie is Martin Puchner (the…

12:30 PM Learning from Experiences of Community-Engaged Scholarship and ActivismThis participatory workshop will explore key debates related to community-engaged research and related scholarly activism in higher education settings, that aim to facilitate or encourage socio-political change. The…
2:00 PM Critical Forced Displacement Coffeehouse LaunchJoin BU Center on Forced Displacement and BU Global Programs as we launch the second issue of Critical Forced Displacement Magazine during International Education week. This event celebrates the innovative…
4:00 PM Seeing and Not Seeing SeminarOn November 13 – 14, we will host José Antonio Lucero (Professor and Chair at the Comparative History of Ideas Department, University of Washington, and a political scientist by training)…

5:00 PM Performance, Technology, and Protest at the U.S. - Mexico Border: A Staged Reading and Panel DiscussionA dramatic reading of Dos Nogales by acclaimed Mexican playwright Hugo Salcedo followed by a panel discussion addressing migration, border and protest, and theater. Panelists: - Alba Jaramillo Co-Executive Director…

4:00 PM Addressing the realities of hidden and emotional labour in international studies teaching: solutions for more equitable workloads and faculty safetyThe content of international studies courses—the questions addressed within them and the cases explored to illustrate concepts—often bring with them increased forms of emotional and hidden labour. Such labour…

4:30 PM Social Justice for Data Science LectureThe Social Justice for Data Science Lecture Series, hosted by the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, brings together leading scholars in law, computer science, humanities, and social science to…

4:00 PM When Disciplines Collide: Stories and Lessons from a Deeply interdisciplinary 'Humanitarian Engineering' CourseThis presentation will offer an overview of the creation and deployment of a unique interdisciplinary course "Humanitarian Engineering: Politics and Practice' offered at the University of British Columbia,…