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12 upcoming lectures and talks from Northeastern University, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →

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Tue Oct 6 · 11:00am

Misinformation Speaker Series: Using AI to Tailor the News

Northeastern University · 216 Massachusetts Ave · Boston · MA (hybrid) · Boston

Talia Stroud, who directs the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, presents research on audience-facing uses of AI in news. One experiment found that rewriting articles for younger readers had little effect on evaluations or learning, though younger readers who detected more AI use engaged and learned less; two newsroom studies found both audience-guided and AI rewrites lowered perceived bias.

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Thu Oct 8 · 5:00pm

Jeffrey Burds Memorial Speaker Series: Jared McBride

Northeastern University · 909 Renaissance Park · 1135 Tremont St · Boston · MA · Fenway · Boston

Jared McBride, a historian at UCLA, presents The Returns of Summer 1941: Perpetrators and Pogroms in Western Ukraine, on the violence against Jews that accompanied the German invasion of the Soviet Union that summer. Northeastern's history department and its College of Social Sciences and Humanities hold the series in memory of Jeffrey Burds, the university's late historian of Russia and the Soviet Union.

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Tue Oct 13 · 12:00pm

Misinformation Speaker Series: Tackling the Misinformation Research Landscape With Integrity and Urgency

Northeastern University · 216 Massachusetts Ave · Boston · MA (hybrid) · Boston

Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, a health communication scholar who resigned from the National Institutes of Health in January 2026 after 18 years, reflects on the pressures on health misinformation research, including researchers' self-censorship and growing censorship at the NIH, and closes on research priorities such as countering major misinformation spreaders. Chou, a co-author of the Bethesda Declaration, is now a Harvard Shorenstein Center Fellow.

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Thu Oct 22 · 8:30am

Advancing Resilience: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Constant Disruption

Northeastern University · Curry Student Center 2nd Floor Suites · Boston · Boston

A one-day hybrid conference asks what it takes to keep functioning, not merely recover, when disruption is constant and compounding. Sessions bring leaders from cybersecurity, energy and environmental security, geopolitics and personal resilience, each approaching the question from its own discipline, and the day closes with a fireside conversation that sets those perspectives side by side. Northeastern's Global Resilience Institute presents it.

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Thu Oct 22 · 12pm

Animals + Technology: Designing for Animal Agency, Wellbeing, and Care

Northeastern University · Center for Design Ryder Hall Suite 180 · Boston · Boston

Researchers, designers and animal-care professionals discuss work from Northeastern's INTERACT Animal Lab, made with Zoo New England, the Museum of Science and the New England Aquarium. The projects range from sensing and monitoring systems to interactive enrichment designed for the animals themselves, and the panel takes up the practical, ethical and design problems of building technology that supports animal agency, wellbeing and care.

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Thu Oct 22 · 1:00pm

2026 Fall Digital Scholarship Celebration

Northeastern University · Snell Library · Northeastern University · 360 Huntington Ave · Boston · MA · Fenway

Northeastern’s Centers for Digital Scholarship, Digital Scholarship Group and NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science hold their annual autumn celebration, opening with hybrid lightning talks from researchers across the university, among them archives for the Writing Program and a rural health collaborative, and speakers from history, political science and computer science. An in-person reception follows with tours and zine-making. Free, with registration.

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Wed Oct 28 · 4:45pm

Jeffrey Burds Memorial Speaker Series: Peter Richardson

Northeastern University · 310 Renaissance Park · 1135 Tremont St · Boston · MA · Fenway · Boston

Peter Richardson of Northeastern presents No War, No Peace, No Incentives: Political, Economic & Strategic Inertia in Russian-Japanese Reconciliation in the Putin Era. Russia and Japan have never signed a treaty formally ending the Second World War, chiefly because of the dispute over the southern Kuril Islands. The history department and the College of Social Sciences and Humanities hold the series in memory of the late Professor Jeffrey Burds.

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Thu Oct 29 · 3pm

Book Launch: Inner Zone with Jelena Golubović

Northeastern University · Renaissance_Park RP 909 · Boston · Boston

Jelena Golubović launches her first book, Inner Zone: The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged Sarajevo, which “unearths a buried history of retributive violence that unfolded inside besieged Sarajevo,” drawing on interviews with Bosnian Serb women whose suffering the dominant narrative of the war leaves out. She discusses victimhood, nationalism and contested histories of violence in conversation with Sasha Sabherwal. Copies sell at a 30 percent discount.

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Thu Oct 29 · 6pm

R.F. Kuang: Taipei Story

Northeastern University · Blackman Theater · Boston · Boston

R.F. Kuang discusses her new book, Taipei Story. Kuang is the No. 1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface and Katabasis, and her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford and British Book Awards. She is the Millard Distinguished Writer in Residence at the College of the Holy Cross. Northeastern's Global Asian Studies program hosts.

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Tue Nov 10 · 4:00pm

Misinformation Speaker Series: Reclaiming the Internet

Northeastern University · 216 Massachusetts Ave · Boston · MA (hybrid) · Boston

Fordham law professor Olivier Sylvain discusses his book Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back, which traces today's online harms to thirty years of laissez-faire policy, including Section 230, and calls for “a new industrial tech policy that places consumers and communities at its center.” Sylvain advised the chair of the Federal Trade Commission from 2021 to 2023.

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Wed Nov 18 · 4:45pm

Jeffrey Burds Memorial Speaker Series: Natalya Watson and Veronika Maliborska

Northeastern University · 310 Renaissance Park · 1135 Tremont St · Boston · MA · Fenway · Boston

Natalya Watson and Veronika Maliborska of Northeastern University present “Teaching During Wartime: Education Challenges in Ukraine,” a talk based on their recent extensive research in Ukraine. It is the fall 2026 installment of the Jeffrey Burds Memorial Speaker Series, which Northeastern’s Department of History and its College of Social Sciences and Humanities hold in honor of Jeffrey Burds, the late professor of history.

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Thu Nov 19

Relational Capital in International Cooperation: Foreign Strategies in Africa

Northeastern University · 450 Dodge Hall · Northeastern University · 360 Huntington Ave · Boston · MA · Fenway

Abdoulkadre Ado, associate professor of international business at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management, compares how China, the US, Canada, Saudi Arabia, France, the UK, Russia and Japan build relational capital in Africa through foreign aid: the sectors each funds, its delivery channels and “emotion strategies,” and how each model serves national interests and its multinationals. Part of the Nardone Family Seminar Series; lunch provided.

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