BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Fall Scholarship Celebration and Centers for Digital Scholarsh ip Launch X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260914T152516Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_47615335782781 DTSTART:20241104T190000Z DTEND:20241104T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Please join the Digital Scholarship Group and the NULab for Dig ital Humanities and Computational Social Science for our annual fall schol arship celebration on November 4\, 2–5pm Boston\, 11am–2pm Oakland\, a nd 7–10pm London. This year will mark the launch of the new Centers for Digital Scholarship\, a hub for digital research and teaching at Northeast ern\, with remarks from Professor Dan Cohen\, Dean of the Library and Vice Provost for Information Collaboration. The celebration will also include a keynote address by the founder and director of the Civil Rights and Rest orative Justice Project\, Margaret A. Burnham\, University Distinguished P rofessor of Law\, as well as lightning talks from the NULab and DSG commun ities. We are delighted to share that Dr. David Madigan\, Provost and Seni or Vice President for Academic Affairs\, will deliver a welcome to celebra tion attendees. \n\n \n\nThis hybrid event will be held in 350/350A Snell Library\, with support for remote participation via Zoom.Please see the ev ent program page for a full schedule and list of speakers. \n\n \n\nJoin u s to learn about projects\, pedagogy\, and methods in digital scholarship and meet others interested in or practicing digital scholarship from the N ortheastern and Boston DH community!\n\n \n\nThis event is free and open t o the public\, but registration is required. RSVP here.\n\n \n\nKeynote Bi ography\n\nProfessor Burnham is an internationally recognized expert on ci vil and human rights\, comparative constitutional rights\, and internation al criminal law. She is the faculty co-director of the law school’s Cent er for Law\, Equity and Race (CLEAR) and founded and directs the Civil Rig hts and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ)\, which investigates racial vio lence in the Jim Crow era and other historical failures of the criminal ju stice system. CRRJ serves as a resource for scholars\, policymakers and or ganizers involved in various initiatives seeking justice for these crimes. Among her impressive accomplishments\, Professor Burnham headed a team of outside counsel and law students in a landmark case that settled a federa l lawsuit. Professor Burnham’s team accused Franklin County Mississippi law enforcement officials of assisting Klansmen in the kidnapping\, tortur e and murder of two 19-year-olds\, Henry Dee and Charles Eddie Moore. CRRJ ’s investigations are widely covered in the national press\, including a PBS Frontline documentary series\, “Un(re)solved.”\n\n \n\nIn 2021\, President Joe Biden nominated Professor Burnham to serve as a member of th e Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board\; in 2022\, the U.S. Senate confirmed her appointment. The board is charged with reviewing the records of Civil Rights era cold criminal cases of murders and other racially mot ivated violence that occurred between 1940 and 1979. Many of these records are still closed to the public. The board is examining agency decisions t o withhold access and to engage with them to determine if the records shou ld still be withheld.\n\n \n\nProfessor Burnham began her career at the NA ACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. In the 1970s\, she represented civ il rights and political activists. In 1977\, she became the first African American woman to serve in the Massachusetts judiciary\, when she joined t he Boston Municipal Court bench as an associate justice. In 1982\, she bec ame partner in a Boston civil rights firm with an international human righ ts practice. In 1993\, South African president Nelson Mandela appointed Pr ofessor Burnham to serve on an international human rights commission to in vestigate alleged human rights violations within the African National Cong ress. The commission was a precursor to the Truth and Reconciliation Commi ssion. She joined Northeastern Law in 2002.\n\n \n\nA former fellow of the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Studies\, Professor Burnham has written extensively on contemporary legal and political issues. In 2016\, Profess or Burnham was selected for the competitive and prestigious Carnegie Fello ws Program. Provided to just 33 recipients nationwide that year\, the fell owship provides the “country’s most creative thinkers with grants of u p to $200\,000 each to support research on challenges to democracy and int ernational order.” Professor Burnham used the funding to deepen and exte nd CRRJ’s work and research dedicated to seeking justice for crimes of t he civil rights era. Among her many honors\, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly inducted Professor Burnham into its Hall of Fame in 2023. Also in 2023\, s he was honored with a Mass Humanities Governor’s Award for her “dedica tion to exploring history\, illuminating truth and confronting injustice i n order to protect civil and human rights locally\, nationally and interna tionally.” LOCATION:350 Snell Library SUMMARY:Fall Scholarship Celebration and Centers for Digital Scholarship La unch URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.northeastern.edu/event/fall-welcome-2024 CATEGORIES:Lecture CATEGORIES:Panel/Roundtable Discussion END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR