NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks
Annual Conference:
"Digital Technologies for Community Collaborations"
April 19th, 9:30am–3:30pm (Eastern), 6:30am–12:30pm (Pacific), 2:30pm–8:30pm (Greenwich Mean Time)
Please join us for the seventh annual NULab spring conference, featuring talks by Northeastern faculty, staff, and students about their work in computational social science and digital humanities. This year’s theme will be “Digital Technologies for Community Collaborations” and will include a diverse set of interdisciplinary presentations on topics including digital community archive projects, participatory modeling methods, collaborative algorithm development, and digital resources for collaboration and learning.
Our keynote address will be delivered by
Dr. Karilyn Crockett, Assistant Professor Urban History, Public Policy & Planning at MIT. Dr. Crockett's research focuses on large-scale land use changes in twentieth century American cities and examines the social and geographic implications of structural poverty, recently earning the 2022 William Sloane Coffin '56 Award for Peace and Justice by Yale Divinity School.
This event will be hybrid: join us in the Alumni Center on the Northeastern Boston campus, or by Zoom. See the event page for more details.
Registration is required for this event: RSVP here. If you are joining remotely, you can RSVP at any time to receive a Zoom link. If you will be attending in person and would like to join for lunch, please RSVP by
April 8.
Please note: We are committed to reducing food waste for this event. If you RSVP to join in person and are not able to attend please let us know by April 12 so we can update the lunch order.
Conference Schedule (all times in Eastern):
- 9:30am: Light breakfast
- 9:45am: Welcome and opening
- 10–11:30am: Civic Tech: Computing for Communities
- Sahar Abi-Hassan, Political Science, Mills College at Northeastern University
- Alex Cline, Northeastern University London
- Nabeel Gillani, College of Arts, Media and Design (Art + Design) and the D’Amore-McKim School of Business (Marketing)
- Christopher Le Dantec, Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Arts, Media and Design
- Moira Zellner, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, College of Social Social Sciences and Humanities; NULab Co-Director
- 11:30am–12:30pm: Lunch
- 12:30–1:45pm: Keynote by Karilyn Crockett, Assistant Professor of Urban History, Public Policy & Planning at MIT: "Hacking the Archive: The Quest for More Just Urban Futures <<1969-2069>>"
- 2–3:25pm: Digital Platforms to Reflect Communities
- Lisa Arellano, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Mills College at Northeastern University
- Dipa Desai, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Halima Haruna, History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Mario Hernandez, Sociology, Mills College at Northeastern University
- 3:25pm: Closing
- Dan Cohen, Dean of the Library; Vice Provost for Information Collaboration; Professor of History
- K.J. Rawson, English, College of Social Sciences and Humanities; NULab Co-Director
We will be including automated live captioning for the Zoom call and have requested an ASL interpreter. To make space for informal discussions, this event will not be recorded. If you have questions, please contact
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Please also share this information with anyone who may be interested.
Kind regards,
Emily Sullivan
Coordinator
NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks
Northeastern University
