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Living Large in a Waning Public Realm: Intellectual Engagement in a Neoliberal World

Time: April 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Location: 104 Tolley Humanities Building

Catherine Tumber (Northeastern University)

Historian, journalist, urban analyst, and independent writer and editor, Professor Tumber is currently Senior Research Associate at the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.  She is the author of Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (MIT Press, 2012) and articles for the Boston Review, Book Forum, Wilson Quarterly, the Nation, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Architectural Record, Raritan, the Baffler, and the Boston Phoenix.    

Sponsored by the Dean’s Professor for the Public Humanities in English, the Department of English, and the Humanities Center