Travel And Housing

Our host institution, Northeastern University, is located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern University is a U.S. News and World Report “top-tier” university with a beautiful urban campus and modern housing in clean, convenient, air-conditioned, award-winning dormitories. You may choose housing in a suite with another participant for approximately $65 per night. Each one of you will have your own private bedroom, and each suite will have a bathroom, kitchen, and a living room. Or, you may choose to have your own suite for $130 per night. To take a full virtual tour of Northeastern University housing go to www.summerhousing.neu.edu. Of course, you have the option of staying at one of the hotels in the area, an option you reserve on your own.

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More about Northeastern Conference Housing

Northeastern has a modern student center with a complete food court, and the area around campus offers a full variety of restaurants. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are also served buffet style at the University’s commissary on campus. Meals are reasonably priced and as of this writing are $8 for breakfast, $10 for lunch, and $12 for dinner. Of course, on days when we are at the historic sites, food will be also be available in a number of venues.

You will enjoy Northeastern’s park-like atmosphere, its gardens and memorials, and for a modest guest fee its state-of-the-art exercise facilities that include swimming, recreational sports, and exercise and weight rooms. Visitors to Northeastern University appreciate its location directly across the street from the Museum of Fine Arts and near the scenic Back Bay area of this historic city and Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. The Northeastern library, constructed in 1990, has an InfoCommons computer center, and there is wireless connectivity in many of the buildings on campus. You may also have internet access from your suite for an additional charge of $50. Northeastern has computer kiosks in convenient locations around campus that allow you to check email and access the Internet. Northeastern is the perfect location for this Workshop. Finally, thanks to the generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, each participant will receive a $500 stipend to help cover expenses upon completion of the workshop. Travel assistance is also available to accepted participants and it may defray some or all of the cost associated with the trip to Boston.