Event Type: Multifaith Observance Celebrates the birthday of Sri Ramakrishna, teacher of Swami Vivekananda.

Building: Olin Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Rm 011 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar,Performance Event Subject: Arts,Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence,Education,Global Engagement,Humanities,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor Details: Department of Romance Studies Event Contact Email: magdalena.malinowska@tufts.edu Films in Spanish is a series of films that focus on a different DEIJ topic each semester. Spring 2025 gives visibility to the many challenges faced by Hispanic immigrants in the United States. Film #1: En el septimo dia On the seventh day The film shows the difficult lives of undocumented immigrants in Brooklyn as they try to balance work and leisure time.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance In Orthodox churches, the first day of Lent marks the beginning of the Great Fast, the final six weeks of a 10-week period leading up to Holy Week and Easter (Pascha). In the churches that follow the Gregorian calendar, Lent is a six-week observance (40 days excluding Sundays) beginning with Ash Wednesday and culminating in Holy Week. It is a time of repentance and sacrifice in preparation for Easter. Observance(s) during this time may include fasting.

Building: Eaton Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Eaton 112 Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Humanities,Religion/Spirituality Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences,University Chaplaincy Event Sponsor Details: Department of Religion, Center for the Humanities at Tufts, and Tufts University Chaplaincy Speaker Name: Richard Higgins Event Contact Email: religion@tufts.edu Richard Higgins will discuss his new book, Thoreau’s God, from the University of Chicago Press, which explores Thoreau's spirituality, his perception of God in nature, and his sense of the sacred in the ordinary. Thoreau was a harsh critic of Christianity in his day, but he was religious to the bone and had a profound sense of the holy. Richard presents Thoreau as a religious thinker who tried to separate the universal religious impulse from its 19th-century institutional context. In essence, Thoreau was a mystic who, while firmly moored to the earth, was on a quest to commune with a divine mystery that was both immanent in the natural world and transcendent.

Building: Joyce Cummings Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room 122 Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Details: Experimental College Speaker Name: Denise Swidey Event Contact Name: Oluwatobi Pitan Event Contact Email: opitan01@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 6176273384 Join us for a dinner and alumni panel with moderator and instructor of EXP-0015: An Insider's Guide to the World of Food Media, Denise Drower Swidey, A90, followed by a networking event with class alumni.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance A special day of repentance observed by Protestant and Roman Catholic Christians to mark the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period (excluding Sundays) of prayer, repentance, and self-denial preceding Easter. The name derives from the practice of marking of the faithful with ashes to signify penitence. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work and may include fasting.