Building: Eaton Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Eaton 225 Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Global Engagement,Humanities,Politics/Policy/Law,Religion/Spirituality,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Details: Department of Anthropology, Annual Asian Studies Lecture, Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Religion Speaker Name: Ruth E. Toulson Event Contact Email: anthropology@tufts.edu Join us for the Annual Asian Studies Lecture featuring Ruth E. Toulson discussing her book Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore. Can a state make its people forget the dead? Cemeteries and funeral parlors have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. In this ethnography of Singaporean-Chinese deathscapes, anthropologist and mortician Ruth E. Toulson uses ritual, grief, and the corpse as interrogative lenses, exploring the scope of and resistance to state power. In doing so, she offers a new anthropology of death, one both more personal and politicized, a necropolitics of the ordinary.

Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Barnum LL08 Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Event Subject: Arts Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Film and Media Studies RSVP Information: https://www.fms-narratives.blog/event-details-registration/secret-mall-apartment-screening-q-a/form Event Contact Name: Gina O'Connor Event Contact Email: gina.o_connor@tufts.edu Link: https://www.fms-narratives.blog/event-details-registration/secret-mall-apartment-screening-q-a Tufts FMS presents a screening of Secret Mall Apartment, followed by Q&A by Documentary Filmmaker Jeremy Workman. “Fascinating... A thoughtful celebration of DIY artistry.” –Variety Secret Mall Apartment, from Director Jeremy Workman and Executive Producer Jesse Eisenberg, follows eight Rhode Islanders who created a secret apartment inside a busy mall in 2003 and who lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved. Winner Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary –IFFBoston 2024 Winner Audience Award Best Documentary –IFFBoston 2024 This event is free and open to the community. RSVP is recommended to receive event updates and reminders.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance A designated 19-day period of fasting each year immediately before the Bahá’í New Year. The fasting is seen as a period of spiritual preparation and regeneration for the new year ahead. Observances may include fasting.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Approximate date (moon dependent). The Holy Month of Ramadan is the month of fasting during which Muslims who are physically able do not eat or drink from the first sign of dawn until sunset in honor of the first revelations to the Prophet Muhammad. The evening meal is celebrated with family. Observance(s) during this time may include fasting. 

Building: Barnum Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Barnum 216 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Arts,Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence,Education,Humanities,Politics/Policy/Law,Social Justice/Human Rights,Sustainability/Climate RSVP Information: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ezf2cZGS2aMf7aC Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Robert Hitchner Event Contact Email: robert.hitchner@tufts.edu The Department for Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora (RCD) is hosting a two-day symposium in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the department. Taking place on Thursday, February 27 and Friday, February 28, this symposium will bring together faculty and students from across the university to share new research and recent projects, make connections and foster new collaborations, and build our community. Faculty and students will present recent works examining the interconnections of race, indigeneity, gender, and sexuality as forms of governance and sites of struggle in the United States and beyond. Drawing on methods including archival research, formal architectural analysis, ethnographic observation, and visual analysis, presenters will offer critical accounts of global colonialism, imperialism, and ongoing resistance. Thursday, February 27, 2025 9–10 a.m. | Breakfast 10–11:30 a.m. | Film and performance 12–1 p.m. | Unsettling Colonial Ecologies, Removal, and Ruin (Hoch Cunningham Lecture) 1–2:15 p.m. | Lunch 2:30–4 p.m. | Art History, Built Environment, and Material Culture Friday, February 28, 2025 8:30–9:30 a.m. | Breakfast 9:30–11 a.m. | Literature, Genealogy, and Print Cultures 11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m. | Race, Empire, and Social Movements Participating Panelists  AB Huber, Adriana Zavala, Courtney Sato, Daniel Waqar, Diana Martinez, Dorothy Wang, Freeden Blume Oeur, Jovonna Jones, Kamran Rastegar, Kareem Khubchandani, Kendra Field, Manjari Mukherjee, Mary McNeil, Matt Hooley, Sarah Robbins, Sonal Sharma, Walter Johnson, Wenxuan Xue, and more.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Distler Performance Hall Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Performance Event Subject: Music Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Admission/Cost: Free; no tickets required Event Contact Name: Anna Griffis Event Contact Email: anna.griffis@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 6176272253 Composers Marti Epstein, Arthur Levering, and John McDonald create a new-music rumble with new works performed by Ashley Addington and Sarah Brady, flute; Yoko Hagino and John McDonald, piano; Rane Moore, clarinet; Philipp Stauedlin, saxophone; and Julia Cavallaro, mezzo soprano.