Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room 702 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Parents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor Details: Tisch College Speaker Name: Oren Cass RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-happened-to-american-capitalism-tickets-1225577638709?aff=oddtdtcreator Admission/Cost: Free Link: https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/what-happened-american-capitalism Meet economist, conservative thought leader, and author, Oren Cass. Cass is the founder and chief economist at American Compass, a conservative think tank whose mission is to restore an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of family, community, and industry to the nation’s liberty and prosperity. Cass is a contributing opinion writer for the Financial Times and the New York Times, and he has written about climate change for publications including the Wall Street Journal and Foreign Affairs, testified before seven congressional committees, and appeared on national and international media including NPR and the BBC. He was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where his work on strengthening the labor market addressed issues ranging from the social safety net and environmental regulation to trade and immigration to education and organized labor. He is the author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America.

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: ASEAN Auditorium Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: The Fletcher School Event Contact Name: Sara Rosales Laverty Link: https://forms.monday.com/forms/d60d793a14b6e771ee999b3709e0b1f3?r=use1 David Grann is an award-winning New Yorker writer and the bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager. In his talks, Grann explores his creative process—from what initially inspires him to investigate a story to his painstaking research and then links the (often) forgotten histories to their relevance to today.

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room 703 Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor Details: Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies Speaker Name: Mou Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison) RSVP Information: No Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Tom Guan Event Contact Email: yguan02@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 5126456416 Link: https://tufts.box.com/s/52yex0zb8q38w3rr4leypiupluc4xo5q Mou Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will discuss her latest book, The Disinherited (Harvard University Press, 2025) in this Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies lecture chaired by Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History.

Building: Tisch Library City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Tisch Library Room 223 Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Students (Graduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Education,Humanities Event Contact Name: Kaylen Dwyer Event Contact Email: kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/14062082 Digital mapping assignments engage classrooms in critical discussions of space and place. With easy-to-use mapping tools, classes such as literature; history; film and media; and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies are visualizing archives, telling spatial stories, creating engaging exhibits, contributing to crowdsourced projects, and developing geospatial datasets. This workshop will discuss the essentials of developing mapping assignments for humanities classrooms—from bite-size to final project. We will look at examples of mapping projects and break them down to understand the tools, skills, elements, and steps to mapping with your students. We welcome you to reach out to Kaylen Dwyer (kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu) at any time to discuss your classroom needs. Please bring a laptop.

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA) Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Education,Politics/Policy/Law,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Details: Environmental Studies Program RSVP Information: RSVP only needed for virtual attendants Event Contact Name: Sinet Kroch Event Contact Email: sinet.kroch@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZW_a8YqbRAmzRtVDSD7P2A Adivasi (Indigenous) food systems in Eastern India exemplify this fragility, with climate change, market shifts, forest displacement, migration, and intergenerational disconnect contributing to the erosion of food culture, knowledge, and security. This talk explores the evolution of Adivasi food systems as a response to political, environmental, and economic changes. It centers on the voices of Adivasi people and their perspectives and reflections on food as culture, food as self-medication, food as sustenance, food as sustainability, and importantly, food as conversation with nature. The talk advocates for recognizing and valuing Indigenous knowledge to decolonize food systems and promote sustainability, cultural identity, and resilience amidst global challenges.

Building: Barnum Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: LL008 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Parents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor Details: Tisch College Speaker Name: Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solomont-speaker-series-ann-wolbert-burgess-tickets-1225570226539?aff=oddtdtcreator Admission/Cost: Free Link: https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/solomont-speaker-series-ann-wolbert-burgess Meet Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess, D.N.Sc., APRN, FAAN, the renowned forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI profiles and catches serial killers and inspired the Hulu documentary Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer and the popular Netflix series, Mindhunter.  An internationally recognized pioneer in the assessment and treatment of victims of trauma and abuse, Burgess co-founded one of the first hospital-based crisis counseling programs at Boston City Hospital. Her work led to the groundbreaking study of young victims and the impact of trauma on their growth and development, their families and communities. Burgess’ expertise led to a collaboration with the FBI’s newly created Behavioral Sciences Unit to study violent serial offenders, and the links between child abuse, juvenile delinquency, and subsequent perpetration. Her book A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind chronicles this work. Dr. Burgess will share old cases with the audience during her talk.