Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: The Fletcher School Event Sponsor Department / Area: Center for International Environment and Resource Policy Link: https://www.climatepolicylab.org/symposium The international symposium will highlight the importance of multistakeholder engagement and cooperation in climate policy implementation. Bringing together leaders in climate policy research, practice, and implementation, participants will gain insights into how specific structural barriers in their countries could be addressed through the integration of national agendas and enhanced policy implementation.

Building: Barnum Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Barnum LL26 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Arts,Humanities,Music,Politics/Policy/Law Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Details: Aurality Hub Speaker Name: Louis Chude-Sokei Admission/Cost: Free Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/aurality-hub-event-louis-chude-sokei-912 The Aurality Hub is back! Come meet Louis Chude-Sokei for a special conversation about sound production's role in disrupting social constructs. Louis Chude-Sokei is a writer and scholar who is currently professor of English and director of the African American and Black Diaspora Studies Program at Boston University. His scholarship foregrounds the importance of sound production as a locus of Black interactions with technology, redressing the primitive/civilized, and Black/technology binaries that structure the colonial imaginary. He is currently working on a new book titled Machines of Flesh and Blood: Race and the Making of Artificial Intelligence (Viking/Random House, 2026). The Aurality Hub is a series of faculty events where attendees can meet, discuss, research, and experiment with all that purports to the aural. The Aurality Hub aims to reposition the media of academic inquiry and disciplinary hierarchies by way of the aural register—sound, music, noise, silence; orality, soundscape; listening, hearing; acoustics, vibrational practices; performance, radio, podcasting, dubbing; spatial sound, Ambisonics, Dolby, machine listening, and more. All are welcome. To RSVP, please email the organizers, joseph.auner@tufts.edu, riccardo.giacconi@tufts.edu, and alessandra.campana@tufts.edu.

Building: Joyce Cummings Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: JCC first floor lobby Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Community Engagement,Information Session/Open House/Orientation Event Subject: Innovation Event Sponsor: Gordon Institute Event Sponsor Details: Derby Entrepreneurship Center RSVP Information: https://markitai.com/e/EON-YZFQs Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Carol Denning Event Contact Email: carol.denning@tufts.edu Link: https://derbyecenter.tufts.edu/event/cusi-fall25/ Connect with other innovators eager to change the world, meet potential cofounders or team members, and chat with people who understand #startuplife. Aspiring innovators, founders, and entrepreneurs from Babson, Olin, Wellesley, Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, UMass Amherst, UMass Lowell, and more will be there!

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Performance Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Graduate student Jimmy Wang hosts a concert in memory of Ryuichi Sakamoto, as inspiration for his thesis on musical nonviolence. 

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Wicca/Paganism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. Autumnal equinox and the second harvest festival, celebrating the equivalence of light and dark, the arrival of Autumn, and thanksgiving for the Earth's bounty. 

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Hinduism) A nine-night (nav-rat) celebration of nine auspicious forms of Shakti/Devi (feminine divine power/the Goddess). Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work and may include fasting.