Building: Fung House 48 Professors Row City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) Conference Room Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Humanities,Politics/Policy/Law,Research Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Anthropology department,Center for the Humanities At Tufts (CHAT),International Relations program,Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning department Speaker Name: Inna Leykin, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at The Open University of Israel RSVP Information: No RSVP required Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/book-talk-inna-leykin-caring-state-1117 Join us on November 17 for a conversation with Inna Leykin, discussing her new book, Caring Like a State: The Politics of Russia's Demographic Crisis. The post-Soviet Russian state is haunted by the fear of not having enough people. Despite its well-publicized pronatalist campaigns, Russia’s declining birth rates and rising mortality rates since the 1990s cast doubt on the state's ability to care for its population effectively. In this ethnography, anthropologist Inna Leykin examines the post Soviet Russian state's efforts and failures in population care. Inna Leykin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at The Open University of Israel. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she studies the cultures of intellectual expertise and policymaking, the cultural significance of statistical and demographic knowledge, postsocialist statecraft, and emerging practices of the self in contemporary Russia. She has recently embarked on new research focusing on the afterlife of Soviet agricultural development in postsocialist Mongolia. Her research has been published in academic journals including Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Medical Anthropology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Sociology, Comparative Migration Studies, and Slavic Review. All are welcome to attend. This event is co-sponsored by The Center for the Humanities at Tufts, and the Departments of Anthropology, International Relations, and Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.

Campus: Grafton campus Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Training/Workshop Event Subject: Health/Wellness Event Sponsor: Tufts University Event Sponsor Details: Office of Emergency Management RSVP Information: Sign up through Tufts Learning Center Event Contact Name: Vanak Huot Event Contact Email: ready@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.myabsorb.com/#/instructor-led-courses/aaa669c9-a508-45a6-9a40-091d3d58d08f/ This training course for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) / Automated External Defibrillators (AED) is designed to teach the lifesaving skills necessary to help a friend, family member, neighbor, and all community members in need. This is an instructor-led course that teaches adult, child, and infant CPR. Additionally, the course will teach the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED). This class is open to Tufts University students, faculty, and staff and is limited to 20 students per session.

Building: Goddard Chapel City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality Event Sponsor: Tufts University RSVP Information: Tufts University Journaling can be a rich spiritual practice but in our busy days, it can be hard to find time and space to sit down with pen and paper. This drop-in space offers just that—a judgement-free zone where you can drink tea, nibble a snack, and see where the pen takes you. Weekly prompts will be provided but feel free to use this time as you see fit. For students, faculty, and staff, starting September 9.

Building: Goddard Chapel City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: A reception in Eaton Hall 250 from 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. will follow the public lecture. All are welcome. Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality,Social Justice/Human Rights Event Sponsor: Tisch College of Civic Life Event Sponsor Details: Sponsored by the University Chaplaincy and Tisch College with support from the Asian American Center and the Experimental College. RSVP Information: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9LyJehcVTgyOxSu Admission/Cost: Free Link: https://chaplaincy.tufts.edu/russell-lecture/ Register (In-Person Only) Join this year's joint Russell Lecture and Solomont Speaker Series event with Tufts alumnus, Varun Soni, A96! Soni is the Dean of Religious and Spiritual life at the University of Southern California, where he also served as the inaugural vice provost of campus wellness and crisis intervention. He is the first and only Hindu in American history to serve as the chief spiritual leader of a college or university. Dean Soni previously taught civil rights and constitutional law at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A prolific public speaker and scholar of religions, Dean Soni is a national interfaith leader and advocate for religious reconciliation. Outside of his role as Dean, Soni serves as a senior advisor for Religion of Sports, a production company founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan, and Gotham Chopra, and he also advises the video game company Naughty Dog, where he contributed to the Uncharted and The Last of Us franchises. He's been a consultant for HBO, ESPN, Showtime, A&E, History Channel, Live Nation, and the Oprah Winfrey Network, and produced the graphic novel Tina’s Mouth: An Existential Comic Diary. This event is jointly hosted by Tisch College's Solomont Speaker Series and by the University Chaplaincy's Russell Lecture, the oldest lectureship at Tufts University. It is cosponsored by the Asian American Center and Experimental College at Tufts. Registration required. A reception in Eaton 260 from 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. will follow the public lecture. All are welcome.  

Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/96229275364?pwd=bYlRCPEs8kuOFqLKWhzovhFedxWDu9.1&from=addon Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/j/96229275364?pwd=bYlRCPEs8kuOFqLKWhzovhFedxWDu9.1&from=addon Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation Event Subject: Education,Global Engagement Event Sponsor Details: Tufts European Center Event Contact Name: Kimberlee DeCrescenzo Event Contact Email: kimberlee.decrescenzo@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-627-3290 Link: https://europeancenter.tufts.edu/ Spend a summer in France! Join us to learn more about the 2026 Tufts in Talloires and Tufts in Annecy programs at the Tufts European Center in Talloires, France. No French required.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Gems from the early 16th century by Josquin de Prez for Renaissance consort: Violas da gamba, lute, harps, recorders, krummhorns, harpsichord, voices and chamber organ. With guest artist Dan Meyers, recorder and voice. Jane Hershey, viola da gamba and Director.