Building: Barnum Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: 163 Packard, Barnum Hall Room 238 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff Event Type: Community Engagement Event Subject: Community Celebration,Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence Event Sponsor: Tufts University Event Sponsor Details: Alaina Macaulay RSVP Information: https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/73d51baf-ba8f-4b18-9318-f1ba8c45495b/select Event Contact Name: Jasmine Raynor Event Contact Email: jasmine.raynor@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 857-293-8048 Link: https://doodle.com/sign-up-sheet/participate/73d51baf-ba8f-4b18-9318-f1ba8c45495b/select The Office for Institutional Inclusive Excellence (IIE) would like to invite all of our friends and partners to come and visit our new office space at Barnum Hall in room 238 (second floor). Please use the sign up sheet to let us know your availability. The open houses will be held on: September 16 from 9–11 a.m. September 17 from 2–4 p.m. September 24 from 1–3 p.m. There is no formal program for the open house event. You and your teams can drop by for drinks and snacks or to just say hello! If there are conflicts with the open house dates, please contact jasmine.raynor@tufts.edu to schedule a 30-minute meeting with the IIE team, or if you would like to discuss a possible training or collaboration complete a consultation form which can be found on our website. We look forward to seeing you all in September!

Building: Fung House 48 Professors Row City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral) Event Type: Community Engagement Event Subject: Arts,Humanities,Religion/Spirituality,Research,Social Justice/Human Rights,Theater/Dance Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Center for the Humanities At Tufts (CHAT) RSVP Information: No RSVP required Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Amanda Gary Pepper Event Contact Email: amanda.pepper@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 203-763-9353 Link: https://humanities.tufts.edu/events/faculty-book-talk-critical-dreaming-lilian-mengesha-924 Please join us on September 24 to hear Lily Mengesha discuss her newest monograph, Critical Dreaming: Feminist Performances Across Indigenous Americas. Critical Dreaming offers a resonant framework for understanding Indigenous embodied ways of knowing that work against colonial attempts to discredit or disappear forms of imagination, relationality, and resistance connecting disparate Indigenous communities. This powerful book urges readers to recognize how Indigenous artists contribute to ongoing struggles against multiple forms of colonialism.  This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT), the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, and the Theatre, Dance and Performance department. Please contact humanities@tufts.edu with any questions.

Building: Tisch Library City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room 316 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Arts,Engineering/Technology Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: History of Art and Architecture department Event Sponsor Details: Barkan Lecture Link: https://as.tufts.edu/art-architecture/news-events/lecture-series Barkan Lecture with Sonja Drimmer, associate professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University Massachusetts Amherst.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Judaism) Begins at dawn. A minor Jewish fast. Observances during this time may include fasting.

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Curtis Hall - Multipurpose Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mVrZeq2dQOKZibPv-wIUPg Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#sep25 The ResilientMass Plan was released in 2023 as an update to the federally mandated state’s hazards mitigation and climate adaptation plan. The Plan outlines the most urgent climate change impacts in Massachusetts and establishes cross-government and state agency actions to address them. The actions include the creation of the Office of Climate Science, which the speaker is a member of. The speaker will share how this office serves to empower state and municipal agencies in their climate resilience planning/projects. Some examples include providing high-resolution climate data and offering technical assistances. Finally, the speaker will reflect on how those with STEM and non-STEM backgrounds alike can contribute to climate resilience in Massachusetts.

Building: Ballou Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Provost's Office Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty Event Type: Community Engagement Event Sponsor: Office of the Provost Link: https://provost.tufts.edu/faculty-engagement/ Faculty are invited to drop-in coffee hours to engage with Provost Genco.