Building: Dowling Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Dowling Hall 710 Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Undergraduate) Students interested in planning a semester or year abroad for Academic Year 2026-2027 are welcome to walk-in without an appointment for guidance and assistance from Tufts Global Education.

Building: Tisch Library City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: We will be located at tables in front of the leisure reading area just beyond the lobby on the main floor (second floor) of Tisch Library. Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Training/Workshop Event Subject: Research Event Contact Name: User Experience and Student Success Department Event Contact Email: tischuess@elist.tufts.edu Link: https://tischlibrary.tufts.edu/node/3565 Starting on October 1 and continuing every Wednesday through December 10, librarians at Tisch Library will be hosting weekly drop-in research consultations. You can stop by for research help, including but not limited to: Developing keywords and search strategies Identifying and searching for sources Evaluating information types Planning and organizing your research On the following dates, StAAR writing consultants will also be joining us to offer drop-in writing support: October 22 November 12 December 3 No appointment necessary! Stop by whenever you can.

Building: Fung House 48 Professors Row City: Somerville, MA 02144 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral) Event Type: Community Engagement Event Subject: Arts,Humanities,Music,Working at Tufts 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/chat-mid-semester-open-house-1029 Join the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) on October 29 for our mid-semester open house. All Tufts faculty, staff, grad students, post doctoral fellows, administrators, and members of our community are welcome. No agenda—feel free to stop by and enjoy some snacks and mingle with faculty in the humanities. Please contact humanities@tufts.edu with questions.

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: ASEAN Auditorium, Cabot Center Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Health/Wellness,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor: Tisch College of Civic Life RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solomont-speaker-series-alexis-nikole-nelson-tickets-1708507374549?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl Admission/Cost: Free Register (In-Person Only) Meet chef, foraging TikTok star and outdoor educator Alexis Nikole Nelson, better known as the "Black Forager" on social media! With over 5 million followers joining her viral adventures of foraging and cooking, Nelson reframes the worlds of food, botany and nature, helping people make environmentally sustainable food choices while also celebrating the outdoors and changing fraught relationships with food. Nelson's videos shine a light on the historical and cultural roots of foraging in African American and Indigenous food traditions that have traditionally been repressed. Nelson's work has been featured in places like the New York Times, Bon Appetit, NPR, the Kelly Clarkson Show, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and she hosted a 15-episode series on botany for YouTube's educational channel, Crash Course. Nelson received the James Beard Award for “Best Social Media” in 2022, and she was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30, 2025 TIME100 Creators and as a TikTok Tastemaker. Registration required. All are welcome. This event is cosponsored by the Tufts Pollinator Initiative.   

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_EDXfAMyATsOvhnBhYKP6tw Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#oct30 This lecture examines the paradoxes of care and control in campus landscapes. Mark Bomford traces the tension between the ordered care of campus master planning and the improvisational care of grassroots agroecological experiment, showing how each constrained the futures that could be imagined. Using metaphors from Anna Karenina to Claude Shannon’s concept of informational entropy, he argues that sustainability emerges not from perfection but from surprise, multiplicity, and relational responsiveness. Case studies from the University of British Columbia and Yale demonstrate that when shared labor, student-centered pedagogy, and ecological complexity are foregrounded over metrics-driven control and efficiency, campuses can serve as laboratories for more just and adaptive futures. To “lose control” is not to embrace chaos but to resist foreclosure—to vivify the ecological and social futures of the university as open, relational, and delightfully, surprisingly weird.  

Online Location Details: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2h6V3bWPf2kqr2K Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Cabot 702 Open to Public: Yes Event Sponsor: The Fletcher School Link: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2h6V3bWPf2kqr2K Join us for an engaging presentation on The African Human Rights System: Institutions, Jurisprudence, and the Future of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, led by Dr. Robert Eno, Registrar of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The session opens with an overview of the African human rights system—its origins, normative and institutional frameworks, and the key reasons for developing a distinct, homegrown mechanism for the continent. Participants will gain insight into the system’s unique features and its principal institutions, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. A special focus will be given to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, established in 1998, exploring how individuals and entities can access and litigate before the Court. Dr. Eno will highlight the Court’s most influential jurisprudence, its growing impact on human rights protection and the rule of law in Africa and beyond, and discuss future developments—particularly in light of the African Union’s initiative to expand the Court’s mandate to include criminal jurisdiction. The presentation will conclude with reflections on the Court’s contributions to accountability and access to justice, while acknowledging persistent challenges such as limited state compliance and political resistance. Ultimately, the session underscores the African Court’s essential role in advancing Africa’s capacity to promote and protect human and peoples’ rights through its own regional mechanisms. About the Speaker: Dr. Robert Eno, a national of Cameroon, is an accomplished jurist with over 25 years of experience promoting and protecting human rights in Africa. Since 2011, he has served as Registrar of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, following prior roles at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the South African Human Rights Commission. Dr. Eno has also taught law at several universities across Africa and currently serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Addis Ababa University. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he holds degrees from the University of Yaoundé II, the University of Zambia, the University of South Africa, and a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand.