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.   

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.  

Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: This event will be held in the Austin Room (room 226) in Tisch Library on the main level (second floor) and online (register for link). Open to Public: No Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Humanities Speaker Name: Ben Chrisinger and Sean Smith Event Contact Name: Kaylen Dwyer Event Contact Email: kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/15219006 The Digital Scholarship Conversations series is a monthly brown bag hosted by Tisch Library. Each conversation will focus on a different topic, helping us share ideas and build community around the intersection of digital technology and our research and teaching. In this session, Ben Chrisinger and Sean Smith will talk about their current project focused on the American Medical Directories (AMDs), periodically published by the American Medical Association from 1906, which present an immense opportunity to illuminate the organizational dynamics of professional medicine in the early 20th century. In addition to physicians’ names and practice locations, these volumes also contain valuable information about individuals’ training histories and medical specializations, demographic characteristics, and membership in state and local societies. Because AMDs were published triennially, they also present an opportunity to link individuals over time, exploring physicians’ movement between regions, as well as how and where training pipelines for the medical workforce developed. No other data source offers such nuanced, individual-level information about the early medical workforce, yet the AMDs remain underexplored archival sources, largely due to the difficulties of extracting large quantities of data from original archival sources. By extracting, formatting, and geolocating data from these sources, this project will put AMD data into the hands of social science researchers, demonstrate its utility by exploring a set of sociological hypotheses, and sustainably archive them for future generations. Additionally, public-facing outputs and activities will bring this project to a broader audience, enabling still further kinds of non-academic inquiries and applications. Ben Chrisinger is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health at Tufts, and PI of the NSF-funded American Medical Directories Project. His research broadly focuses on the relationship between health and place, and uses quantitative and qualitative methodologies. He is on research leave during the 2025–2026 academic year, based out of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University. Sean Smith serves as the data services specialist at Rice University's Fondren Library and is the co-PI of the American Medical Directories Project. He earned a Ph.D. in history after a career in software engineering, and his research examines the role of health in constructing race.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Wicca/Paganism) Begins at sundown on the first day listed. The New Year and the final harvest festival, celebrating the last gifts of the Earth before winter and the return of the spirits of the dead.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Christianity-Catholic and Protestant) All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honor of all the saints of the church, whether they are known or unknown. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.

Building: Robinson Hall, TTC City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Breakfast/lunch and networking located in TTC atrium. Lecture hall located in Robinson 253.  Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Health/Wellness,Humanities,Medicine,Religion/Spirituality,Research,Science Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Anthropology department,Biology department,Environmental Studies program,Psychology department,Religion department RSVP Information: https://luma.com/8ud97ru8 Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Aria Ma Event Contact Email: aria.ma@tufts.edu Link: https://luma.com/8ud97ru8 ​As psychedelic medicine emerges from decades of prohibition into a new era of clinical legitimacy, we stand at a critical juncture where Indigenous traditions meet cutting-edge neuroscience. This interdisciplinary conference brings together leading voices from anthropology, medicine, psychology, religion, and the arts to explore how diverse ways of knowing can inform the responsible integration of psychedelic therapies into modern healthcare. ​Join us for a day of presentations that traverse the boundaries between laboratory and ceremony, clinic and community. Our distinguished speakers will examine how Indigenous practices inform contemporary therapeutic protocols, how religious traditions shape our understanding of consciousness and healing, and how principles of harm reduction learned from ceremonial contexts can guide clinical applications. ​Featured speakers include: ​Nate Greenslit, PhD, Berklee College of Music ​Jenna Cluckey, Massachusetts General Hospital ​Andrea Sánchez-Castañeda, PhD, Center for World Religions at Harvard University ​Dan Brenner, PhD, Cambridge Biotherapeutics ​Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, PhD, Sachamama Center for BioCultural Regeneration ​Chloe Jordan, PhD, Boston University ​Carolina Haass-Koffler, PhD, Brown University ​Maha Mian, PhD, Suffolk University ​Featured topics include: ​Current clinical trials and their implications for treatment protocols ​Indigenous knowledge systems and their contributions to therapeutic and restorative justice practices ​Religious and spiritual dimensions of psychedelic healing ​Community-based harm reduction models and their clinical applications ​Clinical trial progress on psilocybin as a therapeutic for irritable bowel syndrome ​And more TBA! ​This gathering offers a unique opportunity to engage with the multifaceted nature of psychedelic medicine, honoring both scientific rigor and Indigenous wisdom as we collectively navigate the path toward culturally informed therapeutic practices. ​Reserve your seat today. Limited spots available.