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 Subject: Global Engagement Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Event Sponsor Department / Area: Environmental Studies program RSVP Information: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Jj27sWB2QI6uwFK8lPwAcA Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/news-events/hoch-cunningham-lecture-series#oct16 It’s clear that the climate crisis is dire, dramatic changes inevitable and already underway, and action inadequate despite decades of increasingly urgent warnings by climate scientists. Culture plays a critical role in shaping how we receive and respond to information, guiding action on the micro and macro scales. How can stories help us to navigate this changing planet? In this talk, Emily will explore the possibilities that interdisciplinary nonfiction storytelling can offer when just the facts fall short. How can braiding journalism, science, history, memory, and imagination create space for discovering or remembering other ways of being and acting in relationship to the earth? She will draw on her own writing on environmental contamination from nuclear weapons production and emerging work on responses to climate change, as well as examples from other boundary-crossing nonfiction writers.

Building: Aidekman Arts Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Sponsor: Tufts University Art Galleries Speaker Name: Jennifer Minniti, Michelle Finamore, and Beverly Semmes, moderated by Lynne Cooney RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-fashion-forward-tickets-1461675925039?aff=oddtdtcreator Link: https://artgalleries.tufts.edu/events/229-panel-fashion-forward Since the early 1990s, Beverly Semmes has created installations and sculptures of enormous dresses—some reaching over three-stories high, others taking over entire gallery spaces.  Since those early days, her relationship with fashion has grown and deepened—from sculptures and installations to an ongoing collaboration with fashion designer Jennifer Minniti—CarWash Collective—that creates wearable garments cut and patterned with Semmes’s images.  Join us for an open conversation with Semmes, Jennifer Minniti, and fashion curator Michelle Finamore, moderated by Lynne Cooney about the intersection of fashion and art. 

Building: Sophia Gordon Hall City: Somerville, MA 02144 Room: Sophia Gordon Hall - Multipurpose Room Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Sophia Gordon Hall room 100 Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Interns and Residents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Global Engagement,Research,Sustainability/Climate RSVP Information: https://www.linkedin.com/events/aninternationalsymposiumonabund7351295658781237251/ Admission/Cost: $0 Event Contact Name: Justin Hollander Event Contact Email: justin.hollander@tufts.edu Link: https://sites.tufts.edu/newtowns/ This symposium will explore the potential of ‘new towns’ to address a range of housing affordability and community planning challenges, as well as new research methods and techniques for using adaptive zoning techniques in urban planning. Most cities and towns in North America are zoned almost entirely as “single-family residential.” This means that when they are fully built-out every farm, field, and forest is developed. These communities will always be car-oriented, sprawling, and too low-density to support public transit. However, this is not the only way: abundant housing advocates are increasingly coalescing around the need for “new towns,” large master-planned communities that can happen through adaptive zoning innovation. These new towns consider the range of transportation, water/sewer, electricity, waste, safety, education, and other infrastructures while allowing for the creation of places that are mixed-use, walkable, bikeable, and dense enough to support public transit.  This symposium will bring together creative thinkers from around the world who are advancing knowledge in these areas, helping to shape a new kind of planning and design practice—one that embraces innovative approaches to housing crises through community-based solutions.

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 The Tufts Pep Band performs a concert for children and families. Michel Muller, director

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Hinduism) Perhaps the most popular of all Hindu festivals, also known as the Festival of Lights, it is dedicated to the goddess Kali in Bengal and to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, in the rest of India. As with several other festivals, Diwali is associated with one of the stories about the destruction of evil by Vishnu in one of his many manifestations. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Sponsor: University Chaplaincy (Sikhism) This day celebrates Gobind Singh Ji's passing on guruship to Scripture, henceforth known as the Guru Granth Sahib.