Tufts Events

Campus: Off-campus Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Multifaith Observance Event Subject: Religion/Spirituality Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints observance. Annual World General Conference of the Church held on Saturday and Sunday closest to this date each year. 

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Celebrates the birthday of Rama, the seventh incarnation of the God Vishnu. The Ramayana, one of the Hindu epics that tells the story of Rama, is read during the previous eight days.

Online Location Details: https://as.tufts.edu/music/news-events/live-streaming Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Contact Name: Anna Griffis Event Contact Email: anna.griffis@tufts.edu Link: https://tuftsdramadancetickets.universitytickets.com/ Tufts Concert Choir and Chamber Singers welcome our choral alumni back to the Distler Performance Hall for a special performance of Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, K. 427 under the direction of Jamie Kirsch. View Event Program  

Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room information will be sent to those who register Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Students (Graduate),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Community Engagement,Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Sponsor Details: Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence, University Chaplaincy, Tufts Hillel Speaker Name: Project Shema RSVP Information: https://tufts.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1A3kXCWWctnfBDo Event Contact Email: diversity@tufts.edu Please register for the workshop "Understanding Antisemitism in the Current Political Climate" and the dialogue following this session. Educational Session on Zoom: March 27th, 6-7pm ET Follow Up Dialogue Session in person (Medford Campus, food will be served) : April 6th, 2-4pm ET - location will be sent out to all registrants. This two-part program highly empowers participants to support inclusion and belonging efforts for the Jewish community. During the initial virtual session, we'll explore who Jews are, what antisemitism is, and how it operates. During the subsequent in-person session, we'll unpack how anti-Jewish harm shows up in the current political climate, including inside discourse around Israel & Palestine. Through small group discussion, pair shares, and Q&A there is ample time for unpacking difficult questions and challenging scenarios. Participants leave with a greater understanding of the Jewish community’s identities, lived experiences, and traumas, better prepared to be allies to the Jewish community, and how antisemitism ultimately undermines democratic, pluralistic societies and institutions

Online Location Details: on Zoom Campus: Boston Health Sciences campus,Boston SMFA campus,Grafton campus,Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Register to receive the Zoom link Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty Event Type: Information Session/Open House/Orientation Event Subject: Career Development,Education,Engineering/Technology,Innovation Event Sponsor Details: Tufts Educational Technology Services RSVP Information: justin.horvath@tufts.edu Event Contact Name: Justin Horvath Event Contact Email: justin.horvath@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/meeting/register/lgsgKRUcSAqNgqeLW2eKzA Want to thoughtfully integrate AI into your teaching? Tufts Educational Technology Services wants to work with you to create custom AI apps in a supportive, engaged Community of Practice for faculty and instructors. Get started by attending our Orientation on April 7th. Visit the link to register!

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Varis Lecture Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Contact Name: Anna Griffis Event Contact Email: anna.griffis@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 6176272253 For Palestinians the nakba, or catastrophe, is a profound concept that describes the events of 1948, when the majority of the world's Palestinians were forced into exile, as well as ongoing experiences of settler-colonial dispossession and erasure. As both historical event and contemporary discourse, the nakba not only connects Palestinians across time and space, it captures the underlying logic that legitimizes myriad forms of violence, death, and political repression currently facing Palestinians (and their allies) around the world. Drawing from recent literature in indigenous sound studies, in this talk I argue that the nakba offers an essential point of contact for hearing Palestinian experience and for refusing colonial listening practices. I propose that the current Palestinian crisis reverberates across sensory fields, and that by critically attending to the ways in which Palestinians are heard, artists, activists, and academics are better prepared to respond to challenges of the contemporary world.  David A. McDonald is Associate Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. Since 2002, he has worked closely with Palestinian communities in Israel, Jordan, the West Bank, Gaza, and North America.Trained in ethnomusicology, he has published widely on Palestinian music, focusing specifically on the dynamics of trauma, violence, and exile. Dr. McDonald is the author and co-editor of five books, including My Voice is My Weapon (Duke 2013); Palestinian Music and Song (IU Press 2013); At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice (IU Press 2022); Festival Activism (IU Press 2025); and Holy Land Five: Palestinian Charity in the US “War on Terror” (forthcoming 2026).His research has been recognized by the American Folklore Society (2014 Chicago Prize) and the Society for Ethnomusicology (2014 Japan Kunst Prize, 2023 Ellen Koskoff Prize, and 2023 Bruno Nettl Prize) for its commitment to participatory activist research methodologies and the pursuit of social justice through music.  

Building: Breed Memorial Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: 51 Winthrop St., Medford, MA Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Engineering/Technology,Innovation,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor Details: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Speaker Name: Linda J. Broadbelt RSVP Information: Register in advance Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Email: chbe@tufts.edu Link: https://go.tufts.edu/botsaris All students, faculty, postdocs, and staff are invited to the Gregory M. Botsaris Lecture, "Developing Strategies for Polymer Redesign and Recycling Using Reaction Pathway Analysis," to be delivered by Linda J. Broadbelt. She will discuss innovative approaches to repurposing polymers, including pyrolysis for plastic waste recovery, mechanistic modeling of polymer degradation, and the identification of bioprivileged molecules for sustainable design.

Building: Alumnae Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Alumnae Lounge, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford Wheelchair Accessible: No Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Students (Undergraduate) Event Sponsor Details: Environmental Studies Program and the Office of Sustainability Event Contact Name: Sinet Kroch Event Contact Email: sinet.kroch@tufts.edu Link: https://as.tufts.edu/environmentalstudies/academics/internships This event features around 25 student internship experiences, including internships at a wide variety of organizations and the Sustainable Solutions Fellow projects that focus on on-campus projects. This is a great event to get to know different environmental internship opportunities that environmental studies students participated in and to meet new people.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Distler Performance Hall Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Parents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Public Service/Government Event Sponsor Details: Tisch College with support from Department of Political Science, Tufts ACTION, and the Tufts Democrats. Speaker Name: Congressman Seth Moulton RSVP Information: https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/tisch-college-solomont-speaker-series-seth-moulton Admission/Cost: Free Link: https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/tisch-college-solomont-speaker-series-seth-moulton Join a dynamic conversation with U.S. Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA6). First elected to Congress in 2015, Rep. Moulton serves on the House Armed Services Committee, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the U.S. and China. He is also a member of the New Democrat Coalition, a center-left group of 110 pragmatic House Democrats who work across the aisle and across the Capitol to advance innovative, inclusive, and forward-looking policies. A proud Marine Corps veteran, Rep. Moulton served four tours in Iraq where he led a frontline infantry platoon in the first Marine company to enter Baghdad. He later worked to establish a free and independent Iraqi media, and served as a liaison to senior Iraqi military and political leaders for General Petraeus. Prior to his time in Congress, Rep. Moulton was managing director of Texas Central where he worked to build America’s first high-speed rail line.

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Room 703 Open to Public: Yes Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Sponsor Details: Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies Speaker Name: Dr. Sonal Sharma (Tufts) RSVP Information: No Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Name: Tom Guan Event Contact Email: yguan02@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 512-645-6416 Link: https://tufts.box.com/s/q1xl5r9ee6zoe7sf5jkk7mzbbngnv4pk Sonal Sharma (Tufts) will explore women domestic workers' organizing practices in India and South Africa in this Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies lecture chaired by Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance April 8 is the day to celebrate the birth of Buddha. It is said that sweet rain poured from the sky at his birth, so the celebration involves pouring Amacha for the Buddhist statue in Hanamido. Observances may include limits to participation in academics or work.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Contact Name: Anna Griffis Event Contact Email: anna.griffis@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 6176272253 Small Choices. No grand narrative? No categories? Is our music post-genre? And do Tufts Composers still have something to say?

Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 703 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Conference/Panel Event/Symposium Event Subject: Politics/Policy/Law Event Sponsor Department/Area: Civic Studies program,English department,Film and Media Studies program,Political Science department,Sociology department RSVP Information: https://tinyurl.com/april9tufts Event Contact Name: Samuel Gebru Event Contact Email: samuel.gebru@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 617-500-7456 Link: https://tinyurl.com/april9tufts Join us for an engaging conversation on the evolving relationship between media and politics in the digital age. Our panel will share insights on the challenges and opportunities facing political reporting today. 🗓 Wednesday, April 9, 2025 ⏰ 12–1 p.m. 📍 Tufts Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 703 🍕 Lunch will be provided ✅ RSVP: www.tinyurl.com… Featuring: -Dylan Rossiter, State House News Service/MASSterList -Niko Emack, Emerson College -Kelly Garrity, POLITICO -Chris Van Buskirk, The Boston Herald -Moderator: Samuel M. Gebru, Tufts University Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and co-sponsored by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Department of English, Department of Sociology, Film and Media Studies Program, and Tufts Tribune.

Building: Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Room: Distler Performance Hall Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Event Contact Name: Anna Griffis Event Contact Email: anna.griffis@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 6176272253 TUWE performs under the direction of Ray Daniels.

Event Type: Multifaith Observance Celebrates the birthday of Lord Mahavira. Born with the name Vardhamana in ca. 599 BCE, he was later given the titles of honor, Mahavira ("Great Hero") and Jina ("Conqueror" or "Victor"), a title applied also to the other Tirthankaras.

Online Location Details: RSVP for Zoom link Building: Tisch Library City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Austin Room 226 Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Arts,Education,Humanities Event Sponsor Details: Tisch Library Speaker Name: Mat Rappaport RSVP Information: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/14062312 Link: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/14062312 Please join us on Thursday, April 10 for Conversations in Digital Scholarship with Tufts University Professor of the Practice in Film and Media Studies Mat Rappaport. Rappaport is a Chicago-based artist, filmmaker, curator, and educator known for works that utilize documentary film, mobile video, performance, and photography to explore habitation, perception, and power related to built environments. His recent courses at Tufts have focused on the transformative role of AI in digital media industries and the role of algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and the attention economy in the production and sharing of video content.

Building: Curtis Hall City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room (474 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA) Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Education,Global Engagement,Social Justice/Human Rights,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor Details: Environmental Studies Program RSVP Information: RSVP only needed for virtual attendants Event Contact Name: Sinet Kroch Event Contact Email: sinet.kroch@tufts.edu Link: https://tufts.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gHJ_O6nMT0Ckix_Qzqu_1A This lecture examines how the Rarámuri people of Chihuahua, Mexico sustain their cultural identity and resist assimilation through korima, a principle of reciprocity that emphasizes mutual care and interconnectedness between people and the natural world. Traditionally practiced in the Sierra Madre mountains of western Mexico, korima has been adapted by urban-dwelling Rarámuri in border cities like Chihuahua and Ciudad Juárez. Amid challenges like industrialization and marginalization, the Rarámuri manifest korima in urban spaces through practices such as dressmaking, running, resource sharing, and preserving traditional ecological knowledge. These efforts transform Chihuahua and Ciudad Juárez into sites of cultural resistance and ecological stewardship. By exploring these adaptations, the lecture highlights the role of korima in addressing social and environmental injustices, offering insights into how indigenous frameworks of reciprocity can inform sustainability and resilience in urbanized contexts.

Building: Joyce Cummings Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Lantern Room177 College Avenue  Open to Public: No Primary Audience: Faculty,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Community Engagement Event Subject: Diversity/Identity/Inclusive Excellence RSVP Information: https://forms.gle/qaDcPAZyNJG2w4YbA Event Contact Name: Jasmine Raynor Event Contact Email: diversity@tufts.edu Event Contact Phone: 857-293-8048 Link: https://diversity.tufts.edu/events/ The Office of the Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence is offering a number of drop-in sessions in the coming weeks where we can process this moment and find mutual support.  We encourage you to remain in relationship with one another as we navigate this moment together. Light snacks will be provided. Learn more about our engagement opportunities by visiting IIE website. Please email diversity@tufts.edu with any questions.

Building: Tisch Library City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: Second floor "fishbowl" (at the far end of the library's main floor) Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Community Engagement Event Subject: Community Celebration Event Sponsor Department/Area: Tisch Library Event Sponsor: School of Arts and Sciences Admission/Cost: Free Event Contact Email: tischuess@elist.tufts.edu We have completed “The World’s Largest Puzzle” as a community! Join us for the Unveiling Party on Thursday, April 10 from 3–4:30 p.m. on the second floor of Tisch Library near the “fishbowl” to view it as well as exhibits, activities, and snacks. Brought to you by the User Experience and Student Success department, the Digital Design Studio (DDS), Special Collections, Tufts Archival Research Center (TARC), the SMFA Library, and the Lilly Music Library.

Online Location Details: https://tufts.zoom.us/meeting/register/D-ahpzn5ScO7LZLeW_7Ekg Building: Cabot Intercultural Center City: Medford, MA 02155 Campus: Medford/Somerville campus Location Details: ASEAN Auditorium Wheelchair Accessible: Yes Open to Public: Yes Primary Audience: Alumni and Friends,Faculty,Parents,Postdoctoral Fellows,Staff,Students (Graduate),Students (Postdoctoral),Students (Undergraduate) Event Type: Lecture/Presentation/Seminar Event Subject: Engineering/Technology,Innovation,Science,Sustainability/Climate Event Sponsor Details: Tisch College Speaker Name: Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich, AG11 RSVP Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-noah-wilson-rich-on-bees-sustainability-and-environmental-impact-tickets-1225584067939?aff=oddtdtcreator Admission/Cost: Free Link: https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/news-events/events/dr-noah-wilson-rich-bees-sustainability-and-environmental-impact Join a conversation and special reception with Dr. Noah Wilson-Rich about his journey from Tufts student to environmental innovator, the vital role bees play in sustaining ecosystems, and how his work bridges science, business, and civic engagement. Dr. Wilson-Rich, AG11, is the founder and chief scientific officer of The Best Bees Company and the Urban Beekeeping Laboratory and Bee Sanctuary, a 501(c)3 nonprofit entity. What began at Tufts during his graduate studies investigating the collapse of honeybee populations eventually grew into The Best Bees Company, a pioneering organization dedicated to supporting pollinator health through research-informed practice and promoting urban beekeeping as a critical tool in environmental conservation. His book The Bee: A Natural History was published in 2014.